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A Mediterranean Monk Seal Pup on the Apulia coast (Southern Italy): sign of an ongoing recolonisation?

2020

The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world. This species has been threatened since ancient times by human activities and currently amounts to approximately 700 individuals distributed in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Aegean and Ionian Sea) and Eastern Atlantic Ocean (Cabo Blanco and Madeira). In other areas, where the species is considered “probably extinct”, an increase in sporadic sightings has been recorded during recent years. Sightings and accidental catches of Mediterranean monk seals have become more frequent in the Adriatic Sea, mainly in Croatia but also along the coasts of Montenegro, Albania and Southern Italy. A Med…

0106 biological sciencesSeal (emblem)Mediterranean climateAdriatic SeaEndangered speciesSettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaMonachus monachusmitochondrial DNA010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMediterranean monk sealMonachus monachuGreek islandMontenegrolcsh:QH301-705.5Nature and Landscape Conservation<i>Monachus monachus</i>Ecologybiology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyEcological Modelingendangered speciesbiology.organism_classificationAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)FisheryGeographylcsh:Biology (General)Threatened speciesIonian island
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Tracing the Alkinoos Harbor of ancient Kerkyra, Greece, and reconstructing its paleotsunami history

2017

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010506 paleontologyArcheologyEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Tracing010502 geochemistry & geophysics01 natural sciencesArchaeologyGeologyComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS0105 earth and related environmental sciencesIonian island[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
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