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
Display of 331 to 360 publications on 2067 in total
Can we use a functional trait to construct a generalized model for ungulate populations?
Ecology . 102 ( 4 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3289
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see the publicationGenetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs
Behavioral Ecology . 32 : 646 - 656
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see the publicationSurgical Treatment of Oesophagostomum spp. Nodular Infection in a Chimpanzee at the CIRMF Primatology Center, Gabon
Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine . 2021
DOI: 10.1155/2021/6617416
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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 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 publicationAccumulation-depuration data collection in support of toxicokinetic modelling
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see the publicationHow to account for the uncertainty from standard toxicity tests in species sensitivity distributions: An example in non-target plants
PLoS ONE .
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see the publicationEfficient use of harvest data: a size‐class‐structured integrated population model for exploited populations
Ecography . 44 ( 9 ) : 1296-1310
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05738
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see the publicationEffects of pulsed resources on the dynamics of seed consumer populations: a comparative demographic study in wild boar
Ecosphere . 12 ( 5 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3395
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see the publicationCatch-effort model used as a management tool in exploited populations: Wild boar as a case study
Ecological Indicators . 124 : 107442
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see the publicationZP4 Is Present in Murine Zona Pellucida and Is Not Responsible for the Specific Gamete Interaction
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology . 8 : 626679
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see the publicationNote technique sur la reprise progressive des activités de médecine préventive à la levée du confinement le 11 mai – Gestion des protocoles vaccinaux
Revue Vétérinaire Clinique . 55 ( 3 ) : 73-93
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see the publicationEvidence for wild cervids as transmission vectors of small ruminant drug resistant gastrointestinal nematode parasites
American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists, 65th Annual Meeting .
Conference paper
see the publicationResource manipulation through experimental defoliation has legacy effects on allocation to reproductive and vegetative organs in Quercus ilex
Annals of Botany . 126 ( 7 ) : 1165-1179
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see the publicationCaprine nodular thelitis due to Mycobacterium uberis: A series of 26 cases in 11 dairy goat farms in Western France
Preventive Veterinary Medicine . 181 : 105060
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see the publicationAssessment of the impact of forestry and leisure activities on wild boar spatial disturbance with a potential application to ASF risk of spread
Transboundary and emerging diseases . 67 ( 3 ) : 1164-1176
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13447
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see the publicationHeterogeneity of water physico-chemical characteristics in artificially pumped waterholes: do African herbivores drink at the same locations and does it lead to interference competition?
Journal of Arid Environments . 173 : 104014
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see the publicationGenomic Analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster Populations Reveals Longitudinal Structure, Continent-Wide Selection, and Previously Unknown DNA Viruses
Molecular Biology and Evolution . 37 ( 9 ) : 2661-2678
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see the publicationTrait-based ecological and eco-evolutionary theory
Theoretical Ecology . : 161-194
Book chapter
see the publicationPaleogeographic differences in temperature, water depth and conodont biofacies during the Late Devonian
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 549 : 108852
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see the publicationA Speed-up Method for Numerical Simulations of Multi-strokes Cold Metallic Sheet Forming Processes
Procedia Manufacturing . 47 : 570 - 577
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see the publicationEditorial: Risk-Based Evidence for Animal Health Policy
Frontiers in Veterinary Science . 7
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see the publicationPost‐outbreak African horse sickness surveillance: A scenario tree evaluation in South Africa’s controlled area
Transboundary and emerging diseases . : tbed.13566
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13566
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see the publicationUptake of Diagnostic Tests by Livestock Farmers: A Stochastic Game Theory Approach
Frontiers in Veterinary Science . 7
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see the publicationMultilayer network analysis unravels haulage vehicles as a hidden threat to the British swine industry
Transboundary and emerging diseases . 67 ( 3 ) : 1231-1246
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13459
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see the publicationSons accelerate maternal aging in a wild mammal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 117 ( 9 ) : 4850-4857
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see the publicationApplication of General Unified Threshold Models of Survival Models for Regulatory Aquatic Pesticide Risk Assessment Illustrated with an Example for the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management . 17 ( 1 ) : 243-258
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4327
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see the publicationRapid Evolution of HERC6 and Duplication of a Chimeric HERC5/6 Gene in Rodents and Bats Suggest an Overlooked Role of HERCs in Mammalian Immunity
Frontiers in Immunology . 11
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