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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Prolonged diapause: A trait increasing invasion speed ?

T. Mahdjoub, F. Menu

Journal of Theoretical Biology . 251 : 317-330

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Stochastic extinction and the selection of the transmission mode in microparasites.

Narges Bahi-Jaber, David Fouchet, Dominique Pontier

Journal of the Royal Society Interface . 5 ( 26 ) : 1031-9

DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1326

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Impact of myxomatosis in relation to local persistence in wild rabbit populations: the role of waning immunity and the reproductive period

David Fouchet, J-S. Guitton, S. Marchandeau, D. Pontier

Journal of Theoretical Biology . 250 ( 4 ) : 593-605

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Visiting Sick People: Is It Really Detrimental to Our Health?

D. Fouchet, J. O'Brien, D. Pontier

PLoS ONE . 3 : 81-89

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Revealing cryptic spatial patterns in genetic variability by a new multivariate method

T. Jombart, S. Devillard, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, D. Pontier

Heredity . 101 : 92-103

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The morphology of islets of Langerhans is only mildly affected by the lack of Pdx-1 in the pancreas of adult Meriones jirds

Cr. Gustavsen, Pascale Chevret, B. Krasnov, G. Mowlavi, Od. Madsen, Rs. Heller

General and Comparative Endocrinology . 159 : 241-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.08.017

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Disentangling allometry and response to Kellwasser anoxic envents in the Late Devonian conodont genus Ancyrodella

Christian Girard, Sabrina Renaud

Lethaia . 40 : 383-394

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Choosing where to breed - Breeding habitat choice

T. Boulinier, M. Mariette, Blandine Doligez, E. Danchin

incollection . -- : 285-322

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Estimating fitness consequences of dispersal:a road to know-where? Non-random dispersal and the underestimation of dispersers fitness

Blandine Doligez, T. Pärt

Journal of Animal Ecology . 77 : 1199-1211

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Spatial ordination of vegetation data using a generalization of Wartenberg's multivariate spatial correlation

S. Dray, S. Saïd, F. Débias

Journal of Vegetation Science . 19 : 45-56

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Assessing phylogenetic dependence of morphological traits using co-inertia prior to investigate character evolution in Loricariinae catfishes

R. Covain, S. Dray, S. Fisch-Muller, J.I. Montoya-Burgos

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 46 : 986-1002

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Analyzing or explaining beta diversity ? comment

R. Pelissier, P. Couteron, S. Dray

Ecology . 89 : 3227-3232

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Testing the species traits-environment relationships : the fourth-corner problem revisited

S. Dray, P. Legendre

Ecology . 89 : 3400-3412

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The genetic similarity between pair members influences the frequency of extrapair paternity in alpine marmots

Aurélie Cohas, N.G. Yoccoz, C. Bonenfant, B. Goossens, C. Genton, M. Galan...

Animal Behaviour . 76 : 87-95

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Vertebrate Ageing: An Evolutionary Process with a Genetic Basis?

J.-M. Gaillard, C. Bonenfant

Current Biology . 18 : R130-R131

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Spatial distribution of soil contamination by Toxoplasma gondii in relation to cat defecation behaviour in an urban area.

Eve Afonso, Mélissa Lemoine, Marie-Lazarine Poulle, Marie-Caroline Ravat, Stéphane Romand, Philippe Thulliez...

International Journal for Parasitology . 38 ( 8-9 ) : 1017-23

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.01.004

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Toxoplasmosis in corsican wild boar : a first epidemiological study

Céline Richomme, Eve Afonso, Vincent Tolon, Lénaig Halos, Annie Alliot, Catherine Perret...

10. European Multicolloquium of Parasitology . : 1 p.

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Antibodies against Salmonella is associated with reduced reproductive success in female alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)

Maryline Pioz, Anne Loison, Philippe Gibert, Jean-Michel Jullien, Marc Artois, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont

Canadian Journal of Zoology . 86 ( 10 ) : 1111-1120

DOI: 10.1139/Z08-089

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Heterozygosity and parasite intensity: lung parasites in the water frog hybridization complex

Pierre Joly, Vanessa Guesdon, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Sandrine Plénet, Odile Grolet, Jean-François Guégan...

Parasitology . 135 ( 1 ) : 95-104

DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003599

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Home range of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in three contrasting French populations

S. Devillard, J. Aubineau, F. Berger, Y. Léonard, A. Roobrouck, S. Marchandeau

Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde . 73 : 128-137

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Microbial-biogeography of France by the use of molecular tools applied to the French soil quality monitoring network (RMQS)

Lionel Ranjard, Samuel S. Dequiedt, Mélanie M. Lelievre, Claudy C. Jolivet, Nicolas N. Saby, Manuel M. Martin...

Eurosoil 2008 Book of Abstracts . : 59-60

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Bacterial taxa associated with the hematophagous mite Dermanyssus gallinae detected by 16S rRNA PCR amplification and TTGE fingerprinting

Claire Valiente Moro, Jean Thioulouse, Claude Chauve, Philippe Normand, Lionel Zenner

Research in Microbiology . 160 ( 1 ) : 63-70

DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.10.006

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Disentangling allometry and response to Kellwasser anoxic events in the Late Devonian conodont genus Ancyrodella

Catherine Girard, Sabrina Renaud

Lethaia . 41 ( 4 ) : 383-394

DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00095.x

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The record of climate-driven morphological changes in 376 Ma old Devonian fossils.

Vincent Balter, S. Renaud, Christian Girard, M. Joachimski

Geology . 36 : 907-910

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A bayesian approach to analyse ecotoxicological data

Elise Billoir, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, Alexandre R.R. Pery, Sandrine Charles

Environmental Science and Technology . 42 ( 23 ) : 8978-8984

DOI: 10.1021/es801418x

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Estimating parameters of neutral communities: from one single large to several small samples

François Munoz, Pierre Couteron, B. R. Ramesh, R. S. Etienne

Ecology . 88 ( 10 ) : 2482–2488

DOI: 10.1890/07-0049.1

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Les conceptions d'enseignants du primaire et du secondaire sur le déterminisme biologique de la personnalité humaine dans 12 pays d’Europe, d'Afrique et du Moyen Orient.

Jérémy Castéra, François Munoz, Pierre Clement

Congrès international AREF 2007 (Actualité de la Recherche en Education et en Formation) .

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Dynamic energy budget as a basis to model population-level effects of zinc-spiked sediments in the gastropod valvata piscinalis

Virginie Ducrot, A. Pery, R. Mons, H. Quéau, S. Charles, Jeanne Garric

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry . 26 ( 8 ) : 1774-1783

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Integrating the lethal and sublethal effects of toxic compounds into the population dynamics of Daphnia magna: A combination of the DEBtox and matrix population models

Elise Billoir, A. Pery, S. Charles

Ecological Modelling . 203 ( 3-4 ) : 204-214

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.021

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Stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity in population dynamics: implications for ecotoxicological risk assessment

Arnaud Chaumot, Elise Billoir, S. Charles

SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, Portugal, PRT, 20-24 May 2007 . : 1

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