A5020616480- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Museo delle Scienze
2011-2025
University of Milan
2024-2025
Universidad de Oviedo
2017-2021
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2020
Finnish Museum of Natural History
2011
University of Helsinki
2011
Pedrini (Italy)
2011
Estación Biológica de Doñana
2011
The active participation of scientific trusts, including CISO (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici), in applied conservation actions plays a crucial role addressing the challenges faced by natural and semi-natural landscapes, which are increasingly impacted improper land-use land-cover. This is particularly true for those landscapes where Large Infrastructures Big Events (LIBEs) planned. In these circumstances, researchers, professionals, environmentalists typically express their concerns on...
Large carnivores are recolonizing parts of their historical range in Europe, a heavily modified human landscape. This calls for an improvement our knowledge on how large manage to coexist with humans, and the effects that activity has carnivore behaviour, especially areas where populations still endangered. Brown bears Ursus arctos have been shown be sensitive presence people activities. Thus, bear conservation management should take into account potential behavioural alterations related...
ABSTRACT In many mountain regions, tourism represents one of the main sources income. Winter sports are often prevalent and, in last decades, infrastructures linked to ski industry have expanded worldwide ranges. Mountains dramatically suffering effects climate change, species contracting or declining and ski‐pistes predicted shrink towards higher elevations. For high‐elevation ecosystems species, construction is a major issue, impacting on such as alpine birds already threatened by change....
Abstract Coexistence of humans and large carnivores is a major challenge for conservation management, especially in human‐modified landscapes. Ongoing recovery some carnivore populations good news, but it also brings about increased levels conflict with humans. Compensation payments preventive measures are used worldwide as part programmes the aim reducing such conflicts improving public attitude towards carnivores. However, understanding drivers triggering priority, which helps prevent...
Seasonal movements are a response to variability in resource availability and result from complex interaction between the behavioral physiological traits of species its prevailing environment. A widespread bird migration strategy is partial latitudinal migration, where some proportion population moves breeding winter grounds, while remaining individuals stay year-round on grounds. Deciphering how why migrate others essential understanding community structure dynamics. Little known about...
Abstract Aim High‐elevation specialist species are threatened by climate change and habitat loss, their distributions becoming increasingly reduced fragmented. In such a context, dispersal ability is crucial to maintain gene flow among patches of suitable habitat. However, information about often lacking for these species, especially those taxa that usually considered as good dispersers birds. We adopted landscape genomics approach investigate in climate‐sensitive high‐elevation bird. Our...
Summary The White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis is assumed to be highly threatened by climate change, but this high elevation species has been little studied and the current breeding distribution accurately known only for a minor portion of its range. Here, we provide detailed spatially explicit identification potentially suitable areas Snowfinch. We modelled in Europe compared them with currently distribution. built model using 14,574 records obtained during period that integrated...
Abstract In endotherm animals, several traits are related to climate. For example, Bergmann’s rule predicts a decrease in body size within species and across closely with increasing temperature, whereas Gloger’s states that birds mammals should be darker humid warm environments compared colder drier areas. However, it is still not clear whether ecotypic responses variation the local environment can also apply morphological colouration changes through time response climate change. We present...
Many animals make behavioural changes to cope with winter conditions, being gregariousness a common strategy. Several factors have been invoked explain why may evolve during winter, individuals coming together and separating as they trade off the different costs benefits of living in groups. These trade-offs may, however, change over space time response varying environmental conditions. Despite its importance, little is known about triggering gregarious behaviour variation weather conditions...
Abstract Microhabitat utilisation holds a pivotal role in shaping species’ ecological dynamics and stands as crucial concern for effective conservation strategies. Despite its critical importance, microhabitat use has frequently been addressed static, centering on preference. Yet, dynamic that allows individuals to adjust fine-scale spatio-temporal prey fluctuations, becomes imperative species thriving challenging environments. High-elevation ecosystems, marked by brief growing seasons...
In forest ecosystems, birds influence structure and functioning through seed dispersal, pollination, predation and/or ecosystem engineering (Fraixedas et al., 2020). Among birds, woodpeckers are key species of ecosystems: the cavities they build for nesting used by many other including mammals insects (Martin, 2015; Edworthy 2018). Woodpeckers engineers that modify environment, supporting richer complex biological communities, limiting demographic explosions enhancing sap availability...
Recent research has demonstrated the important role of visual communication in nocturnal birds. Achromatic plumage patches (i.e., pigment-free white feathers) with high levels contrast against dark backgrounds are excellent candidates for signaling or at twilight, when differences color may be less effective. In this study, goal investigating certain achromatic patches, we examined characteristics and patterns brightness total reflectance) Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) feather both young...
High mountain areas are subject to strong seasonal fluctuations, and species inhabiting these particular environments show a high degree of habitat specialization cope with extreme abiotic conditions. Estimates use influenced by the spatial scales at which they evaluated, so studies multiple important in order explore adaptive responses environments. In present study, we assessed White‐winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis subsp. (henceforth Snowfinch) during breeding non‐breeding seasons...
Reliable methods to measure stress-related glucocorticoid responses in free-ranging animals are important for wildlife management and conservation. Such also paramount our ability improve knowledge of the ecological consequences physiological processes. The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large carnivore cultural importance management. Here, we provide validation an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) quantify metabolites feces. We evaluation effects sample exposure ambient temperature on measured fecal...
Abstract The rather limited human ability to understand animal vision and visual signalling has frequently clouded our expectations concerning the abilities of other animals. But there are multiple reasons suspect that is more widely employed by animals than previously thought. Because visibility marks depends on background in which they seen, species spending most their time living dark conditions (e.g., forests and/or having crepuscular nocturnal habits) may rely bright signals enhance...
Replacement clutches can be crucial to the breeding success of avian species, although se-veral factors may influence their outcome and quality chicks. Here we compare first replacement Eagle Owls in terms chick quality, timing breeding, number eggs fledglings. We hypothesize that propensity abandon nests start a new clutch could have evolved because females are able produce chicks as good ones clutch. found nestlings were not significantly different from clutches, immune system body...
The non-breeding distribution and ecology of many migratory songbirds are often poorly studied, but very relevant for their conservation in a changing climate. Snow Bunting is the most northerly breeding passerine worldwide, winters temperate/temperate-cold areas. Characterised by specialisation cold climate strong connectivity, it underwent recent range contraction declining because rising winter temperatures. Investigating its migration wintering to understand possible impacts change. We...
Linking organism distribution to climate is key understanding factors determining species occurrence and evaluating the potential impacts of ongoing change. A common analytical tool assess link between represented by ecological niche modelling tightly related models (SDMs). Those approaches have been widely used explain features in relation current climatic other environmental variables, or as a response past colonization extinction events (Pons et al. 2021), well predict future target...