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Stylianos Somarakis is affiliated with the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, aquatic science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and oceanography.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish biology and ecology studies
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Ichthyology and marine biology
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine ecology and invasive species

Somarakis has published extensively in several journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Fishes
  • Mediterranean Marine Science
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Fish Biology

They have co-authored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Marianna Giannoulaki
  • Athanassios Machias
  • Konstantinos Tsagarakis
  • George Tserpes
  • Panagiota Peristeraki

Significant recent publications by Somarakis feature diverse aspects of marine science and fish biology:

  • History of hydroacoustic surveys of small pelagic fish species in the European Mediterranean Sea, 2021, Mediterranean Marine Science
  • Keeping Lagocephalus sceleratus off the Table: Sources of Variation in the Quantity of TTX, TTX Analogues, and Risk of Tetrodotoxication, 2021, Toxins
  • Differences in otolith shape and fluctuating-asymmetry between reared and wild gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758), 2020, Journal of Fish Biology
  • A three dimensional, full life cycle, anchovy and sardine model for the North Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean): Validation, sensitivity and climatic scenario simulations, 2021, Mediterranean Marine Science
  • Drivers of the North Aegean Sea Ecosystem (Eastern Mediterranean) Through Time: Insights From Multidecadal Retrospective Analysis and Future Simulations, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Energy acquisition and allocation to egg production in relation to fish reproductive strategies

    Richard S McBride;Stylianos Somarakis;Gary R Fitzhugh;Anu Albert

  • Daily egg production of anchovy in European waters

    Stylianos Somarakis;Isabel Palomera;Alberto Garcia;Luis Quintanilla

  • Evidence of temperature‐dependent sex determination in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.)

    Michalis Pavlidis;George Koumoundouros;Aspasia Sterioti;Stylianos Somarakis

  • Characterizing the potential habitat of European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus in the Mediterranean Sea, at different life stages

    M. Giannoulaki;M. Iglesias;M. P. Tugores;A. Bonanno

  • Changes in wild fish assemblages after the establishment of a fish farming zone in an oligotrophic marine ecosystem

    A Machias;I Karakassis;M Labropoulou;S Somarakis

  • Distribution and abundance of larval fish in the northern Aegean Sea—eastern Mediterranean—in relation to early summer oceanographic conditions

    Stylianos Somarakis;Panos Drakopoulos;Varvara Filippou

  • Food-web traits of the North Aegean Sea ecosystem (Eastern Mediterranean) and comparison with other Mediterranean ecosystems

    K. Tsagarakis;Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Marianna Giannoulaki;S. Somarakis

  • Identifying and classifying small-scale fisheries métiers in the mediterranean : A case study in the Patraikos Gulf, Greece

    Evangelos Tzanatos;Stylianos Somarakis;George Tserpes;Constantin Koutsikopoulos

  • Spatio-temporal patterns and environmental controls of small pelagic fish body condition from contrasted Mediterranean areas

    Pablo Brosset;Pablo Brosset;Jean-Marc Fromentin;Elisabeth Van Beveren;Josep Lloret

  • Pattern of oocyte development and batch fecundity in the Mediterranean sardine

    Konstantinos Ganias;Stylianos Somarakis;Athanassios Machias;Athanasios Theodorou

  • Factors affecting the spawning period of sardine in two highly oligotrophic Seas

    Konstantinos Ganias;Stylianos Somarakis;Constantin Koutsikopoulos;Athanassios Machias

  • Principal socio-economic characteristics of the Greek small-scale coastal fishermen

    Evangelos Tzanatos;Evangelos Dimitriou;Leonidas Papaharisis;Anastasia Roussi

  • Response of demersal fish communities to the presence of fish farms

    A. Machias;I. Karakassis;M. Giannoulaki;K. N. Papadopoulou

  • Evaluation of spawning frequency in a Mediterranean sardine population (Sardina pilchardus sardina)

    K. Ganias;S. Somarakis;A. Machias;A. J. Theodorou

  • Current trends in the assessment and management of stocks

    M. Barange;M. Bernal;M.C. Cergole;L.A. Cubillos

  • Oceanographic habitat, growth and mortality of larval anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the northern Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean)

    Stylianos Somarakis;Nikolaos Nikolioudakis

  • Spawning habitat and daily egg production of sardine (Sardina pilchardus) in the eastern Mediterranean

    S. Somarakis;K. Ganias;A. Siapatis;C. Koutsikopoulos

  • Mesozooplankton distribution in relation to hydrology of the Northeastern Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean

    Stamatina Isari;Alexis Ramfos;Stylianos Somarakis;Constantin Koutsikopoulos

  • Discarding practices in a Mediterranean small-scale fishing fleet (Patraikos Gulf, Greece)

    E. Tzanatos;S. Somarakis;G. Tserpes;C. Koutsikopoulos

  • Diet of sardine Sardina pilchardus: an ‘end-to-end’ field study

    N. Nikolioudakis;S. Isari;P. Pitta;S. Somarakis

  • Habitat suitability modelling for sardine juveniles (Sardina pilchardus) in the Mediterranean Sea

    Marianna Giannoulaki;Maria M. Pyrounaki;Bernard Liorzou;Iole Leonori

Frequent Co-Authors

Ioannis Karakassis
Ioannis Karakassis University of Crete
Pascal Divanach
Pascal Divanach Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Konstantinos I. Stergiou
Konstantinos I. Stergiou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Isabel Palomera
Isabel Palomera Spanish National Research Council
Paraskevi Pitta
Paraskevi Pitta Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Mark Dickey-Collas
Mark Dickey-Collas Technical University of Denmark
Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Drosos Koutsoubas
Drosos Koutsoubas University of the Aegean
Pablo Sanchez-Jerez
Pablo Sanchez-Jerez University of Alicante
Anastasios A. Tsonis
Anastasios A. Tsonis University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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