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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Taking full advantage of modelling to better assess environmental risk due to xenobiotics
Environmental Science and Pollution Research .
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see the publicationQuantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in demographic parameters: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables
Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 13 : 91-104
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see the publicationRifampicin exposure reveals within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity in patients with delayed culture conversion
PLoS Pathogens . 17 ( 6 ) : e1009643
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see the publicationMaternal effects shape offspring physiological condition but do not senesce in a wild mammal
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 34 ( 4 ) : 661-670
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13768
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see the publicationLong‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community
Journal of Vegetation Science . 32 ( 6 )
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13101
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see the publicationRole of symbionts in insects’ ecological diversification: cytotype influences exploitation of an unfavorable host plant in the sap-feeder Bemisia tabaci
DECRYPthèse E2M2 Edition 20 .
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see the publicationRole of symbionts in insects’ ecological diversification: cytotype influences exploitation of an unfavorable host plant in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
G-RREMI 2021 - Groupe Régional de Recherche en Microbiologie des Interactions .
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see the publicationHow much energetic trade‐offs limit selection? Insights from livestock and related laboratory model species
Evolutionary Applications . 14 ( 2 ) : 2726-2749
DOI: 10.1111/eva.13320
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see the publicationAssortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms
Journal of Evolutionary Biology .
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13925
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see the publicationInter-individual variation in provisioning rate, prey size and number, and links to total prey biomass delivered to nestlings in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)
Avian Research . 12 : 15
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see the publicationHow much energetic trade‐offs limit selection? Insights from livestock and related laboratory model species
Evolutionary Applications . 14 ( 12 ) : 2726-2749
DOI: 10.1111/eva.13320
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see the publicationEffects of population density on static allometry between horn length and body mass in mountain ungulates
Oikos . 130 ( 12 ) : 2161-2169
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08726
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see the publicationThermal conditions predict intraspecific variation in senescence rate in frogs and toads
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 118 ( 49 ) : e2112235118
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see the publicationGenetic Variability, Population Differentiation, and Correlations for Thermal Tolerance Indices in the Minute Wasp, Trichogramma cacoeciae
Insects .
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see the publicationNatural Selection beyond Life? A Workshop Report
Life . 11 ( 10 ) : 1051
DOI: 10.3390/life11101051
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see the publicationThe Worldwide Invasion of Drosophila suzukii Is Accompanied by a Large Increase of Transposable Element Load and a Small Number of Putatively Adaptive Insertions
Molecular Biology and Evolution . 38 ( 10 ) : 4252-4267
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see the publicationPhenotypic and Transcriptomic Responses to Stress Differ According to Population Geography in an Invasive Species
Genome Biology and Evolution . 13 ( 9 ) : evab208
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab208
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see the publication3D models related to the publication: Patterns of bilateral asymmetry and allometry in Late Devonian Polygnathus conodonts
MorphoMuseum . 7 ( 2 )
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see the publicationApplying comparative methods to different databases: lessons from demographic analyses across mammal species
Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life .
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see the publicationEfficient use of demographic data: Integrated Population Models
Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life .
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see the publicationLongitudinal demographic data collection
Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life .
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see the publicationLa place de la statistique dans les nouveaux programmes du baccalauréat 2021
52èmes Journées de la statistique de la SFdS .
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see the publicationAre human natal sex ratio differences across the world adaptive? A test of Fisher's principle
Biology Letters . 17 ( 3 )
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see the publicationMany lifetime growth trajectories for a single mammal
Ecology and Evolution .
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8164
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see the publication3D models related to the publication: Wild versus lab house mice: Effects of age, diet, and genetics on molar geometry and topography
MorphoMuseum . 7 : e141
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see the publicationAccumulation-depuration data collection in support of toxicokinetic modelling
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see the publicationGeneric Solving of One-compartment Toxicokinetic Models
Journal of Exploratory Research in Pharmacology .
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