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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Natal dispersal does not entail survival costs but is linked to breeding dispersal in a migratory shorebird, the southern dunlin Calidris alpina schinzii
Oikos . 2022 ( 8 )
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08951
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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 . 35 ( 4 ) : 561-574
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13925
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see the publicationHow public can public goods be? Environmental context shapes the evolutionary ecology of partially private goods
PLoS Computational Biology . 18 ( 11 ) : e1010666
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see the publicationA general framework for species‐abundance distributions: Linking traits and dispersal to explain commonness and rarity
Ecology Letters . 25 ( 11 ) : 2359-2371
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14094
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see the publicationDetermination of biomarkers threshold values and illustration of their use for the diagnostic in large-scale freshwater biomonitoring surveys
Environmental Sciences Europe . 34 ( 1 ) : 115
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see the publicationInterest of a multispecies approach in active biomonitoring: Application in the Meuse watershed
Science of the Total Environment . 808 : 152148
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see the publicationFrom ecological roots to molecular determinants of orthonairovirus emergence
Journée Ecofect2 .
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see the publicationA survey on anthelmintic efficacy in dairy goat farms in South East of France
13th International Conference on Goats .
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see the publicationReproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern
Ethology . 129 ( 3 ) : 156-168
DOI: 10.1111/eth.13354
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see the publicationSeroprevalence and incidence of Puumala orthohantavirus in its bank vole (Myodes glareolus) host population in northeastern France: Between-site and seasonal variability
Epidemics . 40 : 100600
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see the publicationDevelopment and Evaluation of Two Approaches of Visual Sensitivity Analysis to Support Epidemiological Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics . 29 ( 1 ) : 1255 - 1265
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see the publicationDeveloping digital contact tracing tailored to haulage in East Africa to support COVID-19 surveillance: a protocol
BMJ Open . 12 ( 9 ) : e058457
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see the publicationA scoping review of foot‐and‐mouth disease risk, based on spatial and spatio‐temporal analysis of outbreaks in endemic settings
Transboundary and emerging diseases . 69 : 3198–3215
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14769
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see the publicationExtrinsic and intrinsic factors drive the timing of gestation and reproductive success of Scandinavian brown bears
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 10
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see the publicationGeneric Solving of Physiologically-based Kinetic Models in Support of Next Generation Risk Assessment Due to Chemicals
Journal of Exploratory Research in Pharmacology . 8 ( 2 ) : 140-154
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see the publicationChemical effects on ecological interactions within a model-experiment loop
Peer Community Journal . 3 : e3
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see the publicationrbioacc: An R-package to analyze toxicokinetic data
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 242 : 113875
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see the publicationSpecies delineation and genetic structure of two Chaerephon species ( C. pusillus and C. leucogaster ) on Madagascar and the Comoro archipelago
Ecology and Evolution . 12 ( 12 ) : e9566
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9566
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see the publicationAdaptive duplication and genetic diversification of protein kinase R contribute to the specificity of bat-virus interactions
Science Advances . 8 ( 47 )
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see the publicationA meta-analysis of ecotoxicological models used for plant protection product risk assessment before their placing on the market
Science of the Total Environment . 844 : 157003
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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 ) : 18
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see the publicationAvancées récentes dans le développement du test des comètes chez la moule zébrée (Dreissena polymorpha) et son application en biosurveillance environnementale
Séminaire du GDR Ecotoxicologie Aquatique .
Poster
see the publicationMesure de l’activité N-acétyl-β-D-Glucosaminidase chez l’amphipode Gammarus fossarum : variabilité physiologique et utilisation en contexte d’écotoxicologie
Colloque annuel de la Société Française d’Ecotoxicologie Fondamentale et Appliquée (SEFA) .
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see the publicationLandscape genetic connectivity in European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris): a matter of food, shelters and demographic status of populations
Conservation Genetics . 23 ( 3 ) : 653-668
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see the publicationThe global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Scientific Data . 9 ( 1 ) : 755
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see the publicationCombining seroprevalence and capture-mark-recapture data to estimate the force of infection of brucellosis in a managed population of Alpine ibex
Epidemics . 38 : 100542
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see the publicationDeep learning in veterinary medicine, an approach based on CNN to detect pulmonary abnormalities from lateral thoracic radiographs in cats
Scientific Reports . 12 ( 1 ) : 11418
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see the publicationStrain- and serotype-dependent affinity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli for bovine milk fat globules
Journal of Dairy Science . 105 ( 11 ) : 8688-8704
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see the publicationGeneralist nematodes dominate the nemabiome of roe deer in sympatry with sheep at a regional level
International Journal for Parasitology . 52 ( 12 ) : 751-761
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see the publicationMouflon Ovis gmelini Blyth, 1841
Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla . : 487-521
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