Below we provide publications related to the coastal ecosystems and biodiversity, as outputs from our research.
Full list of publications can be foud at Google Scholar
von Schuckmann, K., Godoy-Faundez, A., Garçon, V., Müller-Karger, F.E., Evans, K., Appeltans, W., Bax, N., Benedetti Cecchi, L., Bernard, A., Bernard, K., Byrnes, J., Canonico, G., Chapuis, L., Clark, M.R., Darnaude, A.M., Davies, C., Englyst, P., Fransson, A., Hallam, S., Heslop, E., Holland, E., Hood, M., Kern, S., Liné, A., Lara-López, A., Loose, N., Martín Míguez, B., McMahon, C.R., Nordlund, L.M., Post, J., Speich, S., Sutton, A., Tanhua, T., Telszewski, M., Poursanidis, D. & Yu, W. (2026) ‘Global ocean indicators: Marking pathways at the science-policy nexus’, Marine Policy, 184, 106922. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106922
Davies, B.F.R., Oiry, S., Roca, M., Rosa, P., Zoffoli, M.L., Poursanidis, D., Dolch, T., Ondiviela, B., Galván, C., Brito, A.C., Lilley, R.J., Govers, L.L., Gade, M., Barillé, L. & Gernez, P. (2026) ‘An initial map of European intertidal seagrass’, Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, 115116. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.115116.
Makri, D.; Christofilakos, S.; Poursanidis, D.; Traganos, D.; Mettas, C.; Stylianou, N.; Hadjimitsis, D. Seagrass Mapping in Cyprus Using Earth Observation Advances. Remote Sens. 2025, 17, 3610. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17213610
Poursanidis D, Katsanevakis S. Mapping Subtidal Marine Forests in the Mediterranean Sea Using Copernicus Contributing Mission. Remote Sensing. 2025; 17(14):2398. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17142398
Beierkuhnlein C., Pugh B., Justice S., Schrodt F., El Serafy G., Karnieli A., Manakos I., Nietsch L., Peñas de Giles J., Peterek A., Poursanidis D., Zwoliński Z., White T., Wozniak E., Field R., Provenzale A. (2025). Towards a comprehensive geodiversity-biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth Science Reviews, vol. 264, 105075, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105075
Katsanevakis S, Zaiko A, Olenin S, Costello MJ, Gallardo B, Tricarico E, Adriaens T, Jeschke JM, Sini M, Burke N, Ellinas K, Rutten S, Poursanidis D, Marchini A, Brys R, Raeymaekers JAM, Noé N, Hermoso V, Blaalid R, Lucy FE, Verbrugge LNH, Staehr PAU, Vandepitte L, de Groot D, Elliott M, Reuver M, Maclaren J, Li M, Oldoni D, Mazaris A, Trygonis V, Hablützel PI, Everts T, Pistevos JCA, Dekeyzer S, Kimmig SE, Rickowski FS, Panov VE (2024) GuardIAS – Guarding European Waters from Invasive Alien Species. Management of Biological Invasions 15(4): 701–730, https://doi.org/10. 3391/mbi.2024.15.4.14
BÁEZ, J. C., AKYOL, O., AZZURRO, E., BATTAGLIA, P., BELMONTE-GALLEGOS, A., CHRISTIDIS, G., CROCETTA, F., DALYAN, C., GÖNÜL, Y., GRATI, F., GRECO, S., GUBILI, C., KESICI, N. B., LIPEJ, L., MANCINI, E., MAVRIČ, B., ORENES-SALAZAR, V., ORTEGA CEACERO, J. A., PIPITONE, C., POURSANIDIS, D., ROMEO, T., SÁNCHEZ-TOCINO, L., SIDDIOLO, C., SKARVELIS, K., SPINELLI, A., TANDUO, V., TIRALONGO, F., TRKOV, D., ÜNAL, V., YÜCEDAĞ BAKIR, E., & ZAMUDA, L. L. (2025). New records of rarely reported species in the Mediterranean Sea (March 2025). Mediterranean Marine Science, 26(1), 256–276. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.40675
Poursanidis, D., Shapiro, A.C., Christofilakos, S. (2024). Benthic Habitats. In: Cardille, J.A., Crowley, M.A., Saah, D., Clinton, N.E. (eds) Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26588-4_41
Pergent-Martini C., André S., Castejon I., Deter J., Frau F., Gerakaris V., Mancini G., Molenaar H., Montefalcone M., Oprandi A., Pergent G., Poursanidis D., Royo L., Terrados J., Tomasello A., Ventura D., Villers F., 2024. Guidelines for Posidonia oceanica restoration. Report Cooperation agreement Mediterranean Posidonia Network (MPN), French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) & University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli (UCPP) N°OFB-22-1310:29 p. + Appendices. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26679.84644
Nordlund, L. M., Unsworth, R. K. F., Wallner-Hahn, S., Ratnarajah, L., BecaCarretero, P., Boikova, E., Bull, J. C., Chefaoui, R. M., de los Santos, C. B., Gagnon, K., Garmendia, J. M., Gizzi, F., Govers, L. L., Gustafsson, C., Hineva, E., Infantes, E., Canning-Clode, J., Jahnke, M., Kleitou, P., Poursanidis, D., … Wilkes, R. (2024). One hundred priority questions for advancing seagrass conservation in Europe. Plants, People, Planet, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10486
Poursanidis D, Mylonakis K, Christofilakos S, Barnias A. Mind the gap in data poor Natura 2000 sites and how to tackle them using Earth Observation and scientific diving surveys. Mar Pollut Bull. 2023 Mar;188:114595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114595
El Serafy, G., Poursanidis, D., Méndez, P.F. and Provenzale, A. (2022). A Bird'sEye View of Monitoring and Management of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas. In Earth Observation Applications and Global Policy Frameworks (eds A. Kavvada, D. Cripe and L. Friedl). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119536789.ch3
Traganos, D., Pertiwi, A.P., Lee, C.B., Blume, A., Poursanidis, D. and Shapiro, A. (2022), Earth observation for ecosystem accounting: spatially explicit national seagrass extent and carbon stock in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Remote Sens Ecol Conserv, 8: 778-792. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.287
Traganos D, Lee CB, Blume A, Poursanidis D, Čižmek H, Deter J, Mačić V, Montefalcone M, Pergent G, Pergent-Martini C, Ricart AM and Reinartz P (2022) Spatially Explicit Seagrass Extent Mapping Across the Entire Mediterranean. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:871799. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.871799
Poursanidis, D., Traganos, D., Teixeira, L., Shapiro, A. and Muaves, L. (2021), Cloud-native seascape mapping of Mozambique’s Quirimbas National Park with Sentinel-2. Remote Sens Ecol Conserv, 7: 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.187
Poursanidis, Drones for Seagrass, pg 109, a conribution to Duffy, J.P., Anderson, K., Shapiro, A.C., Spina Avino, F. L. DeBell & Glover-Kapfer, P. 2020. Drone Technologies for Conservation. WWF Conservation Technology Series 1(5). WWF.
Poursanidis D, Kalogirou S, Azzurro E, Parravicini V, Bariche M, Zu Dohna H. Habitat suitability, niche unfilling and the potential spread of Pterois miles in the Mediterranean Sea. Mar Pollut Bull. 2020;154:111054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111054
Poursanidis D, Traganos D, Chrysoulakis N, Reinartz P. Cubesats Allow High Spatiotemporal Estimates of Satellite-Derived Bathymetry. Remote Sensing. 2019; 11(11):1299. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111299
Christoph Wohner, Johannes Peterseil, Dimitris Poursanidis, Tomáš Kliment, Mike Wilson, Michael Mirtl, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, DEIMS-SDR – A web portal to document research sites and their associated data, Ecological Informatics, Volume 51, 2019, Pages 15-24, ISSN 1574-9541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.01.005
Traganos, D.; Aggarwal, B.; Poursanidis, D.; Topouzelis, K.; Chrysoulakis, N.; Reinartz, P. Towards Global-Scale Seagrass Mapping and Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 on Google Earth Engine: The Case Study of the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1008122
Traganos, D.; Poursanidis, D.; Aggarwal, B.; Chrysoulakis, N.; Reinartz, P. Estimating Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) with the Google Earth Engineand Sentinel-2. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 859. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060859
Pike S, Traganos D, Poursanidis D, Williams J, Medcalf K, Reinartz P, Chrysoulakis N. Leveraging Commercial High-Resolution Multispectral Satellite and Multibeam Sonar Data to Estimate Bathymetry: The Case Study of the Caribbean Sea. Remote Sensing. 2019; 11(15): 1830. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11151830
Poursanidis, D., Topouzelis, K., & Chrysoulakis, N. (2018). Mapping coastal marine habitats and delineating the deep limits of the Neptune’s seagrass meadows using very high resolution Earth observation data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39(23), 8670–8687. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1490974
Damiano Pasetto, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Javier Bustamante, Renato Casagrandi, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Anna F. Cord, Andreas Dittrich, Cristina Domingo-Marimon, Ghada El Serafy, Arnon Karnieli, Georgios A. Kordelas, Ioannis Manakos, Lorenzo Mari, Antonio Monteiro, Elisa Palazzi, Dimitris Poursanidis, Andrea Rinaldo, Silvia Terzago, Alex Ziemba, Guy Ziv, 2018. Integration of satellite remote sensing data in ecosystem modelling at local scales: Practices and trends. Methods Ecol Evol. 2018; 9: 1810–1821. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13018