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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Management of the mycorrhizal soil infectivity with Crotalaria ochroleuca, an indigenous wild legume in the tropics: Impacts on microbial functional diversity involved in phosphorus mobilization processes in a sahelian soil

N. Benkhoua, M. Hafidi, W. Badri, Ezékiel Baudoin, Jean Thioulouse, Yves Prin...

Ecological Engineering . 101 : 130-136

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.01.010

2017

Journal article

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The energy landscape predicts flight height and wind turbine collision hazard in three species of large soaring raptor

Guillaume Péron, Christen Fleming, Olivier Duriez, Julie Fluhr, Christian Itty, Sergio Lambertucci...

Journal of Applied Ecology . 54 ( 6 ) : 1895-1906

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12909

2017

Journal article

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Multicontinental community phylogenetics of avian mixed-species flocks reveal the role of the stability of associations and of kleptoparasitism

Guillaume Péron

Ecography . 40 ( 11 ) : 1267-1273

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02574

2017

Journal article

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Periodic continuous-time movement models uncover behavioral changes of wild canids along anthropization gradients

Guillaume Péron, Christen Fleming, Rogerio de Paula, Numi Mitchell, Michael Strohbach, Peter Leimgruber...

Ecological monographs . 87 ( 3 ) : 442-456

DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1260

2017

Journal article

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Increasing Spring temperature favors oak seed production in temperate areas

Thomas Caignard, Antoine Kremer, Cyril Firmat, Manuel Nicolas, Samuel Venner, Sylvain Delzon

EGU General Assembly 2017 . 19 : np

2017

Poster

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Interactions between demography and environmental effects are important determinants of population dynamics

Marlène Gamelon, Vidar Grøtan, Anna L K Nilsson, Steinar Engen, James W Hurrell, Kurt Jerstad...

Science Advances . 3 ( 2 ) : e1602298

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602298

2017

Journal article

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Reproductive allocation in pulsed-resource environments: a comparative study in two populations of wild boar

Marlène Gamelon, S. Focardi, E. Baubet, S. Brandt, B. Franzetti, F. Ronchi...

Oecologia . 183 ( 4 ) : 1065--1076

DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3821-8

2017

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Raisonner l'utilisation des légumineuses ligneuses pour réhabiliter des sols dégradés en milieu méditerranéen et tropical

Robin Duponnois, Jean Thioulouse, Ezekiel Baudoin, Christine Leroux, Antoine Galiana, Y Prin

Innovations Agronomiques . 60 : 125-131

DOI: 10.15454/1.5138523036590977E12

2017

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Combined effect of temperature and ammonia on molecular response and survival of the freshwater crustacean Gammarus pulex

Youn Henry, Christophe Piscart, Sandrine Charles, Hervé Colinet

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 137 : 42-48

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.11.011

2017

Journal article

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Response to Comment on "Robust Fit of Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Models Using Prior Knowledge Contained in the Design of Survival Toxicity Tests

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, P. Veber

Environmental Science and Technology . 51 : 8202-8203

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02548

2017

Journal article

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Robust Fit of Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Models Using Prior Knowledge Contained in the Design of Survival Toxicity Tests

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, P. Ruiz, P. Veber

Environmental Science and Technology . 51 : 4038-4045

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05326

2017

Journal article

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The invasive pest Drosophila suzukii uses trans-generational medication to resist parasitoid attack

M. Poyet, P. Eslin, O. Chabrerie, S. Prud’homme, E. Desouhant, Patricia Gibert

Scientific Reports . 7 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/srep43696

2017

Journal article

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Adaptations to different habitats in sexual and asexual populations of parasitoid wasps: a meta-analysis

Isabelle Amat, Jacques J.M. van Alphen, Alex Kacelnik, Emmanuel Desouhant, Carlos Bernstein

PeerJ . 5 : e3699

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3699

2017

Journal article

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Immunosenescence patterns differ between populations but not between sexes in a long-lived mammal

Louise Cheynel, Jean-François Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Benjamin Rey, G. Bourgoin, Hubert Ferté...

Scientific Reports . 7 ( 1 )

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13686-5

2017

Journal article

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The ‘Evo-Demo’ Implications of Condition-Dependent Mortality

Victor Ronget, Michael Garratt, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Trends in Ecology & Evolution . 32 ( 12 ) : 909-921

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.003

2017

Journal article

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Reproductive senescence: new perspectives in the wild

Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Biological Reviews . 92 ( 4 ) : 2182-2199

DOI: 10.1111/brv.12328

2017

Journal article

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Life tables and Leslie matrices for mammalian cohorts in different paleobiological contexts during the Pleistocene

Philippe Fernandez, Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Serge Legendre, Hervé Monchot

TaphonomieS . 9782813002419 : 477-497

2017

Book chapter

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Senescence in Mammalian Life History Traits

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael Garratt, Jean-François Lemaître

The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life . 978-1-139-93986-7 : 126-155

DOI: 10.1017/9781139939867.007

2017

Book chapter

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Lineage-specific duplication of amphioxus retinoic acid degrading enzymes (CYP26) resulted in sub-functionalization of patterning and homeostatic roles

João E. Carvalho, Maria Theodosiou, Jie C Chen, Pascale C Chevret, Susana Alvarez, Angel R. de Lera...

BMC Evolutionary Biology . 17 ( 1 ) : 24

DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0863-1

2017

Journal article

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Morphometric variations at an ecological scale: Seasonal and local variations in feral and commensal house mice

Sabrina Renaud, Emilie A. Hardouin, Jean-Pierre Quéré, Pascale Chevret

Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 87 : 1-12

DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2017.04.004

2017

Journal article

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Negative phenotypic and genetic correlation between natal dispersal propensity and nest-defence behaviour in a wild bird

Pierre Bize, Grégory Daniel, Vincent A. Viblanc, Julien G. A. Martin, Blandine Doligez

Biology Letters . 13 ( 7 ) : 20170236

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0236

2017

Journal article

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Natal dispersers pay a lifetime cost to increased reproductive effort in a wild bird population

M. Germain, T. Part, L. Gustafsson, Blandine Doligez

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 284 : 20162445

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2445

2017

Journal article

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adegraphics: An S4 Lattice-Based Package for the Representation of Multivariate Data

Aurélie Siberchicot, A. Julien-Laferrière, Ab. Dufour, J. Thioulouse, S. Dray

The R Journal . 9 ( 2 ) : 198-212

DOI: 10.32614/RJ-2017-042

2017

Journal article

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A critical issue in model-based inference for studying trait-based community assembly and a solution

Cajo J. F. ter Braak, P. Peres-Neto, Stéphane Dray

PeerJ . 5 : e2885

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2885

2017

Journal article

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Inferring the timing of territoriality and rut in male roe deer from movements? Some preliminary results - and new perspectives

Nicolas Morellet, Vincent Miele, Christophe Bonenfant

6. EURODEER meeting .

2017

Conference paper

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Life histories and conservation of long-lived reptiles, an illustration with the American crocodile ( Crocodylus acutus )

Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Christophe Bonenfant, Mathieu Basille, Michael Cherkiss, Jeff Beauchamp, Frank Mazzotti...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 86 ( 5 ) : 1102 - 1113

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12723

2017

Journal article

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Habitat selection by a large herbivore at multiple spatial and temporal scales is primarily governed by food resources

Claudia Dupke, Christophe Bonenfant, Björn Reineking, Robert Hable, Thorsten Zeppenfeld, Michael Ewald...

Ecography . 40 ( 8 ) : 1014 - 1027

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02152

2017

Journal article

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Do nothing” as a disease management strategy for pestivirus infection in Pyrenean Chamois?

Sebastien Lambert, Pauline Ezanno, Matthieu Garel, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

33. International Union of Game Biologists (IUGB) .

2017

Conference paper

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Designing cost-effective capture-recapture surveys for improving the monitoring of survival in bird populations

Nicolas Lieury, Sébastien Devillard, Aurélien Besnard, Olivier O. Gimenez, Olivier Hameau, Cécile Ponchon...

Biological Conservation . 214 : 233-241

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.011

2017

Journal article

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Managing cold tolerance and quality of mass-produced Drosophila suzukii flies to facilitate the application of biocontrol through incompatible and sterile insect techniques

Katerina Nikolouli, F. Sassú, Thomas Enriquez, Patricia Gibert, Frédéric Vavre, Laurence Mouton...

Third FAO–IAEA International Conference on Area-wide Management of Insect Pests .

2017

Poster

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Publications

Management of the mycorrhizal soil infectivity with Crotalaria ochroleuca, an indigenous wild legume in the tropics: Impacts on microbial functional diversity involved in phosphorus mobilization processes in a sahelian soil

The energy landscape predicts flight height and wind turbine collision hazard in three species of large soaring raptor

Multicontinental community phylogenetics of avian mixed-species flocks reveal the role of the stability of associations and of kleptoparasitism

Periodic continuous-time movement models uncover behavioral changes of wild canids along anthropization gradients

Increasing Spring temperature favors oak seed production in temperate areas

Interactions between demography and environmental effects are important determinants of population dynamics

Reproductive allocation in pulsed-resource environments: a comparative study in two populations of wild boar

Raisonner l'utilisation des légumineuses ligneuses pour réhabiliter des sols dégradés en milieu méditerranéen et tropical

Combined effect of temperature and ammonia on molecular response and survival of the freshwater crustacean Gammarus pulex

Response to Comment on "Robust Fit of Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Models Using Prior Knowledge Contained in the Design of Survival Toxicity Tests

Robust Fit of Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Models Using Prior Knowledge Contained in the Design of Survival Toxicity Tests

The invasive pest Drosophila suzukii uses trans-generational medication to resist parasitoid attack

Adaptations to different habitats in sexual and asexual populations of parasitoid wasps: a meta-analysis

Immunosenescence patterns differ between populations but not between sexes in a long-lived mammal

The ‘Evo-Demo’ Implications of Condition-Dependent Mortality

Reproductive senescence: new perspectives in the wild

Life tables and Leslie matrices for mammalian cohorts in different paleobiological contexts during the Pleistocene

Senescence in Mammalian Life History Traits

Lineage-specific duplication of amphioxus retinoic acid degrading enzymes (CYP26) resulted in sub-functionalization of patterning and homeostatic roles

Morphometric variations at an ecological scale: Seasonal and local variations in feral and commensal house mice

Negative phenotypic and genetic correlation between natal dispersal propensity and nest-defence behaviour in a wild bird

Natal dispersers pay a lifetime cost to increased reproductive effort in a wild bird population

adegraphics: An S4 Lattice-Based Package for the Representation of Multivariate Data

A critical issue in model-based inference for studying trait-based community assembly and a solution

Inferring the timing of territoriality and rut in male roe deer from movements? Some preliminary results - and new perspectives

Life histories and conservation of long-lived reptiles, an illustration with the American crocodile ( Crocodylus acutus )

Habitat selection by a large herbivore at multiple spatial and temporal scales is primarily governed by food resources

Do nothing” as a disease management strategy for pestivirus infection in Pyrenean Chamois?

Designing cost-effective capture-recapture surveys for improving the monitoring of survival in bird populations

Managing cold tolerance and quality of mass-produced Drosophila suzukii flies to facilitate the application of biocontrol through incompatible and sterile insect techniques

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