Dr Timothée Bonnet
Areas of expertise
- Evolutionary Impacts Of Climate Change 060306
- Life Histories 060308
- Population Ecology 060207
- Population, Ecological And Evolutionary Genetics 060411
- Biostatistics 010402
Research interests
How fast is genetic evolution nowadays in wild plants and animals? Does evolution over a few decades alter ecological interactions, population dynamics, and ultimately the fate of populations facing changing environments? What role does hybridisation play in recent evolution?
I try and address these questions using a combination of theoretical models and empirical studies of long-term monitored populations.
Biography
- 2017-present : Post-doctoral researcher at Research School of Biology, The Australian National University. Loeske Kruuk's lab.
- 2019-present : Consultant for the Biological Data Science Institute, The Australian University.
- 2016-2017 : Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Zürich University. Forschungkredit grant. Arpat Ozgul group. "Demographic consequences of contemporary evolution in a wild rodent population"
- 2012-2016 : PhD cum laude at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Zürich University. Erik Postma group. "Individual-level causes and population-level consequences of variation in fitness in an Alpine rodent".
- 2011-2012 : Master student Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at Montpellier University, France. Research project with R. Leblois, F. Rousset, and P.A. Crochet : "A reassessment of explanations fordiscordant introgressions of mitochondrialand nuclear genomes"
- 2010-2011 : Gap year internships at the CEES (Oslo University, Norway) "Hybrid identification and hybrid-speciation" ; and at the CEBC (CNRS, France) "Demographic consequences of agricultural practices in the common vole".
- 2008-2012 : Agronomy, biology, and ecology ingineer school at Supagro Montpellier, France.
Researcher's projects
- Quantitative genetic estimation for non-Gaussian traits
- Measuring contemporary evolution across vertebrate wild populations
- Quantitative genetics of the superb fairy-wren mating system
- Demographic consequences of contemporary evolution
Current student projects
- 2019 PhD chapter by Lauren Harrison co-supervised with Prof. Michael Jennions "Demography and the Opportunity for Selection."
- 2019 PhD chapter by Eve Cooper co-supervised with Prof. Loeske Kruuk "Sensecence in the superb fairywren."
Past student projects
- 2014-2015. Master Project by Andres Hagmayer (now PhD student at Wageningen University and research, the Netherlands) co-supervised with Dr. Erik Postma "Selective forces and evolutionary potential of metabolism in a wild snow vole population."
- 2014-2016. Four 3-weeks projects for 3rd year students during a course ‘Principles of Evolution’.
Publications
- Morrissey, M & Bonnet, T 2019, 'Analogues of the fundamental and secondary theorems of selection, assuming a log-normal distribution of expected fitness', Journal of Heredity, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 396-402.
- Bonnet, T, Morrissey, M & Kruuk, L 2019, 'Estimation of Genetic Variance in Fitness, and Inference of Adaptation, When Fitness Follows a Log-Normal Distribution', Journal of Heredity, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 383-395.
- Bonnet, T & Postma, E 2018, 'Fluctuating selection and its (elusive) evolutionary consequences in a wild rodent population', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 31, pp. 572-586pp.
- Ponzi, E, Keller, L, Bonnet, T et al 2018, 'Heritability, selection, and the response to selection in the presence of phenotypic measurement error: Effects, cures, and the role of repeated measurements', Evolution, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 1992-2004.
- Bonnet, T, Wandeler, P, Camenisch, G et al 2017, 'Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population', PLoS Biology, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. e1002592-e1002592.
- van Benthem, K, Bruijning, M, Bonnet, T et al 2017, 'Disentangling evolutionary, plastic and demographic processes underlying trait dynamics: a review of four frameworks', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 75-85.
- Bonnet, T, Leblois, R, Rousset, F et al 2017, 'A reassessment of explanations for discordant introgressions of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes', Evolution, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 2140-2158pp..
- GarcÃa-Navas, V, Bonnet, T, Bonal, R et al 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, vol. 125, no. 9, pp. 1250-1260.
- Bonnet, T & Postma, E 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, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 60-74.
- GarcÃa-Navas, V, Bonnet, T, Waldvogel, D et al 2016, 'Consequences of natal philopatry for reproductive success and mate choice in an Alpine rodent', Behavioral Ecology, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1158-1166.
- GarcÃa-Navas, V, Bonnet, T, Waldvogel, D et al 2015, 'Gene flow counteracts the effect of drift in a Swiss population of snow voles fluctuating in size', Biological Conservation, vol. 191, pp. 168-177.
- Bonnet, T, Crespin, L, Pinot, A et al 2013, 'How the common vole copes with modern farming: Insights from a capture–mark–recapture experiment', Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 177, pp. 21-27pp.
- Bonnet, T, Slagsvold, P & Saetre, G 2011, 'Genetic species identification of a Collared Pied Flycatcher from Norway', Journal of Ornithology, vol. 152, no. 4, pp. 1069-1073pp.
- Elgvin, T, Hermansen, J, Fijarczyk, A et al 2011, 'Hybrid speciation in sparrows II: A role for sex chromosomes?', Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 18, pp. 3823-3837pp.
