Evolutionary Demography Group
Members
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
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Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Post-doc
CNRS
Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 81 11
Chargée de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 85 44
Stagiaire
UCBL
Professeure des universités
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Doctorant
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Post-doc
UCBL
Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 11
Maîtresse de conférences
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Technicien CDD
CNRS
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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Age at the onset of senescence in birds and mammals is predicted by early-life performance
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 ( 1695 ) : 2849-2856
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see the publicationChapitre 9. Impact des tempêtes de 1999 sur les relations entre forêt et chevreuils et conséquences pour la gestion de ces ongulés
La forêt face aux tempêtes . : 121-130
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see the publicationPoor horse traders: large mammals trade survival for reproduction during the process of feralization.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 276 ( 1663 ) : 1911-1919
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see the publicationContrasted patterns of age-specific reproduction in long-lived seabirds
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 276 ( 1655 ) : 375-382
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see the publicationHeterozygosity-Fitness Correlations Revealed By Neutral And Candidate Gene Markers In Roe Deer From A Long-Term Study
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 63 ( 2 ) : 403-417
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see the publicationFactors affecting beech bark stripping by red deer (Cervus elaphus) in a mixed forest
Wildlife Biology . 15 : 187-196
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see the publicationEmpirical Evidence of Density Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores
Advances in Ecological Research . 41 : 314-345
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see the publicationAge-dependent horn growth-survival relationship in wild sheep
Journal of Animal Ecology . 78 : 161-171
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see the publicationGenetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from wild boar (Sus scrofa) in France.
Veterinary Parasitology . 164 ( 2-4 ) : epub ahead of print
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see the publicationInfluence of artificial lights logs and erosion on leatherback sea turtle hatchling orientation at Pongara National Park Gabon
Biological Conservation . 142 : 85-93
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see the publicationSperm competition and brain size evolution in mammals
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 22 ( 11 ) : 2215-2221
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see the publicationSperm depletion, male mating behaviour and reproductive ‘time-out' in Gammarus pulex (Crustacea, Amphipoda).
Animal Behaviour . 77 : 49-54
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see the publicationEmpirical Evidence of Density‐Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores
Advances in Ecological Research . 41 : 313-357
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see the publicationMemory keeps you at home: a mechanistic model for home range emergence
Oikos . 188 ( 5 ) : 641--652
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see the publicationWhat determines global positioning system fix success when monitoring free-ranging mouflon?
European Journal of Wildlife Research . 55 : 603-613
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see the publicationAge-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots, Marmota marmota.
Molecular Ecology . 18 ( 7 ) : 1491-503
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see the publicationAge-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots Marmota marmota
Molecular Ecology . 18 : 1491-1503
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see the publicationFactors affecting beech Fagus sylvatica bark stripping by red deer Cervus elaphus in a mixed forest
Wildlife Biology . 15 ( 2 ) : 187-196
DOI: 10.2981/07-100
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see the publicationAge-dependent relationship between horn growth and survival in wild sheep.
Journal of Animal Ecology . 78 ( 1 ) : 161-71
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see the publicationAre abundance indices derived from spotlight counts reliable to monitor red deer population?
Wildlife Biology . -- : 1249-1261
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see the publicationEmpirical evidences of density-dependence in populations of large herbivores
Advances in Ecological Research . 41 : 313-357
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see the publicationDynamics of an introduced population of mouflon Ovis aries on the sub-Antarctic 2 archipelago of Kerguelen
Ecography . -- : 1-29
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see the publicationToxoplasma seroprevalence in a rural population in France: detection of a household effect
BMC Infectious Diseases . 9(76) : 36-40
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see the publicationFlock management and histomonosis in free-range turkeys in France: description and search for potential risk factors
Epidemiology and Infection . 138 ( 3 ) : 353–363
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see the publicationLandscape, herd management and within-herd seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in beef cattle herds from Champagne-Ardenne, France
Veterinary parasitology . 161 : 36-40
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see the publicationLandscape herd management and within-herd seroprevalence of TextitToxoplasma gondii in beef cattle herds from Champagne-Ardenne France
Veterinary Parasitology . 161 : 36-40
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see the publicationAge-specific variation in male breeding success of a territorial ungulate species, the european roe deer
Journal of Mammalogy . 90 ( 3 ) : 661-665
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see the publicationEstimation of lifetime reproductive success when reproductive status cannot always be assessed
Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations . 3 : 867-879
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see the publicationWhat shapes intra-specific variation in home range size? A case study of female roe deer
Oikos . 118 : 1299-1306
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see the publicationPopulation density and sex do not influence fine-scale natal dispersal in roe deer
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 275 ( 1646 ) : 2025-2030
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