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Scientific work

ARCHELON PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

(In chronological order)

The vast scientific work of ARCHELON can be seen in the large number of papers published mostly in scientific journals. We provide below a provisional list of all these papers; probably there are more which we couldn't locate. ARCHELON researchers and personnel as well as students working for ARCHELON have drafted these papers or co-authored them. Many of the papers below are accompanied by their full text in pdf format. You may download the papers you wish. In case you need a paper that does not appear as a pdf file, we may post a hard copy to you provided you send us your postal address at info@archelon.gr. Thank you!

  1. 2025

    A global assessment of microplastic abundance and characteristics on marine turtle nesting beaches

    Zara L.R. Botterell et al., 2025

    Marine Pollution Bulletin 215

  2. 2024

    The First Green Turtle Nest Documented in Rhodes Island, Greece

    Kostas Teneketzis, Dimitris Margaritoulis, Aliki Panagopoulou, Paraskevi Louizidou, Konstantinos Kalaentzis, Gerasimos Kondylatos, Dimitris Mavrouleas

    Med Turtle Bulletin 6

  3. 2024

    Environmental Enrichment at ARCHELON’s Sea Turtle Rescue Centre: Preliminary Results on Behaviour and Diving Condition

    Eirini Kasimati, Anja Dulleck, Natalia Wood

    Med Turtle Bulletin 6

  4. 2024

    On-site Treatment of Injured Sea Turtles: A Case Study from the Island of Crete, Greece

    Dimitris Margaritoulis, Sonia Doblado, Aspasia Sterioti, Aliki Panagopoulou

    Med Turtle Bulletin 6

  5. 2024

    Implications of Treating a Gravid Turtle: A Case Study from the Island of Crete, Greece

    Aliki Panagopoulou and Dimitris Margaritoulis

    Med Turtle Bulletin 6

  6. 2024

    A Sea Turtle Hospital from Scratch: An Illustrated History of the ARCHELON Rescue Centre in Greece

    Dimitris Margaritoulis

    Med Turtle Bulletin 6

  7. 2024

    Selecting the Wrong Beach to Start Monitoring on Crete: An Historic Failure

    Dimitris Margaritoulis

    MedTurtle Bulletin 5: 2-8

  8. 2024

    No Place Like Home: Records of a Male Loggerhead Sea Turtle in a Greek Foraging Ground Spanning 18 Years

    ALan F. Rees, Dimitris Margaritoulis

    MedTurtle Bulletin 5: 15-19

  9. 2023

    Growth rates and age at maturity of Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles estimated from a single‑population foraging ground

    Giulia Baldi, Giovanni Furii, Massimo Del Vecchio, Pasquale Salvemini, Carola Vallini, Valeria Angelini, Sauro Pari, Kamyla Lombardi Moraes, Dimitris Margaritoulis, Anxhela Çurri, Bojan Lazar, Paolo Casale

    Marine Biology

  10. 2023

    CARETTA CARETTA (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). REPRODUCTIVE LONGEVITY

    Margaritoulis D., Dean C.J., Lourenço G., Rees A.F., Riggall T.E.

    Herpetological Review 54(1)

  11. 2023

    Update of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Population Nesting in Koroni, Greece, Mediterranean

    Margaritoulis D., Lourenço G., Rees A.F.

    Zoological Studies 62:50

  12. 2023

    Update of Green Turtle Nesting in Greece: A Second Nest Recorded on Crete Island

    Margaritoulis D., Johnson S.K., Panagopoulou A., Paxinos O.

    MedTurtle Bulletin 3: 2-4

  13. 2023

    Underreported In-water Behaviours of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle: Foraging on Sea Cucumbers

    Papafitsoros K.

    MedTurtle Bulletin 3: 20-27

  14. 2023

    A social media-based framework for quantifying temporal changes to wildlife viewing intensity

    Papafitsoros K., Adam L., Schofield G.

    Ecological Modelling 476

  15. 2023

    The Loggerhead River Turtle (Caretta caretta)

    Rees A.F., Theodorou P., Margaritoulis D.

    MedTurtle Bulletin 3:13-15

  16. 2023

    Oviduct Detachment During Egg-laying in a Loggerhead Turtle

    Samlidou G., Schirrmacher K.M., Margaritoulis D.

    MedTurtle Bulletin 3: 16-19

  17. 2023

    Caretta Caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). NESTING WITHOUT REAR FLIPPERS

    Dretakis O., Margaritoulis D., Samlidou G., Davis N., Rees A.F., Panagopoulou A.

    Herpetological Review 54(2)

  18. 2023

    The Birth of ARCHELON – A Personal Account

    D. Margaritoulis MedTurtle Bulletin 4: 2-11

  19. 2023

    A Newly Identified Nesting Beach in Greece Producing Male Loggerheads

    Anna Lamaj, Galini Samlidou, ALan F. Rees, Dimitris Margaritoulis

    Med Turtle Bulletin 4

  20. 2023

    Increased sample size provides novel insights into population structure of Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles

    Arzu Kaska, Gizem Koç, Doğan Sözbilen, et. al.

    Conservation Genetics Resources

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