Assessing good environmental status through mesozooplankton biodiversity: a step forward

I Theodorou, S Zervoudaki, I Varkitzi… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We developed a zooplankton-based water-quality evaluating method using indices of alpha
diversity. Two key objectives were set:(i) the comparison of two—different quality—samples …

Benthic-pelagic coupling of marine primary producers under different natural and human-induced pressures' regimes

V Gerakaris, I Varkitzi, M Orlando-Bonaca… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine primary producers are highly sensitive to environmental deterioration caused by
natural and human-induced stressors. Following the Water Framework Directive and the …

[HTML][HTML] A script-based workflow to calculate zooplankton community indicator for environmental status assessment in the Baltic Sea

A Labuce, E Gorokhova - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a script-based workflow applying widely-used R-packages to compute
the core indicator Zooplankton Mean Size and Total Stock (MSTS) for assessing the …

Dumping of Dredge Spoil in the Pelagic Habitat: Focus on Trophic Status, Phytoplankton Diversity Responses and Generation of Blooms

I Varkitzi, A Pavlidou, M Pantazi, E Rousselaki… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study presents the impacts of dredge spoil dumping in the pelagic habitat during a 27-
month monitoring survey in eastern Mediterranean coastal waters (Saronikos Gulf, Aegean …

First description of the shelf epipelagic plankton layers at a Mediterranean basin-scale

A Ventero, M Iglesias, M Giannoulaki, MM Pyrounaki… - Preprint, 2022 - archimer.ifremer.fr
This research represents the first approach to the study of the shelf zooplankton community
at a Mediterranean scale, using acoustic standardized data collected in June-July in 10 …