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An Observatory to monitor range extension of the Mediterranean monk seal based on its eDNA traces: collecting data and delivering results in the “Open Science” era [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
The monk seal is the most endangered pinniped in the world and the only one found in the Mediterranean, where its distribution and abundance have suffered a drastic decline in the last few decades.
Elena Valsecchi, Alessandro Gabbiadini
doaj   +5 more sources

First Insights into the Home Range of an Adult Male Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus in the Ionian Sea, Greece, and Considerations About the Future Management of the Area [PDF]

Animals
From August 2021 to December 2023, one adult male Mediterranean monk seal was repeatedly registered, through a systematic monitoring camera system, frequenting a marine cave in southern Kefalonia Island, central Ionian Sea, Greece.
Aliki Panou, Spyros Tsoukalas, Anastasios Anestis, Luigi Bundone   +3 more
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Correction: Citizen science in eDNA monitoring for Mediterranean monk seal conservation [PDF]

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Sofia Bonicalza, Elena Valsecchi, Emanuele Coppola, Valeria Catapano, Harriet Thatcher   +4 more
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Ten Years of Mediterranean Monk Seal Stranding Records in Greece under the Microscope: What Do the Data Suggest? [PDF]

Animals
This paper presents the results of an analysis of stranding events of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus over a decade. The analysis involved categorization according to the cause of stranding and seasonality, the identification of hotspot ...
Maria Solanou, Aliki Panou, Irida Maina, Stefanos Kavadas, Marianna Giannoulaki   +4 more
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A Mediterranean Monk Seal Pup on the Apulian Coast (Southern Italy): Sign of an Ongoing Recolonisation?

Diversity, 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 ...
Tatiana Fioravanti, Andrea Splendiani, Tommaso Righi, Nicola Maio, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Antonio Petrella, Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi   +6 more
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Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2014
Extinctions and declines of large marine vertebrates have major ecological impacts and are of critical concern in marine environments. The Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, last definitively reported in 1952, was one of the few marine mammal ...
Dirk-Martin Scheel, Graham Slater, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Charles Potter, David Rotstein, Kyriakos Tsangaras, Alex Greenwood, Kristofer M. Helgen   +7 more
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A novel approach for Mediterranean monk seal conservation: an artificial ledge in a marine cave

Oryx, 2023
The Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus, categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, comprises 600–700 individuals in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. Habitat degradation is a severe threat to the species.
Ezgi Saydam, Harun Güçlüsoy, Zafer Alı Kızılkaya   +2 more
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First Report of the Parasitic Nematode Pseudoterranova spp. Found in Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) in Greece: Conservation Implications

Conservation, 2022
The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is classified as an endangered species by the IUCN, with a global population that does not exceed 800 individuals.
Efstathia Koitsanou, Joanne Sarantopoulou, Anastasia Komnenou, Athanasios Exadactylos, Panagiotis Dendrinos, Elias Papadopoulos, Georgios A. Gkafas   +6 more
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First Documented Uses of Caves along the Coast of Albania by Mediterranean Monk Seals (Monachus monachus, Hermann 1779): Ecological and Conservation Inferences [PDF]

Animals, 2022
Information on the habitat use of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) along the coast of Albania (Adriatic and Ionian Sea) has so far been limited to vague and generalised data.
Luigi Bundone, Gema Hernandez-Milian, Nexhip Hysolakoj, Rigers Bakiu, Tatjana Mehillaj, Lorela Lazaj, Hua Deng, Amy Lusher, Giulio Pojana   +8 more
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Investigating Rare and Endangered Species: When a Single Methodology Is Not Enough—The Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus along the Coast of Salento (South Apulia, Italy)

Diversity, 2023
Several factors contributed, over time, to the Mediterranean monk seal’s sharp population decline. Despite the relative disappearance of documented breeding sub-populations, sightings have been collected, in recent decades, from most of the species ...
Luigi Bundone, Lucia Rizzo, Sergio Fai, Gema Hernandez-Milian, Stefano Guerzoni, Emanuela Molinaroli   +5 more
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