2024

 

Mohamed Lemine Mohamed Hacen, Paul Brossault, Ould Aveloitt Mohamed, Mohamed Mahmoud Abidine, Cheikh Yebouk, Ould Sidaty Zein El Abidine, Abdeljabbar Qninba, Mohamed Fekhaoui, Damien Chevallier. Six années de suivi satellitaire des migrations pré et postnuptiales d’une Cigogne noire Ciconia nigra. In press in Alauda.

 Damien Chevallier, Jacques Fretey, Marc Girondot, Jean Lescure. First record of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880) in the waters of Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). First Record of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880), in the Waters of Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). Animals 2024, 14, 596. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14040596. 

 Pierre Lelong, Aurélien Besnard, Marc Girondot, Caroline Habold, Fabienne Priam, ….., Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier. Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique. Biological conservation 291. 110471.

 

 

2023

Mariana M.P.B Fuentes, Erin McMichael, Connie Y Kot, Ian Silver-Gorges, Bryan Wallace, Brendan J Godley, Annabelle M.L. Brooks, Simona A Ceriani, Mark Flint, Michael P Jensen, Lisa M Komoroske, Sara Kophamel, Matthew D Lettrich, Christopher A Long, Sarah E Nelms, Ana Rita Patricio, Nathan Jack Robinson, Jeffrey A Seminoff, Matthew Ware, Elizabeth R Whitman, Damien Chevallier, Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway, Sumedha Korgaonkar, Agnese Mancini, Juliana Mello-Fonseca, Jonathan R. Monsinjon, Isabella Neves-Ferreira, Anna A Ortega, Samir H. Patel, Joseph B Pfaller, Matthew David Ramirez, Cheila Raposo, Caitlin E Smith, Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Graeme C Hays. Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions. Endangered Species Research. 52:303-341.DOI: 10.3354/esr01278.

Damien Chevallier, Marc Girondot, Christina Péron, Jordan Martin, Marc Bonola, Johan Chevalier, Edward J. Anthony, Benoît de Thoisy, Laurent Kelle, Yvon Le Maho, Antoine Gardel. 2023. Beach erosion aggravates the drastic decline in marine turtle populations in French Guiana. Regional Environmental Change 23(3)                                    DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02105-3.

Flore Emonnot, Blandine Siegrist, Amandine Bordin, Virginie Dos Reis, Damien Chevallier, Yannick Estevez, Benoit de Thoisy. 2023. Marine pollution between gyres: plastic debris in marine turtles and Guianan dolphin in French Guiana, Equatorial Atlantic. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 51(3).  DOI: 10.3856/vol51-issue3-fulltext-2923.

2022

Sibelle Torres Vilaça, Francesco Maroso, Paulo Lara, Benoit de Thoisy, Damien Chevallier, Larissa Souza Arantes, Fabricio R. Santos, Giorgio Bertorelle, Camila J. Mazzoni. 2022. Evidence of backcross inviability and mitochondrial DNA paternal leakage in sea turtle hybrids. Molecular Ecology 32(11).

Thibaut Roost, Jo-Ann Schies, Marc Girondot,...........Damien Chevallier. 2022. Fibropapillomatosis prevalence and distribution in immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). Ecohealth. 2022 doi: 10.1007/s10393-022-01601-y.

Flora Siegwalt, Lorène Jeantet,……Damien Chevallier. 2022. Food selection and habitat use patterns of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) on Caribbean seagrass beds dominated by the alien species Halophila stipulacea. Global Ecology and Conservation 37. doi : 10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02169.

Aymeric Houstin, Daniel Zitterbart, Alexander Winterl, Sebastian Richter, Víctor Planas-Bielsa, Damien Chevallier, André Ancel, Jérôme Fournier, Ben Fabry, Céline Le Bohec. 2022. Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance. Accepted in PLoS ONE 17(8): e0265849.

Isabelle Charrier, Lorène Jeantet, Léo Maucourt, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Damien Chevallier. 2022. First evidence of underwater vocalisations in green turtles, Chelonia mydas. Endangered Species Research.

David Grémillet, Damien Chevallier and Christophe Guinet. Big data approaches to the spatial ecology and conservation of marine megafauna, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac059.

Jeantet, L.; Hadetskyi, V.; Vigon, V.; Korysko, F.; Paranthoen, N.; Chevallier, D. Estimation of the Maternal Investment of Sea Turtles by Automatic Identification of Nesting Behavior and Number of Eggs Laid from a Tri-Axial Accelerometer. Animals 2022, 12, 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12040520.

2021

Girondot, M, Mourrain, B, Chevallier, D, Godfrey, MH. 2021. Maturity of a giant: age and size reaction norm for sexual maturity for Atlantic leatherback turtles. Mar. Ecol. 2021; 00:e12631. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12631.

Lorène Jeantet, Vincent Vigon, Sébastien Geiger, Damien Chevallier. 2021. Fully Convolutional Neural Network: A solution to infer animal behaviours from multi-sensor data. Ecological Modelling 450, 09555.

Catherine Riaux-Gobin, Matt P. Ashworth, J.Patrick Kociolek, Damien Chevallier, Pablo Saenz-Agudelo, Andrzej Witkowski, Genowefa Daniszewska-Kowalczyk, Cecile Gaspar, Magali Lagant, Margaux Touron, Alice Carpentier, Vie Stabile & Serge Planes. 2021. Epizoic diatoms on sea turtles and their relationship to host species, behaviour and biogeography: a morphological approach, European Journal of Phycology, DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2020.1843077.

2020

Siegwalt Flora, Benhamou Simon, Girondot Marc, ………. Chevallier D. 2020. High fidelity of sea turtles to their foraging grounds revealed by satellite tracking and capture-mark-recapture: New insights for the establishment of key marine conservation areas. Biological conservation 250: 108742. doi : 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108742.

Catherine Riaux-Gobin, Andrzej Witowski, John Patrick Kociolek, Damien Chevallier. 2020. Navicula dermochelycola sp. nov., presumably exclusively epizoic diatom on the sea turtles Dermochelys coriacea and Lepidochelys olivacea from French Guiana. 2020. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 49 (2) : 132-139. doi: 10.1515/ohs-2020-0012.

Isaac Debache, Lorène Jeantet, Damien Chevallier, Audrey Bergouignan, Cédric Sueur. 2020. A lean and performant hierarchical model for human activity recognition using body-mounted sensors. Sensors 20, 3090.

Jeantet, L., Planas-Bielsa, V., Benhamou, S., Geifer, S., Martin, J., Siegwalt, F., Lelong, P., Gresser, J., Etienne, D., Hielard, G., Arque, A., Regis, S., Lecerf, N., Frouin, C., Benhalilou, A., Murgale, C., Maillet, T., Andreani, L., Campistron, G., Delvaux, H., Guyon, C., Richard, S., Lefebvre, F., Aubert, N., Habold, C., Le Maho, Y., Chevallier, D. 2020. Behavioural inference from signal processing using animal-borne multi-sensor loggers: a novel solution to extend the knowledge of sea turtle ecology. Royal Society Open science 7: 200139.

Chevallier Damien, Baptiste Mourrain, Girondot Marc. 2020. Modelling leatherback biphasic indeterminate growth using a modified Gompertz equation. Ecological modelling. 426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109037.

Chevallier D., Girondot M. Berzins R., Chevalier J., de Thoisy B., Fretey J., Kelle L., Lebreton J.-D. 2020. Survival and pace of reproduction among adult females of an endangered sea turtle population, the leatherback Dermochelys coriacea in French Guyana. Endangered species. Vol. 41: 153–165.

2019

Bonola M., Etienne D., Robin J-P, Gresser J., Vedie F., Mailles J., Régis S., Lecerf N., Bordes R., Lefebvre F., Pinson A., Flora F., Thieulle L., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. 2019. Body measurements give good estimates of the body mass and thus body condition in wild juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Biology Open 8. doi:10.1242/bio.048058

Jurjan P. van der Zee, Marjolijn J.A. Christianen, Mabel Nava, Ximena Velez-Zuazo, Wensi Hao, Martine Bérubé, Hanneke van Lavieren, Michael Hiwat, Rachel Berzins, Johan Chevalier, Damien Chevallier, Marie-Clélia Lankester, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Leontine E. Becking, Per J. Palsbøll. 2019. Population recovery changes population composition at a major southern Caribbean juvenile developmental habitat for the green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Scientific reports 9:14392. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50753-5.

Mathieu Boos, Anna P. Nesterova, Damien Chevallier, Arne Follestad. Migratory flights and local wintering movements of graylag geese in Western and South-Western Europe. 2019. Bird study 66(2). Doi: 10.1080/00063657.2019.1620171.

 

2018

Chambault, P., de Thoisy, B., Huguin, M., Martin, J., Bonola, M., Etienne, ….., Le Maho, Y., Petit, O., Chevallier, D. 2018. Connecting paths between juvenile and adult habitats in the Atlantic green turtle using genetics and satellite tracking. Ecology and Evolution 8, 12790–12802.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4708.

Nivière, M., Chambault, P., Pérez, T., Etienne, ….., Le Maho, Y., Petit, O., Chevallier, D., 2018. Identification of marine key areas across the Caribbean to ensure the conservation of the critically endangered hawksbill turtle. Biological Conservation 223, 170–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.05.002.

Jeantet L., Dell’Amico F., Forin-Wiart M-A., Coutant M., Bonola M., Etienne D., Gresser J., Regis S., Lecerf N., Lefebvre F., de Thoisy B., Le Maho Y., Brucker M., Chatelain N., Laesser R., Crenner F., Handrich Y., Wilson R., Chevallier D. 2018. Combined use of two supervised learning algorithms to model sea turtle behaviours tri-axial acceleration data. Journal of Experimental Biology 23 doi: 10.1242/jeb.177378.

Feunteun A., de Schrevel C., Verhaegen M., Chevallier D., Duchemin M., Ziani N., de Montgolfier B. 2018. First evaluation of the Cookie-cutter sharks (Isistius sp.) predation pattern on different cetacean species in Martinique. Environmental Biology of Fishes 101(5): 749-759. 

2017

Riaux–Gobin, C., Witkowski, A., Chevallier, D. & Daniszewska-Kowalczyk G. 2017. Two new Tursiocola species (Bacillariophyta) epizoic on green turtles (Chelo¬nia mydas) in French Guiana and Eastern Caribbean. Fottea, Olomouc 17(2): 150–163. DOI: 10.5507/fot.2017.007.

Treasure, A. M., Roquet, F., Ansorge, I. J., Bester, M. N., Boehme, L., Bornemann, H., J.-B. Charrassin, Chevallier, D., Costa, D., Fedak, M. A., C. Guinet, Hammill, M. O., Harcourt, R. G., Hindell, M. A., Kovacs, K. M., Lea, M.-A., Lovell, P., Lowther, A. D., Lydersen, C., Mcintyre, T., C.R. Mcmahon, Muelbert, M. M. C., Nicholls, K., Picard, B., Reverdin, G., Trites, A.W., Williams, G. D. & Bruyn, P. J. N. D. 2017. Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole: A Review of the MEOP Consortium. Oceanography 30(2) :132–138.

Riaux-Gobin C, Witkowski A., Kociolek J-P, Ector L., Chevallier D. & Compère P. 2017. New epizoic diatom (Bacillariophyta) species from sea turtles in Eastern Caribbean and South Pacific. Diatom Research.  1-17.

Chambault P, Roquet F, Benhamou S, de Thoisy B, Baudena A, Brucker M, Bonola M, Dos Reis V, Le Maho Y, Chevallier D. 2017. The Gulf Stream frontal system: A key oceanographic feature in the habitat selection of the leatherback turtle? Deep Sea Research Part I. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2017.03.003.

2016

Rojas ER, Sueur C, Henry P-Y, Doligez B, Wey G, Dehorter O, Massemin S, Balanca G, Baudet J-P, Brie J-Y, Burot V, Carruette P, Chable P, Chartier A, Chevallier D, Clauss T, Delaporte P, Dugue H, Fournier J-Y, Goulevant C, Merle S, Noel F, Pitois J, Pointecouteau N, Ranvier G, Roi T, Vincent-Martin N, Vollot B. 2016. Network Analysis Shows Asymmetrical Flows within a Bird Metapopulation. PLoS ONE 11(11): 1-12. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166701.

Philippine Chambault, Lucie Giraudou, Benoît de Thoisy, Marc Bonola, Laurent Kelle, Virginie Dos Reis, Fabian Blanchard, Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier. 2016. Habitat use and diving behaviour of gravid olive ridley sea turtles under riverine conditions in French Guiana. Journal of Marine Systems 10/2016; 165. DOI:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.10.005.

Chambault P., de Thoisy B., Kelle L., Berzins R., Bonola M., Delvaux H., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. 2016. Inter-nesting behavioural adjustments of green turtles to an estuarine habitat in French Guiana. Marine Ecology Progress Series. DOI: 10.3354/meps11813.

Chambault P., de Thoisy B., Heerah K., Conchon A., Barrioz S., Dos Reis V., Berzins R., Kelle L., Picard B., Roquet F., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. 2016. The influence of oceanographic features on the foraging behavior of the olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea along the Guiana coast. Progress in Oceanography 142: 58-71.

Chevallier D., Brossault P., Gendre N., Baillon F., Duponnois R., Chapalain F., Strenna L., Yameogo D., Le Maho Y. 2016. Threats on the wintering grounds of migratory species in West Africa. in Gendre N., Brossault P., Strenna L., Chapalain F. & Godreau V., 2016. Actes du Colloque Cigogne noire. 21, 22 & 23 septembre 2012 - Châlons-en-Champagne - France. Ornithos, Hors-serie n°1 - 2016. 224p.

Dieudonné Yameogo, Chevallier Damien, Paul Brossault. 2016. The Black stork at the Nazinga ranch (Burkina Faso). Actes du Colloque Cigogne noire. 21, 22 & 23 septembre 2012 - Châlons-en-Champagne - France. Ornithos, Hors-serie n°1 - 2016. 224p.

Pruvost T., Brossault P., Chevallier D. 2016. Eco-ethology of the Black stork: characteristics of feeding sites. in Gendre N., Brossault P., Strenna L., Chapalain F. & Godreau V., 2016. Actes du Colloque Cigogne noire. 21, 22 & 23 septembre 2012 - Châlons-en-Champagne - France. Ornithos, Hors-serie n°1 - 2016. 224p.

Chevallier D., Dehorter O., Brossard C., Larvol J-P. 2016. Teleanesthesia: A new approach to wild bird-capture under field conditions. Ringing and Migration 31: 77-80.

Larue M., Boos M., Brossard C., Baillon F., Boutteaux J-J, Bernard J., Brossault P., Petit O. & Chevallier D. 2016. Migration of juvenile Black Storks: stay with the family or go alone? Ringing and Migration.

2015

Jordao J., Bondioli A-C, Almeida-Toledo L., Bilo K., Berzins R., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. & de Thoisy B. 2015. Genetic structure of green turtles Chelonia mydas in the West Atlantic: mtDNA decipher connections between populations and redefine Management Units. Mitochondrial DNA.

Chambault P, Pinaud D., Vantrepotte V. Kelle L., Entraygues M., Guinet C., Berzins R., Bilo K., de Thoisy B., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. 2015. Dispersal and diving adjustments of green turtles in response to dynamic environmental conditions during post-nesting migration. PLoS One 10.

Baudouin M., de Thoisy B., Chambault P., Berzins R., Entraygues M., Kelle L., Turny A., Le Maho Y., Chevallier D. 2015. Identification of key marine areas for conservation based on satellite tracking of post-nesting migrating green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Biological Conservation 184: 36–41.

2013

Chevallier D., Baillon F., Le Maho Y., Blanc S., Brossault P. & Massemin-Challet S. 2013. Importance of the connectivity of Spanish stopovers for Black Storks. Bird study 60: 550-554.

Christina Péron, Damien Chevallier, Martin Galpin, Andy Chatelet, Edward J. Anthony, Yvon Le Maho, Antoine Gardel. 2013. Beach morphological changes in response to marine turtles nesting: a preliminary study of Awala-Yalimapo beach, French Guiana (South America). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 65: 99-104.

2012

Carole Brendel, Rémi Helder, Damien Chevallier, Janan Zaytoon, Jean-Yves Georges, Yves Handrich. 2012. Testing a Global Positioning System on free-ranging badgers Meles meles. Mammals notes, pp. 1-5.

Jiguet F, Chevallier D, Baillon F, Ventroux J & P Cavallin. 2012. Sub-Saharan staging areas of a first-summer Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus. Bird study, 59 (1), pp. 102-104.

2011

Jiguet F., Barbet-Massin M. & Chevallier D. 2011. Predictive distribution models applied to satellite tracks: modeling the western African winter range of European migrant black storks. Journal of Ornithology 152, pp. 111-118Détail.

Chevallier D., Le Maho Y., Brossault P., Baillon F. & Massemin S. 2011. The use of stopovers sites by Black stork (Ciconia nigra) migrating between West Europe and West Africa as revealed by satellite telemetry. Journal of Ornithology 152(1), pp 1-13.

2010

Chevallier D., Handrich Y., Georges J-Y., Brossault P., Baillon F., Aurouet A., Le Maho Y. & Massemin-Challet S. 2010. Influence of weather conditions on the flight characteristics of migrating Black storks (Ciconia nigra). Proceeding of the Royal Society. 277 (1695): 2755-2764.

Chevallier D., Le Maho Y., Baillon F., Aurouet A., Dieulin C., Brossault P., FrancLieu P., Lorgé P. & Massemin-Challet S. 2010. Human activity and the drying up of rivers determine abundance and spatial distribution of Black Storks Ciconia nigra on their wintering grounds. Bird study 57(3) : 369 – 380.

Chevallier D., Duponnois R., Brossault P., Baillon F., Lorgé P., Le Maho Y. & Massemin-Challet S. 2010.   The importance of roosts for Black Storks Ciconia nigra wintering in West Africa. Ardea 98 (1): 91- 96.

Chevallier D., Jiguet F., Nore T., Baillon F. & Cavallin P. 2010. Satellite tracking of a Booted Eagle (Aquila pennata) during migration. Ringing & Migration 25, pp. 62-64.

2008

Chevallier D., Baillon F., Robin J.-P., Le Maho Y. & Massemin-Challet S. 2008. Prey selection of the black stork in the African wintering area. Journal of Zoology, 276:276–284.

2004

Paugy M., Baillon F., Chevallier D. & Duponnois. 2004. Elephants as dispersal agents of mycorrhizal spores in Burkina Faso. African Journal of Ecology. 42:225-227.