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Peer Reviewed Selected Papers (since 2015)

Peer Reviewed Selected Papers (since 2015)

Kefalas, G., Lorilla, R.S., Boutsios, S., Bormpoudakis, D., Bonnet, P., Demertzi, A., Liquete, C., Vogiatzakis, I.Ν., Tzanopoulos, J., Upton, J. and Howland, E. (2025). Spatial identification of areas suitable for other effective area‐based conservation measures in the European Union. Conservation Biology, p.e70263. doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70263

Zacharia, M., Vogiatzakis, I.N. and Zotos, S. (2026). Living Wild in a Mediterranean Island: Spatial and Temporal Behaviour of Free-Roaming Cats in Cyprus. Animals, 16(7), p.1101. DOI:10.3390/ani16071101

Demirel N, Vogiatzakis IN, Zittis G, Tase M, Sándor AD, Zotos S, Zoumides C, Dindaroglu T, Fois M, Christoforidi I, Stamatiadou V, Zemah-Shamir S, Albayrak T, Kaptan Ayhan C, Manolaki P, Sieber I, Zemah-Shamir Z, Tzirkalli E and Moustakas AA (2026) Uncertainty in island-based ecosystem services and climate change research. Front. Mar. Sci. 13:1736032. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2026.1736032

Mansoldo MDC, Serra, E Igondová, E, Moustakas, A, ……... Vogiatzakis I.N. et al. (2026) A Global Compendium of Nature-based Solutions in Small-Medium Islands Scientific Data doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-06476-6

Moustakas A.,Christoforidi, I., Zittis, G., Demirel, N., ….…..Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2026) The land use-climate change-biodiversity nexus in the perceptions of European islands stakeholders Environmental Impact Assessment Review 117, 108199

Stamatiou, M., Zotos, S. and Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2025). Roadkill on islands: where road and island ecology meet. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 6, p.1656280.

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Moustakas, A., Vogiatzakis I.N. (2025) Topography, climate, land cover, and biodiversity: Explaining endemic richness on a Mediterranean island with machine learning. Ecological Informatics, 103513

Moustakas, A., Zemah-Shamir, S., Tase, M., Zotos, S., Demirel, N., Zoumides, C., Christoforidi, I., Dindaroglu, T., Albayrak, T., Ayhan, C.K., Fois, M., Manolaki, P., Sandor, A.D., Sieber, I., Stamatiadou, V., Tzirkalli, E., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Zittis, G (2025) Climate, land use and other drivers' impacts on island ecosystem services: A global review, Science of The Total Environment, 973, 2025, 179147,

Zittis G., Zoumides, C., Zemah-Shamir, S., Tase, M., Zotos, S., Demirel, N., Christoforidi, I., Dindaroglu, T., Albayrak, T., Kaptan Ayhan, C., Fois, M., Manolaki, P., Sandor, A.D., Sieber, I., Stamatiadou, V., Tzirkalli, E., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Moustakas, A. (2025) Insular Ecosystem Services in peril: A systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers. Climate Change 178(7). P. 127

Grilo et al. (2025) Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles Scientific Data 12 (1), 505

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zotos, S., Litskas V., Leontiou, S., Stamatiou, M. (2025) Roadkill in a Mediterranean island: Evaluating ten-years of official records, PLOS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322644

Zotos, S., Stamatiou, M., Marketaki, S-Z, Konstantinou, M., Aristidou, A., Irschick, D.J., Bot, J.A., Shepard, E.L.C, Holton, M.D., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2025) A Novel Multidisciplinary Approach for Reptile Movement and Behavior Analysis. Integrative Zoology doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12960

Ioannidou, S., Litskas V.D., Stavrinides, M.S., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2025) The role of mixed orchards in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation in Mediterranean environment. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 8: doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1457462

Alcántara, J. M., Verdú, M., Garrido, J. L., Montesinos‐Navarro, A., et al. (2024). Key concepts and a world‐wide look at plant recruitment networks. Biological Reviews doi.org/10.1111/brv.13177

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Stavrinides,M.C. (2024) Giving nature half of Cyprus: The quest for conservation allies. Journal for Nature Conservation 126748 doi: 10.1016/j.jnc.2024.126748

Canedoli, C., Rota, N., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zanchi, A., Drius, M., Nagendra, H. and Padoa-Schioppa, E., (2024). Review of indicators for mountain ecosystem services: Are the most frequently used also the best?. Ecological Indicators, 166, p.112310.

Kassinis, N.I., Zotos, S., Charalambidou, I., Roulin, A. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., (2024). Competitive interactions of two sympatric raptors affecting their spatial distribution in an island environment. Journal of Ornithology 165: 659–669.

Constantinou, E., Sarris, D., Psichoudaki, M., Cabello, J. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., (2023). How can ecosystem engineer plants boost productivity in east Mediterranean drylands. Ecological Processes, 12(1), p.30.

Leontiou, S., Katsanevakis, S. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., 2022. Accounting for functional connectivity in cross-realm conservation planning in a data poor context: The Cyprus case. Journal for Nature Conservation, 70, p.126304.

Pe'er, G., Finn, J.A., Díaz, M., Birkenstock, M., Lakner, S., et al. (2022)., How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts. Conservation Letters, p.e12901.

Kassinis, N.I., Tzirkalli, E., Miltiadou, M., Moysi, M., Charalambidou, I., Roulin, A. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., 2022. Feeding Ecology of the Long-Legged Buzzard and Diet Overlap with Sympatric Bonelli's Eagle on Cyprus. Journal of Raptor Research 56: 333-345.

Christodoulou, C.S., Griffiths, G.H., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2021) Systematic Conservation Planning in a Mediterranean island context: the example of Cyprus. Global Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01907

Hermoso,V, Carvalho, S.B., Giakoumi, S., Goldsborough, D., Katsanevakis, S. Leontiou, S., Markantonatou, V., Rumes, B., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Yates, K.L., (2021) The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery, Environmental Science & Policy, 127, 263-271 doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.028.

Mousikos, A., Manolaki, P., Knez, N., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2021). Can distribution modelling inform rare and endangered species monitoring in Mediterranean islands? Ecological Informatics 66: 101434

Ioannidou, S., Litskas, V., Stavrinides, M., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2021). Linking management practices and soil properties to ecosystem services in Mediterranean mixed orchards. Ecosystem Services 53 p.101378.

Constantinou, E., Sarris, D., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2021). The possible role of Ziziphus lotus as an ecosystem engineer in semiarid landscapes. Journal of Arid Environments 195(5511):104614

Ioannidou, I., Manolaki. P., Litskas V., Vogiatzakis I.N. (2021) Temporary salt lakes: Ecosystem services shift in a Ramsar site over a 50-year period Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.662107

Manolaki, P., Chourabi, S. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., (2021). A rapid qualitative methodology for ecological integrity assessment across a Mediterranean island's landscapes. Ecological Complexity, 46, p.100921.

Kazakis, G., Ghosn, D., Remoundou, I., Nyktas, P., Talias, M.A. and Vogiatzakis, I.N., (2021). Altitudinal Vascular Plant Richness and Climate Change in the Alpine Zone of the Lefka Ori, Crete. Diversity, 13, p.22.

Hermoso, V, Carvalho, S.B., Giakoumi, S., Goldsborough, D., Katsanevakis, S. Leontiou, S., Markantonatou, V., Rumes, B., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Yates, K.L., (2021) The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery, Environmental Science & Policy, 127, 263-271 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.028

Constantinou, E., Sarris, D., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2021). The possible role of Ziziphus lotus as an ecosystem engineer in semiarid landscapes. Journal of Arid Environments 195(5511):104614

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Litskas, V.D., Koumpis, Th, Kassinis, N., Constantinou, E., Leontiou, S. (2020) The past, present and future of nature conservation in Crete and Cyprus: So close and yet so far. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, 2020, 100070, doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2020.100070.

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Griffiths, G.H. and Zomeni, M., 2020. Incorporating Landscape Character in Cork Oak Forest Expansion in Sardinia: Constraint or Opportunity? Forests, 11(5), p.593

Kostantopoulos, K., Moustakas, A., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2020) A spatially explicit impact assessment of road characteristics, road-induced fragmentation and noise on bird species in Cyprus. Biodiversity doi: 10.1080/14888386.2020.1736154

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zotos, S., Litskas, V.D., Manolaki, P, Sarris D., Stavrinides, M.D. (2020) Towards implementing mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services in Cyprus: A first set of indicators for ecosystem management. One Ecosystem 5, p.e47715

Manolaki, P., Zotos, S., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2020) An integrated ecological and cultural framework for landscape sensitivity assessment in Cyprus. Land Use Policy 92, p.104336.

Tzirkalli, E., Kadis, C., Halley, J.M. Vogiatzakis, I.N., Wilson, R.J., Zografou, K., Antoniou, A., Tsintides, T., Makris, C., Kati, V. (2019) Conservation ecology of butterflies on Cyprus in the context of Natura 2000. Biodiversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01755-2

Balzan, MV, Martins Pinheiro, A., Mascarenhas, A., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Ruiz-Frau A., Carvalho-Santos, C., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Arends, J., Santana-Garçon, J., Roces-Díaz, J.V., Brotons, L., Campagne, C.S., Roche, P.K., de-Miguel, S., Targetti, S., Drakou, E.G., Vlami, V., Baró, F., Geijzendorffer, I. Improving ecosystem assessments in Mediterranean social-ecological systems: a DPSIR analysis (2019). Ecosystems and People doi: 10.1080/26395916.2019.1598499

Zomeni, M., Martinou, A., Stavrinides, M., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2018) High nature value farmlands in Cyprus: identification, mapping and synergies with nature conservation. Nature Conservation 31: 53

Vogiatzakis, I., Terkenli, T., Trovato, M., & Abu-Jaber, N. (2018). Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the future and the past. Land 7(4), 160; doi: 10.3390/land7040160

Giakoumi, S., Hermoso, V., Carvalho, S., Markantonatou, V., Dagys, M., Iwamura, T., Probst, W., Smith, R., Yates, K.L., Almpanidou, V., Novak, T., Ben-Moshe, N., Katsanevakis, S., Claudet, J., Coll, M., Deidun, A., Essl, F., Garcia-Charton, J.A., Jimenez, C., Kark, S., Mandić, M., Mazaris, A., Rabitsch, W., Stelzenmüller, V., Tricarico, E. and Vogiatzakis, I N (2018) Conserving European biodiversity across realms. Conservation Letters doi: 10.1111/conl.12586

Christodoulou, C.S., Griffiths, G.H., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2018) Using threatened plant species to identify conservation gaps and opportunities on the island of Cyprus. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI: 10.1007/s10531-018-1572-4

Vogiatzakis, I.N., Zomeni, M., Mannion, A.M. (2017) Characterizing islandscapes: conceptual and methodological challenges exemplified in the Mediterranean. Land 6(1), 14; doi:10.3390/land6010014

Bjarnason, A., Katsanevakis, S., Galanidis, A., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Moustakas A. (2017) Evaluating hypotheses of plant species invasions on Mediterranean islands: inverse patterns between alien and endemic species Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:91 doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00091

Manolaki P. and Vogiatzakis I.N. (2017) Ecosystem services in a peri-urban protected area in Cyprus: a rapid appraisal. Nature Conservation 22: 129-146

Vogiatzakis I.N. and Manolaki P. (2017) Investigating the diversity and variability of Eastern Mediterranean landscapes. Land 6(4) 71; doi:10.3390/land6040071

Sozanska-Stanton, M., Carey, P.D., Griffiths, G.H. Vogiatzakis, I.N., Treweek, J., Butcher, B., Charlton, M.B., Keenleyside, C., Arnell, N.W., Tucker, G. and Smith, P. (2016). Balancing conservation and climate change – a methodology using existing data demonstrated for twelve UK priority habitats. Journal for Nature Conservation 30: 76-89

Vogiatzakis I.N., Mannion A.M and Sarris D. (2016) Mediterranean Island Biodiversity and Climate Change: the last 10,000 years and the future Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 2597-2627

Nayak, G.K., Roberts, S.P.M., Garratt, M., Breeze, T.D., Tscheulin, T., Harrison-Cripps, J., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Stirpe, M.T., Potts, S.G. (2015) Interactive effect of floral abundance and semi-natural habitats on pollinators in field beans (Vicia faba), Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 199: 58-66

Lehsten, V., Sykes, M. T., Scott, A. V., Tzanopoulos, J., Kallimanis, A., Mazaris, A., Verburg, P. H., Schulp, C. J. E., Potts, S. G. and Vogiatzakis, I.N (2015), Disentangling the effects of land-use change, climate and CO₂on projected future European habitat types. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 653-663

Vogiatzakis I.N., Stirpe M.T., Rickebusch S., Metzger M., Xu G., Rounsevell, M, Bommarco R., Potts, S.G. (2015) Rapid assessment of historic, future and current habitat quality for biodiversity around UK Natura 2000 sites. Environmental Conservation 42: 31-40

Ibrahim L., Vogiatzakis I.N., Incerti G. Feoli E. (2015) The use of floristic data bases to assess the effects of land cover changes on plant species density: a method based on similarity theory. Ecological Indicators 57: 149-158.

Louca, M., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Moustakas, A. (2015) Modelling the combined effects of land use and climatic changes: coupling bioclimatic modelling with markov-chain cellular automata in a case study in Cyprus. Ecological Informatics 30: 241-249

Otieno, M., Sidhu, C.S., Woodcock, B.A., Wilby, A., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Mauchline, A.L., Gikungu, M.W., Potts, S.G. (2015) Local and landscape effects on bee functional guilds in pigeon pea crops in Kenya. Journal of Insect Conservation 19: 647-658

Delipetrou, P., Ghosn, D., Kazakis, G., Nyktas, P., Remoundou, E., Vogiatzakis, I.N. (2015) Vegetation dynamics of coastal dunes with Juniperus spp. in Crete, Gavdos and Chrisi islands (Greece). Ecologia Mediterranea 41: 45-60