The study of the organization and dynamics of ecological networks is advancing rapidly to embrace not only more diversity and complexity, but is also beginning to address a wider range of evolutionary processes that shape ecosystems including adaptation, natural selection, phylogenetic relatedness, speciation, extinction, immigration, and assembly. This session will highlight studies that seek to integrate evolutionary thinking into empirical and theoretical research on ecological network structure and dynamics. While each talk will present advances in basic research, several will do so within the context of more applied issues such as environmental change, species extinctions, and species invasions. These research advances at the intersection of ecology and evolution take advantage of recent growth in informatics and computational resources that enable access to and compilation of more detailed and comprehensive data that support development and testing of more robust and informative models and theory.