Assembling ecological pieces to reconstruct the conservation puzzle of the aegean sea

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2017, Pages

  Sini, Maria ^a   Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a   Koukourouvli, Nikoleta ^a   Gerovasileiou, Vasilis ^a,b   Dailianis, Thanos ^a,b   Buhl Mortensen, Lene ^c   Damalas, Dimitris ^b   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^d   Dimas, Xenophon ^e   Frantzis, Alexandros ^f   Gerakaris, Vasilis ^b   Giakoumi, Sylvaine ^g,h   Gonzalez Mirelis, Genoveva ^c   Hasiotis, Thomas ^a   Issaris, Yiannis ^b   Kavadas, Stefanos G ^b   Koutsogiannopoulos, David D ⁱ   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^a   Manoutsoglou, Evangelia ^a   Markantonatou, Vessa ^a   Mazaris, Antonios D ^j   Poursanidis, Dimitris ^a,k   Papatheodorou, George ^e   Salomidi, Maria ^b   Topouzelis, Konstantinos ^a   Trygonis, Vasilis ^a   Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki ^b   Zotou, Maria ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ Naturagraeca   (Greece)

^j ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^k INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

more..

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Data evaluation; Ecological mapping; Ecosystem based management; Marine biodiversity distribution; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034950061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00347     Document Type: Article

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