We are using an innovative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, combining:

1. molecular genetics,
2. demographic analysis and statistical characterization of temporal and spatial patterns of flood events,
3. life-history, demographic and eco-evolutionary modelling,

to understand and predict the selective consequences of the altered pattern of catastrophic disturbances on the genetic composition and life-history traits of marble trout.
The project will lead to the development of an overarching and general modelling and conservation framework for rapid evolutionary and adaptive processes, and will establish a reference of how to explore the consequences of climate change-induced intensification of weather extremes on natural populations.