Epibenthic communities associated with unintentional artificial reefs (modern shipwrecks) under contrasting regimes of nutrients in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus and Lebanon)

Carlos Jimenez; Vasilis Andreou; Marina Evriviadou; Britta Munkes; Louis Hadjioannou; Antonis Petrou; Rana Abu Alhaija

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182486

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Epibenthic communities associated with unintentional artificial reefs (modern shipwrecks) under contrasting regimes of nutrients in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus and Lebanon)

Carlos Jimenez ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: c.jimenez@enaliaphysis.org.cy

Affiliations Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre (ENALIA), Acropoleos 2, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of The Cyprus Institute, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3413-6662

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Vasilis Andreou,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre (ENALIA), Acropoleos 2, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Marina Evriviadou,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of The Cyprus Institute, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Britta Munkes,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (GEOMAR), Experimental Ecology Department, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, Kiel, Germany
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Louis Hadjioannou,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre (ENALIA), Acropoleos 2, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Antonis Petrou,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre (ENALIA), Acropoleos 2, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Rana Abu Alhaija

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre (ENALIA), Acropoleos 2, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of The Cyprus Institute, Aglanzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Epibenthic communities associated with unintentional artificial reefs (modern shipwrecks) under contrasting regimes of nutrients in the Levantine Sea (Cyprus and Lebanon)

Carlos Jimenez,
Vasilis Andreou,
Marina Evriviadou,
Britta Munkes,
Louis Hadjioannou,
Antonis Petrou,
Rana Abu Alhaija

Published: August 29, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182486

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