Scientific publications
The strong scientific character of SUBMON sustains all our projects and activities. Collaboration with other organizations, research centers and universities is key to providing relevant data and information that allow progress in marine conservation. This section shows some of the scientific publications and technical reports produced over the years, the result of research in the projects we work on.
Larval collectors network documents the spread of the invasive bivalve Pinctada radiata in the Mediterranean Sea.
García-Colomé, J., Hendriks, I. E., Abel-Abellán, I., Aglieri, G., Agueda, P., Aisa-Bravo, N., Andrada-Nicolás, M. P., Antón-Linares, I., Arroyo-Martínez, E., Audisio-Pacheco, C., Bakran-Petricioli, T., Barrajón, A., Belkhamssa, F. Z., Bosmali, A., Bratoš Cetinić, A., Bunet, R., Casoli, E., Castañer-Franch, V., Cefalì, M. E., Coppa, S., Cortés-Melendreras, E., Dalmau, A., del-Pilar-Ruso, Y., de Lucia, G. A., Donato, G., Dujmović, S., Enguix-Egea, Á. M., Fernández-Torquemada, Y., Fortič, A., Fossati, V., Foulquié, M., Gavriel, E., Giacobbe, S., Giménez-Casalduero, F., González-Correa, J. M., Guillén-López, R., Huseyinoglu, M. F., Izquierdo-Muñoz, A., Jimenez, C., Jiménez-Gutiérrez, S., Katsanevakis, S., Kipson, S., Kurtović Mrčelić, J., López, M. A., Lunetta, A., Mancini, G., Martínez-Martínez, P., Massaro, G., Milazzo, M., Moreno, D., Moreno-Sánchez, P., Movilla, J., Papadakis, O., Petricioli, D., Pitacco, V., Popović Perković, Z., Prado, P., Pujol-Fructuoso, J. A., Quintano, N., Ramfos, A., Resaikos, V., Romanos, A., San Román, D., Sànchez, J., Sandonnini, J., Spinelli, A., Tari, G., Trigos, S., Trkov, D., Vázquez-Luis, M., Vencato, S., Ventura, D., Vicente, N., Vivó-Serrano, A., Zotou, M., & Kersting, D. K. (2026).
Marine Environmental Research, 221
2026
First Record of a Presumed Risso’s Dolphin Calf Associated With a Bottlenose Dolphin in the Mediterranean Sea.
Amigó, N., Farlete, A. A., Roman, D. S., & Chicote, C. A. (2026).
Ecology And Evolution, 16(4)
2025
Cetaceans and sea turtles in the northern region of the Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor: abundance and multi-model habitat suitability analysis.
Cardona, L., Amigó, N., Ouled-Cheikh, J., Gazo, M., & Chicote, C. A. (2025).
Frontiers in Marine Science, 12
2025
WGEB-03-EB-03-05-Best handling and release practice guidelines (BHRP) for sea turtles captured in IATTC fisheries.
Hutchinson M., Lopez J and Parga M. (2025).
Interamerican Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
2025
Assessing Injury Incidence and Recovery Rates in Green (Chelonia mydas) and Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) Turtles: Insights from a Citizen Science Initiative in the Egyptian Red Sea.
Mancini A, Montagna M, Zamencka M, Roma V, Taher A R, Hanafy M & Parga M. (2025).
Chelonian Conservation and Biology 24(2), 180-191.
2025
Pla d’acció per a la gestió de les interaccions entre la pesca professional i la fauna marina protegida.
Tobella C., Rasero S., Carbonell X., Arcos JM., Barría C., Colmenero AI., Cardona L., Genovart M., Chicote C., Fàbregas M. & Ylla J. (2025)
Generalitat de Catalunya.
2025
Spatial Distribution of Angel Sharks in Cyprus.
Giovos, I., Ciprian, M., Bartoli, A., Beton, D., Broderick, A.C., Brown, H., Bousqouet, C., Charilaou, C., Giatroudaki, I., Gordon, C., Hood, A.R., Kleitou, P., Meyers, E.K.M., Michail, C., Naasan Aga Spyridopoulou, R., Papageorgiou, M., Poursanidis, D., Snape. (2025)
R.T.E.
2023
Submarine canyons as key habitats to preserve Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) populations in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
Chicote, C. A., Amigó, N., & Gazo, M. (2023)
Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1080386
2023
Cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea: Encounter rate, dominant species, and diversity hotspots.
Gnone, G., Bellingeri, M., Airoldi, S., Gonzalvo, J., David, L., Di-Méglio, N., Cañadas, A. M., Akkaya, A., Awbery, T., Mussi, B., Campana, I., Azzolin, M., Dede, A., Tonay, A. M., Monaco, C., Pellegrino, G., Tepsich, P., Moulins, A., Arcangeli, A., Labach, H., Scheinin, A. P., Mevorach, Y., Carlucci, R., Santacesaria, F. C., Chicote, C. A., Gazo, M., Tintoré, B., Alessi, J., Mandich, A., Bittau, L., Díaz López, B., Azzinari, C., La Manna, G., Pace, D. S., Decandia, D., Castelli, A., Nuti, S., Santoni, M.-C., Verga, A., Tomasi, N., Giacoma, C., Costantino, M., Falabrino, M., & Azzellino, A. (2023).
Diversity, 15(3), 321.
2022
The seabed makes the dolphins: Physiographic features shape the size and structure of the bottlenose dolphin geographical units.
Gnone, G., Bellingeri, M., Molinari, Y., Dhermain, F., Labach, H., Díaz López, B., David, L., Di-Meglio, N., Azzinari, G., Azzinari, C., Airoldi, S., Lanfredi, C., Gonzalvo, J., De Santis, V., Nuti, S., Álvarez Chicote, C., Gazo, M., Mandich, A., Alessi, J., Azzellino, A., Tomasi, N., Santoni, M.-C., Mancusi, C., Falabrino, M., & Cañadas, A. M. (2022).
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(8), 1036.
2021
Winter distribution of juvenile and sub adult male Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) along the western Antarctic Peninsula.
March D. Drago M, Gazo M, Parga M, Rita D, Cardona L. 2021.
Scientific Reports 11: 22234
2021
Cephalopods in the diet of Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) from the Mediterranean Sea: A review.
Luna, A., Sánchez, P., Chicote, C., & Gazo, M. (2021).
Marine Mammal Science, 38(2), 725–741.
2021
Niche partitioning amongst northwestern Mediterranean cetaceans using stable isotopes.
Borrell, A., Gazo, M., Aguilar, A., Raga, J. A., Degollada, E., Gozalbes, P., & García-Vernet, R. (2021).
Progress in Oceanography, 193, 102559.
2020
Moving towards an agenda on ocean health and human health. Frontiers in Marine Science, section Marine Ecosystem Ecology.
Borja A, White MP, Berdalet E, Bock N, Eatock C, Kristensen P, Leonard A, Lloret J, Pahl S, Parga M, Vera J, Wuijts S, Fleming LE. 2020.
2020
On-board study of gas embolism in marine turtles caught in bottom trawls fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean.
Parga ML, Crespo-Picazo JL, Monteiro D, García-Párraga D, Hernandez J, Swimmer Y, Paz S, Stacy NI. 2020.
Scientific Reports 10: 5561.
2020
Novel insights into gas embolism in sea turtles: first description in three new species.
Crespo-Picazo JL, Parga ML, Bernaldo de Quirós Y, Monteiro D, Marco V, Llopis-Belenguer C, García-Párraga D. 2020.
Front. Mar. Sci. 7: 442.
2020
Disease Risk Analysis in sea turtles: A baseline study to inform conservation efforts.
Narges Mashkour, Karina Jones, Teresa Valerio Hipolito, Sara Kophamel, Shamim Ahasan, Grant alker, Richard Jakob-Hoff, Maxine Whittaker, Mark Hamann, Ian Bell, Jennifer Elliman, Leigh Owens, Claire Saladin, Jose Luis Crespo-Picazo, Brett Gardner, Aswini Leela Loganathan, Rachel Bowater, Erina Young, Andrew Barnes, David Robinson, Warren Baverstock, David Blyde, Duan March, Maryam Eghbali, Maryam Mohammadi, Daniela Freggi, Jane Giliam, Mike Hale, Nicholas Nicolle, Kevin Spiby, Daphne Wrobel, Mariluz Parga, Asghar Mobaraki, Rupika Rajakaruna, Kevin P. Hyland, Mark Read, Ellen Ariel. 2020.
2020
Extinction risk and conservation of critically endangered angel sharks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.
Lawson, J. M., Pollom, R. A., Gordon, C. A., Barker, J., Meyers, E. K. M., Zidowitz, H., Ellis, J. R., Bartolí, A., Morey, G., Fowler, S. L., Alvarado, D. J., Fordham, S. V, Sharp, R., Hood, A. R., and Dulvy, N. K.(2020)
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77: 12–29.
2020
Can we save a marine species affected by a highly infective, highly lethal, waterborne disease from extinction?
García-March, J., Tena, J., Henandis, S., Vázquez-Luis, M., López, D., Téllez, C., Prado, P., Navas, J., Bernal, J., Catanese, G., Grau, A., López-Sanmartín, M., Nebot-Colomer, E., Ortega, A., Planes, S., Kersting, D., Jimenez, S., Hendriks, I., Moreno, D., . . . Deudero, S. (2020).
Biological Conservation, 243, 108498.
2020
Recruitment disruption and the role of unaffected populations for potential recovery after the Pinna nobilis mass mortality event.
Kersting, D. K., Vázquez-Luis, M., Mourre, B., Belkhamssa, F. Z., Álvarez, E., Bakran-Petricioli, T., Sánchez, J., & Hendriks, I. E. (2020).
Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 594378.
2020
Mediterranean Sea literacy: When ocean literacy becomes region-specific.
Mokos, M., Cheimonopoulou, M., Koulouri, P., Previati, M., Realdon, G., Santoro, F., Mogias, A., Boubonari, T., Gazo, M., Satta, A., Ioakeimidis, C., Tojeiro, A., Chicote, C., Papathanassiou, M., & Kevrekidis, T. (2020).
Mediterranean Marine Science, 21(3), 592–598.
2020
No evidence of microplastics in Antarctic fur seal scats from a hotspot of human activity in Western Antarctica.
García-Garin, O., García-Cuevas, I., Drago, M., Rita, D., Parga, M., Gazo, M., & Cardona, L. (2020).
Science of the Total Environment, 737, 140210.