Christophe Pelabon
Background and activities
Evolution results from the interplay between selection and the ability of organisms to evolve and adapt, that is, their Evolvability. Until recently, however, selection has been considered the main dynamical force explaining variation in micro- and macroevolution. The aim of my research activity is to understand how much evolvability of complex characters, measured by their level of genetic variance, affects their evolution at both micro- and macroevolutionary time scales. I use both experimental studies on different model organisms and comparative/meta-analyses to study evolvability. A large part of the experiments we are currently conducting is done on the Neotropical vine Dalechampia scandens at the greenhouse from the institute.
I am teaching courses at the institute of biology at NTNU: in evolutionary biology (BI 2017 and BI 3083)and quantitative methods and experimental design in ecology and evolution (BI 3051).
Courses
- BI3081 - Scientific Seminars
- BI8083 - Advanced Evolutionary Biology
- BI3051 - Quantitative Analyses in Ecology and Evolution
- BI3083 - Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics
- BI8082 - Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics
- BI2017 - Genetics and Evolution I
- BI8081 - Advanced Conservation Biology
- BI8091 - Advanced Biology
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
2021
- (2021) Evolvability: A Quantitative-Genetics Perspective. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. vol. 52.
- (2021) Quantitative assessment of observed versus predicted responses to selection. Evolution. vol. 75 (9).
- (2021) Effects of population density on static allometry between horn length and body mass in mountain ungulates. Oikos. vol. 130 (12|).
- (2021) Is There More to Within-plant Variation in Seed Size than Developmental Noise?. Evolutionary Biology. vol. 48.
2020
- (2020) Using ecological context to interpret spatiotemporal variation in natural selection. Evolution.
- (2020) Earlier onset of flowering and increased reproductive allocation of an annual invasive plant in the north of its novel range. Annals of Botany. vol. 126 (6).
- (2020) The Demographic buffering hypothesis: evidence and challenges. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. vol. 35 (6).
- (2020) Low potential for evolutionary rescue from climate change in a tropical fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. vol. 117 (52).
- (2020) On the use of the coefficient of variation to quantify and compare trait variation. Evolution Letters. vol. 4 (3).
- (2020) Variation in the ontogenetic allometry of horn length in bovids along a body mass continuum. Ecology and Evolution. vol. 10 (9).
- (2020) Measuring Complex Morphological Traits with 3D Photogrammetry: A Case Study with Deer Antlers. Evolutionary Biology. vol. 47.
2019
- (2019) Rainfall seasonality predicts the germination behaviour of a tropical dry-forest vine. Ecology and Evolution. vol. 9 (9).
- (2019) Genetic Variation in Metabolic Rate and Correlations with Other Energy Budget Components and Life History in Daphnia magna. Evolutionary Biology. vol. 46 (2).
- (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity?. Global Change Biology.
- (2019) Genetic and environmental effects on the scaling of metabolic rate with body size. Journal of Experimental Biology. vol. 222.
- (2019) Fitness costs of delayed pollination in a mixed-mating plant. Annals of Botany. vol. 124 (5).
- (2019) Quantitative and qualitative consequences of reduced pollen loads in a mixed-mating plant. Ecology and Evolution. vol. 9.
- (2019) No evidence that seed predators constrain pollinator-mediated trait evolution in a tropical vine. American Journal of Botany. vol. 106 (1).
2018
- (2018) An empirical test for a zone of canalization in thermal reaction norms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 31 (7).
- (2018) Does multiple paternity explain phenotypic variation among offspring in wild boar?. Behavioral Ecology. vol. 29 (4).
- (2018) Modelling allometry: Statistical and biological considerations – A reply to Packard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. vol. 125 (3).
- (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. vol. 115 (45).
2017
- (2017) The measure and mismeasure of reciprocity in heterostylous flowers. New Phytologist. vol. 215.
- (2017) Novel microsatellite markers for Dalechampia scandens (Euphorbiaceae) and closely related taxa: application to studying a species complex. Plant Species Biology. vol. 32 (2).
- (2017) The domestic basis of the scientific career: gender inequalities in ecology in France and Norway. European Educational Research Journal. vol. 16 (2-3).
- (2017) The evolvability of herkogamy: Quantifying the evolutionary potential of a composite trait. Evolution. vol. 71 (6).
- (2017) Euglossine bees mediate only limited long-distance gene flow in a tropical vine. New Phytologist. vol. 213 (4).
- (2017) Evolutionary allometry reveals a shift in selection pressure on male horn size. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 30 (10).
2016
- (2016) Mind the wind: Microclimate effects on incubation effort of an arctic seabird. Ecology and Evolution. vol. 6 (7).
- (2016) Evolutionary consequences of ecological factors: pollinator reliability predicts mating-system traits of a perennial plant. Ecology Letters. vol. 19 (12).
- (2016) Multiple effects of drought on pollination and mating-system traits in Dalechampia scandens. International journal of plant sciences. vol. 177| (8).
- (2016) Does stronger pollen competition improve offspring fitness when pollen load does not vary?. American Journal of Botany. vol. 103 (3).