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Authors: Frédéric Guillaume, Olivier Cotto, Max Schmid, Jobran Chebib
Abstract: Modelling eco-evolutionary dynamics is challenging yet necessary to predict the demographic, phenotypic and genetic responses of populations and species subject to environmental changes. Individual-based simulations are a tool of choice in this case because they allow modelling interacting stochastic processes at different scales (spatial, temporal) implicitly. They are thus powerful tools to model populations that adapt to spatial an temporal shifts in their local habitat conditions, and this for species with complex life-cycles, e.g. with overlapping generations. Nemo has all the ingredients necessary to efficiently and rapidly simulating eco-evolutionary dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales, in age-structured populations, with varying degrees of genetic details of the (quantitative) traits under selection. I will thus here present the latest developments brought to Nemo, an individual-based, forward-in-time, stochastic, genetic and spatially explicit simulator that has been around for quite a while now (Guillaume & Rougemont, 2006). I will highlight new features that allow simulating large landscapes, complex genotype-phenotype maps, and phenotypic plasticity of quantitative traits, among others.