Jean Philippe Gibert | Scholars@Duke

Jean Philippe Gibert
Assistant Professor of Biology

I study how phenotypic traits and trait evolution determine predator-prey interactions and, through these, the structure and dynamics of complex networks of interacting species like food webs. I'm also interested in how these effects are mediated by the spatial structure of interacting species and changes in environmental conditions. To do so, I use a combination of mathematical models and computational methods, as well as empirical data from laboratory experiments and public data across systems and taxa.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2016
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 25, 2021
  
  Tiny Microscopic Hunters Could Be a Crystal Ball for Climate Change
- MAY 12, 2021
  
  Ecology: The Study of Our Home
- OCT 8, 2020
  
  Check This Out! One Cell Eating Another
- AUG 29, 2019
  
  Duke-Led Team Wins $3M Grant to Study Peatlands and Climate Change
Research
Selected Grants
- From viruses to protists: temperature response of the neglected components of microbial controls on peatland nutrient cycling awarded by Department of Energy 2019 - 2022
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Singleton, Alexandra L., Megan H. Liu, Samantha Votzke, Andrea Yammine, and Jean P. Gibert. “Increasing temperature weakens the positive effect of genetic diversity on population growth.” Ecology and Evolution 11, no. 24 (December 14, 2021): 17810–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8335.
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  - Wieczynski, Daniel J., Pranav Singla, Adrian Doan, Alexandra Singleton, Ze-Yi Han, Samantha Votzke, Andrea Yammine, and Jean P. Gibert. “Linking species traits and demography to explain complex temperature responses across levels of organization.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, no. 42 (October 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104863118.
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  - Barbour, Matthew A., and Jean P. Gibert. “Genetic and plastic rewiring of food webs under climate change.” The Journal of Animal Ecology 90, no. 8 (August 2021): 1814–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13541.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., and Daniel J. Wieczynski. “Constraints and variation in food web link-species space.” Biology Letters 17, no. 4 (April 14, 2021): 20210109. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0109.
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  - Fey, S. B., J. P. Gibert, and A. M. Siepielski. “The consequences of mass mortality events for the structure and dynamics of biological communities.” Oikos 128, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 1679–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06515.
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  - Gibert, J. P., and J. D. Yeakel. “Correction to: Laplacian matrices and Turing bifurcations: revisiting Levin 1974 and the consequences of spatial structure and movement for ecological dynamics (Theoretical Ecology, (2019), 10.1007/s12080-018-0403-2).” Theoretical Ecology 12, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-019-0418-3.
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  - Gibert, J. P., and J. D. Yeakel. “Laplacian matrices and Turing bifurcations: revisiting Levin 1974 and the consequences of spatial structure and movement for ecological dynamics.” Theoretical Ecology 12, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 265–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-018-0403-2.
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  - DeLong, John P., and Jean P. Gibert. “Larger Area Facilitates Richness-Function Effects in Experimental Microcosms.” The American Naturalist 193, no. 5 (May 2019): 738–47. https://doi.org/10.1086/702705.
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  - Gibert, Jean P. “Temperature directly and indirectly influences food web structure.” Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (March 29, 2019): 5312. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41783-0.
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  - Delong, J. P., and J. P. Gibert. “Larger area facilitates richness-function effects in experimental microcosms.” American Naturalist, January 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.48cn500.
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  - Gibert, J. P., and J. D. Yeakel. “Eco-evolutionary origins of diverse abundance, biomass, and trophic structures in food webs.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, no. FEB (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00015.
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  - DeLong, J. P., G. Bachman, J. P. Gibert, T. M. Luhring, K. L. Montooth, A. Neyer, and B. Reed. “Habitat, latitude and body mass influence the temperature dependence of metabolic rate.” Biology Letters 14, no. 8 (August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0442.
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  - Yeakel, Justin D., Jean P. Gibert, Thilo Gross, Peter A. H. Westley, and Jonathan W. Moore. “Eco-evolutionary dynamics, density-dependent dispersal and collective behaviour: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 373, no. 1746 (May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0018.
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  - DeLong, John P., Torrance C. Hanley, Jean P. Gibert, Linda M. Puth, and David M. Post. “Life history traits and functional processes generate multiple pathways to ecological stability.” Ecology 99, no. 1 (January 2018): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2070.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., and John P. DeLong. “Phenotypic variation explains food web structural patterns.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114, no. 42 (October 2, 2017): 11187–92. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703864114.
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  - Yeakel, Justin D., Jean P. Gibert, Peter A. H. Westley, and Jonathan W. Moore. “Eco-evolutionary dynamics and collective dispersal: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness,” September 21, 2017.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., Rachel L. Allen, Ron J. Hruska, and John P. DeLong. “The ecological consequences of environmentally induced phenotypic changes.” Ecology Letters 20, no. 8 (August 2017): 997–1003. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12797.
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  - DeLong, J. P., J. P. Gibert, T. M. Luhring, G. Bachman, B. Reed, A. Neyer, and K. L. Montooth. “The combined effects of reactant kinetics and enzyme stability explain the temperature dependence of metabolic rates.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 11 (June 2017): 3940–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2955.
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  - Gibert, J. P. “The effect of phenotypic variation on metapopulation persistence.” Population Ecology 58, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 345–55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-016-0548-z.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., Marie-Claire Chelini, Malcolm F. Rosenthal, and John P. DeLong. “Crossing regimes of temperature dependence in animal movement.” Global Change Biology 22, no. 5 (May 2016): 1722–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13245.
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  - DeLong, John P., and Jean P. Gibert. “Gillespie eco-evolutionary models (GEMs) reveal the role of heritable trait variation in eco-evolutionary dynamics.” Ecology and Evolution 6, no. 4 (February 2016): 935–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1959.
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  - DeLong, John P., Valery E. Forbes, Nika Galic, Jean P. Gibert, Robert G. Laport, Joseph S. Phillips, and Janna M. Vavra. “How fast is fast? Eco-evolutionary dynamics and rates of change in populations and phenotypes.” Ecology and Evolution 6, no. 2 (January 9, 2016): 573–81. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1899.
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  - Sebastián-González, Esther, Marcos Moleón, Jean P. Gibert, Francisco Botella, Patricia Mateo-Tomás, Pedro P. Olea, Paulo R. Guimarães, and José A. Sánchez-Zapata. “Nested species-rich networks of scavenging vertebrates support high levels of interspecific competition.” Ecology 97, no. 1 (January 2016): 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0212.1.
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  - Gibert, J. P., A. I. Dell, J. P. DeLong, and S. Pawar. “Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems” 52 (December 31, 2015): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001.
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  - Gibert, J. P., and J. P. DeLong. “Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence” 52 (January 1, 2015): 45–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.01.002.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., and Chad E. Brassil. “Individual phenotypic variation reduces interaction strengths in a consumer-resource system.” Ecology and Evolution 4, no. 18 (September 5, 2014): 3703–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1212.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., and John P. DeLong. “Temperature alters food web body-size structure.” Biology Letters 10, no. 8 (August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0473.
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  - Raimundo, Rafael L. G., Jean P. Gibert, David H. Hembry, and Paulo R. Guimarães. “Conflicting selection in the course of adaptive diversification: the interplay between mutualism and intraspecific competition.” The American Naturalist 183, no. 3 (March 2014): 363–75. https://doi.org/10.1086/674965.
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  - Gibert, Jean P., Mathias M. Pires, John N. Thompson, and Paulo R. Guimarães. “The spatial structure of antagonistic species affects coevolution in predictable ways.” The American Naturalist 182, no. 5 (November 2013): 578–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/673257.
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- Conference Papers
  - Delong, John P., Jean P. Gibert, Tom M. Luhring, Gwendolyn Bachman, Benjamin Reed, Abigail Neyer, and Kristi M. Montooth. “The combined effects of reactant kinetics and enzyme stability explain the temperature dependence of metabolic rates.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57:E242–E242. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2017.
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