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 901 to 930 publications on 2315 in total
Integrative genomics and gene networks for studying phenotypic plasticity in the pea aphid
10th Arthropod Genomics Symposium .
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see the publicationThe cost of growing large: costs of post-weaning growth on body mass senescence in a wild mammal
Oikos . 126 ( 9 ) : 1329-1338
DOI: 10.1111/oik.04421
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see the publicationEvolutionary allometry reveals a shift in selection pressure on male horn size
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 30 ( 10 ) : 1826-1835
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13142
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see the publicationApproches expérimentales de l’étude de la Plasticité Phénotypique
Ecole thématique PLASPHEN .
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see the publicationThe ecology of fly-bacteria-yeast symbiosis: no relevance of laboratory interactions to in-natura processes
Colloque Immunité des Invertébrés (Immuninv 2017) .
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see the publicationThe ecology of fly-bacteria-yeast symbiosis: laboratory interactions and their relevance to in-natura processes
Réunion REID .
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see the publicationThe use of STATICO and COSTATIS, two exploratory three-ways analysis methods: an application to the ecology of aquatic heteroptera in the Medjerda watershed (Tunisia)
Environmental and Ecological Statistics . 24 ( 2 ) : 269 - 295
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see the publicationNeophobia is linked to behavioural and haematological indicators of stress in captive roe deer
Animal Behaviour . 126 : 135-143
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see the publicationInvasive Drosophila suzukii facilitates Drosophila melanogaster infestation and sour rot outbreaks in the vineyards
Royal Society Open Science . 4 ( 3 ) : np
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170117
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see the publicationRural populations of the red fox Vulpes vulpes show little evidence of reproductive senescence
Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 87 : 146 - 151
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see the publicationSpatial memory shapes density dependence in population dynamics
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 284 ( 1867 )
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see the publicationGenomic regions controlling shape variation in the first upper molar of the house mouse
eLife . 6
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.29510
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see the publicationChapter eight - How host plant and fluctuating environments affect insect reproductive strategies?
Insect-Plant Interactions in a Crop Protection Perspective . 81 ( 1.ed. ) : 259-287
Book chapter
see the publicationWhere and what to feed? Differential effects on fecundity and longevity in the invasive Drosophila suzukii
Basic and Applied Ecology . 19 : 56-66
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see the publicationImpact of Wolbachia on oxidative stress sensitivity in the parasitic wasp Asobara japonica
PLoS ONE . 5 : 10
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see the publicationDevelopment and validation of LC–MS methods for peptaibol quantification in fungal extracts according to their lengths
Journal of Chromatography B - Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences . 1009-1010 ( 7 ) : 25-33
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2967
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see the publicationVariation in the age of first reproduction: different strategies or individual quality?
Ecology . 97 ( 7 ) : 1842-1851
DOI: 10.1890/15-1485.1
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see the publicationPaternal but not maternal age influences early-life performance of offspring in a long-lived seabird
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 283 ( 1828 ) : 20152318
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see the publicationAcoustic communication between mates in White-Throated Dippers, Cinclus cinclus
46ème COLLOQUE de la Société Française pour l’Etude du Comportement Animal SFECA 2016 .
Conference paper
see the publicationUsing the past to predict the future: the case of French Mediterranean orchids
The Mediterranean Region under Climate Change: A scientific update . 978-2-7099-2219-7 : p. 377-386
Book chapter
see the publicationThe DISCO-WEED project : disentangling the role of anthropic DISturbances and eCOlogical processes on WEED community assembly
Sfécologie-2016, International Conference of Ecological Sciences . : np
Poster
see the publicationStabilisation of soil aggregates along a plant community succession: indirect positive effects of root biomass and root diameter diversity
Sfécologie-2016, International Conference of Ecological Sciences . : np
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see the publicationPlant diversity loss forces shift in ecological strategies for wild bees - Insights from historical time series at a country-wide scale
Sfécologie-2016, International Conference of Ecological Sciences . : np
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see the publicationEcological, biogeographical and evolutionary drivers of tree rarity in Indian rainforests
5th International EcoSummit Congress "EcoSummit 2016 - Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change .
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see the publicationUnderstanding plant community successional dynamics: Exploring the role of fine root morphological heterogeneity
EcoSummit 2016, The 5th International EcoSummit Congress on Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change .
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see the publicationInfluence of long-term biogeography and evolution on current patterns of rarity: consequence for conservation strategies
The 5th International EcoSummit Congress on Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change (EcoSummit 2016) .
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see the publicationCushion plants in high-elevation peatlands of Andes determines the functional and taxonomic composition of associated plant communities under intense herbivory and abiotic stress
EcoSummit 2016, The 5th International EcoSummit Congress on Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change .
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see the publicationInto the functional ecology of ectomycorrhizal communities: environmental filtering of enzymatic activities
Journal of Applied Ecology . 13 ( 8 ) : 1585-1598
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see the publicationGrowth rings in tropical trees: role of functional traits, environment, and phylogeny
Trees - Structure and Function .
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