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
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Is there geographical variation in human handedness?
Laterality . 9 : 35-52
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see the publicationStudent athletes claim to have more sexual partners than other students
Evolution and Human Behavior . 25 : 1-8
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see the publicationAn age-dependent model describing the spread of panleucopenia virus within feline populations.
Banach Center Publications Polish Academy of Science . 63 : 197-207
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see the publicationSimultaneous analysis of a sequence of paired ecological tables with the STATICO method
Ecology . 85 : 272-283
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see the publicationMathématiques et Informatique du Vivant " : une formation interdisciplinaire qui voit le jour grâce au LMD
21ème congrès de l'AIPU (Association internationale de pédagogie universitaire) . : 1820-1822
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see the publicationSimple table for estimating confidence interval of discrepancy frequencies in microbiological safety evaluation
Journal of Microbiological Methods . 56 : 137-139
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see the publicationLife history traits and genome structure: aerobiosis and G+C content in bacteria
Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 3039 : 679-686
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see the publicationThe effects of hurricane Lothar on habitat use of roe deer
Forest Ecology and Management . 195 : 237-242
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see the publicationDynamics of production of sexual forms in Aphids: theoretical and experimental evidence for adaptive "Coin-flipping" plasticity
The American Naturalist . 163 : E112-E125
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see the publicationMolecular and behavioural analyses reveal male-biased dispersal between social groups of domestic cats
Ecoscience . 11 : 175-180
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see the publicationEffective size of two feral domestic cat populations (Felis catus L.): effect of the mating system
Molecular Ecology . 13 ( 2 ) : 483-490
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see the publicationMorphological variation of Palmatolepis Devonian conodonts: species versus genus
General Paleontology . 3 : 1-8
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see the publicationCoccolith size increase of Calcidiscus leptoporus offshore Morocco during the Last Glacial Maximum: an expression of enhanced glacial productivity ?
J. Nannoplankton Res. . 26 : 1-12
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see the publicationSize distribution of Holocene planktic foraminifer assemblages: biogeography ecology and adaptation
Marine Micropaleontology . 50 : 319-338
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see the publicationAvailability and use of public information and conspecific density for settlement decisions in the collared flycatcher
Journal of Animal Ecology . 73 : 75-87
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see the publicationOsservazioni etologiche per determinare il temperamento di cani residenti nel pubblico canile e ospedale veterinario
Il Progresso Veterinario . 11 : 412-414
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see the publicationMultiple causes of sexual segregation in European red deer : enlightenments from varying breeding phenology at high and low latitude.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 271 : 883-892
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see the publicationRôle des contraintes évolutives dépendantes du sexe en biologie des populations
incollection . -- : 1369-1379
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see the publicationVariation in harem size of red deer (Cervus elaphus) : the effects of adult sex ratio and age structure.
Journal of Zoology . 264 : 1-9
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see the publicationCoexistence de la reproduction sexuée et asexuée chez l'hyménoptère parasitoïde Venturia canescens : Aspects comportementaux et écologiques
incollection . -- : 409-418
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see the publicationComparative analysis of morphological traits among Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans: genetic variability clines and phenotypic plasticity
Genetica . 120 : 165-179
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see the publicationSpecific effects-of cycling stressful temperatures upon phenotypic and genetic variability of size traits in Drosophila melanogaster
Evolutionary Ecology Research . 6 : 873-890
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see the publicationHow does susceptibility prevalence impact on the performance of disk diffusion susceptibility testing?
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease . 49 : 131-139
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see the publicationEstimating the bacterial lag time: which model which precision ?
International Journal of Food Microbiology . 91 : 261-277
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see the publicationForcing reversibility in the no strand-bias substitution model allows for the theoretical and practical identifiability of its 5 parameters from pairwise DNA sequence comparisons
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see the publicationWhat limits the Serengeti zebra population?
Oecologia . 140 : 523-532
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see the publicationPredation risk and longevity influence variation in fitness of female roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 271 : 338-340
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see the publicationDynamics of Production of Sexual Forms in Aphids: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence for Adaptive “Coin‐Flipping” Plasticity
The American Naturalist . 163 ( 6 ) : E112-E125
DOI: 10.1086/383618
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