About me
I am an ecologist driven by the desire of pushing forward the research fields
of ecology, movement ecology, habitat conservation and species monitoring.
I am interested in understanding animal behaviour and environmental effects on animal movements,
ecophysiology, energetic, fitness, and life history strategies.
of ecology, movement ecology, habitat conservation and species monitoring.
I am interested in understanding animal behaviour and environmental effects on animal movements,
ecophysiology, energetic, fitness, and life history strategies.
Education and Academic Experience
2021-2022 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship – CNRS, Chizé, France
2018-2020 - Post-doctoral Researcher in Movement Ecology - Aarhus University, Denmark
2013-2017 - PhD in Ecology – University of Aberdeen, UK
Thesis: "Foraging strategies of diving seabirds across scales: the use of high frequency tracking data to reveal movement decisions in dynamic environments."
2011-2012 - MRes (Distinction) – Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Thesis: "Modelling the foraging behaviour of diving predators in complex and heterogeneous landscapes: the impact of renewable tidal devices on diving seabirds”
2007-2010 - MSc (Distinction) – Biology of Aquatic Systems, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Thesis: "Diving behaviour of juvenile loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in captivity and in a natural bay"
2003-2007 - BSc – Environmental Biology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy.
2021-2022 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship – CNRS, Chizé, France
2018-2020 - Post-doctoral Researcher in Movement Ecology - Aarhus University, Denmark
2013-2017 - PhD in Ecology – University of Aberdeen, UK
Thesis: "Foraging strategies of diving seabirds across scales: the use of high frequency tracking data to reveal movement decisions in dynamic environments."
2011-2012 - MRes (Distinction) – Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Thesis: "Modelling the foraging behaviour of diving predators in complex and heterogeneous landscapes: the impact of renewable tidal devices on diving seabirds”
2007-2010 - MSc (Distinction) – Biology of Aquatic Systems, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Thesis: "Diving behaviour of juvenile loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in captivity and in a natural bay"
2003-2007 - BSc – Environmental Biology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy.
Peer – reviewed publications
2020
2019
2017
2020
- Desforges JP., van Beest F.M., Marques G.M., Pedersen S.H., Beumer L.T., Chimienti M., Schmidt N.M., Quantifying energetic and fitness consequences of seasonal heterothermy in an Arctic ungulate. Ecology and Evolution (in press)
- van Beest F.M. Beumer L.T., Chimienti M., Desforges JP, Huffeldt N.P., Pedersen S.H., Schmidt N.M. (2020) Environmental conditions alter behavioural organization and rhythmicity of a large Arctic ruminant across the annual cycle Royal Society Open Science 7: 201614
- Chimienti M., Desforges J.P., Beumer L.T., Nabe-Nielsen J., van Beest F.M., Schmidt N.M. (2020) Energetics as common currency for integrating high resolution activity patterns into Dynamic Energy Budget-Individual Based Models. Ecological Modelling 434:109250
- Beumer L.T., Pohle J., Schmidt N.M., Chimienti M., Desforges J.P., Hansen L.H., Langrock R., Pedersen S.H., Stelvig M., van Beest F.M. (2020) An application of upscaled optimal foraging theory using hidden Markov modelling: year-round behavioural variation in a large arctic herbivore. Movement Ecology 8:25
- Chimienti M., Blasi M., Hochscheid S. (2020) Movement patterns of large juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: ontogenetic space use in a small ocean basin. Ecology and Evolution 0: 1-15
- Schmidt N.M., Grøndahl C., Evans A., Desforges JP., Blake J., Hansen L., Beumer L.T., Mosbacher J., Stelvig M., Greunz E., Chimienti M., van Beest F.M. (2020) On the interplay between hypothermia and reproduction in a high arctic ungulate. Scientific Reports 10:1514
2019
- Desforges JP., Marques G.M., Beumer L.T., Chimienti M., Blake J., Rowell J.E., Adamczewski J., Schmidt N.M., van Beest F.M. (2019) Quantification of the full lifecycle bioenergetics of a large mammal in the high Arctic Ecological Modelling 401, 27-39
- Campera M., Balestri M., Chimienti M., Nijman V., Nekaris K.A.I., Donati G. (2019) Temporal niche separation between the ecologically similar lemurs Avahi meridionalis and Lepilemur fleuretae revealed via three-axis accelerometers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73, 55.
- Hansson S.V., Grusson Y., Chimienti M., Claustres A., Jean S., Le Roux G. (2019) Legacy Pb pollution in the contemporary environment and its potential bioavailability in three mountain catchments Science of the Total Environment 671, 1227-1236
2017
- Chimienti, M., Cornulier, T., Owen, E., Bolton, M., Davies, I.M., Travis, J.M.J. & Scott, B.E. (2017) Taking movement data to new depths: inferring prey accessibility and patch profitability from seabird foraging behaviour. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 10252-10265.
- Kafas A, McLay A, Chimienti M, Scott B.E., Davies I., Gubbins M. (2017) ScotMap: Participatory Mapping of Inshore Fishing Activity to Inform Marine Spatial Planning in Scotland. Marine Policy, 79, 8-18.
- Chimienti, M., Cornulier, T., Owen, E., Bolton, M., Davies, I.M., Travis, J.M.J. & Scott, B.E. (2016) The use of an unsupervised learning approach for characterizing latent behaviors in accelerometer data. Ecology and Evolution, 6, 727–741.
- Chimienti M, Bartoń KA, Scott BE, Travis JMJ. (2014) Modelling foraging movements of diving predators: a theoretical study exploring the effect of heterogeneous landscapes on foraging efficiency. PeerJ 2:e54
