A review of geospatial technologies for improving Marine Spatial Planning: Challenges and opportunities

I Schwartz-Belkin, ME Portman - Ocean & coastal management, 2023 - Elsevier
Common marine spatial planning challenges include lack of data on the marine
environment, high mobility of both animals and humans, and plan implementation …

Emerging conservation challenges and prospects in an era of offshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation

S Kark, E Brokovich, T Mazor, N Levin - Conservation Biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, extensive marine areas important for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem
functioning are undergoing exploration and extraction of oil and natural gas resources. Such …

Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas

S Katsanevakis, M Coll, S Fraschetti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative
impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor …

On the use of Sentinel-2 for coastal habitat mapping and satellite-derived bathymetry estimation using downscaled coastal aerosol band

D Poursanidis, D Traganos, P Reinartz… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Coastal habitats provide a plethora of ecosystem services, yet they undergo continuous
pressure and degradation due to the human-induced climate change. Conservation and …

Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species

M Ragkousis, A Zenetos, JB Souissi, R Hoffman… - 2023 - um.edu.mt
To enrich spatio-temporal information on the distribution of alien, cryptogenic, and neonative
species in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, a collective effort by 173 marine scientists …

How good is your marine protected area at curbing threats?

M Zupan, F Bulleri, J Evans, S Fraschetti… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key tools to mitigate human impacts in coastal
environments, promoting sustainable activities to conserve biodiversity. The designation of …

Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species

S Katsanevakis, D Poursanidis, R Hoffman… - BioInvasions …, 2020 - arpi.unipi.it
Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing
the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the …

Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images

K Topouzelis, D Makri, N Stoupas… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows are among the most valuable coastal ecosystems on earth due to their
structural and functional roles in the coastal environment. This study demonstrates remote …

New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (December 2019)

B Dragicevic, O Anadoli, D Angel, M Benabdi, G Bitar… - 2019 - openaccess.iste.edu.tr
This paper is a collection of novel distributional records of 20 species belonging to 8 phyla
(Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda and …

Methods of eutrophication assessment in the context of the water framework directive: Examples from the Eastern Mediterranean coastal areas

A Pavlidou, N Simboura, E Rousselaki… - Continental Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
A set of methodological tools were tested in order to assess the eutrophication quality of
selected coastal areas in Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Greece, in the context of the Water …