Search Results - "Cohas, Aurélie"
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Integrated population models: powerful methods to embed individual processes in population dynamics models
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-06-2019)“…Population dynamics models have long assumed that populations are composed of a restricted number of groups, where individuals in each group have identical…”
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Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-04-2020)“…In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such…”
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Litter characteristics and helping context during early life shape the responsiveness of the stress axis in a wild cooperative breeder
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-12-2021)“…Stress responses have evolved to quickly and appropriately deal with environmental stressors in order to secure or restore homeostasis. Since the regulation of…”
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Extrinsic and intrinsic constraints interact to drive extra‐pair paternities in the Alpine marmot
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-12-2018)“…To reproduce, animals have to form pairs and large variations in the degree of mate switching are observed. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors can constrain…”
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Early and Adult Social Environments Shape Sex-Specific Actuarial Senescence Patterns in a Cooperative Breeder
Published in The American naturalist (01-10-2018)“…Sociality modulates life-history traits through changes in resource allocation to fitness-related traits. However, how social factors at different stages of…”
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Influences of climatic and social environment on variable maternal allocation among offspring in Alpine marmots
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-02-2021)“…In an environment with limited resources, parents may trade‐off the number of offspring produced against offspring mass. To maximize fitness under…”
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Social structure influences extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous mammals
Published in Biology letters (2005) (23-06-2009)“…Using the genetic estimates of paternity available for 22 species of socially monogamous mammals, we investigated the impact of the social structure and of the…”
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Variations in immune parameters with age in a wild rodent population and links with survival
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-07-2022)“…Recent findings suggest that immune functions do not unidirectionally deteriorate with age but that a potentially adaptive remodeling, where functions of the…”
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Geographic variation in marmots’ alarm calls causes different responses
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-08-2020)“…Geographic variation in acoustic signals has been investigated for five decades to better understand the evolution of communication. When receivers are able to…”
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Sex-specific determinants of fitness in a social mammal
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-11-2015)“…Sociality should evolve when the fitness benefits of group living outweigh the costs. Theoretical models predict an optimal group size maximizing individual…”
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Faithful or not: direct and indirect effects of climate on extra-pair paternities in a population of Alpine marmots
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (28-12-2016)“…Despite being identified an area that is poorly understood regarding the effects of climate change, behavioural responses to climatic variability are seldom…”
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Stress levels of dominants reflect underlying conflicts with subordinates in a cooperatively breeding species
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-04-2018)“…Maintaining dominance status had long been considered to be less stressful than subordination. However, no consistency in stress levels of dominant and…”
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Litter sex composition influences dominance status of Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)
Published in Oecologia (01-11-2015)“…In social species, the hierarchical status of an individual has important consequences for its fitness. While many studies have focused on individual condition…”
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Neighborhood bully: no difference in territorial response toward neighbors or strangers in marmots
Published in Behavioral ecology (12-10-2020)“…Abstract Territorial animals are expected to adjust their response to intruders according to the perceived threat level. One of the factors that drives threat…”
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Paternity success depends on male genetic characteristics in the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-06-2017)“…Mate choice for compatible partners has been gaining interest during the past years, which implies that what represents a suitable male varies between females…”
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Ice-Age Climate Adaptations Trap the Alpine Marmot in a State of Low Genetic Diversity
Published in Current biology (20-05-2019)“…Some species responded successfully to prehistoric changes in climate [1, 2], while others failed to adapt and became extinct [3]. The factors that determine…”
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Socially mediated effects of climate change decrease survival of hibernating Alpine marmots
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-05-2016)“…1. In the context of global change, an increasing challenge is to understand the interaction between weather variables and life histories. Species-specific…”
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Testing determinants of the annual individual fitness: An overall mean mixture model for de‐lifing data
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-03-2018)“…The de‐lifing method (Coulson et al., 2006, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 273, 547), though very promising for studying…”
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Decreasing litter size of marmots over time: a life history response to climate change?
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-03-2013)“…The way that plants and animals respond to climate change varies widely among species, but the biological features underlying their actual response remains…”
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How do animals optimize the size-number trade-off when aging? Insights from reproductive senescence patterns in marmots
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-01-2015)“…We investigated the influence of female age on five reproductive traits and on the offspring size-number trade-off from an extensive data set spanning 20 years…”
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