Lynn Govaert
Forschungsgruppenleiter*in
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+49 30 64181-713
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216
Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin
Profil
Forschungsgruppe
Kompetenzen
I research the tight interaction between ecological and evolutionary processes to understand how trait changes and trait variation in response to environmental change shape community structure and ecosystem functioning in time and space. In my research group, we combine theoretical and experimental approaches to address innovative research questions on eco-evolutionary dynamics in communities.
Lebenslauf
Professional experience
- Since 2021: Research Group Leader, IGB Berlin, Germany
- 2018-2020: Postdoc, University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific education
- 2013-2018: PhD (evolutionary ecology), Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Departement of Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- 2012-2013: Internship Teaching Education (mathematics)
- 2010-2012: Msc (mathematics), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- 2007-2010: Bsc (mathematics), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Publikationen
Publikationen
2026
April 2026
Lynn Govaert; Jessica Colombo; Florian Altermatt
Local Resource Availability and Subsidy Flow Mediate the Effects of Disturbances in Meta-Ecosystems
Ecology and Evolution. - 16(2026)4, Art. e73516
April 2026
T. M. Straka; Ö. Bodin; J. D. Teodoro; F. S. Rickowski; L. C. Kluger; Z. Porro; J. L. Coleman; S. Lokatis; S. S. Cilliers; C. Dobbs; M. Egerer; M. R. Felipe-Lucia; L. Govaert; S. Guenat; A. K. Hahs; S. S. Kaushal; S. Knapp; S. Kochalski; B. B. Lin; S. Livesley; F. Ruland; C. G. Threlfall; N. S. G. Williams; J. M. Jeschke
The potential of social-ecological networks for urban ecology
npj urban sustainability. - 6(2026), Art. 68
April 2026
Swati Patel; Lynn Govaert; Kelsey Lyberger; Victor J. Luque; A. Bradley Duthie; Sébastien Lion
Persistence and near persistence via trait evolution: Pathways to coexistence
Journal of Theoretical Biology. - 627(2026), Art. 112443
2025
September 2025
Marjolein Bruijning; Luc De Meester; Marco D. Visser; Erlend I. F. Fossen; Héléne Vanvelk; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Lynn Govaert; Kristien I. Brans; Sigurd Einum; Eelke Jongejans
Linking Individual Performance to Density-Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature-Mediated Genotype Coexistence
Ecology letters. - 28(2025)9, Art. e70214
Juli 2025
Angelika Stollewerk; Pavel Kratina; Arnaud Sentis; Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza; Ellen Decaestecker; Luc De Meester; Ozge Eyice; Lynn Govaert; John Iwan Jones; Christian Laforsch; Carolina Madeira; Anita Narwani; Vicencio Oostra; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Axel G. Rossberg; Matthias Schott; Robby Stoks; Ellen van Velzen; David Boukal
Plasticity in climate change responses
Biological Reviews. - 100(2025)6, 2508-2527
Juli 2025
Elizabeth J. Carlen; Aude E. Caizergues; Zuzanna Jagiello; Hanna Kuzyo; Jason Munshi-South; Marina Alberti; Fabio Angeoletto; Santiago Bonilla-Bedoya; Warren Booth; Anne Charmantier; Jennifer M. Cocciardi; Elizabeth M. Cook; Kiyoko M. Gotanda; Lynn Govaert; Lauren E. Johnson; Daijiang Li; Anna N. Malesis; Ella Martin; John M. Marzluff; Małgorzata Mazurek; Lindsay S. Miles; Megan Phifer-Rixey; David Salazar-Valenzuela; Amy Savage; Rebecca Snyder; Ignacy Stadnicki; Yuriy Vergeles; Brian C. Verrelli; Daniel A. Villar; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon; Meredith Willmott; Kristin M. Winchell; Shannan S. Yates; Yuyu Zhou; Colin J. Garroway; Marta Szulkin
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology
Nature Cities. - 2(2025), 593–602
Juni 2025
Matthew Sasaki; Jana Isanta-Navarro; Lynn Govaert
Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems
Nature Communications. - 16(2025), Art. 5142
April 2025
Luc De Meester; Lynn Govaert; Seth Rudman; Mark Urban
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
Oxford Bibliographies : Your Best Research Starts Here / Ed. by Luc De Meester, Lynn Govaert, Seth Rudman, Mark Urban. - New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
März 2025
Florian Jeltsch; Manuel Roeleke; Ahmed Abdelfattah; Robert Arlinghaus; Gabriele Berg; Niels Blaum; Luc De Meester; Elke Dittmann; Jana Anja Eccard; Bertrand Fournier; Ursula Gaedke; Cara Gallagher; Lynn Govaert; Mark Hauber; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Stephanie Kramer-Schadt; Anja Linstädter; Ulrike Lucke; Valeria Mazza; Ralf Metzler; Claas Nendel; Viktoriia Radchuk; Matthias C. Rillig; Masahiro Ryo; Katharina Scheiter; Ralph Tiedemann; Britta Tietjen; Christian C. Voigt; Guntram Weithoff; Justyna Wolinska; Damaris Zurell
The need for an individual-based global change ecology
Individual-based Ecology. - 1(2025), Art. e148200
2024
Dezember 2024
Lynn Govaert; Toni Klauschies
Eco-phenotypic feedback loops differ in multistressor environments
Ecology. - XX(2024)XX, e4480
Dezember 2024
Héléne Vanvelk; Lynn Govaert; Edwin M. van den Berg; Luc De Meester
Eco-Evolutionary Interactions With Multiple Evolving Species Reveal Both Antagonistic and Additive Effects
Ecology letters. - 27(2024)11, e70006
2023
Dezember 2023
Emanuel A. Fronhofer; Lynn Govaert; Mary I. O’Connor; Sebastian J. Schreiber; Florian Altermatt
Dezember 2023
Lynn Govaert; Andrew P. Hendry; Farshad Fattahi; Markus Möst
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effectson ecosystem functioning
Ecology. - 105(2024)1, Art. e4199
November 2023
Emanuel A. Fronhofer; Dov Corenblit; Jhelam N. Deshpande; Lynn Govaert; Philippe Huneman; Frédérique Viard; Philippe Jarne; Sara Puijalon
Eco-evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators
Ecology letters. - 26(2023)S1, S91-S108
2022
Januar 2023
Brian C. Verrelli; Marina Alberti; Simone Des Roches; Nyeema C. Harris; Andrew P. Hendry; Marc T.J. Johnson; Amy M. Savage; Anne Charmantier; Kiyoko M. Gotanda; Lynn Govaert; Lindsay S. Miles; L. Ruth Rivkin; Kristin M. Winchell; Kristien I. Brans; Cristian Correa; Sarah E. Diamond; Ben Fitzhugh; Nancy B. Grimm; Sara Hughes; John M. Marzluff; Jason Munshi-South; Carolina Rojas; James S. Santangelo; Christopher J. Schell; Jennifer A. Schweitzer; Marta Szulkin; Mark C. Urban; Yuyu Zhou; Carly Ziter
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. - 37(2022)11, 1006-1019
Januar 2023
Xiaofei Gao; Wenping Wang; Jean Claude Ndayishimiye; Lynn Govaert; Huihuang Chen; Erik Jeppesen; Yuanyuan Xue; Xiaoqing Yu; Jun Yang
Invasive and toxic cyanobacteria regulate allochthonous resource use and community niche width of reservoir zooplankton
Freshwater Biology. - 67(2022)8, 1344-1356
November 2022
Lynn Govaert; Jelena H. Pantel; Luc De Meester
Quantifying eco-evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems
Ecological monographs. - 92(2022)4, Art. e1531
August 2022
Mathew A. Leibold; Lynn Govaert; Nicolas Loeuille; Luc De Meester; Mark C. Urban
Evolution and community assembly across spatial scales
Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics. - 53(2022), 299-326
März 2022
Marjolein Bruijning; Erlend I. F. Fossen; Eelke Jongejans; Héléne Vanvelk; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Lynn Govaert; Kristien I. Brans; Sigurd Einum; Luc De Meester
Host–parasite dynamics shaped by temperature and genotype: quantifying the role of underlying vital rates
Functional Ecology. - 36(2022)2, 485-499
Januar 2022
Giannina S.I. Hattich; Luisa Listmann; Lynn Govaert; Christian Pansch; Thorsten B.H. Reusch; Birte Matthiessen
Experimentally decomposing phytoplankton community change into ecological and evolutionary contributions
Functional Ecology. - 36(2022)1, 120-132
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luc De Meester; Piet Spaak; Nelson G. Hairston Jr.
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in freshwater systems
Encyclopedia of Inland Waters / Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Mehner, Klement Tockner. San Diego, California. 2nd ed., 2022. - Vol. 1, S. 302-316
2021
Dezember 2021
Cynthia L. Thompson; Marina Alberti; Sahas Barve; Fabia U. Battistuzzi; Jeana L. Drake; Guilherme Casas Goncalves; Lynn Govaert; Charlyn Partridge; Ya Yang
Back to the future: reintegrating biology to understand how past eco-evolutionary change can predict future outcomes
Integrative and Comparative Biology. - 61(2021), icab068, corrected Proof
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Florian Altermatt; Luc De Meester; Mathew A. Leibold; Mark A. McPeek; Jelena H. Pantel; Mark C. Urban
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco-evolutionary community dynamics and patterns
Functional Ecology. - 35(2021)10, 2138-2155
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luis J. Gilarranz; Florian Altermatt
Competition alters species’ plastic and genetic response to environmental change
Scientific Reports. - 11(2021), Art. 23518
Oktober 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luc De Meester; Sarah Rousseaux; Steven A. J. Declerck; Jelena H. Pantel
Measuring the contribution of evolution to community trait structure in freshwater zooplankton
Oikos. - 130(2021)10, 1773-1787
April 2026
Lynn Govaert; Jessica Colombo; Florian Altermatt
Local Resource Availability and Subsidy Flow Mediate the Effects of Disturbances in Meta-Ecosystems
Ecology and Evolution. - 16(2026)4, Art. e73516
April 2026
T. M. Straka; Ö. Bodin; J. D. Teodoro; F. S. Rickowski; L. C. Kluger; Z. Porro; J. L. Coleman; S. Lokatis; S. S. Cilliers; C. Dobbs; M. Egerer; M. R. Felipe-Lucia; L. Govaert; S. Guenat; A. K. Hahs; S. S. Kaushal; S. Knapp; S. Kochalski; B. B. Lin; S. Livesley; F. Ruland; C. G. Threlfall; N. S. G. Williams; J. M. Jeschke
The potential of social-ecological networks for urban ecology
npj urban sustainability. - 6(2026), Art. 68
April 2026
Swati Patel; Lynn Govaert; Kelsey Lyberger; Victor J. Luque; A. Bradley Duthie; Sébastien Lion
Persistence and near persistence via trait evolution: Pathways to coexistence
Journal of Theoretical Biology. - 627(2026), Art. 112443
September 2025
Marjolein Bruijning; Luc De Meester; Marco D. Visser; Erlend I. F. Fossen; Héléne Vanvelk; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Lynn Govaert; Kristien I. Brans; Sigurd Einum; Eelke Jongejans
Linking Individual Performance to Density-Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature-Mediated Genotype Coexistence
Ecology letters. - 28(2025)9, Art. e70214
Juli 2025
Angelika Stollewerk; Pavel Kratina; Arnaud Sentis; Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza; Ellen Decaestecker; Luc De Meester; Ozge Eyice; Lynn Govaert; John Iwan Jones; Christian Laforsch; Carolina Madeira; Anita Narwani; Vicencio Oostra; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Axel G. Rossberg; Matthias Schott; Robby Stoks; Ellen van Velzen; David Boukal
Plasticity in climate change responses
Biological Reviews. - 100(2025)6, 2508-2527
Juli 2025
Elizabeth J. Carlen; Aude E. Caizergues; Zuzanna Jagiello; Hanna Kuzyo; Jason Munshi-South; Marina Alberti; Fabio Angeoletto; Santiago Bonilla-Bedoya; Warren Booth; Anne Charmantier; Jennifer M. Cocciardi; Elizabeth M. Cook; Kiyoko M. Gotanda; Lynn Govaert; Lauren E. Johnson; Daijiang Li; Anna N. Malesis; Ella Martin; John M. Marzluff; Małgorzata Mazurek; Lindsay S. Miles; Megan Phifer-Rixey; David Salazar-Valenzuela; Amy Savage; Rebecca Snyder; Ignacy Stadnicki; Yuriy Vergeles; Brian C. Verrelli; Daniel A. Villar; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon; Meredith Willmott; Kristin M. Winchell; Shannan S. Yates; Yuyu Zhou; Colin J. Garroway; Marta Szulkin
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology
Nature Cities. - 2(2025), 593–602
Juni 2025
Matthew Sasaki; Jana Isanta-Navarro; Lynn Govaert
Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems
Nature Communications. - 16(2025), Art. 5142
April 2025
Luc De Meester; Lynn Govaert; Seth Rudman; Mark Urban
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
Oxford Bibliographies : Your Best Research Starts Here / Ed. by Luc De Meester, Lynn Govaert, Seth Rudman, Mark Urban. - New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
März 2025
Florian Jeltsch; Manuel Roeleke; Ahmed Abdelfattah; Robert Arlinghaus; Gabriele Berg; Niels Blaum; Luc De Meester; Elke Dittmann; Jana Anja Eccard; Bertrand Fournier; Ursula Gaedke; Cara Gallagher; Lynn Govaert; Mark Hauber; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Stephanie Kramer-Schadt; Anja Linstädter; Ulrike Lucke; Valeria Mazza; Ralf Metzler; Claas Nendel; Viktoriia Radchuk; Matthias C. Rillig; Masahiro Ryo; Katharina Scheiter; Ralph Tiedemann; Britta Tietjen; Christian C. Voigt; Guntram Weithoff; Justyna Wolinska; Damaris Zurell
The need for an individual-based global change ecology
Individual-based Ecology. - 1(2025), Art. e148200
Dezember 2024
Lynn Govaert; Toni Klauschies
Eco-phenotypic feedback loops differ in multistressor environments
Ecology. - XX(2024)XX, e4480
Dezember 2024
Héléne Vanvelk; Lynn Govaert; Edwin M. van den Berg; Luc De Meester
Eco-Evolutionary Interactions With Multiple Evolving Species Reveal Both Antagonistic and Additive Effects
Ecology letters. - 27(2024)11, e70006
Dezember 2023
Emanuel A. Fronhofer; Lynn Govaert; Mary I. O’Connor; Sebastian J. Schreiber; Florian Altermatt
Dezember 2023
Lynn Govaert; Andrew P. Hendry; Farshad Fattahi; Markus Möst
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effectson ecosystem functioning
Ecology. - 105(2024)1, Art. e4199
November 2023
Emanuel A. Fronhofer; Dov Corenblit; Jhelam N. Deshpande; Lynn Govaert; Philippe Huneman; Frédérique Viard; Philippe Jarne; Sara Puijalon
Eco-evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators
Ecology letters. - 26(2023)S1, S91-S108
Januar 2023
Brian C. Verrelli; Marina Alberti; Simone Des Roches; Nyeema C. Harris; Andrew P. Hendry; Marc T.J. Johnson; Amy M. Savage; Anne Charmantier; Kiyoko M. Gotanda; Lynn Govaert; Lindsay S. Miles; L. Ruth Rivkin; Kristin M. Winchell; Kristien I. Brans; Cristian Correa; Sarah E. Diamond; Ben Fitzhugh; Nancy B. Grimm; Sara Hughes; John M. Marzluff; Jason Munshi-South; Carolina Rojas; James S. Santangelo; Christopher J. Schell; Jennifer A. Schweitzer; Marta Szulkin; Mark C. Urban; Yuyu Zhou; Carly Ziter
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. - 37(2022)11, 1006-1019
Januar 2023
Xiaofei Gao; Wenping Wang; Jean Claude Ndayishimiye; Lynn Govaert; Huihuang Chen; Erik Jeppesen; Yuanyuan Xue; Xiaoqing Yu; Jun Yang
Invasive and toxic cyanobacteria regulate allochthonous resource use and community niche width of reservoir zooplankton
Freshwater Biology. - 67(2022)8, 1344-1356
November 2022
Lynn Govaert; Jelena H. Pantel; Luc De Meester
Quantifying eco-evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems
Ecological monographs. - 92(2022)4, Art. e1531
August 2022
Mathew A. Leibold; Lynn Govaert; Nicolas Loeuille; Luc De Meester; Mark C. Urban
Evolution and community assembly across spatial scales
Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics. - 53(2022), 299-326
März 2022
Marjolein Bruijning; Erlend I. F. Fossen; Eelke Jongejans; Héléne Vanvelk; Joost A. M. Raeymaekers; Lynn Govaert; Kristien I. Brans; Sigurd Einum; Luc De Meester
Host–parasite dynamics shaped by temperature and genotype: quantifying the role of underlying vital rates
Functional Ecology. - 36(2022)2, 485-499
Januar 2022
Giannina S.I. Hattich; Luisa Listmann; Lynn Govaert; Christian Pansch; Thorsten B.H. Reusch; Birte Matthiessen
Experimentally decomposing phytoplankton community change into ecological and evolutionary contributions
Functional Ecology. - 36(2022)1, 120-132
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luc De Meester; Piet Spaak; Nelson G. Hairston Jr.
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in freshwater systems
Encyclopedia of Inland Waters / Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Mehner, Klement Tockner. San Diego, California. 2nd ed., 2022. - Vol. 1, S. 302-316
Dezember 2021
Cynthia L. Thompson; Marina Alberti; Sahas Barve; Fabia U. Battistuzzi; Jeana L. Drake; Guilherme Casas Goncalves; Lynn Govaert; Charlyn Partridge; Ya Yang
Back to the future: reintegrating biology to understand how past eco-evolutionary change can predict future outcomes
Integrative and Comparative Biology. - 61(2021), icab068, corrected Proof
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Florian Altermatt; Luc De Meester; Mathew A. Leibold; Mark A. McPeek; Jelena H. Pantel; Mark C. Urban
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco-evolutionary community dynamics and patterns
Functional Ecology. - 35(2021)10, 2138-2155
Dezember 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luis J. Gilarranz; Florian Altermatt
Competition alters species’ plastic and genetic response to environmental change
Scientific Reports. - 11(2021), Art. 23518
Oktober 2021
Lynn Govaert; Luc De Meester; Sarah Rousseaux; Steven A. J. Declerck; Jelena H. Pantel
Measuring the contribution of evolution to community trait structure in freshwater zooplankton
Oikos. - 130(2021)10, 1773-1787