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 2315 in total
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity
Oikos . 2023 ( 1 )
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08907
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats obtenus sur le réchauffement climatique estival
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Le suivi par Capture-Marquage-Recapture (CMR) en pratique
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats obtenus sur le dérangement par les activités récréatives
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats obtenus sur le suivi sanitaire : les parasites
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats obtenus sur le suivi sanitaire
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats en lien avec l'évolution et la gestion des habitats
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Résultats obtenus sur la démographie
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see the publication50 ans de Recherches sur le mouflon dans la RNCFS du Caroux-Espinouse, Principaux thèmes de recherche abordés et exemples de publications
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see the publicationA meta-analysis of ecotoxicological models used for plant protection product risk assessment before their placing on the market
11th European Modelling Workshop .
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see the publicationApproches de modélisation pour évaluer les effets écotoxicologiques des pesticides : revue critique
51ème congrès du Groupe Français de recherche sur les Pesticides .
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see the publicationImpacts of Artificial Light at Night on immunity in the common toad
Annual Meeting of the BES. Belfast (UK), 12-15 Décembre 2023 .
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see the publicationEditorial: Links between cognition and fitness: Mechanisms and constraints in the wild
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 10
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see the publicationConnecting local and regional scales with stochastic metacommunity models: Competition, ecological drift, and dispersal
Ecological monographs . 93 ( 4 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1591
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see the publicationA Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly
The American Naturalist . 201 ( 4 ) : 501-522
DOI: 10.1086/723406
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see the publicationConodont size in time and space: Beyond the temperature-size rule
Marine Micropaleontology . 184 : 102291
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see the publicationConodont size in time and space: beyond the temperature-size rule
Marine Micropaleontology . 184 ( 1985 ) : 102291
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see the publicationExperimental infection of Artibeus lituratus bats and no detection of Zika virus in neotropical bats from French Guiana, Peru, and Costa Rica suggests a limited role of bats in Zika transmission
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 17 ( 7 ) : e0010439
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see the publicationLarval density in the invasive Drosophila suzukii : Immediate and delayed effects on life‐history traits
Ecology and Evolution . 13 ( 8 ) : 1760-1776
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10433
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see the publicationThe for gene as one of the drivers of foraging variations in a parasitic wasp
Molecular Ecology . 32 ( 7 ) : 1760-1776
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16834
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see the publicationEvaluation des échanges de parasites résistants aux anthelmintiques entre les ovins domestiques transhumants et les bouquetins dans les Alpes françaises
40èmes Rencontres du GEEFSM .
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see the publicationAssessing the cross-transmission of resistant nematodes between wild ibex and transhumant sheep in French Alps
EVPC Paris 2023 congress (European Vet Parasitology Conference) .
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see the publicationInterface faune sauvage – faune domestique et parasitisme : quelles informations peuvent apporter les vétérinaires aux interrogations de leurs éleveurs ?
Journées Nationales des GTV .
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see the publicationInteraction of Human Behavioral Factors Shapes the Transmission of Arboviruses by Aedes and Culex Mosquitoes
Pathogens . 12 ( 12 ) : 1421
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see the publicationIdentifying target areas for risk-based surveillance and control of transboundary animal diseases: a seasonal analysis of slaughter and live-trade cattle movements in Uganda
Scientific Reports . 13 ( 1 ) : 18619
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see the publicationCoupling large-spatial scale larval dispersal modelling with barcoding to refine the amphi-Atlantic connectivity hypothesis in deep-sea seep mussels
Frontiers in Marine Science . 10 : 1122124
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see the publicationRisk assessment of BTV-3 incursion from Sardinia by wind dispersal of Culicoides midges
Using Epidemiological Studies in Health Risk Assessments: Relevance, Reliability and Causality .
Poster
see the publicationBargy 2022-2023 : baisse de la prévalence, extension du foyer et redéfinition de la surveillance GEEFSM -Saluzzo 2023 -22/09/2023
GEEFSM 2023 .
Conference paper
see the publicationStudy of host-symbionts coevolution in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci: an experimental evolution approach
13e Rencontre du Réseau Français de Biologie Adaptative des Pucerons et Organismes Associés (BAPOA) .
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see the publicationThe for gene as one of the drivers of foraging variations in a parasitic wasp
Molecular Ecology . 32 ( 7 ) : 1760-1776
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16834
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