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Timothée Bonnet

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Researcher in evolutionary biology (DECRA fellow), Australian National University

I am an evolutionary biologist primarily interested in recent natural selection, genetic evolution and their interaction with the ecology and demography of wild animals. I work mostly with long term monitoring of animal populations in their natural habitat, using a combination of genetic analyses, statistical modelling and computer simulations to understand what drives recent changes in for instance the size, the behavior or the abundance of animals.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Research fellow, Australian National University
  • 2017–2021
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University
  • 2016–2017
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Zurich

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Zurich, PhD in Evolutionary Biology

Publications

  • 2021
    Repeatability and Validity of Phenotypic Trait Measurements in Birds, Evolutionary Biology
  • 2021
    Effect of male age and past mating effort on pre-copulatory male-mating behaviour and paternity success., Evolution
  • 2021
    Ageing and senescence across reproductive traits and survival in superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus), The American Naturalist
  • 2020
    Do the ages of parents or helpers affect offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird?, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • 2020
    Limited mass-independent individual variation in resting metabolic rate in a wild population of snow voles (Chionomys nivalis), Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • 2020
    An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice., Behavioural Ecology
  • 2019
    Analogues of the fundamental and secondary theorems of selection, assuming a log-normal distribution of expected fitness, Journal of Heredity
  • 2019
    The role of selection and evolution in changing parturition date in a red deer population, PLoS Biology
  • 2019
    Estimation of genetic variance in fitness, and inference of adaptation, when fitness follows a log-normal distribution, Journal of Heredity
  • 2018
    Heritability, selection, and the response to selection in the presence of phenotypic measurement error: effects, cures, and the role of repeated measurements, Evolution
  • 2018
    Fluctuating selection and its (elusive) evolutionary consequences in a wild rodent population, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • 2017
    A reassessment of explanations for discordant introgressions of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, Evolution
  • 2017
    Bigger is fitter? Quantitative genetic decomposition of selection reveals an adaptive evolutionary decline of body mass in a wild rodent population, PLoS Biology
  • 2017
    Disentangling evolutionary, plastic and demographic processes underlying trait dynamics: A review of four frameworks, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • 2016
    Successful by chance? The power of mixed models and neutral simulations for the detection of individual fixed heterogeneity in fitness components, The American Naturalist
  • 2016
    Consequences of female philopatry for reproductive success and mate choice in an Alpine rodent, Behavioural Ecology
  • 2016
    The role of fecundity and sexual selection in the evolution of size and sexual size dimorphism in New World and Old World voles (Rodentia: Arvicolinae), Oikos
  • 2015
    Gene flow counteracts the effect of drift in a Swiss population of snow voles fluctuating in size, Biological Conservation
  • 2013
    How the common vole copes with modern farming: Insights from a capture-mark-recapture experiment., Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
  • 2011
    Hybrid speciation in sparrows II: a role for sex chromosomes?, Molecular Ecology
  • 2011
    Genetic species identification of a Collared Pied Flycatcher from Norway., Journal of Ornithology