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 1531 to 1560 publications on 2315 in total

Capture-recapture models with heterogeneity to study survival senescence in the wild

Guillaume Péron, Pierre-André Crochet, Rémi Choquet, Roger Pradel, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Olivier Gimenez

Oikos . 119 ( 3 ) : 524 - 532

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-1706.2009.17882.x

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The home-range concept: are traditonal estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

J.G. Kie, J. Matthiopoulos, J. Fieberg, R. Powell, F. Cagnacci, M.S. Mitchell...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 365 : 2221-2231

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0093

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Genes regulated in early embryogenesis during the switch from parthenogenetic to sexual reproduction in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)

Aurore Gallot, Grégory Guernec, Stefano Colella, Hubert Charles, Stéphanie Jaubert-Possamai, Denis Tagu

4. Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium on “Arthropod Genomics: New Approaches and Outcomes” .

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Structuration géographique de la population de Toxoplasma gondii à l'origine de toxoplasmose congénitale en France métropolitaine.

Frédéric Collinet, Daniel Ajzenberg, Sébastien Devillard, D. Aubert, I Villena, Marie-Laure Dardé

Club Toxo .

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Capture-recapture models with heterogeneity to study survival senescence in the wild

Guillaume G. Péron, Pierre-André Crochet, Rémi Choquet, Roger Pradel, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Olivier Gimenez

Oikos .

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Evaluating variability and uncertainty separately in microbial quantitative risk assessment using two R packages

R. Pouillot, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller

International Journal of Food Microbiology . 142 : 330-340

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Évolution des interactions entre espèces

Thierry Lefèvre, François Renaud, Marc-André Selosse, Frédéric Thomas, C. Bernstein, O. Broennimann...

Biologie évolutive . : 533-616

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Importance of Accounting for Detection Heterogeneity When Estimating Abundance: the Case of French Wolves

Sarah Cubaynes, Roger Pradel, Rémi Choquet, Christophe Duchamp, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Jean-Dominique Lebreton...

Conservation Biology . 24 : 621 - 626

DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01431.x

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Habitat use by female western roe deer (Capreolus capreolus): influence of resource availability on habitat selection in two contrasting years

Maryline Pellerin, C. Calenge, Sonia Said, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Hervé Fritz, Patrick Duncan...

Canadian Journal of Zoology . 88 ( 11 ) : 1052-1062

DOI: 10.1139/Z10-070

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Testing Reliability of Body Size Measurements Using Hind Foot Length in Roe Deer

Mathieu Garel, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Thierry Chevrier, Jacques Michallet, Daniel Delorme, Guy Van Laere

Journal of Wildlife Management . 74 ( 6 ) : 1382-1386

DOI: 10.2193/2009-264

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Évolution des traits d'histoire de vie

Yannis Michalakis, Anne Charmantier, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Gabriele Sorci, Thomas Tully, Ophélie Ronce

Biologie évolutive . : 339-386

Book chapter

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Adaptive Developmental Delay in Chagas Disease Vectors: An Evolutionary Ecology Approach

Fréderic Menu, Marine Ginoux, Etienne Rajon, Claudio Lazzari, Jorge E. Rabinovich

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 4 ( 5 ) : e691

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000691

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A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse

F. Veyrunes, P. Chevret, J. Catalan, R. Castiglia, J. Watson, G. Dobigny...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 ( 1684 ) : 1049-1056

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1925

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Seasonal variation in molar outline of bank voles: An effect of wear?

A. Guérécheau, R. Ledevin, H. Henttonen, V. Deffontaine, J.R. Michaux, P. Chevret...

Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 75 : 311-319

DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2009.03.013

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Mitochondrial and chromosomal insights into karyotypic evolution of the pygmy mouse, \textitMus minutoides, in South Africa

F. Veyrunes, J. Catalan, C. Tatard, E. Cellier-Holzem, J. Watson, Pascale Chevret...

Chromosome research . 18 : 563-574

DOI: 10.1007/s10577-010-9144-9

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Mandible morphology, dental microwear, and diet of the extinct giant rats Canariomys (Rodentia: Murinae) of the Canary Islands (Spain).

Cyril Firmat, Helder Gomes Rodrigues, Sabrina Renaud, Julien Claude, Rainer Hutterer, Francisco Garcia-Talavera...

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 101 ( 1 ) : 28-40

DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01488.x

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Temporal dynamics of the geographic differentiation of Late Devonian Palmatolepis assemblages in the Prototethys

Christian Girard, T.H. Phuong, N. Savage, Sabrina Renaud

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 55 : 675-687

DOI: 10.4202/app.2009.0098

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The case of an insular molarless black rat: Effects on lifestyle and mandible morphology

P. Bover, J. A. Alcover, J. Michaux, Sabrina Renaud

Archives of Oral Biology . 55 : 576-582

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Ungulates and their management in France

D. Maillard, J.M. Gaillard, M.A.J. Hewison, Philippe Ballon, Patrick Duncan, A. Loison...

European ungulates and their management in the 21th century, Apollonio, M., Andersen, R., Putman, R. (eds) . 978-0-521-76061-4 : 441-474

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Fitness costs of reproduction depend on life speed: empirical evidence from mammalian populations

S. Hamel, J.M. Gaillard, N.G. Yoccoz, A. Loison, C. Bonenfant, S. Descamps

Ecology Letters . 13 ( 7 ) : 915-935

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01478.x

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Seroprevalence and factors associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild boar ( Sus scrofa) in a Mediterranean island.

Céline Richomme, Eve Afonso, V. Tolon, Christian Ducrot, Lénaig Halos, Annie Alliot...

Epidemiology and Infection . 138 ( 9 ) : 1257-1266

DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000117

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Transmission dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii along an urban–rural gradient

M. Lélu, Michel Langlais, Marie-Lazarine Poulle, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

Theoretical Population Biology . 78 : 139-147

DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.05.005

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Additional haplogroups of Toxoplasma gondii out of Africa: population structure and mouse-virulence of strains from Gabon.

Aurélien Mercier, Sébastien Devillard, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Henri Bonnabau, Anne-Laure Bañuls, Patrick Durand...

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 4 ( 11 ) : e876

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000876

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Size-assortative pairing in Gammarus pulex (Crustacea: Amphipoda): a test of the prudent choice hypothesis.

Nathalie Franceschi, Jean-François Lemaître, Frank Cézilly, Loïc Bollache

Animal Behaviour . 79 ( 4 ) : 911-916

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.002

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Costs and benefits of colony size vary during the breeding cycle in Black-headed Gulls

Guillaume Péron, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Pierre-André Crochet

Journal für Ornithologie = Journal of Ornithology . 151 ( 4 ) : 881-888

DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0526-8

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Age at the onset of senescence in birds and mammals is predicted by early-life performance

G. Péron, O. Gimenez, A. Charmantier, J.M. Gaillard, P.A. Crochet

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 ( 1695 ) : 2849-2856

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0530

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Biogéographie Microbienne: mythe ou réalité ?

Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré, Samuel Dequiedt, Nicolas N. Saby, Mélanie M. Lelievre, Claudy C. Jolivet, Dominique D. Arrouays...

Ecologie 2010 . : n.p.

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Online Reproducible Research: An Application to Multivariate Analysis of Bacterial DNA Fingerprint Data

J. Thioulouse, C. Valiente Moro, L. Zenner

The R Journal . 2 ( 1 ) : 44-52

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Cuticular proteins and seasonal photoperiodism in aphid

Aurore Gallot-Le Grand, Claude Rispe, Nathalie Prunier Leterme, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Stéphanie Jaubert, Denis Tagu

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology . 40 ( 3 ) : 235-240

DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2009.12.001

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Evolutionary history of the bank vole Myodes glareolus: a morphometric perspective

Ronan Ledevin, Johan Michaux, Valérie Deffontaine, Heikki Henttonen, Sabrina Renaud

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 100 ( 3 ) : 681-694

DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01445.x

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