• Conservation genetic
• Rangeland ecology and management
• Protected area management
• Non Timber Forest Product valorisation
Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Laboratory of Applied Ecology
• The World Academy (TWAS) Young Affiliate
• World Commission on Protected Area (WCPA), Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland.
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Vienna, Austria.
• Forestry Research Network of Sub Saharan Africa (FORNESSA).
• P.h.D, Natural Resource Management (Nov. 2009- Dec. 2013), Faculty of Agronomy Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
• D.E.A (Master’s of philosophy degree equivalent). Natural Resource Management (Nov. 2008- Nov. 2009), Faculty of Agronomy Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
• D.E.S.S (Professional Master’s degree equivalent). Natural Resource Management with Focus on Wildlife and Range Management (Nov. 2005-Oct. 2007), Faculty of Agronomy Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
• Diplôme d’Ingénieur des Travaux (Bsc degree equivalent in Protection and Management of the Environment (Oct. 2001-Jul. 2005), Ecole Polytechnique d’Abomey-Calavi, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Currently Dr Djagoun is leading a research team working on the impact on ecosystem and the sustainability of the bush meat exploitation in Benin Forest Island (https://www.radar-be.com/index.php/Welcome/). This project will help to elucidate forest island connectivity using population genetic of the bush meat species and how over exploitation of those species impact the ecosystem functionality in southern Benin.
Dr. Chabi A. M. Sylvestre DJAGOUN is a wildlife conservation ecologist with over than 10 years of professional experience in ecological research and conservation planning. As a local expect in wildlife conservation and management in Benin Dr DJAGOUN has completed his PhD thesis since 2013 in understanding how grazing and browsing herbivores co-exist, with special emphasis on understanding the mechanisms of competition and facilitation over temporal and spatial scales. In that purpose he applied the stable light isotope analysis of faeces to identify, as well as quantify bovid food selection, diet niche segregation. His current research interest is to give an efficient contribution to sustainable monitoring and management of ungulate species in Benin national Park. Using the isotope ecology approaches, Dr Djagoun is working to elucidate possible nutritional stress, competition, and loss of functional habitat as factors limiting recovery of rare antelope in Benin national parks. One of his further research goals regarding the ungulate communities could involve the construction, parameterization and analysis of population and community models of ungulates in Beninese Park. These models could be used to devise management and conservation strategies. From 2014 to 2015 he has conducted a post-doctoral research at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a second one from 2016-2017 at the University of Rostock in Germany, funded by the prestigious Georg-Foster-Humboldt Fellowship. Dr DJAGOUN is currently Senior Lecturer at University of Abomey-Calavi and has conducted different research projects funded by several small grants (Rufford Small Grant, International Foundation for Sciences, American Society of Primatologists Grant, etc) in wildlife ecology and conservation. His work experiences yielded to more than 20 peer-review articles both as first author or co-author, mainly in world class journals (PLoS One, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Ecology, Mammalia, African Zoology, Mammal Study, Wildlife Biology, etc.). He has also been given the opportunity to present his works to more than 20 national and international conferences. He is also a member of several international associations including the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) and the International Union of Forest Research Organization (UIFRO). Because he has both research and real-regional conservation planning experience, Dr DJAGOUN is nominated as young affiliate to The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) since 2014. Dedicated and hard worker, Dr Djagoun has received the he Board of Trustees of the British Ecological Society has selected recently him as the winner of the Society’s Marsh Award for Ecologists in Africa Prize for 2018. This Award recognises that ecologists in Africa often face particular challenges in carrying out their research.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., SOGBOHOSSOU E.A., KASSA B., AHOUANDJINOU C.B., AKPONA H.A., & SINSIN B. (2018) Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Conserving the Highly Hunted Mammal Species as Bushmeat in Southern Benin. The Open Ecology Journal, 11: 14-24.
• ASSÉDÉ E.S.P., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., AZIHOU F.A., GOGAN Y.S.C., KOUTON M.D., ADOMOU A.C., GELDENHUYS C.J., CHIRWA P.W., SINSIN B. (2018) Efficiency of conservation areas to protect orchid species in Benin, West Africa. South African Journal of Botany, 116:230–237.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., AKPONA H.A., KASSA B., GICHOHI N., MURUTHI P. & SINSIN B. (2017) A stakeholder assessment of human–elephant conflict in Benin. Pachyderm, 58:161–166.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., CODRON D., SEALY J., MENSAH G.A. & SINSIN B.A. (2016) Isotopic niche structure of a mammalian herbivore assemblage from a West African savanna: Body mass and seasonality effect. Mammalian Biology, 81:644–650.
• GAUBERT P., NJIOKOU F., NGUA G., AFIADEMANYO K., DUFOUR S., MALEKANI J., GONEDEL BI S., TOUGARD C., OLAYEMI A., DANQUAH E., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., KALEME P., MOLOLO C. N., STANLEY W., LUO S-J. & ANTUNES A. (2016) Phylogeography of the heavily poached African common pangolin (Pholidota, Manis tricuspis) reveals six cryptic lineages as traceable signatures of Pleistocene diversification. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13886
• AKPONA H.A., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., HARRINGTON L.A., MENSAH G.A., KABRE A. T. & SINSIN B. (2015) Conflict between spotted-necked otters and fishermen in Hlan River, Benin. Journal for Nature Conservation 27: 63–71.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., KASSA B., COULSON T., MENSAH G.A. & SINSIN B.A. (2014) Hunting affects dry season habitat selection by several Bovid species in northern Benin. Wildlife Biology, 20(2):83-90.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., KASSA B., MENSAH G.A. & SINSIN B.A. (2013) Seasonal habitat and diet partitioning between two sympatric bovid species in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (Northern Benin): waterbuck and western kob. African Zoology 48(2): 279–289.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., CODRON D., SEALY J., MENSAH G.A. & SINSIN B.A. (2013) Stable carbon isotope analysis of the diets of West African bovids in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (Northern Benin). South African Journal of Wildlife Research 43 (1): 33-43.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., DJOSSA B.A., MENSAH G.A. & SINSIN B.A. (2013) Vigilance efficiency and behaviour of Bohor reedbuck Redunca redunca (Pallas 1767) in a savanna environment of Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (Northern Benin). Mammal Study, 38(2):81-89.
• PHILIPPE GAUBERT, ANNIE MACHORDOM, ARTURO MORALES, JOSÉ VICENTE LOPÈZ-BAO, GÉRALDINE VERON, MOHAMMAD AMIN, TÂNIA BARROS, MOHAMMAD BASUONY, DJAGOUN, C. A.M.S. EMMANUEL DO LINH SAN, CARLOS FONSECA, ELI GEFFEN, SAKIR ONDER OZKURT, CORINNE CRUAUD, ARNAUD COULOUX AND FRANCISCO PALOMARES. (2011) Comparative phylogeography of two African carnivorans presumably introduced into Europe: disentangling natural versus human-mediated dispersal across the Strait of Gibraltar. Journal of Biogeography 38:341–358.
• GAUBERT P., BLOCH C., BENYACOUB S., ABDELHAMID A., PAGANI P., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., COULOUX A., DUFOUR S. (2012) Reviving the African Wolf Canis lupus lupaster in North and West Africa: A Mitochondrial Lineage Ranging More than 6,000 km Wide. PLoS One. Volume 7 | Issue 8 | e42740.
• ASSOGBADJO AE., GLELE-KAKAI R. L., VODOUHE F. G., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., CODJIA J-C T. & SINSIN B A (2012). Biodiversity and Socioeconomic Factors Supporting Farmers' Choice of Wild Edible Trees in the Agroforestry Systems of Benin (West Africa). Forest Policy and Economics 14:41–49.
• DJAGOUN C.A.M.S., AKPONA H.A., SINSIN B., MENSAH G.A. & DOSSA F. (2009) Mongoose species in southern Benin: Preliminary ecological survey and local community perceptions. Mammalia. (73):27-32.
• AKPONA H.A., DJAGOUN C.A.M.S. & SINSIN B. (2008) Ecology and ethnozoology of three-cusped pangolin Manis tricuspis (Mammalia, Pholidota) in the Lama forest reserve, Benin. Mammalia 72: 198-202.
Email: dchabi@gmail.com
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