Environmental stability on Earth allowed marine biodiversity to flourish Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions…
A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic literature. These preliminary results will be…
Microplastics in the freshwater ecosystem: unveiling the drivers of their spatio-temporal variability and of their ingestion by aquatic organisms Aline De Carvalho, postdoc at Biogéosciences, will present the 14 december 2021 her…
Picturing our planet and its climate, 520 million years ago, when animals diversified throughout the oceans Complex forms of animal life, including the ancestors of most of the major animal groups that…
City life could lead to differential evolution between urban and forest populations. Aurelie Khimoun and her collaborators showed, in their article published in Biology Letters, that urban populations of the tiny acorn…
Deciding is hard! Interplay between individual phenotype and environmental conditions on mating patterns, timing of reproduction and sex allocation Thomas Merkling Amphitheatre Courtois, 1PM…
Short and long-term consequences of the early developmental period Dr Raquel Monclus-Burgoa, Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, EPHE Friday 13th December 2019, amphitheatre Monge, 11AM…
Male investment in sperm quality – from evolutionary ecology to ecotoxicology Dr Fabrice Helfenstein, Institute of biology, University of Neuchâtel, Suisse amphitheatre Monge, 11 AM Sperm quality comprises a set of traits,…
Parasite diversity of the two freshwater turtles Emys orbicularis and Mauremys leprosa across European aquatic ecosystems: Origin and evolution Pr Olivier Verneau, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens,…
Evolution’s bite: a story about teeth, diet, and human origins Professor Peter Ungar, Chair of Anthropology, University of Arkansas Amphitheatre Monge, 11AM…
The evolution of thelytoky in social insects: an opportunity for workers to rewind the tape of social evolution or for queens to avoid sex? Dr Claudie Doums, Institut de SYstématique, Évolution,…