Evolution and Ecology
Ulf Dieckmann
Program Director
Theme 1: Fisheries
• Overarching Objective
Contribute to the sustainable management of aquatic living resources through increasingly realistic modeling of the
associated socio-ecological systems
• Illustrative Targets
Accounting for stock structure and life-history complexity, Fisheries-induced evolution, Socio-economic repercussions
Theme 2: Biodiversity
• Overarching Objective Better understand the complex dynamics of biodiversity formation,
maintenance, and loss across a broad range of ecosystems
• Illustrative Targets
Drivers and pathways of speciation,
Evolutionary vegetation dynamics,
Evolutionary community assembly,
Disease dynamics
Theme 3: Governance
• Overarching Objective Design governance
mechanisms that promote cooperation, reduce conflict, and eschew the tragedy of the commons in groups of human or institutional agents
• Illustrative Targets Reputation-based cooperation,
Design of sanctioning systems,
Institutional emergence
Theme 4: Systemic Risk
• Overarching Objective
Develop new approaches to measure, model, and manage systemic risk across different domains
• Illustrative Targets
Dynamics of species loss, Mitigating boom-bust cycles in economic systems,
Mitigating systemic risk in supply chains and trade networks,
Design of early-warning systems
For More Information…
• Fisheries Case-study presentation:
Evolution and game theory
• Governance Marketplace poster:
Behavioral experiments reveal how risk perception and worldviews impact common-good governance
• Systemic risk Four marketplace posters:
Mitigating the volatility of economic cycles
Mitigating systemic risk emerging from supply-chain fragmentation
Inclination analysis yields early-warning signals of economic recessions
Vulnerability to shocks in the global seafood-trade network