Damien CHEVALLIER | Laboratory of biology of aquatic organisms and ecosystems

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Damien CHEVALLIER

UA Schoelcher Martinique

Research engineer

The French National Centre for Scientific Research

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damien.chevallier@cnrs.fr

+596 696 60 82 38

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General topics

- BEPHYTES - Réponses comportementales et physiologiques des tortues marines au stress environnemental (BEhavioral and PHYsiological responses of marine Turtles to Environmental Stress)

- RECAPTED: RÉduction des CAPTures Accidentelles pour une pêche Efficiente et Durable

- ANTIDOT: Association of News Tools to Improve the understanding of the Dynamic Of Threatened marine turtles

- PALICA III: Pêcheries Actives pour la Limitation des Interactions et des Captures Accidentelles

- ARRIBA: Alerte aux Risques Relatifs aux Interactions Bloquant les Arribadas

Administrative responsibilities

Project Manager

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My Papers

2025

Maucourt, Léo , Isabelle Charrier, Chloé Huetz, Nathalie Aubert, Ouvéa Bourgeois, Lorène Jeantet, Nicolas Lecerf, et al.. 2025. “Description Of The Behavioural Contexts Of Underwater Sound Production In Juvenile Green Turtles Chelonia Mydasabstract”. Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology 79 (2). doi:10.1007/s00265-025-03561-z. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03561-z.
DescriptionBehaviouralContextsUnderwaterSoundProductionJuvenileGreenTurtles.pdf (1.16 MB)
Lelong, Pierre , Aurélien Besnard, Marc Girondot, Caroline Habold, Fabienne Priam, Mathieu Giraudeau, Guillaume Le Loc’h, et al.. 2025. “Fibropapillomatosis Dynamics, Severity And Demographic Effect In Caribbean Green Turtles”. Ecohealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-025-01701-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-025-01701-5.
Lelongetal_2024_FP_dyna_consequences_green_turtles.pdf (1.42 MB)

2024

Jeantet, Lorène , Kukhanya Zondo, Cyrielle Delvenne, Jordan Martin, Damien Chevallier, and Emmanuel Dufourq. 2024. “Automatic Identification Of The Endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle Behavior Using Deep Learning And Cross-Species Transfer”. Journal Of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.249232. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.249232/363012/Automatic-identification-of-the-endangered.
Hoffman, Benjamin , Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic L DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, et al.. 2024. “A Benchmark For Computational Analysis Of Animal Behavior, Using Animal-Borne Tags”. Movement Ecology 12 (78): 1-22. doi:10.1186/s40462-024-00511-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00511-8.
BenchmarkComputationalAnalysisOfAnimalBehaviorUsingAnimalBorneTags.pdf (7.92 MB)
Lemine, MOHAMED HACENMoha, BROSSAULT Paul, MOHAMED Ould Aveloitt, ABIDINE Mohamed Mahmoud, YEBOUK Cheikh, ZEIN ELABIDINE Sidaty, QNINBA Abdeljabbar, FEKHAOUI Mohamed, and Damien Chevallier. 2024. “Six Années De Suivi Satellitaire Des Migrations Pré Et Post Nuptiales D'une Cigogne Noire Ciconia Nigra”. Alauda 92 (2): 53-62.
Six Années de SuiviSatellitaire des Migrations pré et post nuptialesd'une cigogne noire_ALAUDA.pdf (1.71 MB)
Chevallier, Damien , Jacques Fretey, Jean Lescure, and 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): 596. doi:10.3390/ani14040596. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/4/596https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/4/596/pdf.
animals-14-00596_240211_072827.pdf (2.11 MB)
Lelong, Pierre , Aurélien Besnard, Marc Girondot, Caroline Habold, Fabienne Priam, Mathieu Giraudeau, Guillaume Le Loc'h, et al.. 2024. “Demography Of Endangered Juvenile Green Turtles In Face Of Environmental Changes: 10 Years Of Capture-Mark-Recapture Efforts In Martinique”. Biological Conservation 291: 110471. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110471. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1icDh1R~eWZv6.
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles i_240216_210518.pdf (544.79 KB)
Dupont, Sophie M, Paco Bustamante, David J Duffy, Jérôme Fort, Guillaume Le Loc’h, Pierre Lelong, Damien Chevallier, and Mathieu Giraudeau. 2024. “Future Research Avenues For The Study Of Fibropapillomatosis In Sea Turtles”. Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution 12. doi:10.3389/fevo.2024.1372096. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2024.1372096/fullhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2024.1372096/full.
fevo-2-1372096.pdf (362.24 KB)
Chevallier, Damien , Léo Maucourt, Isabelle Charrier, Pierre Lelong, Yves Le Gall, Eric Menut, Bryan Wallace, et al.. 2024. “The Response Of Sea Turtles To Vocalizations Opens New Perspectives To Reduce Their Bycatch”. Scientific Reports 14 (16519). doi:10.1038/s41598-024-67501-z . https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67501-z#citeas.
s41598-024-67501-z.pdf (1.22 MB)
Giraudeau, Mathieu , Orsolya Vincze, Sophie M Dupont, Tuul Sepp, Ciara Baines, Jean‐Francois Lemaitre, Karin Lemberger, et al.. 2024. “Approaches And Methods To Study Wildlife Cancerabstract”. Journal Of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.14144. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.14144https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.14144.
Journal of Animal Ecology - 2024 - Giraudeau - App_240827_150047.pdf (1.4 MB)
Girondot, Marc , Caleb J Krueger, Camille Cléomène, Zeenat Tran, Damien Chevallier, and Fredric J Janzen. 2024. “Developmental Thermal Reaction Norms Of Leatherback Marine Turtles At Nesting Beaches”. Animals 14 (21). doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14213050. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/21/3050.
animals-14-03050.pdf (788.84 KB)

2023

Vilaça, Sibelle T, Francesco Maroso, Paulo Lara, Benoît de Thoisy, Damien Chevallier, Larissa Souza Arantes, Fabricio R Santos, Giorgio Bertorelle, and Camila J Mazzoni. 2023. “Evidence Of Backcross Inviability And Mitochondrial Dna Paternal Leakage In Sea Turtle Hybrids”. Molecular Ecology 32 (3): 628 - 643. doi:10.1111/mec.v32.310.1111/mec.16773. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x/32/3.
MolecularEcology-2022-Vilaca-EvidenceofbackcrossinviabilityandmtDNApaternalleakageinseaturtlehybrids.pdf (2.33 MB)
Emmonot, Flore , Blandine Siegrist, Amandine Bordin, Virginie Dos Reis, Damien Chevallier, Yannick Estevez, and 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). doi:10.3856/vol51-issue3-fulltext-2923. http://lajar.cl/index.php/rlajar/article/view/vol51-issue3-fulltext-2923/1706.
2923-17041-1-PB.pdf (568.44 KB)
Chevallier, Damien , Marc Girondot, Christina Péron, Jordan Martin, Marc Bonola, Johan Chevalier, Benoît de Thoisy, et al.. 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. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10113-023-02105-3.
Beach_erosion_aggravates_the_drastic_decline_in_ma.pdf (1.52 MB)
Fuentes, MMPB , E McMichael, CY Kot, I Silver-Gorges, BP Wallace, BJ Godley, AML Brooks, et al. 2023. “Key Issues In Assessing Threats To Sea Turtles: Knowledge Gaps And Future Directions”. Endangered Species Research 52: 303 - 341. doi:10.3354/esr01278. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v52/p303-341/.
2023_Fuentes_ESR.pdf (1.99 MB)
Hoffman, Benjamin , Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic L DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, et al.. 2023. “A Benchmark For Computational Analysis Of Animal Behavior, Using Animal-Borne Tags”. Arxiv.
A BENCHMARK FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR USING ANIMAL-BORNE TAGS.pdf (11.03 MB)

2022

Grémillet, David , Damien Chevallier, and Christophe Guinet. 2022. “Big Data Approaches To The Spatial Ecology And Conservation Of Marine Megafauna”. Ices Journal Of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsac059. https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icesjms/fsac059/6564869.
fsac059.pdf (1.56 MB)
Charrier, Isabelle , Lorène Jeantet, Léo Maucourt, Sidney Régis, Nicolas Lecerf, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, and Damien Chevallier. 2022. “First Evidence Of Underwater Vocalizations In Green Sea Turtles Chelonia Mydas”. Endangered Species Research 48: 31 - 41. doi:10.3354/esr01185. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v48/p31-41/.
Roost, Thibaut , Jo-Ann Schies, Marc Girondot, Jean-Patrice Robin, Pierre Lelong, Jordan Martin, Flora Siegwalt, et al. 2022. “Fibropapillomatosis Prevalence And Distribution In Immature Green Turtles (Chelonia Mydas) In Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles)”. Ecohealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-022-01601-y. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10393-022-01601-y.
Siegwalt, Flora , Lorène Jeantet, Pierre Lelong, Jordan Martin, Marc Girondot, Paco Bustamante, Abdelwahab Benhalilou, et al.. 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: e02169. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02169. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2351989422001718.