What I am interested in
I aim to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes combine to shape the diversity of species, with a particular emphasis on plants and animals living on remote islands and hyperdiverse regions. Questions I seek to answer through my research are for example:
Why do some geographical regions accumulate more species than others? Why do some lineages of organisms contain more species than others ? How do new species form? I combine field research, mostly in the Indian Ocean islands, Pyrenees mountains, and also New Guinea across a range of different organisms, with molecular systematics and population genetics.
Keywords
A few publications that illustrates my interests
Why do some geographical regions accumulate more species than others? Why do some lineages of organisms contain more species than others ? How do new species form? I combine field research, mostly in the Indian Ocean islands, Pyrenees mountains, and also New Guinea across a range of different organisms, with molecular systematics and population genetics.
Keywords
- community assembly in islands
- evolutionary dynamics underlying species diversification
- speciation in island plants and birds
- hybrid zones
A few publications that illustrates my interests
- Bruxaux J, Gabrielli M, Ashari H, Prŷs-Jones R, Joseph L, Milá B, Besnard G, Thébaud C. Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): Implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (in press)
- Bourgeois Y, Delahaie B, Gautier M, Lhuillier E, Malé P, Bertrand J, Cornuault J, Wakamatsu K, Bouchez O, Mould C, Bruxaux J, Holota H, Mila B, Thébaud C. 2017. A novel locus on chromosome 1 underlies the evolution of a melanic plumage polymorphism in a wild songbird. Royal Society Open Science
- Casquet J., R. Gillespie & C. Thébaud. 2015. Community assembly on remote islands: a comparison of Hawaiian and Mascarene spiders. Journal of Biogeography 42: 39-50
- Courchamp F., J. Dunne, Y. Le Maho, R. May, C. Thébaud, & M. Hochberg. 2015. Fundamental ecology is fundamental. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30, 9-16
- Warren, B.H., Simberloff, D., Ricklefs, R.E., Aguilée , R., Condamine, F.L., Gravel, D., Morlon, H., Mouquet, N., Rosindell, J., Casquet, J., Conti, E., Cornuault, J., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Hengl, T., Norder, S.J., Rijsdijk, K.F., Sanmartín, I., Strasberg, D., Triantis, K., Valente, L.M., Whittaker, R.J., Gillespie, R.G., Emerson, B.C., Thébaud, C. 2015. Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson. Ecology Letters 18, 200-217
- Cornuault J., B.H. Warren, B. Mila, C. Thébaud, & P. Heeb. 2013. Timing and number of colonizations but not diversification rates affect diversity patterns in haemosporidian lineages on a remote oceanic archipelago American Naturalist 182, 820-833
- Strijk J.S., R.D. Noyes, D. Strasberg, C. Cruaud, F. Gavory, M.W. Chase, R.J. Abbott, & C. Thébaud. 2012. In and out of Madagascar: dispersal to peripheral islands, insular speciation, and diversification of Indian Ocean daisy trees (Psiadia, Asteraceae) PLoS ONE 7: e42932
- Warren B.H., E. Bermingham, Y. Bourgeois, L.K. Estep, R.P. Prys-Jones, D. Strasberg, and C. Thébaud. 2012. Hybridization and barriers to gene flow in an island bird radiation. Evolution 66, 1490-1505
- Warren B.H., D. Strasberg, J.H. Bruggemann, R. Prys-Jones, and C. Thébaud. 2010. Why does the Madagascar biota have such a strong Asiatic flavour? Cladistics 26: 526-538
- Gonzalez M.A., C. Baraloto, J. Engel, S.A. Mori, P. Pétronelli, B. Riéra, A. Roger, C. Thébaud, & J. Chave. 2009. Identification of Amazonian trees with DNA barcodes. PLoS ONE 4: e7483. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.000748.
- Whibley A.C., N.B. Langlade, C. Andalo, A.I. Hanna, A. Bangham, C. Thébaud, E. Coen. 2006. Evolutionary paths underlying flower color variation in Antirrhinum. Science 313, 963-966
- Warren, B.H. Bermingham, E., Prys-Jones, R.P. and C. Thébaud (2006) Immigration, species radiation and extinction in a highly diverse songbird lineage: white-eyes on Indian Ocean islands. Molecular Ecology 15, 3769–3786.
- Langlade N.B., X. Feng, T. Dransfield, L. Copsey, A. I. Hanna, C. Thébaud, A. Bangham, A. Hudson, and E. Coen. 2005. Evolution through genetically controlled allometry space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 102: 10221-10226
- Blondel, J., Perret, P., Anstett, M.-C. & C. Thébaud (2002) Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in birds: test of hypotheses using blue tits in contrasted Mediterranean habitats. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15, 440-450
- Thébaud C. and D. Simberloff. Are plants really larger in their introduced range? American Naturalist 157, 231-236.
- Emerson B.C., E. Paradis & C. Thébaud. 2001. DNA sequences reveal the demographic history of species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16, 707-716
- Thébaud C., A. C. Finzi, L. Affre, M. Debussche, and J. Escarre. Assessing why two introduced Conyza differ in their ability to invade Mediterranean old fields. Ecology 77: 791-804.
