Abstract

Abstract The disciplines of community ecology and evolutionary biology have fundamentally different perspectives, but share a common interest in the maintenance and effects of diversity. An emerging field of study, evolutionary community ecology, bridges the gaps between community and evolutionary ecology by considering the reciprocal effects of individual trait variation and community characteristics. In this chapter, central principles from evolutionary biology are used to extrapolate the consequences of genetic diversity to community level and the effects of genetic variation on community properties and vice versa are illustrated. Finally, the rapidly increasing number of empirical studies on evolutionary community ecology are reviewed.

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