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Andreou, Vasilis & C., Antoniou & Kleitou, Periklis & Kletou, Demetris & Petrou, Antonis & Savva, Ioannis & Crocetta, Fabio & B., Galil & N., Shenkar & Tiralongo, Francesco & K., Tsiamis & Zenetos, Argyro. (2018). Non-indigenous species of the “Natura 2000” areas CY3000005 Cavo Greco and CY3000006 Nisia, south east coast of Cyprus. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342692730_Non-indigenous_species_of_the_Natura_2000_areas_CY3000005_Cavo_Greco_and_CY3000006_Nisia_south_east_coast_of_Cyprus
Publications
Jimenez C, Petrou A, Papatheodoulou M, Resaikos V (2022) No one is safe: destruction of coralligenous concretions and other benthic sciaphilic communities in the MPA Cape Greco (Cyprus). 4th Mediterranean Symposium on the conservation of Coralligenous & other Calcareous Bio-Concretions. Genoa, Italy, 20-21 September 2022. Pp 74-79. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363923739_NO_ONE_IS_SAFE_DESTRUCTION_OF_CORALLIGENOUS_CONCRETIONS_AND_OTHER_BENTHIC_SCIAPHILIC_COMMUNITIES_IN_THE_MPA_CAPE_GRECO_CYPRUS
Papageorgiou, M., Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Georgiou, A. and Petrou, A., 2022. Understanding the Interactions Between Cetaceans and Other Megafauna With the Albacore Tuna Fishery: A Case Study From the Cyprus’ Pelagic Longline Fishery. Front. Mar. Sci, 9, p.868464. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.868464
Giannakis, E., Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Papageorgiou, M., Karonias, A., Petrou, A. (2020). Economic consequences of Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Fisheries in the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus). Sustainability. 12(22), 9406. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229406
Achilleos, K., Jimenez, C., Berning, B., Petrou, A. (2020). Bryozoan diversity of Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea): first results from census surveys (2011–2018). Med Mar Sci. 21:228-237. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.21201
Jimenez, C., Achilleos, K., Petrou, A., Hadjioannou, L., Guido, A., Rosso, A., Gerovasileiou, V., Albano, P. A., Di Franco, D., Andreou, V., Abu Alhaija, R. (2019). A dream within a dream: Kakoskali Cave, a unique marine ecosystem in Cyprus (Levantine Sea) In Öztürk B. (Ed.) 2019. Marine Caves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Biodiversity, Threats and Conservation. Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV) Publication no: 53, Istanbul, Turkey http://tudav.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TUDAV_marine_cave.pdf
Orejas, C., Jiménez, C., Gori, A., Rivera, J., Iacono, C. L., Aurelle, D., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Achilleos, K. (2019). Corals of Aphrodite: Dendrophyllia ramea Populations of Cyprus. In Orejas C, Jiménez C (eds.), Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Coral Reefs of the World 9, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_23
Kleitou, P., Savva, I., Kletou, D., Hall-Spencer, J. M., Antoniou, C., Christodoulides, Y., Chartosia, N., Hadjioannou, L., Dimitriou, A. C., Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Sfenthourakis, S., Rees, S. 2019. Invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean: Low public awareness yet high stakeholder concerns. Marine Policy, 104: 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.052
Papatheodoulou M., Jimenez C., Petrou A., Thasitis I., 2019. Endobiotic communities of Marine Sponges in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). Heliyon 5: e01392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01392
Jimenez C, Patsalou P., Andreou V., Huseyinoglu M.F., Çiçek B.A., Hadjioannou L., Petrou A., 2019. Out of sight, out of reach, out of mind- Invasive lionfish Pterois miles in Cyprus at depths beyond recreational diving limits. Proceedings of 1st Mediterranean Symposium on the Non-Indigenous Species, Antalya, Turkey, 17-18 January 2019. pp 59-64. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331284069_OUT_OF_SIGHT_OUT_OF_REACH_OUT_OF_MIND_INVASIVE_LIONFISH_PTEROIS_MILES_IN_CYPRUS_AT_DEPTHS_BEYOND_RECREATIONAL_DIVING_LIMITS
Kleitou, P., Hall-Spencer, J., Rees, S., Sfendourakis, S., Demetriou, A., Chartosia, N., Jimenez, C., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Christodoulides, Y., Georgiou, A., Andreou, V., Antoniou, C., Savva, I., Kleitou, D. 2019. Tackling the lionfish invasion in the Mediterranean. The EU – Life Relionmed Project: Progress and Results. Proceedings of 1st Mediterranean Symposium on the Non-Indigenous Species. Antalya, Turkey, 17-18 January. https://relionmed.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/proceedings_msnis_2019_final-pages-174-79.pdf
Stern, N., Jimenez, C., Huseyinoglu, M.F., Andreou, V., Hadijioannou, L., Petrou, A., Öztürk, B., Golani, D. and Rothman, S.B., 2018. Constructing the genetic population demography of the invasive lionfish Pterois miles in the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 30(2), pp.249-255, https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2018.1482284
Achilleos K, Patsalidou, M, Jimenez, C, Kamidis N, Georgiou A, Petrou A, Kallianiotis A. (2018) Epibenthic Communities on Artificial Reefs in Greece, Mediterranean Sea. Water. 10, 347; https://doi.org/10.3390/w10040347
Massa-Gallucci, Alexia & Deguara, Simeon & Mantas, George & Bardocz, Tamas & Anagnopouos, Orestis & Anagnopouos, Nikos & Bezas, Alexandros & Petrou, Antonis & Patsalidou, Maria. (2018). Measures to support small-scale fisheries in the EU Mediterranean waters. Poster
Jimenez, C., Andreou, V., Evriviadou, M., Britta, M., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Abu Alhaija, R. (2017). Epibenthic Communities Associated with Unintentional Artificial Reefs (Modern Shipwrecks) Under Contrasting Regimes of nutrients in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus and Lebanon). PLoS ONE 12(8): e0182486. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182486
Guido A, Jimenez C, Achilleos K, Rosso A, Sanfilippo A, Hadjioannou L, Petrou A, Russo F, Mastandrea A. (2017). Cryptic Serpulid-Microbialite bioconstructions in the Kakoskali submarine cave (Cyprus, Eastern Mediterrranean). Facies 63: 21 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-017-0502-3
Orejas, C., Gori, A., Jiménez, L., Rivera, J., Lo Iacono, C., Hadjioannou, L., Andreou, V., Petrou, A. (2017). First in situ documentation of a population of the coral Dendrophyllia ramea off Cyprus (Levantine Sea) and evidence of human impacts. Galaxea Journal of Coral Reef Studies 19(1):15-16. DOI: 10.3755/galaxea.19.1_15.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/galaxea/19/1/19_15/_pdf
Jimenez, C., Andreou, V., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Abu Alhaija, R., Patsalou, P. (2017). Not everyone’s cup of tea: Public perception of culling invasive lionfish in Cyprus. J. Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment. Vol. 23, No. 1:38-47. https://blackmeditjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/3.231-2017-C-Jimenez.pdf
Jimenez, C., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Andreou, V., Georgiou, A. (2017). Fouling communities of two accidental artificial reefs (modern shipwrecks) in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). Water. 9(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/w9010011
Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Andreou, V., Hadjioannou, L., Wolf, W., Koutsoloukas, N., Abu Alhaija, R. (2016). Veni, Vidi, Vici: the successful establishment of the lionfish Pterois miles, in Cyprus (LevantineSea).
https://ciesm.org/online/archives/abstracts/pdf/41/CIESM_Congress_2016_Kiel_article_0417.pdf
Rivera, J., Lo Iacono, C., Sakellariou, D., Petrou, A., Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Orejas, C., Team CYCLAMEN. (2016). Morphological description of the southeastern Cyprus outer shelf and slope regions (eastern Mediterranean).
http://ciesm.org/online/archives/abstracts/pdf/41/CIESM_Congress_2016_Kiel_article_0048.pdf
Siciliano, A., Jimenez, C., Petrou, A. (2016). Recreational Diving and Its Effects on the Macroalgal Communities of the Unintentional Artificial Reef Zenobia Shipwreck (Cyprus). J Oceanogr Mar Res 4: 151. https://www.longdom.org/open-access-pdfs/recreational-diving-and-its-effects-on-the-macroalgal-communities-of-theunintentional-artificial-reef-zenobia-shipwreck-cyprus-.pdf
Jimenez, C., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Nikolaidis, A., Evriviadou, M., Lange, M. A. (2016). Mortality of coralligenous organisms associated to seawater temperature anomalies in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus). Regional Environmental Change. 16(7): 1963-1973. First published online 2014. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-014-0729-2
Achilleos, K., Jimenez, C., Berning, B. & Petrou, A. (2016) Bryozoan diversity of Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea), with a particular focus on Monoporella bouchardii (Audouin & Savigny, 1826). Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.21201
Petrou, A. & Zapitis, C. 2016. Agnatha, Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes (pages 620 – 631). In: Sparrow, D. J. & John, E. (Eds.) An Introduction to the Wildlife of Cyprus. Terra Cypria, Cyprus. 895 pp https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311861377_Agnatha_Chondrichthyes_and_Osteichthyes
Ulman A., Çiçek BA., Salihoglu I., Petrou A., Patsalidou M., Pauly D., and Zeller D., 2014. Unifying the catch data of a divided island: Cyprus’s marine fisheries catches, 1950–2010. Environ Dev Sustain https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-014-9576-z
Jimenez C, Hadjioannou L, Petrou A, Nikolaidis A, Evriadou M & Lange M. 2014. Mortality of the scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa during a warming event in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus). Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-014-0729-2
Jiménez, C., Petrou, A., Ivan, C., Marija, D., Evriviadou, M., Hadjioannou, L., Lange, M. A. (2013). Coral mass mortality associated to seawater temperature anomalies in the Levantine (Cyprus) and Adriatic (Croatia) Seas. Rapp Comm int Mer Médit 40: 655. https://www.ciesm.org/online/archives/abstracts/pdf/40/Vol40_opt.pdf
Jiménez C, Petrou A, Evrivadou M, Nikolaides A, Hadjioanou A, Lange MA (2013) Coral mass mortality associated to the Summer 2012 seawater temperature anomalies in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus). Geophys Res Abs 50: 8021
Moraitis M., Papageorgiou N., Dimitriou P.D., Petrou A., Karakassis I., 2013. Effects of offshore tuna farming on benthic assemblages in the Eastern Mediterranean. Aquacult Environ Interact 4, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00071
Orfanidis, Sotiris & Papathanasiou, Vasillis & Nakou, Konstantinia & Apostolos, Papadimitriou & Tsiamis, Konstantinos & Hadjioannou, Louis & Petrou, Antonis & Tsioli, Tania. (2013). Habitats Directive Article 17 of marine habitat types of the Republic of Cyprus – Final Progress report. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236847316_Habitats_Directive_Article_17_of_marine_habitat_types_of_the_Republic_of_Cyprus_-_Final_Progress_report
- Diaz-Almela, Elena & Marba, Nuria & Elvira, Alvarez Perez & Santiago, Rocio & Holmer, Marianne & Grau, Antoni & Mirto, Simone & Danovaro, Roberto & Petrou, Antonis & Argyrou, Marina & Karakassis, Ioannis & Duarte, Carlos. (2008). Benthic input rates predict seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) fish farm-induced decline. Marine pollution bulletin. 56. 1332-42. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.03.022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.03.022
Conferences
Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Hartingerova, J., Andreou, V., Petrou, A., Hayes, D. 2019. Cladocora caespitosa in a rapidly changing environment: effects from eutrophication, windstorm and warming event. 54th European Marine Biodiversity Symposium
Jimenez, C., Patsalou, P., Andreou, V., Huseyinoglu, M.F., Çiçek, B.A., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A. 2019. Out of sight, out of reach, out of mind: Invasive lionfish Pterois miles in Cyprus at depths beyond recreational diving limits. 1st Mediterranean Symposium on the Non-Indigenous Species. Antalya, Turkey, 17-18 January.
Kleitou, P., Hall-Spencer, J., Rees, S., Sfendourakis, S., Demetriou, A., Chartosia, N., Jimenez, C., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Christodoulides, Y., Georgiou, A., Andreou, V., Anoniou, C., Savva, I., Kleitou, D. 2019. Tackling the lionfish invasion in the Mediterranean. The EU – Life Relionmed Project: Progress and Results. 1st Mediterranean Symposium on the Non-Indigenous Species. Antalya, Turkey, 17-18 January.
Jimenez, C., Andreou, Vasilis., Huseyinoglu, F., Hadjioannou, L., Patsalou, P., Petrou, A., 2018. Of natural predation and gastronomy: Who’s eating the invasive lionfish (Pterois miles) in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). In Mees, J., Seys, J., (eds.), Book of abstracts – 53rd European Marine Biology Symposium. Oostende, Belgium, 17-21 September 2018. VLIZ Special Publication, 82. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee – Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende. pp. 199.
Jimenez, C., Andreou, V., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A., Abu Alhaija, R., Patsalou, P. (2017). Not everyone’s cup of tea: Public perception of culling invasive lionfish in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). Workshop on the Lionfish in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: New problems, new solutions: Distribution, Eradication & Utilization. Antalya, Turkey, 9th-10th February.
Achilleos, K., Jimenez, C., Petrou, A. (2017). The use of Bryozoans as a tool in marine archaeology (Kyrenia shipwreck, Cyprus). Oral presentation in 7th AustraLarwood meeting, 9th February, Wellington, New Zealand.
Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Andreou, V., Hadjioannou, L., Wolf, W., Koutsoloukas, N., Abu Alhaija, R. (2016). Veni, Vidi, Vici: the successful establishment of the lionfish Pterois miles, in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). 41st CIESM congress, 12th-16th September 2016, Kiel, Germany. Oral and Poster presentation.
Rivera, J., Lo Iacono, C., Sakellariou, D., Petrou, A., Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Orejas, C., Team CYCLAMEN. (2016). Morphological description of the southeastern Cyprus outer shelf and slope regions (eastern Mediterranean). 41st CIESM congress, 12th-16th September 2016, Kiel, Germany. Oral and Poster presentation.
Orejas, C., Gori, A., Jimenez, C., Rivera, J., Lo Iacono, J., Kamidis, N., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A. (2016). Cold-water corals from the Levantine Mediterranean Sea: describing and quantifying a singular Dendrophyllia ramea. 6th International Symposium Deep Sea Corals. 11th-16th September 2016, Boston, MA, USA. Poster presentantion.
Hadjioannou, Louis & Jimenez, Carlos & Cvitkovic, Ivan & Despalatović, Marija & Evriviadou, Marina & Andreou, Vasilis & Petrou, Antonis. (2015). CLADOCORA CAESPITOSA, A MEDITERRANEAN CORAL UNDER THREAT? WAKE-UP CALL FROM RECENT MASS MORTALITY EVENTS. Conference: ASLO – 2015 Aquatic Sciences MeetingAt: Granada, Spain
Orejas, C., Jimenez, C., Abu Alhaija, R., Achilleos, K., Avgousti, A., Aurelle, D., Ferrier-Pages, C., Gori, A., Hadjioannou, L., Kamidis, N., Lo Iacono, C., Petrou, A., Reynaud, S., Rivera, J., Rottier, C., Sakellariou, D. (2015). The Deep-water corals of Cyprus: Environmental settings and ecological features (CYprus Cold-corals Levantine SeA, Eastern MEditerraneaN: CYCLAMEN). 14th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Aveiro, Portugal, 31 Aug – 4 Sept. Poster presentation.
Achilleos, K., Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Sfendourakis, S., Demesticha, S. (2014). The biodiversity of calcareous organisms (Bryozoans, scleractinian corals) along the southern coasts of Cyprus. Oral presentation in 7th HELECOS Congress, 9-12 Oct. Mytelene, Greece: Hellenic Ecological Society, p.76.
Jiménez, C., Petrou, A., Ivan, C., Marija, D., Evriviadou, M., Hadjioannou, L., Lange, M. A. (2013). Coral mass mortality associated to seawater temperature anomalies in the Levantine (Cyprus) and Adriatic (Croatia) Seas. 40th CIESM congress, 28th October – 1st November, Marseille, France. Oral and poster presentantion.
Jiménez C, Petrou A, Evrivadou M, Nikolaides A, Hadjioanou A, Lange MA (2013) Coral mass mortality associated to the Summer 2012 seawater temperature anomalies in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus). Geophys Res Abs 50: 8021
Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Evriviadou, M., Nikolaidis, A., Hadjioannou, L., Britta, M., Lange, M. A. (2013). Benthic marine communities associated to “artificial reefs” (modern shipwrecks) under contrasting regimes of nutrients and pollution in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus and Lebanon). The 10th International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Related Aquatic Habitats. Oral presentation.
Petrou., A., Jimenez, C., Hadjioannou, L., Papadopoulou, A., Demesticha. S. (2013). Anthropogenic impacts and responses of organisms to artificial reef disturbance. The 10th International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Related Aquatic Habitats. Oral presentation.
Achilleos, K., Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Sfendourakis, S., Demesticha, S. (2013). A fourth-century BCE ancient artificial reef. The 10th International Conference on artificial reefs and related aquatic habitats. Poster in 10th CARAH, 23-27 Sept. Izmir, Turkey.
Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Hayes, D., Gucel, S., Hadjioannou, L. (2011). The neglected coral necklace of Aphrodite: Shallow and deep-water corals of Cyprus. HERMIONE 1st Annual Meeting 11–15 April 2011, Estepona, Malaga, Spain. Poster presentation.
Moraitis, Manos & Papageorgiou, Nafsika & Petrou, Antonis & Karakassis, Ioannis. (2011). Environmental impact of bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) farming on benthic communities in the eastern Mediterranean. Poster presentation.
Jimenez, C., Petrou, A., Hayes, D., Gucel, S., Hadjioannou, L. (2010). Shallow water corals of Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean). Euro ISRS Symposium 2010: Reefs in a changing environment, 13-17 December 2010 – Wageningen. Poster presentation.
Petrou, A., Charilaou, C., Hadjioannou, L., Kallianiotis, A. 2010. Analysis of demersal species assemblages from the experimental trawl survey around the coast of Cyprus. TOP Biodiversity 2010, Threats, Opportunities and Paces for Biodiversity. 1st International Bi-communal conference on Biodiversity.Intercollege-Larnaca and Friends of Nature Cyprus. 3rd-4th June 2010.
Nikita, E., Petrou, A., Bailey,.D. 2010.The impact of a fish farm on Posidonia oceanica and associated megafauna and flora in Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean).TOP Biodiversity 2010, Threats, Opportunities and Paces for Biodiversity. 1st International Bi-communal conference on Biodiversity. Intercollege-Larnaca and Friends of Nature Cyprus. 3rd-4th June 2010
Chrysanthou, K., Hadjioannou, L., Petrou, A. 2010. Benthic macrofauna biodiversity impacts due to Fish farming. TOP Biodiversity 2010, Threats, Opportunities and Paces for Biodiversity. 1st International Bi-communal conference on Biodiversity. Intercollege-Larnaca and Friends of Nature Cyprus. 3rd-4th June 2010.
Tragantzopoulos, A., Stamatis, N., Petrou, A., Kallianiotis, A. 2010. Content of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and mercury in tuna (Thunnus alalunga) from the sea areas of Halkidiki and Larnaca (Eastern Mediterranean). Act. 14ου Pan. Con. Ichthyologists, pp. 267-270, Piraeus 6-9 May.