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 1951 to 1980 publications on 2315 in total

Short-term effects of using verbal instructions and demonstration at the beginning of learning a complex skill in figure skating.

Marianne Haguenauer, P. Fargier, Pierre Legreneur, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, G. Cogerino, M. Begon...

Perceptual and Motor Skills . 100 : 179-191

2005

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Coupling principal component analysis and GIS to map deer habitats

N. Pettorelli, S. Dray, D. Maillard

Wildlife Biology . 11 : 363-370

2005

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La sarcosporidiose bovine

L. Zenner, Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, C. Chauve

Bulletin des G.T.V. . 32 : 27-32

2005

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Statut sanitaire des ongulés sauvages de montagne – relation avec le statut sanitaire des ongulés domestiques

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

Réunion de présentation des actions de recherche. Parc Naturel Régional du massif des Bauges .

2005

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Isofemale lines in Drosophila: an empirical approach to quantitative trait analysis in natural populations

J.R. David, Patricia Gibert, T. Legou, G. Petavy, P. Capy, B. Moreteau

Heredity . 94 : 3-12

2005

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Functional diversity of soil microbial community, rock phosphate dissolution and growth of Acacia seyal as influenced by grass-litter and soil-feeding termite nest structure amendments

R. Duponnois, M. Paugy, Jean Thioulouse, D. Masse, Michel Le Page

Geoderma . 124 : 349-361

2005

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MADE4: an R package for multivariate analysis of gene expression data

A.C. Culhane, J. Thioulouse, G. Perrière, D.G. Higgins

Bioinformatics . 21 : 2789-2790

2005

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Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): Implications for chromosomal evolution

Frederic Veyrunes, Janice Britton-Davidian, Terence Robinson, Elisabeth Calvet, Christiane Denys, Pascale C Chevret

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 36 ( 2 ) : 358-369

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.011

2005

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Systematics and evolution of the subfamily Gerbillinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae)

Pascale C Chevret, Gauthier Dobigny

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 35 ( 3 ) : 674-688

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.01.001

2005

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Etude de maladies abortives non réglementées chez les ongulés sauvages de montagne et les ruminants domestiques des Bauges (Pré-Alpes du Nord, France). 22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne

Elsa Jourdain, P Gibert, D Gauthier, E Fromont, J.-M Jullien, J Hars

22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne .

2004

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Ecotoxicologie aquatique et modélisation des effets biologiques. Rapport final

A. Pery, Laurent Lagadic, S. Charles, M. Servia, Jeanne Garric

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2004

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Food availability effect on population dynamics of the midge Chironomus riparius: a Leslie modeling approach

S. Charles, M. Ferreol, Arnaud Chaumot, A.R. Pery

Ecological Modelling . 175 ( 3 ) : 217-229

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.10.016

2004

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Les modèles matriciels de type Leslie : Une approche couplée Mathématiques et Statistiques

S. Charles-Bajard

incollection . -- : 377-392

2004

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Antibodies to Aleutian Mink Disease Parvovirus in free-ranging small carnivores from south-western France: implication for the conservation of the European mink (Mustela lutreola)

D. Pontier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Bent Aasted, Améli Perrot, Frank Sauvage, Marc Artois...

Journal of wildlife diseases . 40 : 394-402

DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-40.3.394

2004

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Is there geographical variation in human handedness?

M. Raymond, D. Pontier

Laterality . 9 : 35-52

2004

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Student athletes claim to have more sexual partners than other students

Charlotte Faurie, Dominique Pontier, Michel Raymond

Evolution and Human Behavior . 25 : 1-8

DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00064-3

2004

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An age-dependent model describing the spread of panleucopenia virus within feline populations.

W.E. Fitzgibbon, M. Langlais, J.J. Morgan, Dominique Pontier, C. Wolf

Banach Center Publications Polish Academy of Science . 63 : 197-207

2004

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Simultaneous analysis of a sequence of paired ecological tables with the STATICO method

J. Thioulouse, Monique Simier, D. Chessel

Ecology . 85 : 272-283

2004

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Mathématiques et Informatique du Vivant " : une formation interdisciplinaire qui voit le jour grâce au LMD

Sandrine Charles

21ème congrès de l'AIPU (Association internationale de pédagogie universitaire) . : 1820-1822

2004

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Simple table for estimating confidence interval of discrepancy frequencies in microbiological safety evaluation

B. Lamy, Marie Laure Delignette-Muller, F. Baty, G. Carret

Journal of Microbiological Methods . 56 : 137-139

2004

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Life history traits and genome structure: aerobiosis and G+C content in bacteria

J.R. Lobry

Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 3039 : 679-686

2004

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The effects of hurricane Lothar on habitat use of roe deer

Olivier Wildmer, Sonia Said, Jeremy Miroir, Patrick Duncan, Jean-Michel Gaillard, François Klein

Forest Ecology and Management . 195 : 237-242

DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.02.021

2004

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Dynamics of production of sexual forms in Aphids: theoretical and experimental evidence for adaptive "Coin-flipping" plasticity

F. Halkett, R. Harrington, M. Hulle, P. Kindlmann, F. Menu, C. Rispe...

The American Naturalist . 163 : E112-E125

2004

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Molecular and behavioural analyses reveal male-biased dispersal between social groups of domestic cats

S. Devillard, L. Say, D. Pontier

Ecoscience . 11 : 175-180

2004

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Effective size of two feral domestic cat populations (Felis catus L.): effect of the mating system

Renaud Kaeuffer, Dominique Pontier, Sébastien Devillard, Nicolas Perrin

Molecular Ecology . 13 ( 2 ) : 483-490

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.02046.x

2004

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Morphological variation of Palmatolepis Devonian conodonts: species versus genus

Christian Girard, Sabrina Renaud, A. Sérayet

General Paleontology . 3 : 1-8

2004

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Coccolith size increase of Calcidiscus leptoporus offshore Morocco during the Last Glacial Maximum: an expression of enhanced glacial productivity ?

J. Henderiks, Sabrina Renaud

J. Nannoplankton Res. . 26 : 1-12

2004

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Size distribution of Holocene planktic foraminifer assemblages: biogeography ecology and adaptation

D.N. Schmidt, Sabrina Renaud, J. Bollmann, R. Schiebel, H.R. Thierstein

Marine Micropaleontology . 50 : 319-338

2004

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Availability and use of public information and conspecific density for settlement decisions in the collared flycatcher

Blandine Doligez, T. Pärt, E. Danchin, Jean Clobert, L. Gustafsson

Journal of Animal Ecology . 73 : 75-87

2004

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The ade4 package - I : One-table methods

D. Chessel, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, J. Thioulouse

R News . 4 : 5-10

2004

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Publications

Short-term effects of using verbal instructions and demonstration at the beginning of learning a complex skill in figure skating.

Coupling principal component analysis and GIS to map deer habitats

La sarcosporidiose bovine

Statut sanitaire des ongulés sauvages de montagne – relation avec le statut sanitaire des ongulés domestiques

Isofemale lines in Drosophila: an empirical approach to quantitative trait analysis in natural populations

Functional diversity of soil microbial community, rock phosphate dissolution and growth of Acacia seyal as influenced by grass-litter and soil-feeding termite nest structure amendments

MADE4: an R package for multivariate analysis of gene expression data

Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): Implications for chromosomal evolution

Systematics and evolution of the subfamily Gerbillinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae)

Etude de maladies abortives non réglementées chez les ongulés sauvages de montagne et les ruminants domestiques des Bauges (Pré-Alpes du Nord, France). 22èmes Rencontres du Groupe d’Étude sur l’Écopathologie de la Faune Sauvage de Montagne

Ecotoxicologie aquatique et modélisation des effets biologiques. Rapport final

Food availability effect on population dynamics of the midge Chironomus riparius: a Leslie modeling approach

Les modèles matriciels de type Leslie : Une approche couplée Mathématiques et Statistiques

Antibodies to Aleutian Mink Disease Parvovirus in free-ranging small carnivores from south-western France: implication for the conservation of the European mink (Mustela lutreola)

Is there geographical variation in human handedness?

Student athletes claim to have more sexual partners than other students

An age-dependent model describing the spread of panleucopenia virus within feline populations.

Simultaneous analysis of a sequence of paired ecological tables with the STATICO method

Mathématiques et Informatique du Vivant " : une formation interdisciplinaire qui voit le jour grâce au LMD

Simple table for estimating confidence interval of discrepancy frequencies in microbiological safety evaluation

Life history traits and genome structure: aerobiosis and G+C content in bacteria

The effects of hurricane Lothar on habitat use of roe deer

Dynamics of production of sexual forms in Aphids: theoretical and experimental evidence for adaptive "Coin-flipping" plasticity

Molecular and behavioural analyses reveal male-biased dispersal between social groups of domestic cats

Effective size of two feral domestic cat populations (Felis catus L.): effect of the mating system

Morphological variation of Palmatolepis Devonian conodonts: species versus genus

Coccolith size increase of Calcidiscus leptoporus offshore Morocco during the Last Glacial Maximum: an expression of enhanced glacial productivity ?

Size distribution of Holocene planktic foraminifer assemblages: biogeography ecology and adaptation

Availability and use of public information and conspecific density for settlement decisions in the collared flycatcher

The ade4 package - I : One-table methods

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