Research :
The core objective of the research team deals
with adaptive responses of the organism to environmental factors, with a
central focus on functional and evolutionary aspects. The conducted
researches, using different models (plants, arthropods, birds, mammals)
are mainly based on experimental and pluridisciplinary approaches,
associating data from behavioural ecology, functional anatomy and
integrative physiology. The common aim is to decrypt among environmental
factors, either abiotic (climate, light, habitat, food resources) or
biotic (interindividual communication, social systems), those
representing the major selective constraints in the expression and
regulation of adaptive responses. In this context, perception of the
environment, that is sensory pathways and signals, represents a key
feature to understand the mechanisms underlying the regulation of
adaptive responses. Among those mechanisms, daily and seasonal rhythms
are of main interest owing to their high adaptive value to recurrent
variation of the environment. Finally, adaptations are the result of
evolutionary processes to face pressure of selection. Therefore, part of
our research aims at bringing pieces of explanation to processes of
phylogeny, and even speciation. These researches are most often
developed in collaboration with other scientific teams and are funded by
several research grants. They rely on the concepts of behavioural
ecology and more generally to the biology of adaptation. They bring new
pieces of thought about the set up of protocols of biodiversity
management, and even provide applications in the field of human health.
BIOADAPT research
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Estelle Cruz est Architecte Ingénieure et Chargée de mission habitat bio-inspiré au CEEBIOS (CEntre Européen en BIOmimétisme), et prépare une thèse de doctorat dans l’unité MECADEV au Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle où elle poursuit ses...

La Société Française d’Ecologie et d’Evolution a décerné le prix Jeune Chercheur 2018 à Julie Landes, doctorante de l’équipe BIOADAPT (co-encadrants: Pierre-Yves Henry et Samuel Pavard, UMR Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie) pour son article:...
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Aujard Fabienne
![]() | aujard@mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 37 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |
![]() | directrice de MECADEV |

Laureline Chaise
![]() | lchaise@edu.mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 34 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Estelle Cruz
![]() | estelle.cruz@ceebios.com |
![]() | +33 (0)6 26 09 10 88 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 4 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |
![]() | Chargée de mission Habitat bio-inspiré CEEBIOS |

Gilbert Caroline
![]() | cgilbert@vet-alfort.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 43 96 70 71 |
![]() | ENVA, 7 av. du Général de Gaulle, 94704 Maisons Alfort cedex |

Henry Pierre-Yves
![]() | henry@mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 28 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 4 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |
![]() | Directeur du Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux; Responsable délégataire de l'Etablissement Utilisateur de Faune Sauvage Non-Hébergée du Muséum |

Hozer Clara
![]() | hozerclara@hotmail.fr |
![]() | +33(0)1 60 47 96 27 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 4 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Maxime Lahournat
![]() | maxime.lahournat@oncfs.gouv.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 XX XX XX XX |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Noiret Aude
![]() | aude.noiret@edu.mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 69 54 36 39. |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 4 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Perret Martine
![]() | mperret@mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 38 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Pifferi Fabien
![]() | pifferi@mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 48 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |
![]() | Responsable de l'équipe Bioadapt |

Julie Royo
![]() | julie.royo@edu.mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0) 1 60 47 36 24 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |

Terrien Jérémy
![]() | terrien@mnhn.fr |
![]() | +33 (0)1 60 47 92 47 |
![]() | UMR 7179 / CNRS-MNHN, 1 avenue du Petit Chateau, 91800 Brunoy |