Ph.D student 2013-2016 (thesis defended on December, 13^th 2016)

Campus du CNRS

1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier cedex 5
Tel: +33(0)4 67 61 33 27

Email: afargevieille[at]gmail.com

 

Research interests:

Evolution of communication signals

Evolution of life-history traits

Comparative methods

 

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Ph.D project:

Sexual selection and the evolution of female ornaments:A study of female plumage colouration using comparative analyses and long-term data sets from blue tit populations

Supervisors:  Claire Doutrelant and Arnaud Grégoire

Topic: My thesis focused on understanding the contribution of sexual selection in the evolution and maintenance of conspicuous colourations in female birds. 

A first part tested how paternal care and female reproductive costs drove the evolution of female plumage colouration in songbirds, by the mean of a comparative study using spectrometry, avian visual models and life-history traits (Fargevieille et al. In prep).

 

In a second part, a long-term project data set onblue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) was used to test hypotheses related to the evolution of female ornamentation. Ten years of plumage colouration, from four populations were used to assess the evolution of female ornaments. Genetic correlation (Charmantier et al. 2017), relationships between colouration and survival rate or reproductive success (unpublished) were tested by the means of quantitative genetics, CMR analyses and within-study meta-analyses. Quantification of the degree of assortative mating at the population level - considering spatio-temporal variation - was also tested (Fargevieilleet al. 2017). It led to a more thorough study at the individual level trying to understand factors underlying assortative mating in ourpopulations (Fargevieille et al. In prep.). 

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• Publications:
  • Fargevieille, A., A. Grégoire, A. Charmantier, Maria del Rey Granado, and C. Doutrelant. 2017. Assortative mating by colored ornaments in blue tits: space and time matter. Ecology and Evolution 7:2069-2078.(doi:10.1002/ece3.2822)
    
  • Charmantier, A., M. E. Wolak, A. Gregoire, A. Fargevieille, and C. Doutrelant. 2017. Colour ornamentation in the blue tit: quantitative genetic (co)variances across sexes. Heredity 118:125-134. (doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.70)
  • Charmantier, A., C. Doutrelant, G. Dubuc-Messier, A. Fargevieille, and M. Szulkin. 2016. Mediterranean blue tits as a case study of local adaptation. Evolutionary Applications 9:135-152. (doi:10.1111/eva.12282)
    
  • Lambrechts, M. M., J. Blondel, C. Bernard, S. P. Caro, A. Charmantier, V. Demeyrier, C. Doutrelant, G. Dubuc-Messier, A. Fargevieille, C. de Franceschi, P. Giovannini, A. Grégoire, S. Hurtrez-Boussès, A. Lucas, M. C. Mainwaring, P. Marrot, A. Mennerat, S. Perret, and P. Perret. 2016. Exploring Biotic and Abiotic Determinants of Nest Size in Mediterranean Great Tits (Parus major) and Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Ethology 122:492:501. (doi:10.111/eth.12494)
    
  • Lambrechts, M. M., P. Marrot, A. Fargevieille, P. Giovannini, A. Lucas, V. Demeyrier, A. Midamegbe, P. Perret, A. Grégoire, A. Charmantier, and C. Doutrelant. 2016. Nest size is not closely related to breeding success in Blue Tits: A long-term nest-box study in a Mediterranean oak habitat. The Auk 133:198-204. (doi:10.1642/auk-15-214.1)
    
  • Lambrechts, M. M., V. Demeyrier, A. Fargevieille, P. Giovannini, A. Lucas, P. Marrot, A. Midamegbe, P. Perret, A. Charmantier, C. Doutrelant, and A. Grégoire. 2014. Great Tits build shallower nests than Blue Tits. Avian Biology Research 7:251-254 (doi:10.3184/175815514X14162394225987)
    
  • Fincke, O.M., A. Fargevieille, and T.D. Schultz. 2007. Lack of innate preference for morph and species identity in mate-searching Enallagma damselflies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:1121-1131.(doi:10.1007/s00265-006-0345-3)

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•  Oral communications in international congresses/conferences:
  • Paternal care and reproductive costs drive the evolution of female ornamentation: comparative analyses in songbirds. XVI^th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Groningen (The Netherlands); August 20^th-25^th 2017
    
  • Evolution of female ornaments: a role of male mate choice?16^th Congress of the International Society of Behavioral Ecology, Exeter (United Kingdom); July 28^th- August 2^nd 2016
  • Temporal and spatial variation in assortative mating: an example in Blue Tit Mediterranean populations.11^th Conference of Ecology & Behaviour, Toulouse (France); May 18^th-21^st 2015.

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• Poster communications in international congresses/conferences:
  • Spatio-temporal variation in assortative mating: an example in Blue Tit Mediterranean populations. XV^th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Lausanne (Switzerland); August 10^th-14^th 2015.
  • Assessing the role of sexual selection in the evolution and maintenance of female ornamentation: comparative approaches in birds. 1^st Congress on Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in Evolution, Sevilla (Spain); November 12^th-14^th 2014.

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  (Pictures courtesy of Marie Danielsen, David Grémillet and Stéphan Tillo)

Directrice de recherche (DRCE)

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.

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

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Campus du CNRS
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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,

 

Directeur de recherche au CNRS, CID 52 Directeur du GDR Pollinéco n°2058, INEE-MTES (POLLINisation, réseaux d’interactionet fonctionnalité des ÉCOsystèmes)  CEFE UMR5175 Campus du CNRS 1919, route de Mende F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5 France Tél. : +33 (0) 4 67 61 33 00 ou +33 (0) 6 46 49 45 93 Fax : +33 (0) 4 67 61 33 36  Courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. bureau 2-C-216

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mots-clés :
Organismes biologiques : orchidées et insectes associés, figuiers et hyménoptères associés, interactions plantes-insectes
Discipline : Ecologie comportementale et chimique, écologie de la conservation, communication
Technique : Tests comportementaux, analyses des composés organiques volatiles, expérimentations de terrain
Autre mots clés : pollinisation, prédation, écologie de la conservation, approche pluridisciplinaire, transfert vers les acteurs de la conservation et le grand public

 

Je m’intéresse à l’écologie de la pollinisation, à l’évolution des interactions plantes-insectes et à la conservation de ces communautés. Mes travaux concernent surtout les figuiers en milieu tropical et les orchidées en milieu méditerranéen et ils portent sur la compréhension fondamentale de ces interactions et l’opérationnalité de leur conservation.

 

I am interested in pollination ecology, in the evolution of plant-insect interactions and in the conservation of these communities. My studies concern tropical figs and Mediterranean orchids and they are focused on the fundamental understanding of these interactions and using fundamental insights for operational conservation.

 

Thématique

L’environnement et l’interaction homme-nature sont en profonde mutation du fait des changements globaux actuels. Il est essentiel d’adopter une approche pluridisciplinaire dans l’évaluation des impacts de ces changements sur la biodiversité et de ses capacités d’adaptation, ainsi que d’intégrer des bases objectives et scientifiques dans les processus de décisionpour l’établissement des stratégies de conservation. Dans ce contexte, l’analyse de la dynamique des systèmes écologiques implique la compréhension des interactions entre espèces, sensibles à ces modifications environnementales. Les tropiques et la Méditerranée sont des chantiers pertinents représentant à la fois des points-chauds de biodiversité de par leur diversité spécifique et leur endémisme mais aussi des zones parmi les plus menacées au monde par différentes composantes de ces changements globaux (anthropisation, changement d’utilisation des terres et des pratiques agricoles, arrivée d’espèces envahissantes …etc).

Dans ce contexte de crise environnementale, mes problématiques de recherche concernent d’une part la compréhension de la dynamique des systèmes écologiques autour de la pollinisation des plantes par les insectes, qu’elle soit spécifique et obligatoire comme chez les figuiers ou diversifiée du mutualisme au parasitisme comme chez les orchidées. D’autre part, ces informations alimentent mes travaux en écologie de la conservation centrés sur les orchidées méditerranéennes ainsi qu’une recherche impliquée combinant le transfert vers les acteurs de la conservation par le biais de thèses Cifre et de multiples collaborations et la diffusion de l’information scientifique au sein du monde de la recherche à celui du grand public. Ma recherche trouve sa cohérence dans l’adoption une approche pluridisciplinaire en écologie de la pollinisation et l’implication sociétale en écologie de la conservation. Elle a comme fil rouge la communication, l’interaction qu’il s’agisse de relations entre plantes et insectes et de celles avec leur environnement, ou de médiation auprès des différents partenaires de la conservation, ou encore de diffusion scientifique vers différents publics.

Mon parcours de recherche a débuté sur l’écologie comportementale de la recherche et de l’exploitation des ressources alimentaires chez plusieurs espèces de fourmis, puis s’est poursuivie sur l’écologie comportementale et chimique du mutualisme de protection plantes-fourmis (voir HDR). Mon activité actuelle de recherche concerne l’écologie de pollinisation, centrée sur la comparaison entre pollinisation spécialisée (figuiers) et pollinisation diversifiée (orchidées). Elle s’étend également par une recherche impliquée en écologie de la conservation des orchidées méditerranéennes en intégrant les problématiques associées aux changements globaux et à l’évolution de la relation Homme-Nature. L’ensemble de mon activité est également associée à une activité de transfert vers les acteurs associatifs, privés et publics de la conservation, et de communication de l’information scientifique.

 

Écologie d’une pollinisation spécialisée : le cas des figuiers

Chacune des 800 espèces de figuiers est engagée dans un mutualisme de pollinisation spécifique et obligatoire avec un hyménoptère agaonide grâce à une médiation chimique. Coévolué depuis environ 80 millions d’années, ce mutualisme figuier – pollinisateur est aussi au centre d’un réseau complexe d’interactions directement ou indirectement liées à la pollinisation du figuier. En effet, deux autres acteurs principaux (hyménoptères parasites spécifiques et fourmis prédatrices opportunistes) sont aussi à ce mutualisme car ils utilisent à leur compte cette médiation chimique. Spécificité des parasites, séparation temporelle de leur moment d’intervention, détection (après apprentissage) du moment de réceptivité des figues par les fourmis prédatrices sont autant de processus structurant la communauté des hyménoptères associés aux figuiers et impliquant la médiation chimique. Ils seraient même un facteur important de la dynamique évolutive de ce mutualisme, avec par exemple certaines fourmis prédatrices qui auraient un effet positif sur ce mutualisme au point que quelques figuiers présentent des lieux de nidification (domaties). C’est par l’étude comparative de plusieurs espèces de figuiers qu’il sera possible d’établir un scénario général des relations existant entre figuiers, pollinisateurs, parasites et fourmis prédatrices.

 

Écologie d’une pollinisation diversifiée : le cas des orchidées

Les orchidées se sont diversifiées très récemment (ces dernières 10 millions d’années) dans un monde où les insectes sont déjà présents. Cette diversification est fulgurante au point qu’elles représentent aujourd’hui environ 10% des espèces à fleur et la première famille végétale en nombre d’espèce. Caractérisée par la présence de pollinies se collant sur les insectes pollinisateurs, une seule visite est suffisante pour emporter tout le pollen d’une fleur ; cette particularité favorise la multiplicité des stratégies d’attraction des pollinisateurs et explique l’importance relative des stratégies de tromperie (visuelle et sexuelle) dans cette famille. Ces stratégies se traduisent par des variations importantes et des associations particulières entre les différents caractères (odeur, couleur, morphologie, phénologie de floraison, présence de nectar) constituant le syndrome de pollinisation de ces espèces. Il existe plus de 300 espèces d’orchidées autour de la Méditerranée qui présentent une diversité de stratégies de pollinisation : elles constituent un modèle biologique idéal pour l’étude de l’écologie comportementale et chimique des relations établies avec leurs pollinisateurs.

 

Écologie de la conservation des orchidées méditerranéennes

L’écologie des orchidées (dépendance aux pollinisateurs et aux champignons symbiotiques, dépendance plus ou moins marqué à des habitats particuliers, faible aptitude à la compétition, faible densité de présence) en font des espèces souvent sensibles aux différents aspects des changements globaux, et ainsi des modèles pertinents en écologie de la conservation pour établir et évaluer les stratégies de protection. J’aborde leur conservation par une approche pluridisciplinaire en considérant différents aspects associant écologie de pollinisation et de conservation : compréhension de la phylogéographie de l’orchis bouc, analyse de la différenciation de la génétique et de la niche écologique au sein du groupe de l’ophrys mouche, étude de l’hybridation chez les orchis, influence du syndrome de pollinisation sur le taux de pollinisation chez les espèces utilisant la tromperie visuelle. Une autre approche consiste à déterminer les variations diachroniques de présence des orchidées et de leurs habitats en France méditerranéennes (LR, Corse et Paca) afin d’identifier les traits biologiques des espèces ainsi révélées sensibles. Cette approche est aussi couplée à l’étude de la variation de présence de plusieurs autres groupes d’espèces (oiseaux, amphibiens, reptiles, insectes) en région méditerranéenne (ex : Pic St-Loup), et à une analyse comparative avec la variation de présence de champignons (ectomycorhiziens et décomposeurs) également en région méditerranéenne. Enfin, la conservation des orchidées est aussi abordée sous l’angle de sa gouvernance pour une analyse critique de leur protection actuelle en France associée une proposition de leursstatuts de protections nationale et régionale.

 

Collaborations autour de la conservation

Ce thème implique une étroite collaboration avec différents acteurs associatifs, privés et publics de la conservation. Je suis ainsi membre de la SFO (Société Française d’Orchidophilie), pour laquelle je suis responsable du groupe « Relations insectes-orchidées ». Je do-dirige (avec Franck Richard) actuellement la thèse cifre d’Hélène Vogt-Schlib impliquant l’entreprise Biotope sur la conservation de la biodiversité méditerranéenne, et (avec Edmond Dounias) la thèse cifre d’Ameline Lehébel-Péron impliquant le Parc National des Cévennes sur la conservation d’une apiculture traditionnelle en tant que patrimoine naturel et culturel cévenol. Plusieurs collaborations ont également été établies avec Parc National des Cévennes, les Parcs Naturels Régionaux (des grands Causses, des monts d’Ardèche et de Corse), les Conservatoires botaniques Nationaux (de Corse, de Porquerolles, etdes Pyrénées et de Midi-Pyrénées, l’Office de l’Environnement de Corse, etl’Université Saint-Denis de la Réunion et l’Herbier de La Réunion. Expert auprès de l’ANR et de l’AERES, je suis aussi membre du conseil d’administration des écologistes de l’Euzière, des conseils scientifiques du Parc National des Cévennes, de la réserve MAB du Fango (Corse) et de l’entreprise Biotope au niveau national, et, au niveau international, membre de la SCB (Society for Conservation Biology) et expert pour l’UICN sur le ‘Mediterranean Species Programm’.

 

Diffusion de l’information scientifique

Après avoir été coorganisateur des séminaires en écologie du CEFE, mon activité de correspondant communication pour ce laboratoire (le plus gros en écologie en France) consiste à diffuser en interne les informations venant de l’extérieur (actualités scientifiques, archivage…) et à organiser la communication vers l’extérieur (site web, contact presse, événements comme les 50ans du CEFE, fête de la biodiversité …). Je favorise également les liens entre le CEFE et différentes structures impliquées dans la gestion de l’environnement (entreprise Biotope, bureau d’étude EcoMed, Ecologistes de l’Euzière). J’interviens comme enseignant ponctuel dans différents masters liés à la gestion de la biodiversité (IEGB, DAIT), je participe à l’organisation des colloques nationaux (SMPE, SFO, IUSSI) et internationaux (ISE, ISCE, ISBE) d’école thématique (écologie chimique) et d’expositions nationales (Cité des Sciences, Paris). Mon activité de recherche est également diffusée dans différentes revues régionales, nationales et internationales et lors de conférences grand public. Je suis également auteur de différents chapitres d’ouvrage et co-éditeur d’ouvrage (dont ‘Le Génie de la Nature’ et ‘Stratégie végétales’).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Special issue edition

Chapters in international volumes

French publications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bertrand_Schatz/contributions/?ev=prf_act

Gibert, A., Schatz, B., Buscail, R., Nguyen, D., Baguette, M., Barthes, N. and Bertrand, J.A.M. (2025), Floral phenotypic divergence and genomic insights in an Ophrys orchid: unraveling early speciation processes. New Phytol, 245: 849-868. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20190

Julien, M. Ducrettet, J., Diallo, M., Imbert, E., Colas, B., Schatz, B. 2025. Plant translocations in France: identifying gaps between knowledge, practice and perception by conservation actors. Environmental Management Environmental Management 74(6):1160-1172 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02055-4

Lanuza, J.B., Knight, T.M., Montes-Perez, N., Glenny, W., Acuña, P., Albrecht, M., Artamendi, M., Badenhausser, I., Bennett, J.M., Biella, P., Bommarco, R., Cappellari, A., Castro, S., Clough, Y., Colom, P., Costa, J., Cyrille, N., de Manincor, N., Dominguez-Lapido, P., Dominik, C., Dupont, Y.L., Feldmann, R., Felten, E., Ferrero, V., Fiordaliso, W., Fisogni, A., Fitzpatrick, Ú., Galloni, M., Gaspar, H., Gazzea, E., Goia, I., Gómez-Martínez, C., González-Estévez, M.A., González-Varo, J.P., Grass, I., Hadrava, J., Hautekèete, N., Hederström, V., Heleno, R., Hervias-Parejo, S., Heuschele, J.M., Hoiss, B., Holzschuh, A., Hopfenmüller, S., Iriondo, J.M., Jauker, B., Jauker, F., Jersáková, J., Kallnik, K., Karise, R., Kleijn, D., Klotz, S., Krausl, T., Kühn, E., Lara-Romero, C., Larkin, M., Laurent, E., Lázaro, A., Librán-Embid, F., Liu, Y., Lopes, S., López-Núñez, F., Loureiro, J., Magrach, A., Mänd, M., Marini, L., Mas, R.B., Massol, F., Maurer, C., Michez, D., Molina, F.P., Morente-López, J., Mullen, S., Nakas, G., Neuenkamp, L., Nowak, A., O'Connor, C.J., O'Rourke, A., Öckinger, E., Olesen, J.M., Opedal, Ø.H., Petanidou, T., Piquot, Y., Potts, S.G., Power, E.F., Proesmans, W., Rakosy, D., Reverté, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Rundlöf, M., Russo, L., Schatz, B., Scheper, J., Schweiger, O., Serra, P.E., Siopa, C., Smith, H.G., Stanley, D., Ştefan, V., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stout, J.C., Sutter, L., Švara, E.M., Świerszcz, S., Thompson, A., Traveset, A., Trefflich, A., Tropek, R., Tscharntke, T., Vanbergen, A.J., Vilà, M., Vujić, A., White, C., Wickens, J.B., Wickens, V.B., Winsa, M., Zoller, L. and Bartomeus, I. (2025), EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks. Global Ecol Biogeogr, 34: e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70000

Aubert, M., Bonifacino, M., Genoud, D., Leclercq, V., Schatz, B. 2024. First observations of Eucera (Cubitalia) breviceps (Friese, 1911) in Italy and France, with updated information on the distribution and ecology of the species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apidae). Osmia 12, 5-18. https://doi.org/10.47446/OSMIA12.2

Gibert, A., Buscail, R., Baguette, M., Fraïsse, C., Roux, C., Schatz, B. and Bertrand, J. 2024. Holocene Climate Change Promoted Allopatric Divergence and Disjunct Geographic Distribution in a Bee Orchid Species. J Biogeogr. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14998

Kerdoncuff G, Ropars L, Geslin B, Schatz B. 2024. Insight into pollinator conservation initiatives within French protected areas.areas. Regional Environmental Change 24:167

Lafitte A., Sordello R., Ouédraogo D.Y., Thierry C., Marx G., Froidevaux J., Schatz B., Kerbiriou C, Gourdain P., Reyjol Y. 2023 Existing evidence on the effects of photovoltaic panels on biodiversity: a systematic map with critical appraisal of study validity. Environmental Evidence https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-023-00318-x

Geslin B., Mouillard-Lample L., Zakardjian, M., Dajoz I., Flacher F., Henry M., Perrard A., Requier F., Ropars L., Schatz B., Vereecken N.J., Gauzens B. 2023. New insights on Massively Introduced Managed Species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions. Advances in Ecological Research 68,63-89 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2023.09.003

Pamerlon S, Archambeau A-S, Pando de la Hoz F, Olivier G, Michel F, Tercerie S, Rodinson E, Maurel N, Martínez-Sagarra G, Kerner A, Vignes Lebbe R, Schatz B, Dupont P (2023) Knowledge Base on Species Life Traits: A Spanish/French Plinian Core implementation use case. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111784. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7

Mennicken S., Vogt-Schilb H., Těšitelová T., Kotilínek M., Alomía Y.A., Schatz B., Jersáková J. 2023. Orchid-mycorrhizal fungi interactions reveal a duality in their network structure in two European regions differing in climate. Mol. Ecol. 32(12), 3308-3321 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16918

Julien M., Schatz B., Robert A., Colas B. 2023. Monitoring time of conservation-driven and mitigation-driven plant translocations in Europe. Plant Ecology 224(9):1-12 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01311-7

Doyle C.A.T., Abeli T., Albrecht M.A., Bellis J., Colas B., Dalrymple S., Ensslin A., Espejo J., Erftemeijer P.L.A., Julien M., Lewandrowski W., Liu H., Moehrenschlager A., Ooi M.K.J., Reynolds D.M., Schatz B., Sild M., Wills T.J., Papuga G. 2023. Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations – the need for global standards. Plant Ecology 224, pages 745–763 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01310-8

Julien M., Delayance L., Cortes F., Dixon L., Filippi G.P., Schatz B. 2023. Anticipating plant translocation in land-use projects: a case study of Helianthemum marifolium. Botany Letters 170 (2) 318-332 https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2023.2168751

Joffard N., Buatois B., Arnal V., Véla E., Montgelard C., Schatz B. 2022. Delimiting species in the taxonomically challenging orchid section Pseudophrys: Bayesian analyses of genetic and phenotypic data. Front. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1058550

Lafitte A., Sordello R., Crespin de Billy V., Froidevaux J., Gourdain P., Kerbiriou C., Langridge J., Marx G., Schatz B., Thierry C., Reyjol Y. 2022. What evidence exists regarding the effects of photovoltaic panels on biodiversity? A critical systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence 11:36, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-022-00291-x

Jeannerod, L., Carlier, A., Schatz B., Daise C., Richel A., Agnan Y., Baude M., Jacquemart A.L. 2022. Some bee-pollinated plants provide nutritionally incomplete pollen amino acid resources to their pollinators. PolsONE 17(8):e0269992  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269992 

Gibert, A., Louty, F., Buscail, R., Baguette, M., Schatz, B., Bertrand, J.A.M. 2022. Extracting Quantitative Information from Images Taken in the Wild: A Case Study of Two Vicariants of the Ophrys aveyronensis Species Complex. Diversity 14(5):400, https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050400

Vogt-Schilb, H., Richard, F., Malaval, J.C., Rapior, S., Fons, F., Bourgade, V., Schatz, B., Büntgen, U., Moreau P.A.M., 2022. Climate-induced long-term changes in the phenology of Mediterranean fungi. Fungal Ecology, 60:101166, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2022.101166

Julien, M., Schatz, B., Contant, S., Filippi, G. 2022. Flora richness of a military area: discovery of a remarkable station of Serapias neglecta in Corsica. Biodiversity Data Journal 10 (1) https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e76375

Schatz, B., Genoud D, Escudié P., Geniez P., Wünsch K.G., Joffard, N. (2021) Is Ophrys pollination more opportunistic than previously thought? Insights from different field methods of pollinator observation, Botany Letters, 168:3, 333-347, https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2021.1959394 

Julien, M., Colas, B., Muller, S., Schatz, B. 2021. Dataset of costs of the mitigation hierarchy and plant translocations in France. Data in brief. 302, 114064 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107722

Manincor, N., Andreu, B., Buatois, B., Lou, C.H., Hautekèete, N., Massol, F., Piquot, Y., Schatz, B., Schmitt, E., Dufaÿ, M. 2021 Geographical variation of floral scents in generalist entomophilous species with variable pollinator communities. Funct. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13984 

 Julien, M., Colas, B., Muller, S., Schatz, B. 2021. Quality assessment of mitigation translocation protocols for protected plants in France. Journal of Ecological Management. 302, 114064 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114064

Bersweden, L., Viruel, J., Schatz, B., Harland, J., Gargiulo, R., Cowan, R.S., Calevo, J., Juan, A., Clarkson, J.J., Leitch, A.R., Fay, M.F. 2021. Microsatellites and petal morphology reveal new patterns of admixture in Orchis hybrid zones. American Journal of Botany 10.1002/ajb2.1710 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1710

Baguette M., Bertrand J.A.M., Stevens V.M., Schatz, B 2020. Why are there so many bee-orchid species? Adaptive radiation by intraspecific competition for mnesic pollinators. Biological Review https://doi:10.1111/brv.12633

de Manincor N, Hautekeete N, Piquot Y, Schatz B, Vanappelghem C, Massol F. 2020 Does phenology explain plant-pollinator interactions at different latitudes? An assessment of its explanatory power in plant-hoverfly networks in French calcareous grasslands. Oikos https://doi:10.1111/oik.07259

Dormont L, Fort T, Bessière J-M, Proffit M, Hidalgo EG, Buatois B, Schatz B. 2020 Sources of floral scent variation in the food-deceptive orchid Orchis mascula. Acta Oecologica, Special issue: Pollination in the Anthropocene (Schatz B., Geslin B. & Dajoz I, Eds.) (in press) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103600

Dupleix A., Jullien D., Maizi P., Schatz B. 2020 Practices, knowledge and expectations of beekeepers and beehive suppliers regarding the wood material used for building beehives in the South of France. Journal of Rural Studies 77, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.005

Joffard N., Arnal V., Buatois B., Montgelard C., Schatz B. 2020. Floral scent evolution in the section Pseudophrys: phylogenetic constraints or pollinator-mediated selection? Plant Biology 22 (5), 881-889 https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13104

Joffard N., Le Roncé I., Langlois A., Renoult J., Buatois B., Dormont L., Schatz B. 2020. Phenotypic selection on floral display, colour and odour in three closely related orchid taxa growing in contrasting environments. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33 (8), 1028-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13657

Makiola, A., Compson, S.G., Baird, D., Barnes, M.A., Boerlijst, S.P., Bouchez, A., Brennan, G.S., Bush, A., Canard, E., Cordier, T., Creer, S., Curry, A., David, P., Dumbrell, A., Gravel, D., Hajibabaei, M., Hayden, B., Van Der Hoorn, B., Jarne, P., Jones, I., Karimi, B., Keck, F., Kelly, M., Knot, I., Krol, L., Massol, F., Monk, W., Murphy, K., Pawlowski, J., Poisot, T., Porter, T., Randall, K., Ransome, E., Ravigné, V., Raybould, A., Robin, S., Schrama, M., Schatz, B., Tamaddoni-Nezhad, A., Trimbos, K.B., Vacher, C., Vasselon, V., Wood, S.A., Woodward, G., Bohan, D.A., 2020. Key questions for next-generation biomonitoring. Front. Environ. Sci. - Environmental Informatics https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00197   

Manincor N, Hautekèete N, Mayozer C, Moreau P, Piquot Y, Schatz B, Schmitt E, Zélazny M, Massol F. How biased is our perception of plant-pollinator networks? A comparison of visit- and pollen-based representations of the same networks. Acta Oecologica, Special issue: Pollination in the Anthropocene (Schatz B., Geslin B. & Dajoz I, Eds.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103551

Schatz B, Drossart M, Henry M, Geslin B, Allier F, Savajol C, Gérard M., Michez, D. 2020. Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium. Acta Oecologica, Special issue: Pollination in the Anthropocene (Schatz B., Geslin B. & Dajoz I, Eds.) 112 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2021.103765

Schatz B,Genoud D, Claessens J, Kleynen J 2020. Orchid-pollinator network in Euro-Mediterranean region: what we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done. Acta Oecologica, Special issue: Pollination in the Anthropocene (Schatz B., Geslin B. & Dajoz I, Eds.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103605

Baguette M, Bertrand J, Stevens VM., Schatz B 2019. Why are there so many bee-orchid species? Adaptive radiation by intraspecific competition for mnemonic pollinators. Preprints https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0204.v1

Dormont L., Joffard N., Schatz B. 2019. Intraspecific variation in floral color and odor in orchids. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180(9):1036–1058https://doi.org/10.1086/705589

 Schatz B, Lehébel-Péron A., Sulmont E. & Dounias E. 2019 Quelles caractéristiques environnementales ont déterminé l'emplacement des ruchers-tronc en Cévennes ? Chapitre 6 In: « Apiculture au XXIème siècle : Ecologie versus business ? » (D Dussy & E Faugère). Editions la Discussion pp 97-114.

Duffy KJ, Waud M, Schatz B, Petanidou T, Jacquemyn H. 2019. Latitudinal variation in mycorrhizal diversity associated with a European orchid. J Biogeogr. 1:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13548

Delpon G., Vogt-Schilb H., Munoz F., Richard F., Schatz B. (2018). Recent trends in the distribution of butterflies and dragonflies linked to recent habitat changes in Western Europe. Insect Conservation & Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12309  

Egea E., Sanchez W., Garrigues P., Bayeta G.A., Arce A., Alexis Beaurepaire, Boily M., Bonmatin J.M., Bouga M., Branchiccela M.B., Garrido P.M., Le Conte Y., Maderson S., Afee A.M., de Mattos I.M., Ming-Xian Y., Moritz R., Neumann P., Proffit M., Schatz B., Stoić M., Younger P.M. (2018). The Rovaltain Foundation engages in pollinator health. BeeWorld 95(1): 20-21.   

Joffard N., Massol F., Grenié M., Montgelard C., Schatz B. (2018). Effect of pollination strategy, phylogeny and distribution on pollination niches of Euro-Mediterranean orchids.Journal of Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13013

Proffit M., Bessière J.-M., Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M. (2018). Can fine-scale post-pollination variation of fig volatile compounds explain some steps of the temporal succession of fig wasps associated with Ficus racemosa?Acta Oecologica 90: 81-90.  

Soler C., Schatz B., Bessiere J.M., Hossaert-McKey M. (2018). Geographic variation of fruit scents in a dispersion mutualism, the case of Ficus lutea. Acta Oecologica 90: 46-48.  

Vogt-Schilb H., Moreau P.A., Malaval J.C., Schatz B, Richard F. (2018). Effects of long-term landscape dynamics and city growth on biodiversity in the Mediterranean: the case study of Montpellier, France.Urban Ecosystem doi: 10.1007/s11252-018-0780-8

Delle-Vedove R., Schatz B., Dufaÿ M. (2017). Understanding intraspecific variation of floral scents in the light of evolutionary ecology. Annals of Botany 120 (1): 1-20.   

Schatz B. (2017). Les orchidées de l’île de Cavallo (archipel des Lavezzi, Corse) : une surprenante abondance de l’espèce protégée Gennaria diphylla. Ecologia Mediterranea 43 (2): 159-170.

Azam C.-S., Gigot G., Witte I., Schatz B. (2016). National and subnational Red Lists in European and Mediterranean countries: current state and use for conservation.  Endangered Species Research, 30: 255–266

Deletre E., Schatz B., Williams L., Bourguet D., Ratnadass A., Chandre F., Martin T. (2016). Prospects for repellency in pest control – current developments and future challenges. Chemoecology, 26, 127-142.

Hossaert-McKey M., Proffit M., Soler C., Chen C., Bessière J.M., Schatz B., Borges R.M. (2016). How to be a dioecious fig: Chemical mimicry between sexes matters only when both sexes flower synchronously. Scientific Reports, 6, 21236.

Joffard N., Buatois B., Schatz B. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the fly orchid group: insights from chemical ecology. The Science of Nature, 103, 77

Lehébel-Péron A., Sidawy P. Dounias E. & Schatz B. (2016). Attuning local and scientific knowledge in the context of global change: The case of heather honey production in southern France. Journal of rural studies, 44, 132-142.

Lehébel-Péron A., Travier D., Renaux A., Dounias E., Schatz B. 2016. From log hive to frame hive: ethnoecological history of beekeeping in Cevennes.Revue d’Ethnoécologie 9: 1-36.

Schatz B., Dounias E. 2016. Pollination: threats and opportunities in European beekeeping. In: Climate change in the Mediterranean (COP 22), IRD Editions, pp. 551-558.

Schatz B., Vogt-Schilb H., Munoz F., Geniez P., Hugot L., Pradel R., Richard F. 2016. Using the past to predict the future: the case of French Mediterranean orchids. In: Climate change in the Mediterranean (COP22), IRD Editions, pp. 377-386.

Vogt-Schilb H., Pradel R., Geniez P., Hugot L., Delage A., Richard F., Schatz B. (2016). Effects of habitat change, population size and distribution patterns on orchid dynamics: a study based on a 27-year interval in Corsica. Annals of Botany 118: 115-123.

Jersáková, J., Traxmandlová I., Ipser Z., Kropf M., Pellegrino G., Schatz B., Djordjević V., Kindlmann P., Renner S.S. (2015). Biological flora of Central Europe: Dactylorhiza sambucina (L.) Soó.Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 17, 318-329.

Vogt-Schilb H., Munoz F., Richard F., Schatz B. (2015). Recent declines and range changes of orchids in Western Europe (France, Belgium and Luxembourg).Biological Conservation, 190, 133-141.

Bain A., Harrison R., Schatz B. (2014). How to be an ant on figs?Acta Oecologica, 57, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2013.05.006

Dormont L., Delle-Vedove R., Bessiere J.M., Schatz B. (2014). Floral scent emitted by white and colored morphs in orchids.Phytochemistry, 100, 51-59.

Fonderflick J., Besnard A., Beuret A., Dalmais M., Schatz B. (2014). Impact of grazing management on Orthoptera abundance varies along season in Mediterranean steppe-like grassland.Acta Oecologica, 60, 7-16.

Imbert E., Wang H., Conchou L., Vincent H., Talavera M., Schatz B. (2014). Positive effect of the yellow morph on female reproductive success in the flower colour polymorphic Iris lutescens (Iridaceae), a deceptive species.Journal of Evolutionnary Biology, 27, 1965-1974. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12451

Imbert E., Wang H., Anderson B., Hervouet B., Talavera M., Schatz B. (2014). Reproductive biology of the flower-colour polymorphic Iris lutescens (Iridaceae), a deceptive species.Botany Letters, 161, 117-127.

Lambrechts M.M., Schatz B. (2014). Ants and Paridae share nesting boxes in continental Mediterranean habitat.Folia Zoologica 63, 63-66.

Schatz B., Gauthier P., Debussche M., Thompson J. (2014). A decision tool for listing species for protection on different geographic scales and administrative levels.Journal for Nature Conservation, 22, 75-83.

Triponez Y., Arrigo N., Pellissier L., Alvarez N., Schatz B. (2013). Are ecological shifts driving divergence in species of the Fly orchid group?Molecular Ecology, 22, 1431-1446.

Schatz B., Delle-Vedove R., Dormont L. (2013). Presence, distribution and pollination effects of white, pink and purple morphs in the orchid Orchis mascula.European Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3, 119-128. https://doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2015.15

Vogt-Schilb H., Geniez P., Pradel R., Richard F., Schatz B. (2013). Inter-annual variability in flowering of orchids: lessons learned from 8 years of monitoring in a Mediterranean region of France.European Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3, 129-137. https://doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2015.16

Wang H., Conchou L, Carbonell D., Imbert E., Schatz B. (2013). Flower color polymorphic Iris lutescens (Iridaceae) in the light of plant-insect interaction.Phytochemistry, 94, 123-134.

Bain A., Chantarasuwan B., Chou L.S., Hossaert-McKey M., Schatz B., Kjellberg F. ( 2012). A new case of ants nesting within branches of a fig tree: the case of Ficus subpisocarpa in Taiwan.Sociobiology, 59, 415-434.

Derridj S., Dormont L., Schatz B. (2012). Médiateurs chimiques utilisés dans la localisation de la plante. In: Des plantes et des insectes (Calatayud P.A, Marion-Poll, F. Sauvion, N. & Thiery D. Eds).

La Barre S, Giron D., Schatz B. (2012). La médiation chimique dans les réseaux d'interaction. In: Ecologie Chimique (Bagnères A.G. & Hossaert-McKey M. eds). Editions Cherche Midi.

Schatz B. (2012). Faune, Flore et Habitats des Garrigues. In: Atlas des Garrigues (Collectif des Garrigues ed.), Editions Les Ecologistes de l'Euziere.

Schatz B., Daoust S., Missé D. M., Thomas F. (2012). Ecology of Gordian knots in natural conditions.Invertebrate Biology, 131, 294-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12000

Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M. (2012). Les odeurs sont-elles un signal honnête ? In: Ecologie Chimique (Bagnères A.G. & Hossaert-McKey M. eds). Editions Cherche Midi.

Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M., Kjellberg F. (2012). Diversité et histoire évolutive des interactions entre insectes pollinisateurs et plantes. In: Des plantes et des insectes (Calatayud P.A, Marion-Poll, F. Sauvion, N. & Thiery D. Eds).

Schatz B., Proffit M., Kjellberg F., Hossaert-McKey M. (2012). Un réseau trophique complexe: le cas des figuiers associés a différentes communautés d'insectes - In: Des plantes et des insectes (Calatayud P.A, Marion-Poll, F. Sauvion, N. & Thiery D. Eds).

Soler C., Proffit M., Bessiere J.M., Hossaert-McKey M., Schatz B. (2012). Evidence for intersexual chemical mimicry in a dioecious plant - Ecology Letters, 9, 978-985.

Thiery D., Brevault T., Quilici S., Dormont L., Schatz B. (2012). Recherche de la plante …à distance. In: Des plantes et des insectes (Calatayud P.A, Marion-Poll, F. Sauvion, N. & Thiery D. Eds).

Delle-Vedove R., Juillet N., Bessiere J.M., Dormont L., Pailler T., Schatz B. (2011). Colour-scent associations in a tropical orchid: three colours but two odours - Phytochemistry, 72, 735-742.

Garrone B., Martin P., Schatz B. (2011). Stratégies végétales, petits arrangements et grandes manoeuvres. Editions Les eécologistes de l'Euziere, 250 p.

Geniez P., Schatz B. (2011). Variations dans l'abondance des orchidées méditerranéennes en relation avec la fermeture du milieu. In: Activités humaines et dynamique de la biodiversité en région méditerranéenne (Eds. Thompson J.D. & Gauthier P.), pp 38-39.

Piazza C., Hugot L., Richard F., Schatz B. (2011). In situ conservation operations in Corsica, 1987-2004: assessing the balance and drawing.Ecologia Mediterranea 37, 7-16.

Pietrasanta Y., Schatz B. (2011). Le Génie de la nature. Biotope, Mèze (Collection Parthénope), 260 p.

Soler C., Hossaert-McKey M., Buatois B., Bessiere J.-M., Schatz B., Proffit M. (2011). Geographic variation of floral scent in a highly specialized pollination mutualism. Phytochemistry, 72, 74-81.

Suchet C., Dormont L., Schatz B., Giurfa M., Simon V., Raynaud C., Chave J. (2011). Floral scent variation in two Antirrhinum majus subspecies influences the choice of naive bumblebees. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 65, 1015-1027.

Darrouzet E., Meunier J., Bagnères A.G., Schatz B. (2011). Le genie des insectes sociaux. In: Le Génie de la nature. (Eds. Pietrasanta Y. & Schatz B.), Biotope, Mèze (Collection Parthénope), pp 86-111.

Dounias E., Lehebel-Peron A., Schatz B. (2011). L'abeille noire, le chataignier et l'Homme dans les Cévennes. In: Le Génie de la nature. (Eds. Pietrasanta Y. & Schatz B.), Biotope, Mèze (Collection Parthénope), pp 68-85.

Schatz B., Geniez P. (2011). Les orchidées, un patrimoine à préserver - In: Le Génie de la nature. (Eds. Pietrasanta Y. & Schatz B.), Biotope, Mèze (Collection Parthénope), pp 26-47.

Schatz B., Bessiere J.M., Delle-Vedove R., Hossaert-McKey, Kjellberg F. (2011). Les mutualismes de pollinisation comme facteurs importants de biodiversité. In: Le Génie de la nature. (Eds. Pietrasanta Y. & Schatz B.), Biotope, Mèze (Collection Parthénope), pp 48-67.

Dormont L., Delle-Vedove R., Bessiere J.-M., Hossaert-Mc Key M., Schatz B. (2010). Helping in food-deceptive orchids? A possible new mechanism maintaining polymorphism of floral signals. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 5, 1-2.

Dormont L., Delle-Vedove R., Bessiere J.-M., Hossaert-Mc Key M., Schatz B. (2010). Rare white-flowered morphs increase the reproductive success of common purple morphs in a food-deceptive orchid. New Phytologist, 185, 300-310.

Hossaert-McKey M., Soler C., Schatz B., Proffit M. (2010). Floral scents: their role in nursery pollination mutualism. Chemoecology 20, 75-88.

Juillet N., Delle-Vedove R., Dormont L., Schatz B., Pailler T. (2010). Floral trait and reproductive success variations among colour varieties in a tropical deceptive orchid. Plant Systematics & Evolution, 289, 213-221.

Pfeifer M., Passalacqua N.G., Bartram S., Schatz B., Croce A., Carey P.D., Kraudelt H., Jeltsch F. (2010). Conservation priorities differ at opposing species borders of a European orchid. Biological Conservation, 143, 2207-2220.

Renard D., Schatz B., McKey D. (2010). Ant nest architecture and seed burial depth: implications for seed fate and germination success in a myrmecochorous savanna shrub. Ecoscience, 17, 194-202. https://doi.org/10.2980/17-2-3335

Schatz B., Geoffroy A., Dainat B., Bessiere J.M., Buatois B., Hossaert-McKey M., Selosse M.A. (2010). A case study of modified interactions with symbionts in a hybrid mediterranean orchid. American Journal of Botany, 97, 1278-1288.

Schatz, B., Hossaert-McKey, M. (2010). Ants use odour cues to exploit fig- fig wasp interactions. Acta Oecologica, 36, 107-113.

Sirami C., Nespoulous A., Cheylan J.-P., Marty P., Hvenegaard G.T., Geniez P., Schatz B., Martin J.-L. (2010). Long-term anthropogenic and ecological dynamics of a Mediterranean landscape: impacts on multiple taxa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 96, 214-223.

Zachariades C., Schatz B., Compton S.G. (2010). Wasp emergence from the figs of Ficus sur: characteristics and predation by ants. Tropical Zoology, 23, 121-138.

Pfeifer M., Schatz B., Pico F.X., Passalacqua N.G., Fay M.F., Carey P.D., Jeltsch F. (2009). Phylogeography and genetic structure of the orchid Himantoglossum hircinum (L.) Spreng. across its European central-marginal gradient. Journal of Biogeography, 36, 2353-2365.

Proffit M., Chun Chen, Soler C., Bessiere J.M., Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M. (2009). Can chemical signals responsible for mutualistic partner encounter promote the specific exploitation of nursery pollination mutualisms? - The case of figs and fig wasps.Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 131, 46-57.

Schatz B. (2009). Les orchidées des Grands Causses: des indicateurs de biodiversité. In: Les Grands Causses, terre d'experiences. Chassany J.-P. et Crosnier, C. Eds. Editions de Parc National des Cévennes. pp. 75-77.

Chargée de Recherche

My research interests include mechanisms that promote phenotypic variation as well as potential for and constraints on adaptation, framing those questions at the edge between evolutionary and conservation biology. 

 

Chargé de Recherche
Evolutionary genetics and genomics.   My main current researchinterests include evolution in spatially structured populations, evolution of ageing, and evolution of reproductive modes. I combine experiments with the analysis of NGS data. My main empirical study systems are the small crustaceans Daphnia and Artemia.   christoph.haag[at]cefe.cnrs.fr

 ClaireDoutrelant

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 Arts-Sciences project Obô and the association https://plumesetracines.net/

1 - Evolution of ornementation in birds

 

 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

 

 Photo Claire Doutrelant

 * 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   

 

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(Post doc), Babette FOURIE (PhD Student), Nicolas  SILVA(PhD Student), Marta MARMELO (PhD Student); , Fanny RYBAK(Univ Orsay, FR),

*Collaboration:  Matthieu PAQUET(Swenden), 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

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

Photos: Claire Doutrelant

  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

 Photos: Claire Doutrelant & Martim Melo
 

 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)

 We investigate the role of sexual selection on the evolution and diversification of i) nest weaving (the extended phenotype) and on 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 Teplltsky

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/

https://mesangecefe1.wixsite.com/mesangecefe

 

Photos Claire Doutrelant

 6 - Obô, an art science projet

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

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

Posted by Maya Cyclarem & Ayline Le Sourd

website: https://plumesetracines.net/

7- Short CV

 

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

Co Pi

* 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

 

 

 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!

 

Maitre de Conférences (EPHE)

CEFE/CNRS
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 THEMES DE RECHERCHE

Mes thèmes de recherche concernent la phylogénie, la phylogéographie et l'évolution moléculaire à partir de l'analyse des séquences de gènes mitochondriaux et nucléaires. L’objectif est de répondre, à l’aide de l’outil moléculaire, à des questions de biodiversité et systématique évolutive à l’échelle des vertébrés (mammifères, amphibiens et reptiles). Je m’intéresse aussi à l’échelle temporelle (datations moléculaires) des différents niveaux de diversifications ce qui permet de confronter les inférences moléculaires avec les données morphologiques, paléontologiques et biogéographiques.

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A l’interface entre écologie fonctionnelle et écologie des communautés, je cherche à comprendre les causes de variation de la biodiversité, aussi bien à l’échelle locale que continentale, et l’effet de changements de la biodiversité sur la dynamique et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes.

      DORIS GOMEZ

      CNRS RESEARCHER

      Address: CEFE/CNRS, Campus du CNRS
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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.

RESEARCH

I am interested in coloration and visual communication at various evolutionary scales. I characterize coloration and model its perception to assess the informative content of coloration, and identify the potential receivers of the communication process. I manipulate color signals in experiments to understand how receivers use coloration to reach their decision, in relation to other sensory modalities. At a larger evolutionary scale, I run comparative analyses to understand the parts of shared ancestry and selection in driving the evolution of coloration, to ultimately determine the adaptive functions that are fulfilled by coloration. I use different approaches (correlative and experimental designs, comparative analyses) and various biological models (birds, insects, mammals, amphibians) to answer functional and evolutionary questions.

At the interface between physics and biology, my recent work aims to understand the functions and evolution of transparency in butterflies and iridescence in birds. 

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.

KEYWORDS

Sensory ecology - Evolutionary ecology - Animal behaviour - Optics - Coloration - Iridescence - Polarization - Transparency - Communication - Camouflage - Spectrometry - Vision modelling - Comparative analyses - Birds - Insects - Amphibians - Mammals

CURRENT PROJECTS

Transparency in butterflies and moths, diversity and evolution

with Marianne Elias (biologie de l'évolution: UMR 7205, MNHN),Serge Berthier (physique optique: UMR 7588, INSP), Christine Andraud (physique optique: USR 3224, MNHN), Pascal Barla (informatique graphique: INRIA, Bordeaux), and Thierry Ondarçuhu (physique mécanique des fluides: UMR 5502, IMFT)

PUBLICATIONS

2021 - 2025

• Fargevieille A, Grégoire A, Gomez D, Doutrelant C. 2023. Evolution of female colors in birds: the role of female cost of reproduction and paternal care. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36(1), 579-588. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14150
• Dupont C, Buatois B, Bessiere J-M, Villemant C, Hattermann T, Gomez D, Gaume L. 2023. Volatile organic compounds influence prey composition in Sarracenia carnivorous plants. PLoS One 18 (4) : e0277603. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277603
• Robert A*, Lengagne T, Covas R, Melo M, Gomez D, Doutrelant C. 2022. Evolution of vocal performance and song complexity in island birds. Journal of Avian Biology, vol. 2022, p.1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02726
• Robert A, T Lengagne, M Melo, D Gomez, C Doutrelant. 2022. Evolution of vocal performance and song complexity in island birds. Journal of Avian Biology.e02726.https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02726
• Arias, M, L Leroy, C Madec, L Matos, C Tedore, M Elias, and D Gomez. 2021. Partial wing transparency works better when disrupting wing edges: Evidence from a field experiment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi:10.1111/JEB.13943 https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13943
• Gomez D, C Pinna, J Pairraire, M Arias, J Barbut, A Pomerantz, W Daney de Marcillac, S Berthier, N Patel, C Andraud, and M Elias. 2021. Wing transparency in butterflies and moths: structural diversity, optical properties and ecological relevance. Ecological Monographs. doi: 10.1002/ecm.147 pdf
• Pinna C*, Vilbert M, Borenztajn S, Daney de Marcillac W, Piron-Prunier F, Pomerantz A, Patel N, Andraud C, Gomez D, Elias M. 2021. Mimicry can drive convergence in structural and light transmission features of transparent wings in Lepidoptera. eLife e69080. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69080.
• Pomerantz A F, RH Siddique, E. Cash, Y Kishi, C Pinna, K Hammar, D Gomez, M Elias, N Patel. 2021. Developmental, cellular and biochemical basis of transparency in clearwing butterflies. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi: 10.1242/jeb.237917 pdf
• Robert A, M. Melo, T. Lengagne,  S Julien, D Gomez, C. Doutrelant. 2021. Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13928 pdf

2016 - 2020

• Gruson H*, Elias M, Parra JL, Andraud C, Berthier S, Doutrelant C, Gomez D. 2020. Distribution of iridescent colours in hummingbird communities results from the interplay between selection for camouflage and communication. Recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1101/586362 pdf
• Arias M, Elias M, Andraud C, Berthier S, Gomez D. 2020. Transparency improves concealment in cryptically coloured moths. Journal of Evol. Biol 33, 247-252. doi: 10.1111/JEB.13560 pdf
• McClure M, Clerc C, Desbois C, Meichanetzoglou A, Cau M, Bastin-Héline L, Bacigalupo J, Houssin C, Pinna C, Nay B, Llaurens V, Berthier S, Andraud C, Gomez D*, and Elias M^*.2019. Why has transparency evolved in aposematic butterflies? Insights from the largest radiation of aposematic butterflies, the Ithomiini. Proc R Soc B Biol Sci. 286, 20182769. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2769. * equal contribution. pdf
• Robert A, Lengagne T, Melo M, Gardette V, Julien S, Covas R, Gomez D, Doutrelant C. 2019. The theory of island biogeography and soundscapes: species diversity and the organization of acoustic communities. Journal of Biogeography, 46, 1901-1911. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13.611 pdf
• Arias M, Mappes J, Desbois C, Gordon S, McClure M, Elias M, Nokelainen O, Gomez D. 2019. Transparency reduces predator detection in mimetic clearwing butterflies. Funct Ecol. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13315 pdf
• Gruson H, Andraud C, Daney de Marcillac W, Berthier S, Elias M, Gomez D. 2019. Quantitative characterisation of iridescent colours in biological studies: a novel method using optical theory. Interface Focus. 9:20180049. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2018.0049 pdf
• Debat V, Berthier S, Blandin P, Chazot N, Elias M, Gomez D, Llaurens V. 2018. Why are Morpho Blue? Biodivers Evol.:139–174. doi:10.1016/B978-1-78548-277-9.50009-7 pdf
• de Premorel G, Giurfa M, Andraud C, Gomez D. 2017. Higher iridescent-to-pigment optical effect in flowers facilitates learning, memory and generalization in foraging bumblebees. Proc R Soc B Biol Sci. 284(1865):20171097. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.1097 pdf
• Holveck M-J, Grégoire A, Guerreiro R, Staszewski V, Boulinier T, Gomez D, Doutrelant C. 2017. Kittiwake eggs viewed by conspecifics and predators: implications for colour signal evolution. Biol J Linn Soc. 122(2):301–312. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx065 pdf
• Lengagne T, Voituron Y, Gomez D. 2016. Male within-individual variability in a sexual signal component and its impact on female choice. Behav Ecol. 28(1):108–116. doi:10.1093/beheco/arw120 pdf

2011 - 2015

• Lengagne T, Gomez, D, Josserand R, and Voituron Y. 2015. Long Recording Sequences: How to Track the Intra-Individual Variability of Acoustic Signals. PLoS One 10, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123828 pdf
• Gomez D, Grégoire A, Del Rey Granado M, Bassoul M, Degueldre D, Perret P, and Doutrelant C. 2014. The intensity threshold of colour vision in a passerine bird, the blue tit. The Journal of Experimental Biology 217:3775-3778. doi: 10.1242/JEB.107573 pdf
• Doutrelant C, Grégoire A, Gomez D, Staszewski V, Arnoux E, Tveraa T, Faivre B, and Boulinier T. 2013. Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. Journal of Avian Biology 44:451-460.doi: 10.1111/J.1600-048X.2013.00098.X pdf 
• Feer F, Ponge JF, Jouard S, and Gomez D. 2013. Monkey and dung beetle activities influence soil seed bank structure. Ecological Research 28:93-102. doi:10.1007/S11284-012-1006-9 pdf
• Martin M, Meylan S, Gomez D, and Le Galliard J-F. 2013. Ultraviolet and carotenoid-based coloration in the viviparous lizard Zootoca vivipara (Squamata: Lacertidae) in relation to age, sex, and morphology. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:128-141.doi: 10.1111/BIJ.12104 pdf
• Gomez D, Barbosa A, Théry M, Aujard F, and Perret M. 2012. Age affects photoentrainment in a nocturnal primate. Journal of Biological Rhythms 27:164-171. doi: 10.1177/0748730411435223 pdf
• Gomez D*, Huchard E*, Henry PY, and Perret M. 2012. Mutual mate choice in a female-dominant and sexually monomorphic primate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147:370-371.* Equal contribution of both authors. doi: 10.1002/AJPA.21653 pdf
• Languille S, Blanc S, Blin O, Canale CI, Dal-Pan A, Devau G, Dhenain M, Dorieux O, Epelbaum J, Gomez D, Hardy I, Henry PY, Irving EA, Marchal J, Mestre-Francés N, Perret M, Picq JL, Pifferi F, Rahman A, Schenker EI, Terrien J, Théry M, Verdier JM, and Aujard F. 2012. The grey mouse lemur: a non-human primate model for ageing studies. Ageing Research Reviews 11:150-162. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2011.07.001 pdf
• Gomez D, Richardson C, Théry M, Lengagne T, Léna J-P, Plénet S, and Joly P. 2011. Multimodal signals in male European treefrog (Hyla arborea), and the influence of population isolation on signal expression. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103:633-647. doi: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2011.01662.X  pdf
• Gomez D, Théry M, Gauthier A-L, and Lengagne T. 2011. Costly help of audiovisual bimodality for female mate choice in a nocturnal anuran (Hyla arborea). Behavioral Ecology 22:889-898. doi: 10.1093/BEHECO/ARR039 pdf

2002-2010

• Gomez D, Richardson C, Lengagne T, Derex M, Plenet S, Joly P, Léna J-P, and Théry M. 2010. Support for a role of colour vision in mate choice in the nocturnal European treefrog (Hyla arborea). Behaviour 147:1753-1768. doi: 10.1163/000579510X534227 and erratum doi: 10.1163/000579511X566979 pdf
• Holveck M-J, Doutrelant C, Guerreiro R, Perret P, Gomez D, and Grégoire A.2010. Can eggs in a cavity be a female secondary sexual signal?Male nest visits and modelling of egg visual discrimination in blue tits. Biology Letters 6:453-457. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1044 pdf
• Legagneux P, Théry M, Guillemain M, Gomez D, and Bretagnolle V. 2010. Condition dependence of iridescent wing flash-marks in two species of dabbling ducks. Behavioural Processes 83:324-330. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.017 pdf
• Perret M, Gomez D, Barbosa A, Aujard F, and Thery M. 2010. Increased late night response to light controls the circadian pacemaker in a nocturnal primate. Journal of Biological Rhythms 25:186-196. doi: 10.1177/0748730410368244 pdf
• Richardson C, Gomez D, Durieux R, Théry M, Joly P, Léna J-P, Plenet S, and Lengagne T. 2010. Hearing is not necessarily believing in nocturnal anurans. Biology Letters 6:633-635. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0038 pdf
• Théry M and Gomez D. 2010. Insect colors and visual appearance in the eyes of their predators. Advances in Insect Physiology 38:268-353. doi: 10.1016/S0065-2806(10)38001-5 pdf
• Gomez D, Richardson C, Lengagne T, Plenet S, Joly P, Léna J-P, and Théry M.2009. The role of nocturnal vision in mate choice: females prefer conspicuous males in the European treefrog (Hyla arborea). Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 276:2351-2358. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0168 pdf
• Lenouvel P, Gomez D, Théry M, and Kreutzer M. 2009. Grooming behaviours affects visual properties of feathers in male domestic canaries (Serinus canaria). Animal Behaviour 77:1253-1260. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.007 pdf
• Amy M, Monbureau M, Durand C, Gomez D, Thery M, and Leboucher G. 2008. Female canary mate preferences: differential use of information from two types of male-male interaction. Animal Behaviour 76:971-982. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.023 pdf
• Doutrelant C, Grégoire A, Grnac N, Gomez D, Lambrechts MM, and Perret P. 2008. Female coloration indicates female reproductive capacity in blue tits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:226-233. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01451.x pdf
• Gomez D and Théry M. 2007. Simultaneous crypsis and conspicuousness in color patterns: comparative analysis of a Neotropical rainforest bird community. The American Naturalist 169:S42-S61. doi: 10.1086/510138 pdf
• Loyau A, Gomez D, Moureau B, Théry M, Hart NS, Saint Jalme M, Bennett ATD, and Sorci G. 2007. Iridescent structurally based coloration of eyespots correlates with mating success in the peacock. Behavioral Ecology 18:1123-1131. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arm088 pdf
• Moyen F, Gomez D, Doutrelant C, Pierson J, and Théry M. 2006. Interacting effects of signalling behaviour, ambient light and plumage colour in a temperate bird, the blue tit Parus caeruleus. Revue d'Ecologie (la Terre et la Vie) 61:367-382. pdf
• Théry M, Debut M, Gomez D, and Casas J. 2005. Specific color sensitivities of prey and predator explain camouflage in different visual systems. Behavioral Ecology 16:25-29. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arh130 pdf
• Gomez D and Théry M. 2004. Influence of ambient light on the evolution of colour signals: comparative analysis of a Neotropical rainforest bird community. Ecology Letters 7:279-284. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00584.x pdf
• Gomez D and Voisin J-F. 2002. Spectrometry validates subspeciation in the Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata. Marine Ornithology 30:19-24. pdf

Brief CV

• 2014-: Centre of Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, Montpellier, France
• 2011-2014: CNRS (CR1) researcher, Mecadev Laboratory, MNHN, Brunoy, France
• 2010-2011: postdoctoral fellow, CEFE, Montpellier, France
• 2007-2010: postdoctoral fellow, Mecadev Laboratory, MNHN, Brunoy, France
• 2005-2006: Lavoisier postdoctoral fellow, University of Bristol, UK
• 1999-2003: PhD in Ecology, University of Paris 6, France

Poste actuel
Professeur à l’Université de Montpellier depuis 1995 (émérite depuis 2017) – Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175 CEFE), Montpellier, Equipe Interactions et Adaptations Bioculturelles

Mots Clés
Pays : Bolivie/Colombie/Congo/Zambie/Thaïlande/Chine
Mots clés : écologie évolutive, écologie tropicale, écologie historique, domestication, mutualismes, savanes inondables, construction culturelle de niche

Current position
Professor at the University of Montpellier since 1995 (emeritus since 2017) – Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE, UMR 5175), Montpellier, Biocultural Interactions and Adaptation team

Key words
Countries : Bolivia/Colombia/Congo/Zambia/Thailand/China
Key words : evolutionary ecology, tropical ecology, historical ecology, domestication, mutualisms, floodplain savannas, cultural niche construction

 

Ma définition préférée de l’écologie est celle donnée par l’écologue américain renommé, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, au début de son cours séminaire en écologie à l’Université de Yale : « Aux fins de ce cours, nous pouvons considérer l'écologie comme l'étude de l'univers. » Formé d’abord à l’étude des interactions entre plantes et animaux dans les écosystèmes tropicaux, j’applique maintenant l’écologie évolutive à des systèmes couplés humains/nature. J’étudie comment l’évolution des plantes sous la domestication est façonnée par les pratiques agricoles en interaction avec la sélection naturelle, utilisant le manioc et d’autres plantes propagées par voie clonale comme systèmes modèles. J’étudie aussi les interactions entre humains et écosystèmes, particulièrement dans les savanes tropicales saisonnièrement inondées, comparant des systèmes de subsistance en Afrique (systèmes actuels) et en Amérique du Sud (vestiges de systèmes précolombiens) pour étudier des convergences dans la construction culturelle de la niche. Ces études comparatives enrichissent réciproquement l’archéologie et l’ethnoécologie.

Mes intérêts variés et ma volonté de traverser les frontières disciplinaires pour trouver des réponses à des questions aux multiples facettes m'ont amené à collaborer avec des spécialistes dans de nombreux domaines différents, notamment la phytochimie, la génétique, la géographie, l'agronomie, les sciences du sol, l'ethnobiologie, l'archéologie et l’anthropologie. J'ai publié dans des revues de premier plan dans tous ces domaines. Mon travail a été reconnu par plusieurs prix, dont le Grand Prix Recherche (la plus haute distinction décernée par la Société Française d'Ecologie et d'Evolution), la reconnaissance en tant qu'Ethnobotaniste Distingué par le Royal Botanic Garden (Kew, Royaume-Uni) et un prix Cozzarelli décerné par l’Académie National des Sciences des États-Unis pour un article exceptionnel publié dans la revue PNAS.

En plus de leur diversité thématique, mes recherches ont également privilégié la diversité géographique à la spécialisation régionale. J'ai mené des recherches dans 15 pays différents en Afrique tropicale, en Asie et en Amérique du Sud et j'ai donné des cours sur le terrain dans six pays supplémentaires. J'utilise cette expérience dans les études comparatives sur le terrain et les synthèses qui ont été parmi mes contributions de recherche les plus importantes.

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My favorite definition of ecology is that given by the distinguished American ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson at the beginning of his ecology seminar course at Yale : « For the purposes of this course, we may consider ecology to be the study of the universe. » Trained in the study of plant/animal interactions in tropical ecosystems, I now apply an evolutionary-ecological approach to coupled human and natural systems. I study how plant evolution under domestication is shaped by human agricultural practices and natural selection, using manioc and other clonally propagated crops as model systems. I also study interactions between humans and ecosystems, particularly in seasonal tropical wetlands, comparing subsistence systems in Africa (present-day) and South America (pre-Columbian vestiges) to study convergent patterns in cultural niche construction. These comparative studies cross-fertilize both archaeology and ethnoecology.

My broad-ranging interests, and a willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries to seek answers to many-faceted questions, have led me to collaborate with specialists in many different fields, including phytochemistry, genetics, geography, agronomy, soil science, ethnobiology, archaeology and anthropology. I have published in top-tier journals in all these fields. My work has been recognized by several awards, including the Grand Prix Recherche (the highest honor conferred by the French Society for Ecology and Evolution), recognition as Distinguished Ethnobotanist by the Royal Botanic Garden (Kew, UK) and a Cozzarelli Prize awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for an outstanding paper published in the journal PNAS.

In addition to its thematic diversity, my research has also favored geographic diversity over regional specialization. I have conducted research in 15 different countries in tropical Africa, Asia and South America and have taught field courses in six additional countries. I use this experience in the comparative field studies and syntheses that have been among my most important research contributions.

ORCID number : 0000-0002-7271-901X

TEXTE DETAILLE SUR MES RECHERCHES

Dans un nouveau projet, je reviens à des questions de recherche qui m'ont intriguée durant mon travail de doctorat et qui n'ont toujours pas trouvé de réponses : comment les défenses chimiques contre les herbivores et les pathogènes sont-elles réparties dans les graines des plantes tropicales, et comment les défenses changent-elles au cours de la transition de la graine à la plantule ? Une graine n'est pas une « partie d’une plante » mais une plante embryonnaire dont les différentes parties ont des exigences de défense différentes et des contraintes différentes dans le déploiement des défenses. Cependant, la distribution des défenses dans différentes parties des graines a rarement été étudiée. De plus, la théorie suggère que les défenses mobiles devraient jouer des rôles importants dans la défense des graines, mais celles-ci ont été négligées dans les études comparatives multi-espèces, par rapport aux défenses immobiles telles que les tanins et les défenses mécaniques (fibres, etc.), car leur diversité entre les espèces fait que ces études comparatives sont difficiles. Enfin, la façon dont les défenses chimiques changent au cours de l'ontogenèse végétale est une frontière active dans la recherche sur l'écologie évolutive de la défense des plantes, mais une transition ontogénétique cruciale, celle de la graine à la plantule, a été peu étudiée. Grâce à une bourse Talent de l'Académie des sciences de la Chine, j'étudierai ces questions en collaboration avec un chimiste (Gregory Genta-Jouve, Univ. Paris Descartes) et avec des collègues du Jardin botanique tropical de Xishuangbanna (Yunnan, Chine), où les installations (serre et laboratoire) permettront d'étudier un grand nombre d'espèces.

Auparavant, j'ai étudié les interactions interspécifiques dans les écosystèmes tropicaux, à la fois antagonistes (défenses chimiques des plantes, interactions des plantes avec les herbivores mammifères et insectes, théorie de la défense optimale, écologie chimique) et mutualistes (la pollinisation et la dispersion et des graines par les animaux, mutualismes symbiotiques plantes / fourmis), utilisant mes systèmes d'étude pour étudier un large éventail de questions générales en écologie et évolution. Le travail de mon équipe sur les mutualismes symbiotiques entre plantes et fourmis a développé une perspective comparative sur l'écologie évolutive de ces mutualismes, et nos revues à ce sujet (Davidson & McKey, 1993, Journal of Hymenoptera Research; Heil & McKey 2003 ; Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; Blatrix et al. 2014, New Phytologist) sont les articles de synthèse les plus cités dans le domaine. Bien qu'une grande partie de mon travail actuel se concentre sur les interactions entre les humains et les environnements qu'ils occupent, je continue d'être fermement ancré dans l'écologie évolutive fondamentale de pointe, une source importante de nouvelles idées à appliquer pour étudier les interactions entre les humains, d'autres organismes et les environnements qu'ils partagent.

Mon travail sur la domestication des plantes, axé sur les plantes domestiquées à propagation clonale, a inclus l'écologie, la biologie évolutive (génétique, phylogéographie, phylogénie), l'anthropologie et l'agronomie. Le travail de mon équipe sur l'écologie évolutive de la domestication du manioc a transformé notre vision de l'évolution sous domestication dans les cultures à propagation clonale, montrant comment les pratiques agricoles des agriculteurs qui ont domestiqué ces cultures conduisent à des systèmes reproducteurs mixtes clonaux / sexués dont la dynamique est beaucoup plus complexe qu’a été pensé auparavant (McKey et al. 2010, New Phytologist).

Dans nos travaux sur l'écologie culturelle des plaines inondables des savanes tropicales, dans le passé et le présent, je collabore avec des archéologues, des archéobotanistes, des géographes, des pédologues, des écologues et des spécialistes de la télédétection. Ces études ont montré comment les humains et les animaux ingénieurs du sol co-construisent des paysages (McKey et al. 2010, PNAS) et comment les comparaisons intercontinentales révèlent à la fois la convergence et la singularité dans la construction de niches culturelles (McKey et al.2016, PNAS ; Blatrix et al. 2018 , Scientific Reports). Ces travaux jettent un nouvel éclairage sur l'écologie historique de l'Amazonie, sur l'agriculture actuelle des zones humides en Afrique et sur l'écologie dans les environnements des plaines inondables tropicales. Nous étudions actuellement la diversité des systèmes agricoles des prairies dans les régions tropicales actuelles de l'Ancien Monde pour comprendre comment l'agriculture sur champs surélevés –et d'autres types possibles d'agriculture—dans les savanes néotropicales peut avoir fonctionné à l’époque précolombienne.

 

DETAILED TEXT ON MY RESEARCH

In a new project, I am returning to research questions that intrigued me during my PhD work and that still have not found answers: How are chemical defenses against herbivores and pathogens distributed in the seeds of tropical plants, and how do defenses change in the transition from seed to seedling? A seed is not a ‘plant part’ but an embryonic plant whose different parts have different defense requirements and different constraints in deploying defences. However, distribution of defences in different parts of seeds has rarely been studied. Furthermore, theory suggests that mobile defenses should play important roles in seed defense, but these have been neglected in multi-species comparative studies, compared to immobile defences such as tannins and mechanical defences (fiber,..), because their diversity among species makes such comparative studies difficult. Finally, how chemical defenses change over plant ontogeny is an active frontier in research on the evolutionary ecology of plant defense, but a crucial ontogenetic transition, that from seed to seedling, has been little studied. With a Talent grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I will study these questions in collaboration with a chemist (Gregory Genta-Jouve, Univ. Paris Descartes) and with colleagues at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (Yunnan, China), where greenhouse and laboratory facilities will allow study of a large number of species.

Previously, I have studied interspecies interactions in tropical ecosystems, both antagonistic (plant chemical defenses, interactions of plants with mammalian and insect herbivores, optimal defense theory, chemical ecology) and mutualistic (seed dispersal and pollination by animals, symbiotic ant/plant mutualisms), using my study systems to investigate a wide range of general questions in ecology and evolution. The work of my team on symbiotic ant-plant mutualisms has developed a comparative perspective on the evolutionary ecology of these mutualisms, and our reviews of this subject (Davidson & McKey, 1993, Journal of Hymenoptera Research; Heil & McKey 2003, Annual Revew of Ecology, Evolution and Systematic ; Blatrix et al. 2014, New Phytologist) are the most widely cited review articles in the field. Although much of my current work is focused on interactions between humans and the environments they occupy, I continue to be firmly grounded in state-of-the-art fundamental evolutionary ecology, an important source of new insights to apply in studying the interactions among humans, other organisms and the environments they share.

My work on plant domestication, focusing on clonally propagated domesticated plants, has included ecology, evolutionary biology (genetics, phylogeography, phylogeny), anthropology and agronomy. My team’s work on the evolutionary ecology of domestication of manioc has transformed our views of evolution under domestication in clonally propagated crops, showing how agricultural practices of the farmers who domesticated these crops leads to mixed clonal/sexual reproductive systems whose dynamics are much more complex than was previously thought (McKey et al. 2010, New Phytologist).

In our work on the cultural ecology of tropical savanna floodplains, past and present, I collaborate with archaeologists, archaeobotanists, geographers, soil scientists, ecologists and specialists in remote sensing. These studies have shown how humans and soil engineer animals co-construct landscapes (McKey et al. 2010, PNAS) and how intercontinental comparisons reveal both convergence and singularity in cultural niche construction (McKey et al. 2016, PNAS ; Blatrix et al. 2018, Scientific Reports). This work is shedding new light on the historical ecology of Amazonia, on present-day wetland agriculture in Africa, and on ecology in floodplain savanna environments throughout the tropics. We are currently studying the diversity of grassland-farming systems in the present-day Old-World tropics to understand how raised-field agriculture in Neotropical floodplain savannas—and possible other kinds of agriculture in upland savannas of South America—may have functioned in pre-Columbian times.

 

LISTE DES PUBLICATIONS

1. Publications in international peer-reviewed journals

 

1. MCKEY D. (1974). Adaptive patterns in alkaloid physiology. American Naturalist 108: 305-320.

2. MCKEY D. (1974). Ant-plants: selective eating of an unoccupied Barteria by a Colobus Biotropica 6: 269-270.

3. STRUHSAKER T. & D. MCKEY. (1975). Two cusimanse mongooses attack a black cobra. Journal of Mammalogy 56: 721-722.

4. JANZEN D. H.& D. MCKEY. (1975).What the tropical trappers leave behind. Biotropica 7: 7.

5. JANZEN D. H. & D. MCKEY. (1977). Musanga cecropioides is a Cecropia without its ants. Biotropica 9: 57.

6. MCKEY D., P. G. WATERMAN, C. N. MBI, J. S. GARTLAN, & T. T. STRUHSAKER. (1978). Phenolic content of vegetation in two African rainforests: ecological implications. Science 202: 61-64.

7. MCKEY D. (1980).The evolution of novel alkaloid types: a mechanism for the rapid phenotypic evolution of plant secondary compounds. American Naturalist 115: 754-759.

8. GARTLAN J. S., D. B. MCKEY, P. G. WATERMAN, C. N. MBI, & T. T. STRUHSAKER. (1980) A comparative study of the phytochemistry of two African rainforests. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 8: 401-422.

9. WATERMAN P. G., C. N. MBI, D. MCKEY, & J. S. GARTLAN. (1980). African rainforest vegetation and rumen microbes: phenolic compounds and nutrients as correlates of digestibility. Oecologia 47: 22-33.

10. MCKEY D., J. S. GARTLAN, P. G. WATERMAN, & G. M. CHOO. (1981). Food selection by black colobus monkeys (Colobus satanas) in relation to plant chemistry. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 16: 115-146.

 

11. CHOO G. M., P. G. WATERMAN, D. MCKEY, & J. S. GARTLAN. (1981). A simple enzyme assay for dry matter digestibility and its value in studying food selection by generalist herbivores. Oecologia 49: 170-178.

12. MCKEY D. & P. G. WATERMAN. (1982). Ranging behaviour of a group of black colobus (Colobus satanas) in the Douala-Edea Reserve, Cameroon. Folia Primatologica 39: 264-304.

13. DILLON P., S. LOWRIE, & D. MCKEY. (1983). Disarming the "mala mujer": prevention of latex flow by a sphingid larva. Biotropica 15: 112-116.

14. MCKEY D. (1984). Interaction of the ant-plant Leonardoxa africana (Caesalpiniaceae) with its obligate inhabitants in rainforests in Cameroon. Biotropica 16: 81-99.

15. WATERMAN, J. ROSS, & D. MCKEY. (1984). Factors affecting levels of some phenolic compounds, digestibility, and nitrogen content of the nature leaves of Barteria fistulosa Passifloraceae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 10: 387-401.

16. NEWBERY D., J. S. GARTLAN, D. MCKEY, & P. G. WATERMAN. (1986). The influence of drainage and soil phosphorus on the vegetation of Douala-Edea Forest Reserve, Cameroon. Vegetatio 65: 149-162.

17. MCKEY D. (1988). Cecropia peltata, an introduced neotropical pioneer tree, is replacing Musanga cecropioides in southwestern Cameroon, Biotropica 20: 262-264.

18. MCKEY D. (1989). Population biology of figs: applications for conservation. Experientia 45: 661-673.

 

19. BRONSTEIN J. & D. MCKEY. (1989). The fig/pollinator mutualism: A model system for comparative biology. Experientia 45: 601-604.

 

20. BRONSTEIN J. & D. MCKEY (eds.). (1989). The comparative biology of figs. Multi-author review. Experientia 45(7): 601-680.

21. FREY, T. LATSCHA & D. MCKEY. (1990). Genetic differentiation and speciation in leaf mining flies of the genus Phytomyza. Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 57: 191-200.

22. BAHUCHET S., D. MCKEY, & I. DE GARINE. (1991). Wild yams revisited: Can hunter-gatherers subsist independently of agriculture in tropical rain forest? Human Ecology 19: 213-243.

23. KAUFMANN S., D. MCKEY, M. HOSSAERT, & C. HORVITZ (1991). Fruits of Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae): Adaptations for a two-phase seed dispersal system involving vertebrates and ants in a hemiepiphytic fig. American Journal of Botany 78: 971-977.

24. DAVIDSON D. & D. MCKEY. (1993). The evolutionary ecology of symbiotic ant-plant relationships. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2: 13-83.

25. DAVIDSON D. & D. MCKEY. (1993). Ant-plant symbioses: Stalking the Chuyachaqui. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8: 326-332.

26. PATEL A., M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (1993). Ficus-pollinator research in India: Past, present and future. Current Science 65: 243-253.

27. JARRY M., M. KHALADI, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (1995). Modelling the population dynamics of annual plants with seed bank and density dependent effects. Acta Biotheoretica 43: 53-65.

28. CHENUIL, A., & D. MCKEY. (1996). Molecular phylogenetic study of a myrmecophyte symbiosis: did Leonardoxa / ant associations diversify via cospeciation? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 6: 270-286.

29. ANSTETT, M.C., M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (1997). Modeling the persistence of small populations of strongly interdependent species: figs and fig wasps. Conservation Biology 11: 204-213.

30. GAUME, L., M.C. ANSTETT, & D. MCKEY. (1997). Benefits conferred by "timid" ants: active anti-herbivore protection of the rainforest tree Leonardoxa africana by the minute ant Petalomyrmex phylax. Oecologia 112: 209-216.

31. BROUAT, C., M. GIBERNAU, L. AMSELLEM, & D. MCKEY. (1998). Corner’s rules revisited : ontogenetic and interspecific patterns in leaf-stem allometry. New Phytologist 139: 459-470.

32. CEBALLOS, L., M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, D. MCKEY, & C. ANDARY. (1998). Rapid deployment of allelochemicals in exudates of germinating seeds of Sesbania (Fabaceae) : roles of seed anatomy and histolocalization of polyphenolic compounds in anti-pathogen defense of seedlings. Chemoecology 8: 141-151.

33. GAUME, L. & D. MCKEY. (1998). Protection against herbivores of the myrmecophyte Leonardoxa africana (Baill.) Aubrèv. T3 by its principal ant inhabitant Aphomomyrmex afer Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, Sciences de la Vie / Life Sciences 321: 593-601.

34. GAUME, L., D. MCKEY, & S. TERRIN. (1998). Ant-plant-homopteran mutualism: how the third partner affects the interaction between a plant-specialist ant and its myrmecophyte host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 265: 569-575.

35. PATEL, A., & D. MCKEY. (1998). Sexual specialisation in two tropical dioecious figs. Oecologia 115: 391-400.

36. GAUME, L., & D. MCKEY. (1999). An ant-plant mutualism and its host-specific parasite: activity rhythms, young leaf patrolling, and effects on herbivores of two specialist plant-ants inhabiting the same myrmecophyte. Oikos 84:130-144.

37. MEUNIER, L., A. DALECKY, C. BERTICAT, L. GAUME, & D. MCKEY. (1999). Worker size variation and the evolution of an ant-plant mutualism : comparative morphometrics of workers of two closely related plant-ants, Petalomyrmex phylax and Aphomomyrmex afer (Formicinae). Insectes Sociaux 46:171-178.

38. MCKEY, D., L. GAUME, & A. DALECKY. (1999). Les symbioses entre plantes et fourmis arboricoles. Année Biologique 38: 169-194.

39. GAUME, L., D. MATILE-FERRERO, & D. MCKEY. (2000). Colony foundation and acquisition of coccoid trophobionts by Aphomomyrmex afer (Formicinae) : co-dispersal of queens and phoretic mealybugs in an ant-plant-homopteran mutualism ? Insectes Sociaux 47: 84-91.

40. PASCAL, L.M., E.F. MOTTE-FLORAC, & D. MCKEY. (2000). Secretory structures on the leaf rachis of Caesalpinieae and Mimosoideae (Leguminosae) : implications for the evolution of nectary glands. American Journal of Botany 87: 327-338.

41. MCKEY, D. (2000). Leonardoxa africana (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae): a complex of mostly allopatric subspecies. Adansonia 22: 71-109.

42. ELIAS, M., & D. MCKEY. (2000). The unmanaged reproductive ecology of domesticated plants in traditional agroecosystems: an example involving cassava and a call for data. Acta Oecologica 21: 223-230.

43. DEJEAN, A., D. MCKEY, M. GIBERNAU, & M. BELIN. (2000). The arboreal ant mosaic in a Cameroonian rainforest. Sociobiology 35: 403-423.

44. HEIL, M., C. STAEHELIN, & D. MCKEY. (2000). Low chitinase activity in Acacia myrmecophytes: a potential trade-off between biotic and chemical defences? Naturwissenschaften 87: 555-558.

45. BROUAT, C., D. MCKEY, J.-M.BESSIERE, L. PASCAL, & M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY. (2000). Leaf volatile compounds and the distribution of ant patrolling in an ant-plant protection mutualism: preliminary results on Leonardoxa (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) and Petalomyrmex (Formicidae: Formicinae). Acta Oecologica 21: 349-357.

46. BROUAT, C., & D. MCKEY. (2000). Origin of caulinary ant-domatia and timing of their onset in plant ontogeny : evolution of a key trait in horizontally transmitted ant-plant symbioses. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 801-819.

47. ELIAS, M., L. RIVAL, & D. MCKEY. (2000). Perception and management of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity among Makushi Amerindians of Guyana (South America). Journal of Ethnobiology 20: 239-265.

48. BROUAT, C., L. GIELLY, & D. MCKEY. (2001). Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Leonardoxa (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) inferred from chloroplast trnLand trnL- trnF intergeneric spacer sequences. American Journal of Botany 88: 143-149.

49. ELIAS, M., MCKEY, D., PANAUD, O., ANSTETT, M.C., ROBERT, T. (2001). Traditional management of cassava morphological and genetic diversity by the Makushi Amerindians (Guyana, South America) : perspectives for on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources. Euphytica 120: 143-157.

50. BROUAT, C., & D. MCKEY. (2001). Leaf-stem allometry, hollow stems, and the evolution of caulinary domatia in myrmecophytes. New Phytologist 151: 391-406.

51. ELIAS M., L. PENET, P. VINDRY, D. MCKEY, O. PANAUD, & T. ROBERT. (2001). Unmanaged sexual reproduction and the dynamics of genetic diversity of a vegetatively propagated crop plant, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), in a traditional farming system. Molecular Ecology 10: 1895-1907.

52. BROUAT, C., N. GARCIA, C. ANDARY, & D. MCKEY. (2001). Plant lock and ant key: pairwise coevolution of an exclusion filter in an ant-plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 2131-2141.

53. MCKEY, D., L. EMPERAIRE, M. ELIAS, F. PINTON, T. ROBERT, S. DESMOULIERE, & L. RIVAL. (2001). Gestions locales et dynamiques régionales de la diversité variétale du manioc en Amazonie. Génétique, Sélection et Evolution 33 (supplement 1): S465-S490.

54. DI GIUSTO, B., M.C. ANSTETT, E. DOUNIAS, & D. MCKEY. (2001). Variation in the effectiveness of biotic defense: the case of an opportunistic ant-plant protection mutualism. Oecologia 129: 367-375.

55. GAUME, L., & D. MCKEY. (2002). How identity of the homopteran trophobiont affects sex allocation in a symbiotic plant-ant: the proximate role of food. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 197-205.

56. CARRIERE, S.M., M. ANDRE, P. LETOURMY, I. OLIVIER, & D. MCKEY. (2002). Seed rain beneath remnant trees in a slash-and-burn agricultural system in southern Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 : 353-374.

57. CARRIERE, S.M., P. LETOURMY, & D. MCKEY. (2002). Effects of remnant trees in fallows on diversity and structure of forest regrowth in a slash-and-burn agricultural system in southern Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18: 375-396.

58. CEBALLOS, L., C. ANDARY, M. DELESCLUSE, M. GIBERNAU, D. MCKEY & M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY. (2002). Effects of sublethal attack by a sucking insect, Hyalymenus tarsatus, on Sesbania drummondii seeds: Impact on some seed traits related to fitness. Ecoscience 9: 28-36.

59. HEIL, M., T. DELSINNE, A. HILPERT, S. SCHÜRKENS, C. ANDARY, K.E. LINSENMAIR, S.M. SOUSA, & D. MCKEY. (2002). Reduced chemical defence in ant-plants? A critical re-evaluation of a widely accepted hypothesis. Oikos 99 : 457-468.

60. HEIL, M., B. BAUMANN, C. ANDARY, K.E. LINSENMAIR, & D. MCKEY. (2002). Extraction and quantification of "condensed tannins" as a measure of plant anti-herbivore defence? Revisiting an old problem. Naturwissenschaften 89 : 519-524.

61. PUJOL, B., G. GIGOT, G. LAURENT, M. PINHEIRO-KLUPPEL, M. ELIAS, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (2002). Germination ecology of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in traditional agroecosystems : seed and seedling biology of a vegetatively propagated domesticated plant. Economic Botany 56: 366-379.

62. DEBOUT, G., E. PROVOST, M. RENUCCI, A. TIRARD, B. SCHATZ, & D. MCKEY. (2003). Colony structure in a plant-ant: behavioural, chemical and genetic study of polydomy in Cataulacus mckeyi (Myrmicinae). Oecologia 137 : 195-204.

63. HEIL, M., & D. MCKEY. (2003). Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 34: 425-453.

64. BROUAT, C., D. MCKEY, & E. DOUZERY (2004). Differentiation and gene flow in a geographic mosaic of plants coevolving with ants: phylogeny of the Leonardoxa africana complex (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) using AFLP markers. Molecular Ecology 13: 1157-1171.

65. ELIAS, M., G.S. MUHLEN, D. MCKEY, A.C. ROA, & J. TOHME. (2004). Genetic diversity of traditional South American landraces of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz): an analysis using microsatellites. Economic Botany 58: 242-256.

66. DJIETO-LORDON, C., A. DEJEAN, M. GIBERNAU, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (2004). Symbiotic mutualism with a community of opportunistic ants: protection, competition, and ant occupancy of the myrmecophyte Barteria nigritana (Passifloraceae). Acta Oecologica 26: 109-116.

67. ALVAREZ, N., E. GARINE, C. KHASAH, E. DOUNIAS, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, & D. MCKEY. (2005). Farmers’ practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon. Biological Conservation 121: 533-543.

68. DJIETO-LORDON, C., A. DEJEAN, R.A. RING, J. LAUGA, A. NKONGMENECK, & D. MCKEY. (2005). Ecology of an improbable association: the pseudomyrmecine plant-ant Tetraponera tessmanni and the myrmecophytic vine Vitex thyrsiflora (Lamiaceae) in Cameroon. Biotropica 37: 421-430.

69. PUJOL, B., P. DAVID, & D. MCKEY. (2005). Microevolution in agricultural environments: how a traditional Amerindian farming practice favours heterozygosity in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae). Ecology Letters 8: 138-147.

70. PUJOL B., Mühlen, N. Garwood, Y. Horoszowski, E. DOUZERY, & D. McKey. (2005). Evolution under domestication: contrasting functional morphology of seedlings in domesticated cassava and its closest wild relatives. New Phytologist 166: 305-318.

71. DEBOUT, G., A. SALTMARSH, D. MCKEY, & A.-M. RISTERUCCI. (2005). Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the tropical ant-plant Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 35-38.

72. DALECKY, , L. Gaume, B. Schatz, D. McKey, & F. Kjellberg. (2005). Facultative polygyny in the plant–ant Petalomyrmex phylax: assessment of genetic and ecological determinants of queen number. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 133-151.

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73. GHIMIRE, S., D. MCKEY, & Y. AUMEERUDDY-THOMAS. (2004). Heterogeneity in ethnoecological knowledge and management of medicinal plants in Nepal Himalaya: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 9(3): 6. [online] : http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss3/art6/.

74. ALVAREZ, N., D. MCKEY, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, C. BORN, L. MERCIER, & B. BENREY. (2005). Ancient and recent evolutionary history of the bruchid beetle Acanthoscelides obtectus Say, a cosmopolitan pest of beans. Molecular Ecology 14: 1015-1024.

 

75. ALVAREZ, N., HOSSAERT-MCKEY, J.-Y. RASPLUS, D. MCKEY, L. MERCIER, L. SOLDATI, A. AEBI, & B. BENREY. (2005). Sibling species of bean bruchids: morphological and phylogenetic studies among Acanthoscelides obtectusSay and A. obvelatusBridwell. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res.43: 29-37.

 

76. DEBOUT, G., B. SCHATZ, & D. MCKEY. (2005). Comparison of foraging behaviour in two plant-ants, the mutualist Petalomyrmex phylax and a parasite of a mutualism, Cataulacus mckeyi. Insectes Sociaux 52: 205-211.

 

77. GHIMIRE, S.K., D. MCKEY, & Y. AUMEERUDDY-THOMAS. (2005). Conservation of Himalayan medicinal plants: harvesting patterns and ecology of two threatened species, Nardostachys grandiflora And Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pennell) Hong. Biological Conservation 124: 463-475.

78. PUJOL, B. & D. MCKEY. (2006). Size asymmetry in intraspecific competition and the density-dependence of inbreeding depression in a natural plant population: a case study in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 85-96.
79. ELIAS, M., H. LENOIR, & D. MCKEY. (2007). Propagule quantity and quality in traditional Makushi farming of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz): a case study for understanding evolution under domestication in vegetatively propagated crops. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 54: 99-115.
80. DEBOUT, G., B. SCHATZ, M. ELIAS & D. MCKEY. (2007). Polydomy in ants: what we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 319-348.
81. GHIMIRE, S.K., Y. A. THOMAS, & D. MCKEY. (2006). Himalayan medicinal plant diversity in an ecologically complex high altitude anthropogenic landscape, Dolpo, Nepal. Environmental Conservation 33: 128-140.

82. ALVAREZ, N., B. BENREY, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, A. GRILL, D. MCKEY & N. GALTIER. (2006). Phylogeographic support for horizontal gene transfer involving sympatric bruchid species. Biology Direct1: 21. http://www.biology-direct.com/content/pdf/1745-6150-1-21.
83. DALECKY, A.., G. DEBOUT, A. ESTOUP, D.B. MCKEY & F. KJELLBERG. (2007). Changes in mating system and social structure of the ant Petalomyrmex phylax are associated with range expansion in Cameroon. Evolution 61: 579-595.
84. DORMONT, L., S. RAPIOR, D. MCKEY & J.-P. LUMARET. (2007). Influence of dung volatiles on the process of resource selection by coprophagous beetles. Chemoecology 17: 23-30.
85. AMSELLEM, L. & D. MCKEY. (2006). Integrating phenological, chemical and biotic defences in ant-plant protection mutualisms: a case study of two myrmecophyte lineages. Chemoecology 16: 223-234.
86. BARNAUD, A., M. DEU, E. GARINE, D. MCKEY &I. JOLY. (2007). Local genetic diversity of sorghum in a village in northern Cameroon: structure and dynamics of landraces. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114: 237-248.
87. PUJOL, B., F. RENOUX, M. ELIAS, L. RIVAL & D. MCKEY. (2007). The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations: conservation consequences of soil seed banks in cassava. Biological Conservation 136: 541-551.
88. DUPUTIE, A., P. DAVID, C. DEBAIN & D. MCKEY. (2007). Natural hybridization between a clonally propagated crop, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and a wild relative in French Guiana. Molecular Ecology 16: 3025-3038.
89. GHIMIRE, S.K., O. GIMENEZ, R. PRADEL, D. MCKEY & Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas. (2008). Demographic variation and population viability in a threatened Himalayan medicinal and aromatic herb (Nardostachys grandiflora): matrix modelling of harvesting effects in two contrasting habitats. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 41-51.
90. PUJOL, B., J.-L. SALAGER, M. BELTRAN, S. BOUSQUET & D. MCKEY. (2008). Photosynthesis and leaf structure in domesticated cassava (Euphorbiaceae) and a close wild relative: have leaf photosynthetic parameters evolved under domestication? Biotropica 40: 305-312.
91. DIALLO, B.O., H.I. JOLY, D. MCKEY, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY & M.-H. CHEVALLIER. (2007). Genetic diversity of Tamarindus indica populations: Any clues on the origin from its current distribution? African Journal of Biotechnology 6: 853-860.
92. DIALLO, B.O., D. MCKEY, M.-H. CHEVALLIER, H.I. JOLY & M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY. (2008). Breeding system and pollination biology of the semi-domesticated fruit tree, Tamarindus indica (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae): Implications for fruit production, selective breeding, and conservation of genetic resources. African Journal of Biotechnology 7: 4068-4075.
93. Léotard, G., A. Saltmarsh, F. Kjellberg & D. McKey. (2008). Mutualism, hybrid inviability and speciation in a tropical ant-plant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1133-1143.
94. Léotard, G., E. Defossez, C. Debain, D. MCKEY, f. kjellberg & R. blatrix. (2008). Local genetic co-structuring of the ant Petalomyrmex phylax and its host plant Leonardoxa a. africana: no role for a sixty-meter wide river in separating social forms. Sociobiology 51: 363-371.
95. BARNAUD, A., H.I. JOLY, D. MCKEY, M. DEU, C. KHASAH, S. MONNE & E. GARINE. (2008). Gestion in situ des ressources génétiques du sorgho (Sorghum bicolor bicolor) chez les Duupa du Nord Cameroun : sélection et échange de semences. Cahiers Agricultures 17: 178-182.
96. MONDOLOT, L., A. MARLAS, D. BARBEAU, A. GARGADENNEC, B. PUJOL & D. MCKEY. (2008). Domestication and defence: foliar tannins and C/N ratios in cassava and a close wild relative. Acta Oecologica 34: 147-154.
97. HOSSAERT-MCKEY, M., D. MCKEY & L. DORMONT. (2008). Fungal sex as a private matter: odour signals in a specialized pollination-like insect-fungus mutualism. New Phytologist 178: 225-227. (commentary)
98. BARNAUD, A., G. TRIGUEROS, D. MCKEY & HI JOLY. (2008). High outcrossing rates in fields with mixed sorghum landraces : how are landraces maintained ? Heredity 101: 445-452.
99. SARDOS J, D MCKEY, R. MALAPA, J.-L. NOYER & V. LEBOT. (2008). Evolution of cassava (Manihot esculentaCrantz) after recent introduction into a South Pacific island system: the contribution of sex to the diversification of a clonally propagated crop. Genome 51: 912-921.
100. RIVAL L & D MCKEY (2008) Domestication and diversity in manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz ssp. esculenta, Euphorbiaceae). Current Anthropology 49: 1119-1128.
101. DEBOUT, G.D.G., A. DALECKY, A. NGOMI NGOMI & D.B. MCKEY. (2009). Dynamics of species coexistence: maintenance of a plant-ant competitive metacommunity. Oikos 118: 873-884.
102. DEFOSSEZ, E., M.-A. SELOSSE, M.-P. DUBOIS, L. MONDOLOT, A. FACCIO, C. DJIETO-LORDON, D. MCKEY & R. BLATRIX. (2009). Ant-plants and fungi: a new threesome symbiosis. New Phytologist182: 942-949.
103. MENARD, L., D. MCKEY, N. ROWE (2009). Developmental plasticity and biomechanics of treelets and lianas in Manihot quinquepartita (Euphorbiaceae): a branch-angle climber of French Guiana. Annals of Botany 103: 1249-1259.
104. WEBBER, B. D. MCKEY (2009). Cyanogenic myrmecophytes, redundant defence mechanisms and complementary defence syndromes: revisiting the neotropical ant-acacias. New Phytologist 182: 792-794.
105. SCHATZ, B., C. DJIETO-LORDON, L. DORMONT, J.-M. BESSIERE, D. MCKEY & R. BLATRIX (2009). A simple non-specific chemical signal mediates defense behaviour in a specialized ant-plant mutualism. Current Biology 19 (9): R361-R362.
106. LEOTARD, G., G. DEBOUT, S. GUILLOT, L. GAUME, D. MCKEY, F. KJELLBERG & A. DALECKY. (2009) Range expansion drives dispersal evolution in an equatorial three-species symbiosis. PLoS ONE 4(4): e5377 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005377.
107. BARNAUD, A., M. DEU, E. GARINE, J. CHANTEREAU, J. BOLTEU, E. OUIN-KOIDA, D. MCKEY & H.I. JOLY (2009). A weed-crop complex in sorghum: the fate of new genetic combinations in a traditional farming system. American Journal of Botany 96: 1869-1879.
108. DUPUTIE, A., M. DELETRE, J.-J. DE GRANVILLE & D. MCKEY (2009). Population genetics of Manihot esculenta flabellifolia gives insight into past distribution of xeric vegetation in a postulated forest refugium area in northern Amazonia. Molecular Ecology 18 : 2897-2907.
109. LEOTARD, G., A. DUPUTIE, F. KJELLBERG, E.J.P. DOUZERY, C. DEBAIN, J.-J. DE GRANVILLE & D. MCKEY (2009). Phylogeography and the origin of cassava: new insights from the northern rim of the Amazonian basin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53: 329-334.
110. DUPUTIE, A., F MASSOL, P. DAVID, C. HAXAIRE & D. MCKEY. (2009) Traditional Amerindian cultivators combine directional and ideotypic selection for sustainable management of cassava genetic diversity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1317-1325.
111. MCKEY, D., ROSTAIN, J. IRIARTE, B. GLASER, J.J. BIRK, I. HOLST & D. RENARD (2010) Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107: 7823-7828. This article was selected by two different members of the “Faculty of 1000 Biology” as a “Must Read” paper in ecology.
112. MCKEY, D., M. ELIAS, B. PUJOL & A. DUPUTIE (2010) The evolutionary ecology of clonally propagated domesticated plants. New Phytologist 186: 318-332. This paper was selected by a member of the “Faculty of 1000 Biology” as an “Exceptional” paper in ecology.
113. MCKEY, D., T. CAVAGNARO, J. CLIFF & R. GLEADOW (2010) Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change. Chemoecology 20: 109-133. (DOI 10.1007/s00049-010-0047-1)
114. RENARD, D., B. SCHATZ & D. MCKEY (2010) Ant nest architecture and seed burial depth: implications for seed fate and germination success in a myrmecochorous savanna shrub. Ecoscience 17: 194-202.
115. DIALLO, B.O., H.I. JOLY, D. MCKEY, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY & M.H. CHEVALLIER (2010) Changes in biometric characters of seeds and seedlings of nine provenances of Tamarindus indica (Caesalpinioideae). Fruits 65: 153-167.
116. IRIARTE, J., B. GLASER, J. WATLING, A. WAINWRIGHT, J.J. BIRK, D. RENARD, S. ROSTAIN & D. MCKEY (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2984-2994.
117. BORN, C., N. ALVAREZ, D. MCKEY, S. OSSARI, E.J. WICKINGS, M. HOSSAERT-MCKEY & M.-H. CHEVALLIER (2011) Insights into the biogeographical history of the Lower Guinea Forest Domain: evidence for the role of refugia in the intraspecific differentiation of Aucoumea klaineana. Molecular Ecology 20: 131-142.
118. DEFOSSEZ, E., C. DJIETO-LORDON, D. MCKEY, M.-A. SELOSSE & R. BLATRIX (2011). Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 278: 1419-1426.
119. DUPUTIE, A., J. SALICK, D. MCKEY (2011). Evolutionary biogeography of Manihot, a rapidly radiating Neotropical genus restricted to dry environments. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1033-1043.
120. RENARD, D., J. IRIARTE, J.J. BIRK, S. ROSTAIN, B. GLASER, D. MCKEY (2012). Ecological engineers ahead of their time: the functioning of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and its potential contributions to sustainability today. Ecological Engineering 45: 30-44. Doi: 10.1016/J.ecoleng.2011.03.007.
121. VITTECOQ, M., C. DJIETO-LORDON, B. BUATOIS, L. DORMONT, D. MCKEY, R. BLATRIX (2011). The evolution of communication in two ant-plant mutualisms. Evolutionary Biology 38: 360-369. DOI 10.1007/S11692-011-9125-8.
122. RASPLUS, J.-Y., J. LASALLE, G. DELVARE, D. MCKEY, B.L. WEBBER (2011). A new Afrotropical genus and species of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) inducing galls on Bikinia (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) and a new species of Ormyrus (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) associated with the gall. Zootaxa 2907: 51-59.  
123. GONMADJE, C.F., C. DOUMENGE, D. McKEY, G.P.M. TCHOUTO, T.C.H. SUNDERLAND, M.P.B. BALINGA, B. SONKE (2011). Tree diversity and conservation value of Ngovayang’s lowland forest, Cameroon. Biodiversity and Conservation 20: 2627-2648.
124. ROULLIER, C., G. ROSSEL, D. TAY, D. MCKEY, V. LEBOT (2011). Combining chloroplast and nuclear microsatellites to investigate origin and dispersal of New World sweet potato landraces. Molecular Ecology 20: 3963-3977. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365é294X.2011.05229x.
125. RENARD, D., J.J. BIRK, B. GLASER, J. IRIARTE, G. GRISARD, J. KARL, D. MCKEY (2012). Origin of mound-field landscapes: a multi-proxy approach combining contemporary vegetation, carbon stable isotopes and phytoliths. Plant and Soil 351: 337-353.
126. VITTECOQ, M., C. DJIETO-LORDON, D. MCKEY, R. BLATRIX (2012). Range expansion induces variation in a behavioural trait in an ant-plant mutualism. Acta Oecologica 38: 84-88.
127. DELETRE, M., D. MCKEY, T.R. HODKINSON (2011). Marriage exchanges, seed exchanges and the dynamics of manioc diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America108: 18249-18254.
128. IRIARTE, J., M.J. POWER, S. ROSTAIN, F.E. MAYLE, H. JONES, J. WATLING, B.S. WHITNEY, D.B. MCKEY (2012). Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America109: 6473-6478.
129. Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, A'Hara S.W., Amouroux P., Argo E.E., Avand-Faghih A., Barat A., Barbieri L., Bert T.M., Blatrix R., Blin A., Bouktila D., Broome A., Burban C., Capdevielle-Dulac C., Casse N., Chandra S., Cho K.J., Cottrell J.E., Crawford C.R., Davis M.C., Delatte H., Desneux N., Djiéto-Lordon C., Dubois M.-P., El-Mergawy R.A.A.M., Gallardo-Escarate C., Garcia M., Gardiner M.M., Guillemaud T., Haye P.A., Hellemans B., Hinrichsen P., Jeon J.H., Kerdelhue C., Kharrat I., Kim K.H., Kim Y.Y., Kwan Y.S., Labbe E.M., Lahood E., Lee K.M., Lee W.O., Lee Y.H., Legoff I., Li H., Lin C.P., Liu S.S., Liu Y.G., Long D., Maes G.E., Magnoux E., Mahanta P.C., Makni H., Makni M., Malausa T., Matura R., McKey D., McMillen-Jackson A.L., Mendez M.A., Mezghani-Khemakhem M., Michel A.P., Paul M., Muriel-Cunha J., Nibouche S., Normand F., Palkovacs E.P., Pande V., Parmentier K., Peccoud J., Piatscheck F., Puchulutegui C., Ramos R., Ravest G., Richner H., Robbens J., Rochat D., Rousselet J., Saladin V., Sauve M., Schlei O., Schultz T.F., Scobie A.R., Segovia N.I., Seyoum S., Silvain J.F., Tabone E., Van Houdt J.K.J., Vandamme S.G., Volckaert F.A.M., Wenburg J., Willis T.V., Won Y.J., Ye N.H., Zhang W., Zhang Y.X. (2012). Permanent genetic resources added to molecular ecology resources database 1 August 2011-30 September 2011. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 185-189.

130. Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, Arias M.C., Arnoux E., Bell J.J., Bernadou A., Bino G., Blatrix R., Bourguet D., Carrea C., Clamens A.L., Cunha H.A., d'Alencon E., Ding Y., Djiéto-Lordon C., Dubois M.-P., Dumas P., Eraud C., Faivre B., Francisco F.O., Francoso E., Garcia M., Gardner J.P.A., Garnier S., Gimenez S., Gold J.R., Harris D.J., He G.C., Hellemans B., Hollenbeck C.M., Jing S.L., Kergoat G.J., Liu B.F., McDowell J.R., McKey D., Miller T.L., Newton E., Lohan K.M.P., Papetti C., Paterson I., Peccoud J., Peng X.X., Piatscheck F., Ponsard S., Reece K.S., Reisser C.M.O., Renshaw M.A., Ruzzante D.E., Sauve M., Shields J.D., Sole-Cava A., Souche E.L., Van Houdt J.K.J., Vasconcellos A., Volckaert F.A.M., Wang S.Z., Xiao J., Yu H.J., Zane L., Zannato B., Zemlak T.S., Zhang C.X., Zhao Y., Zhou X., Zhu L.L. (2012). Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2011-31 January 2012. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 570-572.

131. Pautasso M., G. Aistara, A. Barnaud, S. Caillon, P. Clouvel, O.T. Coomes, M. Delêtre, E. Demeulenaere, P. De Santis, T. Döring, L. Eloy, L. Emperaire, E. Garine, I. Goldringer, D. Jarvis, H.I. Joly, C. Leclerc, S. Louafi, P. Martin, F. Massol, S. McGuire, D. McKey, C. Padoch, C. Soler, M. Thomas, S. Tramontini (2013). Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 33: 151-175.

132. Meekijjaroenroj Kidyoo A., D. McKey (2012) Flowering phenology and mimicry of the rattan Calamus castaneus (Arecaceae) in southern Thailand. Botany 90: 856-865.

133. Blatrix, R., D. Renard, C. Djiéto-Lordon, D. McKey (2012) The cost of myrmecophytism: insights from allometry of stem secondary growth. Annals of Botany 110: 943-951. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs164.

134. Blatrix, R., C. Djiéto-Lordon, L. Mondolot, P. La Fisca, H. Voglmayr, D. McKey (2012) Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 279: 3940-3947.

135. Peccoud, J., F. Piatscheck, R. Yockteng, M. Garcia, M. Sauve, C. Djiéto-Lordon, D. J. Harris, J.J. Wieringa, F. J. Breteler, C. Born, D. McKey, R. Blatrix (2013). Multi-locus phylogenies of the genus Barteria (Passifloraceae) portray complex patterns in the evolution of myrmecophytism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 824-832.

136. Roullier, C., L. Benoît, D. McKey, V. Lebot (2013). Historical collections reveal patterns of diffusion of sweet potato in Oceania obscured by modern plant movements and recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110: 2205-2210. Winner of the 2013 Cozzarelli Prize in Class V.

137. Roullier, C., R. Kambouo, J. Paofa, D. McKey, V. Lebot (2013). On the origin of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) genetic diversity in New Guinea, a secondary centre of diversity. Heredity 110: 594-604.

138. Bradbury, E. J., A. Duputié, M. Delêtre, C. Roullier, A. Narváez-Trujillo, J. A. Manu-Aduening, E. Emshwiller, D. McKey (2013). Geographic differences in patterns of genetic differentiation among bitter and sweet manioc (Manihot esculenta esculenta: Euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 100: 857-866.

139. Renard, D., J. J. Birk, A. Zangerlé, P. Lavelle, B. Glaser, R. Blatrix, D. McKey (2013). Ancient human agricultural practices can promote activities of contemporary non-human soil ecosystem engineers: a case study in coastal savannas of French Guiana. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 62: 46-56.

140. Benoît, L., R. Blatrix, C. Djiéto-Lordon, C. Atteke, J. Mezui-M’Eko, M.-P. Dubois, D. McKey, C. Born (2013). Characterization of microsatellite loci for a fungal symbiont (Ascomycota, Chaetothyriales) in an ant-plant-fungus symbiosis. Molecular Ecology Resources 13: 760-762.

141. Dormont, L., J.-M. Bessière, D. McKey, A. Cohuet (2013). New methods for field collection of human skin volatiles and perspectives for their application in the chemical ecology of human/pathogen/vector interactions. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 2783-2788.

142. Roullier, C., A. Duputié, P. Wennekes, L. Benoît, V. M. Fernández Bringas, G. Rossel, D. Tay, D. McKey, V. Lebot (2013). Disentangling the origins of cultivated sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.). PLOS ONE 8(5): e62707. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062707.

143. McKey, D., M. Elias, B. Pujol, A. Duputié, M. Delêtre, D. Renard (2012). Maintien du potentiel adaptatif chez les plantes domestiquées à propagation clonale. Revue d’ethnoécologie [En ligne], 1 | 2012, mis en ligne le 29 novembre 2012. URL : http://ethnoecologie.revues.org/741 ; DOI : 10.4000/ethnoecologie.741

144. Blatrix, R., S. Debaud, A. Salas-Lopez, C. Born, L. Benoit, D. McKey, C. Attéké, C. Djiéto-Lordon (2013). Repeated evolution of fungal cultivar specificity in independently evolved ant-plant-fungus symbioses. PLOS ONE 8(7): e68101.

145. Finsinger, W., T. Dos Santos, D. McKey (2013) Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intra-individual, intra-site and inter-taxonomic levels in populations of the Leonardoxa africana complex (Fabaceae) over environmental gradients in Cameroon. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 345: 350-359.

146. Ménard, L., D. McKey, G. S. Mühlen, B. Clair, N.P. Rowe (2013) The evolutionary fate of phenotypic plasticity and functional traits under domestication in manioc: changes in stem biomechanics and the appearance of stem brittleness. PLOS ONE 8(9): e74727. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074727

147. Blatrix, R., D. McKey, C. Born (2013). Consequences of past climate change for species engaged in obligatory interactions. Comptes Rendus Géoscience 347: 306-315.

148. Mayer, V., M. Frederickson, D. McKey, R. Blatrix (2014) Current issues in the evolutionary ecology of ant-plant symbioses. New Phytologist 202: 749-764.

149. Diallo, B.O., Ouedraogo, M., Chevallier, M.-H., Joly, H.I., Hossaert-McKey, M., McKey, D. (2014) Potential pollinators of Tamarindus indica (Caesalpinioideae) in Sudanian region of Burkina Faso. African Journal of Plant Science 8: 528-536.

150. Pfahler, V., B. Glaser, D. McKey, E. Klemt (2015) Soil redistribution in abandoned raised fields in French Guiana assessed by radionuclides. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 178: 468-476.

151. Rostain, S., D. McKey (2015) Les paysages de champs surélevés de Guyane française: un patrimoine bioculturel menacé. Revue d’Ethnoécologie DOI : 10.4000/ethnoecologie.2193.

152. Coomes O.T., S. J. McGuire, E. Garine, S. Caillon, D. McKey, E. Demeulenaere, D. Jarvis, G. Aistara, A. Barnaud, P. Clouvel, L. Emperaire, S. Louafi, P. Martin, F. Massol, M. Pautasso, C. Violon, J. Wencélius (2015) Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions. Food Policy 56 : 41-50. DOI : 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.07.008

153. Zangerlé A., C. Hissler, L. Van Schaik, D. McKey (2016) Identification of earthworm burrow origins by Near infrared Spectroscopy: Combining results from field sites and laboratory microcosms. Soil and Tillage Research 155 : 280-288. DOI: 10.1016/still.2015.08.017

154. Zangerlé A., C. Hissler, D. McKey, P. Lavelle (2016) Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to identify the contribution of earthworms to soil macroaggregation in field conditions. Applied Soil Ecology 104: 138-147. DOI: 10.1016/J.apsoil.2015.09.014

155. Thomas, M., N. Verzelen, P. Barbillon, O.T. Coomes, S. Caillon, D. McKey, M. Elias, E. Garine, C. Raimond, E. Dounias, D. Jarvis, J. Wencélius, C. Leclerc, V. Labeyrie, H. Cuong Pham, T.N. Hue Nguyen, B. Sthapit, R.B. Rana, A. Barnaud, C. Violon, L.M. Arias Reyes, Luis L. Moreno, P. De Santis, F. Massol. (2015) A network-based method to detect patterns of local crop biodiversity: validation at the species and infra-species levels. Advances in Ecological Research 53 : 259-320. doi:10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.002

156. Delêtre, M., T.R. Hodkinson, D. McKey (2016) Perceptual selection and the unconscious selection of ‘volunteer’seedlings in clonally propagated crops: an example with African cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) using ethnobotany and population genetics. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 64 : 665-680.1007/s10722-016-0390-3

157. Zangerlé, A., D. Renard, J. Iriarte, L.E. Suarez Jimenez, K.L. Adame Montoya , J. Juilleret, D. McKey (2016) The surales, self-organized earth-mound landscapes made by earthworms in a seasonal tropical wetland. PLOS One 11(5): e0154269.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154269 This paper was selected by a member of the “Faculty of 1000 Biology” as a “Recommended” paper in ecology.

158. Cunha, L., G.G. Brown, D.W.G. Stanton, E. Da Silva, F. Hansel, G Jorge, D. McKey, P. Vidal-Torrado, R. Macedo, E. Velasquez, S.W. James, P. Lavelle, P. Kille, and the Terra Preta de Indio Network (2016) Soil animals and pedogenesis: the role of earthworms in anthropogenic soils. Soil Science 181 (3/4) : 110-125. DOI: 10.1097/SS.0000000000000144

159. Lavelle, P., Spain A., Blouin, M., Brown, G., Decaëns, T., Grimaldi, M., Jiménez, J.J., McKey, D., Mathieu, J., Velasquez, E., Zangerlé, A. (2016) Ecosystem engineers in a self-organized soil: A review of concepts and future research questions. Soil Science 181 (3/4) : 91-109. DOI: 10.1097/SS.0000000000000155

160. López Mazz, J., S. Rostain, D. McKey (2016) Cerritos, tolas, tesos, camellones y otros montículos de las tierras bajas de Sudamérica. Revista de Arqueología 29(1): 86-113.

 

161. Comptour, M., S. Caillon, D. McKey (2016) Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals and water spirits. Revue d’Ethnoécologie 10/2016. DOI: 10.4000/ethnoecoloige.2795

162. McKey, D.B., M. Durécu, M. Pouilly, P. Béarez, A. Ovando, M. Kalebe, C.F. Huchzermeyer (2016) Present-day African analogue of a pre-European Amazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural-niche construction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(52): 14938-14943. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613169114

163. Gonmadje, C., Picard, N., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Réjou-Méchain, M., Freycon, V., Sunderland, T., McKey, D., Doumenge, C. (2017) Altitudinal filtering of large-tree species explains above-ground biomass variation in an Atlantic central African rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 33 (2): 143-154.. doi: 10.1017/S0266467416000602.

164. Vasse, M., Voglmayr, H., Mayer, V., Gueidan, C., Nepel, M., Moreno, L., de Hoog, S., Selosse, M.-A., McKey, D., Blatrix, R. (2017) A fungal phylogenetic perspective of the association between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and black yeasts (Ascomycota: Chaetothyriales). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B284: 20162519. Doi : 10.1098/rspb.2016.2519

165. Blatrix, R., Peccoud, J., Born, C., Piatscheck, F., Benoit, L., Sauve, M., Djiéto-Lordon, C., Atteke, C., Wieringa, J.J., Harris, D.J., McKey, D. (2017) Comparative analysis of spatial genetic structure in an ant-plant symbiosis reveals a tension zone and highlights speciation processes in tropical Africa. Journal of Biogeography 44 (8): 1856-1868. doi:10.1111/jbi.12972.

166. DiGiusto, B., Dounias, E., McKey, D.B. (2017) Facing herbivory on the climb up: Lost opportunities as the main cost of herbivory in the wild yam Dioscorea praehensilis. Ecology and Evolution 7 (16): 6493-6506. Doi: 1002/ece3.3066

167. Bouka Dipelet, U.G., Florence, J., Doumenge, C., Loumeto, J.J., McKey, D. (2017) Khayae (Meliaceae) specierum Nomenclator. Adansonia 39(1): 15-30. Doi: 5252/a2017n1a2

168. Blatrix, R., Roux, B., Béarez, P., Prestes-Carneiro, G., Amaya, M., Aramayo, J.L., Rodrigues, L., Lombardo, U., Iriarte, J., de Souza, J.G., Robinson, M., Bernard, C., Pouilly, M., Durécu, M., Huchzermeyer, C.F., Kalebe, M., Ovando, A., McKey, D. (2018) The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery. Scientific Reports 8:5998 | DOI:10.1038/s415

169. Gonmadje C., Doumenge, C., Sunderland, T., McKey, D. (2019) Environmental filtering determines patterns of tree species composition in small mountains of Atlantic central African forests. Acta Oecologica94 : 12-21. doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.04.001

170. Auttama, P., McKey, D., Kidyoo, A. (2018) Flowering phenology and trap pollination of the rare endemic plant Ceropegia thaithongiae in montane forest of northern Thailand. Botany 96 (9) : 601-620. org/10.1139/cjb-2018-0045

171. Ho Tong Minh, D., Ndikumana, E., Vieilledent, G., McKey, D., Baghdadi N. (2018) Potential value of combining ALOS PALSAR and Landsat-derived tree cover data for forest biomass retrieval in Madagascar. Remote Sensing of the Environment 213 : 206-214. org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.056

172. Comptour, M., Caillon, S., Rodrigues, L., McKey, D. (2018) Wetland raised-field agriculture and its contribution to sustainability: ethnoecology of a present-day African system and questions about pre-Columbian systems in the American tropics. Sustainability 10(9) : 3120. doi.org/10.3390/su10093120

173. Wang, M., Huang, S. Li, M, McKey, D., Zhang, L. (2019) Staminodes influence pollen removal and deposition rates in nectar-rewarding self-incompatible Phanera yunnanensis (Caesalpinioideae). Journal of Tropical Ecology 35 (1) : 34-42. Doi.org/1017/S0266467418000433

174. McKey, D. (2019). Pre-Columbian human occupation of Amazonia and its influence on current landscapes and biodiversity. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences 91, Suppl. 3.1-9. DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201920190087

175. Kokolo, B., Atteke, C., Eyi Mintsa, B.A., Ibrahim, B., McKey, D., Blatrix, R. (2019). Congeneric mutualist ant symbionts (Tetraponera, Pseudomyrmecinae) differ in level of protection of their myrmecophyte hosts (Barteria, Passifloraceae). Journal of Tropical Ecology 35 : 255-259. DOI : 10.1017/S026646741900021X

176. Bouka U. G., Doumenge C., Loumeto J. J., Florence J., Gonmadje C., McKey, D. (2019) Les acajous d’afrique (Khaya, Meliaceae) : des ressources fortement exploitées et mal connues. Bois et Forêt des Tropiques 339 : 17-32.

177. Comptour, M., Cosiaux, A., Coomes, O.T., Bader, J.-C., Malaterre^,-O., Yoka, J., Caillon, S., McKey, D. (2019) Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River. The Geographical Journal (in press). DOI : 10.1111/geoj.12314.

178. Pakull, B., Ekué, M. R., Dipelet, U. G. B., Doumenge, C., McKey, D. B., Loumeto, J. J., Opuni-Frimpong, E., Yorou, S. N., Nacoulma, B. M. Y., Guelly, K. A., Ramamonjisoa, L., Thomas, D., Guichoux, E., Loo, J., Degen, B. (2019) Genetic diversity and differentiation among the species of African mahogany (Khaya) based on a large SNP array. Conservation Genetics (in press). DO1 ; 10.1007/s10592-019-01191-3.

 

Directeur de recherche émérite CNRS

Je m'intéresse à l'écologie et à l'évolution des interactions inter-spécifiques. Mes études portent plus particulièrement sur les processus de coévolution et de diversification dans le système Ficus-insectes des figues.

I am interested in the ecology and evolution of inter-specific interactions. My studies are largely focused on coevolutionary processes and diversification in the fig-fig wasp system.

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 Mots-clés :
Organisme biologique : Ficus et chalcidiens associés
Milieu : tropical
Discipline : biologie évolutive
Technique : loupe
Thématique : coévolution
Autres mots clés : biologie de la conservation

 

PhD in evolutionary biology on "Origin and functions of iridescent colours in hummingbirds"

Chargé de recherche à l’INSERM Ma principale activité de recherche porte sur l’évolution et la diversité taxinomique des macromycètes, que j’aborde via l’analyse phylogénétique d’échantillons issus d’un large réseau de mycologues européens partenaires. Je constitue aussi une extractothèque fongique destinée à mettre en évidence et valoriser le potentiel bioactif de ces organismes dans le domaine de la santé humaine. My research is mainly focused on the evolution and the taxonomic diversity of higher fungi. I am adressing this issue through the phylogenetic analysis of samples originating from a broad network of European partner mycologists. I am also assembling a fungal extract library, aiming at revealing and promoting the bioactivities of these organisms in the field of human health.   Courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.

Directeur de Recherche CNRS CNRS Senior scientist INSB/INEE Section 28 CNRS - Brain, Behavior & Cognition email: julien[dot]renoult[at$]cefe[dot]cnrs[dot]fr

Julien RENOULT CEFE-CNRS, 1919 route de Mende 34293 Montpellier 5 FRANCE

Last update: Nov 6th 2025

 

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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 and ichthyology (fish, and in particular gobies, of the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean region). 

 

Main research projects

WildCom-AI (ANR 2020-2025) - Artificial Intelligence for Studying Communication in Wild Animals (PI: J Renoult)

Darters (NSF 2020-2025)- Preferences, information theory, and the evolution of signal design (PI: T Mendelson & J Renoult)

BIRDHABITAT-PATTERN (2025-2026) - AI for studying the role of habitat in the diversification of bird plumage color patterns. With Chris Cooney (Univ Sheffield), Maximilien Servajean (UMR LIRMM) & Jérome Pasquet (UMR TETIS). CNRS programm AISSAI.

 

Publications 

(* equal contribution)

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Visual ecology & evolution

Cognitive science/Computational neuroscience/Empirical Aesthetics

Marine biology

Others (mostly phylogenetics, population genetics and natural history)

 

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Visual ecology & evolution

RENOULT, J. P., KARPINSKI, R., SAUVADET, L., KREYER, M., MBADOUMOU, R., ROURA-TORRES, B., BANIEL, A, CHARPENTIER, M. J. E. (2025). Vision transformers for age prediction from facial images in a wild primate. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70187

DIBOT, N. M., RENOULT*, J. P., & PUECH*, W. (2025). Generation and Editing of Mandrill Faces: Application to Sex Editing and Assessment. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 21(8), 1-23. [PDF]

SILVA, N.J., FERREIRA, A. C., SILVA, L. R., PERRET, S., TIEO, S., RENOULT, J. P., COVAS, R., DOUTRELANT, C. (2025).  A deep learning approach to detect and visualise sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species. Animal Behaviour. 25: 123223.

ARIAS, M., BEHRENDT, L., DRESSLER, L., RAKA, A., PERRIER, C., ELIAS, M., GOMEZ, D., RENOULT, J.P., TEDORE, C. (2024). Testing the equivalency of human “predators” and deep neural networks in the detection of cryptic moths. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 38, 214-224. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae146

HÉJJA-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 & Evolution. 14(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 Biology. 20(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 Informatics. 67:101486 [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 Phytologist. 201: 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. Oecologia, 173: 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

MENDELSON, T. C.*, RENOULT, J. P.*, ROSENTHAL, G., SHUKER, D. On the biological basis of beauty. (2025) Biological Review.[PDF]

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. Computational Brain & Behavior  [PDF]

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 Brief, 47, 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 B, 286: 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

KOVAČIĆ, M., SVENSEN, R., RENOULT, J. P., PATZNER, R. (2025).  Checklist, key and latitudinal distribution of the eastern Atlantic marine gobies along the European coast (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae and Oxudercidae). Zootaxa. Zootaxa 5609 (1), 1-28.

KOVAČIĆ, M., BERGENGER, L., RENOULT, J. P. (2024). Testing of the taxonomic diagnosis of Zebrus pallaoroi Kovačić, Šanda & Vukić, 2021 (Actinopteri: Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) on a large sample from the Western Mediterranean. Fishes. 9, 511. [PDF]

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 Science, 25(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 Science, 25(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 Biotope, 39, 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 Engineering, 11(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 Thorogobius. Les 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. Zootaxa. 5144: 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.

 

Others (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.

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PhD student – University of Montpellier

 

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).

 

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PhD student

I am a PhD student in evolutionary ecology using great and blue
tits to compare coloured signals of forest, urban and corsican
birds to assess the impacts of urbanisation and climate
change on these traits and selection associated.

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Supervisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE - CNRS, Montpellier) & Arnaud Grégoire (CEFE - University of Montpellier).
Project in collaboration with David López Idiáquez.

Thesis project: Climatic, anthropic and intrinsic determinants of ornaments expression and their association to fitness.

 

Urbanisation and climate change are two major factors driving ongoign environmental changes in wirld populations worldwide. Research has revealed plastic and genetic responses to these anthropogenic changes. A shift in environmental conditions are expected to impose novel slective forces that can shape phenotypic variation of populations living in urban environments. Ornaments such as conspicuous colourations play a crucial role shaping interactions between individuals in inter and intra-sexual contexts. Ornamentals surch as feathers, with carotenoid-based (yellow to red), structural (blue) and melanic colours, are expected to be associated with variation in environmental conditions. Phenotypic divergences are known in urban environments, however understanding the underlying mechanisms driving colour variation are not investigated.

This projects uses a long time dataset from the following of four blue tits populations, three in Corsica and one near Montpellier, and two great tits populations from the city of Montpellier and a nearby forest. Overall it covers 10 to nearly 20 years of colouration data. This dataset results from the work of numerous researchers and students from the CEFE TIT PROJECT.

This thesis aims to:

• Unravel the effects of urbanisation and climate change on carotenoid colouration in the great tits, and investigate whether phenotypic divergence has a temporal pattern.
• Understand which urban characteristic is causing changes in bird colouration using
  1/ common garden experiments to see whether there is plastic or genetic changes.
  2/ metabarcoding data to see what urban and forest birds are eating while they renew their feathers.
• Investigate selection by survival on coloured ornaments for both blue and great tits and compare it between environments.

 

Bio:

• 2022: Master's degree in evolutionary ecology, Sorbonne Université, France.
        - 2nd year Master thesis: Sublethal effects of pesticides on passerine's health and behaviour. Under the supervision of Jerome Moreau (CEBC - La Rochelle Université, France).
        - 1st year Master thesis: Adaptive effects of rock pigeon (Columbia livia)beak's morphology on the regulation of feather's ectoparasites. Under the supervision of Julien Gasparini (Sorbonne Université, France).
• 2019: Bachelor degree in Life Sciences, Sorbonne Université, France.

 

Publications: More to come soon

• Preprint: Sandmeyer L., López Idiáquez D., Fargevieille A., Giovannini P., Perret S., del Rey Granado M., Charmantier A., Doutrelant C., Grégoire A.,  2025. BioRxiv. 

• Tchana C. N., Fargevieille A., Sandmeyer L., del Rey Granado M., Grégoire A., Teplitsky C., Loiseau C., Doutrelant C. 2025. Protocalliphora larvae: a moderate lasting impact on yearling coloration and carry-over effects on mother coloration.  Behavioral Ecology 36(4). 
• Jeantet A.,Sandmeyer L., Campech C., Audebert F., Agostini S., Pellerin A., Gasparini J. 2023. The “parasite detoxification hypothesis” : lead exposure potentially changes the ecological interaction from parasitism to mutualism. Ecotoxicology 32(5):666-673.

 

Grants:

• 2000€ ESEB Hewitt Mobility Award 2024 to visit another laboratory - NTNU, Norway
• 2000€ SQUID Student Fellowship in 2023 to visit another laboratoty - NTNU, Norway
• 300£ BOU Member conference attendance grant in 2023

 

 

Directeur de Recherche CNRS

luis-miguel.chevin[at]cefe.cnrs.fr

I am interested in adaptive evolution in response to changing environments: its ecological causes, phenotypic and genetic underpinnings, and demographic consequences. 

 

Chargée de recherche au CNRS Responsable de l'équipe Interactions Biotiques (IBT) CEFE UMR5175 Campus du CNRS 1919, route de Mende F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5 France Tél : +33 4 67 61 32 19 Fax : +33 (0) 4 67 61 33 36 Courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. ORCID 0000-0002-2227-0410 bureau 2-C-203

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mots-clés :
Interdisciplinarity, Chemical ecology, Sensory ecology, Specialized metabolism, Volatile organic compounds, Plant-insect interactions, Pollination ecology, Adaptation of interactions to global change, Atmospheric pollution, fig-fig wasp interactions, Mediterranean region, Tropical Region.

 

Mes recherches portent sur les interactions interspécifiques, plus particulièrement entre plantes et insectes. Mes projets de recherche s´intègrent dans le domaine de l´écologie chimique. En favorisant une approche interdisciplinaire combinant la chimie analytique, l’écologie comportementale, la physiologie sensorielle et la biologie évolutive, j’ai étudié le rôle de la médiation chimique, particulièrement via les composés organiques volatils (COVs), dans le fonctionnement d’interactions de différents types : pollinisation, herbivorie, parasitisme et reconnaissance entre partenaires sexuels. Je travaille aussi bien dans des écosystèmes méditerranéens que tropicaux.

 

My research focuses on interspecific interactions, particularly between plants and insects. My research projects are in the field of chemical ecology. Favoring an interdisciplinary approach combining analytical chemistry, behavioral l ́ecology, sensory physiology and evolutionary biology, I have studied the role of chemical mediation, particularly via volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in the functioning of different types of interactions: pollination, herbivory, parasitism and recognition between sexual partners. I work in both Mediterranean and tropical ecosystems.

Thématiques français

Je consacre une partie de mes activités de recherche à la caractérisation des mécanismes évolutifs impliqués dans la nature des messagers chimiques ainsi que la détection de ces composés dans les interactions plantes-pollinisateurs. L’autre axe de mes recherches porte sur l ́impact des changements environnementaux globaux, principalement climatiques et de concentrations en polluants atmosphériques, sur la communication chimique plantes-pollinisateurs. Ces deux axes de recherches sont abordés de manière originale et intégrative car je m’intéresse aussi bien aux pressions de sélections qu’aux sources de variations proximales qui peuvent affecter l’émission des COVs, leur stabilité dans l’atmosphère que leur détection par les pollinisateurs. Une originalité forte de mon approche est que je cherche à connecter différentes disciplines afin d’étudier conjointement les deux fonctions principales des COVs émis par les plantes : défenses contre des stress (abiotiques et biotiques) et reproduction.

 

Anglais

I dedicate part of my research activities to characterizing the evolutionary mechanisms involved in the nature of chemical messengers and the detection of these compounds in plant-pollinator interactions. The other part of my research focuses on the impact of global environmental changes, mainly climatic and atmospheric pollutant concentration changes, on plant-pollinator chemical communication. These two areas of research are approached in an original and integrative way, as I am interested in both selection pressures and sources of proximal variations that can affect the emission of VOCs, their stability in the atmosphere and their detection by pollinators. A strong originality of my approach is that I attempt to connect different disciplines in order to jointly study the two main functions of VOCs emitted by plants: defense against stresses (abiotic and biotic), and reproduction.

 

Projects since 2019

POLLURISK project, MUSE (Montpellier University of Excellence): Impact of ozone POLLUtion, in the context of climate change, on plant-pollinator chemical communication: RISQue pour la résilience des services écosystémiques (2018-2022, 150 k€, PI).

ExpOz project, ANSES: Determination of ozone exposure threshold values for the resilience of plant-insect chemical communication (2019-2022, 200 k€, PI).

Partners: IMBE; LCE; LBVpam; FLP-UAE (Morocco).

The aim of these two projects was to characterize the effect of ozone pollution (O₃) on chemical communication in two types of plant-pollinator interactions: the highly specialized and obligatory interaction between the cultivated fig tree and its pollinating wasp, and the generalist interaction between lavender and the honey bee. At the end of this project, we will define tolerance thresholds for the resilience of these two interactions to a major pollutant.

IRP Chine MOST project, CNRS-INEE: "Figs and fig-wasps: a model system to investigate biotic interaction network responses to global change" (2018-2022 then 2025-2029, 100 k€, PI). Partners: XTBG ; SCBG.

The aim of the IRP was to generate basic knowledge on the impact of increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and O₃on the stability of interaction networks and, more specifically, on the ecosystem services of pollination. For this, we used a model system, the specific mutualism between Ficus and fig insects. We studied how insects' attraction to the VOCs produced by their specific host plant was affected by high concentrations of O₃and CO₂through comparative studies conducted between three regions with high and variable tropospheric O₃ concentrations, southern France, southern Yunnan and Guangdong.

Chime2 project, PRIME 80 CNRS-INEE-IC: Biochemical constraints and ecological selection pressures in the evolution of volatile organic compounds responsible for pollinator attraction (2019-2022, 150 k€, PI) Partners: XTBG; LBVpam ; ICN.

The main objective of this project was to understand the evolutionary dynamics of floral VOC emission. Using fig trees, the aim was to understand the involvement of biochemical constraints, linked to volatile biosynthesis pathways, as well as ecological selection pressures in the establishment of VOCs responsible for attracting specialized pollinators. This approach will enable more general conclusions to be drawn on the mechanisms of co-evolution and co-adaptation at the level of chemical communication in plant-pollinator mutualistic interactions.

ASPI project, ANSES: Wild bees in the city: effects of urban pollutants on insect health and plant-pollinator interactions (2020-2024, 200 k€, WP manager). Partners: EEP; University of Mons (Belgium).

Thisproject aims to understand the effects of exposure of wild pollinators to urban pollutants (PAHs and phthalates), by combining several approaches. This will involve: (Axis 1) determining the nature and levels of contamination of wild bees living in cities (Axis 2) exploring the effects of living in low vs. highly polluted sites on pollinator health, the attractiveness of floral resources and the quality of pollen produced (Axis 3) characterizing the individual and colonial effects of exposure under controlled conditions to realistic mixtures of families of these contaminants.

COMIX project, French Embassy in China: Comparative study of the effect of O₃ concentration on the behavior of different species of fig tree pollinators (2019-2020, 13 k€, PI). Partners: XTBG; SCBG (China).

The aim of the project was to compare the sensitivity of different species of fig pollinators to different concentrations of O₃.

PolluCom project, ANR: "Effects of ozone pollution on plant-pollinator chemical communication under global warming, consequences for their interactions" (2023-2026, 702 k€, PI) Partners: LBVpam; IEES and Ecotron de Montpellier.

The aim of this project is to test the individual and combined effects of the two stress factors, O₃and temperature, on two pollination systems with different levels of specialization and with a focus on studying the mechanisms of action of O₃, using a broadly interdisciplinary approach. Both environmental stressors are expected to have an impact on plant and pollinator physiology, affecting, respectively, the emission of VOCs and their perception. These effects would emerge in particular from changes in the expression of genes involved in VOC biosynthesis and olfaction. We predict that these changes will disrupt plant-pollinator chemical communication and thus their interaction, with the generalist pollination system being more resilient than the specialist.

BeeMed project, ANSES: Resilience of bees to global changes through the prism of self-medication (2023-2025, 200 k€, P). Partners: ECOBIO; IMBE.

This project aims to define the capacity of different wild bee species to adapt to air pollution and climate change. More specifically, we will test the nutritional and self-medication resilience of bees by considering the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of environmental stressors and characterizing antioxidant resources within flowering plant pollen.

IRP Thailand SPECIFLY, CNRS-INEE project: "Characterization little-known of biodiversity: Ecology and evolution of specialized pollination by flies" (2023-2027, 10k€/year P). Partner: Chulalongkorn University.

This project aims to compare pollinator attraction strategies in two phylogenetically distant plant genera,Ceropegia (Thailand) andAristolochia (France), some of whose species have converged on the same deceptive pollination strategy. In addition to establishing a solid collaboration with the Thai team, this project opens up new prospects for understanding the factors governing the evolution of floral specialization.

Air pollution project, CAS: "Effects of air pollution on chemical communication between species - a case study of figs and fig wasps".  (2023-2026, 400 k€/ WP manager).  Partner: SCBG.

The aim of the project is to provide basic knowledge on the impact of air pollution on the stability of the interaction network between insects and plants. To this end, the effects of major pollutants (O₃, NO_X) on fig odor and the response of fig wasps to this variation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay regionwill be investigated.

IRN China project, Virtual Institute on Biodiversity, CAS-CNRS (2024-2028, 15k€/year PI). Partners:  researchers from 25 different units.

The virtual institute comprises a steering committee and around 15 pairs of principal investigators from CAS and CNRS institutes. The main objective of this IRN is to strengthen and develop Franco-Chinese collaboration on various aspects of biodiversity research through a network of scientists from both countries, and to set up an educational program for young scientists.

Blastosome project, Exposome-CNRS: A novel component of the fig exposome: its pollinator, the blastophage (2025-2026, 25k€ PI). Partners CRBM Montpellier (CNRS-INSB).

Our project is to study the disruptive effect of ozone pollution and rising temperatures on fig tree-blastophaga-Wolbachia-nematode interactions. We will draw on the complementary skills of a CNRS Biology team specializing in Wolbachia, nematodes and insect reproduction, and a CNRS Ecology & Environment team specializing in the chemical ecology and evolutionary biology of the Ficus-pollinator system.

 

Liste de publications

Blatrix R., Kidyoo A., Matrougui I., Samsungnoen P., McKey D., Proffit M., 2024. Mechanical stimulation of the stigmas triggers switch from female to male phase in the protogynous trap flower of Aristolochia rotunda (Aristolochiaceae). Mediterranean Botany, 45, e85906. https://doi.org/10.5209/mbot.85906

Dubuisson C, Worthan H, Garinie T, Hossaert-McKey M, Lapeyre B, Buatois B, Temime-Roussel B, Ormeño E, Staudt M, Proffit M. 2024. Ozone alters the chemical signal required for plant – insect pollination: the case of the Mediterranean fig tree and its specific pollinator. Science of the total environment 827.

Démares F, Gibert L, Lapeyre B, Creusot P, Renault D, Proffit M. 2024. Ozone exposure induces metabolic stress and olfactory memory disturbance in honey bees. Chemosphere, 140647.

Hmimsa Y, ·Ramet A, · Dubuisson C, · El Fatehi S, Hossaert-McKey M, · Kahi H, · Munch J, · Proffit M, · Salpeteur M, ·  Aumeeruddy-Thomas Y. 2024. Pollination of the Mediterranean fig tree, Ficus carica L.: Caprification practices and social networks of exchange of caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco. Human Ecology 52, 289–302

Kidyoo A., Kidyoo M., Ekkaphan P., Blatrix R., McKey D, Proffit M., 2024. Specialized pollination by cecidomyiid flies and associated floral traits in Vincetoxicum sangyojarniae (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae). Plant Biology, 26, 166-180. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13607

Cao L, Hmimsa Y, El fatehi S, Buatois B, Dubois MP, Le Moigne M, Hossaert‑McKey M, Aumeeruddy‑Thomas Y, Bagnères AG, Proffit M. 2023. Floral scent of the Mediterranean fig tree: significant inter‑varietal difference but strong conservation of the signal responsible for pollinator attraction. Scientific Reports | (2023) 13:5642 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32450-6

Deng X, Buatois B, Peng YQ, Yu H, Cheng Y, Ge X, Proffit M, Kjellberg F. 2023. Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: a case study of Ficus hirta. Acta Oecologica, 121,103952.

Fernandez C, Saunier A, Wortham H, Ormeño E, Proffit M, Lecareux C, Greff S, Van Tan D, Tuan MS, Hoan HD, et al. 2023. Mangrove’s species are weak isoprenoid emitters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 283: 108256.

Demares F, Gibert L, Creusot P, Lapeyre B, Proffit M. 2022. Acute ozone exposure impairs detection of floral odor, learning, and memory of honey bees, through olfactory generalization. Science of the total environment 827.

Dubuisson C, Nicolè F, Buatois B, Hossaert-Mckey M, Proffit M. 2022. Tropospheric ozone alters the chemical signal emitted by an emblematic plant of the mediterranean region: the true lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, ff10.3389/fevo.2022.795588ff. ffhal-03871592f

Kidyoo A., Kidyoo M., McKey D., Proffit M., Deconninck G., Wattana P., Uamjan N., Ekkaphan P., Blatrix, R., 2022. Pollinator and floral odor specificity among four synchronopatric species of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) suggests ethological isolation that prevents reproductive interference. Scientific Reports, 12, 13788. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18031-z

Kidyoo A, Kidyoo M, Blatrix R, Deconninck G, McKey D, Ekkaphan P, Proffit M. 2021. Molecular phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic reconsideration of Ceropegia hirsuta (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) reveal a novelty in Thailand, Ceropegia citrina sp. nov., with notes on its pollination ecology. Plant systematics and evolution 307.

Vanderplanck M., Lapeyre B., Brondani M., Opsommer M., Dufay M., Hossaert-McKey M., Proffit M. 2021. Ozone pollution alters olfaction and behavior of pollinators. Antioxidants 2021, 10, 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox10050636

Vanderplanck M, Lapeyre B, Lucas S, Proffit M. 2021. Ozone induces distress behaviors in fig wasps with a reduced chance of recovery. INSECTS 12.

Dormont L, Fort T, Bessiere J, Proffit M, Hidalgo E, Buatois B, Schatz B. 2020. Sources of floral scent variation in the food-deceptive orchid Orchis mascula.Acta oecologica 107.

Proffit M., LapeyreB., Buatois B., Deng X.X., Arnal P., Gouzerh F., Carrasco D., Hossaert-McKey M. 2020. Chemical signal is in the blend: bases of plant-pollinator encounter in a highly specialized interaction. Scientific Reports 10:10071

Conchou L., Lucas P., Meslin C., Proffit M., Staudt M., Renou M. 2019. Insect odorscapes: from plant volatiles to natural olfactory scenes. Frontiers in Physiology, 10:972. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00972 

Carrasco D.^*, Desurmont G.A.^*, Laplanche D., Proffit M., Gols R., Becher P.G., Larsson M.C., Turlings T.C.J., Anderson P. 2018. With or without you: effects of the concurrent range expansion of an herbivore and its natural enemy on native species interactions. Global Change Biology, 24(2):631-643.

Proffit M., Bessière J.M., Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M. 2018. Can fine-scale post-pollination variation of fig volatile compounds explain some steps of the temporal succession of fig wasps associated with Ficus racemosa? Acta Oecologica, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2017.08.009.

Souto-Vilarós D., Proffit M., Buatois B., Rindos M., Sisol M., Kuyaiva T., Michalek J., Darwell C.T. , Hossaert-McKey M., Weiblen G. D. , Novotny V., Segar S.T. 2018 Pollination along an elevational gradient mediated both by floral scent and pollinator compatibility in the fig and fig-wasp mutualism. Journal of Ecology, 106:2256-2273.

Karlsson M.F., Proffit M., Birgersson. 2017. Host-plant location by the Guatemalan potato moth Tecia solanivora is assisted by floral volatiles.Chemoecology. 27(5):187-198.

Santonja M., Fernandez C., Proffit M., Gers C., Gauquelin T., Reiter I.M., Cramer W., Baldy V. 2017. Plant litter mixture partly mitigates the negative effects of extended drought on soil biota and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean oak forest. Journal of Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12711.

Hossaert-McKey M., Proffit M., Soler C., Chen C., Bessière J.M., Schatz B., Borges R.M. (2016). How to be a dioecious fig: Chemical mimicry between sexes matters only when both sexes flower synchronously. Scientific Reports 6, 21236.

Kjellberg F., Proffit M. (2016). Tracking the elusive history of diversification in plant-herbivorous insect-parasitoid food webs: insights from figs and fig-wasps.Molecular Ecology, 25, 843-845.

Proffit M., Khallaf M., Carrasco D., Larsson M. & Anderson P. (2015). Do you remember the first time? Host plant preference in a moth is modulated by experiences during larval and adult mating.Ecology Letters, 18, 365-374.

Schatz B., Proffit M., Kjellberg F., Hossaert-McKey M. (2013). Un réseau trophique complexe: le cas des figuiers associés à différentes communautés d’insectes.in : Des insectes et des plantes. Ed. Quae.

Charpentier M.J.E., Barthes N., Proffit M., Bessière J.M., Buatois B., Grison C. (2012). Critical thinking in the chemical ecology of mammalian communication: Roadmap for future studies.Functional Ecology, 26, 769-774.

Clavijo McCormick A.L., Karlsson M.F., Bosa C.F., Proffit M., Bengtsson M., Zuluaga M.V., Fukumoto T., Oehlschlager C., Cotes Prado A.L., Witzgall P. (2012). Mating disruption of Guatemalan Potato Moth Tecia solanivora by attractive and non-attractive pheromone blends.Journal of Chemical Ecology, 38, 63-70.

Cornille A., Underhill J.G., Cruaud A., Hossaert-McKey M., Johnson S.D., Tolley K.A., Kjellberg F., van Noort S., Proffit M. (2012). Floral volatiles, pollinator sharing and diversification in the fig–wasp mutualism: insights from Ficus natalensis, and its two wasp pollinators (South Africa).Proceedings of the royal society-B, 279, 1731-1739.

Soler C., Proffit M., Bessière J.M., Hossaert-McKey M., Schatz B. (2012). When males change their scents in presence of females, the case of the plant Ficus carica.Ecology letters, 15, 978-985.

Witzgall P., Proffit M., Rozpedowska E., Becher PG., Andreadis S., Coracini M., Lindblom TU., Rearn LJ., Hagman A., Bengtsson M., Kurtzman CP., Piskur J., Knight A. (2012). "This is not an Apple"-yeast mutualism in codling moth.Journal of Chemical Ecology, 38, 949-957.

Proffit M., Birgersson G., Bengtsson M., Witzgall P., Lima E. (2011). Attraction and oviposition of Tuta absoluta females (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in response to tomato leave volatiles.Journal of Chemical Ecology, 37, 565-574.

Soler C., Hossaert-McKey M., Buatois B., Bessière J.M., Schatz B., Proffit M. (2011). Geographic variation of floral scent in a highly specialized pollination mutualism.Phytochemistry, 72, 74-81.

Hossaert-McKey M., Soler C., Schatz B., Proffit M. (2010). Floral scents: their roles in nursery pollination mutualisms.Chemoecology, 20, 75-88.

Soler C., Proffit M., Chen C., Hossaert-McKey M. (2010). Private channels in plant-pollinator mutualisms. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 7, 893-895.

Chen C., Song Q., Proffit M., Bessière J.M., Li Z., Hossaert-McKey M. (2009). Private channel: a single unusual compound assures specific pollinator attraction in Ficus semicordata.Functional Ecology, 23, 941-950.

Proffit M., Chen C., Soler C., Bessière JM., Schatz B., Hossaert-McKey M. (2009). Can chemical signals responsible for mutualistic partner encounter promote the specific exploitation of nursery pollination mutualisms? – The case of figs and fig wasps.Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 131, 46-57.

Proffit M., Johnson S.D. (2009). Specificity of the signal emitted by figs to attract their pollinating wasps: Comparison of the volatile organic compounds produced by receptive syconia of Ficus sur and F. sycomorus in Southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany, 75, 771-777.

Proffit M., Schatz B., Bessière J.M., Chen C., Soler C., Hossaert-McKey M. (2008). Signalling receptivity: comparison of the emission of volatile compounds of figs of Ficus hispida before, during and after the phase of receptivity to pollinators.Symbiosis 45, 15-24.

Roy M., Dubois M.P., Proffit M., Vincenot L., Desmarais E., Selosse M.A. (2008). Evidence from population genetics that the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria amethystina is an actual multihost symbiont.Molecular Ecology 17, 2825-2838.

Proffit M., Schatz B., Borges R.M., Hossaert-McKey M. (2007). Chemical mediation and niche partitioning in non-pollinating fig-wasp communities.Journal of Animal Ecology 76, 296-303.

Schatz B., Proffit M., Rakhi B.V., Borges R.M., Hossaert-McKey M. (2006). Complex interactions on fig trees: ants capturing parasitic wasps as indirect mutualists of the fig-fig wasp interaction.Oikos 113, 344-352.

 

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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