Evolutionary Demography Group
Members

Doctorante
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Doctorante
UCBL

Technicien CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 11

Maître de conférences
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 33 04 78 87 27 63

Doctorante
autre
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Post-doc
CNRS
Stagiaire
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 81 11

Chargée de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 85 44

Stagiaire
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Professeure des universités
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Stagiaire
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Doctorant
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Technicienne CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Post-doc
autre
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 11

Maîtresse de conférences
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Technicien CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Technicienne CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42

Maîtresse de conférences
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 43 27 85
Keywords: Aging - Behavioural Ecology - Climate Change - Conservation Biology - Comparative analyses - Demography - Eco-Evolutionary dynamics - Ecotoxicology - Ecophysiology - Epidemiology – Integrative Biology - Life History Traits - Movement Ecology - Parasitism - Population Dynamics - Wildlife Management
Overview: Our research aims to understand how ecology and evolution shape both the demography and the health of vertebrate populations in the wild, and in turn, how the demographic processes are determining the strength of trait selection. To reach these objectives, we are bridging conceptual and methodological advances from population ecology, evolution, demography, epidemiology and statistics. As our study models are vertebrate species with high societal value, our research projects are often led in collaboration with the Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) and have an explicit applied component to improve the exploitation or the conservation of the targeted species.
Research axes:
- Quantifying the amount and the shape of individual heterogeneity in vertebrate populations in the wild, as well as its role in demographic and eco-evolutionary processes (with a special focus on mammals)
- Identifying and assessing the relative influence of the environmental (i.e. weather conditions, population density, habitat quality, predation, diseases, interspecific competition and anthropic pressure), evolutionary (e.g. phylogenetic inertia, lifestyle, size, and life history strategy), and individual (e.g. age, sex, or size) attributes that shape the diversity of individual trajectories, within and among populations of vertebrates
- Identifying population responses to global change, from phenotypic traits to demographic outputs such as population growth, age-structure and generation time
- Quantifying the magnitude of the sex-differences in trait-specific trajectories (with a special focus on the senescence process) and identifying the eco-evolutionary roots of these differences
- Identifying the genetic and physiological markers of aging for mammalian populations in the wild
- Exploring the evolutionary causes and consequences of actuarial and reproductive aging in the wild
- Assessing the health, demographic, and evolutionary implications of physiological stress at the individual level and quantifying their impact on population dynamics
- Determining the physiological and demographic implications of toxic pollutants for mammals in the wild
- Measuring health, behavioral, and demographic consequences of parasitism exposure
- Providing tools for the development of reliable predictions for population forecast of mammals with a high societal value
Biological models: Our research mostly relies on the long-term monitoring of mammalian populations in the wild. Thanks to a long-term collaboration with the OFB, we are collecting individual longitudinal data on a wide array of traits for more than 40 years for roe deer (Chizé and Trois-Fontaines study areas, France). Other ongoing long-term programs are focused on the Alpine marmot (Réserve de la Grande Sassière, France), Mouflon (Caroux-Espinouse massif, France), Wild boar (Châteauvillain, France), and Giraffe (Hwange, Zimbabwe).
Publications
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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse
Peer Community Journal . 3 : e7
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see the publicationSex differences in adult lifespan and aging rate across mammals: A test of the ‘Mother Curse hypothesis’
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 212 : 111799
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see the publicationMeeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment .
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see the publicationFirst expert elicitation of knowledge on possible drivers of observed increasing human cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe
Viruses . 15 ( 3 ) : 791
DOI: 10.3390/v15030791
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see the publicationWeighting the transitivity of undirected weighted social networks with triadic edge dissimilarity scores
Social Networks . 73 : 1-6
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see the publicationVariable rate of ageing within species: insights from Darwin’s frogs
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 138 ( 1 ) : 68-74
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see the publicationTemperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines
Ecology .
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3908
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see the publicationAge and spatio-temporal variations in food resources modulate stress-immunity relationships in three populations of wild roe deer
General and Comparative Endocrinology . 330 : 114141
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see the publicationAmplified cyclicality in mast seeding dynamics positively influences the dynamics of a seed consumer species
The American Naturalist . 201 ( 38-51 )
DOI: 10.1086/721905
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see the publicationDiverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity
Science . 376 ( 6600 ) : 1459-1466
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see the publicationDecline in telomere length with increasing age across nonhuman vertebrates: A meta‐analysis
Molecular Ecology . 31 ( 23 ) : 5917-5932
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16145
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see the publicationParasitized or non-parasitized, why? A study of factors influencing tick burden in roe deer neonates
PLoS ONE . 17 ( 7 ) : e0262973
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see the publicationTelomeres, the loop tying cancer to organismal life‐histories
Molecular Ecology . 31 ( 23 ) : 6273-6285
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16488
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see the publicationEfficacy of a targeted selective treatment in dairy herds affected by clinical dictyocaulosis.
31st WORLD BUIATRICS CONGRESS .
Conference paper
see the publicationLack of efficacy of fenbendazole against Giardia duodenalis in a naturally infected population of dogs in France
Parasite . 29 : 49
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see the publicationThe frequency and position of stable associations offset their transitivity in a diversity of vertebrate social networks
Ethology .
DOI: 10.1111/eth.13335
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see the publicationReproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes
Oikos .
DOI: 10.1111/oik.09627
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see the publicationCompensatory recruitment allows amphibian population persistence in anthropogenic habitats
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 119 ( 38 )
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see the publicationPrevalence of major digestive and respiratory helminths in dogs and cats in France: results of a multicenter study
Parasites & Vectors . 15
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see the publicationSex‐specific body mass ageing trajectories in adult Asian elephants
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 35 ( 5 ) : 752-762
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14008
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see the publicationUpper upper Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopods from Clansayes (Drôme, south-eastern France).
Acta Geologica Polonica . 72 ( 2 ) : 187-233
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see the publicationTelomeres as a sentinel of population decline in the context of global warming
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 119 ( 35 )
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see the publicationHarvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events
Ecology Letters .
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13963
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see the publicationVariations in immune parameters with age in a wild rodent population and links with survival
Ecology and Evolution . 12 ( 7 ) : e9094
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9094
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see the publicationDoes mast seeding shape mating time in wild boar? A comparative study
Biology Letters . 18 ( 7 )
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see the publicationPopulation density and plant availability interplay to shape browsing intensity by roe deer in a deciduous forest
Forest Ecology and Management . 515 : 120153
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see the publicationSex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 76 ( 2 ) : 346-356
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14410
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see the publicationHow to describe and measure phenology? An investigation on the diversity of metrics using phenology of births in large herbivores
Oikos .
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08917
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see the publicationCancer Susceptibility as a Cost of Reproduction and Contributor to Life History Evolution
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 10 : 861103
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