Evolutionary Ecology
The department of Evolutionary Ecology gathers complementary skills in behavioural ecology, population dynamics, population biology, community ecology, and methodology (statistics and modelling). The research done in the department aims at studying how animal species evolve in a changing world by understanding the causes of the evolution of traits, adaptations and interactions. For that, we consider different levels of organization from individuals to populations and communities. Because organisms cannot be considered isolated from other biotic factors, we consider pathogens but also competing species within communities.
We study how individuals adapt to their environments that are largely impacted by anthropic pressures, and how life history traits and behaviour evolve in response to these pressures. Although we mainly focus on phenotype, we more and more consider the mechanistic link between the genotype and the phenotype. We develop the theoretical framework of our discipline through a conceptual and modeling approach. In parallel, we test hypotheses that arise from theoretical predictions through experimental, comparative and observational approaches on different biological models (insects, birds, mammals). Experimental approaches are developed in the laboratory (insect model) and in natura (bird, insect and mammal models). Observational and comparative research is mainly concerned with vertebrates. Our approaches are also, and increasingly, interested in the mechanisms of adaptive responses. In addition to the classical approaches of demographic analysis and trait change, methods of ecophysiology, chemical ecology and molecular biology are used.
Our department hosts several long-term studies of wild populations of different species. These long-term studies offer a valuable way to understand how biotic and abiotic factors affect individuals’ life history traits, and the functioning of populations in natura. Five populations of mammalian species are thus monitored for several years (more than 40 years on roe deer, 30 on Alpine marmots, 25 years on cats, 16 years on zebras, and 20 years on impala). Two of our study sites (La Sassière in Vanoise National Park (Alpine marmots) and Hwange National Park) have been certified as “Site d’Etude en Ecologie Globale” (SEEG), and two (ZA “Hwange” and ZA “Antarctic and sub-Antarctic”) were certified as “Zone Atelier” by the CNRS.
The department of Evolutionary ecology is also largely involved in training activities. Lastly, we also have strong socio-economic relationships. Indeed, because we address questions of major societal interest (global warming, public health) we tightly collaborate with socio-economic partners (Office Français de la Biodiversité, Vanoise National Park, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, Office National des Forêts, etc.) and participate to general public and media events.
Publications
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Age 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 publicationOrgan-specific accumulation of cadmium and zinc in Gammarus fossarum exposed to environmentally relevant metal concentrations
Environmental Pollution . 308 : 119625
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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 publicationTemperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines
Ecology .
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3908
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see the publicationMaternally transferred thyroid hormones and life‐history variation in birds
Journal of Animal Ecology . 91 ( 7 ) : 1489-1506
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see the publicationTelomeres, the loop tying cancer to organismal life‐histories
Molecular Ecology .
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16488
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see the publicationImprovements in Estimating Bioaccumulation Metrics in the Light of Toxicokinetic Models and Bayesian Inference
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology . 83 ( 4 ) : 339-348
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see the publicationMycobacterium tuberculosis genetic features associated with pulmonary tuberculosis severity
International Journal of Infectious Diseases .
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see the publicationInterpretation of the results of ELISA tests commercialized for the serological diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii infection in domestic ruminants: a user-friendly Shiny application based on latent class models in a Bayesian framework
31st WORLD BUIATRICS CONGRESS .
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see the publicationEvaluation using latent class models of the diagnostic performances of three ELISA tests commercialized for the serological diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii infection in domestic ruminants
31st WORLD BUIATRICS CONGRESS .
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see the publicationEfficacy of a targeted selective treatment in dairy herds affected by clinical dictyocaulosis.
31st WORLD BUIATRICS CONGRESS .
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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 publicationLarval density in the invasive Drosophila suzukii : immediate and delayed effects on life-history traits
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see the publicationDifferentiation of thermal reaction norms between marginal and core populations of a northward expanding parasitoid
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see the publicationStructure génétique et morphométrie crânienne dans le genre Arvicola
Arvicola .
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see the publicationInterbacterial Transfer of Carbapenem Resistance and Large Antibiotic Resistance Islands by Natural Transformation in Pathogenic Acinetobacter
mBio . 13 ( 1 ) : e02631-21
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see the publicationIntegrative Phylogenetics: Tools for Palaeontologists to Explore the Tree of Life
Biology . 11 ( 8 ) : 1185
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see the publicationWeighted transitivity scores that account for triadic edge similarity in undirected graphs
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see the publicationAmplified cyclicality in mast seeding dynamics positively influences the dynamics of a seed consumer species
The American Naturalist .
DOI: 10.1086/721905
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see the publicationA review of modelling approaches for ecological risk assessment of pesticides
SETAC Europe 32nd annual meeting .
Poster
see the publicationUnravelling the environmental correlates influencing the seasonal biodiversity of aquatic Heteropteran assemblages in northern Africa
Limnologica . : 126021
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see the publicationImpacts des produits phytopharmaceutiques sur la biodiversité et les services écosystémiques. Rapport de l’expertise scientifique collective
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DOI: 10.17180/0gp2-cd65
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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 publicationEditorial: Advances in Statistical Ecology: New Methods and Software
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 9
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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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