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Vasilis Gerovasileiou

Vasilis Gerovasileiou

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
4321
World Ranking
8057
National Ranking
27

Overview

Vasilis Gerovasileiou is affiliated with the Ionian University in Greece. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. Their work extends into Oceanography, Biotechnology, and Molecular Biology as important subfields.

The primary areas of study addressed by Gerovasileiou include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research. Additionally, their topics of expertise encompass Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry.

Gerovasileiou's recent published papers illustrate their research scope and contributions to marine science and environmental studies. These include:

  • "Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea" (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • "A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Bioinvasion impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health in the Mediterranean Sea" (2022), published in Aquatic Invasions
  • "Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species" (2020), published in BioInvasions Records
  • "Towards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems" (2022), published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gerovasileiou include:

  • Stelios Katsanevakis (14 joint publications)
  • Thanos Dailianis (12 joint publications)
  • Maria Sini (11 joint publications)
  • Markos Digenis (11 joint publications)
  • Ernesto Azzurro (9 joint publications)

The scholar has contributed extensively to scientific journals and publication venues notably including:

  • Mediterranean Marine Science (12 publications)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (7 publications)
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (6 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (4 publications)
  • BioInvasions Records (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea

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  • A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

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

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Maria Sini;Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Tessa Mazor

  • Bioinvasion impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health in the Mediterranean Sea

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  • Collaborative Database to Track Mass Mortality Events in the Mediterranean Sea

    Joaquim Garrabou;Daniel Gómez-Gras;Jean Baptiste Ledoux;Cristina Linares

  • Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot

    Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Eleni Voultsiadou

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October, 2014)

    S. Katsanevakis;Ü. Acar;I. Ammar;B. A. Balci

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016)

    T. Dailianis;O. Akyol;N. Babali;M. Bariche

  • Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species

    Stelios Katsanevakis;Dimitris Poursanidis;Razy Hoffman;Jamila Rizgalla

  • Census of biodiversity in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea

    V. Gerovasileiou;C. Chintiroglou;D. Vafidis;D. Koutsoubas

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (April, 2014)

    K. Kapiris;C. Apostolidis;R. Baldacconi;N. Başusta

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

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

  • Assembling Ecological Pieces to Reconstruct the Conservation Puzzle of the Aegean Sea

    Maria Sini;Stelios Katsanevakis;Nikoleta Koukourouvli;Vasilis Gerovasileiou

  • Where Is More Important Than How in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Restoration

    Karine Gagnon;Simonetta Fraschetti;Simonetta Fraschetti;Chris J McOwen;Loredana Papa

  • A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network for Genetic Monitoring of Hard-Bottom Communities (ARMS-MBON)

    Matthias Obst;Katrina Exter;A. Louise Allcock;Christos Arvanitidis

  • Human activities and resultant pressures on key European marine habitats: An analysis of mapped resources

    Thanos Dailianis;Christopher J. Smith;Nadia Papadopoulou;Vasilis Gerovasileiou

  • Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species

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  • Mediterranean Marine Caves: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge

    Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Carlo Nike Bianchi

  • Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean

    Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Eleni Voultsiadou

  • Aristotle’s scientific contributions to the classification, nomenclature and distribution of marine organisms

    Eleni Voultsiadou;Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Leen Vandepitte;Kostas Ganias

  • Revision of the genus Setosella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of new species from deep-waters and submarine caves of the Mediterranean Sea.

    A. Rosso;E. Di Martino;V. Gerovasileiou

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July, 2017)

    V. Gerovasileiou;E.H.Kh. Akel;O. Akyol;G. Alongi

  • Sponges as “living hotels” in Mediterranean marine caves

    Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Chariton Charles Chintiroglou;Despoina Konstantinou;Eleni Voultsiadou

  • Alien biodiversity in Mediterranean marine caves

    Vasilis Gerovasileiou;Eleni Voultsiadou;Yiannis Issaris;Argyro Zenetos

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (November, 2016)

    Ch. Mytilineou;E.H.Kh. Akel;N. Babali;P. Balistreri

Frequent Co-Authors

Stelios Katsanevakis
Stelios Katsanevakis University of the Aegean
Christos Arvanitidis
Christos Arvanitidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Drosos Koutsoubas
Drosos Koutsoubas University of the Aegean
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Argyro Zenetos
Argyro Zenetos Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Fabio Crocetta
Fabio Crocetta Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Emma Cebrian
Emma Cebrian Spanish National Research Council
Cristina Linares
Cristina Linares University of Barcelona
Telmo Morato
Telmo Morato University of the Azores

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