Evolutionary Demography Group

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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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This is a highway to hell: A theoretical study of wildlife-vehicle collisions by simulation

Annaëlle Bénard, Christophe Bonenfant, Thierry Lengagne

Ecology Across Borders .

Poster

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Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore

Gabriel Pigeon, Steve Albon, Leif Egil Loe, Richard Bischof, Christophe Bonenfant, Mads Forchhammer...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 91 : 61 - 73

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13593

Journal article

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Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life

Marlène Gamelon, Roberto Salguero‐gómez

9780198838609

Book

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Evolution du foyer de brucellose chez le bouquetin des Alpes dans le massif du Bargy, Haute Savoie, entre 2012 et 2020

Sophie Rossi, Elodie Petit, Pascal Marchand, Carole Toïgo, Clément Calenge, Ariane Payne...

Bulletin Epidémiologique . ( 92 ) : 10

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Parasitic nematode abundance and diversity variation in bighorn sheep populations across southwestern Canada

Gilles Bourgoin, Jocelyn Poissant, Janneke Wit, Kathreen Ruckstuhl, Camille Beaumelle, Gavin Hough...

28th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology .

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Interactions entre ruminants domestiques et sauvages - Parasitisme partagé et résistances

Gilles Bourgoin, Camille Beaumelle, Noémie Begoc, Florence Veyssiere, Hélène Verheyden, Philippe Jacquiet...

Journées Nationales des GTV .

Conference paper

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Apports des technologies GPS et du biologging pour une meillleure compréhension de l’écologie des ongulés de montagne dans un contexte de changements globaux

Pascal Marchand, Victor Chauveau, Léa Margaillan, Stéphane Anselme-Martin, Gilles Bourgoin, Mathieu Garel...

38èmes Rencontres du GEEFSM .

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Investigating the transmission of gastro intestinal nematodes between livestock and roe deer using deep sequencing analyses

Camille Beaumelle, Hélène Verheyden, Libby Redman, Jill De Rijke, Florence Veyssière, Noémie Bégoc...

69th WDA / 14th EWDA - Joint Virtual Conference, Aug 31 - Sept. 2, 2021 .

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Sensitivity of bovine tuberculosis surveillance through intradermal tests in cattle in France: An evaluation of different scenarios

Viviane Hénaux, Claire Ponsart, Justine Corre, Florence Etore, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Hervé Morvan...

Preventive Veterinary Medicine . 191

DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105364

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Evaluation of the efficacy of enrofloxacin in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) following experimental challenge with Yersinia ruckeri

Antoine Rostang, Carole Peroz, Catherine Fournel, Chantal Thorin, Ségolène Calvez

Veterinary Record . 188 ( 12 ) : e200

DOI: 10.1002/vetr.200

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ITS-2 rDNA metabarcoding in two isolated populations of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) reveals variation in the nemabiome among age classes

Camille Beaumelle, Elizabeth Redman, Jill De Rijke, Slimania Benabed, Jeanne Duhayer, Marie-Therese Poirel...

28th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology .

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Tick risk in roe deer fawns : what links with environment and individual characteristics

Léa Bariod, Sonia Saïd, Clément Calenge, Stéphane Chabot, Vincent Badeau, Gilles Bourgoin

69th WDA / 14th EWDA - Joint Virtual Conference .

Poster

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A prioritisation process to implement surveillance of wildlife pathogens

Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Sylvain Larrat, Thierry Durand, Julien Hirschinger, Céline Dupuy, Anouk Decors...

Congrés WDA/EWDA, managing wildlife diseases for sustainable ecosystems .

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Interaction Patterns between Wildlife and Cattle Reveal Opportunities for Mycobacteria Transmission in Farms from North-Eastern Atlantic Iberian Peninsula

Lucía Varela-Castro, Iker Sevilla, Ariane Payne, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Marta Barral

Animals . 11 ( 8 ) : 2364

DOI: 10.3390/ani11082364

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Reproductive females and young mouflon ( Ovis gmelini musimon × Ovis sp.) in poor body condition are the main spreaders of gastrointestinal parasites

Gilles Bourgoin, Elodie Portanier, Marie-Thérèse Poirel, Christian Itty, Jeanne Duhayer, Slimania Benabed...

Parasitology . 148 ( 7 ) : 809-818

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182021000329

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Young and mature males have similar energy expenditure during the rut in a trophy-hunted population of Mediterranean mouflon

G. Bourgoin, Alice Laurent, Pascal Marchand, Jeanne Duhayer, Marie-Thérèse Poirel, Patricia Michel...

Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 101 ( 1 ) : 35 - 42

DOI: 10.1007/s42991-020-00084-0

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Targeted strategies for the management of wildlife diseases: the case of brucellosis in Alpine ibex

Sébastien Lambert, Anne Thébault, Sophie Rossi, Pascal Marchand, Elodie Petit, Carole Toïgo...

Veterinary Research . 52

DOI: 10.1186/s13567-021-00984-0

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New insights into the past and recent evolutionary history of the Corsican mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon) to inform its conservation

Elodie Portanier, Pascale Chevret, Pauline Gélin, Pierre Benedetti, Frédéric Sanchis, Filippo Barbanera...

Conservation Genetics . 23 ( 1 ) : 91 - 107

DOI: 10.1007/s10592-021-01399-2

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Enforced monoandry over generations induces a reduction of female investment into reproduction in a promiscuous bird

Gabriele Sorci, Loïc Lesobre, Pauline Vuarin, Gwènaëlle Levêque, Michel Saint Jalme, Frédéric Lacroix...

Evolutionary Applications .

DOI: 10.1111/eva.13311

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Reappraisal of the latest Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the classical Salazac locality (Gard, southeastern France).

Romain Jattiot, Jens Lehmann, Benjamin Latutrie, Pauline Vuarin, Amane Tajika, Emmanuelle Vennin

Geobios . 64 : 1-46

DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2021.01.001

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Mobilisation de la FRB par les pouvoirs publics français sur les liens entre Covid-19 et biodiversité

Jean-François Silvain, Robin Goffaux, Hélène Soubelet, Francois Sarrazin, Luc Abbadie, Cécile H. Albert...

: 63 pages

Report

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The Link Between Covid-19 and Biodiversity: A Report Commissioned by the French Public Authorities

Jean-François Silvain, Robin Goffaux, Hélène Soubelet, Francois Sarrazin, Luc Abbadie, Cécile H. Albert...

: 60

Report

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Reproductive females and young mouflon ( Ovis gmelini musimon × Ovis sp.) in poor body condition are the main spreaders of gastrointestinal parasites

G. Bourgoin, Elodie Portanier, Marie-Thérèse Poirel, Christian Itty, Jeanne Duhayer, Slimania Benabed...

Parasitology . 148 ( 7 ) : 809-818

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182021000329

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Female Seals that Breed Young Also Enjoy a Slower Rate of Aging

W Chris Oosthuizen, Guillaume Péron, Roger Pradel, Marthán N Bester, P J Nico de Bruyn

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America . 102

DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1863

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Parasitized, non-parasitized, why? A study of factors influencing tick burden in roe deer neonates

Léa Bariod, Sonia Saïd, Clément Calenge, Stéphane Chabot, Vincent Badeau, G. Bourgoin

EvoLyon .

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Avis de l'Anses relatif à l’évaluation de l’efficacité de différents scénarios de lutte contre la brucellose dans les populations des bouquetins dans le massif du Bargy

Barbara Dufour, Benoit Durand, Bruno Garin-Bastuji, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Pascal Marchand, Sebastien Lambert...

: 39 p.

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Co-variation between glucocorticoids, behaviour and immunity supports the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis: an experimental approach

Jeffrey Carbillet, Benjamin Rey, Rupert Palme, Chloé Monestier, Luca Börger, Typhaine Lavabre...

DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.13.435238

Preprint

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Efficient use of demographic data: Integrated Population Models

Marlène Gamelon, Stefan J G Vriend, Marcel E. Visser, Caspar A. Hallmann, Suzanne T. E. Lommen, Eelke Jongejans

Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life . 9780198838609

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198838609.003.0014

Book chapter

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Demographic Methods Across the Tree of Life

Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Marlène Gamelon

Book

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Longitudinal demographic data collection

Marlène Gamelon, Josh A Firth, Mathilde Le Moullec, William K Petry, Roberto Salguero-Gómez

Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life .

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