The Nature Conservation Unit staff have a significant number of scientific publications in peer review International Scientific Journals, presenting their research results, coming from the participation in research projects, which focus on biodiversity conservation, environmental education and natural resources management in Cyprus. Selected scientific publications are presented below:

 

Eliades N.-G. H., Karayiannis A., Tsantopoulos G., Galatsidas S. (2025) An examination of the leadership and management traits and style in the forest fire incident command system: The Cyprus forest fire service. Fire 8 (1): 6 https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8010006

Pan W., Goodale E., Jiang A., Mammides C. 2024. The effect of latitude on the efficacy of acoustic indices to predict biodiversity: A meta-analysis. Ecological Indicators 159: 111747 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111747

Andreou M., Panayiotou E., Paraskeva-Hadjichambi D., Kadis C., Georghiou K. 2024. Seed germination ecophysiology and conservation of three endemic Arabis species (Brassicaceae) of Cyprus. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 46:106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-024-03735-8   

Oikonomidis S., Koutsovoulou K., Kaltsis A., Constantinou C., Andreou M., Kadis C., Georghiou K., Thanos C.A. 2024. The effect of pollen origin (self- and cross-pollination) on seed production and viability in Ophrys (Orchidaceae). Botany Letters, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2024.2393360

Charalambous D., Christoforou M., Christou K., Christou M., Ververis A., Andreou M., Christodoulou K., Koutsoulidou A., Papachrysostomou C., Pantelidou M. 2024. Saponin and Phenolic Composition and Assessment of Biological Activities of Saponaria officinalis L. Root Extracts. Plants, 13, 1982. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13141982

Zhou L., Mammides C., Chen Y., Zhou W., Dai W., Braun E.L., Kimball R.T., Liu Y., Robinson S.K., Goodale E. 2024. High association strengths are linked to phenotypic similarity, including plumage color and patterns, of participants in mixed-species bird flocks of southwestern China. Current Zoology 70(1): 34-44 https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac096

Martini F., Chen Y.F., Mammides C., Goodale E., Goodale U.M. 2024. Exploring potential relationships between acoustic indices and ecosystem functions: a test on insect herbivory. Oecologia 204(4): 875-883 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05536-9

Martini F., Kounnamas C., Goodale E., Mammides C. 2024. Examining the co-occurrences of human threats within terrestrial protected areas. Ambio 53: 592-603 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01966-6

Mammides C., Zotos S., Martini, F., 2024. Quantifying the amount of land lost to artificial surfaces in European habitats: A comparison inside and outside Natura 2000 sites using a quasi-experimental design. Biological Conservation 293: 110556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110556

Galappaththi S., Goodale E., Sun J., Jiang A., Mammides C. 2024. The incidence of bird sounds, and other categories of non-focal sounds, confound the relationships between acoustic indices and bird species richness in southern China. Global Ecology and Conservation 51: e02922 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02922

Dayananda S.K., Athukorala H.F., Peabotuwage I., Kumara C., Ranasinghe T., Samarasinghe D., Gouveia A., Kotagama S.W., Mammides C., Jiang A., Goodale, E. 2024. Rubber plantations are impermeable to an avian understory specialist in Sri Lanka. Movement Ecology 12(1): 47 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00484-8

Sreekar R., Koh L.P., Lamba A., Mammides C., Teo H.C., Dwiputra A., Zeng, Y. 2024. Conservation opportunities through improved management of recently established protected areas in Southeast Asia. Current Biology 34(16): 3830-3835 DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.031

Mammides C., Papadopoulos H. 2024. The role of large language models in interdisciplinary research: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(10): 1774-1776 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14398

Kyratzis A.C., Kourtellarides D., Chrysostomou G., Iosif K.C., Papachristophorou T., Kounnamas C., Nikiforou C., Christodoulou C.S. 2024. Ex situ conservation of threatened species of the flora of Cyprus: current status and future priorities with respect to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 8. Kew Bulletin 79(5):1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10102-2

Deng Y., Goodale E., Dong A., Jiang D., Jiang A., Zhang Z., Mammides C. 2023. Projecting shifts in the distributions of Chinese endemic vertebrate species under climate and land-use change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, art. no. 1174495. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1174495

Kefalas G., Lorilla R.S., Xofis P., Poirazidis K., Eliades N.-G.H. 2023. Landscape characteristics in relation to ecosystem services supply: a case of Mediterranean forest, on the island of Cyprus. Forests 14 (7): 1286 https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071286

Lorilla R.S., Kefalas G., Christou A.K, Poirazidis K., Eliades N.-G.H. 2023. Enhancing the conservation status and resilience of a narrowly distributed forest: A challenge to effectively support ecosystem services in practice. Journal for Nature Conservation 73: 126414 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126414

Shen Y., Holyoak M., Goodale E., Mammides C., Zou F., Chen Y., Zhang C., Quan Q., Zhang Q. 2022. Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1989), art. no. 20221840 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1840

Cicuzza D., Mammides C. 2022. Soil, Topography and Forest Structure Shape the Abundance, Richness and Composition of Fern Species in the Fragmented Tropical Landscape of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Forests, 13 (9), art. no. 1453 https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091453

Goodale E., Mammides C., Mtemi W., Chen Y.-F., Barthakur R., Goodale U.M., Jiang A., Liu J., Malhotra S., Meegaskumbura M., Pandit M.K., Qiu G., Xu J., Cao K.-F., Bawa K.S. 2022. Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability. Ambio, 51 (6), pp. 1474 – 1484 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01681-0

Charalambous D., Christoforou M., Kitiri E.N., Andreou M., Partassides D., Papachrysostomou C., Frantzi M., Karikas G.A., Pantelidou M. 2022. Antimicrobial Activities of Saponaria cypria Boiss. Root Extracts, and the Identification of Nine Saponins and Six Phenolic Compounds. Molecules 27: 5812 https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27185812

Mammides C., Ma J., Bertzky B., Langner A. 2022. Editorial: Global Patterns and Drivers of Forest Loss and Degradation Within Protected Areas. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, art. no. 907537 https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.907537

Fady D., Esposito E., Abulaila K., Aleksic J.M. Alia R., Alizoti P., Apostol E.-N., Aravanopoulos Ph., Ballian D., Bou Dagher Kharrat M., Carrasquinho I., Cheikh Albassatneh M., Curtu A.-L., David-Schwartz R., de Dato G., Douaihy B., Eliades N.-G. H. et al. 2022. Forest genetics research in the Mediterranean Basin: breakthroughs, knowledge gaps and perspectives. Current Forestry Reports 8: 277–298 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-022-00173-y

Eliades N.-G.H., Astaras C., Verheggen Messios B., Vermeer R., Nicolaou K., Karmiris I., Kassinis N. 2022. Artificial water troughs use by the mountain ungulate Ovis gmelini ophion (Cyprus mouflon) at Pafos forest. Animals 12(21): 3060 https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12213060

Charalambous D., Eliades N.-G.H., Christoforou M., Kakouri E., Tarantilis P.A., Pantelidou M. (2022) Chemical characterization, antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of different types of tissue of Cedrus brevifolia Henry extracts. Molecules 27 (9): 2717 https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27092717

Kounnamas C., Andreou M. 2022. Mapping and assessment of ecosystem services at Troodos National Forest Park in Cyprus. One Ecosystem 7: e77584. https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.7.e77584

Mammides C., Martini F., Kounnamas C. 2022. Remote assessments of human pressure on biodiversity may miss important human threats. Integrated Conservation 1(1): 52-59. https://doi.org/10.1002/inc3.11

Mammides C., Goodale E., Elleason M., Corlett R.T. 2021. Designing an ecologically representative global network of protected areas requires coordination between countries. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (12), art. no. 121001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3534

Valli A.-T., Koumandou L.V., Iatrou G., Andreou M., Papasotiropoulos V., Trigas P. 2021. Conservation biology of threatened Mediterranean chasmophytes: The case of Asperula naufraga endemic to Zakynthos island (Ionian islands, Greece). PLoS ONE 16(2): e0246706 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246706

Milios E., Petrou P., Pytharidis K., Christou A.K., Eliades N.-G.H. 2021. Assessment of how natural stand structure for narrow endemic Cedrus brevifolia Henry supports silvicultural treatments for its sustainable management. South-East European Forestry 12(1): 21-34 https://doi.org/10. 15177/seefor.21-09

Balaska K., Adamidis G.C., Varsamis G., Papalazarou K., Karanikola P., Manolis A., Karapetsas A., Eliades N.-G., Sandaltzopoulos R., Papamatthaiakis N., Poirazidis K., Korakis G., Papageorgiou A.C. 2021. Genetic diversity and spatial structure of the imperiled European population of Malus trilobata in Greece. Genetika 53 (1): 103–119 https://doi.org/10.2298/GENSR2101103B

Mammides C. 2020. A global assessment of the human pressure on the world's lakes. Global Environmental Change 63, 102084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102084

Eliades N.-G.H., Andreou M., Laguna E., Kounnamas C., Georghiou K., Costantinou C., Kouzali I., Thanos C.A., Kadis C. 2020. Integrated conservation of important plant taxa through the improvement of the original plant micro-reserve (PMR) approach: The intensive PMR monitoring case of Ophrys kotschyi. Journal of Environmental Management, ISSN 0301-4797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111731

Xu X., Naqinezhad A., Ghazanfar S.A., Fragman-Sapir O., Oganesian M., Bou Dagher Kharrat M., Taifour H., Flimban F.Z., Matchutadze I., Shavvon R.S., Abdullah M.T., Al-Khulaidi A.W., Al-Issai G., Al-Newani H.R.H., Asswad N.G., Chepinoga V.V., Eliades N.-G.H., Elkordy A., Farzaliyev V., Liu Y., Niu S., Özcan T., Al Sadat H., Seyfullayev F., Ma K. 2020. Mapping Asia plants: Current status on floristic information in Southwest Asia. Global Ecology and Conservation 24: e01257 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01257

Pericleous C., Eliades N.-G. H. 2020. An approach for the mass propagation of Cupressus sempervirens L. (Cupressaceae), for quality propagule production. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e52947 https://doi,org/10.3897/rio.6.e52947

Tzirkalli E., Kadis C., Halley J., Vogiatzakis I., Wilson R., Zografou D., Antoniou A., Tsintides T., Makris C., Kati V. 2019. Conservation ecology of butterflies on Cyprus in the context of Natura 2000. Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01755-2

Moraiti C., Kadis C., Papayiannis L., Stavrinides M. 2019. Insects and mites feeding on berries of Juniperus foetidissima Willd. on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Phytoparasitica 47: 1-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-019-00718-1

Eliades N.-G. H., Papageorgiou A.C., Fady B., Gailing O., Leinemann L., Finkeldey R. 2019. An approach to genetic resources conservation of peripheral isolated plant populations: the case of an island narrow endemic species. Biodiversity and Conservation 28(11): 3005-3035 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01812-w

Eliades N.-G. H., Aravanopoulos F. A., Christou A. K. 2018. Mediterranean Islands Hosting Marginal and Peripheral Forest Tree Populations: The Case of Pinus brutia Ten. in Cyprus. Forests 9(9): 514 https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090514

Tikochinski Y., Bradshaw Ph., Mastrogiacomo A., Broderick A., Daya A., Demetropoulos A., Demetropoulos S., Eliades N.-G., Fuller W., Godley B., Kaska Y., Levy Y., Snape R., Wright L., Carreras C. 2018. Mitochondrial DNA short tandem repeats unveil hidden population structuring and migration routes of an endangered marine turtle. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28: 788–797 https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2908

Eliades N.-G.H., Gailing O., Leinemann L., Fady B., Finkeldey R. 2018. Significant patterns of fine-scale spatial genetic structure in a narrow endemic wind-dispersed tree species, Cedrus brevifolia Henry. Tree Genetics & Genomes 14: 15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-018-1231-7

Papageorgiou A.C., Tsiripidis I., Mouratidis Th., Hatziskakis S., Gailing O., Eliades N.-G., Vidalis A., Drouzas A.D., Finkeldey R. 2014. Complex fine-scale phylogeographical patterns in a putative refugial region for Fagus sylvatica (Fagaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 516–528 https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12148

Kadji-Beltran C., Christodoulou N., Zachariou A., Lindemann-Matthies P., Barker S., Kadis C. 2017. An ESD pathway to quality education in the Cyprus primary education context. Environmental Education Research 23 (7): 1015-1031 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1249459

Mammides C., Goodale E., Dayananda S. K., Kang L., Chen J. 2017. Do acoustic indices correlate with bird diversity? Insights from two biodiverse regions in Yunnan Province, south China. Ecological Indicators 82, 470-477 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.017

Mammides, C., Kounnamas, C., Goodale, E., Kadis, C. 2016. Do unpaved, low-traffic roads affect bird communities? Acta Oecologica 71, pp. 14-21.

Mammides C., Chen J., Goodale U. M., Kotagama S. W., Sidhu S., Goodale E. 2015. Does mixed-species flocking influence how birds respond to a gradient of land-use intensity? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1811): 20151118. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1118

Andreou, M., Kadis C., Delipetrou P., Georghiou K. 2015. Conservation biology of Chionodoxa lochiae and Scilla morrisii (Asparagaceae): Two priority bulbous plant species of the European Union in Cyprus. Global Ecology and Conservation. Global Ecology and Conservation 3: 511-525 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2015.02.004

Zotos S., Adamopoulou C., Chondropoulos B., Kadis C., Hadjichambis A.C., Legakis A. 2012. Evidence of sperm storage in Schreiber’s Fringe-fingered Lizard, Acanthodactylus schreiberi schreiberi, from Cyprus: (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoology in the Middle East 56 (1), 39-47 https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2012.10648939

Andreou M., Delipetrou P., Kadis C., Tsiamis G., Bourtzis K., Georghiou K. 2011. An integrated approach for the conservation of threatened plants: the case of Arabis kennedyae (Brassicaceae). Acta Oecologica 37: 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.02.007

Kadis K., Kounnamas C., Georghiou K. 2010. Seed germination and conservation of endemic, rare and threatened aromatic plants of Cyprus. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 58: 251-261 https://doi.org/10.1560/ijps.58.3-4.251

Kadis C., Georghiou K., 2010. Seed dispersal and germination behavior of three threatened endemic labiates of Cyprus. Plant Species Biology, 25: 77-84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-1984.2009.00265.x