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 961 to 990 publications on 2315 in total

An R package for analyzing survival using continuous-time open capture-recapture models

D. Fouchet, H. Santin-Janin, F. Sauvage, Ng. Yoccoz, D. Pontier

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 7 : 518-528

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12497

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Network Analysis Shows Asymmetrical Flows within a Bird Metapopulation

Emilio R. Rojas, Cédric Sueur, Pierre-Yves Henry, Blandine Doligez, Gérard Wey, Olivier Dehorter...

PLoS ONE . 11 ( 11 ) : e0166701

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166701

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Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits

Mélissa Lemoine, Kay Lucek, Charles Perrier, Verena Saladin, Frank Adriaensen, Emilio Barba...

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 118 ( 3 ) : 668-685

DOI: 10.1111/bij.12745

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Effect of an anti-malaria drug on behavioural performance on a problem-solving task: An experiment in wild great tits

L. Cauchard, B. Angers, N. J. Boogert, Blandine Doligez

Behavioural Processes . 133 : 24-30

DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.10.012

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Molecular phylogeny of the highly diversified catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) reveals incongruences with morphological classification

R. Covain, S. Fisch-Muller, C. Oliveira, J. H. Mol, J. I. Montoya-Burgos, Stéphane Dray

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 94 : 492-517

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.018

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Inferring the timing of territoriality and rut in male roe deer from movements?

Nicolas Morellet, Christophe Bonenfant, Vincent Miele, Marco Heurich, Stefano Focardi

8. EURODEER meeting .

Conference paper

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Mate choice for neutral and MHC genetic characteristics in Alpine marmots: different targets in different contexts?

Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira, Dominique Allainé, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, Aurélie Cohas

Ecology and Evolution . 6 ( 13 ) : 4243-4257

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Contemporary variations of immune responsiveness during range expansion of two invasive rodents in Senegal

Christophe Diagne, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Stéphane Cornet, Laëtitia Husse, Souleymane Doucouré, Ambroise Dalecky...

Oikos . 126 ( 3 ) : 435 - 446

DOI: 10.1111/oik.03470

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A nonlethal sampling method to obtain, generate and assemble whole blood transcriptomes from small, wild mammals

Z Huang, Aurore Gallot, Nga Lao, Sébastien Puechmaille, Nicole Foley, D Jebb...

Molecular Ecology Resources . 16 ( 1 ) : 150 - 162

DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12447

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Trophic interactions may reverse the demographic consequences of inbreeding

Anaïs Bompard, Isabelle Amat, Xavier Fauvergue, Thierry Spataro

Ecology . 97 ( 11 ) : 3131 - 3142

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1544

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Age-specific survival in the socially monogamous alpine marmot (Marmota marmota): evidence of senescence

V. Berger, J. F. Lemaître, Pierre Dupont, D. Allainé, J. M. Gaillard, A. Cohas

Journal of Mammalogy . 97 : 992-1000

DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw028

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Effects of daily fluctuating temperatures on the Drosophila–Leptopilina boulardi parasitoid association

Emilie Delava, Frédéric Fleury, Patricia Gibert

Journal of Thermal Biology . 60 : 95 - 102

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.06.012

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Phylogeny and adaptation shape the teeth of insular mice

Ronan Ledevin, Pascale Chevret, Guila Ganem, Janice Britton-Davidian, Emilie A Hardouin, Jean-Louis Chapuis...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 283 ( 1824 ) : 20152820

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2820

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Interactive vocal communication at the nest by parent Great Tits Parus major

Ingrid C. A. Boucaud, Pénélope A. Valère, Mélissa L. N. Aguirre Smith, Blandine Doligez, Laure Cauchard, Fanny Rybak...

Ibis . 158 ( 3 ) : 630-644

DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12374

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Interspecific interference competition at the resource patch scale: do large herbivores spatially avoid elephants while accessing water?

Nicolas Ferry, Stéphane Dray, Hervé Fritz, Marion Valeix

Journal of Animal Ecology . 85 ( 6 ) : 1574-1585

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12582

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Phylogeography of Toxoplasma gondii points to a South American origin.

Emilie Bertranpetit, Thibaut Jombart, Emmanuel Paradis, Hilda Pena, Jitender Dubey, Chunlei Su...

Infection, Genetics and Evolution . 48 : 150-155

DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.020

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All or nothing: Survival, reproduction and oxidative balance in Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in response to cold

Christophe Plantamp, Katleen Salort, Patricia Gibert, Adeline Dumet, Gladys Mialdea, Nathalie Mondy...

Journal of Insect Physiology . 89 : 28-36

DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.03.009

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Reproductive costs in terrestrial male vertebrates: insights from bird studies

Josefa Bleu, Marlène Gamelon, Bernt-Erik Saether

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 283 ( 1823 )

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2600

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Ecophysiological responses of Gammarus pulex to the combined effects of temperature and ammonia

Youn Henry, Christophe Piscart, Hervé Colinet, Sandrine Charles

26th Annual Meeting SETAC Europe .

Poster

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Optimizing the design of a reproduction toxicity test with the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis

Sandrine Charles, Virginie Ducrot, Didier Azam, Rachel Benstead, Denise Brettschneider, Karel de Schamphelaere...

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology . 81 : 47-56

DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2016.07.012

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Modelling algae-duckweed interaction under chemical pressure within a laboratory microcosm

Dominique Lamonica, Bernard Clement, Sandrine Charles, Christelle Lopes

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 128 : 252-65

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.02.008

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Influence of oxidative homeostasis on bacterial density and cost of infection in Drosophila–Wolbachia symbioses

David Monnin, Natacha Kremer, C. Berny, Hélène Henri, Adeline Dumet, Yann Voituron...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 29 : 1211-1222

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12863

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Linking demographic responses and life history tactics from longitudinal data in mammals

Marlène Gamelon, Jm. Gaillard, O. Gimenez, T. Coulson, S. Tuljapurkar, E. Baubet

Oikos . 125 ( 3 ) : 395--404

DOI: 10.1111/oik.02582

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Invasion speeds of Triatoma dimidiata, vector of Chagas disease: An application of orthogonal polynomials method

Mohammed Mesk, Tewfik Mahdjoub, Sébastien Gourbière, Jorge E. Rabinovich, Frédéric Menu

Journal of Theoretical Biology . 395 : p. 126–143

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.01.017

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The host specificity of ape malaria parasites can be broken in confined environments

Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Larson Boundenga, Céline Arnathau, Illich Manfred Mombo, Durand Patrick, Thierry-Audrey Tsoumbou...

International Journal for Parasitology . 46 ( 11 ) : 737-744

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.06.004

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Morphological response of planktic foraminifers to habitat modifications associated with the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

D.N. Schmidt, A.G.M. Caromel, O. Seki, J.W.B. Rae, Sabrina Renaud

Marine Micropaleontology . 128 : 28-38

DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2016.08.003

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Selective disappearance of individuals with high levels of glycated haemoglobin in a free-living bird

Charlotte Récapet, Adélaïde Sibeaux, Laure Cauchard, Blandine Doligez, Pierre Bize

Biology Letters . 12 ( 8 )

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0243

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Food supplementation mitigates dispersal-dependent differences in nest defence in a passerine bird

Charlotte Récapet, Grégory Daniel, Joëlle Taroni, Pierre Bize, Blandine Doligez

Biology Letters . 12 ( 5 )

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0097

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