Evolutionary Ecology
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 1651 to 1680 publications on 2452 in total
Poser un diagnostic sur les résultats d'une régression linéaire simple : points aberrants points extrêmes et points influents
Biométrie Humaine et Anthropologie - revue de la Société de biométrie humaine . 28(3-4) : 95-103
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see the publicationadephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits
Bioinformatics . 26 ( 15 ) : 1907-1909
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see the publicationThe exploratory analysis of autocorrelation in animal-movement studies
Ecological Research . 25 ( 3 ) : 673-681
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see the publicationDynamics of an introduced population of mouflon Ovis aries on the sub-Antarctic archipelago of Kerguelen
Ecography . 33 ( 3 ) : 435–442
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see the publicationAre abundance indices derived from spotlight counts reliable to monitor red deer Cervus elaphus populations?
Wildlife Biology . 16 ( 1 ) : 77-84
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see the publicationAnalyse de distributions sérologiques sans seuil de positivité: persistance des maladies abortives chez le chamois
Réunion annuelle du groupe « Tiques et Maladies Transmises » du « Réseau Ecologie Interactions Durable » (REID) . : 12 slides
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see the publicationMolecular an biological characteristics of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from wildlife in France
Veterinary Parasitology . 171 ( 3-4 ) : 346-349
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see the publicationLocal meteorological conditions, dynamics of seroconversion to Toxoplasma gondii in cats ( Felis catus) and oocyst burden in a rural environment.
Epidemiology and Infection . 138 : 1105-1113
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see the publicationEpidemiological survey of trichinellosis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) and fox (Vulpes vulpes) in a French insular region, Corsica
Veterinary Parasitology . 172 ( 1-2 ) : 150-154
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see the publicationLes membres du réseau ToxoBS, Structuration géographique de la population de Toxoplasma gondii à l'origine de toxoplasmose congénitale en France métropolitaine.
Club Toxo 2010 .
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see the publicationOn the evolutionary consequences of a Trivers-Willard effect in humans: Further analysis of Dr S. Kanazawa’s paper on ‘beautiful parents`
Journal of Theoretical Biology . 264 : 1296-1298
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see the publicationDiscriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations
BMC Genetics . 11 ( 94 ) : 1-15
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see the publicationLocal adaptation and evolution of parasitoid interactions in an invasive species, Drosophila subobscura
Evolutionary Ecology Research . 12 : 873-883
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see the publicationCapture-recapture models with heterogeneity to study survival senescence in the wild
Oikos . 119 ( 3 ) : 524 - 532
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see the publicationThe home-range concept: are traditonal estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 365 : 2221-2231
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see the publicationGenes regulated in early embryogenesis during the switch from parthenogenetic to sexual reproduction in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
4. Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium on “Arthropod Genomics: New Approaches and Outcomes” .
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see the publicationStructuration géographique de la population de Toxoplasma gondii à l'origine de toxoplasmose congénitale en France métropolitaine.
Club Toxo .
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see the publicationCapture-recapture models with heterogeneity to study survival senescence in the wild
Oikos .
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see the publicationEvaluating variability and uncertainty separately in microbial quantitative risk assessment using two R packages
International Journal of Food Microbiology . 142 : 330-340
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see the publicationÉvolution des interactions entre espèces
Biologie évolutive . : 533-616
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see the publicationImportance of Accounting for Detection Heterogeneity When Estimating Abundance: the Case of French Wolves
Conservation Biology . 24 ( 2 ) : 621-626
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see the publicationHabitat use by female western roe deer (Capreolus capreolus): influence of resource availability on habitat selection in two contrasting years
Canadian Journal of Zoology . 88 ( 11 ) : 1052-1062
DOI: 10.1139/Z10-070
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see the publicationTesting Reliability of Body Size Measurements Using Hind Foot Length in Roe Deer
Journal of Wildlife Management . 74 ( 6 ) : 1382-1386
DOI: 10.2193/2009-264
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see the publicationÉvolution des traits d'histoire de vie
Biologie évolutive . : 339-386
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see the publicationAge at the onset of senescence in birds and mammals is predicted by early-life performance
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 ( 1695 ) : 2849-2856
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see the publicationAdaptive Developmental Delay in Chagas Disease Vectors: An Evolutionary Ecology Approach
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 4 ( 5 ) : e691
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see the publicationA novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 277 ( 1684 ) : 1049-1056
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see the publicationSeasonal variation in molar outline of bank voles: An effect of wear?
Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 75 : 311-319
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see the publicationMitochondrial and chromosomal insights into karyotypic evolution of the pygmy mouse, \textitMus minutoides, in South Africa
Chromosome research . 18 : 563-574
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see the publicationMandible morphology, dental microwear, and diet of the extinct giant rats Canariomys (Rodentia: Murinae) of the Canary Islands (Spain).
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 101 ( 1 ) : 28-40
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