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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Genetic resistance against parasitism in female Mediterranean mouflon: Involvement of both neutral and adaptive genetic diversity
Labex EcoFect Annual Meeting .
Conference paper
see the publicationComparison of environmental, biological and anthropogenic causes of wildlife–vehicle collisions among three large herbivore species
Population Ecology . 62 ( 1 ) : 64-79
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see the publicationSwab cloths as a tool for revealing environmental contamination by Q fever in ruminant farms
Transboundary and emerging diseases . 66 : 1202-1209
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13137
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see the publicationCan postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?
PLoS Biology . 17 ( 12 ) : e3000565
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see the publicationSlow life-history strategies are associated with negligible actuarial senescence in western Palaearctic salamanders
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences .
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see the publicationSperm competition accentuates selection on ejaculate attributes.
Biology Letters . 15 ( 3 ) : 20180889
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see the publicationDoes grandparental care select for a longer lifespan in non-human mammals?
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society .
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see the publicationAvis de l’Anses relatif à la mise à jour des connaissances sur les méthodes et procédés d’inactivation du virus de la peste porcine africaine (PPA)
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Report
see the publicationPollen limitation as a main driver of fruiting dynamics in oak populations
Ecology Letters . 22 ( 1 ) : 98-107
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13171
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see the publicationAn aging phenotype in the wild
Science . 365 ( 6459 ) : 1244-1245
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see the publicationVariation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals
PLoS Biology . 17 ( 9 ) : e3000432
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see the publicationSenescence in the Wild: Theory and Physiology
Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences .
Book chapter
see the publicationThe diversity of population responses to environmental change
Ecology Letters . 22 ( 342-353 )
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13195
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see the publicationBoth candidate gene and neutral genetic diversity correlate with parasite resistance in female Mediterranean mouflon
BMC Ecology . 19 : 1-14
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see the publicationLiving on the edge: Was demographic weakness the cause of Neanderthal demise?
PLoS ONE . 14 ( 5 ) : e0216742
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see the publicationModified home range kernel density estimators that take environmental interactions into account
Movement Ecology . 7 : 16
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see the publicationPost-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senescing males.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 286 ( 1913 ) : 20191675
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see the publicationElevated basal corticosterone levels increase disappearance risk of light but not heavy individuals in a long-term monitored rodent population
Hormones and Behavior . 113 : 95-102
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see the publicationAssessing ageing patterns for comparative analyses of mortality curves: Going beyond the use of maximum longevity
Functional Ecology . 34 ( 1 ) : 65-75
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see the publicationPredicting the effects of climate change on bird population dynamics
Effects of climate change on birds . : 74 - 90
Book chapter
see the publicationOld females rarely mate with old males in roe deer, Capreolus capreolus
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 128 ( 3 ) : 515-525
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see the publicationPattern of latrine use by domestic cats on dairy farms and the implications for Toxoplasma gondii transmission
Veterinary Parasitology . 273 : 112-121
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see the publicationSilver spoon effects are constrained under extreme adult environmental conditions
Ecology .
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2886
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see the publicationA local evaluation of the individual state-space to scale up Bayesian spatial capture-recapture
Ecology and Evolution . 9 ( 1 ) : 352-363
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4751
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see the publicationThe two oxpecker species reveal the role of movement rates and foraging intensity in species coexistence
Biology Letters . 15 ( 10 ) : 20190548
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see the publicationThe neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio indexes individual variation in the behavioural stress response of wild roe deer across fluctuating environmental conditions
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology . 73 ( 11 ) : 1-13
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see the publicationThe ground plot counting method: A valid and reliable assessment tool for quantifying seed production in temperate oak forests?
Forest Ecology and Management . 430 : 143-149
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see the publicationLandscape genetics matches with behavioral ecology and brings new insight on the functional connectivity in Mediterranean mouflon
Landscape Ecology . 33 ( 7 ) : 1069-1085
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see the publicationSocial behaviour as a predominant driver of sexual, age-dependent and reproductive segregation in Mediterranean mouflon
Animal Behaviour . 136 : 87-100
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