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 1861 to 1890 publications on 2289 in total
Transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in an urban population of domestic cats (Felis catus)
International Journal for Parasitology . 36 : 1373-1382
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see the publicationContact rates and exposure to inter-species disease transmission in mountain ungulates.
Epidemiology and Infection . 134 : 21-30
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see the publicationLe Pestivirus de l’isard (Rupicapra pyrenaica) dans la Réserve Nationale de Chasse et de Faune Sauvage d’Orlu : état actuel des connaissances
Congrès annuel du Groupe d’Etudes sur l’Ecopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne .
Conference paper
see the publicationLavandula species as accompanying plants in Cupressus replanting strategies : Effect on plant growth mycorrhizal soil infectivity and soil microbial catabolic diversity
Applied Soil Ecology . -- : 190-199
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see the publicationIdentification of Genomic Species in Agrobacterium Biovar 1 by AFLP Genomic Markers
Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 72 ( 11 ) : 7123-7131
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00018-06
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see the publicationFluorescent pseudomonads occuring in Macrotermes subhyalinus mound structures decrease Cd toxicity and improve its accumulation in sorghum plants
Science of the Total Environment . 370 : 391-400
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see the publicationHind foot length: an indicator for monitoring roe deer populations at a landscape scale
Wildlife Society Bulletin . 34 ( 2 ) : 351-358
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see the publicationLes effets de la canicule de l'été 2003 sur le chevreuil. Suivi à Chizé
Faune Sauvage . 273 : 15-19
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see the publicationSerological and molecular ecology of Listeria monocytogenes isolates collected from 13 French pork meat salting–curing plants and their products
International Journal of Food Microbiology . 112 ( 2 ) : 153-161
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see the publicationPotential of a 16S rRNA-Based Taxonomic Microarray for Analyzing the Rhizosphere Effects of Maize on Agrobacterium spp. and Bacterial Communities
Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 72 ( 6 ) : 4302-4312
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02686-05
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see the publicationLavendula species as accompanying plants in Cupressus replanting strategies: Effect on plant growth, mycorrhizal soil infectivity and soil microbial catabolic diversity
Applied Soil Ecology . 34 ( 2-3 ) : 190-199
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see the publicationPerformances de reproduction aux inséminations de rangs 1 et 2 dans les troupeaux Prim'Holstein
12. Rencontres autour des Recherches sur les Ruminants (3R) . 12
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see the publicationInséminations de rang 1 ou 2 dans les troupeaux Prim’Holstein : mêmes résultats ?
5e Journée Bovine Nantaise .
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see the publicationEcotoxicology and population dynamics: Using DEBtox models in a Leslie modeling approach
Ecological Modelling . 188 ( 1 ) : 30-40
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see the publicationEcotoxicology and population dynamics: on the use of DEBtox models in a Leslie modelling approach
Ecological Modelling . 188 : 30-40
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see the publicationHow predator food preference can change the destinity of native prey in predator-prey systems
Biological Invasions . 7 : 795-806
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see the publicationMeasuring diversity from dissimilarities with Rao`s quadratic entropy: are any dissimilarity indices suitable?
Theoretical Population Biology . 67 : 231-239
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see the publicationInvading introduced species in insular heterogeneous environments
Ecological Modelling . 188 : 62-75
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see the publicationInterêts des modéles detérministes et stochastiques en épidémiologie des maladies infectieuses : exemple du Hantavirus Puumala
Epidémiologie et Santé Animale . 47 : 63-82
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see the publicationModelling the abundance of mosquito vectors versus flooding dynamics
Ecological Modelling . 183 ( 2-3 ) : 173-181
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see the publicationRelationships between plant-parasitic nematode community fallow duration and soil factors in the Sudano-Sahelian area of Senegal
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment . 108 : 302-317
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see the publicationThe mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices and rock phosphate amendment influence plant growth and microbial activity in the rhizosphere of Acacia holosericea
Soil Biology and Biochemistry . 37 : 1460-1468
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see the publicationSoil bacterial diversity responses to root colonization by an ectomycorrhizal fungus are not root-growth dependent
Microbial ecology . 50 : 350-359
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see the publicationThe Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Structured Populations
Genetics . 169 : 467-474
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see the publicationSpider webs designed for rare but life-saving catches
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 272 : 1587-1592
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see the publicationFate of Listeria monocytogenes in experimentally contaminated French sausages
International Journal of Food Microbiology . 101 : 189-200
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see the publicationHost and food searching in a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens: a trade-off between current and future reproduction?
Animal Behaviour . 70 : 145-152
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see the publicationDensity-dependent cohort body mass in two contrasting roe deer populations.
7th European Roe deer Meeting . : 1 p.
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see the publicationThe response of fawn survival to changes in habitat quality varies according to cohort quality and spatial scale
Journal of Animal Ecology . 74 : 972-981
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see the publicationEffect of observer experience on the monitoring of a mouflon population
Acta Theriologica . 50 ( 1 ) : 109-114
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