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Overview

Sylvaine Giakoumi is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecological Modeling, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in Giakoumi's work consist of:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • International Maritime Law Issues
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

The scientist has published recent papers on various subjects, including:

  • "The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery" (2021, Environmental Science & Policy)
  • "Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments" (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • "Fishery reforms for the management of non-indigenous species" (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • "Persistent gender bias in marine science and conservation calls for action to achieve equity" (2021, Biological Conservation)

Giakoumi collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Stelios Katsanevakis (11 coauthored works)
  • Simonetta Fraschetti (11 coauthored works)
  • Emna Ben Lamine (9 coauthored works)
  • Vanessa Stelzenmüller (8 coauthored works)
  • Erika Fabbrizzi (8 coauthored works)

The most frequent publication venues for Giakoumi's work include:

  • Journal of Environmental Management (4 publications)
  • Open Research Europe (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (3 publications)
  • Biodiversity and Conservation (2 publications)
  • Marine Environmental Research (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • No-take marine reserves are the most effective protected areas in the ocean

    Enric Sala;Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Jennifer McGowan;Morena Mills;Morena Mills;Maria Beger;Maria Beger

  • Why do we map threats? Linking threat mapping with actions to make better conservation decisions

    Vivitskaia Jd D. Tulloch;Ayesha It T. Tulloch;Ayesha It T. Tulloch;Piero Visconti;Benjamin S. Halpern;Benjamin S. Halpern

  • The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery

    V. Hermoso;S.B. Carvalho;S. Giakoumi;S. Giakoumi;D. Goldsborough

  • Ecoregion-Based Conservation Planning in the Mediterranean: Dealing with Large-Scale Heterogeneity

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Maria Sini;Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Tessa Mazor

  • Ecological effects of full and partial protection in the crowded Mediterranean Sea: a regional meta-analysis

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Claudia Scianna;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Fiorenza Micheli

  • Management priorities for marine invasive species.

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Stelios Katsanevakis;Paolo G. Albano;Ernesto Azzurro

  • A risk-based approach to cumulative effect assessments for marine management

    Vanessa Stelzenmüller;Marta Coll;Antonios D. Mazaris;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • Setting Priorities for Regional Conservation Planning in the Mediterranean Sea

    Fiorenza Micheli;Noam Levin;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Stelios Katsanevakis

  • Monitoring and evaluation of spatially managed areas: A generic framework for implementation of ecosystem based marine management and its application

    Vanessa Stelzenmüller;Patricia Breen;Tammy Stamford;Frank Thomsen

  • Towards a framework for assessment and management of cumulative human impacts on marine food webs

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Benjamin S. Halpern;Benjamin S. Halpern;Loic N. Michel;Sylvie Gobert

  • Relationships between fish, sea urchins and macroalgae: The structure of shallow rocky sublittoral communities in the Cyclades, Eastern Mediterranean

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Emma Cebrian;Giorgos D. Kokkoris;Enric Ballesteros

  • Marine conservation challenges in an era of economic crisis and geopolitical instability: The case of the Mediterranean Sea

    Stelios Katsanevakis;Noam Levin;Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

    Stelios Katsanevakis;Marta Coll;Simonetta Fraschetti;Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • Linking home ranges to protected area size: The case study of the Mediterranean Sea

    Antonio Di Franco;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Manfredi Di Lorenzo;Bruno Meola

  • Biodiversity data requirements for systematic conservation planning in the Mediterranean Sea

    Noam Levin;Marta Coll;Simonetta Fraschetti;Gideon Gal

  • Designing a network of marine reserves in the Mediterranean Sea with limited socio-economic data

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Hedley S. Grantham;Giorgos D. Kokkoris;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Large-scale conservation planning in a multinational marine environment: cost matters

    Tessa Mazor;Sylvaome Giakoumi;Saslit Kark;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Distribution patterns of the invasive herbivore Siganus luridus (Rüppell, 1829) and its relation to native benthic communities in the central Aegean Sea, Northeastern Mediterranean

    Sylvaine Giakoumi

  • Exploring the relationships between marine protected areas and invasive fish in the world's most invaded sea

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Alexis Pey;Antonio Di Franco;Patrice Francour

  • Space invaders; biological invasions in marine conservation planning

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;François Guilhaumon;Salit Kark;Antonio Terlizzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Stelios Katsanevakis
Stelios Katsanevakis University of the Aegean
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University
Salit Kark
Salit Kark University of Queensland
Paolo Guidetti
Paolo Guidetti Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Antonios D. Mazaris
Antonios D. Mazaris Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
José Antonio García-Charton
José Antonio García-Charton University of Murcia

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