Louis Sallé

LPO France, Rochefort, France · Service Connaissance

Climate change is associated with advancing phenology of seasonal traits in many taxa, but shifts by higher trophic levels are generally reduced compared with those of lower trophic levels. For example, the eclosion date of caterpillars and the lay date of insectivorous passerine birds have both advanced recently, but the former has done so more th...

Understanding the ecology and evolution of parasites is contingent on identifying the selection pressures they face across their infection landscape. Such a task is made challenging by the fact that these pressures will likely vary across time and space, as a result of seasonal and geographical differences in host susceptibility or transmission opp...

Models on the evolution of bi-parental care typically assume that maternal investment in offspring production is fixed and predict subsequent contributions to offspring care by the pair are stabilized by partial compensation. While experimental tests of this prediction are supportive, exceptions are commonplace. Using wild blue tits (Cyanistes caer...

The microbiota has a broad range of impacts on host physiology and behaviour, pointing out the need to improve our comprehension of the drivers of host microbiota composition. Of particular interest is whether the microbiota is acquired passively, or whether and to what extent hosts themselves shape the acquisition and maintenance of their microbio...