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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Hydrodynamics optimisation in butterfly swimming : position drag coefficient and performance
Journal of Biomechanics . 32 : 803-810
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see the publicationDynamics Of Transposable Elements Under The Selection Model
Genetical Research . 74 : 159-164
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see the publicationGrowth modelling in accordance with daily water temperature in European grayling (Thymallus thymallus L.)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences . 56 : 994-1000
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see the publicationBehavioral choices based on patch selection: a model using aggregation methods
Mathematical Biosciences . 157 : 189-216
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see the publicationGene size reduction in the bacterial aphid endosymbiont, Buchnera.
Molecular Biology and Evolution . 16 ( 12 ) : 1820-1822
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see the publicationMorphological evolution of the murine rodent Paraethomys in response to climatic variations (Mio-Pleistocene of North Africa)
Paleobiology . 25 : 369-382
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see the publicationStrategies of survival during extreme environmental perturbations: evolution of conodonts in response to the Kellwasser crisis (Upper Devonian)
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 146 : 19-32
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see the publicationThe use of conspecific reproductive success for breeding habitat selection in a non-colonial hole-nesting species the collared flycatcher
Journal of Animal Ecology . 68 : 1193-1206
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see the publicationPhenotypic plasticity of abdominal pigmentation in D. kikkawai : multiple interaction between a major gene sex abdomen segment and growth temperature
Genetica . 105 : 165-176
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see the publicationPhenotypic plasticity of body pigmentation in Drosophila: correlated variations between segments
Genetics Selection Evolution . 30 ( 2 ) : 181-194
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see the publicationTranscriptional Regulation and Function of hsr203J, an Hypersensitivity-Related Gene of Tobacco Activated in Response to Ralstonia solanacearum
Bacterial Wilt Disease . : 203-208
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see the publicationAt-risk individuals in Feline Immunodeficiency Virus epidemiology: Evidence from a multivariate approach in a natural population of domestic cats (Felis catus)
Epidemiology and Infection . 121 ( 1 ) : 227-236
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see the publicationRelation between the generation time and the lag time of bacterial growth kinetics
International Journal of Food Microbiology . 43 : 97-104
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see the publicationOviposition pattern of phytophagous insects: on the importance of host population heterogeneity.
Oecologia . 114 : 382-388
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see the publicationDynamics of a feline retrovirus (FeLV) in host populations with variable spatial structure
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 265 : 1097-1104
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see the publicationDesiccation and starvation tolerance of adults Drosophila : opposite latitudinal clines in natural populations of three different species
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 52 : 825-831
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see the publicationPopulation Dynamics Modelling in an Hierarchical Arborescent River Network: An Attempt with Salmo trutta
Acta Biotheoretica . 46 : 223-234
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see the publicationA density dependent model describing Salmo trutta population dynamics in an arborescent river network. Effects of dams and channelling
Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série III, Sciences de la vie . 321 : 979-990
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see the publicationSelection of fruits for oviposition by the chestnut weevil Curculio elephas
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata . 86 : 71-78
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see the publicationEpidemiology of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and structure of domestic cat populations
Journal of Wildlife Management . 62 : 978-988
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see the publicationRetroviruses and sexual size dimorphism in domestic cats (Felis catus L.)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 265 : 167-173
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see the publicationLight body pigmentation in Indian D. melanogaster : a likely adaptation to a hot and arid climate
Journal of Genetics . 77 : 13-20
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see the publicationDescribing the evolution of reaction norm shape : body pigmentation in Drosophila
Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution . 52 : 1501-1506
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see the publicationPhenotypic plasticity of body pigmentation in Drosophila : correlated variations between segments
Genetics Selection Evolution . 30 : 181-194
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see the publicationPhenotypic plasticity and developmental temperature in Drosophila : analysis and significance of reaction norms of morphometrical traits
Journal of Thermal Biology . 22 : 441-451
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see the publicationGenetic variability of quantitative traits in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) natural populations: analysis of wild-living flies and of several laboratory generations
Heredity . 80 : 326-335
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see the publicationCold stress tolerance in Drosophila : analysis of chill coma recovery in D. melanogaster
Journal of Thermal Biology . 5 : 291-299
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see the publicationIdentification of soil factors that relate to the structure of the plant parasitic nematode community
Applied Soil Ecology . 8 : 35-49
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see the publicationEcology of larval mosquitoes with special reference to Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culcidae) in market-garden wells in urban Dakar Senegal
Journal of Medical Entomology . 35 : 948-955
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see the publicationADE-4 Software: a tool for multivariate analysis and graphical display
Océanis : Série de documents océanographiques . 24 ( 4 ) : 393-416
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