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Nomiki Simboura is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on marine and environmental studies. These include:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry

Nomiki Simboura has contributed to publications in several venues, such as:

  • BioInvasions Records
  • Mediterranean Marine Science
  • Viruses
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Environmental Research

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alexandra Pavlidou
  • Ioanna Siokou
  • Harilaos Kontoyiannis
  • Christina Zeri
  • Ioannis Hatzianestis

Some notable recent papers are:

  • Saronikos Gulf: a hotspot area for alien species in the Mediterranean Sea (2020, BioInvasions Records)
  • Is the trend in new introductions of marine non-indigenous species a reliable criterion for assessing good environmental status? Τhe case study of Greece (2020, Mediterranean Marine Science)
  • Viral Metagenomic Content Reflects Seawater Ecological Quality in the Coastal Zone (2020, Viruses)
  • Thirty years of a bottom oxygen depletion-renewal cycle in the coastal yet deep environment of the West Saronikos Gulf (Greece): Its drivers and the impact on the benthic communities (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Functional traits of polychaetes change between different types of Posidonia oceanica habitats (2022, Marine Environmental Research)

Best Publications

  • Benthic indicators to use in Ecological Quality classification of Mediterranean soft bottom marine ecosystems, including a new Biotic Index

    N. Simboura;A. Zenetos

  • A synthesis of the biological quality elements for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in the Mediterranean ecoregion: The case of Saronikos Gulf

    N. Simboura;P. Panayotidis;E. Papathanassiou

  • The Foram Stress Index: A New Tool for Environmental Assessment of Soft-Bottom Environments Using Benthic Foraminifera. A Case Study from the Saronikos Gulf, Greece, Eastern Mediterranean

    Margarita D. Dimiza;Maria V. Triantaphyllou;Olga Koukousioura;Pamela Hallock

  • Changes in benthic community structure along an environmental pollution gradient

    N. Simboura;A. Zenetos;P. Panayotidis;A. Makra

  • Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status

    Angel Borja;Theo C. Prins;Nomiki Simboura;Jesper Harbo Andersen

  • Methods of eutrophication assessment in the context of the water framework directive: Examples from the Eastern Mediterranean coastal areas

    Alexandra Pavlidou;Nomiki Simboura;Eleni Rousselaki;Manolis Tsapakis

  • An intercalibration of classification metrics of benthic macroinvertebrates in coastal and transitional ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean ecoregion (Greece).

    N. Simboura;S. Reizopoulou

  • A comparative approach of assessing ecological status in two coastal areas of Eastern Mediterranean

    N. Simboura;S. Reizopoulou

  • Deep cleaning of alien and cryptogenic species records in the Greek Seas (2018 update)

    Argyro Zenetos;Maria Corsini-Foka;Fabio Crocetta;Vasilis Gerovasileiou

  • The polychaetes (Annelida, Polychaeta) of Greece : checklist, distribution and ecological characteristics

    N. Simboura;A. Nicolaidou

  • A benthic macroinvertebrate size spectra index for implementing the Water Framework Directive in coastal lagoons in Mediterranean and Black Sea ecoregions

    A. Basset;E. Barbone;A. Borja;S. Brucet

  • An insight into the performance of benthic classification indices tested in Eastern Mediterranean coastal waters.

    N. Simboura;M. Argyrou

  • Polychaete Communities of Greece: An Ecological Overview

    Nomiki Simboura;Artemis Nicolaidou;Maria Thessalou‐Legaki

  • The use of a biotic index (Bentix) in assessing long-term effects of dumping coarse metalliferous waste on soft bottom benthic communities

    N. Simboura;E. Papathanassiou;D. Sakellariou

  • Bentix Index vs. Biotic index in monitoring: an answer to Borja et al., 2003.

    Nomiki Simboura

  • Response of ecological indices to nutrient and chemical contaminant stress factors in Eastern Mediterranean coastal waters

    N. Simboura;A. Pavlidou;J. Bald;M. Tsapakis

  • A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience

    A. Crise;H. Kaberi;José Luis Martinez Ruiz;A. Zatsepin

  • Indicator-Based Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity–Lessons from 10 Case Studies across the European Seas

    Laura Uusitalo;Hugues Blanchet;Jesper H. Andersen;Olivier Beauchard

  • Using a holistic ecosystem-integrated approach to assess the environmental status of Saronikos Gulf, Eastern Mediterranean

    Alexandra Pavlidou;Nomiki Simboura;Κalliopi Pagou;Georgia Assimakopoulou

  • Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist

    Sarah Faulwetter;Nomiki Simboura;Nikolaos Katsiaras;Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou

Frequent Co-Authors

Argyro Zenetos
Argyro Zenetos Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Christos Arvanitidis
Christos Arvanitidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Manolis Tsapakis
Manolis Tsapakis University of Crete
Alberto Basset
Alberto Basset University of Salento
Ioannis Karakassis
Ioannis Karakassis University of Crete
Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Vasilis Gerovasileiou Ionian University
João M. Neto
João M. Neto University of Coimbra
Maria Triantaphyllou
Maria Triantaphyllou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Paraskevi Pitta
Paraskevi Pitta Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

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