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

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Species or local environment, what determines the infection of rodents by Toxoplasma gondii?

Cécile Gotteland, Yannick Chaval, Isabelle Villena, Maxime Galan, Régine Geers, Laurence Voutquenne-Nazabadioko...

Parasitology . 141 ( 2 ) : 259-68

DOI: 10.1017/s0031182013001522

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Bayesian approaches to the quantitative genetic analysis of natural populations

M.B. Morrissey, P. de Villemereuil, Blandine Doligez, O. Gimenez

Quantitative Genetics in the Wild . 978-0-19-967424-4

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Quantifying transmission by stage of infection in the field: The example of SIV-1 and STLV-1 infecting mandrills.

Marion Roussel, Dominique Pontier, Mirdad Kazanji, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Renaud Mahieux, Delphine Verrier...

American Journal of Primatology .

DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22346

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Haematological parameters do senesce in the wild: evidence from different populations of a long-lived mammal.

Maël Jégo, Jean-François Lemaître, G. Bourgoin, Gilles Capron, Claude Warnant, François Klein...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 27 ( 12 ) : 2745-52

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12535

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Development and validation of an OECD reproductive toxicity test guideline with the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

Virginie Ducrot, Clare Askem, Didier Azam, Denise Brettschneider, Rebecca Brown, Sandrine Charles...

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology . 70 ( 3 ) : 605-614

DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2014.09.004

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Caged gammarids for the characterization of contamination levels in continental waters

J.P. Besse, Marina Coquery, C. Lopes, Arnaud Chaumot, Olivier Geffard

Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health 29th International Conference . : 25

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In situ reproductive bioassay with caged Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea): a tool to diagnose toxicity of wastewater effluents

C. Lopes, Olivier Geffard, B. Xuereb, Romain Coulaud, G. Jubeaux, H. Quéau...

23rd SETAC Europe . : 2

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Drosophila suzukii, vers une lutte biologique contre ce ravageur des fruits rouges

S. Chabert, Roland Allemand, Mathilde Poyet, N. Ris, Patricia Gibert

Phytoma . 660 : 34-38

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Managing Mediterranean nurse plants-mediated effects on soil microbial functions to improve rock phosphate solubilization processes and early growth of Cupressus atlantica G

M. Hafidi, L. Ouahmane, J. Thioulouse, H. Sanguin, A. Boumezzough, Y. Prin...

Ecological Engineering . 57 : 57--64

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.006

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Native plant resources to optimize the performances of forest rehabilitation in Mediterranean and tropical environment: some examples of nursing plant species that improve the soil mycorrhizal potential

R. Duponnois, H. Ramanankierana, M. Hafidi, R. Baohanta, E. Baudoin, Jean Thioulouse...

Comptes Rendus. Biologies . 336 : 265-272

DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2013.04.015

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L'introduction d'acacias australiens pour réhabiliter des écosystèmes dégradés est-elle dépourvue de risques environnementaux ?

R. Duponnois, E. Baudoin, H. Sanguin, Jean Thioulouse, C. Le Roux, E. Tournier...

Bois et Forêts des Tropiques . 318 : 59-65

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A new process to promote the use of controlled mycorrhization practice in forest nurseries

L. Ndoye, A. Soumaré, Ec. Agbangba, J. Thioulouse, A. Galiana, Y. Prin...

African Journal of Agricultural Research . 8 : 308--316

DOI: 10.5897/AJAR12.1642

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Health inspection: new approaches for a veterinarians and operators network implementation, acting as a link between holdings and slaughterhouses

Carole Peroz, Virginie Allain, Marie-Pierre Donguy, Sophie Le Bouquin, Catherine Magras

18. World Veterinary Poultry Association (WVPA) . : 726 p.

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Epidémiologie et leviers pour la maîtrise de la santé des troupeaux bovins laitiers : approche monographique pour sept maladies majeures

Henri H. Seegers, Nathalie Bareille, Raphaël R. Guatteo, Alain Joly, Alain Chauvin, Christophe Chartier...

INRA Productions Animales . 26 ( 2 ) : 157-176

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Tracking prospecting movements involved in breeding habitat selection: insights, pitfalls and perspectives

A. Ponchon, D. Grémillet, Blandine Doligez, T. Chambert, T. Tveraa, J. González-Sol'Is...

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 4 : 143--150

DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00259.x

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Insights for Integrated Conservation from Attitudes of People toward Protected Areas Near Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

C. Guerbois, Ab. Dufour, G. Mtare, H. Fritz

Conservation Biology . 27 : 844--55

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12108

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A New Technique for Analysing Interacting Factors Affecting Biodiversity Patterns: Crossed-DPCoA

S. Pavoine, J. Blondel, Ab. Dufour, A. Gasc, Mb. Bonsall

PLoS ONE . 8 : e54530

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054530

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Simulation 3D du soudage par frottement malaxage (FSW) à l'aide d'une formulation Arbitrairement Lagrangienne ou Eulérienne (ALE)

Sabrina Gastebois, Lionel Fourment

CSMA 2013 - 11ème colloque national en calcul des structures .

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Two-component Bose gases with one-body and two-body couplings

Samuel Lellouch, Tung-Lam Dao, Thomas Koffel, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015] . 88 : 063646

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.063646

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Life-history phenology strongly influences the vulnerability of populations to toxicants: a case study with the mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Romain Coulaud, S. Charles, Arnaud Chaumot

CREAM Open Conference: Mechanistic Effect Models for Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals . : 41

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Movements and space use of feral cats in Kerguelen archipelago: a pilot study with GPS data

J. Martin, B. Rey, Jb. Pons, E. Natoli, D. Pontier

Polar Biology . 36 : 1531--1536

DOI: 10.1007/s00300-013-1365-x

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Candidate Chemosensory Genes in the Stemborer Sesamia nonagrioides

Nicolas Glaser, Aurore Gallot, Fabrice Legeai, Nicolas Montagne, Erwan E. Poivet, Myriam Harry...

International Journal of Biological Sciences . 9 ( 5 ) : 481-495

DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.6109

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Turnover of soil bacterial diversity driven by wide-scale environmental heterogeneity.

L. Ranjard, S. Dequiedt, Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré, J. Thioulouse, N. P. A. Saby, M. Lelievre...

Nature Communications . 4 : 1434

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2431

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Méthodes d'analyse multivariée pour l'étude de l'influence de la mycorhizosphère sur la structure et le fonctionnement des communautés bactériennes du sol

Jean Thioulouse, H. Sanguin, Yves Prin, Robin Duponnois

Des champignons symbiotiques contre la désertification. Ecosystèmes mediterranéens, tropicaux et insulaires . 978-2-7099-1949-4 : 474-508

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The molecular signal for the adaptation to cold temperature during early life on Earth

Mathieu Groussin, Bastien Boussau, Sandrine Charles, Samuel Blanquart, Manolo Gouy

Biology Letters . 9 ( 5 ) : 20130608

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0608

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From Income to Capital Breeding: When Diversified Strategies Sustain Species Coexistence

Pierre-François Pelisson, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, David Giron, Frédéric Menu, Samuel Venner

PLoS ONE . 8 ( 9 ) : e76086

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076086

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Caged Gammarus fossarum (crustacea) as a robust tool for the characterization of bioavailable contamination levels in continental waters. Toward the determination of threshold values

J.P. Besse, Marina Coquery, C. Lopes, Arnaud Chaumot, H. Budzinski, P. Labadie...

Water Research . 47 ( 2 ) : p. 650 - p. 660

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.10.024

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Exploitation de la plante hôte pour l'alimentation et la reproduction

Didier D. Rochat, Emmanuel Desouhant, Frédéric Menu

Interactions insectes-plantes . 978-2-7592-2018-2 978-2-7099-1746-9 : 749 p.

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Trans-generational effects of mild heat stress on the life history traits of an aphid parasitoid

I. Ismaeil, G. Doury, E. Desouhant, F. Dubois, G. Prevost, Aude Couty

PLoS ONE . 8 : e54306

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054306

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