Damien CHEVALLIER | Laboratoire de biologie des organismes et des écosystèmes aquatiques

General topics

INVOCTO (INfluence des Variables Océanographiques sur le Comportement, la distribution et la démographie des TOrtues marines dans l’océan Atlantique : une contribution essentielle à l’identification des zones maritimes sensibles en Guyane française)
RECAPTED ADD (RÉduction des CAPTures accidentelles pour une pêche Efficiente et Durable)
RECAPTED VDD Martinique (RÉduction des CAPTures accidentelles pour une pêche Efficiente et Durable)
RECAPTED VDD Guadeloupe (RÉduction des CAPTures accidentelles pour une pêche Efficiente et Durable)
PALICA III (Pêcheries Actives pour la Limitation des Interactions et des Captures Accidentelles)
ARRIBA (Alerte aux Risques Relatifs aux Interactions Bloquant les Arribadas)
BEPHYTES (BEhavioral and PHYsiological responses of marine Turtles to Environmental Stress°
ECOMIM (Ecologie comportementale des iguanes en Martinique)
TOPASE (TOrtues et Pêche Accidentelle vers des Solutions de réductions Efficientes)
ANTIDOT (Association of News Tools to Improve the understanding of the Dynamic Of Threatened marine turtles)

Administrative responsibilities

Head of the Martinique Marine Research Station (SR2M)

My news

Ingénieur H/F en écologie quantitative et analyse de données sur les tortues marines | CDD 36 mois | Martinique, Guyane

28-07-2026

[Outre-Mer. Grandeur Nature] Pêche et tortues : la solution pourrait venir de la lumière

13-07-2026

Offre de PostDoc (H/F) CNRS en Bio-acoustique, Biostatistiques and Machine Learning, Martinique

22-01-2026

Quand la science retient son souffle : écouter les tortues pour mieux les protéger, par Damien Chevallier et Sidney Régis

13-01-2026

Offre de 2 Post Doc CNRS (H/F) en Bio-acoustique, Biostatistiques and Machine Learning

10-12-2025

[France culture] Parler tortue : la bioacoustique au secours des espèces en danger, avec Damien Chevallier

22-04-2025

My papers since 2020

2026

Michelle VanCompernolle, Juliet Morris, Hannah Calich, Jorge Rodríguez, Sarah Marley, Jessica Pearce, Briana Abrahms, Katya Abrantes, André Afonso, Alex Aguilar, Andrews Agyekumhene, Tomonari Akamatsu, Susanne Åkesson, Nyimale Alawa, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, R. Anderson, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Javier Arata, Gonzalo Araujo, Martin Arostegui, Haritz Arrizabalaga, Lucy Arrowsmith, ....., Damien Chevallier, ....., Ana Sequeira (2026). Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats. Conservation biology 40
Carlotta Labalme, Valerio Mazzella, Barbara Calcinai, Cyrielle Delvenne, Damien Chevallier, Laura Núñez-Pons (2026). Sponge (Porifera) Fauna Portrayal in the Foraging Area of the Hawksbill Turtle from Martinique: Applying Integrative Taxonomy. Water 18(7)
Lorène Jeantet, Chris Oosthuizen, Damien Chevallier, Emmanuel Dufourq (2026). Towards automated behaviour monitoring in wildlife: a review of machine learning approaches using accelerometer data. PeerJ
Florian Desigaux, Killian Martin, Bernard Thierry, Damien Chevallier (2026). Landscape use and coexistence of invasive and threatened endemic iguanas in Martinique. The herpetological journal 36(3)
Florian Desigaux, Killian Martin, Laurie Castro, Fabien Aubret, Arnaud Legrand, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Bernard Thierry, Damien Chevallier (2026). Annual climate fluctuations can influence iguana growth and degrowth. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3)
Sophie Dupont, Maurice Millet, Paco Bustamante, Jérôme Fort, Marc Girondot, Guillaume Le Loc’h, Jérôme Moreau, Nathalie Aubert, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Louis Boutrin, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Cyrielle Delvenne, Pascal Fournier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Cédric Frouin, Agathe Gaffard, Caroline Habold, Gaëlle Hielard, Anthony Landreau, Eugène Larcher, Aurélie Le Loc’h, Yvon Le Maho, Nicolas Lecerf, Nathaël Lecerf, Fabien Lefebvre, Pierre Lelong, Muriel Lepori, Laurent Louis-Jean, Simon Mallet, Jordan Martin, Stéphane Meslier, Karine Monceau, Esteban Pimentel, Fabienne Priam, Sidney Régis, Mathieu Giraudeau, Damien Chevallier (2026). Chlordecone levels in green turtles from Martinique 30 years after the national ban of this insecticide. Environmental Chemistry Letters

2025

Sophie Morisseau, Matthieu Jeanson, Sarah Charroux, Michel Charpentier, François Elie-Paute, Solana Viel, Yann Mercky, Damien Chevallier, Elliott Sucré (2025). Multiscale Impacts of Beach Morphodynamics on Marine Turtles: Implications for Conservation. Journal of coastal research
Orsolya Vincze, Piotr Minias, Alexandre Corthay, Fernando Colchero, Jean-François Lemaître, Louise Maille, Tamas Malkocs, Justus Hagemann, Dalia Conde, Samuel Pavard, Antoine Dujon, Beata Ujvari, Frédéric Thomas, Amy Boddy, Carlo Maley, Damien Chevallier, Tuul Sepp, Thomas Pradeu, Mathieu Giraudeau (2025). Immunological surveillance against cancer across mammals. Nature Communications 16(1)
Léo Maucourt, Isabelle Charrier, Chloé Huetz, Nathalie Aubert, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Lorène Jeantet, Nicolas Lecerf, Fabien Lefebvre, Pierre Lelong, Muriel Lepori, Jordan Martin, Sidney Régis, Damien Chevallier (2025). Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydasAbstract. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 79(2)
Pierre Lelong, Aurélien Besnard, Marc Girondot, Caroline Habold, Fabienne Priam, Mathieu Giraudeau, Guillaume Le Loc’h, Aurélie Le Loc’h, Pascal Fournier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Jérôme Fort, Paco Bustamante, Sophie Dupont, Orsolya Vincze, Annie Page, Justin Perrault, Benoît de Thoisy, Jean-Raphaël Gros-Desormeaux, Jordan Martin, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Muriel Lepori, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Cédric Frouin, Frédéric Flora, Esteban Pimentel, Anne-Sophie Passalboni, Lorène Jeantet, Gaëlle Hielard, Laurent Louis-Jean, Aude Brador, Paul Giannasi, Denis Etienne, Nathaël Lecerf, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Stéphane Meslier, Anthony Landreau, Anaïs Desnos, Myriane Maceno, Eugène Larcher, Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier (2025). Fibropapillomatosis Dynamics, Severity and Demographic Effect in Caribbean Green Turtles. EcoHealth
Sophie Morisseau, Matthieu Jeanson, Sarah Charroux, Yann Mercky, Charles Le Bozec, Michel Charpentier, Lucas Le Gall, Cyrielle Delvenne, Marc Girondot, Elliott Sucré, Damien Chevallier (2025). Environmental preferences of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) for egg-laying on a fringing reef pocket beach, Mayotte Island. Frontiers in Marine Science 12
Florian Desigaux, K. Martin, M. Breuil, B. Thierry, N. Rebout, Jean-Raphaël Gros-Desormeaux, Damien Chevallier (2025). Assessing the relative influence of island climatic and geographical factors on body size in an endangered iguana species of the French Caribbean. Journal of Zoology
Sophie Morisseau, Matthieu Jeanson, Aline Aubry, Lucas Le Gall, Cyrielle Delvenne, Sarah Charroux, Yann Mercky, Charles Le Bozec, Marc Girondot, Damien Chevallier, Elliott Sucré (2025). Nest exposure to marine flooding and impacts on green turtle (Chelonia mydas) embryos under rapid sea level rise: The role of beach geomorphology and hydrodynamics. Marine Environmental Research 211

2024

Lorène Jeantet, Kukhanya Zondo, Cyrielle Delvenne, Jordan Martin, Damien Chevallier, Emmanuel Dufourq (2024). Automatic identification of the endangered Hawksbill sea turtle behavior using deep learning and cross-species transfer. Journal of Experimental Biology
Benjamin Hoffman, Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, Monique Ladds, Takuya Maekawa, Vicente Mata-Silva, Víctor Moreno-González, Anthony Pagano, Eva Trapote, Outi Vainio, Antti Vehkaoja, Ken Yoda, Katherine Zacarian, Ari Friedlaender (2024). A benchmark for computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags. Movement Ecology 12(78)
Damien Chevallier, Jacques Fretey, Jean Lescure, Marc Girondot (2024). First Record of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880), in the Waters of Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). Animals 14(4)
MOHAMED Lemine, BROSSAULT Paul, MOHAMED Aveloitt, ABIDINE Mahmoud, YEBOUK Cheikh, ZEIN Sidaty, QNINBA Abdeljabbar, FEKHAOUI Mohamed, Damien Chevallier (2024). Six années de suivi satellitaire des migrations pré et post nuptiales d'une Cigogne noire Ciconia nigra. Alauda 92(2)
Pierre Lelong, Aurélien Besnard, Marc Girondot, Caroline Habold, Fabienne Priam, Mathieu Giraudeau, Guillaume Le Loc'h, Aurélie Le Loc'h, Pascal Fournier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Paco Bustamante, Sophie Dupont, Orsolya Vincze, Jean-Raphaël Gros-Desormeaux, Jordan Martin, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Muriel Lepori, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Cédric Frouin, Frédéric Flora, Esteban Pimentel, Manon Pimentel, Flora Siegwalt, Lorène Jeantet, Philippine Chambault, Gaëlle Hielard, Alexandre Arqué, Mosiah Arthus, Laurent Louis-Jean, Aude Brador, Paul Giannasi, Denis Etienne, Nathaël Lecerf, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Stéphane Meslier, Anthony Landreau, Myriane Maceno, Eugène Larcher, Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier (2024). Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique. Biological Conservation 291
Sophie Dupont, Paco Bustamante, David Duffy, Jérôme Fort, Guillaume Le Loc’h, Pierre Lelong, Damien Chevallier, Mathieu Giraudeau (2024). Future research avenues for the study of fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12
Damien Chevallier, Léo Maucourt, Isabelle Charrier, Pierre Lelong, Yves Le Gall, Eric Menut, Bryan Wallace, Cyrielle Delvenne, Orsolya Vincze, Lorène Jeantet, Marc Girondot, Jordan Martin, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Muriel Lepori, Pascal Fournier, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Mosiah Arthus, Matthieu Pujol, Michel Nalovic, Nicolas Moulanier, Marie-Clémence Burg, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Anthony Landreau, Stéphane Meslier, Eugène Larcher, Yvon Le Maho (2024). The response of sea turtles to vocalizations opens new perspectives to reduce their bycatch. Scientific reports 14(16519)
Mathieu Giraudeau, Orsolya Vincze, Sophie Dupont, Tuul Sepp, Ciara Baines, Jean‐Francois Lemaitre, Karin Lemberger, Sophie Gentès, Amy Boddy, Antoine Dujon, Georgina Bramwell, Valerie Harris, Beata Ujvari, Catherine Alix‐Panabières, Stephane Lair, David Sayag, Dalia Conde, Fernando Colchero, Tara Harrison, Samuel Pavard, Benjamin Padilla‐Morales, Damien Chevallier, Rodrigo Hamede, Benjamin Roche, Tamas Malkocs, Athena Aktipis, Carlo Maley, James DeGregori, Guillaume Le Loc’h, Frédéric Thomas (2024). Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancerAbstract. Journal of Animal Ecology
Marc Girondot, Caleb Krueger, Camille Cléomène, Zeenat Tran, Damien Chevallier, Fredric Janzen (2024). Developmental Thermal Reaction Norms of Leatherback Marine Turtles at Nesting Beaches. Animals 14(21)

2023

MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot, I Silver-Gorges, BP Wallace, BJ Godley, AML Brooks, SA Ceriani, AA Cortés-Gómez, TM Dawson, KL Dodge, M Flint, MP Jensen, LM Komoroske, S Kophamel, MD Lettrich, CA Long, SE Nelms, AR Patrício, NJ Robinson, JA Seminoff, M Ware, ER Whitman, Damien Chevallier, CE Clyde-Brockway, SA Korgaonkar, A Mancini, J Mello-Fonseca, Monsinjon JR, I Neves-Ferreira, AA Ortega, SH Patel, JB Pfaller, MD Ramirez, C Raposo, CE Smith, FA Abreu-Grobois, GC Hays (2023). Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions. Endangered Species Research 52
Benjamin Hoffman, Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, Monique Ladds, Takuya Maekawa, Vicente Mata-Silva, Víctor Moreno-González, Eva Trapote, Outi Vainio, Antti Vehkaoja, Ken Yoda, Katherine Zacarian, Ari Friedlaender, Christian Rutz (2023). A benchmark for computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags. arXiv
Sibelle Vilaça, Francesco Maroso, Paulo Lara, Benoît de Thoisy, Damien Chevallier, Larissa Arantes, Fabricio Santos, Giorgio Bertorelle, Camila Mazzoni (2023). Evidence of backcross inviability and mitochondrial DNA paternal leakage in sea turtle hybrids. Molecular Ecology 32(3)
Flore Emmonot, Blandine Siegrist, Amandine Bordin, Virginie Reis, Damien Chevallier, Yannick Estevez, Benoit de Thoisy (2023). Marine pollution between gyres: plastic debris in marine turtles and dolphins in French Guiana, Equatorial Atlantic. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 51(3)
Damien Chevallier, Marc Girondot, Christina Péron, Jordan Martin, Marc Bonola, Johan Chevalier, Benoît de Thoisy, Laurent Kelle, Yvon Le Maho, Antoine Gardel, Edward Anthony (2023). Beach erosion aggravates the drastic decline in marine turtle populations in French Guiana. Regional Environmental Change 23(3)

2022

Lorène Jeantet, Vadym Hadetskyi, Vincent Vigon, François Korysko, Nicolas Paranthoen, Damien Chevallier (2022). 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 12(4)
David Grémillet, Damien Chevallier, Christophe Guinet (2022). Big data approaches to the spatial ecology and conservation of marine megafauna. ICES Journal of Marine Science
Isabelle Charrier, Lorène Jeantet, Léo Maucourt, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Damien Chevallier (2022). First evidence of underwater vocalizations in green sea turtles Chelonia mydas. Endangered Species Research 48
Thibaut Roost, Jo-Ann Schies, Marc Girondot, Jean-Patrice Robin, Pierre Lelong, Jordan Martin, Flora Siegwalt, Lorène Jeantet, Mathieu Giraudeau, Guillaume Le Loch, Manola Bejarano, Marc Bonola, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Céline Murgale, Lucas Andreani, François Jacaria, Guilhem Campistron, Anthony Lathière, François Martial, Gaëlle Hielard, Alexandre Arqué, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Cédric Frouin, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Frédéric Flora, Esteban Pimentel, Rachelle Lafolle, Florence Thobor, Mosiah Arthus, Denis Etienne, Nathaël Lecerf, Jean-Pierre Allénou, Florian Desigaux, Eugène Larcher, Christian Larcher, Alberto Curto, Joanne Befort, Myriane Maceno-Panevel, Muriel Lepori, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Stéphane Meslier, Anthony Landreau, Caroline Habold, Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier (2022). Fibropapillomatosis Prevalence and Distribution in Immature Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). EcoHealth
Flora Siegwalt, Lorène Jeantet, Pierre Lelong, Jordan Martin, Marc Girondot, Paco Bustamante, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Céline Murgale, Lucas Andreani, François Jacaria, Guilhem Campistron, Anthony Lathière, Charlène Barotin, Gaëlle Buret-Rochas, Philippe Barre, Gaëlle Hielard, Alexandre Arqué, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Cédric Frouin, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Mosiah Arthus, Denis Etienne, Jean-Pierre Allénou, César Delnatte, Rachelle Lafolle, Florence Thobor, Pascale Chevallier, Tao Chevallier, Muriel Lepori, Cindy Assio, Clément Grand, Marc Bonola, Yannick Tursi, Pierre-Walter Varkala, Stéphane Meslier, Anthony Landreau, Yvon Le Maho, Caroline Habold, Jean-Patrice Robin, 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
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. PLoS ONE

2021

Catherine Riaux-Gobin, Matt 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 56(4)
Marc Girondot, Baptiste Mourrain, Damien Chevallier, Matthew Godfrey (2021). Maturity of a giant: age and size reaction norm for sexual maturity for Atlantic leatherback turtles. Marine Ecology
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

2020

Flora Siegwalt, Simon Benhamou, Marc Girondot, Lorène Jeantet, Jordan Martin, Marc Bonola, Pierre Lelong, Clément Grand, Philippine Chambault, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Céline Murgale, Thomas Maillet, Lucas Andreani, Guilhem Campistron, François Jacaria, Gaëlle Hielard, Alexandre Arqué, Denis Etienne, Julie Gresser, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Cédric Frouin, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Fabien Vedie, Cyrille Barnerias, Laurent Thieulle, Christelle Guimera, Myriam Bouaziz, Adrien Pinson, Frédéric Flora, Francis George, Joffrey Eggenspieler, Thierry Woignier, Jean-Pierre Allénou, Laurent Louis-Jean, Bénédicte Chanteur, Christelle Béranger, Jessica Crillon, Aude Brador, Caroline Habold, Yvon Le Maho, Jean-Patrice Robin, Damien Chevallier (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
Catherine Riaux-Gobin, Andrzej Witkowski, John Kociolek, Damien Chevallier (2020). Navicula dermochelycola sp. nov., presumably an exclusively epizoic diatom on sea turtles Dermochelys coriacea and Lepidochelys olivacea from French Guiana. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 49(2)
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(11)
Lorène Jeantet, Víctor Planas-Bielsa, Simon Benhamou, Sébastien Geiger, Jordan Martin, Flora Siegwalt, Pierre Lelong, Julie Gresser, Denis Etienne, Gaëlle Hielard, Alexandre Arqué, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Cédric Frouin, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, Céline Murgale, Thomas Maillet, Lucas Andreani, Guilhem Campistron, Hélène Delvaux, Christelle Guyon, Sandrine Richard, Fabien Lefebvre, Nathalie Aubert, Caroline Habold, Yvon Le Maho, Damien Chevallier (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(5)
Damien Chevallier, Baptiste Mourrain, Marc Girondot (2020). Modelling leatherback biphasic indeterminate growth using a modified Gompertz equation. Ecological Modelling 426
Damien Chevallier, M Girondot, R Berzins, J Chevalier, B de Thoisy, J Fretey, L Kelle, JD Lebreton (2020). Survival and breeding interval of an endangered marine vertebrate, the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea, in French Guiana. Endangered Species Research 41

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