Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station
Evolutionary ecology of global changes, genetic and environmental determinism of phenotypic variation, consequences of phenotypic variation from population to ecosystem functioning.
2011-ongoing Research associate CNRS at the department Evolution & Diversité Biologique at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France).
2007-2010 Post-doctoral position at the department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Davis, California (USA) with Prof. Andrew Sih.
2006-2007 Post-doctoral position at the Biogeosciences department at the University of Bourgogne (France) with Dr. G. Sorci and Pr. B. Faivre.
2003-2006 PhD student position at the Ecology Department of the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France) with Dr. J. Clobert and Dr. P.S. Fitze.
Therry L., Raffard A., Finn F., Koch K., Brodin T., Blanchet S. & Cote J.
(2020) - Does range expansion modify trait covariation? An experimental test in a northward expanding dragonfly. - Oecologia 192(2): 565-575Bestion E., Soriano-Redondo A., Cucherousset J., Jacob S., White J., Zinger L., Fourtune L., Di Gesu L., Teyssier A. & Cote J.
(2019) - Altered trophic interactions in warming climates: consequences for predator diet breadth and fitness. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286: 20192227Baltazar-Soares M., Blanchet S., Cote J., Tarkan A.S., Zahorska E., Gozlan R.E. & Eizaguirre C.
(2019) - Genetic footprints of a biological invasion: Introduction from Asia and dispersal in Europe of the topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva). - Molecular Ecology 29: 71–85Bestion E., Cote J., Jacob S., Winandy L. & Legrand D.
(2019) - Habitat fragmentation experiments on arthropods: what to do next? - Current Opinion in Insect Science 35Pellerin F., Cote J., Bestion E. & Aguilée R.
(2019) - Matching habitat choice promotes species persistence under climate change - Oikos 128(2): 221-234Fronhofer E., Legrand D., Altermatt F., Anstart A., Blanchet S., Bonte D., Chaine A., Dahirel M., De Laender F., de Raedt J., Di Gesu L., Jacob S., Kaltz O., Laurent E., Little C., Madec L., Manzi F., Masier S., Pellerin F., Pennekamp F., Schtickzelle N., Therry L., Vong A., Winandy L. and Cote J.
(2018) - Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. - Nature ecology & evolution 2: 1859–1863Saastamoinen M., Bocedi G., Cote J., Legrand D., Guillaume F., Wheat C.W., Fronhofer E.A., Garcia C., Henry R., Husby A., Baguette M., Bonte D., Coulon A., Kokko H., Matthysen E., Niitepõld K., Nonaka E., Stevens V.M., Travis J.M.J., Donohue K., Bullock J.M. & del Mar Delgado M.
(2018) - Genetic of dispersal. - Biological Reviews 93: 574–599Jacob S., Laurent E., Haegeman B., Bertrand R., Prunier J.G., Legrand D., Cote J., Chaine A.S., Loreau M., Clobert J. and Schtickzelle N.
(2018) - Habitat choice meets thermal specialization: Competition with specialists may drive suboptimal habitat preferences in generalists - PNAS 11988–11993, vol. 115, no. 47Cote J., Bocedi G., Debeffe L., Chudzinska M.E., Weigang H.C., Dytham C., Gonzalez G., Matthysen E., Travis J., Baguette M. & Hewison A.J.M.
(2017) - Behavioural synchronization of large-scale animal movements - disperse alone, but migrate together? - Biological Reviews 92: 1275-1296Bestion E., Jacob S., Zinger L., Di Gesu L., Richard M., White J. & Cote J.
(2017) - Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm. - Nature ecology & evolution 1: 161Saastamoinen M.,Bocedi G., Cote J., Legrand D., Guillaume F., Wheat C.W., Fronhofer E.A, Garcia C., Henry R., Husby A., Baguette M., Bonte D., Coulon A., Kokko H., Matthysen E., Niitepold K., Nonaka E., Stevens V.M., Travis J.M.J, Donohue K., Bullock J.M. & del Mar Delgado M.
(2017) - Genetics of dispersal. - Biological Reviews 93(1): 574-599Book chapters and publications :
60) Baltazar-Soares M., Blanchet S., Cote J., Tarkan A., Záhorská E., Gozlan R., Eizaguirre C. 2020. Genomic footprints of a biological invasion: introduction from Asia and dispersal in Europe of the topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva). Molecular Ecology. In press.
59) Bestion E., Soriano-Redondo A., Cucherousset J., Jacob S., White J., Zinger L., Fourtune L., Di Gesu L., Teyssier A., & J. Cote. 2019. Altered trophic interactions in warming climates: consequences for predator diet breadth and fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 286: 20192227.
58) Bestion E., Cote J., Jacob S., Winandy L. & D. Legrand. 2019. Habitat fragmentation experiments on arthropods: what to do next? Current Opinion in Insect Sciences. 35: 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.07.011
57) Brodin T., Fogarty S., Sih A. & J. Cote. 2019. Personality-dependent survival of the invasive mosquitofish: being social can be deadly. Aquatic invasions. 14(3): 465-477.
56) Winandy, L., Cote, J., Gesu, L. D., Pellerin, F., Trochet, A., & Legrand, D. 2019. Local predation risk and matrix permeability interact to shape movement strategy. Oikos., 128(10): 1402-1412. doi: 10.1111/oik.06403
55) Therry L.*, Cote J.*, Cucherousset J., Finn F., Buoro Y. & S. Blanchet. 2019. Genetic, plastic and environmental contributions to the impact of a range-expanding predator on aquatic ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88: 35-46. Special issue Eco-evolutionary dynamics. * denotes co-first authors.
54) Pellerin F., Cote J., Bestion E. & R. Aguilée. 2019. Matching habitat choice promotes species persistence under climate change. Oikos. 128(2): 221-234.
53) Jacob S., Laurent E., Haegeman B., Bertrand R., Prunier J.G., Legrand D., Cote J., Chaine A.S., Loreau M., Clobert J. & N. Schtickzelle. 2018. Habitat choice meets thermal specialization: competition with specialists may drive suboptimal habitat preferences in generalists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115 (45): 11988-11993.
52) Fronhofer E.A., Legrand D., Altermatt F., Ansart A., Blanchet S., Bonte D., Chaine A., Dahirel M., De Laender F., De Raedt J., Jacob S., Kaltz O., Laurent E., Little C., Madec L., Manzi F., Masier S., Pellerin F., Pennekamp F., Schtickzelle N., Therry L., Vong A., Winandy L. & J. Cote. 2018. Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution : 1859–1863. Highlight: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0720-2.
51) Saastamoinen M, Bocedi G, Cote J, Legrand D, Guillaume F, Wheat C, Fronhofer E, Garcia C, Henry R, Husby A, Baguette M, Bonte D, Coulon A, Kokko H, Matthysen E, Niitepõld, K, Nonaka E, Stevens V, Travis J, Donohue K, Bullock J & M del Mar Delgado. 2018. Genetics of Dispersal. Biological reviews. 93: 574-599.
50) Raffard A., Lecerf A., Cote J., Buoro M., Lassus R. & J. Cucherousset. 2017. The Functional Syndrome: linking individual trait variability to ecosystem functioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 284 (1868).
49) Cote J, Brodin T, Fogarty S & A Sih. 2017. Non-random dispersal mediates invader impacts on the invertebrate community. Journal of Animal Ecology. 86(6): 1298-1307.
48) Bestion E, Jacob S, Zinger L, Di Gesu L, Richard M, White J & J. Cote. 2017. Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 0161.
47) Cote J., Bocedi B., Debeffe L., Chudzińska M.E., Weigang H.C., Dytham C., Gonzalez G., Matthysen E., Travis J., Baguette M. and A. J. M. Hewison. 2017. Behavioral synchronization of large-scale animal movements – disperse alone, but migrate together? Biological Reviews. 92(3): 1275-1296.
46) Cote J., Bestion E., Jacob D., Travis J., Legrand D. & M. Baguette. 2017. Evolution of dispersal strategies and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes. Ecography. 40(1): 56-73.
45) Legrand D., Cote J., Fronhofer E., Holt R.D., Ronce O., Schtickzelle N., Travis J. & J. Clobert. 2017. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in fragmented landscapes. Ecography. 40(1): 9-25.
44) Caplat P., Edeaar P., Dudaniec R.Y., Green A.J., Okamura B., Cote J., Ekroos J., Jonsson P.R., Löndahl J., Tesson S.V.M. and E. Petit. 2016. Looking beyond the mountain: dispersal barriers in a changing world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 14(5): 261–268, doi:10.1002/fee.1280.
43) Bestion E., Cucherousset J., Teyssier A. and J. Cote. 2015. Non-consumptive effects of a top-predator decrease the strength of the trophic cascade in a four-level terrestrial food web. Oikos. 124(12): 1597-1603. DOI: 10.1111/oik.02196.
42) Bestion E., Teyssier A., Richard M., Clobert J., and J. Cote. 2015. Live fast, die young: experimental evidence of population extinction risk due to climate change. Plos Biology. 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002281.
41) Bestion E., Clobert J., and J. Cote. 2015. Dispersal response to climate change: scaling down to intraspecific variation. Ecology Letters. 18(11): 1226-1233.
40) Jacob S., Bestion E., Legrand D., Clobert J. and J. Cote. 2015. Habitat matching and spatial heterogeneity of phenotypes: implications for metapopulation and metacommunity functioning. Evolutionary Ecology. 29(6): 851-871.
39) Cucherousset J., Fried G., Cote J. & Renault D. 2015. Biological invasions and ecosystem functioning; assessment of the ecological impacts driven by invasive species. Revue d’Ecologie. 70:49-52.
38) Bonnot N., Verheyden H., Blanchard P., Cote J., Debeffe L., Cargnelutti B., Klein F., Hewison M., Morellet N. 2015. Inter-individual variability in habitat use: evidence for a risk management syndrome in roe deer? Behavioral Ecology. 26(1): 105-114.
37) Bestion E., Teyssier A., Aubret F., Clobert J. and J. Cote. 2014. Maternal exposure to predator scents: offspring phenotypic adjustment and dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 281.
36) Juette T., Cucherousset J. and J. Cote. 2014. Animal personality and the ecological impacts of freshwater non-native species. Current Zoology. 60(3): 417 - 427.
35) Teyssier A., Bestion E., Richard M. and J. Cote. 2014. Partners’ personality types and mate preferences: predation risk matters. Behavioral Ecology. 25(4): 723-733.
34) Cote J., Fogarty S., Tymen B., Sih A. and T. Brodin. 2013. Personality-dependent dispersal cancelled under predation risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences.280 : 1773.
33) Trochet A., Legrand D., Larranaga N., Ducatez S., Calvez O., Cote J., Clobert J. and M. Baguette. 2013 Population Sex Ratio and Dispersal in Experimental, Two-Patch Metapopulations of Butterflies. Journal of Animal Ecology. 82: 946-955.
32) Dardenne S., Ducatez S., Cote J., Poncin P. and V.M. Stevens.2013. Neophobia and social tolerance are related to breeding group size in a semi-colonial bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67: 1317-1327.
31) Legrand D., Guillaume O., Baguette M., Cote J., Trochet A., Calvez O., Zajitschek S., Zajitschek F., Lecomte J., Bénard Q., Le Galliard J.-F. and J. Clobert. 2012. The Metatron: an experimental system to study dispersal and metaecosystem dynamics for terrestrial organisms. Nature Methods. 9: 928-933.
30) Cote, J., Fogarty, S. and A. Sih. 2012. Individual sociability and choosiness between shoal types. Animal Behaviour. 83: 1469-1476.
29) Sih A., Cote J., Evans M., Fogarty S. and J. Pruitt. 2012. Ecological implications of behavioral syndromes. Ecology Letters. 15(3): 278-289.
28) Pruitt J.N., Cote J. and M.C.O. Ferrari. 2012. Behavioural trait variants in a habitat‐forming species dictate the nature of its interactions with and among heterospecifics. Functional Ecology. 26: 29-36.
27) Cote, J., Fogarty, S., Brodin, T., Weinersmith, K. and A. Sih. 2011. Personality-dependent dispersal in the invasive mosquitofish: group composition matters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 278(1712): 1670-1678.
26) Hoset, K.S., Ferchaud, A.-L., Dufour, F., Mersch, D., Cote, J. and J.-F. Le Galliard. 2011. Natal dispersal correlates with behavioural traits that are not consistent across early life stage. Behavioral Ecology. 22:176-183.
25) Fogarty, S., Cote, J., and A. Sih. 2011. Social personality polymorphism and the spread of invasive species: a model. The American Naturalist. 177(3): 273-287.
24) Cote, J., Clobert, J., Brodin, T., Fogarty, S. And A. Sih. 2010. Personality-dependent dispersal: characterization, ontogeny and consequences for spatially structured populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365: 4065-4076.
23) Cote, J., Meylan, S., Clobert, J. and Y. Voituron. 2010. Carotenoid-based coloration, oxidative stress and corticosterone in common lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 2116-2124.
22) Cote, J., Fogarty, S., Weinersmith, K., Brodin, T. and A. Sih. 2010. Personality traits and dispersal tendency in an invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 277: 1571-1579.
21) Cote, J., Clobert, J., Montes Poloni, L., Haussy, C. and S. Meylan. 2010. Food deprivation modifies corticosterone-dependent behavioural shifts in the common lizard. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 166: 142-151.
20) Cote, J., Sorci, G., Arnoux, E. and B. Faivre. 2010. Age-dependent allocation of carotenoids to coloration versus antioxidant defences. Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 271-277.
19) Cote, J. and J. Clobert. 2010. Risky dispersal: avoid kin competition despite uncertainty. Ecology. 91(5): 1485-1493.
18) Dreiss, A.N., Cote, J., Federici, P., Clobert, J. and M. Richard. 2010. Age-specific response to change in population density and sex-ratio. Behavioral Ecology. 21: 356-364.
17) Fitze, P.S., Cote, J. and J. Clobert. 2010. Context-dependent mate choice in female common lizards Lacerta vivipara. Oecologia. 162: 331-341.
16) Fitze, P.S., Cote, J., Isaksson, C., Andersson, S, Rossi, J.-M. and J. Clobert. 2009. Carotenoid-based colours reflect stress response in the common lizard. PloS One. 4(4): e5111. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005111.
15) Clobert, J., Le Galliard, J-F., Cote, J., Meylan, S. and M. Massot. 2009. Informed dispersal, heterogeneity in animal dispersal syndromes and the dynamics of spatially structured populations. Ecology Letters. 12: 197-209.
14) Cote, J., Dreiss, A. and J. Clobert. 2008. Social personality trait and fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 275: 2851-2858.
13) Cote, J., Le Galliard, J.-F., Rossi, J.-M. and P.S. Fitze. 2008 Environmentally induced changes in a carotenoid-based coloration of female lizards: a comment of Vercken et al.. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21 : 1165-1172.
12) Cote, J., Boudsocq, S. and J. Clobert. 2008. Density, social information and space use in the common lizard (Lacerta vivipara). Behavioral Ecology. 19(1) : 163-168.
11) Fitze, P.S., Cote, J., Martinez-Rica J.P. and J. Clobert. 2008. Determinants of male fitness: disentangling between intra- and inter-sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(1): 246-255
10) Le Galliard, J.-F., Cote, J., and P.S. Fitze. 2008. Lifetime and intergenerational fitness consequences of sexual aggression by males – can females compensate for a bad start? Ecology. 89(1): 56-64
9) Cote, J., Clobert, J. and P.S. Fitze. 2007. Mother-offspring competition promotes colonization success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 104(23): 9703-9708.
8) Cote, J. and J. Clobert. 2007. Social information and emigration: Lessons from immigrants. Ecology Letters.10: 411-417.
7) Cote, J. and J. Clobert. 2007. Social personalities influence natal dispersal in a lizard. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 274: 383-390. ISI highly cited article.
6) Cote, J., Clobert, J., Meylan, S. and P.S. Fitze. 2006. Experimental enhancement of corticosterone levels positively affects subsequent male survival. Hormones and Behavior. 49: 320-327.
5) Le Galliard, J.-F., Fitze, P. S., Cote, J., Massot, M. and J. Clobert. 2005. Female common lizards (Lacerta vivipara) do not adjust their sex-biased investment in relation to the adult sex ratio. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 18(6):1455-1463.
Book chapters :
4) Bestion E. & J. Cote. Species responses to climate change: integrating individual-based ecology into community and ecosystem studies. 2018. In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (ed Dominick DellaSala and Mike Goldstein). Elsevier. Volume 2: 139-147. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09801-3
3) Rehage J., Cote J. & A. Sih. 2016. The role of dispersal behaviour and personality in post-establishment spread. In Biological Invasions and Behavior (ed J. Weis and D. Sol). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2) Cote, J., Clobert, J., Brodin, T., Fogarty, S. and A. Sih. 2014. Personality traits and spatial ecology in non-human animals. In Geographical Psychology (ed J. Rentfrow). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
1) Cote, J. and J. Clobert. 2012. Dispersal syndromes in the common lizard: personality traits, information use and context-dependent dispersal decisions. In Dispersal. Causes and consequences (eds J. Clobert, M. Baguette, T. Benton, J. Bullock & S. Ducatez). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.