Taxonomic and functional surrogates of sessile benthic diversity in Mediterranean marine caves

• Vasilis Gerovasileiou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vgerovas@hcmr.gr

  Affiliations Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9143-7480

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• Charalampos Dimitriadis,

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

  Affiliation National Marine Park of Zakynthos, Zakynthos, Greece

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• Christos Arvanitidis,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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• Eleni Voultsiadou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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