Postdoctoral fixed-term contract (M/F) – Theoretical approaches to the eco-evolutionary dynamics of food webs – the roles of predation and competition

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Understanding biodiversity and its dynamics is one of the most crucial issues of our time, against the worrying backdrop of the collapse of biodiversity. To contribute to this, the ECO-EVO BIODIV project aims to develop an integrative eco-evolutionary approach. The project's overall framework encompasses the main facets of biodiversity (levels of biodiversity, biological groups, and intra- and interspecific variability), the forces and processes that shape them, their spatio-temporal context, and their environment. ECO-EVO BIODIV draws on a wide range of conceptual frameworks, approaches and methods from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within this framework, the research proposed for this postdoctoral position aims to understand, using mathematical models, how intraspecific and interspecific interactions work together to shape the dynamics of simple trophic modules (e.g. one predator, two prey species and one resource) in a spatialised context. The focus is therefore on coexistence arising from dynamics that are both ecological and evolutionary, via processes of competition and predation. Particular attention will be paid to the link between these evolutionary dynamics and the assembly of trophic modules, which corresponds, for example, to a situation of biological invasions. This work will also enable us to analyse how eco-evolutionary dynamics of this type operate in a case stud