Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea

C Cattano, A Calò, G Aglieri, P Cattano… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sharks support ecosystems' health, but their populations are facing severe declines
worldwide. Knowledge gaps on shark distribution and the negative human perception of …

Stepping up to genome scan allows stock differentiation in the worldwide distributed blue shark Prionace glauca

N Nikolic, F Devloo‐Delva, D Bailleul… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The blue shark Prionace glauca is a top predator with one of the widest geographical
distributions of any shark species. It is classified as Critically Endangered in the …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal dynamics of Mediterranean fish communities revealed by eDNA: Contrasting compositions across depths and Marine Fully Protected Area …

R Rozanski, L Velez, R Hocdé, A Duhamet… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine fish communities suffer from anthropogenic pressures and climate change, which
influence their spatio-temporal dynamics. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been …

An updated checklist of chondrichthyans of Calabria (Central Mediterranean, southern Italy), with emphasis on rare species

FL Leonetti, G Giglio, A Leone, F Coppola… - Mediterranean …, 2020 - usiena-air.unisi.it
In this contribution the checklist of chondrichthyans of Calabria (Central Mediterranean,
southern Italy) is reported. Data presented is derived from twenty years of opportunistic and …

Looking into the prevalence of bycatch juveniles of critically endangered elasmobranchs: a case study from pelagic longline and trammel net fisheries of the Asinara …

U Scacco, E Gennari, S Di Crescenzo… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Bycatch of cartilaginous species is considered one of the main drivers for the dramatic
declines observed in many populations. Pelagic longlines and passive nets impact many …

Multiple interannual records of young-of-the-year identify an important area for the protection of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus

C Cattano, C Gambardella, D Grancagnolo… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) is the second most fishery-exploited pelagic shark in
the Mediterranean Sea, thus its conservation status is a cause for concern. Despite the …

New technologies can support data collection on endangered shark species in the Mediterranean Sea

F Bargnesi, S Moro, A Leone, I Giovos… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2022 - int-res.com
In the last 50 yr, shark populations showed steep declines in the Mediterranean Sea. The
IUCN lists most Mediterranean species as threatened (55%), while considering 27.5% of …

Integrating literature, biodiversity databases, and citizen-science to reconstruct the checklist of Chondrichthyans in Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)

I Giovos, F Serena, D Katsada, A Anastasiadis… - Fishes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chondrichthyans are apex predators influencing the trophic web through a top-down
process thus their depletion will affect the remaining biota. Notwithstanding that, research on …

[HTML][HTML] Using historical and citizen science data to improve knowledge about the occurrence of the elusive sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus (Chondrichthyes …

PL Jambura, I Ćetković, J Kriwet… - Mediterranean marine …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is an extinction hotspot for sharks, skates, and rays, with at
least half of all species being threatened. The sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus is …

Filling the gap and improving conservation: how IUCN red lists and historical scientific data can shed more light on threatened sharks in the Italian seas

FL Leonetti, E Sperone, A Travaglini, AR Mojetta… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chondrichthyans are one of the most threatened marine taxa worldwide. This is also the
case in the Mediterranean Sea, which is considered an extinction hotspot for rays and …