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Olivier Chastel is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, specializing in environmental science with a significant focus on avian ecology and toxicology.

Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, particularly concentrating on ecology, health, toxicology, atmospheric science, and environmental chemistry. The subfields most represented in their work include ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Chastel has contributed extensively to the study of avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research, as well as toxic organic pollutants impact.

Frequent publication venues for Chastel's research include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Among the recent papers associated with this researcher are:

  • "Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic," 2021, Conservation Letters
  • "Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "A Bad Start in Life? Maternal Transfer of Legacy and Emerging Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances to Eggs in an Arctic Seabird," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "North Atlantic winter cyclones starve seabirds," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Exposure to PFAS is Associated with Telomere Length Dynamics and Demographic Responses of an Arctic Top Predator," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Chastel collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Frédéric Angelier
  • Børge Moe
  • Pierre Blévin
  • Paco Bustamante
  • Geir Wing Gabrielsen

Best Publications

  • Assessing the Cost of Mounting an Immune Response

    Camille Bonneaud;Jérémy Mazuc;Guillermo Gonzalez;Claudy Haussy

  • Testosterone and oxidative stress: the oxidation handicap hypothesis

    Carlos Alonso-Alvarez;Sophie Bertrand;Bruno Faivre;Olivier Chastel

  • Stress Response and the Value of Reproduction: Are Birds Prudent Parents?

    Veronika Bókony;Ádám Z. Lendvai;András Liker;Frédéric Angelier;Frédéric Angelier

  • Body Condition and Seabird Reproductive Performance: A Study of Three Petrel Species

    Olivier Chastel;Henri Weimerskirch;Pierre Jouventin

  • MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ALLELES ASSOCIATED WITH LOCAL RESISTANCE TO MALARIA IN A PASSERINE

    Camille Bonneaud;Javier Pérez-Tris;Pierre Federici;Olivier Chastel

  • Stress, prolactin and parental investment in birds: a review.

    Frédéric Angelier;Olivier Chastel

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION OF LIFE‐HISTORY TRAJECTORIES AND RESISTANCE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS

    Carlos Alonso-Alvarez;Sophie Bertrand;Godefroy Devevey;Josiane Prost

  • Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale

    Morten Frederiksen;Børge Moe;Francis Daunt;Richard A. Phillips

  • INFLUENCE OF BODY CONDITION ON REPRODUCTIVE DECISION AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE BLUE PETREL

    Olivier Chastel;Henri Weimerskirch;Pierre Jouventin

  • High annual variability in reproductive success and survival of an Antarctic seabird, the snow petrel Pagodroma nivea : A 27-year study.

    O. Chastel;H. Weimerskirch;P. Jouventin

  • To breed or not to breed: endocrine response to mercury contamination by an Arctic seabird

    Sabrina Tartu;Aurélie Goutte;Paco Bustamante;Frédéric Angelier

  • Patterns of aging in the long-lived wandering albatross

    Vincent Julien Lecomte;Gabriele Sorci;Stéphane Cornet;Audrey Jaeger

  • Complex Mhc-based mate choice in a wild passerine

    Camille Bonneaud;Olivier Chastel;Pierre Federici;Helena Westerdahl

  • Age, experience and reproductive performance in a long-lived bird: a hormonal perspective

    Frédéric Angelier;Henri Weimerskirch;Stéphanie Dano;Olivier Chastel

  • TERMINAL INVESTMENT INDUCED BY IMMUNE CHALLENGE AND FITNESS TRAITS ASSOCIATED WITH MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX IN THE HOUSE SPARROW

    Camille Bonneaud;Camille Bonneaud;Jeremy Mazuc;Jeremy Mazuc;Olivier Chastel;Helena Westerdahl

  • Sex‐specific patterns in baseline corticosterone and body condition changes in breeding Red‐footed Boobies Sula sula

    Herve LormÉe;Pierre Jouventin;Colette Trouve;Olivier Chastel

  • The oxidation handicap hypothesis and the carotenoid allocation trade-off.

    C. Alonso-Alvarez;L. Pérez-Rodríguez;L. Pérez-Rodríguez;R. Mateo;O. Chastel

  • How does corticosterone affect parental behaviour and reproductive success? A study of prolactin in black-legged kittiwakes

    Frédéric Angelier;Céline Clément-Chastel;Jorg Welcker;Geir Wing Gabrielsen

  • Do glucocorticoids mediate the link between environmental conditions and telomere dynamics in wild vertebrates? A review

    Frédéric Angelier;David Costantini;Pierre Blévin;Olivier Chastel

  • Climate change and phenological responses of two seabird species breeding in the high-Arctic

    Børge Moe;Lech Stempniewicz;Dariusz Jakubas;Frédéric Angelier

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Angelier
Frédéric Angelier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Børge Moe
Børge Moe Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Geir W. Gabrielsen
Geir W. Gabrielsen Norwegian Polar Institute
Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle
Claus Bech
Claus Bech Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gabriele Sorci
Gabriele Sorci University of Burgundy
Christophe Barbraud
Christophe Barbraud Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David Costantini
David Costantini French National Museum of Natural History
Yves Cherel
Yves Cherel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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