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 1231 to 1260 publications on 2315 in total
Le choix de la plante hôte et les conséquences adaptatives
Interactions insectes-plantes . 978-2-7592-2018-2 : 249-252
Book chapter
see the publicationSynchronisation des cycles de reproduction des insectes et des plantes
Interactions insectes-plantes . 978-2-7592-2018-2 : 253-262
Book chapter
see the publicationThe relationship between phenotypic variation among offspring and mother body mass in wild boar: evidence of coin-flipping?
Journal of Animal Ecology . 82 ( 5 ) : 937-945
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see the publicationThe relationship between phenotypic variation among offspring and mother body mass in wild boar: evidence of coin-flipping?
Journal of Animal Ecology . 82 ( 5 ) : 937--945
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see the publicationFluctuating food resources influence developmental plasticity in wild boar
Biology Letters . 9 ( 5 ) : 20130419
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see the publicationPolyandry Has No Detectable Mortality Cost in Female Mammals
PLoS ONE . 8 : e66670
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see the publicationSenescence in natural populations of animals: Widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology
Ageing Research Reviews - ARR . 12 : 214--25
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see the publicationHow life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments.
The American Naturalist . 182 ( 6 ) : 743-759
DOI: 10.1086/673497
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see the publicationMale survival patterns do not depend on male allocation to sexual competition in large herbivores
Behavioral Ecology . 24 : 421--428
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see the publicationAlpine ibex males grow large horns at no survival cost for most of their lifetime
Oecologia . 173 : 1261--9
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see the publicationDecreasing litter size of marmots over time: a life history response to climate change?
Ecology . 94 : 580--586
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see the publicationVariation in adult body mass of roe deer: early environmental conditions influence early and late body growth of females
Ecology . 94 ( 8 ) : 1805-1814
DOI: 10.1890/13-0034.1
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see the publicationThe role of epistasis in protein evolution
Nature . 497 : E1--E2
DOI: 10.1038/nature12219
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see the publicationVector-Borne Diseases in the light of Evolutionary Ecology : example of Chagas disease
Vector-Borne Disease : a multidisciplany approach .
Conference paper
see the publicationEnvironmental determinants of spatial and temporal variations in the transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in its definitive hosts.
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife . 2 : 278-85
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see the publicationMolecular variation and chromosomal stability within Gerbillus nanus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae): taxonomic and biogeographic implications
Mammalia . 77 : 105--111
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see the publicationRoles of dental development and adaptation in rodent evolution
Nature Communications . 4 ( 1 )
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3504
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see the publicationInvasive house mice facing a changing environment on the Sub-Antarctic Guillou Island (Kerguelen Archipelago)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 26 : 612--24
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12079
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see the publicationComparing parent-offspring regression with frequentist and Bayesian animal models to estimate heritability in wild populations: a simulation study for Gaussian and binary traits
Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 4 : 260-275
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see the publicationA la recherche du juste dosage : statistique appliquée à l'analyse de la cocaïne
Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises . 71 ( 3 ) : 193-200
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see the publicationA guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients
Journal of Vegetation Science . 24 : 794--806
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12013
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see the publicationFitness consequences of northward dispersal as possible adaptation to climate change, using experimental translocation of a migratory passerine
PLoS ONE . 8 : e83176
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see the publicationExperimental infection of pregnant Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) with border disease virus subtype 4.
Journal of wildlife diseases . 49 ( 1 ) : 55-68
DOI: 10.7589/2011-09-260
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see the publicationResistance of Drosophila suzukii to the larval parasitoids Leptopilina heterotoma and Asobara japonica is related to haemocyte load
Physiological Entomology . 38 ( 1 ) : 45 - 53
DOI: 10.1111/phen.12002
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see the publicationAssessing fitness consequences of migratory tactics requires long-term individually based monitoring
Ecology . 94 : 1261-1264
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see the publicationLife-history phenology strongly influences population vulnerability to toxicants: a case study with the mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry . 32 ( 8 ) : 1727-36
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2235
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see the publicationEcologie prédictive & changement planétaire
Prospective de l'Institut écologie & environnement du CNRS . hors s\'{e}rie : 9-44
Book chapter
see the publicationEndosymbiont diversity among sibling weevil species competing for the same resource
BMC Evolutionary Biology . 13 : 28
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see the publicationDoes cold tolerance plasticity correlate with the thermal environment and metabolic profiles of a parasitoid wasp ?
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology . 164 : 77-83
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see the publicationDiversification of the eutherian placenta is associated with changes in the pace of life
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 : 7760-7765
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