Georgia Papantoniou

Research Associate

Short CV

BSc in Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Greece, “A comparative study of lakes in Estonia based on their zooplankton communities” (2005),
MSc in Department of Geography, University College London, London, United Kingdom, “Population and trophic ecology of the Bullhead (Cottus gobio) in a chalk stream ecosystem” (2006)
PhD in Marine Ecology, Division of Biology, University of Athens, Greece, “Zooplankton in Kalloni Gulf and its role in the food web” (2015)

Dr Georgia Papantoniou is a marine ecologist. Her principal research interests lie on the impacts of stressors (climate change, acidification, eutrophication, habitat alteration, overfishing) on the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Currently, she is exploring the links between form and function in multispecies systems via ecological modelling using “Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE)”. She further aspires to assess the cumulative impact of preexisting and unprecedented natural and anthropogenic pressures on the functioning and resilience of coastal and marine Mediterranean ecosystems.

She has attended 9 national and international research projects.She is the author/co-author of 10 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and has presented results in 12 conferences. She has participated in a training course in modelling aquatic ecosystems with EwE.

Indicative Publications

Papantoniou G., Giannoulaki M., Stoumpoudi M.Th., Lefkaditou E., Tsagarakis K., 2021. Food web interactions in a human dominated Mediterranean coastal ecosystem. Marine Environmental Research 172, 1055507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105507B.2.
Petriki O., Moutopoulos D.K., Tsagarakis K., Tsionki I., Papantoniou G., Matzouni I., Barbieri R., Stoumpoudi, M.Th., 2021. Assessing the Fisheries and Ecosystem Structure of the Largest Greek Lake (Lake Trichonis). Water 13, 23, 3329. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233329.
Papantoniou G., Cladas Y., Ketsinlis-Rinis V., Vaitsi Z., Fragopoulu N., 2020. Effects of HABs and a dystrophic event on zooplankton community structure in a Mediterranean lagoon (W Greece). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 245, 106985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106985.
Tsagarakis K., Carbonell A., Brčić J., Bellido J.M., Carbonara P., Edridge A., García T., González M., Šifner S.K., Machias A., Papantoniou G., Sala A., Škeljo F., Vitale S., Vassilopoulou V., 2017. Old Info for a New Fisheries Policy: Discard Ratios and Lengths at Discarding in EU Mediterranean Bottom Trawl Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science 4, 99. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00099.
Isari S., Zervoudaki S., Peters J., Papantoniou G., Pelejero C., Saiz E., 2016. Lack of evidence for elevated CO2-induced bottom-up effects on marine copepods. ICES Journal of Marine Science 73, 3, 650-658. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv078.
Papantoniou G., Danielides D.B., Spyropoulou A., Fragopoulu N., 2015. Spatial and temporal variability of small-sized copepod assemblages in a shallow semi-enclosed embayment (Kalloni Gulf, NE Mediterranean Sea). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 94, 02, 349-360. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315414001349.
Cladas Y., Papantoniou G., Bekiari V., Fragopoulu N., 2015. A dystrophic event in Papas Lagoon, Araxos Cape, Western Greece in the summer 2012. Mediterranean Marine Science 17, 1, 32-38. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1409.
Spyropoulou A., Spatharis S., Papantoniou G., Tsirtsis G., 2012. Potential response to climate change of a semi-arid coastal ecosystem in Eastern Mediterranean. Hydrobiologia 705, 87-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1384-6.
Eleftheriou A., Anagnostopoulou-Visilia, Anastasopoulou E., Ates S.A., Bachari N. El I, Cavas L., Cevik F., Ulhas M., Cevik, F., Delos A.-L, Derici O.B., Erguden D., Fragopoulu N., Giangrande A., Goksan T., Gravili C., Gurlek M., Hattour A., Kapiris K., Kouraklis P., Lamouti S., Prato E., Papa L., Papantoniou G., Parlapiano I., Poursanidis D., Turan C. and Yaglioglou D., 2011. New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records. Mediterranean Marine Science 12, 2, 491-508.
Woodward G., Papantoniou G., Lauridsen R.B., 2008. Trophic trickles and cascades in a complex food web: impacts of a keystone predator on a stream community structure and ecosystem processes. Oikos 117, 5, 683- 692. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16500.x.

Georgia Papantoniou