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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Invasive house mice facing a changing environment on the Sub-Antarctic Guillou Island (Kerguelen Archipelago)

S. Renaud, Ea. Hardouin, B. Pisanu, Jl. Chapuis

Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 26 : 612--24

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12079

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Comparing parent-offspring regression with frequentist and Bayesian animal models to estimate heritability in wild populations: a simulation study for Gaussian and binary traits

P. De Villemereuil, Olivier Gimenez, Blandine Doligez

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 4 : 260-275

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12011

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A la recherche du juste dosage : statistique appliquée à l'analyse de la cocaïne

Laurence Dujourdy, C. Charvoz, M. Dalmasso, Anne-Béatrice Dufour

Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises . 71 ( 3 ) : 193-200

DOI: 10.1016/j.pharma.2013.01.005

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A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

N. Mason, F. de Bello, D. Mouillot, S. Pavoine, S. Dray

Journal of Vegetation Science . 24 : 794--806

DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12013

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Fitness consequences of northward dispersal as possible adaptation to climate change, using experimental translocation of a migratory passerine

C. Bürger, A. Nord, J. A. Nilsson, E. Gilot-Fromont, C. Both

PLoS ONE . 8 : e83176

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083176

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Experimental infection of pregnant Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) with border disease virus subtype 4.

Claire Martin, Véronique Duquesne, Jean-Michel Guibert, Coralie Pulido, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Philippe Gibert...

Journal of wildlife diseases . 49 ( 1 ) : 55-68

DOI: 10.7589/2011-09-260

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Resistance of Drosophila suzukii to the larval parasitoids Leptopilina heterotoma and Asobara japonica is related to haemocyte load

Mathilde Poyet, Sebastien Havard, Geneviève Prevost, Olivier Chabrerie, Géraldine Doury, Patricia Gibert...

Physiological Entomology . 38 ( 1 ) : 45 - 53

DOI: 10.1111/phen.12002

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Assessing fitness consequences of migratory tactics requires long-term individually based monitoring

Jean-Michel Gaillard

Ecology . 94 : 1261-1264

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

Romain Coulaud, Jacques Mouthon, Hervé Quéau, Sandrine Charles, Arnaud Chaumot

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry . 32 ( 8 ) : 1727-36

DOI: 10.1002/etc.2235

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Ecologie prédictive & changement planétaire

Frédéric Austerlitz, Michael Blum, Sarah Calba, Jérôme Chave, Marc Choisy, Audrey Coreau...

Prospective de l'Institut écologie & environnement du CNRS . hors s\'{e}rie : 9-44

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Endosymbiont diversity among sibling weevil species competing for the same resource

Adrien Merville, Samuel Venner, Hélène Henri, Agnès Vallier, Frédéric Menu, Fabrice Vavre...

BMC Evolutionary Biology . 13 : 28

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-28

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Does cold tolerance plasticity correlate with the thermal environment and metabolic profiles of a parasitoid wasp ?

Vincent Foray, Emmanuel Desouhant, Yann Voituron, Vanessa Larvor, David Renault, Hervé Colinet...

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology . 164 : 77-83

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.10.018

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Diversification of the eutherian placenta is associated with changes in the pace of life

M. Garratt, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Rc. Brooks, Jean-François Lemaitre

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 : 7760-7765

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305018110

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Roaring counts are not suitable for the monitoring of red deer Cervus elaphus population abundance

M. Douhard, Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Jl. Hamann, M. Garel, J. Michallet...

Wildlife Biology . 19 : 94-101

DOI: 10.2981/12-037

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Comparing free-ranging and captive populations reveals intra-specific variation in aging rates in large herbivores

Jf. Lemaitre, Jm. Gaillard, Lb. Lackey, M. Clauss, Dw. Muller

Experimental Gerontology . 48 : 162--7

DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.12.004

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Sex-specific senescence in body mass of a monogamous and monomorphic mammal: the case of Alpine marmots

M. Tafani, A. Cohas, C. Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, S. Lardy, D. Allaine

Oecologia . 172 : 427--36

DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2499-1

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The influence of nonrandom mating on population growth

S. Schindler, P. Neuhaus, Jean-Michel Gaillard, T. Coulson

The American Naturalist . 182 : 28--41

DOI: 10.1086/670753

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Studying spatial interactions between sympatric populations of large herbivores: a null model approach

Jm. Gaillard, E. Richard, C. Calenge, S. Saïd, Jl. Hamann

Ecography . 36 : 157--165

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07604.x

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Parturition date for a given female is highly repeatable within five roe deer populations

F. Plard, Jm. Gaillard, C. Bonenfant, A. J. Mark Hewison, D. Delorme, Bruno Cargnelutti...

Biology Letters . 9 ( 1 ) : 20120841

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0841

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How does climate change influence demographic processes of widespread species? Lessons from the comparative analysis of contrasted populations of roe deer

Jm. Gaillard, A.J. Mark Hewison, F. Klein, F. Plard, M. Douhard, R. Davison...

Ecology Letters . 16 : 48--57

DOI: 10.1111/ele.12059

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The evolution of genetic architectures underlying quantitative traits

E. Rajon, J. B. Plotkin

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 280 : 20131552

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1552

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Influence of vectors' risk-spreading strategies and environmental stochasticity on the epidemiology and evolution of vector-borne diseases: the example of chagas' disease.

Perrine Pelosse, Christopher M Kribs-Zaleta, Marine Ginoux, Jorge E Rabinovich, Sébastien Gourbière, Frédéric Menu

PLoS ONE . 8 ( 8 ) : e70830

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070830

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The direction of main phenotypic variance as a channel to morphological evolution: case studies in murine rodents

S. Renaud, Jc. Auffray

Hystrix, the italian Journal of Mammalogy . 24 : 85--93

DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-24.1-6296

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Mus in Morocco : a Quaternary sequence of intraspecific evolution

E. Stoetzel, C. Denys, J. Michaux, S. Renaud

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 109 : 599--621

DOI: 10.1111/bij.12065

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Estimating demographic parameters from capture-recapture data with dependence among individuals within clusters

Rémi Choquet, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Blandine Doligez, Erika Nogué, Roger Pradel, Lars Gustafsson...

Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 4 ( 5 ) : 474-482

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12030

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Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population

L. Cauchard, Nj. Boogert, L. Lefebvre, F. Dubois, Blandine Doligez

Animal Behaviour . 85 : 19-26

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.005

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Conference Report: Deuxièmes Rencontres R

Aurélie Siberchicot, S. Dray

The R Journal . 5/2 : 164--165

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Functional traits reveal processes driving natural afforestation at large spatial scales

N. W. Mason, S. K. Wiser, S. J. Richardson, M. J. Thorsen, R. J. Holdaway, S. Dray...

PLoS ONE . 8 : e75219

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075219

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Reciprocal modulation of internal and external factors determines individual movements

J. Martin, B. Van Moorter, E. Revilla, P. Blanchard, S. Dray, Py. Quenette...

Journal of Animal Ecology . 82 : 290--300

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02038.x

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