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

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Demography of plains zebras (Equus quagga) under heavy predation

Sophie Grange, Florian Barnier, Patrick Duncan, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Marion Valeix, Hlengisizwe Ncube...

Population Ecology . 57 : 201-204

DOI: 10.1007/s10144-014-0469-7

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How do animals optimize the size-number trade-off when aging? Insights from reproductive senescence patterns in marmots

V. Berger, Jean-François Lemaître, Jm. Gaillard, A. Cohas

Ecology . 96 : 46-53

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High juvenile mortality is associated with sex-specific adult survival and lifespan in wild roe deer

M. Garratt, Jf. Lemaitre, M. Douhard, C. Bonenfant, G. Capron, C. Warnant...

Current Biology - CB . 25 ( 6 ) : 759-63

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.071

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Early-late life trade-offs and the evolution of ageing in the wild

Jean-François Lemaître, V. Berger, C. Bonenfant, M. Douhard, M. Gamelon, F. Plard...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 282 ( 1806 ) : 20150209

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0209

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Partial migration or just habitat selection? Seasonal movements of roe deer in an Alpine population

A. Loison, D. Maillard, C. Bonenfant, William Gaudry, S. Saïd, Jean-Michel Gaillard...

Journal of Mammalogy . 96 : 502-510

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Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses

Jean-François Lemaître, Cécile Vanpé, Floriane Plard, Christophe Pélabon, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Biology Letters . 11 : 20150144.

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0144

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Once upon Multivariate Analyses: When They Tell Several Stories about Biological Evolution

Sabrina Renaud, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Emilie A Hardouin, Ronan Ledevin, Jean-Christophe Auffray

PLoS ONE . 10 ( 7 ) : e0132801

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132801

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Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

James Mills, Céline Teplitsky, Beatriz Arroyo, Anne Charmantier, Peter. Becker, Tim Birkhead...

Trends in Ecology & Evolution . 30 ( 10 ) : 581-589

DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2015.07.006

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Considering external information to improve the phylogenetic comparison of microbial communities: a new approach based on constrained Double Principal Coordinates Analysis (cDPCoA)

Stéphane Dray, Sandrine Pavoine, Daniel Aguirre De Carcer

Molecular Ecology Resources . 15 ( 2 ) : 242-9

DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12300

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Generating spatially constrained null models for irregularly spaced data using Moran spectral randomization methods

H. H. Wagner, Stéphane Dray

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 6 : 1169-1178

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12407

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Modélisation démographique de la disparition de Néandertal

Anna Degioanni, Christophe Bonenfant, Sandrine Cabut, Silvana Condemi

Colloque de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris .

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Large-scale genotyping of highly polymorphic loci by next-generation sequencing: how to overcome the challenges to reliably genotype individuals?

M Ferrandiz-Rovira, T Bigot, D. Allaine, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, A. Cohas

Heredity . 114 ( 5 ) : 485-493

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Animaux réservoirs de Toxoplasma gondii : état des lieux en France

Radu Blaga, Laurence Voutquenne-Nazabadioko, Catherine Perret, Régine Geers, Vitomir Djokic, Isabelle Villena...

Revue Francophone des Laboratoires . 2015 ( 477 ) : 35-52

DOI: 10.1016/S1773-035X(15)30315-4

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A novel epidemiological model to better understand and predict the observed seasonal spread of Pestivirus in Pyrenean chamois populations

Gaël Beaunée, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Mathieu Garel, Pauline Ezanno

Veterinary Research . 46 ( 1 ) : 86

DOI: 10.1186/s13567-015-0218-8

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Border Disease Virus: An Exceptional Driver of Chamois Populations Among Other Threats

E. Serrano, A. Colom-Cadena, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, M. Garel, O. Cabezon, R. Velarde...

Frontiers in Microbiology . 6 : 1307

DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01307

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Differential expression of the chemosensory transcriptome in two populations of the stemborer Sesamia nonagrioides

Nicolas Glaser, Aurore Gallot, Fabrice Legeai, Myriam Harry, Laure Kaiser, Bruno Le Ru...

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology . 65 : 28-34

DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.07.008

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The rural-urban effect on spatial genetic structure of type II Toxoplasma gondii strains involved in human congenital toxoplasmosis, France, 2002-2009.

Daniel Ajzenberg, Frédéric Collinet, Laurence Voutquenne-Nazabadioko, Isabelle Villena, Marie-Laure Dardé, Sébastien Devillard

Infection, Genetics and Evolution . 36 : 511-516

DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.08.025

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Comparative survival pattern of the syntopic pine and stone martens in a trapped rural area in France

S. Ruette, J. M. Vandel, M. Albaret, S. Devillard

Journal of zoology . 295 : 214-222

DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12201

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The Wide Potential Trophic Niche of the Asiatic Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii: The Key of Its Invasion Success in Temperate Europe?

Mathilde Poyet, Vincent Le Roux, Patricia Gibert, Antoine Meirland, Geneviève Prevost, Patrice Eslin...

PLoS ONE . 10 ( 11 ) : e0142785

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142785

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Constructing Time-Resolved Species Sensitivity Distributions Using a Hierarchical Toxico-Dynamic Model

Guillaume Kon Kam King, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Ben J. Kefford, Christophe Piscart, Sandrine Charles

Environmental Science and Technology . 49 ( 20 ) : 12465-12473

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02142

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A Toolbox for Nonlinear Regression in R: The Package nistools

F. Baty, C. Ritz, Sandrine Charles, M. Brutsche, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller

Journal of Statistical Software . 66 : 1-21

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Revisiting the link between breeding effort and oxidative balance through field evaluation of two sympatric sibling insect species

Benjamin Rey, Pierre-François Pélisson, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, Yann Voituron, Samuel Venner

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 69 ( 3 ) : 815–822

DOI: 10.1111/evo.12586

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Sterile males in a parasitoid wasp with complementary sex determination: from fitness costs to population extinction

Xavier Fauvergue, Anna Chuine, Chloé Vayssade, Alexandra Auguste, Emmanuel Desouhant

BMC Ecology . 15

DOI: 10.1186/s12898-014-0032-6

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Immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in tree frog: trade-off between sexual signals and immunity ?

Julia L. Desprat, Thierry Lengagne, Adeline Dumet, Emmanuel Desouhant, Nathalie Mondy

Behavioral Ecology . 26 ( 4 ) : 1138–1146

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv057

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Consequences of genetic incompatibility on fitness and mate choice: the male point of view

A. Chuine, S. Sauzet, F. Debias, Emmanuel Desouhant

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 114 ( 2 ) : 279-286

DOI: 10.1111/bij.12421

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Does sexual selection shape sex differences in longevity and senescence patterns across vertebrates? A review and new insights from captive ruminants

Morgane Tidière, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Dennis W H Müller, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Olivier Gimenez, Marcus Clauss...

Evolution . 69 ( 12 ) : 3123-3140

DOI: 10.1111/evo.12801

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Changes in horn size of Stone's sheep over four decades correlate with trophy hunting pressure

Mathieu Douhard, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Fanie Pelletier, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Christophe Bonenfant

Ecological Applications . 26 : 309-321

DOI: 10.1890/14-1461.1

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Snow sinking depth and forest canopy drive winter resource selection more than supplemental feeding in an alpine population of roe deer

Federico Ossi, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Mark Hebblewhite, Francesca Cagnacci

European Journal of Wildlife Research . 61 ( 1 ) : 111-124

DOI: 10.1007/s10344-014-0879-z

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Early and adult social environments have independent effects on individual fitness in a social vertebrate

V. Berger, Jean-François Lemaître, D. Allaine, Jm. Gaillard, A. Cohas

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 282 ( 1813 ) : 20151167

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1167

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Does tooth wear influence ageing? A comparative study across large herbivores

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Vérane Berger, Morgane Tidière, Patrick Duncan, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître

Experimental Gerontology . 71 : 48-55

DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.09.008

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