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

Display of 1321 to 1350 publications on 2315 in total

Putative endosymbiont-mediated coexistence of weevil sibling species competing with each other

Adrien Merville, Samuel Venner, H. Henri, Agnès Vallier, F. Menu, F. Vavre...

7. International Symbiosis Society (ISS) Congress "The earth’s vast symbiosphere" .

Poster

see the publication

Sexual and asexual oogenesis require the expression of unique and shared sets of genes in the insect Acyrthosiphon pisum

Aurore Gallot-Le Grand, Shuji Shigenobu, Tomomi Hashiyama, Stéphanie Jaubert, Denis Tagu

BMC Genomics . 13 : 76

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-76

Journal article

see the publication

Evolutionary systematics and biogeography of endemic gerbils (Rodentia, Muridae) from Morocco: an integrative approach

Arame Ndiaye, Khalilou Ba, Vladimir Aniskin, Touria Benazzou, Pascale Chevret, Adam Konecny...

Zoologica Scripta . 41 ( 1 ) : 11-28

DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00501.x

Journal article

see the publication

Population-Level Modeling to Account for Multigenerational Effects of Uranium in Daphnia magna

P-A. Biron, S. Massarin, F. Alonzo, L. Garcia-Sanchez, Sandrine Charles, Elise Billoir

Environmental Science and Technology . 46 : 1136--1143

DOI: 10.1021/es202658b

Journal article

see the publication

What to do with NOECS/NOELS - prohibition or innovation?

Dr Fox, Elise Billoir, S. Charles, Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller, C. Lopes

Integr Environ Assess Manag . 8 : 764--766

DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1350

Journal article

see the publication

Contrasted breeding strategies in four sympatric sibling insect species: when a proovigenic and capital breeder copes with a stochastic environment

Pierre-François Pelisson, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, Benjamin Rey, Lorraine Burgevin, François Martineau, François Fourel...

Functional Ecology . 26 ( 1 ) : 198-206

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01925.x

Journal article

see the publication

Modeling of Clostridium perfringens vegetative cell inactivation in beef-in-sauce products: A meta-analysis using mixed linear models

S. Jaloustre, Laurent Guillier, E. Morelli, V. Noël, Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller

International journal of food microbiology . 154 : 44--51

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2011.12.013

Journal article

see the publication

Transfer of PCBs from bottom sediment to freshwater river fish: A food-web modelling approach in the Rhône River (France) in support of sediment management.

C. Lopes, H. Persat, M. Babut

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety . 81 : 17-26

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.04.007

Journal article

see the publication

BSAFs for freshwater fish and derivation of a sediment quality guideline for PCBs in the Rhone basin, France

Marc Babut, Christelle Lopes, Sébastien Pradelle, Henri Persat, Pierre-Marie Badot

Journal of Soils and Sediments . 12 ( 2 ) : 241-251

DOI: 10.1007/s11368-011-0448-y

Journal article

see the publication

Facing multiple information sources while foraging on successive patches: how does a parasitoid deal with experience?

L. Froissart, C. Bernstein, L. Humblot, I. Amat, Emmanuel Desouhant

Animal Behaviour . 83 : 189--199

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.025

Journal article

see the publication

Estimating demographic parameters using hidden process dynamic models

Olivier Gimenez, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Rémi Choquet, Roger Pradel

Theoretical Population Biology . 82 : 307 - 316

DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.02.001

Journal article

see the publication

Changes of population trends and mortality patterns in response to the reintroduction of large predators: The case study of African ungulates

S. Grange, N. Owen-Smith, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Dave J. Druce, M. Moleón, M. Mgobozi

Acta Oecologica . 42 : 16--29

DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2012.02.007

Journal article

see the publication

Linking the population growth rate and the age-at-death distribution

S. Schindler, S. Tuljapurkar, Jean-Michel Gaillard, T. Coulson

Theoretical Population Biology . 82 : 244--252

DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.09.003

Journal article

see the publication

Modeling reproductive trajectories of roe deer females: Fixed or dynamic heterogeneity?

Floriane Plard, Christophe Bonenfant, D. Delorme, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Theoretical Population Biology . 82 : 317-328

DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.03.006

Journal article

see the publication

The oak browsing index correlates linearly with roe deer density: a new indicator for deer management?

T. Chevrier, S. Saïd, O. Widmer, Jean-Pierre Hamard, C. Saint-Andrieux, Jean-Michel Gaillard

European Journal of Wildlife Research . 58 ( 1 ) : 17--22

DOI: 10.1007/s10344-011-0535-9

Journal article

see the publication

The Quest for Immortality in Triatomines: A Meta-Analysis of the Senescence Process in Hemimetabolous Hematophagous Insects

P. Medone, J. Rabinovich, E. Nieves, S. Ceccarelli, D. Canale, R.L. Stariolo...

incollection . -- : 225-250

Journal article

see the publication

Natural simian immunodeficiency virus transmission in mandrills: a family affair?

David Fouchet, Delphine Verrier, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Sandrine Souquière, Maria Makuwa, Mirdad Kazanji...

Biology Letters . 279 ( 1742 ) : 3426-35

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0963

Journal article

see the publication

Rabbit zona pellucida composition: A molecular, proteomic and phylogenetic approach

I. Stetson, Mj. Izquierdo-Rico, C. Moros, Pascale Chevret, Pl. Lorenzo, J. Ballesta...

Journal of Proteomics . 75 : 5920--5935

DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.07.027

Journal article

see the publication

Modularity as a source of new morphological variation in the mandible of hybrid mice

Sabrina Renaud, Paul Alibert, Jean-Christophe Auffray

BMC Evolutionary Biology . 12 ( 141 ) : 16

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-141

Journal article

see the publication

Morphometric and genetic structure of the edible dormouse (Glis glis): a consequence of forest fragmentation in Turkey

Z. Helvaci, Sabrina Renaud, R. Ledevin, D. Adriaens, J. Michaux, R. Colak...

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 107 ( 3 ) : 611--623

DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01952.x

Journal article

see the publication

A Unifying Model for the Analysis of Phenotypic, Genetic, and Geographic Data

G. Guillot, Sabrina Renaud, R. Ledevin, J. Michaux, J. Claude

Systematic Biology . 61 ( 6 ) : 897--911

DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys038

Journal article

see the publication

Long-term effects of yolk androgens on phenotype and parental feeding behavior in a wild passerine

S. Ruuskanen, Blandine Doligez, L. Gustafsson, T. Laaksonen

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology . 66 : 1201--1211

DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1373-9

Journal article

see the publication

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

M. Kleyer, Stéphane Dray, F. de Bello, J. Leps, Jr. Pakeman, B. Strauss...

Journal of Vegetation Science . 23 : 805--821

DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01402.x

Journal article

see the publication

Disentangling plant trait responses to livestock grazing from spatio-temporal variation: the partial RLQ approach

D. Wesuls, J. Oldeland, S. Dray

Journal of Vegetation Science . 23 : 98-113

Journal article

see the publication

Predator-prey spatial game as a tool to understand the effects of protected areas on harvester-wildlife interactions

V. Tolon, J. Martin, Stéphane Dray, A. Loison, C. Fischer, E. Baubet

Ecological Applications . 22 : 648-657

DOI: 10.1890/11-0422.1

Journal article

see the publication

Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics

P-R. Peres-Neto, M-A. Leibold, Stéphane Dray

Ecology . 93 : S14-S30

DOI: 10.1890/11-0494.1

Journal article

see the publication

Improved testing of species traits-environment relationships in the fourth-corner problem

C. Terbraak, A. Cormont, Stéphane Dray

Ecology . 93 : 1525--1526

DOI: 10.1890/12-0126.1

Journal article

see the publication

Mise au point d'un modèle de diagnostic des interactions entre structures paysagères, infrastructures de transports terrestres et espèces emblématiques : le cas du Lynx dans le massif jurassien

J.M. Gaillard, A. Hemery, C. Bonenfant, M. Basille, E. Marboutin, Isabelle Mauz...

: 123

Report

see the publication

You also, comment on this article

Choose an avatar
(Will not be posted on the site)
(Will not be posted on the site)