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 991 to 1020 publications on 2451 in total
The Williams' legacy: A critical reappraisal of his nine predictions about the evolution of senescence
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 71 ( 12 ) : 2768-2785
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13379
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see the publicationThe domestic basis of the scientific career: gender inequalities in ecology in France and Norway
European Educational Research Journal . 16 ( 2-3 ) : 230-257
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see the publicationRegional-scale models for predicting overwinter survival of juvenile ungulates
Journal of Wildlife Management . 81 ( 3 ) : 364 - 378
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21211
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see the publicationLike a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing
Journal of Animal Ecology . 86 : 1-3
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see the publicationHigh reproductive effort is associated with decreasing mortality late in life in captive ruffed lemurs
American Journal of Primatology . 79 ( 9 ) : e22677
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22677
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see the publicationSaving time and money by using diurnal vehicle counts to monitor roe deer abundance
Wildlife Biology . 2017 ( 1 )
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00274
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see the publicationPlastic response by a small cervid to supplemental feeding in winter across a wide environmental gradient
Ecosphere . 8 ( 1 ) : e01629
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1629
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see the publicationThe Biased Evolution of Generation Time
The American Naturalist . 190 : E28-E39
DOI: 10.1086/692324
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see the publicationCan functional traits help explain the coexistence of two species of Apodemus?
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 122 ( 4 ) : 883-896
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see the publicationGenetic diversity within two Tunisian wild jirds: Meriones shawi and Meriones libycus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae)
African Zoology . 52 : 9-20
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see the publicationImpact of hybridization on shape, variation and covariation of the mouse molar.
Evolutionary Biology . 44 ( 1 ) : 69-81
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see the publicationImpact of wear and diet on molar row geometry and topography in the house mouse
Archives of Oral Biology . 81 : 31-40
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see the publicationAn Experimental Test of a Causal Link between Problem-Solving Performance and Reproductive Success in Wild Great Tits
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution .
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see the publicationFood availability modulates differences in parental effort between dispersing and philopatric birds
Behavioral Ecology . 28 ( 3 ) : 688 - 697
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see the publicationVocal behaviour of mates at the nest in the White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus: contexts and structure of vocal interactions, pair-specific acoustic signature
Wilson journal of ornithology . 158 ( 4 ) : 897 - 910
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see the publicationAssessment of individual and conspecific reproductive success as determinants of breeding dispersal of female tree swallows: a capture-recapture approach
Ecology and Evolution . 7 ( 18 ) : 7334-7346
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3241
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see the publicationThe relationship between plumage colouration, problem-solving and learning performance in great tits Parus major
Journal of Avian Biology . 48 : 1246-1253
DOI: 10.1111/jav.00953
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see the publicationSociospatial structure explains marked variation in brucellosis seroprevalence in an Alpine ibex population
Scientific Reports . 7 ( 1 )
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see the publicationPopulation genetics, community of parasites, and resistance to rodenticides in an urban brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) population
PLoS ONE . 79 ( 113 ) : e0184015.
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see the publicationIntegrative 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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