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 121 to 150 publications on 2451 in total
Deep dive into the chronic toxicity of tyre particle mixtures and their leachates
Journal of Hazardous Materials . 466 : 133580
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see the publicationModeling HepaRG metabolome responses to pyrrolizidine alkaloid exposure for insight into points of departure and modes of action
Journal of Hazardous Materials . 474 : 134721
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see the publicationQuels sont les facteurs de risque de collisions entre véhicules et ongulés sauvages : analyse de données nationales françaises pour trois espèces de grands ongulés, le Cerf, le Chevreuil et le Sanglier
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see the publicationAdvancing environmental monitoring across the water continuum combining biomarker analysis in multiple sentinel species: A case study in the Seine-Normandie Basin (France)
Journal of Environmental Management . 358 : 120784
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see the publicationPopulation genetics and demography of the endemic mouse species of Cyprus, Mus cypriacus
Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 104 ( 3 ) : 311 - 322
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see the publicationHuman-aided dispersal and population bottlenecks facilitate parasitism escape in the most invasive mosquito species
PNAS Nexus . 3 ( 5 ) : 175
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see the publicationForaging at night under artificial light: impacts on senescence and lifetime reproductive success for a diurnal insect
Animal Behaviour . 210 : 85-98
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see the publicationDevelopment, feeding, and sex shape the relative quantity of the nutritional obligatory symbiont Wolbachia in bed bugs
Frontiers in Microbiology . 15 : 1386458
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see the publicationCross-transmission of resistant nematodes between wild ibex and transhumant sheep in French Alps
3rd Mountain Livestock Farming Systems Meeting .
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see the publicationA survey of anthelmintic efficacy in dairy goat farms in South-East France
Small Ruminant Research . 234 : 107238
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see the publicationDIY your captures when everything else fails: Description of an artisanal dart launcher with an assessment of the medium-term response in a primate
African Journal of Ecology . 62 ( 2 )
DOI: 10.1111/aje.13276
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see the publicationAssimilation efficiencies and elimination rates of silver, cadmium and zinc accumulated by trophic pathway in Gammarus fossarum
Peer Community Journal . 4 : e51
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see the publicationPoster de présentation du living lab Antharès - Réseau de living labs Solu-Biod
Lancement officiel du Programme national de recherche sur les Solutions fondées sur la Nature .
Poster
see the publicationCorsican mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon var. corsicana), conservation of a threatened species on a Mediterranean island
Mid-year meeting of Taxon Advisory Group of Caprinae .
Conference paper
see the publicationPrevalence of tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from the wild mountain ungulates mouflon and chamois in 4 regions of France
Parasite . 31 ( 21 )
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see the publicationProteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution .
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see the publicationCoxiella burnetii within-and between-herd true seroprevalence assessment in domestic ruminants in France accounting for diagnostic uncertainty with latent class
SBED Conference 2024: Insights in Action .
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see the publicationToo hot or too disturbed? Temperatures more than hikers affect circadian activity of females in northern chamois
Animal Behaviour .
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see the publicationHarmonisation of the diagnostic performances of ELISA tests for C. burnetii antibodies in ruminants: optimal positivity thresholds and performance reassessment
SBED Conference 2024: Insights in Action .
Poster
see the publicationEvaluation using latent class models of the diagnostic performances of three ELISA tests commercialized for the serological diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii infection in domestic ruminants.
SBED Conference 2024: Insights in Action .
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see the publicationThe effect of the demographic history on the evolution of senescence: a potential new test of the mutation accumulation theory
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . : 111927
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see the publicationA unified framework for evolutionary genetic and physiological theories of aging
PLoS Biology . 22 ( 2 ) : e3002513
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see the publicationForaging at night under artificial light: impacts on senescence and lifetime reproductive success for a diurnal insect
Animal Behaviour . 210 : 85 - 98
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see the publicationMinor and trace element concentrations in roe deer hair: A non-invasive method to define reference values in wildlife
Ecological Indicators . 159 : 111720
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see the publicationMechanistic Analysis of the Sub Chronic Toxicity of La and Gd in Daphnia Magna Based on TKTD Modelling and Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4570452
Preprint
see the publicationMolar wear in house mice: insight into diet preferences at an ecological timescale?
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 141 ( 2 ) : 289-305
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see the publicationUsing the multivariate Hawkes process to study interactions between multiple species from camera trap data
Ecology . 105 ( 4 ) : e4237
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4237
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see the publicationRésistance à la colistine chez le porc - des mesures de maîtrise efficaces
56. Journées de la Recherche Porcine . 56 : 81-82
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see the publicationReduce, Replace, Refine: Determining A Posteriori Reference Intervals for Biochemistry in Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni)
Journal of wildlife diseases .
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