ZAINAB A. ALWAZZAN

BSc., PGD, MSc., PhD

Publications

2024

  • Vilizzi, L., Piria, M., Pietraszewski, D.,Yoğurtçuoğlu, B., Almeida, D., Al-Wazzan, Z., Atique, U., Boggero, A., Duniš, L., Goulletquer, P., Herczeg, G., Jukonienė, I., Kopecký, O., Koutsikos, N., Koyama, A., Kvach, Y., Li, S., Lukas, J., Malmstrøm, M., Marszał, L., Mendoza, R., Monteiro, J., Perdikaris, C., Petrulaitis, L., Pickholtz, R., Preda, C., Simonović, P., Švolíková, K.S., Špelić, I., Števove, B., Suresh, V.R., Ualiyeva, D., Vardakas L., Verreycken, H., Vila-Gispert, A., Wei, H., YAZLIK, A., Zięba, G. and Giannetto, D. (2024). To be, or not to be, a non-native species in non-English languages: Gauging terminological consensus amongst invasion biologists. Management of Biological Invasions. (Accepted).

  • Vilizzi, L., Piria, M., Herczeg, G., Almeida, D., Al-Wazzan, Z., Bakiu, R., Boggero, A., Chaichana, R., Dashinov, D., De Zoysa, M., Gilles Jr, A.S., Goulletquer, P., Interesova, E., Kopecký, O., Koutsikos, N., Koyama, A., Kristan, P., Li, S., Lukas, J., Moghaddas, S.D., Monteiro, J.G., Mumladze, L., Oh, C., Olsson, K.H., Pavia Jr, R.T., Perdikaris, C., Pickholtz, R., Preda, C., Ristovska, M., Švolíková, K.S., Števove, B., Ta, K.A.T., Uzunova, E., Vardakas, L., Verreycken, H., Wei, H., Yoğurtçuoğlu, B., Giannetto, D. and Pietraszewski, D. (2024). Questionnaire improvements in second-generation, multilingual decision support tools for invasion risk screening of non-native taxa. Management of Biological Invasions. (Accepted).

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Giménez, L., Behbehani, M., Le Vay, L., (2024). Population ecology of the intertidal xanthid crab Leptodius exaratus on rocky shores in Kuwait, NW Arabian Gulf. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 44, ruae019, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruae019.

  • Vilizzi, L., Piria, M., Pietraszewski, D., Giannetto, D., Flory, L., Herczeg, G., H., Sermenli, G.B., Britvec, M., Jukoniene, I., Petrulaitis, L., Kosić, I.V., Almeida, D., Al-Wazzan, Z., Bakiu, R., Boggero, A., Chaichana, R., Dashinov, D., De Zoysa, M., Gilles Jr, A.S., Goulletquer, P., Interesova, E., Kopecký, O., Koutsikos, N., Koyama, A., Kristan, P., Li, S., Lukas, J., Moghaddas, S.D., Monteiro, J.G., Mumladze, L., Oh, C., Olsson, K.H., Pavia Jr, R.T., Perdikaris, C., Pickholtz, R., Preda, C., Ristovska, M., Švolíková, K.S., Števove, B., Ta, K.A.T., Uzunova, E., Vardakas, L., Verreycken, H., Wei, H., Yoğurtçuoğlu, B., Cvetkovska, C., Ferincz, Á., Kirkendall, L., Marszał, L., Paganelli, D., Tarkan, A.S., and Yazlık, A. (2024). Development and application of a second-generation multilingual tool for invasion risk screening of non-native terrestrial plants. Science of the Total Environment. 917, 170475, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170475.

2022

  • Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Kopecký O, Špelić I, Radočaj T, Šprem N, Ta KAT, Tarkan AS, Weiperth A, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Candan O, Herczeg G, Killi N, Lemić D, Szajbert B, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Atique U, Bakiu R, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, Ferincz Á, Flieller G, Gilles Jr AS, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Iqbal S, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro JG, Mumladze L, Olsson KH, Paganelli D, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Ristovska M, Švolíková KS, Števove B, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Zięba G (2022) Development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for risk screening non-native terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions. In: Giannetto D, Piria M, Tarkan AS, Zięba G (Eds). Neobiota, 76, 211–236, https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.76.84268, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360495177

2021

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Waser, A.M., Glenner, H., Giménez, L. and Thieltges, D.W. (2021). emporal and spatial infection patterns of the rhizocephalan parasite Parasacculina leptodiae (Guérin-Ganivet, 1911) in the crab Leptodius exaratus along the shores of Kuwait. Marine Biodiversity, 51, 90, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-021-01235-3

  • Karam, Q. and Al-Wazzan, Z. (2021). Toxicity of Petroleum Hydrocarbons to Brachyuran Crabs: A Review of Deleterious Effects of Oil-Related Xenobiotics on Life Stages. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 101, 561-576 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315421000370.

  • Copp, G.H., Vilizzi, L., Wei., H., Li, S., Piria, M., Al-Faisal, A.J., Almeida, D., Atique, U., Al-Wazzan, Z., Bakiu, R., Bašić, T., Bui, T., Canning-Clode, J., Castro, N., Chaichana, R., Çoker, T., Dashinov, D., Ekmekçi, F.G., Erős, T., Ferincz, Á., Ferreira, T., Goulletquer, P., Gilles Jr, A.S.,  Głowacki, Ł., Goulletquer, P., Interesova, E., Iqbal, S., Jakubčinová, K., Kanongdate, K., Kim, J.E., Kopecký, O., Kostov, V., Koutsikos, N., Kozic, S., Kristan, P., Kurita, Y., Lee, H.G., Leuven, R., Lipinskaya, T., Lukas, J., Marchini, A., Martínez, A.I.G., Masson, L., Memedemin, D., Moghaddas, S.D., Monteiro, J., Mumladze, L., Naddafi, R., Năvodaru, I., Olsson, K., Onikura, N., Paganelli, D., Pavia Jr, R.T., Perdikaris, C., Pickholz, R., Pietraszewski, D., Povž, M., Preda, C., Ristovska, M., Rosíková, K., Santos, J.M., Semenchenko, V., Senanan, W., Simonović, P., Smeti, E., Števove, B., Švolíková, K., Ta, K.A.T., Tarkan, A.S., Top, N., Tricarico, E., Uzunova, E., Vardakas, L., Verreyken, H., Zięba, G., Mendoza, R. (2021). Speaking their language – development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders. Environmental Modelling and Software, 135, 104900  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104900.

2020

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Le Vay, L., Behbehani, M., Giménez, L. (2020). Scale-dependent spatial and temporal patterns of abundance and population structure of the xanthid crab Leptodius exaratus on rocky shores in Kuwait. Regional Studies in Marine Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101325.

2019

  • Devlin, M., Lyons, B.P., Bacon, J., Edmonds, N., Tracey, D., Al-Zaidan, A., Al-Ajmi, F., Al-Wazzan, Z., Al-Husain, M., Al-Khaled, H., Le Quesne, W. (2019). Principles to enable comprehensive national marine ecosystem status assessments from disparate data: The State of the Marine Environment in Kuwait. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science106407  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106407.

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Giménez, L., Behbehani, M., Le Vay, L. (2019). Trophic niche separation in sympatric rocky shore crabs. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 99, 1171-1180,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315419000134

2018

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Le Vay, L., Behbehani, M., Giménez, L. (2018). Hatching rhythm and larval release in Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from rocky shores in Kuwait. Journal of Crustactacean Biology, 38, 804–811, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruy080

2015

  • Al-Wazzan, Z., Gimenez, L., Le Vay, L. and Behbehani M. 2015. Hatching Rhythm, Larval Release of the Rocky Intertidal Crab Leptoduis exaratus (Brachyura: Xanthidae), in Kuwait, Arabian Gulf. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Transactions on Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 3(1). (conference proceeding)

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