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

Display of 1621 to 1650 publications on 2315 in total

Des espèces en nombre

Sandrine Charles, Hubert Charles

Interstices .

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Student's Performance and Satisfaction with Web vs. paper-based practice quizzes and lecture notes

Mônica Macedo-Rouet, Muriel Ney, Sandrine Charles, Geneviève Lallich-Boidin

Computers and Education . 53 ( 2 ) : 375-384

DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.02.013

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DEBtox theory and matrix population models as helpful tools in understanding the interaction between toxic cyanobacteria and zooplankton

Elise Billoir, Aloysio da Silva Ferrão-Filho, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Sandrine Charles

Journal of Theoretical Biology . 258 ( 3 ) : 380

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.07.029

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Toxicity of ivermectin on cladocerans: comparison of toxic effects on daphnia and ceriodaphnia species

Christelle Lopes, Sandrine Charles, B. Vollat, J. Garric

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry . 28(10) : 2160-2166

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Matrix Population Models as Relevant Modeling Tools in Ecotoxicology

Sandrine Charles, E. Billoir, Christelle Lopes, Arnaud Chaumot

incollection . 2 : 261-298

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Dynamics of transposable elements:towards a community ecology of the genome

Samuel Venner, C. Feschotte, C. Biémont

Trends in Genetics . 25(7) : 317-323

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ReBaStaBa: handling Bayesian networks with R

Jean-Baptiste Denis, Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller, Regis Pouillot

The R User Conference 2009 .

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Fitting parametric distributions using R : the fitdistrplus package

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Régis Pouillot, Jean-Baptiste Denis

The 5th R useR conference Agrocampus Ouest . : 47

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Quantitative Risk Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in French cold-smoked Salmon: II. Risk Characterization

Regis Pouillot, Véronique Goulet, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Aurélie Mahé, Marie Cornu

Risk Analysis . 29 ( 6 ) : 806-819

DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01200.x

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Fate of acid-resistant and non-acid resistant Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains in experimentally contaminated French fermented raw meat sausages

M-P. Montet, S. Christieans, D. Thevenot, V. Coppet, S. Ganet, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller...

International Journal of Food Microbiology . 129(3) : 264-270

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What matters in the associative learning of visual cues in foraging parasitoid wasps: colour or brightness?

Emmanuel Desouhant, Simon Navel, Emmeline Foubert, Deborah Fischbein, Marc Théry, Carlos Bernstein

Animal Cognition . : epub ahead of print

DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0304-2

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Differential use of conspecific-derived information by sexual and asexual parasitic wasps exploiting partially depleted host patches

Isabelle Amat, E. Desouhant, Carlos Bernstein

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology . 63 : 563-572

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Empirical Evidence of Density‐Dependence in Populations of Large Herbivores

Christophe Bonenfant, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Anne Loison, Mathieu Garel...

Advances in Ecological Research . 41 : 313-357

DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(09)00405-X

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Memory keeps you at home: a mechanistic model for home range emergence

B. van Moorter, D. Visscher, S. Benhamou, L. Börger, M-S. Boyce, Jean-Michel Gaillard

Oikos . 188 ( 5 ) : 641--652

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17003.x

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What determines global positioning system fix success when monitoring free-ranging mouflon?

G. Bourgoin, M. Garel, D. Dubray, D. Maillard, J.-M. Gaillard

European Journal of Wildlife Research . 55 : 603-613

DOI: 10.1007/s10344-009-0284-1

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Adaptive dynamics of dormancy duration variability: evolutionary trade-off and priority effect lead to suboptimal adaptation.

Sébastien Gourbière, Fréderic Menu

Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 63 ( 7 ) : 1879-92

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00731.x

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Using Dynamic Stochastic Modelling to Estimate Population Risk Factors in Infectious Disease: The Example of FIV in 15 Cat Populations

D. Fouchet, G. Leblanc, F. Sauvage, M. Guiserix, H. Poulet, D. Pontier

PLoS ONE . 4(10) : 1-13

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Emergence of infectious diseases: when hidden pathogens break out

D. Pontier, M. Guiserix, D. Fouchet, F. Sauvage

Comptes Rendus Biologies . 332(6) : 539-547

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Heterochronic shifts explain variations in a sequentially developing repeated pattern: Palatal ridges of muroid rodents

Sophie Pantalacci, Marie Semon, Arnaud Martin, Pascale Chevret, Vincent Laudet

16. Annual Conference of the International Society of-Development-Biologists . 126

DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2009.06.653

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Rodent Biodiversity in Changing Environments

J-C. Auffray, Sabrina Renaud, J. Claude

Kasetsart . 43 : 83-93

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Developmental constraints revealed by co-variation within and among molar rows in two murine rodents.

Sabrina Renaud, Sophie Pantalacci, Jean-Pierre Quéré, Vincent Laudet, Jean-Christophe Auffray

Evolution and Development . 11 ( 5 ) : 590-602

DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00365.x

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The effects of experimentally manipulated yolk androgens on growth and immune function of male and female nestling collared flycatchers TextitFicedula albicollis

N. Pitala, S. Ruuskanen, T. Laaksonen, Blandine Doligez, B. Tschirren, L. Gustafsson

Journal of Avian Biology . 40(2) : 225-230

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Finding essential scales of spatial variation in ecological data: a multivariate approach

T. Jombart, S. Dray, Anne-Béatrice Dufour

Ecography . 32(1) : 161-168

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On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

S. Pavoine, J. Vallet, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, S. Gachet, H. Daniel

Oikos . 118(3) : 391-402

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The concept of animals trajectories from a data analysis perspective

Clément Calenge, S. Dray, Manuela Royer-Carenzi

Ecological Informatics . 4 ( 1 ) : 34-41

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.10.002

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Responding to spatial and temporal variations in predation risk: space use of a game species in a changing landsape of fear

Vincent Tolon, Stéphane Dray, Anne Loison, Achim Zeileis, Claude Fischer, Eric Baubet

Canadian Journal of Zoology . 87 : 1129-1137

DOI: 10.1139/Z09-101

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Age-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots, Marmota marmota.

Aurélie Cohas, Christophe Bonenfant, Bart Kempenaers, Dominique Allainé

Molecular Ecology . 18 ( 7 ) : 1491-503

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04116.x

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Age-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots Marmota marmota

A. Cohas, C. Bonenfant, B. Kempenaers, Dominique Allainé

Molecular Ecology . 18 : 1491-1503

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Factors affecting beech Fagus sylvatica bark stripping by red deer Cervus elaphus in a mixed forest

Christine Saint-Andrieux, Christophe Bonenfant, Carole Toïgo, Mathieu Basille, François Klein

Wildlife Biology . 15 ( 2 ) : 187-196

DOI: 10.2981/07-100

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