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List of works by Spyros Sfenthourakis

A BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF GREEK ONISCIDEAN ENDEMISM

scientific article

A molecular phylogeny of Porcellionidae (Isopoda, Oniscidea) reveals inconsistencies with present taxonomy

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

A new genus of Trachelipodidae Strouhal, 1953 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the eastern Mediterranean

scientific article (publication date: 10 November 2015)

A new species of Metaprosekia Leistikow, 2000 (Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from caves of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil

scientific article published on 26 March 2023

A review of phylogeographic analyses of animal taxa from the Aegean and surrounding regions

scientific article published in 2014

Altitudinal Effect on Species Richness of Oniscidea (Crustacea; Isopoda) on Three Mountains in Greece

scientific article published in 1992

Altitudinal terrestrial isopod diversity

An improved method for the identification of areas of endemism using species co-occurrences

Are terrestrial isopods able to use stridulation and vibrational communication as forms of intra and interspecific signaling and defense strategies as insects do? A preliminary study in Armadillo officinalis

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Between-island compositional dissimilarity of avian communities

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Biodiversity patterns of terrestrial isopods from two island groups in the Aegean Sea (Greece): Species—area relationship, small island effect, and nestedness

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Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

scholarly article by Maria Karagkouni et al published 25 January 2016 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Community variation of spiders, beetles and isopods in three small island groups of the Aegean Sea: the interplay between history and ecology

scientific article published in 2017

Competition for shelter occupancy between a native freshwater crab and an invasive crayfish

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Complementing the puzzle of Eleonora’s Falcon (Falco eleonorae) migration: new evidence from an eastern colony in the Aegean Sea

Compositional dissimilarity patterns of reptiles and amphibians in insular systems around the world

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DNA barcoding of bird species in Cyprus: a tool for conservation purposes

scholarly article by ANDREAS C. DIMITRIOU et al published 11 January 2017 in Bird Conservation International

Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities

scientific article published on 10 June 2022

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Distribution modelling of Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae Géné, 1839 occurrence in its wintering grounds: a niche-based approach with satellite telemetry data

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Diversification within an oceanic Mediterranean island: Insights from a terrestrial isopod

scientific article published in 2022

Editorial

Environment shapes the digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard

Factors affecting plant species richness and endemism on land-bridge islands – An example from the East Aegean archipelago

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Factors influencing the occurrence of Eleonora's falconFalco eleonoraebreeding colonies on Greek islands

From plots to islands: species diversity at different scales

article published in 2011

From sampling stations to archipelagos: investigating aspects of the assemblage of insular biota

scientific article published in 2004

Functional response and multiple predator effects of two generalist predators preying on Tuta absoluta eggs.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Genetic Data Suggest Multiple Introductions of the Lionfish (Pterois miles) into the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Genetic evidence against monophyly of Oniscidea implies a need to revise scenarios for the origin of terrestrial isopods

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Habitat diversity, ecological requirements of species and the Small Island Effect

scientific article published in 2009

Hotspots of endemic terrestrial invertebrates in southern Greece

Increased genetic diversity in Greek populations of the genus Ligidium (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) revealed by RFLP analysis of mtDNA segments

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 74 no. 3-4, 2005

Insights into how predator diversity, population density and habitat type may affect defensive behaviour in a Mediterranean lizard

scientific article published in 2018

Invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean: Low public awareness yet high stakeholder concerns

scientific article published in 2019

Island biogeography is not a single-variable discipline: the small island effect debate

scholarly article by Kostas A. Triantis & Spyros Sfenthourakis published 18 August 2011 in Diversity and Distributions

Island species richness increases with habitat diversity

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Isopod distribution and climate change

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Molecular phylogeny of the Greek populations of the genus Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea) using three mtDNA gene segments

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Nest-site preferences of Eleonora’s Falcon (Falco eleonorae) on uninhabited islets of the Aegean Sea using GIS and species distribution models

New Species of Terrestrial Isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) From Greece

New Species of Terrestrial Isopods (Oniscidea) from the Central Aegean Islands

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Turnover of plants on small islets of the eastern Aegean Sea within two decades

article by Maria Panitsa et al published 4 January 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

Old Aegean palaeoevents driving the diversification of an endemic isopod species (Oniscidea, Trachelipodidae)

scientific article published in 2014

On the surrogate value of red-listed butterflies for butterflies and grasshoppers: a case study in Grammos site of Natura 2000, Greece

article by Konstantina Zografou et al published 9 December 2008 in Journal of Insect Conservation

PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe

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Patterns of species richness on very small islands: the plants of the Aegean archipelago

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Patterns of taxonomic diversity among terrestrial isopods

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Preface – 11th ISTIB: Facets of terrestrial isopod biology

scientific article published on 18 May 2022

Promoting evolution: the brand new Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS)

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Response of the temperate scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa to high temperature and long-term nutrient enrichment

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Revisiting the saproxylic beetle ‘Propomacrus cypriacus Alexis & Makris, 2002’ (Coleoptera: Euchiridae) using molecular, morphological and ecological data

scientific article published on 08 May 2017

Sex Determination of Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) Juveniles: A Combined Molecular and Morphometric Approach

Significant Pairwise Co-occurrence Patterns Are Not the Rule in the Majority of Biotic Communities

Species co-occurrence: the case of congeneric species and a causal approach to patterns of species association

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Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Substrate type has a limited impact on the sprint performance of a Mediterranean lizard

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Tail autotomy affects bipedalism but not sprint performance in a cursorial Mediterranean lizard

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

The Aegean archipelago: a natural laboratory of evolution, ecology and civilisations

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

The Terrestrial Isopods (Oniscidea) of Greece. 15th Contribution: Genera Echinarmadillidium and Paxodillidium (Armadillidiidae)

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The effect of fire on ant assemblages does not depend on habitat openness but does select for large, gracile predators

scientific article published on 10 June 2021

The first troglobitic terrestrial isopod (Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Peru

scientific article published in 2023

The genus Armadillo Latreille, 1802 (Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from Cyprus, with descriptions of two new species

scientific article published on 19 April 2023

The island rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

The story of a rock-star: multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in the starred or roughtail rock agama, <i>Laudakia stellio</i> (Reptilia: Agamidae)

scientific article published in 2022

The terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Crete and the surrounding islands