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Affiliation: Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie

Position, academic degree, rank: directrice de département des sciences marines, D. Sc., Prof.

Address: 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, 1082, Tunis, Republic of Tunisia

E-mail: jbensouissi@yahoo.com

 

Major papers over the past five years:

Marchessaux G., Ghanem R., Chaffai A., Bahri W. R., Marsiglia N., Gjoni V., Ben Souissi J., Sarà G. The use of thermal performance analysis to improve conservation management: The case of the invasive Red Sea swimming blue crab Portunus segnis. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024, vol. 54, art. no. e03071 (12 p.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03071

 

Grati F., Froglia C., Souissi J. B., Bolognini L., Azzurro E. The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: A distant and disjointed occurrence. BioInvasions Records, 2023, vol. 12, iss. 4, pp. 1025–1032. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2023.12.4.15

 

Perret J., Cobelli O., Taudière A., Andrieu J., Aumeeruddy-Thomas Y., Ben Souissi J., Besnard G., Casazza G., Crochet P.-A., Decaëns Th., Denis F., Geniez Ph., Loizides M., Médail F., Pasqualini V., Speciale C., Battesti V., Chevaldonné P., Lejeusne Ch., Richard F. Time to refine the geography of biodiversity hotspots by integrating molecular data: The Mediterranean Basin as a case study. Biological Conservation, 2023, vol. 284, art. no. 110162 (11 p.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110162

 

Zava B., Insacco G., Deidun A., Said A., Ben Souissi J., Nour O. M., Kondylatos G., Scannella D., Corsini-Foka M. Records of the critically endangered Squatina aculeata and Squatina oculata (Elasmobranchii: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2022, vol. 52, iss. 4, pp. 285–297. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.52.94694

 

Azzurro E., Ballerini T., Antoniadou Ch., Aversa G. D., Ben Souissi J., Blašković A., Cappanera V. et al. ClimateFish: A collaborative database to track the abundance of selected coastal fish species as candidate indicators of climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, vol. 9, art. no. 910887 (5 p.). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.910887

 

Khamassi F., Ghanem R., Hassen B., Karray S., El Bour M., Ben Souissi J., Azzurro E. First record of the gracile lizardfish Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) in Mediterranean waters. Mediterranean Marine Science, 2022, vol. 23, iss. 1, pp. 25–29. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.28173

 

Azzurro E., Nourigat M., Cohn F. Ben Souissi J., Bernardi G. Right out of the gate: The genomics of Lessepsian invaders in the vicinity of the Suez Canal. Biological Invasions, 2022, vol. 24, pp. 1117–1130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02704-3

 

Ulman A., Harris H., Doumpas N., Deniz Akbora H., Al Mabruk S. A. A., Azzurro E., Bariche M., Çiçek B. A., Deidun A., Demirel N., Fogg A. Q., Katsavenakis S., Kletou D., Kleitou P., Papadopoulou A., Ben Souissi J., Hall-Spencer J. M., Tiralongo F., Yildiz T. Low pufferfish and lionfish predation in their native and invaded ranges suggests human control mechanisms may be necessary to control their Mediterranean abundances. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021, vol. 8, art. no. 670413 (13 p.). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.670413

 

Ledoux J.-B., Ghanem R., Horaud M., López-Sendino P., Romero-Soriano V., Antunes A., Bensoussan N., Gómez-Gras D., Linares C., Machordom A., Ocaña O., Templado J., Leblois R., Ben Souissi J., Garrabou J. Gradients of genetic diversity and differentiation across the distribution range of a Mediterranean coral: Patterns, processes and conservation implications. Diversity and Distributions, 2021, vol. 27, iss. 11, pp. 2104–2123. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13382

 

Katsanevakis S., Poursanidis D., Hoffman R., Rizgalla J., Rothman S. B. S., … Ben Souissi J., Tsiamis K. et al. Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species. Bioinvasions Records, 2020, vol. 9, iss. 2, pp. 165–182. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.01

 

Fabbrizzi E., Scardi M., Ballesteros E., Benedetti-Cecchi L., Cebrian E., Ceccherelli G., De Leo F., Deidun A., Guarnieri G., Falace A., Fraissinet S., Giommi C., Macic V., Mangialajo L., Mannino A.-M., Piazzi L., Ramdani M., Rilov G., Rindi L., Rizzo L., Sara G., Ben Souissi J., Taskin E., Fraschetti S. Modeling macroalgal forest distribution at Mediterranean scale: Present status, drivers of changes and insights for conservation and management. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020, vol. 7, art. no. 20 (18 p.). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00020