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Dr. Regis Ferrière, Associate Professor

Positions and Education

Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2002 - present

Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2000 - 2001

Associate professor in the Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 1997 - 2002

Assistant professor in the Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 1995-1997

Research associate at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria), 1995 - 2002

PhD in Ecology, 1995

Research assistant in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1993-1995

Agregation de Mathematiques, 1992

BS and MS in Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1989-1993

Honors and Awards

Young Scientist Award, French Ministry of Research and Technology 2001

Research Interests

Regis Ferrière is a broadly trained mathematician and evolutionary ecologist. He is interested in the interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes: how ecological interactions shape selective pressures acting on individual adaptive traits, and how in return adaptive trait evolution impacts on ecological interactions. His research involves three levels of investigation. (1) Mathematical foundations of adaptive dynamics modelling: deriving “macroscopic” models of quantitative traits evolution starting from “microscopic” models of individual interactions and genetic variation. (2) Applications of the general theory to major issues in evolutionary ecology and developmental biology, including the evolution of cooperative interactions at the gene, cell, organism and population levels; life history evolution; and adaptive responses of ecosystems to environmental change. (3) Empirical tests of the theory, using clonal microarthropods (Collembola) and lizards as model organisms.

Read a profile of Regis Ferrière in the Fall 2003 (Winter 2004) issue of Desert News & Views (pdf file)

PubMed list of publications for Regis Ferrière

Selected Publications

Ferriere R & Gatto M (1993) Chaotic population dynamics can result from natural selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 251:33-38.
Ferriere R & Michod RE (1995) Invading wave of cooperation in a spatial iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 259:77-83.
Ferriere R & Gatto M (1995) Lyapunov exponents and the mathematics of invasion in oscillatory or chaotic populations. Theoretical Population Biology 48:126-171.
Ferriere R, Cazelles B, Cézilly F & Desportes J.P. (1996) Predictability and chaos in bird vigilant behavior. Animal Behaviour 52:457-472.
Ferriere R & Cazelles B (1999) Universal power laws govern intermittent rarity in communities of interacting species. Ecology 80:1505-1521.
Champagnat N, Ferriere R, Ben Arous G (2001) The canonical equation of adaptive dynamics : A mathematical view. Selection 2:71-81.
Ferriere R, Bronstein JL, Rinaldi S, Law R & Gauduchon M (2002) Cheating and the evolutionary stability of mutualisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:773-780.
Dercole F, Ferriere R, Rinaldi S (2002) Ecological bistability and evolutionary reversals under asymmetrical competition. Evolution 56:1081-1090.
Le Galliard JF, Ferriere R & Dieckmann U (2003) The adaptive dynamics of altruism in spatially heterogeneous populations. Evolution, in press.
Cadet C, Ferrière R, Metz JAJ, van Baalen M (2003) The evolution of dispersal under demographic stochasticity. The American Naturalist, in press.
Ferriere R & Le Galliard JF (2001) Invasion fitness and adaptive dynamics in spatial population models. Pages 57-79 in “Dispersal” edited by J. Clobert, A. Dhondt, E. Danchin & J. Nichols. Oxford University Press.
Ferriere R, Dieckmann U, Couvet D, editors (2003) “Evolutionary Conservation Biology”. Cambridge University Press, in press

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