Evolutionary Ecology

Les équipes

Predictive Modelling and Ecotoxicology Group

Evolution, Behaviour, Adaptation Group

Evolutionary Demography Group

Evolutionary Epidemiology Group

Ecology and Evolution of Populations Group

Quantitative and Evolutionary Ecology of Communities Group

Veterinary Public Health Group

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 631 to 660 publications on 2315 in total

Genetic resistance against parasitism in female Mediterranean mouflon: Involvement of both neutral and adaptive genetic diversity

Elodie Portanier, M. Garel, S. Devillard, D. Maillard, J. Poissant, Maxime Galan...

Labex EcoFect Annual Meeting .

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Back to the wild: does feralization impact the mandible of non-commensal house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)?

Louise Souquet, Pascale Chevret, Guila Ganem, Jean-Christophe Auffray, Ronan Ledevin, Sylvie Agret...

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 126 ( 3 ) : 471-486

DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly218

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Calcium stable isotopes place Devonian conodonts as first level consumers

V. Balter, J.E. Martin, T. Tacail, G. Suan, Sabrina Renaud, Catherine Girard

Geochemical Perspectives Letters . 10 : 36-39

DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.1912

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Transient growth-enhancing effects of elevated maternal thyroid hormones at no apparent oxidative cost during early postnatal period

Bin-Yan Hsu, Blandine Doligez, Lars Gustafsson, Suvi Ruuskanen

Journal of Avian Biology . 50 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1111/jav.01919

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Comparison of environmental, biological and anthropogenic causes of wildlife–vehicle collisions among three large herbivore species

Christine Saint‐andrieux, Clément Calenge, Christophe Bonenfant

Population Ecology . 62 ( 1 ) : 64-79

DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12029

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Swab cloths as a tool for revealing environmental contamination by Q fever in ruminant farms

Pauline Carrié, Séverine Barry, Elodie Rousset, Carole Sala, Didier Calavas, Jean‐baptiste Perrin...

Transboundary and emerging diseases . 66 : 1202-1209

DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13137

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Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?

Frédéric Thomas, Mathieu Giraudeau, François Renaud, Beata Ujvari, Benjamin Roche, Pascal Pujol...

PLoS Biology . 17 ( 12 ) : e3000565

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000565

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Slow life-history strategies are associated with negligible actuarial senescence in western Palaearctic salamanders

Hugo Cayuela, Kurtuluş Olgun, Claudio Angelini, Nazan Üzüm, Olivier Peyronel, Claude Miaud...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences .

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1498

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Sperm competition accentuates selection on ejaculate attributes.

Pauline Vuarin, Yves Hingrat, Loïc Lesobre, Michel Saint Jalme, Frédéric Lacroix, Gabriele Sorci

Biology Letters . 15 ( 3 ) : 20180889

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0889

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Outils d'observation des boiteries

Valentin Poulain, Luc Mounier, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Dorothee Ledoux

Journées Nationales des Groupements Techniques Vétérinaires (JNGTV) . : np

Poster

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Does grandparental care select for a longer lifespan in non-human mammals?

Guillaume Péron, Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-François Lemaître, Victor Ronget, Morgane Tidière, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society .

DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz078

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Hormonal pleiotropy and the evolution of allocation trade‐offs

Salomé Bourg, Laurent Jacob, Frédéric Menu, Etienne Rajon

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 73 ( 4 ) : 661-674

DOI: 10.1111/evo.13693

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Testing the Mantel statistic with a spatially‐constrained permutation procedure

Julie Crabot, Sylvie Clappe, Stéphane Dray, T. Datry

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 10 ( 4 ) : 532-540

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13141

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Avis de l’Anses relatif à la mise à jour des connaissances sur les méthodes et procédés d’inactivation du virus de la peste porcine africaine (PPA)

Gilles G. Meyer, Catherine C. Belloc, Stéphane Bertagnoli, Alain Boissy, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Eric Collin...

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Report

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Pollen limitation as a main driver of fruiting dynamics in oak populations

Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, David Fouchet, Aurélie Siberchicot, Vincent Boulanger, Thomas Caignard, Michel Thibaudon...

Ecology Letters . 22 ( 1 ) : 98-107

DOI: 10.1111/ele.13171

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Importance de la variabilité intraspécifique de la polluosensibilité pour l’évaluation du risque ecotoxicologique basée sur l’approche SSD (Species Sensitivity Distribution)

Vincent Baillard, Laurine Malardier, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Eva Roubeau Dumont, Arnaud Elger, Agnes Bouchez...

38ème colloque de l’Association des Diatomistes de Langue Française (ADLaF) .

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Insects and incest: Sib‐mating tolerance in natural populations of a parasitoid wasp

Marie Collet, Isabelle Amat, Sandrine Sauzet, Alexandra Auguste, Xavier Fauvergue, Laurence Mouton...

Molecular Ecology . 29 ( 3 ) : 596-609

DOI: 10.1111/mec.15340

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Evidence for risk-taking behavioural types and potential effects on resource acquisition in a parasitoid wasp

Elisa Gomes, Emmanuel Desouhant, Isabelle Amat

Animal Behaviour . 154 : 17-28

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.002

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Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals

Guillaume Péron, Jean-François Lemaître, Victor Ronget, Morgane Tidière, Jean-Michel Gaillard

PLoS Biology . 17 ( 9 ) : e3000432

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000432

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The diversity of population responses to environmental change

Fernando Colchero, Owen r. Jones, Dalia Conde, David M. Hodgson, Felix Zajitschek, Benedikt Schmidt...

Ecology Letters . 22 ( 342-353 )

DOI: 10.1111/ele.13195

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Both candidate gene and neutral genetic diversity correlate with parasite resistance in female Mediterranean mouflon

Elodie Portanier, Mathieu Garel, Sébastien Devillard, Daniel Maillard, Jocelyn Poissant, Maxime Galan...

BMC Ecology . 19 : 1-14

DOI: 10.1186/s12898-019-0228-x

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(In)exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance

Etienne Rajon, Sylvain Charlat

The American Naturalist . 194 ( 4 ) : 470-481

DOI: 10.1086/704772

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Absence of paramyxovirus RNA in non-human primate sanctuaries and a primatology center in Gabon

Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Gael Darren Maganga, Larson Boundenga, Thierry Audrey Tsoumbou, Virginie Rougeron, Illich Manfred Mombo...

Journal of Epidemiological Research . 5 ( 2 ) : 6

DOI: 10.5430/jer.v5n2p6

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Evolution of Hepatitis B Virus Receptor NTCP Reveals Differential Pathogenicities and Species Specificities of Hepadnaviruses in Primates, Rodents, and Bats

Stéphanie Jacquet, Jean-Baptiste Pons, Ariel de Bernardo, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Cosset François-Loïc, Corinne Régis...

Journal of Virology . 93 ( 5 )

DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01738-18

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Altitude shapes the environmental drivers of large‐scale variation in abundance of a widespread mammal species

Mickaël Jacquier, Clément Calenge, Ludovic Say, Sébastien Devillard, Sandrine Ruette

Ecology and Evolution . 10 ( 1 ) : 119-130

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5851

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A sharp incisor tool for predator house mice back to the wild

Sabrina Renaud, Claire Delépine, Ronan Ledevin, Benoît Pisanu, Jean‐pierre Quéré, Emilie A Hardouin

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research . 57 ( 4 ) : 989–999

DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12292

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First levantine fossil murines shed new light on the earliest intercontinental dispersal of mice

Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Sabrina Renaud, Pablo Pelaez Campomanes, Dany Azar, Georges Kachacha, Fabien Knoll

Scientific Reports . 9 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47894-y

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