Evolutionary Demography Group

Members

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

Display of 1 to 30 publications on 600 in total

Instability of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites at 4°C: Time to freeze matters

Jeffrey Carbillet, Rupert Palme, Marie‐line Maublanc, Nicolas Cebe, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Hélène Verheyden...

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology .

DOI: 10.1002/jez.2704

Journal article

see the publication

Brucellosis in Alpine ibex: 10 years of research and expert assessments

Sébastien Lambert, Anne Thébault, Stéphane Anselme-Martin, Clément Calenge, Charlotte Dunoyer, Luca Freddi...

Médecine/Sciences . 39 ( 10 ) : 722-731

DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2023132

Journal article

see the publication

Too hot or too disturbed? Temperatures more than hikers affect circadian activity of females in northern chamois

Lucie Thel, Mathieu Garel, Pascal Marchand, G. Bourgoin, Anne Loison

DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.03.527075

Preprint

see the publication

The frequency and position of stable associations offset their transitivity in a diversity of vertebrate social networks

Guillaume Péron

Ethology . 129 ( 1 ) : 1-11

DOI: 10.1111/eth.13335

Journal article

see the publication

Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France

Pablo Vajas, Erica von Essen, Lara Tickle, Marlène Gamelon

AMBIO: A Journal of Environment and Society . 52 ( 8 ) : 1359-1372

DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01852-1

Journal article

see the publication

Cancer hygiene hypothesis: A test from wild captive mammals

Antoine M Dujon, Jérémy Jeanjean, Orsolya Vincze, Mathieu Giraudeau, Jean‐françois Lemaître, Pascal Pujol...

Ecology and Evolution . 13 ( 9 ) : e10547

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10547

Journal article

see the publication

Temporal dynamics of antibody level against Lyme disease bacteria in roe deer: Tale of a sentinel?

Valentin Ollivier, Rémi Choquet, Amandine Gamble, Matthieu Bastien, Benoit Combes, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont...

Ecology and Evolution . 13 ( 8 ) : e10414

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10414

Journal article

see the publication

DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits

Amin Haghani, Caesar Li, Todd Robeck, Joshua Zhang, Ake Lu, Julia Ablaeva...

Science . 381 ( 6658 )

DOI: 10.1126/science.abq5693

Journal article

see the publication

Detecting climate signals cascading through levels of biological organization

Marlène Gamelon, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Melanie Lindner, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Marcel E Visser

Nature Climate Change .

DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01760-y

Journal article

see the publication

Évaluation des impacts sur la santé publique de la dynamique des populations de renards

Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Isabelle Villena, Elsa Bonnaud, Claude Fischer, Etienne Giraud, Annick Linden...

: 200 p.

Report

see the publication

Avis de l'Anses relatif aux modalités de surveillance et de lutte contre la brucellose des bouquetins dans les massifs du Bargy et des Aravis et aux modalités de surveillance des cheptels de ruminants estivant dans le massif des Aravis.

Séverine Boullier, Aurélie Courcoul, Benoit Durand, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Pascal Marchand, Carole Peroz...

: 39 p.

Report

see the publication

Comparing Antibiotic Resistance in Free-Ranging vs. Captive African Wild Herbivores

Lucie Brisson, Alexandre Caron, Christine Mazuy-Cruchadet, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Alexis Lécu, Mathieu Bourgarel...

Journal of wildlife diseases . 59 ( 2 ) : 224-233

DOI: 10.7589/JWD-D-21-00153

Journal article

see the publication

Glucocorticoids negatively relate to body mass on the short‐term in a free‐ranging ungulate

Lucas D Lalande, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Jeffrey Carbillet, François Débias, Jeanne Duhayer, Jean-Michel Gaillard...

Oikos .

DOI: 10.1111/oik.09769

Journal article

see the publication

Natal environmental conditions modulate senescence of antler length in roe deer

Solène Cambreling, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Maryline Pellerin, Cécile Vanpé, François Débias, Daniel Delorme...

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 11 : 1139235

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1139235

Journal article

see the publication

The effect of placentation type, litter size, lactation and gestation length on cancer risk in mammals

Antoine M Dujon, Orsolya Vincze, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Catherine Alix-Panabières, Pascal Pujol, Mathieu Giraudeau...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 290 : 20230940

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0940

Journal article

see the publication

Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse

Joanie van de Walle, Rémi Fay, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Fanie Pelletier, Sandra Hamel, Marlène Gamelon...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 290 ( 2002 ) : 20230511

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0511

Journal article

see the publication

Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse

Charlotte Depeux, Angèle Branger, Théo Moulignier, Jérôme Moreau, Jean-François Lemaître, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont...

Peer Community Journal . 3 : e7

DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.228

Journal article

see the publication

Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rate across mammals: A test of the ‘Mother Curse hypothesis’

Hugo Cayuela, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Cristina Vieira, Victor Ronget, Jérôme M.W. Gippet, Thamar Conde García...

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 212 : 111799

DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2023.111799

Journal article

see the publication

First expert elicitation of knowledge on possible drivers of observed increasing human cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe

Claude Saegerman, Marie-France Humblet, Marc Leandri, Gaëlle Gonzalez, Paul Heyman, Hein Sprong...

Viruses . 15 ( 3 ) : 791

DOI: 10.3390/v15030791

Journal article

see the publication

Variable rate of ageing within species: insights from Darwin’s frogs

Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez, Benedikt Schmidt, Claudio Azat, Soledad Delgado, Andrew Cunningham, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître...

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 138 ( 1 ) : 68-74

DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac119

Journal article

see the publication

Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines

Stefan J G Vriend, Vidar Grøtan, Marlène Gamelon, Frank Adriaensen, Markus P Ahola, Elena Álvarez...

Ecology . 104 ( 2 ) : e3908

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3908

Journal article

see the publication

Age and spatio-temporal variations in food resources modulate stress-immunity relationships in three populations of wild roe deer

Jeffrey Carbillet, Marine Hollain, B. Rey, Rupert Palme, Maryline Pellerin, Corinne Régis...

General and Comparative Endocrinology . 330 : 114141

DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114141

Journal article

see the publication

Amplified cyclicality in mast seeding dynamics positively influences the dynamics of a seed consumer species

Laura Touzot, Samuel Venner, Éric Baubet, Cyril Rousset, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Marlène Gamelon

The American Naturalist . 201 ( 38-51 )

DOI: 10.1086/721905

Journal article

see the publication

Combining seroprevalence and capture-mark-recapture data to estimate the force of infection of brucellosis in a managed population of Alpine ibex

Sébastien Lambert, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Carole Toïgo, Pascal Marchand, Elodie Petit, Sophie Rossi...

Epidemics . 38 : 100542

DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100542

Journal article

see the publication

Generalist nematodes dominate the nemabiome of roe deer in sympatry with sheep at a regional level

Camille Beaumelle, Elizabeth Redman, Hélène Verheyden, Philippe Jacquiet, Noémie Bégoc, Florence Veyssière...

International Journal for Parasitology . 52 ( 12 ) : 751-761

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.07.005

Journal article

see the publication

Mouflon Ovis gmelini Blyth, 1841

Mathieu Garel, Pascal Marchand, G. Bourgoin, Julián Santiago-Moreno, Elodie Portanier, Holger Piegert...

Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla . : 487-521

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24475-0_34

Book chapter

see the publication

You also, comment on this article

Choose an avatar
(Will not be posted on the site)
(Will not be posted on the site)