Stalo Leontiou

Stalo Leontiou is a PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus in the field of marine and coastal conservation biology. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with a keen interest in cross-realm systematic conservation planning. Stalo holds a BSc (2010) in Marine Sciences from the University of the Aegean and an MSc (2013) in Integrated Climate System Sciences from the University of Hamburg.

During the past four years, she has been working as a research assistant at the Terrestrial Ecosystems Management Lab and as a freelancer GIS specialist. She is also the manager of the database of the Cyprus RoadKill Observation System (CyROS), a citizen science approach that aims to report and analyze the impacts of the Cyprus road network on wild animals.

She has participated in EU funded programs (e.g. COST, ERASMUS) and has co-authored three articles and one as leading author (under review).  

She is also a member of Birdlife Cyprus and the Cyprus Butterfly Study Group.

Her main research interests include coastal-marine conservation planning, ecosystem services mapping, island geography, advanced GIS applications and techniques and citizen science networks.   

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Key Publications

• V. Hermoso, S.B. Carvalho, S. Giakoumi, D. Goldsborough, S. Katsanevakis, S. Leontiou, V. Markantonatou, B. Rumes, I.N. Vogiatzakis, K.L. Yates. (2021). The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery. Environmental Science & Policy, 127, p. 263-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.028.

• Peyton, Jodey M.; Martinou, Angeliki F.; Adriaens, Tim; Chartosia, Niki; Karachle, Paraskevi K.; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; Tricarico, Elena; Arianoutsou, Margarita; Bacher, Sven; Bazos, Ioannis; Brundu, Giuseppe; Bruno-McClung, Elizabeth; Charalambidou, Iris; Demetriou, Monica; Galanidi, Marika; Galil, Bella; Guillem, Rhian; Hadjiafxentis, Kypros; Hadjioannou, Louis; Hadjistylli, Margarita; Hall-Spencer, Jason Michael; Jimenez, Carlos; Johnstone, Graham; Kleitou, Periklis; Kletou, Demetris; Koukkoularidou, Despina; Leontiou, Stalo; Maczey, Norbert; Michailidis, Nikolas; Mountford, John Owen; Papatheodoulou, Athina; Pescott, Oliver L.; Phanis, Constantinos; Preda, Cristina; Rorke, Steph; Shaw, Richard; Solarz, Wojciech; Taylor, Chris D.; Trajanovski, Saso; Tziortzis, Iakovos; Tzirkalli, Elli; Uludag, Ahmet; Vimercati, Giovanni; Zdraveski, Konstantin; Zenetos, Argyro; Roy, Helen E. (2020). Horizon scanning to predict and prioritize invasive alien species with the potential to threaten human health and economies on Cyprus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 566281, 15 pp. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.566281

• Vogiatzakis, I. N., Litskas, V. D., Koumpis, T., Kassinis, N., Constantinou, E., & Leontiou, S. (2020). The past, present and future of nature conservation in Crete and Cyprus: So close and yet so far. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, 100070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2020.100070