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Delayed control of ecological and biological networks by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…Evolutionary Network Control (ENC) was introduced in 2011 to permit the control of any kind of ecological and biological networks, with an arbitrary number of…”
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Weak points in competitive network theory of species diversity by Ferrarini, Alessandro

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Waterbird Species Are Highly Sensitive to Wetland Traits: Simulation-Based Conservation Strategies for the Birds of the Sicilian Wetlands (Italy) by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Celada, Claudio, Gustin, Marco

“…In this study, we (a) formulated a general hypothesis about how wetland (functional and structural) traits influence avian diversity, (b) turned this…”
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A deeper insight into the equilibrium of biological and ecological networks by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…The equilibrium of biological and ecological networks is often studied using eigenvector-eigenvalue analyses in order to reckon steady/unsteady properties and…”
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Simulation Modeling Unveils the Unalike Effects of Alternative Strategies for Waterbird Conservation in the Coastal Wetlands of Sardinia (Italy) by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Gustin, Marco, Celada, Claudio

“…The Sardinian wetlands (Italy) act as stopover sites for many migratory birds along the central eastern Mediterranean bird flyway. These wetlands are now…”
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Unsupervised Ethograms of a Vulnerable Bird Species: The Red-Footed Falcon in Northern Italy by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Gustin, Marco

“…Behavioral and movement ecology have quickly advanced as a result of the development of biotelemetry devices and analytical techniques. Global positioning…”
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Anthropogenic Pressure and Climate Change Could Severely Hamper the Avian Metacommunity of the Sicilian Wetlands by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Celada, Claudio, Gustin, Marco

“…Our study shows that the current levels of anthropogenic exploitation of the Sicilian wetlands (Italy), combined with the likely exacerbation of climate-driven…”
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First Record of the Red-Footed Falcon’s Nocturnal Flight Activity during the Nestling Period Using GPS Data by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Gustin, Marco

“…The red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus) is a species that is of great interest to conservation. Because of this, understanding the red-footed falcon’s flight…”
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Bird Species Assembly in the Coastal Wetlands of Sicily : A Multilevel Analytical Approach to Promote More Satisfactory Conservation Planning by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Celada, Claudio, Gustin, Marco

“…The Sicilian wetlands (Italy) are seriously threatened by human activities and ongoing climate change. The loss of these wetlands as migratory stepping stones…”
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Structural control of ecological and biological networks by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…Evolutionary Network Control (ENC) allows the control of any kind of ecological and biological network, with an arbitrary number of nodes and links. In this…”
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Spatio-temporal patterns of the Red-footed Falcon’s hunting behavior during the nestling period suggest ad hoc conservation policies by Gustin, Marco, Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…The Red-footed Falcon ( Falco vespertinus ) is a species of high international conservation interest. We analyzed its hunting behavior at the two largest…”
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Twenty-Three Years of Land-Use Changes Induced Considerable Threats to the Main Wetlands of Sardinia and Sicily (Italy) along the Mediterranean Bird Flyways by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Gustin, Marco, Celada, Claudio

“…Biodiversity loss has multiple causes, but habitat degradation through land-use change is the predominant driver. We investigated the effectiveness of the…”
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A Community-Level Approach to Species Conservation: A Case Study of Falco naumanni in Southern Italy by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Giglio, Giuseppe, Pellegrino, Stefania Caterina, Gustin, Marco

“…The conservation of threatened species is prevalently oriented towards two management strategies, i.e., habitat-level and species-level approaches. The former…”
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Bit by bit control of nonlinear ecological and biological networks using Evolutionary Network Control by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…Evolutionary Network Control (ENC) has been first introduced in 2013 to effectively subdue network-like systems. ENC opposes the idea, very common in the…”
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Overlap and Segregation among Multiple 3D Home Ranges: A Non-Pairwise Metric with Demonstrative Application to the Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Giglio, Giuseppe, Pellegrino, Stefania Caterina, Gustin, Marco

“…In this study we solved the issue of measuring the degree of overlap/segregation among an arbitrarily large number ( ≥ 2) of 3D volumetric home ranges (i.e., ,…”
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Decentralized control of ecological and biological networks through Evolutionary Network Control by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…Evolutionary Network Control (ENC) has been recently introduced to allow the control of any kind of ecological and biological networks, with an arbitrary…”
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Calculating the uncertainty associated to the forecast of species dispersals: Stochastic Flow Connectivity by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…To date, corridors for species dispersals have been thought as deterministic outputs emerging from some kind of model. Uncertainty about the individuation of…”
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Evolutionary Network Control also holds for nonlinear networks: Ruling the Lotka-Volterra model by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…The proof of our understanding of ecological and biological systems is measured by our skill to rule them, i.e. to channelize them towards a desired state…”
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Local and global control of ecological and biological networks by Ferrarini, Alessandro

“…Recently, I introduced a methodological framework so that ecological and biological networks can be controlled both from inside and outside by coupling network…”
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Measuring the Degree of Overlap and Segregation among Multiple Probabilistic Home Ranges: A New Index with Illustrative Application to the Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni by Ferrarini, Alessandro, Giglio, Giuseppe, Pellegrino, Stefania Caterina, Gustin, Marco

“…Home range overlap/segregation has several important applications to wildlife conservation and management. In this work, we first address the issue of…”
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