From sea monsters to charismatic megafauna: Changes in perception and use of large marine animals

• Carlotta Mazzoldi ,

  * E-mail: carlotta.mazzoldi@unipd.it

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, CoNISMa (Interuniversitary Consortium of Marine Sciences), Rome, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-3030

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• Giovanni Bearzi,

  Affiliation Dolphin Biology and Conservation, Cordenons, Italy

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• Cristina Brito,

  Affiliations CHAM—Center for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH/Uaç, Lisbon, Portugal, Associação para as Ciências do Mar, APCM, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Inês Carvalho,

  Affiliations Associação para as Ciências do Mar, APCM, Lisbon, Portugal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, IGC, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Elena Desiderà,

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR 7035 ECOSEAS, Nice, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-3107

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• Lara Endrizzi,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Luis Freitas,

  Affiliation Museu da Baleia da Madeira, Caniçal, Madeira, Portugal

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• Eva Giacomello,

  Affiliations MARE–Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Horta, Portugal, IMAR-Instituto do Mar, Horta, Portugal, OKEANOS Centre, University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal

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• Ioannis Giovos,

  Affiliation iSea, Environmental Organisation for the Preservation of the Aquatic Ecosystems, Greece

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• Paolo Guidetti,

  Affiliations CoNISMa (Interuniversitary Consortium of Marine Sciences), Rome, Italy, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR 7035 ECOSEAS, Nice, France

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• Adriana Ressurreição,

  Affiliations MARE–Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Horta, Portugal, OKEANOS Centre, University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal, CCMAR Centre of Marine Sciences, Faro, Portugal

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• Malcolm Tull,

  Affiliation Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

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• Alison MacDiarmid

  Affiliation NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand

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