Social network analysis and the implications for Pontocaspian biodiversity conservation in Romania and Ukraine: A comparative study

• Aleksandre Gogaladze ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: aleksandre.gogaladze@naturalis.nl

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1764-0410

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• Niels Raes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, NLBIF–Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4329-4892

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• Jacobus C. Biesmeijer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Camelia Ionescu,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WWF Romania, Bucharest, Romania

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• Ana-Bianca Pavel,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Constanta Branch of the National Institute for Research and Development on Marine Geology and Geo-ecology–GeoEcoMar, Constanta, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0518-1659

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• Mikhail O. Son,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine

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• Natalia Gozak,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NGO "Ecoaction", Kyiv, Ukraine

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• Vitaliy V. Anistratenko,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Fauna and Systematics, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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• Frank P. Wesselingh

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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