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 151 to 180 publications on 717 in total

Can citizen science analysis of camera trap data be used to study reproduction? Lessons from Snapshot Serengeti program

Lucie Thel, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Léa Keurinck, Maxime Catala, Craig Packer, Sarah E Huebner...

Wildlife Biology . 2021

DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00833

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Demande d’évaluation du rôle épidémiologique du renard dans la transmission de la tuberculose bovine

Ariane Payne, Maria Laura Boschiroli, Durand Benoit, Claude Fischer, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Jean Hars...

: 91 p.

Report

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Estimating disease prevalence and temporal dynamics using biased capture serological data in a wildlife reservoir: The example of brucellosis in Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)

Clément Calenge, Sébastien Lambert, Elodie Petit, Anne Thébault, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Carole Toïgo...

Preventive Veterinary Medicine . 187 : 105239

DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.105239

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DNA methylation as a tool to explore ageing in wild roe deer populations

Jean‐françois Lemaître, Benjamin Rey, Jean‐michel Gaillard, Corinne Régis, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, François Débias...

Molecular Ecology Resources . 22 ( 3 ) : 1002-1015

DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13533

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Pathogen‐mediated selection favours the maintenance of innate immunity gene polymorphism in a widespread wild ungulate

Erwan Quéméré, Pauline Hessenauer, Maxime Galan, Marie Fernandez, Joël Merlet, Yannick Chaval...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 34 ( 7 ) : 1156-1166

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13876

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Spatial Demography

Guillaume Péron

Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life .

Book chapter

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Metabarcoding in two isolated populations of wild roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) reveals variation in gastrointestinal nematode community composition between regions and among age classes

Camille Beaumelle, Elizabeth M Redman, Jill de Rijke, Janneke Wit, Slimania Benabed, François Debias...

Parasites & Vectors . 14 : 594

DOI: 10.1186/s13071-021-05087-5

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Maternal effects shape offspring physiological condition but do not senesce in a wild mammal

Louise Cheynel, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Benjamin Rey, Erwan Quéméré, François Débias, Jeanne Duhayer...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 34 ( 4 ) : 661-670

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13768

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Short-term telomere dynamics is associated with glucocorticoid levels in wild populations of roe deer

Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jeffrey Carbillet, Benjamin Rey, Rupert Palme, Hannah Froy, Rachael V. Wilbourn...

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A: Comparative Physiology . 252 : 1-7

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.110836

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Evolution of large males is associated with female‐skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes

András Liker, Veronika Bókony, Ivett Pipoly, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean‐michel Gaillard, Tamás Székely...

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 75 ( 7 ) : 1636-1649

DOI: 10.1111/evo.14273

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A Systematic Review of Within-Population Variation in the Size of Home Range Across Ungulates: What Do We Know After 50 Years of Telemetry Studies?

Juliette Seigle-Ferrand, Kamal Atmeh, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Victor Ronget, Nicolas Morellet, Mathieu Garel...

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 8 : 20 p.

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.555429

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Revisiting animal photo-identification using deep metric learning and network analysis

Vincent Miele, Gaspard Dussert, Bruno Spataro, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Dominique Allainé, Christophe Bonenfant

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 12 ( 5 ) : 863-873

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13577

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Positive early-late life-history trait correlations in elephant seals

W. Chris Oosthuizen, Guillaume Péron, Roger Pradel, Marthan N. Bester, Nico de Bruyn

Ecology . : e03288

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3288

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Paternal age negatively affects sperm production of the progeny

Pauline Vuarin, Loïc Lesobre, Gwènaëlle Levêque, Michel Saint Jalme, Frédéric Lacroix, Yves Hingrat...

Ecology Letters . 24 ( 4 ) : 719-727

DOI: 10.1111/ELE.13696

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Effects of population density on static allometry between horn length and body mass in mountain ungulates

Christophe Pélabon, Steeve D Côté, Marco Festa‐bianchet, Jean‐michel Gaillard, Mathieu Garel, Jean‐francois Lemaître...

Oikos .

DOI: 10.1111/oik.08726

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Editorial: Advances in Ungulate Ecology

R. Terry Terry Bowyer, Vernon C Bleich, Paul R Krausman, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 9

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.675265

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Can we use a functional trait to construct a generalized model for ungulate populations?

Lochran W Traill, Floriane Plard, Jean‐michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson

Ecology . 102 ( 4 )

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3289

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Quantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in demographic parameters: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables

Rémi Fay, Matthieu Authier, Sandra Hamel, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Martijn Pol, Emmanuelle Cam...

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 13 : 91-104

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13728

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Efficient use of harvest data: a size‐class‐structured integrated population model for exploited populations

Marlène M. Gamelon, Chloé R Nater, Éric Baubet, Aurélien Besnard, Laura Touzot, Jean-Michel Gaillard...

Ecography . 44 ( 9 ) : 1296-1310

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05738

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Effects of pulsed resources on the dynamics of seed consumer populations: a comparative demographic study in wild boar

Marlène Gamelon, Laura Touzot, Éric Baubet, Jessica Cachelou, Stefano Focardi, Barbara Franzetti...

Ecosphere . 12 ( 5 )

DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3395

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Catch-effort model used as a management tool in exploited populations: Wild boar as a case study

Pablo Vajas, Clément Calenge, Marlène Gamelon, Fabrice Girard, Olivier Melac, Charlette Chandosne...

Ecological Indicators . 124 : 107442

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107442

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Note technique sur la reprise progressive des activités de médecine préventive à la levée du confinement le 11 mai – Gestion des protocoles vaccinaux

Ludovic L. Freyburger, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, Lionel Zenner, Marie Abitbol, J.-F. Audrin, Florence Ayral...

Revue Vétérinaire Clinique . 55 ( 3 ) : 73-93

DOI: 10.1016/j.anicom.2020.05.001

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Evidence for wild cervids as transmission vectors of small ruminant drug resistant gastrointestinal nematode parasites

Libby Redman, Jill De Rijke, Shawna Zhu, Rebecca Chen, Anshula Revo, Philippe Jacquiet...

American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists, 65th Annual Meeting .

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Caprine nodular thelitis due to Mycobacterium uberis: A series of 26 cases in 11 dairy goat farms in Western France

Manon Brentini, Carole Peroz, Elie Dagher, Sophie Labrut, Olivier Albaric, Jérôme Despres...

Preventive Veterinary Medicine . 181 : 105060

DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.105060

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Assessment of the impact of forestry and leisure activities on wild boar spatial disturbance with a potential application to ASF risk of spread

Karine Petit, Charlotte Dunoyer, Claude Fischer, Jean Hars, Eric Baubet, Jorge Ramón López‐olvera...

Transboundary and emerging diseases . 67 ( 3 ) : 1164-1176

DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13447

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The Link Between Covid-19 and Biodiversity : A Report Commissioned by the French Public Authorities

Jean-François Silvain, Robin Goffaux, Hélène Soubelet, Francois Sarrazin, Luc Abbadie, Cécile H. Albert...

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Genetic epidemiology of the Alpine ibex reservoir of persistent and virulent brucellosis outbreak

Erwan Quéméré, Sophie Rossi, Elodie Petit, Pascal Marchand, Joel Merlet, Yvette Game...

Scientific Reports . 10 ( 1 ) : 1-10

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61299-2

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Hydrology influences breeding time in the white-throated dipper

Anna Nilsson, Thomas Skaugen, Trond Reitan, Jan Henning L'Abée-Lund, Marlène Gamelon, Kurt Jerstad...

BMC Ecology . 20 ( 1 ) : 70

DOI: 10.1186/s12898-020-00338-y

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On the use of the coefficient of variation to quantify and compare trait variation

Christophe Pélabon, Christoffer Hilde, Sigurd Einum, Marlène Gamelon

Evolution Letters . 4 ( 3 ) : 180-188

DOI: 10.1002/evl3.171

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Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

Pierre de Villemereuil, Anne Charmantier, Debora Arlt, Pierre Bize, Patricia Brekke, Lyanne Brouwer...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 117 ( 50 ) : 31969-31978

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009003117

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