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.

Directeur de recherche CNRS

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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.

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.

 

Ethnobiologiste à l'IRD Résilience des peuples forestiers tropicaux aux changements planétaires, en considérant leurs systèmes alimentaires comme des révélateurs des stratégies adaptatives autochtones.   Resilience of tropical rainforest dwellers to global change, by considering their food systems as key revealers of indigenous adaptive strategies.   Courriel: Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.

 

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

 

Docteur ès Sciences, Professeur émérite

 

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

 

Areas of Expertise:

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

Current Projects:

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

 

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Directeur de Recherche ( DR1)/Directeur du CEFE

Mes travaux portent sur la compréhension de la régulation du fonctionnement des écosystèmes terrestres en terme de flux de matière (eau, carbone, nutriments…). Initialement centrées sur les écosystèmes méditerranéens, mes activités ont été élargies à d’autres écosystèmes subissant de très fortes contraintes (les hauts plateaux andins). 

My research focuses on the understanding of terrestrial ecosystems functioning in terms of fluxes (water, carbon, nutrients...). Initially centered on Mediterranean ecosystems, my research activities have been extended to the Andean highlands).

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Mots-clés:Ecologie fonctionnelle-  Changements planetaires -   Méditerranée - Andes - Quercus -  Chenopodium quinoa - Spectroscopie proche infrarouge

Key-words:Functional Ecology - Global Change - Mediterranean Basin - Andes -Quercus - Chenopodium quinoa - NIRS

 

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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Maître de Conférences, Université de Montpellier   Etude in situ des médiateurs chimiques des plantes (métabolites phénoliques surtout), intervenant lors de stress biotiques (modèle Helianthus/Sclerotinia ; Vitis/Plasmopara Vitis/Eutypa ; Leonardoxa/fourmis ; Coffea/Nématodes ; Oriza/Nématodes) ou abiotiques (détection de l'activité herbicide sur des graminées nuisibles…), ainsi que lors de variations du milieu (cas de la domestication chez le Manioc…), ou lors de variations physiologiques (cycle végétatif du caféier, exposition aux rayonnements UV de caféiers et de Centella asiatica …)   Courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.

Chargée de recherche au CNRS 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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Research Director CNRS

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

Director of the Hwange 'Zone Atelier' (LTSER)

 

CEFE

1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier cedex 5
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Directeur de Recherche / Senior scientist

I study the evolution of adaptive diversity, using colour patterns in butterflies as a model. In my group, we integrate many different approaches, including ecology, genetics, and modelling, to try and untangle how multiple factors influence the evolution and maintenance of diversity and polymorphisms.

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Thèmes de recherche

Mes travaux portent principalement sur la modélisation de la dynamique et du fonctionnement des écosystèmes végétaux naturels terrestres à différentes échelles.

Ingénieure de recherche, PhD

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

 

Areas of Research :

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

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

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

 

 

 

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PUBLICATIONS

1. Hasnae Hajji, Abdellatif Janati-Idrissi, Alberto Zamprogna, José Serin, Jean-Pierre Lumaret, Nassera Kadiri, Saleta Pérez Vila, Patrick V. Gleeson, Jane Wright, Valérie Caron. Filling the Spring Gap in Southern Australia: Seasonal Activity of Four Dung Beetle Species Selected to Be Imported from Morocco. Insects, 2025, 16 (5), pp.538. ⟨10.3390/insects16050538⟩. ⟨hal-05076308⟩

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

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

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

6. Lumaret J.-P., Kadiri N.2018.Ecotoxicité : les traitements antiparasitaires persistants, bioaccumulables et toxiques (PBT). Définitions et effets environnementaux. Bulletin des GTV. Numéro spécial 2018, pp. 33-40

7. MARTINEZ-M I., LUMARET J.-P., ORTIZ ZAYAS R., Kadiri N. 2017. The effects of sublethal and lethal doses of ivermectin on the reproductive physiology and larval development of the dung beetle Euoniticellus intermedius. The Canadian Entomologist, Published online: 10 April 2017, pp. 461-472. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.201

8. Ghailoule D., Kadiri N., Lumaret J.-P. 2017.The short version of a long study: fifteen years of effort to control white grub pests (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) and achieve the forest management objectives in the regeneration of the Mamora Forest in Morocco. Dugesiana 24(1): 47-56.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Communications ET RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES

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

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 Chercheur en Ecologie Evolutive, j'étudie l'évolution des systèmes de reproduction (sélection sexuelle, hermaphrodisme, autofécondation), et  la dynamique des communautés (bio-invasions, coexistence d'espèces) par des approches expérimentales, moléculaires, de terrain, et théoriques. J'enseigne la Génétique Quantitative à l'Université. 

I am an evolutionary biologist. I study the evolution of mating systems (sexual selection, hermaphroditism, self-fertilization) as well as community eco-evolutionary dynamics (bio-invasions, species coexistence) through experimental, molecular, field, and theoretical approaches. I teach Quantitative Genetics.

 

Mots clés : Organisme biologique : Invertébré- Milieu : Eaux continentales - Discipline : Génétique, Ecologie, Evolution - Technique : Biologie moléculaire, Génétique quantitative, Terrain

Keywords : Organisme : Invertebrate- Habitat : Freshwater - Discipline : Genetics, Ecology, Evolution - Techniques : molecular biology, Quantitative genetics, Fieldwork

Chercheur en biologie évolutive au CEFE depuis 2000, je m'intéresse à l'évolution des stratégies de reproduction et de laconsanguinité chez les animaux. J'étudie lasélection sexuelle, l'allofécondation, et l'isolement reproducteur, qui sont des stratégies évolutives pour augmenter la valeur sélective des descendants dans différents contextes. Récemment j'ai étendu mes recherches pour comprendre comment l'évolution destraits d'histoire de vie affecte ladiversité et la structure des communautés, à travers lesinvasions biologiques et les mécanismes decoexistence d'espèces dans des communautés spatialement structurées.

J'utilise surtout trois techniques : lagénétique quantitative, les suivis de terrain à long terme, et les marqueurs moléculaires. De temps en temps un peu demodélisation. Mes animaux favoris sont les escargots d'eau douce, de fascinantes petites bêtes avec une étonnante diversité de modes de reproduction. Mais j'ai aussi travaillé avec des bivalves, des mouches, des amphibiens, des plantes (il n'y a pas que les oiseaux et les drosophiles dans la vie !). Je monte des expériences de génétique quantitative à grande échelle dans notre animalerie à mollusques. Je fais aussi un suivi régulier des mollusques invasifs et résidents des communautés aquatiques antillaises (Guadeloupe et Martinique). Ci-dessous plus de détails sur les 2 axes de recherche.

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Axe 1: Evolution des stratégies de reproduction et consanguinité

Questions : Tout individu est le produit d'un événement de reproduction. Ces événements s'organisent en réseaux reproductifsou pédigrées de structure souvent non aléatoire. Ainsi les pédigrées peuvent être en partie découpés en parties disjointes (isolement reproductif), le nombre de descendants peut varier beaucoup d'un individu à l'autre (variance du succès reproducteur), des croisements peuvent se produire entre apparentés (consanguinité). Je recherche en quoi la structure des pédigrées affecte la distribution de la valeur sélective dans une population, et interagit avec l'évolution des stratégies de reproduction. Ces dernières sont des traits qui donnent aux individus l'opportunité de modifier la forme du pédigrée de sorte à augmenter la valeur sélective de leurs descendants : évitement des croisements interspécifiques ou consanguins, choix du partenaire.   Modèles Biologiques : J'ai étudié les conséquences de la consanguinitéet de la reproduction croisée sur la valeur sélective, depuis la dépression de consanguinité jusqu'à la dépression hybride, chez plusieurs organismes comme les mollusques bivalves(clams Spisula ovalis; moules Mytilus spp.) les crapauds(Pelodytes punctatus), et l'escargot d'eau doucePhysa acuta. J'ai étudié l'isolement reproductif chez Mytilus, la sélection sexuelle et le choix du partenaire chez les mouches pédonculées(Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni), et les stratégies d'auto ou d'allofécondation chez les escargots d'eau douce(Bulinus truncatus, Physa acuta...) Actuellement je travaille surtout sur l'évolution de l'allocation au sexe et du système de reproduction chez Physa acuta.   Quelques résultats remarquables : - Une série de modèles montrant comment la consanguinité au sens large (autofécondation, réductions de taille ou subdivision des populations) crée des corrélations positives entre l'hétérozygotie moléculaire (microsatellites, allozymes) et la valeur sélective. Ils incluent des méthodes statistiques pour analyser ces corrélations, ainsi qu'une étude de cas sur le bivalve Spisula ovalis. - Plusieurs études de génétique quantitative sur l'effet de la variation environnementale sur les systèmes de reproduction. Tout est une affaire de norme de réaction: l'interaction entre stress environnemental et qualité génétique, qui détermine le développement des ornements sexuels des mâles de mouches pédonculées; la perte, induite par la chaleur, de l'appareil copulateur mâle chez l'escargot Bulinus truncatus; le comportement d'attente de Physa acutaqui repousse sa première ponte (plutôt que de s'autoféconder) quand elle ne trouve pas de partenaire. - Une méthode pour estimer les taux d'autofécondationavec des données de génotypes multilocus dans une population, sans utiliser Fis, et donc sans les biais dûs aux allèles nuls et autres genotypages erronés. Disponible en freeware. - La découverte pour la première fois chez les animaux d'un ADN mitochondrial porteur de stérilité mâle, capable de transformer un hermaphrodite en femelle. Ces femelles coexistent avec des hermaphrodites normaux (gynodioécie) - un phénomène connu jusqu'ici seulement chez les plantes. Nous l'avons trouvé chez l'escargot Physa acuta. Les mitogénomes porteurs de stérilité mâle sont extrêmement divergents des mitogénomes normaux dans la même espèce, suggérant une évolution de type course-aux-armements. L'ADN mitochondrial, transmis uniquement par la mère, a évolutivement intérêt à privilégier la voie femelle au détriment de la voie mâle chez un hermaphrodite, aboutissant à un conflit avec les gènes nucléaires (transmis par les deux sexes). Projets en cours: L'essentiel de mes projets en cours sont sur Physa acutaoù j'étudie l'allocation au sexe, le comportement reproducteuret la sélection sexuelle. J'ai notamment mis en place des protocoles d'évolution expérimentale de l'allocation au sexe (qu'est-ce que cela fait d'arrêter la sélection sur la fonction femelle, ou sur la fonction mâle), de la gynodioécie (évolution de la stérilité mâle). En collaboration avec J. Tonnabel (ISEM), je m'intéresse, après avoir exploré la sélection sexuelle chez les hermaphrodites animaux, à la sélection sexuelle chez les plantes. Enfin, je m'intéresse à la nature de la dépression de consanguinité et au rôle potentiel de l'épigénétique dans son maintien.

Spisula ovalis,espèce où j'ai detecté une corrélation entre hétérozygotie et valeur sélective due à la consanguinité; ceci contredit l'idée que les invertébrés marins à larves dispersant dans le plancton ont des populations parfaitement panmictiques         Bulinus truncatus,individu avec son phallus sorti. Dans cette espèce le développement du phallus est supprimé chez certains individus. La probabilité de perte du phallus augmente avec la température, suivant une norme de réaction propre à chaque génotype Les pédoncules oculaires allongés de ce mâle de mouche pédonculée (Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni) sont un des traits que les femelles utilisent pour choisir les mâles qui donneront de bons gènes aux descendants. Dans les environnements très stressants, les contrastes entre mâles pour ce trait sont renforcés             RMES, pour Robust Multilocus Estimates of Selfing, logiciel libre sous Windows pour estimer sans biais des taux d'autofécondation avec des données de génétique des populations. Cliquer sur l'icône pour télécharger la dernière version et son fichier d'aide Physa acuta, mon escargot favori et le premier cas de stérilité mâle cytoplasmique chez un animal (taille 1 cm). photo JP Pointier.

 

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Axe 2 : Traits d'histoires de vie, invasions biologiques et communautés

Questions :   Comprendrel'assemblage et la dynamique des communautés d'espèces est un objectif ancien en écologie. La plupart des modèles supposent que les espèces ont des traits fixes, donc que les événements écologiques sont instantanés à l'échelle du temps évolutif. Cependant deux processus évolutifs au moins contribuent à la construction des communautés : la spéciation et l'évolution des traits, qui modifie les interactions entre espèces. Lesinvasions biologiques sont un des processus d'assemblage des communautés. Je cherche à savoir (i)comment les traits évoluent pendant et après l'invasion d'une espèce (ii) si l'invasion est dépendante de certains traits. J'ai aussi travaillé sur les modèles destabilité  évolutive des communautés. Parmi des communautés écologiquement stables, seules quelques-unes sont évolutivement stables (i.e. les traits des espèces ne sont pas sélectionnés pour augmenter ou diminuer). Nous utilisons pour traiter cette question des modèles de trade-off entre traits (compétition et colonisation). Ebnfin je m'intéresse çà la question de l'inférence des mécanismes de coexistence ou d'interactions entre espèce (compétition, niche écologique) dans des métacommunautés : comment à partir de jeux de données observés comprendre les processus qui régissent les distributions (où une espèce est-elle trouvée), les corrélations (quelles espèces trouve-ton ensemble ou pas), les turnovers (comment changent les communautés dans le temps).   Modèles biologiques:   J'ai étudié deux modèles d'étude principaux : lesmouches des fruits (Tephritidae), une série de trois espèces invasives plus une endémique à l'île de La Réunion; et lesescargots d'eau douce aux antilles françaises, à travers l'invasion des rivières de Martinique par des escargots ThiaridésMelanoides tuberculata etTarebia granifera.etla dynamique desméta-communautés de mollusques d'eau douce, à la fois indigènes et introduits, dans un système de rivières et de mares en Guadeloupe.   Quelques résultats remarquables:  - En combinant phylogéographie moléculaire, suivis de terrain, et génétique quantitative, nous avons analysé la diversité des traits d'histoire de vie dans les populations introduites deMelanoides tuberculata. Ce jeu de données constituela démonstration la plus spectaculaire que les populations invasives peuvent accumuler de la diversité génétique pour des traits écologiquement importants grâce à des introductions répétées. Cette diversité est encore augmentée par la production de nouveaux phénotypes par des croisements entre souches introduites. - les modèles spatiaux d'invasion sont classiquement fondés sur des équations de diffusion en paysage continu. Mais beaucoup d'invasions ont lieu dans des habitats fragmentés (par ex. eaux douces).Nous avons mis au point un modèle d'invasion en métapopulation et estimé ainsi des paramètres de colonisation pour un invasion récente : celle de l'escargot Tarebia graniferaen Martinique. Grâce au modèle nous pouvons re-simuler l'invasion, en changeant certains paramètres (densité et taille des sites favorables, point d'introduction etc.) pour comprendre l'effet des caractéristiques du paysage et de la stochasticité sur la dynamique d'invasion. Cette démarche a au fil des années été développée pour estimer simultanément les paramètres de colonisation et d'extinction de toutes les espèces d'une guilde (celle des escargots d'eau douce des mares de Guadeloupe), en prenant en compte leurs différentes "niches" (le fait que les milieux favorables à l'une ne sont pas ceux qui sont favorables à l'autre). Nous arrivons ainsi, pour la première fois, à évaluer la diversité des niches dans une métacommunauté.

La mare de Saint-Félix en Guadeloupe est l'un des200 sites où nous suivons annuellement les communautés de mollusques d'eau douce Melanoides tuberculata.Cette collection de coquilles montre l'étonnante diversité morphologique des souches invasives de cette espèce. Ces souches diffèrent aussi pour des traits d'histoire de vie comme la fécondité ou la taille des juvéniles. [couverture d'un numéro de Current Biol., 2008]               4 espèces de mouche des fruits (Tephritidae), une endémique (haut à gauche) et trois envahisseuses successivement introduites dans l'île de la Réunion (Océan Indien) . L'aptitude à la compétition augmente à chaque nouvel envahisseur.

On a longtemps cherché des traits typiques des espèces invasives. Nous avons émis et validé l'hypothèse quele succès invasif dépend des valeurs de trait relatives d'une espèce par rapport aux espèces locales apparentées avec lesquelles elle est en compétition. Avec des expériences en laboratoire nous montrons que dans une série d'espèces deTephritidae ayant envahi successivement l'île de La Réunion, les plus récentes sont compétitivement dominantes sur les anciennes Contrairement aux hypothèses classiques, les meilleurs envahisseurs ont des taux de croissance intrinsèque (r) relativement faibles. Projets en cours:  Je continue à travailler sur l'analyse statistique de données de terrain (Thiaridés de Martinique, mollusques d'eau douce de Guadeloupe) pour (i) reconstituer les interactions entre espèces (compétition notamment) à partir des dynamiques temporelles d'invasion ou de turnover dans des métacommunautés (ii) comprendre les mécanismes decoexistence des espèces dans les méta-communautés de mollusques de Guadeloupe, et en particulier l'effet de la diversité des traits d'histoire de vie et des systèmes de reproduction sur cette coexistence.

 

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Collaborations: L'essentiel de mes recherches est partagé avecPhilippe Jarne. Nous fonctionnons en symbiose et co-dirigeons les étudiants depuis plus de dix ans (et la symbiose n'a toujours pas tourné au parasitisme!). Nous collaborons régulièrement avecJean-Pierre Pointier, un génial expert en malacologie à l'EPHE de Perpignan. Autres collaborateurs sur Montpellier : Jeanne Tonnabel (sélection sexuelle plantes);Pierre-André Crochet (biologie des métapopulations et communautés d'amphibiens et reptiles),  Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès(Génétique des populations, phylogéographie, parasitisme escargots), Elodie Chapuis(évolution des traits d'histoire de vie), Jonathan ROMIGUIER (génomique des escargots et stérilité mâle) En-dehors de Montpellier :  Emilien Luquet (UCBL, Lyon plasticité, évolution, épigénétique quantitative), Sandrine Plénet (idem), Tristan Lefébure (UCBL Lyon, évolution ADN mitochondrial), Christoph Grunau et Céline Cosseau (UPVD Perpignan, épigénétique escargots), Vincent Calcagno(INRA-Sophia Antipolis; écologie des communautés); François Massol(CNRS- Université USTL de Lille), Pilar Alda et Nicolas Bonel (CONICET Bahia Blanca, Argentine; écologie et évolution des escargots vecteurs de parasitoses, évolution des systèmes de reproduction)

 

 

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Encadrements de Thèses:   J'encadre actuellement les thèses de Romann CHARBONNIER (depuis oct. 2025) (thème : conflits cytoplasme-noyau et stérilité mâle chez la physe Physa acuta) Matthias RAPP (depuis oct. 2025) (thème : éco-évolution communautés d'escargots eau douce; Co-encadrement avec P. Jarne) Timothée CHENIN (depuis oct. 2023) (thème : sélection sexuelle chez les plantes; (Co-encadrement avec A. Mignot, directrice de thèse et J. Tonnabel, co-encadrante et encadrante principale)   J'ai encadré les thèses de Fanny LAUGIER (2021-2024) (thème : conflits cytoplasme-noyau et stérilité mâle chez la physe Physa acuta). Actuellement: postdoc université d'Edimbourg (Ecosse) Thomas DE SOLAN (2017- 2020; co-encadrement avec P.A. Crochet) (thème : évolution phénotypique et phylogénie des reptiles méditerranéens; actuellement : cherche un emploi dans le domaine conservation / gestion) Maxime DUBART(2016-2019) (thème: Coexistence dans des métacommunautés; actuellement : après un postdoc à Lille (2 ans), en contrat secteur privé en R&D /informatique) Thomas LAMY(2008-2011) (thème: biologie des communautés et génétique des populations d'escargots d'eau douce. Actuellement : chercheur IRD Montpellier, après postdocs aux USA) Benjamin PELISSIE (2007-2010) (thème: allocation sexuelle et sélection sexuelle chez les escargots actuellement : postdoc aux USA, récemment recruté CIRAD La Réunion) Hélène JOURDAN (2007-2010)  (thème : biologie des métapopulations d'amphibiens; actuellement: chercheuse au CIRAD - ASTRE) Juan ESCOBAR (2005-2008) (thème : architecture génétique, systèmes de reproduction et sénescence chez les escargots. Actuellement : chercheur à Medellin, Colombie) Pierre-François DUYCK(2002-2005) (thème :Biologie de l'invasion et variation des traits d'histoire de vie chez les mouches; actuellement : chercheur CIRAD - La Réunion)) Benoît FACON (2000-2003) (thème: Biologie de l'invasion et variation des traits d'histoire de vie chez les escargots (actuellement : chercheur INRAE au CBGP, Baillarguet) Marie-France OSTROWSKI (1999-2002) (thème : évolution des polymorphismes sexuels des escargots)  Anne TSITRONE (1998-2001) (thème : conséquences de la consanguinité sur les relations hétérozygotie-valeur sélective et l'évolution de l'histoire de vie. Actuellement : chanteuse lyrique, après avoir été chercheuse INRAE au SGAP, Mauguio)) Nicolas BIERNE (1998-2001) (thème : isolement reproductif et spéciation chez les moules. Actuellement : chercheur CNRS à l'ISEM, Montpellier))

 

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Enseignement et responsabilités à l'université :

Je fais chaque année des cours de biologie évolutive (ca 20 à 40 h /an) en master 1 et 2 (BEE) et école doctorale  (sélection sexuelle, génétique quantitative, génmique évolutive, théorie de l'évolution). Beaucoup plus chronophage, je suis depuis 2019 directeur adjoint de l'école doctorale GAIA, en charge de la filière EERGP (Ecologie-Evolution-Ressources Génétiques-Paléontologie; entre 150 et 200 doctorants en activité chaque année).

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Publications (click on publication number, left column to get pdf)

P149	Janicke, T., Arnqvist, G., Crochet, P.-A., David,P., Jarne, P., Lehtonen, J., Lenormand, T., Morrow, E.H., Parker, G.A, Saunders, P., Tonnabel, J., Veyrunes, F., Haag, C.R. 2026 Biological sex is binary and rooted in anisogamy. Ecology Letters 29(7) : e70426
P148	Tonnabel, J., David, P., Janicke, T. 2026 Sexual selection in plants and animals: towards a unified framework. Trends in Ecology and Evolution41(6) : 514-526
P147	Bonel, N., Grunau, C., David , P. 2026 Not just mutations : inbreeding depression persists without genetic variation Evolution Letters, qrag008 (hal-04977368v1 ) https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrag008
P146	Skarlou, E.*, Laugier, F*, Béthune, K., Chenin, T., Donnay, J.-M., Froissard, C., David, P. (2025) Complex genetic determination of male-fertility restoration in the gynodioecious snail Physa acuta. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38(11) : 1423-1434  (*co-first authors) hal-05413973v1
P145	Laugier, F., Béthune, K., Plumel, F., Froissard, C., Donnay, J. M., Chenin, T., Rousset, F. & David, P. (2025). Cytoplasmic Male Sterility declines in the presence of resistant nuclear backgrounds. American Naturalist, 206(1): 16-30 hal-05370429v1
P144	Bererd, S., David, P., Teulier, L., Plénet, S., & Luquet, E. (2025). Temperature-dependent benefits and costs of cytoplasmic male sterility in snail Physa acuta. Proceedings B, 292(2038), 20241762. hal-04901658v1
P143	Laugier, F., Saclier, N., Béthune, K., Braun, A., Konecny, L., Lefébure, T., Luquet, E., Plénet, S., Romiguier, J., David, P. 2024 Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta. Evolution, 78(7) : 1227-1236 https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae053 hal-04707802v1
P142	Baudry, T., Millet, L., Jarne, P., David, P., Grandjean, F. 2024 Multiple invasions and predation : the impact of the crayfish Cherax quadricarinatuson invasive and native snails. Ecology and Evolution 14 :e11191 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11191 hal-05370429v1
P141	Chapuis, E., Jarne, P., David, P. 2024 Rapid life-history evolution reinforces competitive asymmetry between invasive and resident species. Peer Community Journal, 4 : e25. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.394 hal-04550058v1
P140	Bonel, N., Nakadera, Y., Piza, J., Vazquez, A. A., Koene, J. M., David, P., Jarne, P., Alda, P. 2023. Chapter 10 : Reproductive strategies, genetic diversity and invasive ability in Lymnaeidae. Pp. 265-284 in Vinarski, M. V. & Vazquez, A. A. (eds). The Lymnaeidae, Zoological Monographs 7, Springer Nature Switzerland https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30292-3_10 hal-04976552v1
P139	De Solan, T., Sinervo, B., Geniez, P., David, P., Crochet, P.-A. 2023 Colour polymorphism and conspicuousness do not increase speciation rates in Lacertids. Peer Community Journal 3 : e111. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.345 hal-04310381v1
P138	Calcagno, V., David, P., Jarne, P., Massol, F. 2023 Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food-chain length in spatially structured food webs. Ecology Letters26 : S140-S151. doi: 10.1111/ele.14263 hal-04310381v1
P137	David, P.,Degletagne, C., Saclier, N., Jennan, A., Jarne, P., Plénet, S., Konecny, L., François, C., Guéguen, L., Garcia, N., Lefébure, T.*, Luquet, E.* 2022 Extreme mitochondrial DNA divergence undelies genetic conflict over sex determination. Current Biology, 32(10), 2325-2333.e6 doi : 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.014 [It is intellectually frustrating when some theory seems to apply only to one group for no particular reason. This was the case of cytonuclear conflict theory: nuclear genes are inherited from both parents, while cytoplasmic genes (such as mitochondrial genes) are usually propagated only through eggs. The two types of genes are therefore exposed to conflicts over how much energy a hermaphrodite should spend producing female versus male gametes. We have lots of examples in plants, where mitochondria capable of suppressing pollen production evolve, triggering counter-adaptation of nuclear genes restoring pollen production. But surprisingly not a single convincing example in animals. Well, until we discovered the first one in my favourite snail, Physa acuta. The story started with an amazingly divergent mtDNA, so much so that it took us lots of double-checks to ascertain it was in the same species as the standard P. acuta mtDNA. Indeed it was, but the snails carrying it turned out to be incapable of inseminating standard P acuta, though they happily received their sperm. They had lost the male function, with practically zero sperm production and no male behavior. Among snails, P. acuta is now definitely my hero: It is the first example of cytoplasmic male sterility in animals, and it has the highest degree of molecular divergence ever observed between two mitogenomes within a eukaryotic species. This coincidence suggests that accelerated evolution has played a role in a potential evolutionary arms-race between mitochondrial and nuclear genes.]
P135	Tonnabel, J., David, P., Pannell, J.R. 2022 Rapid divergence in vegetative morphology of a wind-pollinated plant between populations at contrasting densities. Evolution, 76(8) : 1737-1748 doi:10.1111/evo.14539
P134	Pantel, J. H., Lamy, T., Dubart, M., Pointier, J.-P., Jarne,P., David, P. 2022. Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape. Ecological Monographs, 92 :e1515 doi :10.1002/ecm.1515.
P133	Jourdan-Pineau, H., Crochet, ¨P.-A.*, David, P.* 2022 Bimodal breeding phenology in the Parsley Frog Pelodytes punctatus as a bet-hedging strategy in an unpredictable environment despite strong priority effects. Peer Community Journal, 2:e57 (* equal contributions)
P132	Janicke, T., Chapuis, E., Meconcelli, S., Bonel, N., Delahaie, B., David, P. 2022 Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91 :124-137
P131	Dubart, M., Pointier, J.-P., Jarne, P., David, P. 2022 Niche filtering, competition and species turnover in a metacommunity of freshwater molluscs Oikos : e09157. doi: 10.1111/oik.09157
P130	De Solan, T., Théry, M., Picard, D., Crochet, David, P., P.-A., Secondi, J. 2022 A lot of convergence, a bit of divergence: environment and interspecific interactions shape body color patterns in Lissotriton newts. Journal of Evoluionary Biology, 35 :575-588. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13985
P129	Tonnabel, J., David, P., Janicke, T., Lehner, A., Mollet, J.-C., Pannell, J.R., Dufay, M. 2021 The scope for postmating sexual selection in plants. Trends in Ecology and Evolution36 (6) : 556-567 (hal-03190294v1)
P128	Luviano, N., Lopez, M., Gawehns, F., Chaparro, C. ; Arimondo, P. B.; Ivanovic, S., David, P., Verhoeven, K., Cosseau, C., Grunau, C. 2021 The methylome of Biomphalaria glabrata and other mollusks: enduring modification of epigenetic landscape and phenotypic traits by a new DNA methylation inhibitor. Epigenetics and Chromatin 14 :48. doi : 10.1186/s13072-021-00422-7
P127	Jarne, P., Lozano del Campo, A., Lamy, T., Chapuis, E., Dubart, M., Segard, A., Canard, E., Pointier, J.-P., David, P. 2021 Connectivity and selfing drive population genetic structure in a patchy landscape: a comparative approach of four co-occurring freshwater snail species. Peer Community Journal, 1, e21. doi : 10.24072/pcjournal.29
P126	Alda, P., Lounnas, M., Vázquez, A. A., Ayaqui, R., Manuel Calvopina, M., Celi-Erazo, M., Dillon, R., González Ramírez, L. C., Loker, E. S., Muzzio-Aroca, J., Nárvaez, A., Noya, O., Pereira, A. E., Martini Robles L., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, R., Uribe, N., David, P., Jarne, P., Pointier, J.-P., Hurtrez-Boussès, S.. 2021. Systematics and geographical distribution of Galba species, a group of cryptic and worldwide freshwater snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution157 :107035.[BioRxiv, 647867, v3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology] doi: 10.1101/647867. (hal-03174525v1)
P125	Makiola, A., Compson Z. G., Baird, D. J., Barnes, M. A., Boerlijst, S. P., Bouchez, A., Brennan, G., Bush, A., Canard, E., Cordie, T., Creer, S., Curry, S. A., David, P., Dumbrell, A. J., Gravel, D., Hajibabaei, M., Hayden, B. van der Hoorn, B., Jarne, P., Jones, J. I., Karimi, B., Keck, F., Kelly, M., Knot, I. E., Krol, L., Massol, F., Monk, W. A., Murphy, J., Pawlowski, J., Poisot, T., Porter, T., Randall, K. C., Ransome, E., Ravigné, V., Raybould, A., Robin, S., Schrama, M., Schatz, B., Tamaddoni-Nezhad, A., Trimbos, K. B., Vacher, C., Vasselon, V., Wood, S., Woodward, G., Bohan D. A. 2020 Key questions for next-generation biomonitoring. Frontiers in Environmental Science7 : 197 (hal-02402296v1)
P124	Fallet, M., Luquet, E., David, P., Cosseau, C. 2020 Epigenetic inheritance and intergenerational effects in mollusks. Gene 729 : 144166 (hal-02345327v1),
P123	de Solan, T., Renoult, J. P., Geniez, P., David, P.*, & Crochet, P. A.* (2020). Looking for mimicry in a snake assemblage using deep learning. American Naturalist,196 : 74-86 bioRxiv, 789206. (*equal contributions) (hal-02378461v1)
P122	De Carvalho Augusto, R., Rey, O., Cosseau, C., Chaparro, C., Vidal-Dupiol, J., Allienne, J.-F., Duval, D., Pinaud, S., Tönges, S., Andriantsoa, R., Luquet, E., Aubret, F., Dia Sow, M., David, P., Thomson, V., Joly, D., Gomes Lima, M., Federico, D., Danchin, E., Minoda, A., Grunau, C. 2020 A simple ATAC-seq protocol for population epigenetics. Wellcome Open Research5 :121 (hal-03145575v1)
P121	Aubree, F., David, P., Jarne, P., Loreau, M., Mouquet, N., Calcagno, V., 2020. How community function affects biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters23 : 1263-1275. (hal-02992040, version 1)
P120	Tonnabel, J., David, P., Pannell, J. R. 2019 Do metrics of sexual selection conform to Bateman’s principles in a wind-pollinated plant ? Proc. Roy. Soc. London B, 286: 20190532 (hal-02411612)
P119	Tonnabel, J., David, P., Klein, E. K., Pannell, J. R., 2019. Sex-specific selection on plant architecture through 'budget' and 'direct' effects in experimental populations of a wind-pollinated herb. Evolution 73(5), 897-912 (hal-02411610)
P118	Noël, E.*, Fruitet, E.*, Lelaurin, D., Bonel, N., Segard, A., Sarda, V., Jarne, P., & David P. (2019). Sexual selection and inbreeding: two efficient ways to limit the accumulation of deleterious mutations. Evolution Letters3-1 :80-92 recommended and peer-reviewed by PCI Evol Biolas bioRxiv, 273367 (*equal contributions) (hal-02366845v1)
P117	Jabot, F., Laroche, F., Massol, F., Arthaud, F., Crabot, J., Dubart, M., Blanchet, S., Munoz, F., David, P., Datry, T. 2019 Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition. Ecology Letters23 (9) : 1330-1339. peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Ecologyas bioRxiv480335 ver.3 (hal-02942285v1)
P116	Dubart, M., Pantel, J. H., Pointier, J.-P., Jarne, P., David, P. 2019 Modelling competition, niche and coexistence between an invasive and a native species in a two-species metapopulation Ecology 100(6) e02700. doi:10.1002/ecy.2700(hal-02148415v1)
P115	Lounnas, M., Correa, A.C., Alda, P., David, P., Dubois, M.P., Calvopiña, M., Caron, Y., Celi-Erazo, M., Dung, B.T., Jarne, P. and Loker, E.S., 2018. Population structure and genetic diversity in the invasive freshwater snail Galba schirazensis (Lymnaeidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 96(5) : 425-435. (hal-01953197v1)
P114	Bonel, N.*, Noël, E.*, Janicke, T., Sartori, K., Chapuis, E., Ségard, A., Meconcelli, S., Pélissié, B., Sarda, V. and David, P., 2018. Asymmetric evolutionary responses to sex‐specific selection in a hermaphrodite. Evolution 72(10), 2181-2201. (* equal contributions) (hal-02411607)
P113	Alda, P., Lounnas, M., Vázquez, A.A., Ayaqui, R., Calvopiña, M., Celi-Erazo, M., Dillon, R.T., Jarne, P., Loker, E.S., Muñiz-Pareja, F.C., Muzzio-Aroca, J., Narvaez, A.O., Noya, O., Robles, L. M., Rodriguez-Hidalgo, R., Uribe, N., David, P., Pointier, J.-P., Hurtrez-Boussès, S. 2018. A new multiplex PCR assay to distinguish among three cryptic Galba species, intermediate hosts of Fasciola hepatica. Veterinary Parasitology, 251 : 101-105 (hal-02016541v1)
P112	Tonnabel, J. David, P. & Pannell, JR. (2017). Sex-specific strategies of resource allocation in response to competition for light in a dioecious plant. Oecologia 185:675-686.
P111	Pantel, J. H., Bohan, D. A., Calcagno, V., David, P., Duyck, P.-F., Kamenova, S., Loeuille, N., Mollot, G., Romanuk, T. N., Thébault, E., Tixier, P., Massol, F. 2017. 14 questions for invasion in ecological networks. In : Bohan, D. A., Dumbrell, A. J., Massol, F., editors, Advances in Ecological Research,56 : 293-340. Academic Press, Oxford, U.K (hal-01453469v1)
P110	Noël, E., Jarne, P., Glémin, S., MacKenzie, A., Ségard , A., Sarda, V., David, P. 2017. Experimental evidence for the negative effects of self-fertilization on the adaptive potential of populations. Current Biology, 27 : 237-242 [Some ideas in biology have been repeated over and over with surprisingly little evidence. This is the case of the opinion that selfing species are evolutionary dead-ends as they cannot respond to new selection pressures. We test this idea directly by comparing the reponse to artificial selection for a morphological trait in snail populations under either outcrossing and selfing, and with or without previous experience of self-fertilization. Selfing initially speeds up the response to selection, but then slows it down after a few generations while outcrossing lines continue to respond. This effect, consistent with the dead-end hypothesis, not only reflects an exhaustion of genetic variation but also an increase in nonheritable phenotypic variance under selfing. ]
P109	Lounnas, M., Vázquez, A. A., Alda, P., Sartori, K., Pointier, J. P., David, P., Hurtrez-Boussès, S. 2017. Isolation, characterization and population-genetic analysis of microsatellite loci in the freshwater snail Galba cubensis (Lymnaeidae). Journal of MolluscanStudies 83 (1): 63-68 (hal-01418196v1)
P108	Lounnas, M., Correa, A. C., Vázquez, A. A., Dia, A., Escobar, J. S., Nicot, A., Arenas, J., Ayaqui, R., Dubois, M. P., Gimenez, T., Gutiérrez, A., González-Ramírez, C., Noya, O., Prepelitchi, L., Uribe, N., Wisnivesky-Colli, C., Yong, M., David, P., Loker, E. S., Jarne, P., Pointier, J. P., Hurtrez-Boussès, S. (2017), Self-fertilization, long-distance flash invasion and biogeography shape the population structure of Pseudosuccinea columella at the worldwide scale. Molecular Ecology, 26: 887–903 [I participated in this large and collaborative microsatellite study set up by Sylvie Hurtrez-bousses and her PhD student Manon Lounnas, showing how a self-fertilizing freshwater snail can lose most of their genetic variation during invasion. Presumably originating forom North America, where its diversity is maximal, this species has colonized many places in Africa, Europe, Indian Ocean, caribbean and Pacific islands, and in all these places a single homozygous genotype is found - in sharp contrast with the situation of  invasive outcrossing snails such as Physa acuta -P88]
P107	Lamy, T., Laroche, F., David, P., Massol, F., Jarne, P. 2017 The contribution of species-genetic diversity correlations to the understanding of community assembly rules Oikos126(6) : 759–771. [We review the literature on correlations between species diversity and genetic diversity (SGDC) and show how they can be used to unravel community properties. We highlight the importance of spatial and temporal variation in carrying capacity and connectivity among habitat patches, and of the similarity of reponse to environmental variation and of modes of dispersal among the studied taxa, to determine the sign and intensity of SGDC. We propose statistical methods to incorporate environmental information in the analysis of SGDC in order to disentangle the processes at play  ]
P106	David, P., Thébault, E., Anneville, O., Duyck, P.-F., Chapuis, E., Loeuille, N. 2017 Impacts of invasive species on food webs : a review of empirical data. In : Bohan, D. A., Dumbrell, A. J., Massol, F., editors, Advances in Ecological Research, 56 : 1-60. Academic Press, Oxford, U.K. [Invasive species affect food webs by becoming new predators (top-down effect) or new prey (bottom-up) to resident species, but also by sharing prey,  thus competing with them, or sharing predators, thus exerting indirect competition. We review lots of empirical examples of these effects and come up with the idea that, regardless of the type of interaction, extreme impacts arise because of lack of coevolution combined with an invasion filter : non-coevolved species, exotic vs resident, tend to have more extreme interactions on average, in favor of either one or the other, but only when they are favorable to exotics do the latter successfully invade. Consequently, eco-evolutionary immaturity of resident food webs, due to historical isolation, recent eutrophication, lack of top-predators or of important feeding types, or anything that has kept diversity relatively low, make them prone to experience large (and irreversible) impacts of potential invaders. We discuss the potential lessons for remediation / conervation policies]
P105	Chapuis, E., Lamy, T., Pointier, J.-P., Juillet, N., Ségard, A., Jarne, P., David, P. (2017) Bioinvasion triggers rapid evolution of life histories in freshwater snails. American Naturalist 190:5, 694-706 [It is now commonplace to describe bioinvasions as laboratories for rapid evolution; yet few examples are well documented. In the Guadeloupe pond network that we have been following since 2000, we were able to observe year after year the progression of the invasion by Physa acuta. With a large common-garden experiment comparing natural populations exposed to this invasion for different times, we show that Physa acuta triggers a rapid evolution of life-history traits in its related competitor Aplexa marmorata, towards earlier and more intense production of offspring, at the expense of lower egg/juvenile size and adult survival. A unique example of rapid evolution driven by the arrival of a new competitor]
P104	Calcagno, V., Jarne, P., Loreau, M., Mouquet, N., & David, P. 2017. Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities. Nature Communications 8 : 15810 [Evolution can contribute to the diversification of regional communities through a process of adaptive radiation. This process is often said to be triggered by the availability of niche space, and to gradually slow down as diversity builds up and niches become occupied. In this theoretical study, we question this view and show that, under three classical models of species coexistence, diversification is easier when some diversity is already present than when there is only one species. This may explain the slow start observed in adaptive radiations in some insular taxa (caribbean lizards) and experimental evolution settings ]
P103	Viard, F., David, P., Darling, J. 2016. Marine invasions enter the genomic era : three lessons from the past, and the way forward. Current Zoology, 62(6) : 629-642 [Invasion genetics comes of age, but is now renewed thanks to NGS technology. We review what these new markers have recently brought to our knowledge of marine invasions. The large numbers of loci allow to study genetic structure with high sensitivity, revealing unsuspected dicontinuities and cryptic species complexes in marine populations; and making it possible to capture the faint genetic signals of the usually very moderate founder effects in recent invaders. However their value to understand adaptive processes during invasion will depend on our ability to maintain efforts on exhaustive geographic sampling and common-garden experiments ]
P102	Stoffel, M. A., Esser, M., Kardos, M., Humble, E., Nichols, H., David, P., Hoffmann, J. I. 2016 inbreedR : an R package for the analysis of inbreeding based on genetic markers. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7(11), 1331-1339 [The computation of two-locus heterozygosity disequilibrium (or g2), initially described in David et al. 2007 and performed by the software RMES, is usually too long for NGS-based data. The low-computation-time approximation I initially derived for Hoffmann et al. 2014 is here made available as an R-package together with some resampling and graphic methods -thanks to the programming effort of M. Stoffel and colleagues  ]
P101	Noël, E., Chemtob, Y., Janicke, T., Sarda, V., Pélissié, B., Jarne, P., David, P. 2016. Reduced mate availability leads to evolution of self-fertilization and purging of inbreeding depression in a hermaphrodite. Evolution, 70: 625–640 [Weexplore evolutionary scenarios of transitions from outcrossing to selfing using experimental evolution in the hermaphroditic snail Physa acuta, a preferential outcrosser. We created lines that were frequently forced to reproduce by selfing. In ca. 20 generations this regime purged an important fraction of the inbreeding depression and snails became less reluctant to self-fertilize (reduced waiting time). Thus, facultative selfing not only provides reproductive assurance, it may also create conditions that favour more selfing, potentially initiating an evolutionary transition ]
P100	Ehlers, B. K., David, P., Damgaard, C. F. and Lenormand, T. 2016. Competitor relatedness, indirect soil effects, and plant co-existence. Journal of Ecology 104 :1126-1135 [An experiment showing that the effects of competition between an within species of two annuals (Medicago) are modified by a perennial shrub, the thyme, through chemicals released in the soil. Competition favours one or the other species depending on whether the soil has been exposed to thyme or not. In addition we observed a tendency for intraspecific competition to have less negative effects when it occurs between closely related individuals rather than unrelated ones, a characteristic that may promote local dominance of a few genotypes of each species  ]
P99	Mousset, M., David, P., Petit, C., Pouzadoux, J., Hatt, C., Flaven, E., Ronce, O., Mignot,A. 2016Lower selfing rates in metallicolous populations of the pseudometallophyte Noccaea caerulescens in southern France than in nonmetallicolous populations. Annals of Botany,117 : 507-519 [We develop a new method to test whether two groups of populations differ in their average selfing rate and use it to show that populations of an annual plant tolerant to heavy metals have lower selfing rates in soil polluted by heavy metals near ancient mines than in the surrounding nonpolluted landscape. ]
P98	Marie-Orleach, L., Janicke, T., Vizoso, D. B., David, P., Schärer, L. 2016, Quantifying episodes of sexual selection: Insights from a transparent worm with fluorescent sperm. Evolution, 70: 314–328. [Macrostomum is a fantastic hermaphroditic worm, it is transparent and can be made fluorescent through GFP technology. Lucas Marie-Orleach and the team of Lukas Schärer in Basel were thus able to track the fate of individual sperm after copulation, to get a really precise decomposition of various phases of sexual selection, before and after copulation. I helped with the analyses, similar to Pélissié et al 2014; Macrostomum turns out to be another hermaphrodite where lots of the variance in male reproductive success depends on variability in the fate of sperm after copulation]
P97	Laroche, F., Jarne, P., Lamy, T., David, P., Massol, F. 2015. A neutral theory for interpreting correlations between species and genetic diversity in communities. The American Naturalist185: 59-69 [SGDC (species-genetic diversity correlations, correlations between molecular diversity within a species and species diversity in the surrounding community) have been described in many organisms but their interpretation is usually vague. A neutral reference is lacking, to predict what would happen when competition occurs among individuals in a fragmented habitat, but without any biological difference due to species or genotype. We model this situation and show how the joint distribution of site connectivity and site carrying capacity, and the mutation rate, determine the sign and intensity of SGDC.]
P96	Janicke, T., David, P., Chapuis, E.,2015 Environment-Dependent Sexual Selection: Bateman’s Parameters under Varying Levels of Food Availability. The American Naturalist 185 : 756-768 [Sexual selection depends on the environment, and  the availability of resources determines how reproductive and mating success can vary in a population. We show that food restriction decreases the opportunity for sexual selection and makes reproductive success less dependent on mating success in the hermaphroditic snail Physa acuta - thus decreasing the asymmetry between male and female functions with respect to sexual selection. Food restriction seems to dampen phenotypic variation rather than to enhance it, unlike other forms of stress]
P95	Graham, S., Chapuis, E., Meconcelli, S., Bonel, N., Sartori, K., Christophe, A., Alda, P., David, P., Janicke, T., 2015 Size-assortative mating in simultaneous hermaphrodites: an experimental test and a metaanalysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology69(11), 1867-1878. [Size-assortative mating occurs when individuals prefer to mate with similar-sized partners- but similarity within mating pairs can result from various reasons that have nothing to do with sexual preference (eg spatial autocorrelation in body size or age). We illustrated this in Physa acuta by finding no preference for similar-sized mates in controlled settings while there was a correlation in size within mating pairs collected in the field. In addition we did a metanalysis showing that evidence for size-assortative mating tends to exist only in reciprocally-copulating hermaphrodites in which mates play symmetrical roles, and therefore may both be choosy]
P94	Burgarella, C., Gayral, P., Ballenghien, M., Bernard, A., David, P., Jarne, P., Correa, A., Hurtrez-Boussès, S., Escobar, J., Galtier, N., Glémin, S. 2015 Molecular evolution of freshwater snails with contrasting mating systems. Molecular Biology and Evolution32(9) : 2403-2416. [Self-fertilization is thought to impair the response to selection on the long term by decreasing effective recombination. Here we studied molecular polymorphism and divergence in transcriptomes of selfing and outcrossing lineages of hermaphroditic snails. We showed that selfing snails have accumulated more nonsynonymous changes than outcrossing ones, suggesting that they have a hard time getting rid of slightly deleterious mutations,. Compared to plant studies, our snail study has the advantage that selfing is relatively ancient in the studied clade, leaving more time to accumulate changes]
P93	Weeks, S.C., Benvenuto, C., Reed, S.K., Duff, R.J., Duan, Z.-H., David, P. 2014 A field test of a model for the stability of androdioecy in the freshwater shrimp, Eulimnadia texana. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 2080-2095 [Steve Weeks has been studying for a long time these wonderful little creatures that have evolved from dioecy to androdioecy (coexistence of males and hermaphrodites) and maintained this system for millions of years. This is a field study to test models of maintenance of androdioecy, in which the selfing rate is a crucial parameter. In order to infer selfing rates from allozyme data, I designed a modified version of the RMES program to take into account the specificity of this system, as well as the presence of a mix of sex-linked and non sex-linked loci ]
P92	Pélissié, B., Jarne, P., Sarda, V., David, P 2014 Disentangling precopulatory and postcopulatory sexual selection in polyandrous species Evolution 68(5) : 1320-1331 [Sexual selection is a complicated matter : male reproductive success depends on how many copulations and mates they get, and when they inseminate them compared to other male competitors (precopulatory processes) and how efficient each copulation is at getting many eggs fertilized in spite of sperm competition (postcopulatory processes).  Understanding at which stage variance in male fitness is generated requires detailed observation of sexual activity, together with paternity analysis in offspring. Here we develop experimental and statistical methodology to perform this task and apply it to our favorite organism, the snail Physa acuta - showing that, although the number and timing of copulations increases male fitness, approximately 40% of the variance is generated at the postcopulatory stage  ]
P91	Lohr, J. N., David, P., Haag, C. R. 2014 Reduced lifespan and increased ageing driven by genetic drift in small populations. Evolution 68: 2494-2508 [Under the mutation accumulation theory, genetic variance in senescence in natural populations reflects the disproportionate accumulation of deleterious mutations affecting late-expressed traits. We build a theoretical model showing that in a metapopulation this will result in faster senescence in demes with low genetic diversity (i.e. low effective size), and confirm this prediction with a large-scale molecular and common-garden study of Daphnia populations]
P90	Janicke, T., Vellnow, N., Lamy, T., Chapuis, E., David, P. 2014 Inbreeding depression of mating behavior and its reproductive consequences in a freshwater snail Behavioral Ecology 25(2): 288-299 [Following Janicke et al. 2013, we measure how inbreeding affects both male and female mating behaviour in the hermaphrodite Physa acuta. We observe significant, but moderate inbreeding depression on the number of encounters and copulations in both roles; however it seems insufficient to explain the large impacts of inbreeding on male paternity observed in J & al 2013 - suggesting an important role for postcopulatory processes linked to ejaculate size or sperm competition.]
P89	Hoffman, J.I., Simpson, F., David, P., Rijks, J. M., Kuiken, T., Thorne, M. A. S., Lacy, R., Dasmahapatra, K. K. 2014 High-throughput sequencing reveals inbreeding depression in a natural population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3775-3780 [ RAD-seq technology now generates thousands of loci, that provide unprecented precision in measures of variance in inbreeding, a key parameter to understand heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFC). I here adapted the g2 method (defined in David et al. 2007 and implemented in RMES) to highly multilocus datasets, using approximations that considerably reduce computation time. We validated this method with a dataset of captive rodents with known pedigrees, and then used it to analyse HFC in wild populations of seals. Now available as R-package, see Stoffel et al. 2016]
P88	Bousset, L., Pointier, J.-P., David, P., Jarne, P. 2014 Neither variation loss, nor change in selfing rate is associated with the worldwide invasion of Physa acuta from its native North America Biological Invasions16:1769-1783 [A population genetic study of microsatellite diversity in Physa acuta, our pet snail, across the world. Physa acuta is an example of an outcrossing species that has invaded the world (from its probable native area in North America) without apparent loss in genetic diversity - contrasting with the case of selfing snail species such as Lymnaea columella]
P91	Pointier, J.-P., David, P., Jarne, P. 2011 The Biological Control of the Snail Hosts of Schistosomes: The Role of Competitor Snails and Biological Invasions, Chapter 9, pp 215-238 in Biomphalaria snails and larval trematodes, ed. by Toledo, R. & Fried, B., Springer Verlag, New York [An account of how competition by (intentionnally or fortuitously) introduced species can affect populations of Biomphalaria glabrata and other vectors of schistosomes. This contains a detailed historical account of all freshwater snail invasions that occurred in Guadeloupe and Martinique, and their impacts ]
P90	Massol, F., Duputié, A., David, P., Jarne P. 2011. Asymmetric patch size distribution leads to disruptive selection on dispersal. Evolution 65(2): 490-500 [Most models of dispersal evolution predict a single optimum, at odds with the diversity observed in nature, even among species or genotypes inhabiting the same landscape. We show that diversification of dispersal strategies naturally occurs provided patches of favorable habitats have unequal sizes, many of them small and a few large. This condition is fulfilled by many natural landscapes]
P89	Luquet, E., Lena, J.-P., David, P., Joly, P., Lengagne, T., Perrin, N., Plenet S. 2011 Consequences of genetic erosion on fitness and phenotypic plasticity in European tree frog populations (Hyla arborea), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(1): 99-110 [We investigate the consequences of the loss of genetic diversity in small fragmented populations on the expression of an essential trait in juvenile tree frogs (tadpoles) : predator-induced plasticity. Plasticity is fully maintained, but at a higher cost, in genetically depauperate populations compared to large, more diverse ones]
P88	Luquet, E., David, P., Léna, J.-P., Joly, P., Konecny, L., Dufresnes, C., Perrin, N., Plénet, S. 2011 Heterozygosity-fitness correlations among wild populations of European tree frog (Hyla arborea) detect fixation load. Molecular Ecology, 20: 1877-1887 [In this study of heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFC) in frogs, HFC arises from the mixing of populations with different average heterozygosity and larval growth, rather than from differences among individuals within populations. Therefore, covariation in larval traits and heterozygosity is due to fixation load rather than to within-population polymorphism]
P87	Jarne, P., Pointier, J.-P., David, P. 2011 Biosystematics of Biomphalaria spp. with an emphasis on Biomphalaria glabrata, , Chapter 1, pp 1-32 in Biomphalaria snails and larval trematodes, ed. by Toledo, R. & Fried, B., Springer Verlag, New York [Book chapter synthetizing the current knowledge on phylogeny, phylogeography, and population genetics of Biomphalaria glabrata, the main host of schistosomiasis in South America, and its allied species]
P86	Escobar, J.-S., Auld, J.R., Correa, A. C., Alonso, J. M., Bony, Y.K., Coutellec, M.-A., Koene, J.M., Pointier, J.-P., Jarne, P., David, P.2011 Patterns of mating-system evolution in hermaphroditic animals: correlations among selfing rate, inbreeding depression and the timing of reproduction. Evolution, 65(5) : 1233-1253 [A big collaborative study to measure selfing rates, waiting times (=reproductive delays when an individual is forced to self-fertilize), and inbreeding depression in a dozen new pulmonate species, and to collect similar published data on other animals. We show that species are either highly outcrossing, with significant waiting time and large inbreeding depression or highly inbred, with no significant waiting time nor inbreeding depression. This generalizes our previous results on Physa acuta (P76, P59, P33, P30) and mirrors previous results obtained in plants, with the difference that mixed-mating systems seem absent]
P85	Bierne, N., Welch, J., Loire, E., Bonhomme, F., David, P.2011.The coupling hypothesis: why genome scans may fail to map local adaptation genes. Molecular Ecology 20: 2044-2072 PDF Download supporting info[This is more than a cautionary note on genome scans ! Very long but worth the effort, it will change the way you think about molecular approaches to adaptation..Population geneticists often use genome scans, looking for molecular markers with exceptional differenciation between two habitats, to map genes with major effects on adaptation to habitat. We show that genes promoting pre or postmating isolation, irrespective of habitat, naturally become coupled with habitat specialization genes, so that clines in allele frequencies come to coincide with habitat boundaries. The abundance of isolation genes in genomes, and their efficiency at maintaining linkage disequilibrium with nearby neutral markers, make it likely that genome scans actually map them rather than habitat adaptation genes. We provide some simulations and convincing examples from the literature to illustrate this process]
P84	Szulkin, M., Bierne, N., David, P. 2010 Heterozygosity-fitness correlations : a time for reappraisal. Evolution 64 (5):1202-1217. [With the advent of microsatellites, years after the golden age of allozymes, we are witnessing a new bloom of studies on heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFC). Yet lessons from the past (especially from old theory) have been ignored, and recent HFC studies often reveal misunderstandings that sound all too familiar to old - well, let's say middle-aged- population geneticists like myself. Do you want a theoretical summary as well as a practical guide on HFC ? Do you simply want the truth about HFC ? Read this paper...]
P83	Jarne P., Pointier J.-P., David P., Koene J. 2010 Basommatophoran Gastropods. pp173-196 in: The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals. Edited by Leonard J.L. and Córdoba-Aguilar A., Oxford University Press, New York [A book chapter with a synthesis on how reproductive organs are organized and evolve in hermaphroditic freshwater snails]
P82	Ferdy, J.-B., David, P., Rousset, F. 2010 Formalisations mathématiques de l'Evolution Biologique; chap. 1, pp1-32 in Biologie Evolutive, édité par F. Thomas, T. Lefèvre, M. Raymond , De Boeck Université, Paris [A book chapter in french on theoretical approaches in evolutionary biology, summarizing the bases of the three main ways by which trait evolution can be modelled, population genetics, quantitative genetics and game theory, their assumptions and interrelationships]
P81	David, P., Parmentier, M.-L.2010Evolution et développement. chap. 8, pp267-294 in Biologie Evolutive, edited by F. Thomas, T. Lefèvre, M. Raymond , De Boeck Université, Paris [A synthetic book chapter in french on evolution and development; We develop a more critical view than most other accounts of the subject, highlighting that evo-devo is still at a contemplative stage, accumulating spectacular discoveries, wondering at how worms and humans have inherited common developmental pathways from their remote common ancestor, but not yet close to a unified theory of how organism design evolves]
P80	Correa, A.C., Escobar, J.S., Durand, P., Renaud, F., David, P., Jarne, P., Pointier, J.-P., Hurtrez-Bousses, S. 2010 Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), Vectors of Fasciolasis. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:381 PDF [Lymnaeids are a fascinating but complicated family of freshwater snails; here is a detailed account of current knowledge on its phylogenetic history, revealing several big clades originating in different continents, cryptic species, and surprising intercontinental invasions .. all this to confirm that we should forget about many named subgenera which are clearly polyphyletic]
P79	Anthes, N., David, P., Auld, J.R., Hoffer, J.N.A., Jarne, P., Koene, J.M., Kokko, H., Lorenzi, M.C., Pélissié, B., Sprenger, D., Staikou, A., Schärer, L. 2010, Bateman Gradients in Hermaphrodites : An Extended Approach to Quantify Sexual Selection. American Naturalist176 : 249-263 PDF [Bateman gradients, i.e. linear regressions of fitness on mating activity, are the standard measure of sexual selection in separate-sex species. Hermaphrodites, with their two sexual functions, open the door to exciting new possibilities that may challenge, reinforce, or extend traditional sexual selection theory. This paper synthetizes two years of a highly collective and enjoyable brainstorming effort to provide a theoretical guide and a worked example - a snail, of course- on how we can measure, and what we can learn from, sexual selection gradients in hermaphrodites]

 Technicien, Université de Montpellier

 

 Etude in situ des médiateurs chimiques des plantes (métabolites phénoliques surtout), intervenant lors de stress biotiques (modèle Leonardoxa/fourmis ; Coffea/Nématodes ; Oriza/Nématodes ; Vitis/Eutypa …) ou abiotiques (détection de l'activité herbicide sur des graminées nuisibles…), ainsi que lors de variations du milieu ou lors de variations physiologiques (cycle végétatif du caféier, exposition aux rayonnements UV de Caféiers et de Centella asiatica …)

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Mots-clés :
Organisme biologique : plantes (Centella, Coffea, Leonardoxa, Oriza, Vitis,  …)
Milieu : méditerranéen et tropical
Discipline : Ecologie chimique
Technique :  histochimie, microspectrofluorimétrie
Thématique : médiation chimique in situ
Autres mots clés : Plantes et stress, coévolution

Laboratoire de Botanique, Phytochimie et Mycologie
Faculté de Pharmacie
BP 14491
15 av. Charles-Flahault
F-34093 Montpellier cedex 5
Tél : +33 (0) 4 11 75 96 62
Fax : +33 (0) 4 11 75 97 24

 

Publications

Campa C., Urban L. , Mondolot L. , Fabre D. , Roques S. , Yves Lizzi Y. , Aarrouf J. , Doulbeau S , Breitler J.- C. , Letrez C. , Toniutti L. , Bertrand B. , La Fisca P. , Bidel L. P. R. Etienne H., 2017 - Juvenile Coffee Leaves Acclimated to Low Light are Unable to Cope with a Moderate Light Increase.Frontiers in Plant Science8: 1126

Bidel L. P. R., Chomicki G., Bonini F., Mondolot L., Soulé J., Coumans M., La Fisca P., Baissac Y., Petit V., Loiseau A., Cerovic Z.G., Gould K. S., Jay-Allemand C. 2015 - Dynamics of flavonol accumulation in leaf tissues under different UV-B regimes in Centella asiatica (Apiaceae). Planta 242 : 545-559.

Campa C., Mondolot L., Rakotondravao A., Bidel L. P. R., Gargadennec A., Couturon E., La Fisca P., Rakotomalala J.-J., Jay-Allemand C. & Aaron Davis P. 2012 - A survey of mangiferin and hydroxycinnamic acid ester accumulation in coffee (Coffea) leaves: biological implications and uses. Annals of botany 110, 595-613.

Blatrix R., Djiéto-Lordon C., Mondolot L., La Fisca P., Voglmayr H. & McKey D. 2012 - Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant–plant interactions. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279, 3940–3947.

Guinot P., Gargadennec A., La Fisca P., Fruchier A., Andary C. & Mondolot L. 2009 - Serratula tinctoria, a source of natural dye: flavonoid pattern and histolocalization. Industrial Crops and Products 29: 320-325.

Mondolot L., La Fisca P., Buatois B., Talansier E., de Kochko A. & Campa C. 2006 - Evolution in caffeoylquinic acid content and histolocalization during Coffea canephora leaf development. Annals of Botany, 98: 33-40.

 Communications orales

Mathonnet N., Rakotomolala J.J., Mondolot L., Rakontodravao A., La Fisca P., Hamon P.,

Gargadennec A., De Kochko A., Campa C. Composés phénoliques et Biodiversité dans le genre Coffea. Ecologie 2010 – Colloque National d’Ecologie Scientifique (2-4/09/2010 – Montpellier - France)

Fons F., Goetz C., La Fisca P., Mondolot L., Rapior S. Composés phénoliques d’Asteraceae comestible : histolocalisation et analyse par chromatographie sur couche mince, 1er Colloque d’Ecologie Scientifique. Session 49 : Les Substances Naturelles, un point de convergence fondamental entre Ecologie Chimiques et Chimie Ecologique. (2-4/09/2010 – Montpellier – France)

Mondolot L., La Fisca P., Gosset R., Guinot P., Andary C., Campa C. Localisation in situ et analyse Microspectrofluorimétrique des composés phénoliques végétaux : une approche complémentaire des analyses chimiques. Symposium sur les composés phénoliques « nutraceutiques et médicaments (17-18/12/2009 – Agadir – Maroc)

Communications affichées

Berkaoui S., Marodon C., La Fisca P., Palissier Y., Mondolot L. Etudes micrométriques et anatomiques : Pittosporum senacia, Coffea mauritiana, Vepris lanceolata. Etude de plantes réunionnaises d’usage médicinal traditionnel inscrites à la Pharmacopée Française . Congrès International du CIPAM (Colloque International sur les Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales). 9 ème édition « Pharmacopées tradiotionnelles, de la recherche à la valorisation » (7-12/11/2016 ; Cayenne, Guyane). Prix excellence décerné par le jury. 

Campa C., Bidel L. P. R., Morel S., Rokotondravao A., La Fisca P., Mondolot L. Mangiferin distribution among Coffea species. 2ème Symposium International AFERP-STOLON, (15-17/07/ 2015 - Lyon,France)

Villain L., Martinez D., Mondolot L., La Fisca P., Nicole M., Campa C. Histological, Histochemical and Phytochemical Characterization of Coffea spp. Resistance to the Root-Knot Nematode Eloidogyne paranaensis. The 25th International Conference on Coffee Science (8-13/09/2014; Armenia, Colombie)

Masson A-S., Campa C., Mondolot L., La Fisca P., Rouve E., Anthony F., Aribi J., Lambou K., Bellafiore S. Histological, histochemical and biochemical characterizations of Oryza glaberrima resistance to the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola. Bio-Asia & ICT-Asia Regional Workshop (4-5/6 2014; Jakarta, Indonésie)

La Fisca P., Roussel J-L., Mondolot L. Le Neem, arbre aux propriétés insecticides ancestrales et l’avenir. 31 ème Salon des champignons et plantes d’automne. (22-23/10/2011; Montpellier, France)

Galvaing E., Bidel L.P.R., La Fisca P., Mondolot L., Campa C. Stress UV-B et mobilisation de composés anti-oxydants foliaires chez : Coffea canaphora Pierre (Robusta) et Coffea pseudozanguebariae (Bridson).   21 ème Journées scientifiques de Stolon. (1-2/09/2011 ; Clermont-Ferrand , France)

Fons F., Bessière J.M., La Fisca P., Rapior S. Les arômes fruités chez les chanterelles. Journée « Extrait naturels tirer le meilleur du végétal ». Transfert Languedoc-Roussillon /Pôle qualiMéditerrannée / Agropolis International (05/04/2011 ; Montpellier , France).

                      

 

Chargé de recherche au CNRS   Mon activité de recherche porte sur les aspects écologiques et évolutifs des interactions entre espèces. Les deux thèmes principaux que j'étudie sont les interactions entre plantes et insectes (pollinisation, symbioses), et les interactions entre ingénieurs d'écosystèmes dans la structuration du paysage.   My research activity is focused on the ecological and evolutionary aspects of inter-specific interactions. My two main study topics are plant-insect interactions (pollination, symbiosis), and the role of interactions among ecosystem engineers in landscape patterns.   Courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.

CNRS Researcher

Current Research

I work to reveal how animals perceive and adjust to their environment, and why this matters for populations and ecosystems. My model of choice: large herbivores. Because you can (relatively) easily monitor their behaviour in natura, and they have important ecosystem effects. Some have high societal and economical values, so my research sometimes matter beyond basic science. We (as humans) are making the world's climate different. How this affects organisms in the hottest applied ecological question. I do my share to bring an answer to it

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

tél : +33 (0) 467 61 33 02
fax: +33 (0) 467 61 33 36

simon.chamaille -[at]- cefe.cnrs.fr

 

Directrice de recherche au CNRS - section 39
Ethnoécologue / géographe

Responsable de l'équipe Interactions bioculturelles
Chercheure associée à l'UMR CREDO et l’UMR SENS

A travers un engagement ethnographique avec les agriculteur·rices, je cherche à décrire et comprendre les relations des humains avec leurs plantes, leur rapport à l’espace ou au lieu, et plus largement le rôle des organisations sociales et des institutions dans l’élaboration et la transformation de ces relations. Mes objectifs sont de comprendre comment (i.e. savoirs, ontologies et pratiques) et pourquoi (i.e. valeurs instrumentales, intrinsèques et surtout relationnelles), les agriculteur·rices gèrent, maintiennent et expérimentent une diversité de variétés et d’espèces. J’ai particulièrement étudié, à l’aide d’analyses de réseaux sociaux, les modalités de circulation des plantes et des connaissances associées. Plus récemment, mon objectif est d’identifier les valeurs de bien-être bioculturel chez les agriculteur·rices d’Océanie et de France (vigneron·nes), ainsi que les processus sociaux, écologiques et politiques générateurs d’un vignoble et de vin de « qualité » en Occitanie.

Mes travaux se déclinent ainsi en cinq thèmes : (1) Savoirs hybrides et classification des plantes ; (2) Valeurs associées à l’agrobiodiversité ; (3) Circulation des semences et des savoirs ; (4) Bien-être des agriculteur·rices ; (5) Transition « qualité » des vins occitans.

Through ethnographic engagement with farmers, I seek to describe and understand the relationships between humans and their plants, their connection to space or place, and more broadly, the role of social organizations and institutions in shaping and transforming these relationships. My goals are to understand how (i.e., knowledge, ontologies, and practices) and why (i.e., instrumental, intrinsic, and especially relational values) farmers manage, maintain, and experiment with a diversity of varieties and species. I have particularly studied, using social network analysis, the ways in which plants and associated knowledge circulate. More recently, my aim is to identify the values of biocultural well-being among farmers in Oceania and France (winegrowers), as well as the social, ecological, and political processes that generate a shift to "quality" in vineyard and wine in France (Occitania region).

My work is organized around five themes: (1) Hybrid knowledge and plant classification; (2) Values associated with agrobiodiversity; (3) Circulation of seeds and knowledge; (4) Farmer well-being; (5) Shifting to quality wine production.