• Anne Charmantier

    2019 03 23.Arinelle 57 AnnebleueDirectrice de recherche (DR1)

    CEFE/CNRS
    Campus du CNRS
    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier 5

    E-mail : anne.charmantier[at]cefe.cnrs.fr

    Thèmes de recherche: Evolution et génétique quantitative dans les populations naturelles; sénescence; sélection sexuelle.

  • Arnaud Grégoire

    Maître de Conférences à l'Université de MontpellierArnaud GREGOIRE
    Faculté des Sciences, département d'enseignement Biologie Ecologie

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    CEFE/CNRS
    Campus du CNRS
    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5
    Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 32 58
    Fax : +33/0 4 67 61 33 36

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    Mots clés

    Discipline :Ecologie

    Thématiques : Ecologie évolutive et comportementale, Interactions durables
    Organismes biologiques : Oiseaux, Arthropodes
    Milieu : Terrestre, Marin
    Techniques : Analyse de données, Expérimentation et suivis sur le terrain, Analyses au laboratoire (immunologie), Capture-Marquage-Recapture, Spectrophotométrie
    Autres mots clés : Ecologie Urbaine, Sélection sexuelle, Interactions hôte-parasite, Effets maternels,


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  • Aurélie CELERIER

     

    Maître de Conférences à l'Université Montpellier

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    CEFE/CNRS

    Campus du CNRS

    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5

    Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 33 17

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  • Aurélie COULON

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    Associate Professor in spatial ecology at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle                                                                                                                                                        

    My research focuses on movement ecology: I study the factors influencing animal movements (especially dispersal) and gene flow, with a particular emphasis on landscape composition and structure. I also study how human-triggered landscape modifications like fragmentation affect animal movements; and the consequences on population functioning and structure. My research is hence tightly linked to the management/conservation of populations, and to landscape management (e.g. connectivity restoration, french Trame Verte et Bleue policy).

  • Claire Doutrelant

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    Tenure CNRS research scientist (DR)

    CEFE CNRS 1919 Rte de Mende, 34293 Montpellier

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    My research is centered in the theoretical framework of evolutionary ecology, population biology and behavioural ecology. My projects aim at understanding life history variation in order to determine the adaptive and evolutionary processes that explain and maintain animal diversity. I´m particularly interested by three kinds of life history traits linked to behavior: cooperation, animal communication and maternal invesment. I'm mainly using birds as biological models. I'm mainly using empirical methods, including large-scale experiments and analyses of long-term data sets on different populations of passerine birds in the field.

    I'm currently working on four main projects. 1) Evolution of colour ormentation in birds(with a special focus on female coloration and blue tits) 2) the cause and life history traits consequences of cooperation in sociable weavers ; 3) Sexual and social evolution on islands, and 4) the evolution of weaver nests. I'm also part of  the art-science project Obô.

    1 - Evolution of ornementation in birds

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     Photos: Claire Doutrelant

    Team: Arnaud GREGOIRE(Lecturer, Univ Montpellier), Amélie FARGEVIEILLE (post Doc), David LóPEZ-IDIáQUEZ (Post doc), Lisa SANDMEYER (PhD Student)

    Collaborations: Anne CHARMANTIER(CEFE),  Denis REALE(UQUAM, Canada), Céline TEPLITSKY(CEFE), Doris GOMEZ(CEFE),   Julien RENOULT (CEFE),  RIta COVAS(CIBIO Portugal, FizPatrick Institute SA); Maria DEL REY (spectrophotometric measurements), Christophe de FRANCESCHI(field work and data base management), Samuel PERRET(Field work and Patch measurements), Annick LUCAS(Field work and Patch measurements), Pablo GIOVANNINI(Field work)

    * Evolution of female colour ornementation

    In this project we use a combination of empirical and comparative approaches to address three fundamental questions on sexual and social selection in both monomorphic species and dimorphic species in which females present conspicuous traits. Our questions are the following (i) Are female conspicuous traits under sexual /social selection ? (ii) Do female conspicuous traits reflect female quality and which mechanisms maintain signal honesty? (iii) What are the population consequences of female signalling and mutual sexual selection.

    Examples of publications (full list below)

    Fargevieille, A., Grégoire, A., Gomez, D. & Doutrelant, C. 2023Evolution of female color in birds: the role of paternal care and female reproductive costs.Journal of evolutionary ecology. 36(3), 579-588

    Doutrelant, C., Fargevieille, A., Grégoire, A.  2020.Evolution of female coloration: what have we learned from birds in general and blue tits in particular. Adv. Study in Behaviour PDF

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     * Evolution of plumage ornement in space and time

    Selection often varies in space and time and long-term research that spans broad spatial scales is needed to understand the factors driving phenotypic variation and to assess the links between traits and fitness.  To assess the importance of spatiotemporal variation  and its consequences on selection estimates, we collected data on two study systems: (i) the blue tit (yellow and UV-blue colorationsmeasured by spectrophotometry since 2005, 600 birds measured each year); (ii) the  size of the sociable weaver melanin patch  since 2010 (the bib patch is photographied each year on 400 individuals)

    Examples of publications (full list below)

     Lopez-Idiaquez, D.; Teplitsky, C.; Grégoire, A.; Fargevieille, F.; del Rey, M.; de Franceschi, C.; Charmantier, A.; Doutrelant, C. 2022. Long-term decrease in colouration: a consequence of climate change? American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.1086/719655   

    Fargevieille, A., Grégoire, A., Charmantier, A., Rey Granado, M., Doutrelant, C. 2017. Assortative mating by colored ornaments in blue tits: space and time matter Ecology Evolution.7 2069-2078  PDF

     Acker, P., Grégoire, A..,Rat, M., Spottiswoode C. N.,van Dijk, R. E., Paquet,M., Kaden, J.C., Pradel R. , Hatchwell,B. J. , Covas, R.*, Doutrelant,C.* 2015. Disruptive viability selection on a black plumage trait associated with dominance Jounal of Evolutionary Biology28: 2027-2041 PDF

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    Dominance interaction -  Photo Franck Théron

     

    2 -Evolution and consequences of cooperation

     *TEAM: Co Pi: Rita COVAS(http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/staff/research/covas; CIBIO, Portugal), André FERREIRA (Univ. Zurich), Franck THERON (data base managmer and field), Liliana SILVA (video manager and machine Learning methods) Jorge Garcia Campa (Post doc),  Gabriel Munar(Postdoc), Babette FOURIE (PhD Student), Nicolas  SILVA(PhD Student), Marta MARMELO (PhD Student); , Fanny RYBAK(Univ Orsay, FR),

    *Collaboration:  Matthieu PAQUET(Swenden), Bruno FAIVRE(Univ. Dijon, FR), François CRISCUOLO& Sandrine ZAHN(Univ Strasbourg, FR),  Julien Renoult(CEFE, FR)

               Website: https://sociableweaverproject.com/

    The project aims at understanding the fitness bases of cooperation and the consequences of cooperation for population dynamics through its effects on reproductive output, survival and dispersal. Our study model is an endemic passerine bird from southern African passerine. This bird is a cooperative breeder. In cooperatively breeding species, mature individuals called ‘helpers’ assist the breeding pairs by bringing additional food to the nest. We work on the evolution of different cooperative behaviours – cooperative breeding, nest building and predator mobbing and on the relationship between cooperation, fitness, dispersal and long-term population dynamics.

    Currently our project has two main aims: (i) determining whether sexual or social selection play a role in the evolution of cooperation and thus the role of partner choice ; (ii) determining  how presence / absence of co-operators affects maternal effects and parental investments

    This project is suppported by the PercyFizpatric Institute of the University of Cape Town & the INEE - CNRS: Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution (SEE-Life)

    http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/research/programmes/longterm/sociableweaver

    Examples of publications (full list below)

    D'Amelio, P.; Ferreira, A.; Fortuna, R.; Paquet, M.; Silva, L. ; Theron, F.; Doutrelant, C.; Covas, R. 2022. Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid-region cooperative bird Ecology Letter25(1), 151-162

    Covas, R., Lardy, S.; Silva, L.; Rey, B.; Ferreira, A. C.; Théron, F.; Tognetti, A.; Faivre, B. Doutrelant, C. 2022.The oxidative cost of helping and its minimisation in a cooperative breeder Behavioural Ecology33(3), 504-517

    Fortuna, R. Paquet, M., Ferreira, A.C; Silva, L Theron, F & Doutrelant, C & Covas, R 2021 Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird Journal of Animal ecology 90, 1122-1133.

    Ferreira, A., Silva, L., Renna, F., Brandl, H. B., Renoult, J., Farine, D., Covas, R. & Doutelant, C.  2020 Deep learning based methods for individual recognition in small birds. Method in Ecol Evol PDF

    Covas, R. & Doutrelant, C.* 2019. Testing the sexual and social benefits of cooperation in animals. Trends Ecol Evol In press. *Both authors contributed equally to the manuscript PDF

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      3- Evolution on islands

    TEAM:  Rita Covas (CIBIO, Portugal), FitzPatrick Institute, Univ Cape Town), Martim Melo(CIBIO),  Claire Loiseau ( Univ Montpellier), Ana Leitao (Post doc ); Raquel Ponti (Post doc)

                 Website: https://islandbirdproject.com/

    Islands are unique ecosystems sharing a distinctive set of characteristics that make them particularly interesting to study adaptation by organisms. The isolation and reduced area of islands result in simplified ecological ecosystems and an impoverished fauna that are expected to lead to convergent patterns of adaptation (the ‘insularity syndrome’). Our aim is to establish, using comparative work , whether island birds worldwide display such convergent shift for ornamentation, songs, behaviour and morphology. Then we aim at determining which factors lead to those changes and are particularly interested by the role of parasitism and interspecific competition. We worked on data collected in natural history museum and in the field (Sao Tome, Madeira, Gabon, Cameroun).

    Examples of publications (full list below)

    Ponti, R., Doutrelant, C., & Covas, R. (2023). Strength of the ‘island rule’in birds is positively associated with absence of avian predators.Biology Letters, 19(3), 20220536

    Barthe, M., Doutrelant, C., Covas, R., Melo, M., Illera, J. C., Tilak, M. K.,... & Nabholz, B. (2022). Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome. Peer Community Journal, 2.

    Robert, A., Melo, M., Lengagne, T.,. Julien, S..& Doutrelant, C. 2021Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology34(10), 1580-1591

    Bliard, L., Robert, A. Paquet, M, Renoult, J., Grégoire, A., Crochet, P.A. Covas, R & Doutrelant, C. 2020 Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird colouration on islands.  Biol Lett PDF

    Robert, A., Lengagne, T., Melo, M., Julien, S.., Gardette, V. Covas, R. & Doutrelant, C.2019. The Theory of Island Biogeography and Soundscapes: species diversity and the organization of acoustic communities. J. Biogeography PDF

    Doutrelant, C.,Paquet,Renoult, J. M. Grégoire, A., Crochet, P.A. Covas, R. 2016 Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands. Ecology Letter  19: 537–545 PDF

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     4 - Weaver nest as an extended phenotype

    Team : Rita Covas (CIBIO, Portugal), FitzPatrick Institute, Univ Cape Town), Julien Renoult (CEFE), Erwan Harscouet(phD CEFE),  Dieter Oschadleus(Univ. Cape Town) , Staffan Andersson(Univ.  Gothenburg), Fanny Rybak(Univ. Paris Sud), Doris Gomez(CEFE), Paul Dufour (Univ. Grenoble), Pietro d'Amelio (Post doc)

    Our aim is to work on one of the most spectacular and diverse radiations of extended phenotypes, the intricate and complex nest architectures of weaverbirds (family Ploceidae, 117 species in 16 genera), varying from the exquisite lace-like Malimbusnests to the rough thatch of the communally built sociable weaver nests . Our central aim is to investigate the role of sexual selection on the evolution and diversification of i) nest architecture (the extended phenotype) and ii) nest building behaviour (a potential associated display) and, for both traits, to determine how they relate to the classic ornaments in this group – striking colours, songs, and flight displays.

       

    5-Long term monitoring of blue tit (worked initiated by Jacques Blondel in 1976)

    Researchers: Jacques Blondel, Samuel Caro,Anne Charmantier, Claire Doutrelant,,Christophe de Francheschi,  Pablo Giovannini, Arnaud Grégoire, Marcel Lambrechts, Annick Lucas, Samuel Perret,  Philippe Perret,Denis Réale(Canada),Céline Téplltsky

    This program  is supported but the INEE - CNRS: Long-term Studies in Ecology and  Evolution (SEE-Life)

    https://data.oreme.org/tit/home   & https://oreme.org/observation/ecopop/mesanges/

     

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     6 - Obô, an art science projet

    An art science project with Claire Loiseau, Martim Melo, Hélène Fromen & Maya Cylarem

    Project funded by Biopolis with the help of the CNRS, CEFE. A first sponsor: Ornithomedia

    AFFICHE MAYA v2

    Poster by Maya Cyclarem & Ayline Le Sourd

    7- Short CV

    • 2019 DR CNRS reasearcher & Team leader  with D. Gomez: E3co: Empirical Evolutionary Ecology, Communication and Cooperation
    • 2014-15: Invited researcher Cape Town University. Fitzpatrick Institute  (South Africa)
    • 2011 Autorisation à Expérimenter niv. 1
    • 2009 HDR
    • 2003 Invited researcher at Yale University (USA)
    • 2001-2004 CR CNRS researcher at Brunoy (CNRS, MNHN, UMR 5176)
    • 2000-2001 Post-doc : Univ. Cap Town (SA), Dir. Morné du Plessis
    • 1999-2000 Post-doc : Univ. Copenhagen (Danemark), Dir. Peter McGregor
    • 1995-1998 Ph D Univ Paris 6. Dir. Marcel Lambrechts

     

    8 - Publications

    update list: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=fr&user=Fap-wf0AAAAJ

    Do not hesitate to ask for reprint !

    9 - Funding

    Investigatrice principale (PI)

    * 2020-2024        ANR Extended phenotype.The evolution of extended phenotypes and associated signals in animals: weaverbirds’ nests and sexual selection as a case study?  With R Covas (CIBIO, Univ Porto, F Rybak (Univ Paris Sud), Julien Renoult

    * 2018-2019        CEMEB Montpellier Explanatory Research Project Relaxed selection at immunity genes in insular populations ? A test using a population genomics approach With B Naboltz R Covas, M Melo, C. Loiseau

    * 2018- ..             OSU OREME Suivi de la phénologie de reproduction du Républicain Social.

    * 2015-2019       ANR défis de tous les savoir Can cooperation be under social or sexual selection?  With R Covas (CIBIO, Univ Porto, B Faivre (Univ Dijon), F Rybak (Univ Paris Sud)

    * 2016-2018                 PEPS CNRS INEE Paysage Rôle de la compétition interspécifique dans la structuration des paysages acoustiques .  With A Robert (Phd), M Melo (Univ Porto), T Lengagne (CNRS, Lyon).

    * 2012-2015         Bourse chercheur d'avenir Région Languedoc Roussillon Sélection sexuelle femelle chez les oiseaux : réalité, origine et conséquences populationnelles - With Arnaud Grégoire, Doris Gomez, Anne Charmantier

    *2009-2013         ANR JCJCSélection sexuelle, sociale et évolution des ornements femelles. WithArnaud Grégoire, Doris Gomez, Anne Charmantier, B. Doligez

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    * 2020-2025        ERC Consolidator COOPERATIVE PARTNER. Pi R Covas

    * 2016-2018         Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT)- Direct benefits of cooperation.PI Rita Covas

    *2013-2016         Programme Européen Marie Curie-IRSES Cooperation. Pi Rita Covas. coPI C. Doutrelant, B. Hatchwell,

    *2013-2015         FCT + National geographic:Parasite pressure, immunity and sexual ornaments in island and mainland birds.

    * 2010-2013         FCT Maternal effects and cooperation Pi Rita Covas,

    * 2010- ..             OSU OREME. Suivi de la phénologie de reproduction de la mésange bleue. co Pi A. Charmantier C. Doutrelant, A. Grégoire, M. Lambrechts, C. Téplitsky

    *2008 – …         Centre of Excellence FitzPatrick Institute (Af du Sud): Cooperative breeding in sociable weavers Co Pi Rita Covas C. Doutrelant

     

    10- SUPERVISIONS of POST DOC & STUDENTS
     
    • Post Doc

    2024-2026 Sophie Dupont. Telomere and survival under normal condition and after an extreme fire event. Biopolis Felllowship

    2024-2026 Jorge Garcia Campa. Mate choice and cooperation. Employed by ERC grant

    2024-2026 Gabriel Munar. Social network and fitness. Employed by ERC grant

    2020-2022: David López-Idiáquez  Multiple signalling in birds .  Basque Fellowship

    2018-2022: Pietro d'amelio.  Mate choice of a socially monogamous, dull colored, cooperatively breeding species, the Sociable Weaver: Assessing the role of social behavior, morphology, past reproductive success and black color patches  Co direction with R. Covas and Fanny Rybak. ANR (2018), Claude Leon Fellowship (2019-21), Marie Curie Fellowship (2021-2022)

    2017- 2018: Nora Carlson.  Effet de l'audience sur la coopération. Co direction avec R. Covas et F. Rybak

    2016- 2017: Marie Holveck.  Vision dans le noir et évolution de la coloration des oeufs. Co direction avec A Grégoire et D. Gomez

    2014-2017: Sophie Lardy. The physiological cost of cooperation. Co direction avec R. Covas

    2013-2015: Elisa Lotabo. The evolution of host-parasite interactions on islands and implications for sexual selection .Co direction avec R. Covas

    2011-2012. Doris Gomez. Conséquences de la sélection sexuelle femelle sur la dynamique des métapopulations. Financement ANR FEM SEX POP

    2009-2010. Marie Holveck. Sélection sexuelle et coloration des œufs. La mésange bleue comme cas d'étude. Financement Univ. Montpellier II, ASAB, ANR FEM SEX POP. Co encadrement avec A. Grégoire

     • PHD

    2023-2027. Marta Marmelo(Univ Porto & Montpellier) cooperative personalities. Co-supervision with R. Covas

    2023-2027. Babette Fourie (Univ Porto & Montpellier) Social network and benefits of coperation. Co-supervision with R. Covas & A Ferreira

    2022-2025. Lisa Sandmeyer(Univ Montpellier) Bird ornementation and social and environemental variation. Co-supervision with A. Grégoire é David Lopez-Idiaquez

    2020-2024. Nicolas Silva (Univ Montpellier) Sexual selection in a monogamous dull species. Co-supervision with R. Covas

    2020-2024. Erwan Harscouet (Univ Montpellier) Weaver nests as an extended phenotype. Co-supervision with R. Covas, J Renoult

    2017-2020. Rita Foruna. (Univ. Porto) Prenatal maternal effects and its consequences for offspring, parents and helpers fitness in a cooperatively breeding species. Co-supervision with R. Covas and Matthieu Paquet

    2017-2020. André Ferreria. (Univ. de Montpellier) Social, sexual selection and coopration. Co-supervision with R. Covas

    2015-2018. Alois Robert. (Univ Montpellier). Evolution des signaux colorés et acoustiques au sein des ommunautés d'oiseaux Co-supervision withD. Gomez

    2013-2016. Amélie Fargeveille. (Univ Montpellier). Choix de partenaire et évolution des signaux femelles Co-supervision withA. Grégoire

    2011-2014. Margaux Rat. (Univ. du Cap Af du Sud). Dominance, coopération et sélection sexuelle chez le Tisserin social. Co-supervision withR. Covas & Rene Van Dijk

    2010-2013. Matthieu Paquet. (Univ. Montpellier). Effets maternels et reproduction coopérative chez le Tisserin social. Co-supervision withR. Covas

    2007-2010 : Afiwa Midamegbe. (Univ. Montpellier). Les signaux femelles chez la Mésange bleue: des signaux sexuels secondaire ? Co-supervision withA. Grégoire


    9) PRESS

     Sociable weavers :

    • Jeanne Bourdier - Sciences et Avenir- 2020-Une intelligence artificielle capable de différencier les oiseaux au sein d’une même espèce PDF sciences et avenir

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/extreme-bird-nests-bring-comforts-and-catastrophe

    http://www.birdlife.org.za/events/bird-of-the-year

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUnadxTA8iE

    Passerault M. (2016) Le plus gros nid du monde abrite un oiseau colonial à reproduction coopérative, le Républicain social Philetairus socius. Le LIROU Revue du Groupe Ornithologique des Deux-Sèvres, n°34 : p48-52. PDF

    Pagnon, T. 2018 La cité des républicains Espèce Numero 30: 38-47 PDF

    Evolution on islands:

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2016/03/15/birds-give-up-colorful-feathers-for-carefree-island-lifestyle/#.WIDxezIzXKI

     

     

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     I'm always looking for motivated students and post doc to build / work on project! Do not hesitate to contact me with a CV to share your interest!

     

  • Claude MIAUD

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    Directeur d'Etudes EPHE-PSL

    CEFE/CNRS

    Campus du CNRS
    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5


    Tel. : +33(0)4 67 61 33 43

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    My research is in the field of evolutionary ecology, often with a conservation point of view. I study variation among populations (mostly amphibians) along gradients (altitude, pollutants), to identify eg local adaptations in life history traits. More recently, I developped research in epidemiology to understand the dynamics of diseases affecting amphibian populations. Finally, I continue some eco-ethological studies mainly with amphibian dispersal by direct (eg radiotracking) and indirect (eg genetic markers) methods.

  • Doris Gomez

    CNRS Researcher

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    Address:

    CEFE/CNRS,Campus du CNRS
    1919, route de Mende,34293 Montpellier cedex 5

    Phone : +33/0 4 67 61 32 60

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    I study visual communication at various scales: color perception, role of coloration in communication/camouflage, informative content of signals, evolution of signal design at large evolutionary scale. At the frontier between biology and physics, I study complex optical phenomena in birds and butterflies.

  • Jean-Louis MARTIN

     

    Directeur de Recherche Emerite au CNRS / Emeritus Senior Scientist at CNRS

     

    J’étudie les réponses des communautés animales et végétales aux changements d’origine humaine (espèces introduites, usage des sols), en milieu tempéré et méditerranéen.

     

    I study plant and animal community response to human induced change (introduced  species, land use) in temperate and méditerranean systems.

     

    Courriel: jean-louis.martin [at] cefe.cnrs.fr

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  • Jean-Pierre LUMARET (Émérite)

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    Tél :  +33 (0)4 67 14 23 16
    Fax : +33 (0)4 67 14 24 59

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    Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Bâtiment Jean-Henri Fabre, route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier cedex 5

     

    Areas of Expertise:

    - Ecology and biogeography of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae & Geotrupidae) in Mediterranean, tropical and mountain ecosystems. Structure of assemblages, effect of landscape structure on the spatial distribution of Mediterranean dung beetle diversity. Studies on the degradation of animal dung under various anthropogenic constraints.
    - Non-target effects to dung-dwelling insects of faecal residues in dung of cattle treated with endectocides. Development and standardization of test methods to evaluate the effects of veterinary medical products. Ecotoxicology. Conservation measures.
    - Forest management and control of white grubs (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) in Morocco

    Current Projects:

    - Participation in the development of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (Mediterranean dung beetles).
    - Non-target effects of parasiticides in cattle dung
    - Biology and ecology of dung-breeding beetles (Scarabaeidae)

     


  • Jules DEZEURE

    Ingénieur d'Etudes

    CEFE/CNRSJules Dezeure 1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5
    Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 33 01

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  • Julien Renoult

    Chargé de Recherche CNRS / CNRS Research Scientist

    CR CNRS - INSB/INEE

    Section 26 CNRS - Brain, Behavior & Cognition

    email: julien[dot]renoult[at]cefe[dot]cnrs[dot]fr

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    Julien RENOULT

    CEFE-CNRS, 1919 route de Mende

    34293 Montpellier 5 FRANCE

    Last update: June 9th 2024

     

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    Research areas

    - evolution and diversification of animal color patterns 

    - evolutionary & computational aesthetics (aesthetic theory of efficient processing applied to artworks, plants and animals)

    - processing bias (sparse coding, efficient categorization)

    - models of animal vision (colour vision, pattern recognition)

    - proximate mechanisms of mate choice

    - Methods: Artificial intelligence for neuroscience and evolutionary ecology

     

    Who am I?

    I am an evolutionary biologist, cognitive scientist and naturalist. My main objective is to understand how do evolve complex and extravagant visual signals such as the eyespots of the peacock, the danse of the birds of paradise, and some artworks in humans. My research hypothesis is beauty. Using approaches of empirical psychology, computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy of aesthetics, my goal is to identify the biological mechanisms underlying the beauty judgment in order to develop mechanistic models that predict this judgement. I then transfer these models to other animals to understand how beauty influences behaviors and, ultimately, the evolution of communication signals in nature.

    I am also working on methods to characterize visual phenotypes, with applications in community ecology, evolutionary biology and systematics. I am particularly interested in how to use artificial intellgience to describe visual phenotypes and to model animal vision.

    I am also conducting or participating to several research projects in ornithology (mostly on searbirds) and ichthyology (fish, and in particular gobies, of the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean region). 

     

    Main research projects

    WildCom-AI (ANR 2020-2024) - Artificial Intelligence for Studying Communication in Wild Animals (PI: J Renoult)
    Darters (NSF 2020-2024)- Pattern preferences, information theory, and the evolution of signal design (PI: T Mendelson & J Renoult) 

    CBIRDS (2024-2027)-Monitoring climate change impacts on Antarctic biodiversity.  (PI: JY Barnagaud.)

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    POMAR (2023-) Phylogenetics and taxonomy of sand gobies Pomatoschistus spp.. (PI: E Delrieu-Trottin & J Renoult)

     

    Current students and post-docs

    Erwan Harscouet (PhD candidate)

     

    Publications (* equal contribution)

    Visual ecology & evolution

    SILVA, N. J., FERREIRA, A. C., SILVA, L. R., PERRET, S., TIEO, S., RENOULT, J. P., COVAS, R., & DOUTRELANT, C. (2024). A deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species. bioRxiv, 2024-10.

    BRICHARD, Y. H., RAYMOND, M., CUTHILL, I. C., MENDELSON, T. C., & RENOULT, J. P. From natural to sexual selection: Revealing a hidden preference for camouflage patterns. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.27.559753

    HÉJJA-BRICHARD, Y., MILLION, K., RENOULT, J. P.*, & MENDELSON, T. C.* (2024). Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish. Ecological Informatics,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102881

    HEJJA-BRICHARD, Y., RENOULT, J., & MENDELSON, T. (2024). Comparative analysis reveals assortative mate preferences in darters independent of sympatry and sex. Ecology & Evolution14(10), e11498.

    TIEO, S., DEZEURE, J., CRYER, A., LEPOU, P., CHARPENTIER, M. J., & RENOULT, J. P. (2023). Social and sexual consequences of facial femininity in a non-human primate. Iscience, 26(10).

    BYBEE, S.M., FUTAHASHI, R., RENOULT, J.P., SHARKEY, C., SIMON, S., SUVOROV, A., WELLENREUTHER, M. (2023). Transcriptomic insights into Odonata ecology and evolution. In Dragonflies and Damselflies, 2nd Ed. (CORDOBA-AGUILA, A., BEALTY, C.D., BRIED, J.T.). Oxford University Press. [Book chapter] [PDF]

    CHARPENTIER, M.J.E, POIROTTE, C., ROURA-TORRES, B., AMBLARD-RAMBERT, P., WILLAUME, E., KAPPELER, P.M., ROUSSET, F., RENOULT, J.P. (2022) Mandrill mothers associate with infants who look like their own offspring using phenotype matching. Elife. 11, e79417

    LANGLOIS, J., GUILHAUMON, F., BALETAUD, F., CASAJUS, N., […], RENOULT, J.P., […], MOUQUET, N. (2022). Global mismatch between the aesthetic value of reef fishes and their conservation priorities. Plos Biology20(6):e3001640.

    HULSE S.V., RENOULT, J.P., MENDELSON T.M. (2022). Using deep neural networks to model similarity between visual patterns: application to fish sexual signals. Ecological Informatics67:101486 [PDF]

    CHARPENTIER M.J., HARTE M., POIROTTE C., DE BELLEFON J.M., LAUBI B., KAPPELER P.M., RENOULT J.P. (2020). Same father, same face: deep-learning reveals paternally-derived signalling of kinship in a wild primate. Science Advances. 6, eaba3274. [PDF]

    DUFOUR P., GUERRA CARANDE J., RENAUD J., RENOULT J.P., LAVERGNE S., CROCHET P.-A. (2020). Plumage colouration in gulls responds to their non-breeding climatic niche. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29: 1704-1715. [PDF]

    JOFFARD N., LE RONCE I., LANGLOIS A., RENOULT J.P., BUATOIS B., DORMONT L., & SCHATZ B. (2020). Floral trait differentiation in Anacamptis coriophora: phenotypic selection on scents, but not on colour. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33: 1028-1038.

    BLIARD L., PAQUET M., ROBERT A., DUFOUR P.,
 RENOULT J.P.,
 GREGOIRE A., CROCHET P.-A., COVAS R., DOUTRELANT C. (2020). Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird colouration on islands. Biology Letters. 16: 20200002.

    FERREIRA A.C., SILVA L.R., RENNA F., BRANDL H.B., RENOULT J.P., FARINE D.R., COVAS R., DOUTRELANT C. (2020). Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds. Methods in Ecology & Evolution. 11: 1072-1085.

    DE SOLAN T., RENOULT J.P., GENIEZ P., DAVID P., & Crochet P.A. (2020). Looking for mimicry in a snake assemblage using deep learning. The American Naturalist. 196: 74-86. [PDF]

    HULSE S.V., MENDELSON T.C.*, RENOULT J.P.*. (2020). Sexual signals of fish species mimic the spatial statistics of their habitat: evidence for processing bias in animal signal evolution. Nature Communications. 11: 1-8. [

    RENOULT J.P., KELBER A., SCHAEFER H.M. (2017). Colour spaces in ecology and evolutionary biology. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12230 [PDF]

    BINKENSTEIN J., STANG M., RENOULT J.P., SCHAEFER H.M. (2017). Weak correlation of flower color and nectar-tube depth in temperate grassland. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10 : 397-405

    DOUTRELANT C., PAQUET M., RENOULT J.P., GREGOIRE A., CROCHET P.-A., COVAS R. (2016). Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands. Ecology Letters. 19: 537-545.

    RENOULT J.P., VALEUR B. (2015). Les couleurs de la vie – Mécanismes de production, fonctions et diversité. L’Actualité Chimique. 397-398 : 12-18.

    RENOULT J.P., BLÜTHGEN N., BINKENSTEIN J., WEINER C.N., WERNER M., SCHAEFER H.M. 2015. Linking community to sensory ecology: the relative importance of color signaling for plant generalization in pollination networks. Oikos. 124: 347-354. [PDF]

    RENOULT J.P., VALIDO P., JORDANO P., SCHAEFER M. (2014). Adaptation of flower and fruit colours to diversified mutualists. New Phytologist201: 678-686. [PDF]

    RENOULT J.P., THOMANN M., SCHAEFER H.M., CHEPTOU P.-O. (2013). Selection on quantitative colour variation in Centaurea cyanus: the role of the pollinator’s visual system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 2415-2427.

    RENOULT J.P., COURTIOL A., SCHAEFER H.M. (2013). A novel framework to study colour signaling to multiple species. Functional Ecology. 27: 718-729. [PDF]

    BINKENSTEIN J., RENOULT J.P., SCHAEFER H.M. (2013). Increasing land-use intensity decreases floral colour diversity and changes composition of plant communities in temperate grasslands. Oecologia173: 461-471.

    RENOULT J.P., SCHAEFER H.M., SALLE B., CHARPENTIER M.J.E. (2011). The evolution of the multicoloured face of mandrills: insights from the perceptual space of colour vision. PlosOne, 6:e29117.

    SCHATZ, B., DELLE-VEDOVE, R., RENOULT, J.et al. (2011). Couleur de fleur d’orchidées et insectes. Le Courrier de la Nature. 260 : 24-36.

    RENOULT J.P, COURTIOL A., KJELLBERG F. (2010). When assumptions on visual system evolution matter: nestling colouration and parental visual performance in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23:220-226

     

    Cognitive science/Computational neuroscience/Empirical Aesthetics

    TIEO, S., BARDIN, M., BERTIN-JOHANNET, R., DIBOT, N., MENDELSON, T. C., PUECH, W., & RENOULT, J. P. (2024). Comparing activation typicality and sparsity in a deep CNN to predict facial beauty. Preprint: : https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4435236/v1 

    DIBOT, N. M., TIEO, S., MENDELSON, T. C., PUECH, W., & RENOULT, J. P. (2023). Sparsity in an artificial neural network predicts beauty: Towards a model of processing-based aesthetics. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(12), e1011703 [PDF]

    TIEO, S., RESTREPO-ORTIZ, C. X., ROURA-TORRES, B., SAUVADET, L., HARTÉ, M., CHARPENTIER, M. J., & RENOULT, J. P. (2023). The Mandrillus Face Database: A portrait image database for individual and sex recognition, and age prediction in a non-human primate. Data in Brief47, 108939.

    BELTZUNG, B., PELE, M., RENOULT, J.P., SUEUR, C. (2023). Deep learning for studying drawing behavior: A review. Frontiers in Psychology. 14: 992541.

    BELTZUNG, B., PELE, M., RENOULT, J.P., SUEUR, C. (2022). Using artificial intelligence to analyze non-human drawings: A first step with Orangutan productions. Animals. 12(20): 2761. [PDF]

    RENOULT, J.P. (2022). La Fluence, in Abécédaire de la beauté (éditeurs: ZERNIK, C. & JARICOT, J.). Editions B42. [Book chapter]

    CHARPENTIER, M. J., PELÉ, M., RENOULT, J.P., SUEUR, C. (2021). Social data collection and analyses, in Demographic Methods Across the Tree of Life (ed. Salguero-Gomez, R., Gamelon, M.), pp.53-76 [Book chapter].

    RENOULT J.P. (2019). Book review of "The Aesthetic Animal." Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. 3: 105-108. [PDF]

    RENOULT J.P., GUYL B., MENDELSON T.C., PERCHER A., DORIGNAC J., GENIET F., MOLINO F. (2019). Modelling the Perception of Colour Patterns in Vertebrates with HMAX. bioRxiv, 552307.

    HOLZLEITNER I.J., LEE A.J., HAHN A.C., KANDRIK M., BOVET J., RENOULT J.P.,... & JONES B.C. (2019). Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women’s faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 45: 1589.

    RENOULT J.P., MENDELSON T.C. (2019). Processing bias: extending sensory drive to include efficacy and efficiency in information processing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B286: 20190165.

    KAPOULA Z., VOLLE E., RENOULT J.P., ANDREATTA M. (ed.). (2018). Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences. Springer [Edited book]. 

    RENOULT J.P. (2016). The evolution of aesthetics: a review of models. In Aesthetics and Neuroscience: Scientific and Artistic Perspectives, (KAPOULA Z. & VERNET M, ed.). pp. 271-300. Springer International Publishing. [Book chapter].

    RENOULT J.P., BOVET J., RAYMOND M. (2016). Beauty is in the efficient coding of the beholder. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160027. [PDF]

    CHARPENTIER M.J.E., HUCHARD E., GIMENEZ, O., SALLE, B., KAPPELER P., RENOULT J.P. (2012). Distribution of affiliative behavior across kin classes and their fitness consequences in mandrills. Ethology, 118: 1198-1207.

     

    Marine biology

    MUCCIOLO, S., DESIDERATO, A., CHRISTIDIS, G., AMMAR, I. A., & ANTIT, M.,..., RENOULT, J.P., …, GEROVASILEIOU, V. (2024). New records of introduced species in the Mediterranean (August 2024). Mediterranean Marine Science25(2).

    DIGENIS, M., AKYOL, O., BENOIT, L., BIEL-CABANELAS, M., ÇAMLIK, Ö. Y., CHARALAMPOUS, K.,... RENOULT, J.P., & GEROVASILEIOU, V. (2024). New records of rarely reported species in the Mediterranean Sea (March 2024). Mediterranean Marine Science25(1), 84-115. [PDF]

    KOVACIC, M., ŠANDA, R., VUKIC, J., RENOULT, J. P., & FALZON, M.-A. (2023). New records of the recently described Pomatoschistus nanus Engin & Seyhan, 2017 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) (early view). Cybium. [PDF]

    RENOULT, J., MENUT, T., RUFRAY, X., LE BRIS, S., IGLESIAS, S. P., LOUISY, P.,... & PRAT, M. (2023). Les poissons cryptobenthiques de la baie d’Agay (Var). Cahiers de la Fondation Biotope39, 58 pages.

    KOVAČIĆ, M., RENOULT, J. P., PILLON, R., BILECENOGLU, M., TIRALONGO, F., BOGORODSKY, S. V.,... & YOKES, M. B. (2023). The delimitation of geographic distributions of Gobius bucchichi and Gobius incognitus (teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering11(3), 516. [PDF]

    KOVAČIĆ, M., PILLON, R., RENOULT, J.P. (2022). Identification of enigmatic Mediterranean fish Gobius ater Bellotti, 1988 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) based on morphology from underwater photographs. Journal of Fish Biology, 101: 1381-1384 [PDF]

    RENOULT, J.P., PILLON, R., KOVAČIĆ, M.,  LOUISY, P. (2022). Frontiers in Fishwatching Series: Gobies of the Northestern Atlantic and the Mediterranean – Gobius and ThorogobiusLes cahiers de la fondation Biotope. 237 pages.

    KOVAČIĆ, M., RENOULT, J.P., PILLON, R., SVENSEN, R., BOGORODSKY, S., ENGEN, S., LOUISY, P. (2022). Identification of Mediterranean marine gobies (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) of continental shelf from photographs of in situ individuals. Zootaxa5144: 1-103.

    IGLESIAS, S. P., BARICHE, M.., …, RENOULT, J.P., …, TOURNIER-BROER, R. (2021). French ichthyological records for 2019. Cybium. 45: 169-188.

    SANTIN A., AGUILAR R., …, RENOULT J.P., …, TIRALONGO, F. (2021) New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (March 2021). Mediterranean Marine Science, 22: 199-217.

    IGLESIAS S. P., BERGOT P., …, RENOULT J.P., …, THOMAS W. (2020). French ichthyological records for 2018. Cybium. 44: 285-307.

     

    Other (mostly phylogenetics, population genetics and natural history)

    ROCHAS, P., MINOT, M., MEZIERE, N., RENOULT J.P., JUILLERAT, N., URIOT, Q., URIOT, S., FOXONET, H., CERDAN, A. (2022). Check-list of Odonata from French Guiana with notes on their distribution, ecology, and new state records. Odonatologica, 51(3/4) : 175-224.

    RENOULT J.P., DELAHAIE B., DELATTRE J-C., DE FRANCESCHI C. , VEYRUNES F., LE BOT T. (2018). Chumming on multi-day sailing trip in Bay of Biscay. Dutch Birding40:96-98

    CROCHET P.-A., LEBLOIS R., RENOULT J.P. (2015). New reptile records from Morocco and Western Sahara. Herpetology Notes. 8 : 583-588.

    RENOULT, J.P. Arrivée de la Libellule purpurine Trithemis annulata (De Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) dans la vallée du Rhône. (2013). Sympetrum. 17: 81-82. 

    DURANT, E., RENOULT, J.P.(2012). Addition à l’odonatofaune de l’Adrar mauritanien. Poiretia, 2012, 4 : 7-16.

    CHARPENTIER M.J.E., FONTAINE M.C., CHEREL E., RENOULT J.P., JENKINS T., BENOIT L., BARTHES N., ALBERTS SC, TUNG J. (2012). Genetic structure in a dynamic baboon hybrid zone corroborates behavioral observations in a hybrid population. Molecular Ecology, 21:715-731.

    RENOULT J.P., GENIEZ P., BEDDEK M., CROCHET P.-A. (2010). An isolated population of Podarcis vaucheri (Sauria: Lacertidae) in south-eastern Spain: genetic data suggest human-mediated range expansion. Amphibia-Reptilia, 31:287-296.

    KJELLEBERG F., BAKOLIMALALA R., EDMOND R., RAFIDISON V., RABEVOHITRA R., RENOULT J., et. al. (2010). Corridors de végétation et conservation d'un groupe clé de voûte de la biodiversité au centre d'un réseau d'interactions: le cas des Ficus et des communautés associées. in Connaissance et Gestion des Milieux Tropicaux. p80-91. CNRS Edition. [Chapitre de livre].

    RENOULT J.P., GENIEZ P, BACQUET P., GUILLAUME C. P., CROCHET P.-A. (2010). Systematics of the Podarcis hispanicus-complex (Sauria, Lacertidae) II: the valid name of the north-eastern Spanish form. Zootaxa, 2500:58-68

    RENOULT J. (2009). The Sooty Gull, Larus hemprichii (Aves; Laridae), on Nosy Ve: first records for Madagascar. Malagasy Nature, 2:174-176.

    RENOULT J.P., GENIEZ P, BACQUET P., BENOIT L., CROCHET P.-A. (2009). Morphology and nuclear markers reveal extensive mitochondrial introgressions in the Iberian Wall Lizard species complex. Molecular Ecology. 18:4298-4315.

    RENOULT J.P., KJELLBERG F., SANTONI S., KHADARI B. (2009). Cyto-nuclear discordance in the phylogeny of Ficus section Galoglychia and host shifts in plant-pollinator associations. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9:248.

    RENOULT J.P. & RASELIMANANA A.P. (2009). A new species of Malagasy blind snake of the genus Typhlops Oppel (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa,2290:65-68

    CROCHET P.-A., RENOULT J. (2008). Tarentola annularis annularis (Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, 1827) preying on a mammal. Herpetology Notes, 1:58-59.

  • Killian GREGORY

    PhD student – University of Montpellier

    KillianGregory

     

    I’m a PhD student interested in animal behaviour and cognition, and how they translate into the spatial and demographic dynamics of populations. During my PhD, I focus on the interplay between individual movements and the dynamics of population networks through two case studies: 1) migratory connectivity and its relationship with the demography of migratory populations; 2) informed dispersal and its implications for the structuring and the stability of larid colonies. Linking individual and population-level processes leads me to draw on methods from both behavioural ecology and population biology.

     

    Supervisors: Pierre-André CROCHET (DR, CNRS), Aurélien BESNARD (DE, EPHE).

     

    Contact information

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    CEFE, 2ème étage aile C, bureau 202A

  • Lise VIOLLAT

    PhD candidate – EPHE, IMBE, CEN PACA

    LiseViollat

     

    Long-lived predatory birds ecology, demography and movement.

    I am interested in the population dynamics of long-lived (seabirds and raptors). I study how demography and behavioural mechanisms such as movement are influenced by inter- and intraspecific relationships and the environment (climate, weather, habitat). The aim of my PhD thesis is to investigate the relationship between individual movement and demographic variability in the French population of the Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata).

     

    Supervisors: Aurélien Besnard (DE, EPHE) & Alexandre Millon (MCF, HDR, IMBE).
    Co-supervised by Cécile Ponchon (CEN PACA).

     

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    Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1382-213X
    Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/LiseViollat

    CEFE, bureau 202 (2e etage)

  • Louise RIOTTE-LAMBERT

    Chargée de recherche CNRSphotoLRL

     

    CEFE/CNRS
    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France

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    Google scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyjumocAAAAJ&hl=fr

    Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6715-9898

  • Magali PROFFIT

    MagaliProffit

    Chargée de recherche au CNRS

     

    J'étudie le rôle de la médiation chimique dans le fonctionnement de différents types d´interactions plantes-arthropodes. J'ai pour objectif de caractériser l´impact de l’augmentation de polluants atmosphériques sur la rencontre entre espèces dans les interactions plantes-insectes et donc sur la résilience de ces interactions. J'étudie également les mécanismes évolutifs expliquant la nature des signaux chimiques ainsi que la détection de ces signaux dans les interactions plantes-pollinisateurs.

     

    I study the role of chemical mediation in the functioning of different types of plant-arthropod interactions. I aim at characterising the impact of increasing concentrations of atmospheric pollutants on the encounter between species in plant-insect interactions and hence on the resilience of these interactions. I also investigate the evolutionary processes explaining the nature of the chemical signals and how they are detected in plant-insect interactions.

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  • Marcel Lambrechts

    Directeur de recherche au CNRS

    CEFE/CNRS
    Campus du CNRS
    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5

    Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 33 10
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    Mots clés

    Discipline : Ecologie évolutive, Ecologie comportementale, Ecophysiologie
    Thématiques : Biologie des populations, Traits d’histoire de vie, Changements environnementaux, Hétérogénéité de l’habitat
    Organismes biologiques : Aves, Parus (Mésanges)
    Milieux : Région méditerranéenne, Milieux forestiers
    Techniques :  Suivi d’individus marqués dans le cadre d’un programme à long terme
    Autres mots clés : Interactions entre espèces, Ressources, Climat

  • Marie-Jeanne Holveck

    marieID 

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    Personnal website:

    http://lebonjourvousva.fr/cv/HOLVECK_Marie/index.php?l=gb#

     

    I study how variation in signal production and perception influences (i) the evolution of signals in multiple sensory modalities (acoustic, visual and chemical domains) and (ii) the adaptation (through phenotypic plasticity and/or genetic variability) to different environments, a topic for which there is nowadays a growing interest in the new field of sensory ecology, notably to understand how species cope with their rapidly changing environment due to anthropogenic activities.

     

  • Marion VALEIX

    Researcher CNRS

    " Movement, Abundance, Distribution" (MAD) Team Leader

     

    Marion ValeixCEFE

    1919, route de Mende
    34293 Montpellier cedex 5

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  • Nassera KADIRI

    Nassera Kadiri trombi 2019

    Ingénieure de recherche, PhD

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    Téléphone : (+33) (0)467 142 319
    Portable :     (+33) (0)760 542 108

    Bureau : 105
    Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Bâtiment Jean-Henri Fabre, route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier cedex 5

     

    Areas of Research :

    - Ecology and biology of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the Mediterranean region. Dung beetle assemblages, effect of landscape structure on the spatial distribution of Mediterranean dung beetle diversity. Studies on the degradation of animal dung under various anthropogenic constraints.

    - Functional diversity and seasonal activity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in native grasslands in southern Alberta (Canada) in comparison with the Mediterranean region.

    - Non-target effects to dung-dwelling insects of faecal residues in dung of cattle treated with endectocides. Development and standardization of test methods to evaluate the effects of veterinary medical products. Ecotoxicology. Conservation measures.

     

     

     


    PUBLICATIONS

    1. Kadiri, N., Lumaret, J-P. y Martínez M. I. 2022. Funciones ecológicas y servicios ecosistémicos brindados por losescarabajos del estiércol. En: Martínez, M. I. y Lumaret, J.- P. (Eds.). Escarabajos estercoleros. Biología reproductiva y su regulación., pp. 313-371

    2. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., Martínez-M.I. 2021. The Global Decline of Dung Beetles. Chapter 40021, pages 1-10, in: Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation”, an Elsevier Reference Collection in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00018-0

    3. Martínez M. I., Kadiri N., Gil Pérez, Y., Lumaret J.-P. 2018. Trans- and within-generational effects of two macrocyclic lactones on tunneler and dweller dung beetles: a case study. The Canadian Entomologist (accepted). The Canadian Entomologist, Published online: 8 August 2018, 150: 610-621 (2018). https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2018.135
    4. Lumaret J.-P. & Kadiri N. 2018. Les médicaments vétérinaires et leurs résidus: quels risques pour les organismes non cibles et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes? Bulletin des GTV, numéro special, pp. 33-40.
    5. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N.2018.Ecotoxicité : les traitements antiparasitaires persistants, bioaccumulables et toxiques (PBT). Définitions et effets environnementaux. Bulletin des GTV. Numéro spécial 2018, pp. 33-40

    6. MARTINEZ-M I., LUMARET J.-P., ORTIZ ZAYAS R., Kadiri N. 2017. The effects of sublethal and lethal doses of ivermectin on the reproductive physiology and larval development of the dung beetle Euoniticellus intermedius. The Canadian Entomologist, Published online: 10 April 2017, pp. 461-472. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.201
    7. Ghailoule D., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P. 2017.The short version of a long study: fifteen years of effort to control white grub pests (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) and achieve the forest management objectives in the regeneration of the Mamora Forest in Morocco. Dugesiana 24(1): 47-56.

    8. Ghailoule D., Kadiri N., Fegrouche R., Lumaret J.-P. 2017. Tests d’efficacité du carbosulfan sur la mortalité des larves (vers blancs) de Sphodroxia maroccana Ley (Coleoptera Melolontidae), ravageurs des jeunes plants de chène-liège dans la Mamora. Annales de la Recherche Forestière au Maroc. Tome 44 : 111-124.

    9. Baliteau L., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P. 2017. Les bousiers de l’Aveyron (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae). Biologie et diversité en fonction des milieux. Les invertébrés dans la conservation et la gestion des espaces naturels, Actes du colloque de Toulouse du 13 au 16 mai 2015 (sous presse).

    10. Lesieur V, Martin J-F, Weaver DK, Hoelmer KA, Smith DR, Morrill WL, Kadiri N, Peairs FB, Cockrell DM, Randolph TL, Waters DK, Bon MC., 2016. Phylogeography of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae): Implications for pest management. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.137 1/journal.pone.0168 370 December 13, 2016.

    11. Echassoux A., Enriquez B., Gasparini J., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., 2014. Recherche-action sur l’effet des médicaments antiparasitaires équins sur la biodiversité du sol en forêt dans la réserve de biosphère de Fontainebleau et du Gâtinais. Actes de la 40ème Journée de la Recherche Équine, le Pin au Haras, 18 mars 2014, pp 119-127

    12. Fegrouche R., Kadiri N., Ghailoule D., Atay-Kadiri Z., Lumaret J.P., 2014. Environmental risk assessment of carbosulfan on target and non-target beetles when used as white grub larvicide in the cork oak forest of Mamora (Morocco). International Journal of Pest Management, 60 (1): 39-45.

    13. Kadiri N.,Lumaret J.-P., Floate K.D., 2014. Functional diversity and seasonal activity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) on native grasslands in southern Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 146(3): 291-305.

    14. Floate K.D., Kadiri N., 2013.- Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with cattle dung on native grasslands of southern Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 145(6): 647-654.

    15. Römbke J., Barrett K., Blanckenhorn W.U., Hargreaves T., Kadiri N., Knäbe S., Lehmhus J., Lumaret J.-P., Rosenkranz B., Scheffczyk A., Sekine T., 2010.  Results of an international ring test with the dung fly Musca autumnalis in support of a new OECD test guideline. Science of the Total Environment, 408: 4102-4106.

    16. Janati-Idrissi A., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P.,- Le partage du temps et de l'espace entre les guildes de Coléoptères coprophages dans le Moyen-Atlas (Maroc). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 35: 213-221

    17. Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., Janati-Idrissi A., 1999.- Lactones macrocycliques: leur impact sur la faune non-cible du pâturage. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 35: 222-229

    18. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., 1998.- Effets des endectocides sur la faune entomologique du pâturage. G.T.V., 98 (3): 1-7

    19. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., 1997.- Factors affecting the diversity of dung beetle communities in chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) ecosystems along a gradient from clear-cut coppice to orchard in the Cévennes mountains (Southern France), in: F. Romane (Coordinator) : Dynamics and function of Chestnut Forest ecosystems in Mediterranean Europe. A Biological Approach for a Sustainable Development (CAST). Programme Européen, DG XII, EV5V-CT94-0427.

    20. Kadiri N., Lobo J.M., Lumaret J.-P., 1997.- Conséquences de l'interaction entre préférences pour l'habitat et quantité de ressources trophiques sur les communautés d'insectes coprophages (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Acta Oecologica, 18 (2): 107-119.

    21. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri, N., 1995.- The influence of the first wave of colonizing insects on cattle dung dispersal. Pedobiologia,39: 506-517.

    22. Lumaret J.-P., Galante E., Lumbreras C., Mena C., Bertrand M., Bernal J. L., Cooper J.F., Kadiri, N., Crowe D., 1993.- Field effects of ivermectin residues on dung beetles. Journal of Applied Ecology, 30: 559-568.

    23. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri, N., Bertrand, 1992.- Changes in resources: consequences for the dynamics of dung beetle communities. Journal of Applied Ecology, 29: 349-356.

    Communications ET RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES

    1. Baliteau L., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., 2015.- Les bousiers de l'Aveyron (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Biologie et diversité en fonction des milieux. Congrès Les invertébrés dans la conservation et la gestion des espaces naturels. Toulouse, 14-16 mai 2015. Communication affichée.
    2. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N.- Utilisation des médicaments vétérinaires en Europe et risques environnementaux. Colloque Effervescence 2014. 20-21 nov 2014, Montpellier (Poster)
    3. Echassoux A., Enriquez B., Gasparini J., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P. 2014.- Recherche-action sur l’effet des médicaments antiparasitaires équins sur la biodiversité du sol en forêt dans la réserve de biosphère de Fontainebleau et du Gâtinais. Actes de la 40ème Journée de la Recherche Équine, le Pin au Haras, 18 mars 2014, pp 119-127. Conférence invitée et actes.
    4. Lumaret J.-P., Römbke J., Kadiri N., Errouissi F., Tixier T., Floate K., 2013. Antiparasitics and their impact on soil and dung fauna. International UBA Workshop “Pharmaceuticals in Soil, Sludge and Slurry”, Dessau (Germany), 18-19 June 2013.
    5. Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., 2012.- Some remarks and considerations on VPs effects on dung organisms. Meeting in ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim (Germany), October 04-05, 2012. Communication.
    6. Floate K.D., Kadiri N., 2012.- Seasonal activity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) on native grasslands in southern Alberta. Joint Annual Meeting of Entomological Society of Canada and Entomological Society of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, November 4-7, 2012. Communication affichée.
    7. Bon M.C., Kadiri N., Shanower T., Hoelmer K., Weaver D., Morrill W., Gaskin J.,- Genetic diversity of Cephus cinctus Norton in North America. 5th IWSS, Bozeman MT (USA), April 2012.
    8. Floate K.D., Blanckenhorn W.U., Coghlin P., Gray J., Höhn P., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., Scheffczyk A., Schmidt T., Schwarz A., Sekine T., Taylor C., Taylor K., Römbke J., Lessons learned during the selection of a dung beetle species as a test for insecticidal residues in cattle dung. SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milano, Italy, 15-19 May 2011, session WEPC1 - Assessment of the effects of veterinary drugs on dung and soil organisms, 18 May 2011.
    9. Römbke J., Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., Scheffczyk A., Adler N., 2011. New laboratory test methods with dung beetles for the evaluation of veterinary parasiticides. SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milano, Italy, 15-19 May 2011, session WEPC1 - Assessment of the effects of veterinary drugs on dung and soil organisms, 18 May 2011.
    10. Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P, Rombke J., 2011.- Effects of moxidectin on larval development and fecundity of Aphodius constans.Workshop on the Effects of VPs on Dung Biodiversity, Montpellier, 31 March - 01 April 2011.
    11. Hoelmer K., Kirk A., Kadiri N., Messing R.H., Wharton R.A., Copeland R.S., Pickett C.H.,- Classical biological control of Bactrocera oleae in California: Renewed foreign exploration. The 2002 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 20 November 2002.
    12. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., 1998.- Lactones macrocycliques: leur impact sur la faune non-cible du pâturage. IVe Conférence Internationale Francophone d’Entomologie,Saint-Malo, 5-9 Juillet 1998.
    13. Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., Bertrand M., 1991.- Mutation de l'activité pastorale, fertilisation et changement de structure des communautés d'insectes coprophages. Colloque Ecologie du Paysage, Paris, 19 Mars 1991.
    14. Kadiri N., Baliteau L., Lumaret J.-P., 2011.- Etude des bousiers de la Tourbière des Rauzes, Espace Naturel Sensible (ENS). Rapport Final, Conseil général de l’Aveyron, décembre 2011.
    15. Bon M.C., Kadiri N., 2009.- Implications for biological control of phylogeography and population genetics studies of Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenotera: Cephidae), an invasive pest on wheat in North America. EBCL-ARS/ USDA, Baillarguet. Final Report.
    16. Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P., Bertrand M., David J. 2006.- Etude de l’impact du rejet accidentel d’hydrocarbures sur la faune du sol et la faune circulante. Rapport final, Total France, 89 p.
    17. Hoelmer K., Kadiri N., 2001- 2004.- Exploration pour la recherche des ennemis naturels de la mouche de l’olive Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin) et l’étude de la biologie et l’écologie de ces organismes. EBCL (European Biological Control Laboratoy), ARS, USDA (rapports annuels pour EBCL-ARS-USDA).
    18. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., Jay-Robert P.,- Les Coléoptères coprophages : reconnaissance, écologie, gestion. Guide pratique à l'usage des gestionnaires des espaces protégés. Document multigraphié, ATEN, Montpellier. 50 p
    19. Pâturage en forêt et biodiversité.- Plaquette réalisée pour le Conseil général du Var et le CERPAM.
    20. Arnaud M.T., Thavaud P., Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., Bily F., Chauliac A., Moulignier F., Varenne T., Panis A., Bigot M., Moulet P., Orsini P., Garde L., Legrand J.P., - Conséquences écologiques d'un nouveau mode d'utilisation des milieux méditerranéens en application de l'article 19 de la CEE : l'entretien des zones à objectifs DFCI par le pâturage. Bilan de trois années de recherches, 1993-1994-1995. Rapport final, Centre d'Etudes et de Réalisations Pastorales Alpes Méditerranée (CERPAM), 82 pages + 29 annexes.
    21. Arnaud M.T., Garde L., Thavaud P., Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N., Chauliac A., Moulignier F., Varenne T., Panis A., Bigot L., Moulet P., Orsini P., 1993.- Conséquences écologiques d'un nouveau mode d'utilisation des milieux méditerranéens en application de l'article 19 de la CEE : l'entretien des zones à objectif DFCI par le pâturage. Rapport d'activité du Centre d'Etudes et de Réalisations Pastorales Alpes Méditerranée (CERPAM). 28 pages + 15 annexes
    22. Lumaret J.-P., Bertrand M., Kadiri N., Cooper J.F., Galante E., Mena J., Lumbreras C., Crowe D.,- Risques encourus par les insectes coprophages et la mésofaune édaphique après certains traitements chimiques du bétail. C.R. final recherches contrat SRETIE/MERE/90038, Ministère de l'Environnement, Paris, 41 pages
    23. Gillon D., Bertrand M., Etienne M., Kadiri N., Legrand C., Lumaret J.-P., Rigolot E., ValetteC., 1991.- Préventions des incendies de forêt en région méditerranéenne par l'utilisation du feu et du pâturage contrôlés: impact sur l'écosystème forestier. Compte rendu final contrat européen CEE, n° EV4V- 0088 - F(CD). 59 pages
    24. Lumaret J.-P., Bertrand M., Kadiri N., Blanc P.,- Utilisation des déjections animales par la faune édaphique en région méditerranéenne. Insectes coprophages et gestion de la matière organique. Compte rendu de fin de contrat n° 87231, S.R.E.T.I.E., Secrétariat d'Etat chargé de l'Environnement, Paris, 130 pages.

  • Nicolas Courbin

    NCourbinChercheur postdoctoral / Postdoctoral researcher

    J'étudie les mécanismes de la répartition spatiale des grands herbivores, des grands carnivores et des oiseaux marins dans le but d'approfondir nos connaissances sur les interactions prédateur-proies (jeu spatial prédateur-proie, stratégie d'alimentation, stratégie de recherche des prédateurs, stratégie anti-prédatrice des proies) et d'améliorer les mesures de gestion et de conservation de la faune.

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