Evolutionary Demography Group

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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 361 to 390 publications on 755 in total

Avis de l’Anses relatif à une évaluation du risque lié au dépeuplement d’élevages porcins, opérations mises en œuvre en cas de foyers de PPA en élevage

Claude Saegerman, Eric Baubet, Catherine C. Belloc, Eric Collin, Claude Fischer, Jean Hars...

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Report

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Comparison of Three Methods to Assess the Potential for Bushpig-Domestic Pig Interactions at the Wildlife—Livestock Interface in Uganda

Ariane Payne, Peter Ogweng, Alfred Ojok, Eric Etter, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Charles Masembe...

Frontiers in Veterinary Science . 5 ( 295 ) : 1-13

DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00295

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The neoteny-helper hypothesis: when to expect and when not to expect endocrine mechanisms to regulate allo-parental care?

Carsten Schradin, Pauline Vuarin, Rebecca Rimbach

Physiology & behavior . 193 ( Pt A ) : 127-134

DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.12.008

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Individual heterogeneity and capture-recapture models: what, why and how?

Olivier Gimenez, Emmanuelle Cam, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Oikos . 127 ( 5 ) : 664-686

DOI: 10.1111/oik.04532

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General conclusion to the special issue Moving forward on individual heterogeneity

Sandra Hamel, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Nigel Yoccoz, Ron Bassar, Sandra Bouwhuis, Hal Caswell...

Oikos . 127 ( 5 ) : 750-756

DOI: 10.1111/oik.05223

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Environmental drivers of varying selective optima in a small passerine: A multivariate, multiepisodic approach

Marlène Gamelon, Jarle Tufto, Anna L K Nilsson, Kurt Jerstad, Ole W Røstad, Nils C Stenseth...

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 72 ( 11 ) : 2325 - 2342

DOI: 10.1111/evo.13610

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Bouquetins du Bargy et infection brucellique : que nous révèle la génétique ?

Erwan Quéméré, Sophie Rossi, Yvette Game, Elodie Petit, Maxime Galan, Joel Merlet...

Epidémiologie et Santé Animale . 74 : 17-24

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Facteurs associés à la détection de Coxiella burnetii dans les prélèvements de poussière en élevages de ruminants domestiques

Pauline Carrié, Séverine Barry, Elodie Rousset, Renée de Cremoux, Carole Sala, Jean-Baptiste Perrin...

Académie Vétérinaire de France .

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Demographic stochasticity drives epidemiological patterns in wildlife with implications for diseases and population management

Sébastien Lambert, Pauline Ezanno, Mathieu Garel, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

Scientific Reports . 8 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34623-0

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Immunosenescence patterns differ among populations of a long-lived mammal.

Louise Cheynel, Jean-François Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Benjamin Rey, Gilles Bourgoin, Maryline Pellerin...

Journée Annuelle 2017 du LabEx ECOFECT . : http://oldecofect.universite-lyon.fr/

Poster

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Age and environmental life-conditions impact telomere dynamics in a wild mammal

Rachael Wilbourn, Hannah Froy, Marie-Christina Mcmanus, Louise Cheynel, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont...

International Conference on Understanding Diversity in Telomere Dynamics .

Conference paper

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Mise en place d'une expérience avec le grand public : entre recherche, vulgarisation et pédagogie

Youenn Loheac, Hayyan Alia, Cécile Bazart, Mohamed Ali Bchir, Serge Blondel, Mihaela Bonescu...

Revue Economique . 68 ( 5 ) : 941-953

DOI: 10.3917/reco.pr3.0089

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Immunosenescence patterns in two populations of a long-lived mammal.

Louise Cheynel, Jean-Michel Gaillard, B. Rey, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Jean-François Lemaître

Réunion du groupe Immuno-écologie du Réseau Ecologie des Interactions Durables .

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Enhancing the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in fish farming in France

Sandrine Baron, Alexis Nalovic, Emeline Larvor, Eric Jouy, Carole Peroz, Ségolène Calvez...

18. International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish . ( 18ème ed. ) : 466 p.

Poster

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Effectiveness and Cost Efficiency of Different Surveillance Components for Proving Freedom and Early Detection of Disease: Bluetongue Serotype 8 in Cattle as Case Study for Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Sarah Welby, Gerdien van Schaik, Anouk Veldhuis, Henriëtte Brouwer-Middelesch, Carole Peroz, Inge Santman-Berends...

Transboundary and emerging diseases . 64 ( 6 ) : 1771-1781

DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12564

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Introduction history overrides social factors in explaining genetic structure of females in Mediterranean mouflon

Elodie Portanier, Mathieu Garel, Sébastien Devillard, Pascal Marchand, Julie Andru, Daniel Maillard...

Ecology and Evolution . 7 ( 22 ) : 9580 - 9591

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3433

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The energy landscape predicts flight height and wind turbine collision hazard in three species of large soaring raptor

Guillaume Péron, Christen Fleming, Olivier Duriez, Julie Fluhr, Christian Itty, Sergio Lambertucci...

Journal of Applied Ecology . 54 ( 6 ) : 1895-1906

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12909

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Multicontinental community phylogenetics of avian mixed-species flocks reveal the role of the stability of associations and of kleptoparasitism

Guillaume Péron

Ecography . 40 ( 11 ) : 1267-1273

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02574

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Periodic continuous-time movement models uncover behavioral changes of wild canids along anthropization gradients

Guillaume Péron, Christen Fleming, Rogerio de Paula, Numi Mitchell, Michael Strohbach, Peter Leimgruber...

Ecological monographs . 87 ( 3 ) : 442-456

DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1260

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Interactions between demography and environmental effects are important determinants of population dynamics

Marlène Gamelon, Vidar Grøtan, Anna L K Nilsson, Steinar Engen, James W Hurrell, Kurt Jerstad...

Science Advances . 3 ( 2 ) : e1602298

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602298

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Reproductive allocation in pulsed-resource environments: a comparative study in two populations of wild boar

Marlène Gamelon, S. Focardi, E. Baubet, S. Brandt, B. Franzetti, F. Ronchi...

Oecologia . 183 ( 4 ) : 1065--1076

DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3821-8

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Immunosenescence patterns differ between populations but not between sexes in a long-lived mammal

Louise Cheynel, Jean-François Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Benjamin Rey, G. Bourgoin, Hubert Ferté...

Scientific Reports . 7 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13686-5

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The ‘Evo-Demo’ Implications of Condition-Dependent Mortality

Victor Ronget, Michael Garratt, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Trends in Ecology & Evolution . 32 ( 12 ) : 909-921

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.003

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Reproductive senescence: new perspectives in the wild

Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Biological Reviews . 92 ( 4 ) : 2182-2199

DOI: 10.1111/brv.12328

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Life tables and Leslie matrices for mammalian cohorts in different paleobiological contexts during the Pleistocene

Philippe Fernandez, Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Serge Legendre, Hervé Monchot

TaphonomieS . 9782813002419 : 477-497

Book chapter

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Senescence in Mammalian Life History Traits

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael Garratt, Jean-François Lemaître

The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life . 978-1-139-93986-7 : 126-155

DOI: 10.1017/9781139939867.007

Book chapter

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Inferring the timing of territoriality and rut in male roe deer from movements? Some preliminary results - and new perspectives

Nicolas Morellet, Vincent Miele, Christophe Bonenfant

6. EURODEER meeting .

Conference paper

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Life histories and conservation of long-lived reptiles, an illustration with the American crocodile ( Crocodylus acutus )

Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Christophe Bonenfant, Mathieu Basille, Michael Cherkiss, Jeff Beauchamp, Frank Mazzotti...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 86 ( 5 ) : 1102 - 1113

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12723

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Habitat selection by a large herbivore at multiple spatial and temporal scales is primarily governed by food resources

Claudia Dupke, Christophe Bonenfant, Björn Reineking, Robert Hable, Thorsten Zeppenfeld, Michael Ewald...

Ecography . 40 ( 8 ) : 1014 - 1027

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02152

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Do nothing” as a disease management strategy for pestivirus infection in Pyrenean Chamois?

Sebastien Lambert, Pauline Ezanno, Matthieu Garel, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

33. International Union of Game Biologists (IUGB) .

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