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 2067 in total
« Un lavage, c’est un lavage » : des chauffeurs bovins face aux consignes sanitaires
Les Mondes du travail . 2023 ( 29 ) : 147-163
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see the publicationDeleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse
Peer Community Journal . 3 : e7
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see the publicationSex differences in adult lifespan and aging rate across mammals: A test of the ‘Mother Curse hypothesis’
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 212 : 111799
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see the publicationIn Vivo Mercury (De)Methylation Metabolism in Cephalopods under Different p CO 2 Scenarios
Environmental Science and Technology . 57 ( 14 ) : 5761-5770
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see the publicationArtifical light at night triggers slight transcriptomic effects on melatonin signaling but not synthesis in tadpoles of two anuran species
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology . 280 : 111386
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see the publicationWeevil Carbohydrate Intake Triggers Endosymbiont Proliferation: A Trade-Off between Host Benefit and Endosymbiont Burden
mBio .
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see the publicationFirst expert elicitation of knowledge on possible drivers of observed increasing human cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe
Viruses . 15 ( 3 ) : 791
DOI: 10.3390/v15030791
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see the publicationRisk assessment of BTV incursion in Europe from Sardinia by Culicoides spp. wind dispersal
2023 SVEPM conference .
Poster
see the publicationPhylteR: Efficient Identification of Outlier Sequences in Phylogenomic Datasets
Molecular Biology and Evolution . 40 ( 11 ) : msad234
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see the publicationWeighting the transitivity of undirected weighted social networks with triadic edge dissimilarity scores
Social Networks . 73 : 1-6
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see the publicationVariable rate of ageing within species: insights from Darwin’s frogs
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 138 ( 1 ) : 68-74
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see the publicationTemperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines
Ecology . 104 ( 2 ) : e3908
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3908
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see the publicationAge and spatio-temporal variations in food resources modulate stress-immunity relationships in three populations of wild roe deer
General and Comparative Endocrinology . 330 : 114141
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see the publicationPopulation designations in biomedical research: limitations and perspectives
HLA: Immune Response Genetics . 101 ( 1 ) : 3-15
DOI: 10.1111/tan.14852
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see the publicationAmplified cyclicality in mast seeding dynamics positively influences the dynamics of a seed consumer species
The American Naturalist . 201 ( 38-51 )
DOI: 10.1086/721905
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see the publicationQuantifying the overall effect of biotic interactions on species distributions along environmental gradients
Ecological Modelling . 483 : 110424
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see the publicationThe morphological allometry of four closely related and coexisting insect species reveals adaptation to the mean and variability of the resource size
Oecologia . 200 ( 1-2 ) : 159-168
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see the publicationNatal dispersal does not entail survival costs but is linked to breeding dispersal in a migratory shorebird, the southern dunlin Calidris alpina schinzii
Oikos . 2022 ( 8 )
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08951
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see the publicationAssortative mating for between‐patch dispersal status in a wild bird population: Exploring the role of direct and indirect underlying mechanisms
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 35 ( 4 ) : 561-574
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13925
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see the publicationHow public can public goods be? Environmental context shapes the evolutionary ecology of partially private goods
PLoS Computational Biology . 18 ( 11 ) : e1010666
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see the publicationA general framework for species‐abundance distributions: Linking traits and dispersal to explain commonness and rarity
Ecology Letters . 25 ( 11 ) : 2359-2371
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14094
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see the publicationDetermination of biomarkers threshold values and illustration of their use for the diagnostic in large-scale freshwater biomonitoring surveys
Environmental Sciences Europe . 34 ( 1 ) : 115
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see the publicationInterest of a multispecies approach in active biomonitoring: Application in the Meuse watershed
Science of the Total Environment . 808 : 152148
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see the publicationFrom ecological roots to molecular determinants of orthonairovirus emergence
Journée Ecofect2 .
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see the publicationA survey on anthelmintic efficacy in dairy goat farms in South East of France
13th International Conference on Goats .
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see the publicationReproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern
Ethology . 129 ( 3 ) : 156-168
DOI: 10.1111/eth.13354
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see the publicationSeroprevalence and incidence of Puumala orthohantavirus in its bank vole (Myodes glareolus) host population in northeastern France: Between-site and seasonal variability
Epidemics . 40 : 100600
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see the publicationDevelopment and Evaluation of Two Approaches of Visual Sensitivity Analysis to Support Epidemiological Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics . 29 ( 1 ) : 1255 - 1265
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see the publicationDeveloping digital contact tracing tailored to haulage in East Africa to support COVID-19 surveillance: a protocol
BMJ Open . 12 ( 9 ) : e058457
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