Chapter Thoughts

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Dissertation Strategy

• Foundation species genetics creates nestedness in ecological networks
• Scale and the genetic effect of co-occurrence patterns
• Selection and ecological networks: Tree genotypes have similar communities and respond to similar selection pressures

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EEN = How will genetic variation influence individual-individual interaction networks?

• treat networks as individual-individual
• genetic diversity produces nestedness
• use selection experiments as another effect of selection (i.e. on plant individuals)
• use asymmetry as one effect of selection (i.e. on insect individuals)

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SCRL + Adrian + Gina + PRB controls = What is the structure of genotype-species interaction networks in nature?

• use bipartite networks for each
• present the compositional effects of genetic variance from respective papers (i.e. phenotype, cross-type or genotype)
• analyze nestedness

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LCO + ACN = How does genetic variation influence the structure of interaction networks of dependent communities?

• Two gardens
• Two types of organisms
• Two scales (tree and stand)
• Use co-occurrence statistics to test genotype effects
• Use network analysis to visualize co-occurrence patterns