Marilena Stamatiou

I was born and raised in Athens and have been living in Nicosia since 2016. In 2020 I graduated from the European University of Cyprus with a degree in Biology and pursued my master’s degree in Environmental Conservation and Management at the Open University of Cyprus. I completed my master’s in 2022 and throughout the duration of my studies I had the opportunity to partake in the projects ReTrack and CyROS and several environment-related smaller-scale jobs, conducting field, office and educational work.

I have a keen interest in zoology and reptiles in particular. During my graduate thesis I studied the movement of the lizard Laudakia cypriaca with the use of accelerometers while for my master’s thesis I investigated the present and future distribution of the endemic snake Natrix natrix cypriaca with Species Distribution Modeling.

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Key publications

• Zotos S, Stamatiou M, Naziri A, Meletiou S, Demosthenous S, Perikleous K, Erotokritou E, Xenophontos M, Zavrou D, Michael K, Sergides L. New Evidence on the Distribution of the Highly Endangered Natrix natrix cypriaca and Implications for Its Conservation. Animals. 2021; 11(4):1077. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11041077

• Zotos S, Stamatiou M, Vogiatzakis I N. Elusive species distribution modelling: The case of Natrix natrix cypriaca. Ecological Informatics. 2022; 71: 101758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101758