Evolutionary Demography Group
Members
Technicien CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 11
Maître de conférences
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 33 04 78 87 27 63
Doctorante
autre
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Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Post-doc
CNRS
Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 81 11
Chargée de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 85 44
Stagiaire
UCBL
Professeure des universités
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Doctorante
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Doctorant
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 33 04 72 44 80 18
Post-doc
UCBL
Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 11
Maîtresse de conférences
VetAgro-Sup
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Technicien CDD
CNRS
Technicienne CDD
CNRS
Tel: 04 72 44 81 42
Maîtresse de conférences
UCBL
Tel: 04 72 43 27 85
Keywords: Aging - Behavioural Ecology - Climate Change - Conservation Biology - Comparative analyses - Demography - Eco-Evolutionary dynamics - Ecotoxicology - Ecophysiology - Epidemiology – Integrative Biology - Life History Traits - Movement Ecology - Parasitism - Population Dynamics - Wildlife Management
Overview: Our research aims to understand how ecology and evolution shape both the demography and the health of vertebrate populations in the wild, and in turn, how the demographic processes are determining the strength of trait selection. To reach these objectives, we are bridging conceptual and methodological advances from population ecology, evolution, demography, epidemiology and statistics. As our study models are vertebrate species with high societal value, our research projects are often led in collaboration with the Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) and have an explicit applied component to improve the exploitation or the conservation of the targeted species.
Research axes:
- Quantifying the amount and the shape of individual heterogeneity in vertebrate populations in the wild, as well as its role in demographic and eco-evolutionary processes (with a special focus on mammals)
- Identifying and assessing the relative influence of the environmental (i.e. weather conditions, population density, habitat quality, predation, diseases, interspecific competition and anthropic pressure), evolutionary (e.g. phylogenetic inertia, lifestyle, size, and life history strategy), and individual (e.g. age, sex, or size) attributes that shape the diversity of individual trajectories, within and among populations of vertebrates
- Identifying population responses to global change, from phenotypic traits to demographic outputs such as population growth, age-structure and generation time
- Quantifying the magnitude of the sex-differences in trait-specific trajectories (with a special focus on the senescence process) and identifying the eco-evolutionary roots of these differences
- Identifying the genetic and physiological markers of aging for mammalian populations in the wild
- Exploring the evolutionary causes and consequences of actuarial and reproductive aging in the wild
- Assessing the health, demographic, and evolutionary implications of physiological stress at the individual level and quantifying their impact on population dynamics
- Determining the physiological and demographic implications of toxic pollutants for mammals in the wild
- Measuring health, behavioral, and demographic consequences of parasitism exposure
- Providing tools for the development of reliable predictions for population forecast of mammals with a high societal value
Biological models: Our research mostly relies on the long-term monitoring of mammalian populations in the wild. Thanks to a long-term collaboration with the OFB, we are collecting individual longitudinal data on a wide array of traits for more than 40 years for roe deer (Chizé and Trois-Fontaines study areas, France). Other ongoing long-term programs are focused on the Alpine marmot (Réserve de la Grande Sassière, France), Mouflon (Caroux-Espinouse massif, France), Wild boar (Châteauvillain, France), and Giraffe (Hwange, Zimbabwe).
Publications
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A negative association between horn length and survival in a weakly dimorphic ungulate
Ecology and Evolution . 10 ( 6 ) : 2793-2802
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6050
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see the publicationUnder cover of the night: context-dependency of anthropogenic disturbance on stress levels of wild roe deer Capreolus capreolus
Conservation Physiology . 8 ( 1 )
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see the publicationSyndrome de Klinefelter, rôle du chromosome Y dans l’espérance de vie humaine ?
Annales d'Endocrinologie . 81 ( 4 ) : 194
Conference paper
see the publicationLack of consensus on an aging biology paradigm? A global survey reveals an agreement to disagree, and the need for an interdisciplinary framework
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 191 : 111316
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see the publicationThe conundrum of human immune system “senescence”
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 192 : 111357
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see the publicationEco‐evolutionary perspectives of the dynamic relationships linking senescence and cancer
Functional Ecology . 34 ( 1 ) : 141-152
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see the publicationNo sex differences in adult telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis
Royal Society Open Science . 7 ( 11 ) : 200548
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200548
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see the publicationFemale reproductive senescence across mammals: A high diversity of patterns modulated by life history and mating traits
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development . 192 : 111377
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see the publicationHunting, Predation and Senescence in Boars
Encyclopedia of Biomedical Gerontology . 978-0-12-816076-3
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see the publicationHow do conditions at birth influence early‐life growth rates in wild boar?
Ecosphere . 11 ( 7 )
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3167
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see the publicationThe Demographic Buffering Hypothesis: Evidence and Challenges
Trends in Ecology & Evolution . 35 ( 6 ) : 523-538
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see the publicationGrow fast at no cost: no evidence for a mortality cost for fast early-life growth in a hunted wild boar population
Oecologia . 192 ( 4 ) : 999-1012
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see the publicationLocation Is Everything, but Climate Gets a Share: Analyzing Small-Scale Environmental Influences on Breeding Success in the White-Throated Dipper
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 8
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see the publicationMulti‐event capture‐recapture analysis in Alpine chamois reveals contrasting responses to interspecific competition, within and between populations
Journal of Animal Ecology . 89 ( 10 ) : 2279-2289
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see the publicationDopamine mediates life-history responses to food abundance in Daphnia
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 287 ( 1930 ) : 20201069
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see the publicationBiodemography: Unifying Concepts from Biology, Demography, and Mathematics
Trends in Ecology & Evolution . 35 ( 6 ) : 475-476
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see the publicationLate-life costs of raising sons in bighorn sheep
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 117 ( 11 ) : 5556-5558
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see the publicationDoes host socio-spatial behavior lead to a fine-scale spatial genetic structure in its associated parasites?
Parasite . 26 : 64
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see the publicationDetection of tick-borne pathogens in questing Ixodes ricinus in the French Pyrenees and first identification of Rickettsia monacensis in France
Parasite . 26 : 20
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see the publicationRight on track? Performance of satellite telemetry in terrestrial wildlife research
PLoS ONE . 14
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see the publicationAnalyzing patterns in population dynamics using repeated population surveys with three types of detection data
Ecological Indicators . 106 : 105546
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see the publicationThe time frame of home‐range studies: from function to utilization
Biological Reviews . 94 ( 6 ) : 1974-1982
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12545
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see the publicationRight on track? Performance of satellite telemetry in terrestrial wildlife research
PLoS ONE . 14 ( 5 ) : e0216223
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see the publicationMore frequent extreme climate events stabilize reindeer population dynamics
Nature Communications . 10 : 1616
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see the publicationDoes harvesting amplify environmentally induced population fluctuations over time in marine and terrestrial species?
Journal of Applied Ecology . 56 ( 9 ) : 2186 - 2194
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see the publicationAccounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size
Ecology Letters . 22 ( 5 ) : 797 - 806
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13237
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see the publicationDoes body growth impair immune function in a large herbivore?
Oecologia . 189 ( 1 ) : 55-68
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see the publicationFlower phenology as a disruptor of the fruiting dynamics in temperate oak species
New Phytologist . 225 ( 3 ) : 1181-1192
DOI: 10.1111/nph.16224
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see the publicationPerformance of generation time approximations for extinction risk assessments
Journal of Applied Ecology . 56 ( 6 ) : 1436-1446
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see the publicationThe crustacean Armadillidium vulgare, a new promising model for the study of cellular senescence
DOI: 10.1101/583914
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