SUZANNE BONAMOUR
Ecology and Evolution
I work on the impact of global changes on phenotypic plasticity
and adaptation in wild populations.
To understand this, I study long-term monitored bird populations
(mainly blue tits, and recently Lesser Kestrel) in the south of France and Corsica.
CURRENT POSITION
Post-doctoral position as teaching assistant and researcher
2020/2022 (2 years) – Paris – France
('Attachée Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche ATER')
TEACHING
Sorbonne Université
~ 192h / year
Statistics (B. Sc. and M. Sc.)
Ecology and Evolution (B. Sc.)
RESEARCH
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
Centre d’Ecologie et de Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) – UMR 7204
Evolutionary potential of phenologyin Lesser Kestrel in south of France.
Quantitative genetics
Capture-mark-recapture analyses
Natural selection estimations
PUBLICATIONS
Bonamour, S., Chevin, L.-M., Réale, D., Teplitsky, C. and Charmantier, A. (2020) Age-dependent phenological plasticity in a wild bird. J Anim Ecol. 2020;00:1–9. https://doi. org/10.1111/1365-2656.13337
Bonamour, S., Charmantier, A., Chevin, L.-M. and Teplitsky, C. (2019) Phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change: the importance of cue variation. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal society B, 374 : 20180178. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0178.
Bonamour, S., Teplitsky, C., Charmantier, A., Crochet, P.-A. and Chevin, L.-M. (2017) Selection on skewed characters and the paradox of stasis. Evolution 71(11): 2703-2713. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13368.
Bonamour, S., Bastianelli, O., Chevin, L.-M., Charmantier A. and Teplitsky C. (in prep.) Senescence in wild blue tits:
Does environmental age matter?
Bonamour, S., Teplitsky, C., Charmantier, A. and Chevin, L. M. (in prep.) Selection and evolution of phenological plasticity in a fluctuating natural environment.
Biquet, J., Bonamour, S., de Villemereuil, P. and Teplitsky, C. (in prep.) Adaptation to climate change in Blue tit: microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?
EDUCATION
2016/2019
P.H. D.
Breeding with seasons:
Variability, heritability, and natural selection
of phenological plasticity in a wild bird
Statistics, quantative genetics
Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE )
CNRS – UMR 5175
University of Montpellier – France
2014/2016
M. SC.
Evolutionary Biology
Population and quantitative genetics, genomics, ecology
and eco-evolutionary dynamic
University of Montpellier – France
2011/2014
B. SC.
Biology of organisms and populations
Population and community ecology, physiology, genetics
University of Lille – France
THESIS
Breeding with seasons: Variability, heritability, and natural selection of phenological plasticity in a wild bird
2016/2019
Supervision:
Céline Teplitsky, Anne Charmantier and Luis-Miguel Chevin
Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE)
Montpellier - France
Open access:
FIELD WORK
Long-term study of the (Mediterranean) wild Blue tit
Catching, ringing, morphological measurements, personnality tests and blood tests in passerines.
Montpellier and Corsica – France
Springs 2017, 2018 and 2019
Specialist ringing permit (Blue tit and Great tit species) from the CRBPO, Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris, France.
GRANTS
2016/2019
PH. D. FELLOWSHIP
From the French ministry of research and higher education (90.000 €)
Doctoral School GAIA – University of Montpellier – France
2016
GLOBALINK-MITACS
From Globalink
For international collaboration (7.000 $CAD)
Visit in the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), in the Denis Réale lab – Canada
Summer 2017 – 2 months
CONTACT
Sorbonne Université
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
Centre d’Ecologie et de Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) – UMR 7204
Paris – France