What are the evolutionary impacts of state transitions?

[MKLau]

• during transitions between ecosystem states populations undergo drastic changes
• how does this impact evolutionary dynamics?
• if foundation species are drivers of ecological dynamics and evolutionary dynamics can we use them as an in-road to modeling these evolutionary dynamics?
• pitcher plants could serve as a model system, where the genetic diversity of inquilines could be measured when the system state is altered
• develop an outline of the modeling, experimental design and genetics/omics, possibly for the NSF-PRFB

[MKLau]

Does genetic variation buffer state transitions?

H: transitions should be steeper in models without genetic variation.