Publicaciones:

• Altuna, A., 2013. Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic). Zootaxa 3641 (2), 101–128.
   
• Cartes, J.E., A. Serrano, F. Velasco, S. Parra and F. Sanchez, 2007. Community structure and dynamics of deep-water decapod assemblages from Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, NE Atlantic): Influence of environmental variables and food availability. Progress in Oceanography 75 (2007), 797-816.
   
• Cartes, J.E., C. Huguet, S. Parra and F. Sanchez, 2007. Trophic relationships in deep-water decapods of Le Danois bank (Cantabrian Sea, NE Atlantic): trends related with depth and seasonal changes in food quality and availability. Deep-Sea Research Part I , 54 (2007), 1091-1110.
   
• Cristobo, J., P. Ríos, F. Sánchez and N. Anadón, 2009. Redescription of the rare species Podospongia loveni (Porifera) from the Cantabrian Sea. Continental Shelf Research 29 (2009), 1157-1164.
   
• Frutos I., Sorbe J.C. & Junoy J. 2011. The first blind Paranthura species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paranthuridae) from the "El Cachucho" Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, southern Bay of Biscay). Zootaxa, 2971: 17-32.
   
• Frutos, I. & Sorbe, J.C., 2010. Politolana sanchezi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae), a new benthic bioturbating scavenger from bathyal soft-bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay (northeastern Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 2640: 20-34.
   
• García-Alegre, A, F. Sánchez, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, H. Hinz, A. Serrano & S. Parra, 2014. Modeling and mapping the local distribution of relevant species on the Le Danois Bank, El Cachucho Marine Protected Area (Cantabrian Sea). Deep-Sea Research II, 106, 151-164.
   
• Guerra-García, J.M., J.C. Sorbe & I. Frutos, 2008. A new species of /Liropus/ (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) from the Le Danois bank (southern Bay of Biscay). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, Volume 7, Issue 4, 253-264.
   
• González-Pola, C., G. Díaz del Río, M. Ruiz-Villarreal, R. F. Sánchez & Ch. Mohn, 2012. Circulation patterns at Le Danois Bank, an elongated shelf-adjacent seamount in the Bay of Biscay. Deep-Sea Research I 60(2012), 7-21.
   
• Heredia, B., Pantoja, J., Tejedor, A. y Sánchez, F., 2008. El Cachucho, un oásis de vida en el Cantábrico. La primera gran área marina protegida en España. Ambienta 76, 10-17.
   
• Kavanagh, F.A. & J.C. Sorbe, 2006. Haplomesus longiramus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), a new ischnomesid species from the Bay of Biscay. Zootaxa 1300: 51-68.
   
• Preciado, I., J.E. Cartes, A. Serrano, F. Velasco, I. Olaso, F. Sánchez and I. Frutos, 2009. Resource utilisation by deep-sea sharks at the Le Danois Bank, Cantabrian Sea, north-east Atlantic Ocean. J. Fish Biol. (2009) 75, 1331-1355.
   
• Rodríguez-Basalo, A., F. Sánchez, A. Punzón, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, 2019. Updating the Master Management Plan for El Cachucho MPA (Cantabrian Sea) using a spatial planning approach. Continental Shelf Research, 184 (2019), 54-65.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello C. and F. Sánchez, 2017. Catch and post-release mortalities of deep-water sharks caught by bottom longlines in the Cantabrian Sea (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research 130 (2017) 248–255.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C., Cesar González-Pola, Francisco Sánchez, 2016. Migration and diving behavior of Centrophorus squamosus in the NE Atlantic. Combining electronic tagging and Argo hydrography to infer deep ocean trajectories. Deep-Sea Research I, 115, 48-62.
   
• Rodríguez-Basalo, A., F. Sánchez, A. Punzón, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, 2019. Updating the Master Management Plan for El Cachucho MPA (Cantabrian Sea) using a spatial planning approach. Continental Shelf Research, 184 (2019), 54-65.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C. y F. Sánchez, 2014. Is Centrophorus squamosus a highly migratory deep-water shark ?. Deep-Sea Research I, I - 92, 1 - 10.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C., J.C. Arronte, F. Sánchez, M. Pérez. (2012). New records expand the known southern most range of Rajella kukujevi (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) in the North-Eastern Atlantic (Cantabrian Sea). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 633–636.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C., F. Sánchez, V. Ortiz de Zárate and S. Barreiro, 2009. Does Le Danois bank (El Cachucho) influence albacore catches in the Cantabrian Sea?. Continental Shelf Research 29 (2009), 1205-1212.
   
• Sánchez, F., Rodríguez-Basalo, A., García-Alegre, A., Gómez-Ballesteros, M., 2017. Hard-bottom bathyal habitats and keystone epibenthic species on Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea). Journal of Sea Research 130 (2017), 134-153.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Rodríguez, A. García-Alegre, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, 2015. Mapping the 1170-reefs habitat of EU Directive of batial grounds of Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA, Cantabrian sea). VIII Simposio sobre Margen Ibérico Atlántico MIA15, Malaga (Spain).
   
• Sánchez, F., Serrano, A., Cartes, J.E., Preciado, I., Arronte, J.C., Parra, S., Frutos, I. Olaso, I., 2010. Estimating the MPA management effects on Le Danois Bank deep-sea ecosystem (El Cachucho) using trophodynamic modelization. Abstract book of 12 Symposium of Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (Isobay12). https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.4115.2400.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano and M. Gomez Ballesteros, 2009. Photogrammetric quantitative study of habitat and benthic communities of deep Cantabrian Sea hard grounds. Continental Shelf Research 29 (2009), 1174-1188.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano, S. Parra, M. Ballesteros and J.E. Cartes, 2008. Habitat characteristics as determinant of the structure and spatial distribution of epibenthic and demersal communities of Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, N. Spain). Journal of Marine Systems 72 (2008), 64-86.
   
• Shan Liu, David Van Rooij, Thomas Vandorpe, Cesar González-Pola, Gemma Ercilla, Francisco Javier Hernández-Molina, 2019. Morphological features and associated bottom-current dynamics in the Le Danois bank region (southern Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic): A model in a topographically constrained small basin. Deep-Sea Research Part I 149 (2019) 103054.
   
• Soler-Membrives A. & Munilla T. 2011. A new species of Nymphon Fabricius, 1794 (Pycnogonida: Nymphonidae) from northern Spain. Zootaxa, 2798: 31-36.
   
• Van Rooij, D., Iglesias, J., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Ercilla, G., Gomez-Ballesteros, M., Casas, D., Llave, E., De Hauwere, A., Garcia-Gil, S., Acosta,J., Henriet, J.-P., 2010. The Le Danois Contourite Depositional System: Interactions between the Mediterranean Outflow Water and the upper Cantabrian slope (North Iberian margin). Mar.Geol. 274,1–20.
   

Presentaciones en Congresos:

• Frutos I., Sorbe J.C., Sánchez F. & Serrano A. 2011. New insights into biodiversity of bathyal suprabenthic communities in the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity. Aberdeen, Scotland (UK).
   
• Frutos, I. & Sorbe J.C., 2008. "El Cachucho": un punto caliente de biodiversidad marina en el mar Cantábrico. XV Simposio Ibérico de Estudios de Biología Marina (Madeira).
   
• Frutos, I. & Sorbe J.C., 2004. Primeras observaciones sobre las comunidades suprabentónicas batiales del banco "Le Danois", norte del margen Cantábrico. XIII Simposio Ibérico de Estudios del Bentos Marino (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).
   
• García-Alegre, A., Francisco Sánchez, María Gómez-Ballesteros, Augusto Rodríguez, 2015. Habitat suitability model as a tool to optimize data and improve species distribution mapping on a deep-sea ecosystem: El Cachucho Marine Protected Area. 14th DSBS Deep sea Biology Symposium, Aveiro, Portugal.
   
• García-Alegre, A., F. Sánchez, M. Ballesteros, H. Hinz, A.. Serrano & S. Parra, 2012. Modelling and mapping the local distribution of communities and species of special interest on Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA). XIII International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay, ISOBAY13 (Santander, Abril 2012).
   
• Prado, Elena, Francisco Sánchez, Pilar Ríos, Augusto Rodríguez-Basalo and Javier Cristobo, 2019. In-situ growth rate assessment of hexactinellid Asconema setubalense using 3D photogrammetric reconstruction in El Cachucho Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, Cantabrian Sea). Front. Vet. Sci. Conference Abstract: XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX).
   
• Preciado, I., J.E. Cartes, F. Velasco, I. Olaso, A. Serrano, I. Frutos and F. Sánchez, 2009. Trophic relationships in a benthic-demersal deep-sea fish assemblage: linking benthic and benthopelagic food web. ICES International Symposium ?Issues Confronting the Deep Oceans?, Session E ? Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability and Conservation, Abstract Book, 71
   
• Punzón, A., J.M. García Rebollo, A. Rodríguez Basalo, E. Ceballos, I. Bolado, C. Rodríguez-Cabello F. Sánchez, 2016. Short-term effect of MPA management measure on the fisheries: the case of "El Cachucho" MPA (Cantabrian Sea). Conference: ISOBAY XV, Bilbao, June 22-24DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4602.3282.
   
• Rodríguez Basalo, A., Francisco Sánchez, A. García-Alegre, 2015. Epibenthic communities on bathyal hard bottoms of Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA, Cantabrian sea). VIII Simposio sobre Margen Ibérico Atlántico MIA15, Malaga (Spain).
   
• Rodríguez Basalo, A. Francisco Sánchez, Cesar González-Pola, Cristina Rodríguez-Cabello, 2014. Study of deep sea elasmobranchs in El Cachucho MPA (Cantabrian Sea) using non-invasive methods. 18th European Elasmobranch Association 2014 Scientific Conference, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C., F. Sánchez, V. Ortiz de Zárate y S. Barreiro, 2008. Does Le Danois bank (El Cachucho) influence albacore catches in the Bay of Biscay?. XI International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Rodríguez Basalo, C. González-Pola, C. Rodríguez-Cabello, 2016. Estimating patterns of species biodiversity and behavior of bathyal communities in relation to water dynamics. Marine Biology International Symposium SIEBM XIX – Oporto, September 05-09. Oral presentation.
   
• Sánchez F., Rodríguez-Basalo, A., García-Alegre A. & Gómez-Ballesteros, 2016. Hard bottoms bathyal habitats and epibenthic communities of Le Danois Bank. ISOBAY XV – Bilbao, June 22-24.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Rodríguez Basalo, A. García-Alegre & M. Gómez-Ballesteros, 2015. Mapping the 1170-reefs habitat of EU Directive of batial grounds of Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA, Cantabrian sea). VIII Simposio sobre el Margen Ibérico Atlántico MIA15, Málaga.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano, J.E. Cartes, I. Preciado, J.C. Arronte, S. Parra, I. Frutos and I. Olaso, 2010. Estimating the MPA management effects on Le Danois Bank deep-sea ecosystem (El Cachucho) using trophodynamic modelization. XII International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay, Brest, France.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano, J.E. Cartes, I. Preciado, S. Parra, I. Frutos, F. Velasco, I. Olaso and J.C. Arronte, 2009. Estimating the MPA management effects on Le Danois Bank deep-sea ecosystem (El Cachucho) using trophodynamic modelization. ICES International Symposium ?Issues Confronting the Deep Oceans?, Session E ? Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability and Conservation, Abstract Book, 74.
   
• Sánchez, F. and A. Serrano, 2008. Facies and biocoenoses on Le Danois Bank deep-sea benthic ecosystem (El Cachucho) using photogrammetry. XI International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay.
   
• Sánchez, F. and A. Serrano, 2008. Habitat, benthic communities and human impacts identification on the deep Cantabrian Sea ecosystems using photogrammetry. XV Simposio Ibérico de Estudios de Biología Marina(Madeira).
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano, S. Parra & J.E. Cartes, 2006. Epibenthic and demersal communities of Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian sea, N Spain). X International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (Vigo, Spain).
   
• Sánchez, F., Serrano, A., Cartes, J.E., Preciado, I., Parra, S., Frutos, I., Sorbe, J.C., Velasco, F. & Olaso, I., 2006. Structure and dynamic of Le Danois Bank deep-sea ecosystem. 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (Southampton, UK).
   
• Sánchez & Serrano 2004. Rediscovering Le Danois Bank. The epibenthic communities from ?El Cachucho?, sixty years after the survey of ?Président Théodore Tissier. IX Colloquio Internacional del Golfo de Vizcaya (Pau).
   
• Serrano, A., F. Sánchez, J.E. Cartes, I. Preciado, I. Frutos, J.C. Arronte, C. Rodríguez-Cabello and S. Parra, 2010. Ontogenic changes in habitat preferences by deep water fish in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, N Spain). XII International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay, Brest, France.
   
• Serrano, A., Sánchez, F., Cartes, J.E., Frutos, I., Sorbe, J.C., Parra, S. & Preciado, I., 2008. Habitat characteristics and prey availability determining spatial distribution of deep water fish in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, N Spain). XV Simposio Ibérico de Estudios de Biología Marina (Madeira)
   
• Serrano, A., Sanchez, F., Cartes, J., Frutos, I., Sorbe, J.C., Parra, S., Preciado, I., Velasco, F. & Olaso, I., 2006. Habitat complexity, prey availability and other environmental factors determining spatial distribution of epibenthic communities in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, N Spain).11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (Southampton, UK).
   
• Serrano, A., F. Sánchez, J. E. Cartes, J.C. Sorbe, S. Parra, I. Frutos, I. Olaso, F. Velasco, A. Punzón, A. Muñoz, M. Gómez, C. Pola & I. Preciado, 2005. ECOMARG Project: A multidisciplinary study of Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, N Spain). ICES CM 2005/P:11, 17 pp.
   

Posters:

• Altuna, Á. & Ríos, P. 2014. Calcaxonian octocorals (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from DEMERSALES, ECOMARG and INDEMARES expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic). En: Ríos, P., Suárez, L.A. & J. Cristobo (eds.), XVIII Simposio Ibérico de Estudios de Biología Marina, Gijón, 2-5 septiembre 2014.
   
• Ballesteros, M., A. Muñoz, J. Acosta & J. Rivera, 2004. Bathymetry of "El Cachucho" (Le Danois bank) area based on multibeam data. ECOMARG project.IX Colloquio Internacional del Golfo de Vizcaya (Pau).
   
• Cartes, J.E, C. Huguet, M. Sprovieri, A. Serrano, S. Parra & F. Sanchez., 2006. The response of deep-water decapod communities to depth and seasonal changes in food availability in Le Danois bank (NE Atlantic).11th International Deep`-Sea Biology Symposium (Southampton, UK).
   
• Cristobo, J., P. Rios, F. Sánchez, A. Serrano, I. Preciado, C. González-Pola, D. González & S. Parra, 2008. Preliminary results on the sponge fauna of Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho, Cantabrian Sea, N. Spain). XI International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay
   
• Frutos, I & J. C. Sorbe, 2010. A new benthic bioturbating scavenger from bathyal bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay. XII International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay, Brest, France.
   
• Frutos, I., J. C. Sorbe & J. Junoy. 2010. La primera especie ciega del género Paranthura (Crustacea: Isopoda: Anthuridea) habita en el mar Cantábrico (N España).
   
• Frutos, I., J. C. Sorbe, 2008. El Cachucho: a hotspot of biodiversity in the Bay of Biscay. XI International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay
   
• Frutos, I. & J.C. Sorbe, 2004. First observations on the suprabenthic communities from the "Le Danois" bank (caladero "El Cachucho"), southern Bay of Biscay. IX Colloquio Internacional del Golfo de Vizcaya (Pau).
   
• Gómez-Ballesteros, F. Sánchez, A. García-Alegre, C. González-Pola, J. Hernández-Molina, G. Ercilla, E. llave & S. Mink, 2015. Morphosedimentary characterization of Le danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA, Cantabrian sea). VIII Simposio sobre el Margen Ibérico Atlántico MIA15, Málaga.
   
• Parra, S., Valencia, J. & Frutos, I., 2006. Infaunal macrobenthos communities and sedimentary characteristics of Le Danois Bank (NE Atlantic, N Spain): preliminary studies. 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (Southampton, UK).
   
• Prado, Elena, Francisco Sanchez, Augusto Rodriguez, 2016. First approach to study size and morphology of gorgonian corals and sponges using photogrammetric analysis from video transects in the Marine Protected Area ‘El Cachucho’ (Cantabrian Sea). ISOBAY XV – Bilbao, June 22-24.
   
• Preciado, I., J.E. Cartes, F. Velasco, I. Olaso, A. Serrano, I. Frutos & F. Sánchez, 2006. Feeding ecology of deep fishes in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian sea, North Spain). X International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (Vigo, Spain).
   
• Preciado, I. , Cartes, J., Velasco, F., Olaso, I., Serrano, A., Frutos, I. & Sánchez, F., 2006. The role of suprabenthic and epibenthic communities in the diet of a deep-sea fish assemblage (Le Danois Bank, Cantabrian Sea, N Spain).11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (Southampton, UK).
   
• Rios, P., J. Cristobo, F. Sánchez & N. Anadón, 2008. Presence of a rare genus of deep sea Porifera (Podospongüdae) from the Cantabrian Sea. XI International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay
   
• Rodríguez Basalo, A., F. Sánchez, C. González-Pola, C. Rodríguez-Cabello and Elena Prado, 2016. Using a seafloor observatory to assess patterns of behaviour, abundance and biodiversity of bathyal communities in relation to water dynamics. ISOBAY XV – Bilbao, June 22-24.
   
• Rodríguez Basalo, A., F. Sánchez, A. García-Alegre, 2015. Epibenthic communities on bathyal hard bottoms of Le Danois Bank (El Cachucho MPA, Cantabrian sea). VIII Simposio sobre el Margen Ibérico Atlántico MIA15, Málaga.
   
• Rodríguez-Cabello, C., F. Sánchez, A. Serrano and A. Punzón, 2009. The status of chondricthyes species in deep waters of Cantabrian Sea (southern area of Bay of Biscay). ICES International Symposium ?Issues Confronting the Deep Oceans?, Session E ? Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability and Conservation.
   
• Sánchez, F., J. Gutiérrez, A. Serrano & J. Cristobo, 2010. A new photogrammetric and quantitative method for the study of benthic habitats and biological communities of the deep sea.
   
• Sánchez, F., A. Serrano, I. Preciado, I. Olaso, J. Cartes, S. Parra, F. Velasco, M. Gómez, I. Frutos & A. Punzón, 2007. Estimating the effects of MPA management on Le Danois Bank ecosystem (El Cachucho) using trophodynamic modelization. European Symposium on MPAs as tool for Fisheries Management & Ecosysyem Conservation (Murcia, Spain).
   
• Serrano, A., F. Sánchez, J.E. Cartes, S. Parra, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, I. Preciado and I. Frutos, 2009. Vulnerable habitats and threatened species distribution of El Cachucho deep sea MPA. ICES International Symposium ?Issues Confronting the Deep Oceans?, Session E ? Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability and Conservation.