Search Results - "Gaillard, M.‐J"

Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years by Roberts, N., Fyfe, R. M., Woodbridge, J., Gaillard, M.-J., Davis, B. A. S., Kaplan, J. O., Marquer, L., Mazier, F., Nielsen, A. B., Sugita, S., Trondman, A.-K., Leydet, M.

“…8000 years ago, prior to Neolithic agriculture, Europe was mostly a wooded continent. Since then, its forest cover has been progressively fragmented, so that…”
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Measuring senescence in wild animal populations: towards a longitudinal approach by Nussey, D.H, Coulson, T, Festa-Bianchet, M, Gaillard, J.-M

“…1. A major current challenge in ageing research is to understand why senescence rates vary between individuals, populations and species in wild populations. 2…”
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Assessing the impact of climate variation on survival in vertebrate populations by Grosbois, V., Gimenez, O., Gaillard, J.-M., Pradel, R., Barbraud, C., Clobert, J., Møller, A. P., Weimerskirch, H.

“…The impact of the ongoing rapid climate change on natural systems is a major issue for human societies. An important challenge for ecologists is to identify…”
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Evolutionary allometry reveals a shift in selection pressure on male horn size by Tidière, M., Lemaître, J.‐F., Pélabon, C., Gimenez, O., Gaillard, J.‐M.

“…How selection pressures acting within species interact with developmental constraints to shape macro‐evolutionary patterns of species divergence is still…”
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Immunosenescence patterns differ between populations but not between sexes in a long-lived mammal by Cheynel, L., Lemaître, J.-F., Gaillard, J.-M., Rey, B., Bourgoin, G., Ferté, H., Jégo, M., Débias, F., Pellerin, M., Jacob, L., Gilot-Fromont, E.

“…In animals, physiological mechanisms underlying reproductive and actuarial senescence remain poorly understood. Immunosenescence, the decline in the ability to…”
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Testing the effect of site selection and parameter setting on REVEALS-model estimates of plant abundance using the Czech Quaternary Palynological Database by Mazier, F., Gaillard, M.-J., Kuneš, P., Sugita, S., Trondman, A.-K., Broström, A.

“…REVEALS-based quantitative reconstruction of Holocene vegetation cover (expressed in plant functional types, PFTs) is used in the LANDCLIM project to assess…”
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Cohort variation in individual body mass dissipates with age in large herbivores by Hamel, S., Gaillard, J.-M., Yoccoz, N. G., Albon, S., Côté, S. D., Craine, J. M., Festa-Bianchet, M., Garel, M., Lee, P., Moss, C., Nussey, D. H., Pelletier, F., Stien, A., Tveraa, T.

“…Environmental conditions experienced during early growth and development markedly shape phenotypic traits. Consequently, individuals of the same cohort may…”
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Lifetime reproductive success and composition of the home range in a large herbivore by McLoughlin, P.D, Gaillard, J.M, Boyce, M.S, Bonenfant, C, Messier, F, Duncan, P, Delorme, D, Van Moorter, B, Said, S, Klein, F

“…The relationship between individual performance and nonrandom use of habitat is fundamental to ecology; however, empirical tests of this relationship remain…”
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Estimating individual contributions to population growth: evolutionary fitness in ecological time by Coulson, T, Benton, T.G, Lundberg, P, Dall, S.R.X, Kendall, B.E, Gaillard, J.-M

“…Ecological and evolutionary change is generated by variation in individual performance. Biologists have consequently long been interested in decomposing change…”
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When relative allocation depends on total resource acquisition: implication for the analysis of trade‐offs by Descamps, S., Gaillard, J.‐M., Hamel, S., Yoccoz, N. G.

“…A central tenet of evolutionary biology states that life‐history traits are linked via trade‐offs, as classically exemplified by the van Noordwijk and de Jong…”
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Pollen‐based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant‐functional types and land‐cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling by Trondman, A.‐K, Gaillard, M.‐J, Mazier, F, Sugita, S, Fyfe, R, Nielsen, A. B, Twiddle, C, Barratt, P, Birks, H. J. B, Bjune, A. E, Björkman, L, Broström, A, Caseldine, C, David, R, Dodson, J, Dörfler, W, Fischer, E, Geel, B, Giesecke, T, Hultberg, T, Kalnina, L, Kangur, M, Knaap, P, Koff, T, Kuneš, P, Lagerås, P, Latałowa, M, Lechterbeck, J, Leroyer, C, Leydet, M, Lindbladh, M, Marquer, L, Mitchell, F. J. G, Odgaard, B. V, Peglar, S. M, Persson, T, Poska, A, Rösch, M, Seppä, H, Veski, S, Wick, L

“…We present quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in north‐western Europe, western Europe north of the Alps, and eastern Europe for five…”
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Does body growth impair immune function in a large herbivore? by Cheynel, L., Douhard, F., Gilot-Fromont, E., Rey, B., Débias, F., Pardonnet, S., Carbillet, J., Verheyden, H., Hewison, A. J. M., Pellerin, M., Gaillard, J.-M., Lemaître, J.-F.

“…According to the principle of allocation, trade-offs are inevitable when resources allocated to one biological function are no longer available for other…”
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Contrasted patterns of age-specific reproduction in long-lived seabirds by Berman, M, Gaillard, J.-M, Weimerskirch, H

“…and the medium-sized southern fulmar…”
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Iron deficiency, elevated erythropoietin, fibroblast growth factor 23, and mortality in the general population of the Netherlands: A cohort study by Eisenga, Michele F, De Jong, Maarten A, Van der Meer, Peter, Leaf, David E, Huls, Gerwin, Nolte, Ilja M, Gaillard, Carlo A J M, Bakker, Stephan J L, De Borst, Martin H

“…Emerging data in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients suggest that iron deficiency and higher circulating levels of erythropoietin (EPO) stimulate the…”
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Vegetation structure and pollen source area by Bunting, M. J., Gaillard, M.-J., Sugita, S., Middleton, R., Broström, A.

“…In this paper we use a simulation approach to explore the effect of variation in taxon parameters and landscape patterning on relevant source area of pollen…”
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Sex differences in condition dependence of natal dispersal in a large herbivore: dispersal propensity and distance are decoupled by Hewison, A J M, Gaillard, J-M, Morellet, N, Cagnacci, F, Debeffe, L, Cargnelutti, B, Gehr, B, Kröschel, M, Heurich, M, Coulon, A, Kjellander, P, Börger, L, Focardi, S

“…Evolution should favour plasticity in dispersal decisions in response to spatial heterogeneity in social and environmental contexts. Sex differences in…”
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Climate Predictability and Breeding Phenology in Red Deer: Timing and Synchrony of Rutting and Calving in Norway and France by Loe, L. E., Bonenfant, C., Mysterud, A., J.-M. Gaillard, Langvatn, R., Klein, F., Calenge, C., Ergon, T., Pettorelli, N., Stenseth, N. C.

“…1. Timing and synchrony of reproduction are regarded as crucially important factors for fitness in seasonal environments. Natural selection has probably…”
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Association of different iron deficiency cutoffs with adverse outcomes in chronic kidney disease by Eisenga, Michele F, Nolte, Ilja M, van der Meer, Peter, Bakker, Stephan J L, Gaillard, Carlo A J M

“…Iron deficiency is highly prevalent in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. In clinical practice, iron deficiency is defined based on a combination of two…”
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Landscape openness and pollen records: a simulation approach by Sugita, S., Gaillard, M.-J., Broström, A.

“…Quantitative reconstruction of the area cleared of forest in the past is essential to assess the possible indirect anthropogenic impacts on the past…”
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Population dynamics of large herbivores: variable recruitment with constant adult survival by Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Festa-Bianchet, Marco, Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles

“…Recent long-term studies of population ecology of large herbivorous mammals suggest that survival of prime-aged females varies little from year to year and…”
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