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Laurent Chauvaud is affiliated with the University of Western Brittany in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The main subfields of their study include:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science

The core topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Fredéric Olivier
  • Réjean Tremblay
  • Julien Bonnel
  • Aurélie Jolivet
  • Delphine Mathias

Laurent Chauvaud has published regularly in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Chemical Geology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Marine invertebrates and noise, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A current synthesis on the effects of electric and magnetic fields emitted by submarine power cables on invertebrates, 2020, Marine Environmental Research
  • Green Edge ice camp campaigns: understanding the processes controlling the under-ice Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Lanthanum anomalies as fingerprints of methanotrophy, 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Best Publications

  • Human activities and climate variability drive fast‐paced change across the world's estuarine–coastal ecosystems

    James Cloern;Paulo Cesar Oliveira Vergne de Abreu;Jacob Carstensen;Laurent Chauvaud

  • Decarbonation and preservation method for the analysis of organic C and N contents and stable isotope ratios of low-carbonated suspended particulate material

    Anne Lorrain;Nicolas Savoye;Laurent Chauvaud;Yves-Marie Paulet

  • Differential δ13C and δ15N signatures among scallop tissues: implications for ecology and physiology

    Anne Lorrain;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud;Nicolas Savoye

  • Marine eutrophication and benthos: the need for new approaches and concepts

    Jacques Grall;Laurent Chauvaud

  • δ13C variation in scallop shells: Increasing metabolic carbon contribution with body size?

    Anne Lorrain;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Long-term variation of the Bay of Brest ecosystem: benthic-pelagic coupling revisited

    Laurent Chauvaud;Frédéric Jean;Olivier Ragueneau;Gérard Thouzeau

  • Effects of environmental factors on the daily growth rate of Pecten maximus juveniles in the Bay of Brest (France)

    Laurent Chauvaud;Gérard Thouzeau;Yves-Marie Paulet

  • Strong kinetic effects on Sr/Ca ratios in the calcitic bivalve Pecten maximus

    Anne Lorrain;David Paul Gillikin;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud

  • Shell of the Great Scallop Pecten maximus as a high‐frequency archive of paleoenvironmental changes

    Laurent Chauvaud;Anne Lorrain;Robert B. Dunbar;Yves-Marie Paulet

  • Sperm features in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus): a comparison with other freshwater and marine fish species

    Marc Suquet;Roland Billard;Jacky Cosson;Germaine Dorange

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Clams as CO2 generators: The Potamocorbula amurensis example in San Francisco Bay

    Laurent Chauvaud;Janet K. Thompson;James E. Cloern;Gérard Thouzeau

  • Barium and molybdenum records in bivalve shells: geochemical proxies for phytoplankton dynamics in coastal environments?

    Julien ThÉbault;Laurent Chauvaud;StÉphane L'Helguen;Jacques Clavier

  • Direct evidence of a biologically active coastal silicate pump: Ecological implications

    Olivier Ragueneau;Laurent Chauvaud;Aude Leynaert;Gérard Thouzeau

  • Marine invertebrates and noise

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  • Biological control of trace metal and organometal benthic fluxes in a eutrophic lagoon (Thau Lagoon, Mediterranean Sea, France)

    D. Point;Mathilde Monperrus;Emmanuel Tessier;David Amouroux

  • Sperm motility in turbot, Scophthalmus marimus : initiation of movement and changes with time of swimming characteristics

    Laurent Chauvaud;Jacky Cosson;Marc Suquet;Roland Billard

  • Matrix-matched quantitative analysis of trace-elements in calcium carbonate shells by laser-ablation ICP–MS: application to the determination of daily scale profiles in scallop shell (Pecten maximus)

    A. Barats;C. Pécheyran;D. Amouroux;S. Dubascoux

  • Community metabolism in temperate maerl beds: I. carbon and carbonate fluxes

    Sophie Martin;Jacques Clavier;Laurent Chauvaud;Gérard Thouzeau

  • Growth anomalies in Pecten maximus from coastal waters (Bay of Brest, France): relationship with diatom blooms

    Anne Lorrain;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud;Nicolas Savoye

  • The biogeochemistry of mercury at the sediment-water interface in the Thau Lagoon. 2. Evaluation of mercury methylation potential in both surface sediment and the water column

    M. Monperrus;E. Tessier;D. Point;K. Vidimova

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Clavier
Jacques Clavier University of Western Brittany
Anne Lorrain
Anne Lorrain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
David Amouroux
David Amouroux University of Pau and the Adour Region
Aude Leynaert
Aude Leynaert French National Centre for Scientific Research
Frédéric Olivier
Frédéric Olivier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Ragueneau
Olivier Ragueneau Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Olivier F. X. Donard
Olivier F. X. Donard University of Pau and the Adour Region
Pascal Lazure
Pascal Lazure French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Philippe Archambault
Philippe Archambault Université Laval

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