Professor at the University of Oslo, Director, Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Norway.
In this lecture I will show, through examples, how climate change and harvesting (two anthropogenic impacts on natural systems) affect marine resources both ecologically and evolutionary. The focal species will be the North Atlantic cod in the Barents Sea/Lofoten system off the coast of northern Norway. The reported insights have been developed on the basis of statistical analysis of long-term monitoring data. The lecture will close with a discussion of how the ecological and evolutionary effects mutually interact in a feedback loop.