Our Publications

Publications about Marine Conservation

Marine Mammals & Turtles

Micro-Litter Ingested by Dolphins, Sea Turtles and Monk Seals Found Stranded along the Coasts of Samos Island, Greece, published in Animals as part of the Special Issue The Effects of Microplastics on Marine Biota

Patrice Hostetter, Alexandra Koroza, Thodoris Tsimpidis, Guido Pietroluongo, Roberto Carlucci, Giulia Cipriano Occurrence of Physeter macrocephalus and Ziphius cavirostris in the North Ikaria Basin, Aegean Sea , 2020 IMEKO TC-19 International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea Naples, Italy, October 5-7, 2020


Sebastien Saintignan, Matteo Costantino, Anastasia Milou, Sarah Moscatelli, Guido Pietroluongo, Marta Azzolin Habitat use of Delphinus delphis (Linnaeus, 1758) in the southern waters of Samos island (Aegean Sea, Greece), 2020 IMEKO TC-19 International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea Naples, Italy, October 5-7, 2020


Pietroluongo G.,Quintana B.,Dias V., Falquina Fernández F.J.,Gheorghiu A.,Moscatelli S.,Grandjean T.,Antichi S.,Ashhok K.,Delaveri K.,Miliou A., Evidence of Nesting Area of Caretta caretta and Potential Foraging Areas of Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas on Samos and Lipsi Islands, North-Eastern Aegean Sea Proceedings of 6th Mediterranean Conference on Marine Turtles, Poreč, Croatia, 16 – 19 October 2018


Miliou A., Baș A.A. and Pietroluongo G. Interactions between marine mammals and fisheries: case studies from the Eastern Aegean and the Levantine Sea , pp.119 - 124 in CIESM Monograph 50 (F Briand Ed.) Engaging marine scientists and fishers to share knowledge and perceptions - Early lessons CIESM Publisher, Monaco and Paris, 218p. 2018


S. Antichi, K. Ashok, G. Pietroluongo, A. Miliou, T. Tsimpidis. Acoustic characteristics of Delphinus delphis and Stenella coeruleoalba based on behavior and vessel presence in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greece. Proceedings of African Bioacoustics Conference, December 2018, Cape Town, South Africa


Esteves Pérez M.A.¹, Pietroluongo G. ², Miliou A.², Di Bonito M.1, Ray N.1, ¹ Nottingham Trent University, UK, ² Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, Greece (2018). Modelling the distribution of Delphinus delphis in the Eastern Aegean Sea: identifying key variables in their habitat. European Cetacean Society (ECS) 32nd Conference, La Spezia 2018.


Ferreiro Carballal S.¹, Pietroluongo G.², Tsimpidis T.², ¹ Biodiversity and Animal conservation, University of Valencia, Spain, ² ² Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, Greece (2018). Presence of short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the shallow waters of the south coast of Samos, Eastern Aegean Sea  European Cetacean Society (ECS) 32nd Conference, La Spezia 2018.


Fery C.¹*, Pietroluongo G.², Tsimpidis T.², ¹University of Montpellier, Ecology Engineering and Biodiversity Management, France, ²Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, Greece (2018). Influence of environmental factors on the spatial distribution of the short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the Eastern Aegean Sea  European Cetacean Society (ECS) 32nd Conference, La Spezia 2018.


Antichi S., Fosberry J.,  Quintana Martίn-Montalvo B.,  Ashok K.,  Miliou A. and Pietroluongo G. (2019) Habitat use and behavioural study of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) in Samos Island, Greece, Proceedings of the Conference on World Marine Mammal, Barcelona 2019.


Pietroluongo G.,  Gerussi T.,  Mayrhofer,N. ,  Quintana Martin-Montalvo B.,  Ashok k.,  Miliou A., Antichi S.(2019)   Diet ecology assessment of cetaceans and Mediterranean monk seals stranded on Samos Island, Eastern Aegean Sea, Greece, Proceedings of the Conference on World Marine Mammal, Barcelona 2019


Schofield D.,  Miliou A. , Pietroluongo G.and  Martίnez- Macipe M. (2019) An alternative to captive cetacean displays in the Mediterranean: The Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary, Proceedings of the Conference on World Marine Mammal, Barcelona 2019


Ríos, N., Drakulic, M., Paradinas, I., Milliou, A., and Cox, R. (2017). Occurrence and impact of interactions between small-scale fisheries and predators, with focus on Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus Hermann 1779), around Lipsi Island complex, Aegean Sea, Greece. Fisheries Research, 187, 1-10.


King, A., Tsimpidis, T., Miliou, A. and Thornton, H. (2013). Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) Photo Identification in the Region of the NE. Aegean Sea, Greece. Rapport de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM).

Coastal Habitat Conservation

Maria ZOTOU, Pavlos GKRANTOUNIS, Elpida KARADIMOU, Konstantinos TSIRINTANIS, Maria SINI, Dimitris POURSANIDIS, Marta AZZOLIN, Thanos DAILIANIS, Eleni KYTINOU, Yiannis ISSARIS, Vasilis GERAKARIS, Maria SALOMIDI, Poly LARDI, Alexis RAMFOS, Vassilis AKRIVOS, Efthimios SPINOS, Charalampos DIMITRIADIS, Dimitris PAPAGEORGIOU, Athanasios LATTOS, Ioannis A. GIANTSIS, Basile MICHAELIDIS, Vasiliki VASSILOPOULOU, Anastasia MILIOU and Stelios KATSANEVAKIS Pinna nobilis in the Greek seas (NE Mediterranean): on the brink of extinction? Mediterranean Marine Science Indexed in WoS (Web of Science, ISI Thomson) and SCOPUS The journal is available on line at http://www.medit-mar-sc.net DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.23777, 17, 1-6.


Michail RAGKOUSIS, Nardjes ABDELALI, Ernesto AZZURRO, Ali BADREDDINE, Michael BARICHE, Ghazi BITAR, Fabio CROCETTA, Francesco DENITTO, Markos DIGENIS, Radhouan El ZRELLI, Ayşegül ERGENLER, Ana FORTIČ, Vasilis GEROVASILEIOU, Samir GRIMES, Stelios KATSANEVAKIS, Cengiz KOÇAK, Cataldo LICCHELLI, Evgenios LOUDAROS, Francesco MASTROTOTARO, Borut MAVRIČ, Sinan MAVRUK, Anastasia MILIOU, Federica MONTESANTO, Panayotis OVALIS, Miquel PONTES, Lotfi RABAOUI, Nail SEVİNGEL, Andrea SPINELLI, Francesco TIRALONGO, Alexandros TSATIRIS, Cemal TURAN, Dyana VITALE, Ferhat YALGIN, Sercan YAPICI and Argyro ZENETOS (2020) New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2020) Mediterranean Marine Science Indexed in WoS (Web of Science, ISI Thomson) and SCOPUS The journal is available on line at http://www.medit-mar-sc.net DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.23674, 17, 1-6.


Ward E. A., Meek S. K. , Gordon D. M., Cameron T. C. , Steer M. D., Smith D. J. , Miliou A. & Tsimpidis T. (2020) The use of storm fragments and biodegradable replanting methods allows for a low-impact habitat restoration method of seagrass meadows, in the eastern Aegean Sea. Conservation Evidence, 17, 1-6.


Tatton, B., LaFrance, E., Smith, D., Ward, E. and Miliou, A. (2019) Confirmation of a Mass Mortality Event within a Pinna nobilis population between 2018 and 2019 in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greece. Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Medit, 42, 34


Benjamin Tatton, Sarah Meek, Clara Gütte, Anastasia Miliou, Dr Stephanie Sargeant, Dr Mark Steer. The importance of Posidonia oceanica meadows to the distribution of Pinna nobilis through habitat suitability modelling.  Proceedings of the Mediterranean Symposia on Marine Key Habitats and Non-Indigenous Species,   Antalya January 2019


Gütte C., Meek S. and Miliou AAdapted Seagrass Watch Protocol to evaluate Posidonia oceanica health, in the Eastern Aegean Sea.  Proceedings of the Mediterranean Symposia on Marine Key Habitats and Non-Indigenous Species, Antalya January 2019


Grandjean T.J., Miliou A. (2019). A Mediterranean Sea vulnerability model following the Representative Concentration Pathways for the Posidonia oceanica distribution in 2050. Proceedings of the Mediterranean Symposia on Marine Key Habitats and NIS, Antalya, Turkey, 14-18 January 2019


Grandjean T.J., Miliou A., Tsimpidis (2019)The impact of anthropogenic influences on the Posidonia oceanica patchiness. Proceedings of the Mediterranean Symposia on Marine Key Habitats and NIS, Antalya, Turkey, 14-18 January 2019 


Grandjean T.J., Rijsdijk K.F., Vonk J.A., Miliou A. (2019)The entrapment of the Posidonia oceanica seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea. Proceedings of the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Lunteren, the Netherlands, 12-13 February 2019


A. Miliou, B. Quintana , E. Kokinou, T.M. Alves , A. Nikolaidis and G. Georgiou (2018) Enhancing Students Critical thinking about Marine Pollution using Scientifically-based Scenarios, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management, Crete 2018 


Grandjean T., Schenke L., Tsimpidis T. (2018). Mapping of Posidonia Oceanica with Sentinel-2 imagery and downscan sonar obtained training data. Proceedings of the 4th GEO BLUE PLANET Symposium, Poster Presentation, Toulouse, France


Vítor Dias, João Marques, Sarah Meek, Valentina Costa, Anastasia Miliou (2018)The distribution of Invasive Caulerpa cylindracea in Lipsi island, Greece. Proceedings of 12th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography & Fisheries


Meek S, Ward E, Sargeant S, Tsimpidis T, Miliou A, Newton L, Willey N, Steer M. (2018)Development of an efficient and cost effective tool for mapping Posidonia oceanica in the Eastern Aegean, Greece. Proceedings of the 12th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography & Fisheries  


Buchet V., Panagiotou, M., Drakulic, M., Ribeiro De Moraes, K., Miliou A., van den Berg, J. and Cox, C. (2016). Testing and Evaluating the Efficiency of Low-Cost Methods in Seagrass Mapping. Proceedings of the CIESM 2016 Congress, Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, Germany


Bartle, S., Hayward, S. and Thornton, H. (2013) The Effect of Light Intensity on the Invasive Algae Caulerpa racemosa in Fourni Island, Aegean Sea, Greece. Rapport de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM), 40, 523.


Hu J., Zhang H., Miliou A., Tsimpidis T., Thornton H. and Pavlovic V. (2013). Categorization of Underwater Habitats Using Dynamic Video Textures. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop.


Acasuso-Rivero C., Holt V. Demetriou E., Lefkaditou E. and Miliou A. (2012). Findings of the Neon Flying Squid Ommastrephes bartramii (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) in the Eastern Aegean Sea: Evidence of its Spawing Ground Expansion. 12th International Conference of the Hellenic Zoological Society, Athens, Greece.


Jassoud A., Lucas M.Q., Insua T. L., Miliou A. and Schizas N.V. (2012). Population Genetic Structure of Octopus vulgaris. Benthic Ecology Meeting. D    OI: 10.13140/2.1.3809.5048.


De Raedemaecker F., Miliou A. and Perkins R. (2010). Fish Community Structure on Littoral Rocky Shores in the Eastern Aegean Sea: Effects of Exposure and Substratum. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 90(1). 35-44.

Microplastics in the Marine Environment


Quintana Martin-Montalvo B., Moro I.,  Lamprecht T.,  Miliou A., Antichi S.,  Ashok K. and  Pietroluongo G.(2019) A Cost-Efficient Standardised Methodology for Microplastics Analysis: Case Study of Cetaceans and Mediterranean Monk Seals Stranded on Samos Island Coastline, Greece, Proceedings of the Conference on World Marine Mammal, Barcelona 2019

E. Faraggiana, G. Pietroluongo, B. Quintana, K.G. Dexter, H.Moore  and  A. Milou(2018)Variation in Microplastics Content Detected in Commercially Important Marine Species of the Eastern Aegean Sea, Greece,Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management, Crete 2018 


Standerwick, R., Acasuso-Rivero, C., Lenkkeri, M., Buchholz, A., Tolsa-Reig, I., Coppin, B., Demetriou, M. and Miliou, A. (2012). Microplastic Assessment of the Greek Marine Environment. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management, Poster Presentation, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Fisheries

Buchet V., Panagiotou M., Drakulic M., Rios, N. and Miliou, A. (2016). Abundance of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Caught by Small-Scale Fisheries of Lipsi Island, Greece. Proceedings of the Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM) Congress, Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, Germany.


Anagnostou, B., Pennington, A., Shepperson, J., Jeffery, A. and Miliou, A. (2013). Siganus Species in an Artisanal Fishery in the Eastern AegeanRapport de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM).


Seary, R., Apostolidis, X., Bintoudi, E., Shepperson, J., Jeffery, A. and Miliou, A. (2013). Artisanal Fisheries Landings by Seabed Habitat in Fourni, NE Aegean, GreeceRapport de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM).


Vlachopoulou, E. I., Wilson, A. M. and Miliou, A. (2013). Disconnects in EU and Greek Fishery Policies and Practices in the Eastern Aegean Sea and Impacts on Posidonia oceanica Meadows. Ocean & Coastal Management, 76, 105-113.


Vlachopoulou, E. I., Wilson, A. M. and Miliou, A. (2011). Enforcement of the European Union Legislation about Illegal Fishing Practices in the Eastern Aegean Sea and its Impact on the Posidonia oceanica Meadows. The University of Edinburgh, Department of Science and Engineering, School of GeoSciences.


Miliou A., Kolle, S., Clarke, J. and Demetriou, M. (2010). Production and Composition of Small-Scale Fisheries Landings in the Eastern Aegean SeaRapport de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM), 39.

Publications about Terrestrial Conservation

Island Fauna

Pietroluongo G., Leggett J., Falquina Fernández F. J., Linardaki I., Parker W., Miliou A., Tsimpidis T. Preliminary assessment of feeding ecology of a Golden jackal (Canis aureus) population in South Eastern Samos Island, Greece, through post mortem examination and scat analysis. Proceedings W33P  2nd International Symposium on jackals and related species 31st of October - 2nd of November 2018 Marathon Bay - Attica, Greece


Pietroluongo G.1, Leggett J.2, Falquina Fernández F. J.1, Linardaki I.1, Steer M.2, Parker W.1, Miliou A.1, Tsimpidis T.1, Ntampakis D.3. Monitoring of a Canis aureus population living in the airport area of Samos Island, Greece. Proceedings W212P 2nd International Symposium on jackals and related species 31st of October - 2nd of November 2018 Marathon Bay - Attica, Greece 


Rutkowski, R., Krofel, M., Giannatos, G., Ćirović, D., Männil, P., Volokh, A. M., Lanszki, J., Heltai, M., Szabó, L., Banea, O.C., Hayrapetyan, V., Kopaliani, N., Miliou, A., Tryfonopoulos, G. A., Lymberakis, P., Penezić, A., Pakeltytė, G., Suchecka, E. and Bogdanowicz, W. (2015). A European Concern? Genetic Structure and Expansion of Golden Jackals (Canis aureus) in Europe and the Caucasus. PloS one10(11), e0141236. 


Dunford, C., Trayler, A. Giannatos, G, Miliou, A. and Anagnostou, V. (2013). Examining the Population Status and Distribution of the Golden Jackal Canis aureus, Linnaeus 1758, on Samos Island. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences, Nafplio, Greece


Thornton, H., Pieters, E., Lhubert, M., Otaegi, E., Miliou, A. (2013). Habitat Selection of Adult and Juvenile Common Chameleon Chameleo chamaeleon, Linnaeus 1758, on Samos Island. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences, Nafplio, Greece


Otaegi-Veslin, E., Acasuso-Rivero, C., Holt, V., Close M. and Miliou, A. (2012). Preliminary Results on Sexual Dimorphism in the Mediterranean Chameleon. 12th International Conference of the Hellenic Zoological Society, Athens, Greece.

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