Michel Loreau1, Philippe Jarne2 & Jennifer B. H. Martiny3
1Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, 2 route du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France. Email: michel.loreau@gmail.com (author for correspondence)
2CEFE, UMR 5175, CNRS − Université de Montpellier − Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier − IRD − EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Email: philippe.jarne@cefe.cnrs.fr
3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. Email: jmartiny@uci.edu
Type of article: Viewpoint in the special issue “Exploring the border between ecology and evolution”
Statement of authorship: ML wrote the first draft of the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to revisions.
Keywords: Ecology, Evolution, Synthesis, Concepts, Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Rapid environmental change, Adaptation, Levels of biological organisation, Abrupt ecological change, Microbes
Number of words in the main text: 2,043