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 1441 to 1470 publications on 2315 in total

Linking genetic diversity and temporal fluctuations in population abundance of the introduced feral cat (Felis silvestris catus) on the Kerguelen archipelago

S. Devillard, H. Santin-Janin, L. Say, D. Pontier

Molecular Ecology . 20 : 5141-5153

2011

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Morphometric analysis of teeth remains from the El Harhoura 2 cave: towards a better knowledge of fossil mice from Morocco

Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Christiane Denys, Jacques Michaux, S. Renaud

6th European Congress of Mammalogy .

2011

Poster

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Differential Evolvability Along Lines of Least Resistance of Upper and Lower Molars in Island House Mice

Sabrina Renaud, S. Pantalacci, J.C. Auffray

PLoS ONE . 6 ( 5 ) : 1-9

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018951

2011

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Influence of host profitability and microenvironmental conditions on parasite specialization on a main and an alternative hosts

M. Lemoine, Blandine Doligez, M. Passerault, H. Richner

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 24 : 1212-1225

2011

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Prospectors combine social and environmental information to improve habitat selection and breeding success in the subsequent year

T. Pärt, D. Arlt, Blandine Doligez, M. Low, A. Qvarnström

Journal of Animal Ecology . 80 : 1227-1235

2011

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Etude d'un produit de coupage de la cocaïne en IRMS

Virginie Ladroue, Loïc Louis, Fabrice Besacier, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Patrick Goetinck, Magali Batteau...

5ème journées SFIS des Jeunes Chercheurs .

2011

Conference paper

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Stable isotope of a cocaine cutting agent: phenactin

Virginie Ladroue, Loïc Louis, Fabrice Besacier, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Patrick Goetinck, Magali Batteau...

17th ENFSI Drugs working group meeting .

2011

Conference paper

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Cat Dilemma: Too Protected To Escape Trophy Hunting?

L. Palazy, C. Bonenfant, J.M. Gaillard, F. Courchamp

PLoS ONE . 6 : 76-81

2011

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Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men

Camille Ferdenzi, Jean-François Lemaître Lemaître, Juan David Leongómez, S. Craig Roberts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 278 ( 1724 ) : 3551-3557

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0544

2011

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Escape migration decisions in Eurasian Woodcocks: insights from survival analyses using large-scale recovery data

Guillaume Péron, Yves Ferrand, François Gossmann, Claudine Bastat, Michel Guénézan, Olivier Gimenez

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology . 65 : 1949 - 1955

DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1204-4

2011

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Biogeography of soil microbial communities: a review and a description of the ongoing french national initiative

Lionel Ranjard, Samuel Dequiedt, Claudy Jolivet, Nicolas Saby, Jean Thioulouse, Jérôme Harmand...

Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2 . 978-94-007-0393-3 : 857-865

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0394-0_37

2011

Book chapter

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Population density and phenotypic attributes influence the level of nematode parasitism in roe deer

G. Body, H. Ferté, Jean-Michel Gaillard, D. Delorme, F. Klein, Emmanuelle Gilot

Oecologia . 167 : 635-646

DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2018-9

2011

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How can ecological status be summarized for an operational Pressures/States model ?

N. Lalande, Flavie Cernesson, Stéphane Dray, M.G. Tournoud, T. Tormos, Pascal Kosuth

EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2011 . : 1

2011

Poster

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Relationships between species feeding traits and environmental conditions in fish communities: a three-matrix approach

A. Brind'Amour, D. Boisclair, Stéphane Dray, P. Legendre

Ecological Applications . 21 ( 2 ) : 363-377

DOI: 10.1890/09-2178.1

2011

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Sustainable control of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife: how to be fair to wild animals?

M. Artois, J. Blancou, O. Dupeyroux, Emmanuelle Gilot

Revue Scientifique et Technique Office International des Epizooties . 30 : 733-743

2011

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A New Perspective on the Dunnett Procedure: Filling the Gap Between Noec/Loec and Ecx Concepts

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Carole Forfait-Dubuc, Elise Billoir, Sandrine Charles

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry . 30 : 2888-2891

DOI: 10.1002/etc.686

2011

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Modeling Nosocomial Transmission of Rotavirus in Pediatric Wards

C.M. Kribs-Zaleta, J.F. Jusot, Philippe Vanhems, Sandrine Charles

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology . 73 ( 7 ) : 1413-1442

DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9570-z

2011

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Identification at the larval stage of four Curculio species coexisting on oak trees using PCR-RFLP

P-F. Pelisson, H. Henri, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, R. Allemand, A. Merville, F. Menu...

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata . 138 : 77-82

DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01077.x

2011

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Coexistence of Insect Species competing for a pulsed resource: toward a unified theory of biodiversity in fluctuating environments

Samuel Venner, P-F. Pelisson, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, F. Debias, Etienne Rajon, F. Menu

PLoS ONE . 6 ( 3 ) : e18039

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018039

2011

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An accept-and-reject algorithm to determine performance objectives that comply with a food safety objective

Laurent Guillier, J.C. Augustin, Jean-Baptiste Denis, Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller

7th International Conference on Predictive Modelling of Food Quality and Safety .

2011

Conference paper

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Differential thermal performance curves in response to different habitats in the parasitoid Venturia canescens

Vincent Foray, Patricia Gibert, Emmanuel Desouhant

The Science of Nature Naturwissenschaften . 98 ( 8 ) : 683 - 691

DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0818-8

2011

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Does synovigeny confer reproductive plasticity upon a parasitoid wasp that is faced with variability in habitat richness?

P. Pelosse, M.A. Jervis, C. Bernstein, E. Desouhant

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 104 : 621-632

2011

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Daily responses of mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon \texttimes Ovis sp.) activity to summer climatic conditions

M. Garel, P. Blanchard, D. Dubray, D. Maillard, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Gilles Bourgoin

Canadian Journal of Zoology . 89 : 765-773

DOI: 10.1139/Z11-046

2011

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Reproductive constraints, not environmental conditions, shape the ontogeny of sex-specific mass-size allometry in roe deer

Mark Hewison, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Daniel Delorme, Guy van Laere, Thibaut Amblard, François Klein

Oikos . 120 ( 8 ) : 1217 - 1226

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19316.x

2011

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High Hunting Pressure Selects for Earlier Birth Date: Wild Boar as a Case Study

M. Gamelon, A. Besnard, Jean-Michel Gaillard, S. Servanty, E. Baubet, S. Brandt...

Evolution . 65 : 3100-3112

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01366.x

2011

Journal article

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Predator-driven component Allee effects in a wild ungulate

A. Bourbeau-Lemieux, M. Festa-Bianchet, Jean-Michel Gaillard, F. Pelletier

Ecology Letters . 14 : 352-363

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01595.x

2011

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The species concept in a long-extinct fossil group, the conodonts

Catherine Girard, Sabrina Renaud

Comptes Rendus. Palevol . 10 ( 2-3 ) : 107 - 115

DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2010.10.009

2011

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Estimation and comparison of heritability and parent-offspring resemblance in dispersal probability from capture-recapture data using different methods: the Collared Flycatcher as a case study

Blandine Doligez, Grégory Daniel, P. Warin, T. Pärt, L. Gustafsson, D. Réale

Journal of Ornithology . 152 : S539-S554

DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0643-4

2011

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A new perspective about Moran's Coefficient: Spatial autocorrelation as a linear regression problem

S. Dray

Geographical Analysis . 43 : 127-141

2011

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Revisiting Guerry's data: introducing spatial constraints in multivariate analysis.

S. Dray, T. Jombart

Annals of Applied Statistics . 5 ( 4 ) : 2278-2299

DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS356

2011

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Publications

Linking genetic diversity and temporal fluctuations in population abundance of the introduced feral cat (Felis silvestris catus) on the Kerguelen archipelago

Morphometric analysis of teeth remains from the El Harhoura 2 cave: towards a better knowledge of fossil mice from Morocco

Differential Evolvability Along Lines of Least Resistance of Upper and Lower Molars in Island House Mice

Influence of host profitability and microenvironmental conditions on parasite specialization on a main and an alternative hosts

Prospectors combine social and environmental information to improve habitat selection and breeding success in the subsequent year

Etude d'un produit de coupage de la cocaïne en IRMS

Stable isotope of a cocaine cutting agent: phenactin

Cat Dilemma: Too Protected To Escape Trophy Hunting?

Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men

Escape migration decisions in Eurasian Woodcocks: insights from survival analyses using large-scale recovery data

Biogeography of soil microbial communities: a review and a description of the ongoing french national initiative

Population density and phenotypic attributes influence the level of nematode parasitism in roe deer

How can ecological status be summarized for an operational Pressures/States model ?

Relationships between species feeding traits and environmental conditions in fish communities: a three-matrix approach

Sustainable control of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife: how to be fair to wild animals?

A New Perspective on the Dunnett Procedure: Filling the Gap Between Noec/Loec and Ecx Concepts

Modeling Nosocomial Transmission of Rotavirus in Pediatric Wards

Identification at the larval stage of four Curculio species coexisting on oak trees using PCR-RFLP

Coexistence of Insect Species competing for a pulsed resource: toward a unified theory of biodiversity in fluctuating environments

An accept-and-reject algorithm to determine performance objectives that comply with a food safety objective

Differential thermal performance curves in response to different habitats in the parasitoid Venturia canescens

Does synovigeny confer reproductive plasticity upon a parasitoid wasp that is faced with variability in habitat richness?

Daily responses of mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon \texttimes Ovis sp.) activity to summer climatic conditions

Reproductive constraints, not environmental conditions, shape the ontogeny of sex-specific mass-size allometry in roe deer

High Hunting Pressure Selects for Earlier Birth Date: Wild Boar as a Case Study

Predator-driven component Allee effects in a wild ungulate

The species concept in a long-extinct fossil group, the conodonts

Estimation and comparison of heritability and parent-offspring resemblance in dispersal probability from capture-recapture data using different methods: the Collared Flycatcher as a case study

A new perspective about Moran's Coefficient: Spatial autocorrelation as a linear regression problem

Revisiting Guerry's data: introducing spatial constraints in multivariate analysis.

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