Table 2 Overall survey effort per Mediterranean subregion (defined following previous studies18,56).
From: Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: a gap analysis in environmental space
Mediterranean subregion | Area (km2) | Area (%) | Effort (km) | Effort (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alborán Sea/Strait of Gibraltar | 62,134 | 2.5 | 38,415 | 13.2 |
Algero-Provençal basin | 515,739 | 20.5 | 131,571 | 45.3 |
Tyrrhenian Sea/eastern Ligurian Sea | 267,808 | 10.7 | 39,296 | 13.5 |
Adriatic Sea | 133,364 | 5.3 | 16,204 | 5.6 |
Strait of Sicily/Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sirte | 346,705 | 13.8 | 29,879 | 10.3 |
Ionian Sea/Central Mediterranean | 497,523 | 19.8 | 22,482 | 7.7 |
Aegean Sea | 187,984 | 7.5 | 6,214 | 2.1 |
Levantine Sea | 501,476 | 20.0 | 6,127 | 2.1 |
