Search Results - "Mammola, Stefano"
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Spiders in caves
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (26-04-2017)“…World experts of different disciplines, from molecular biology to macro-ecology, recognize the value of cave ecosystems as ideal ecological and evolutionary…”
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Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n‐dimensional hypervolumes
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-08-2020)“…The use of n‐dimensional hypervolumes in trait‐based ecology is rapidly increasing. By representing the functional space of a species or community as a…”
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Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life
Published in Biological conservation (01-07-2020)“…Legal and illegal wildlife trade is a multibillion dollar industry that is driving several species toward extinction. Even though wildlife trade permeates the…”
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Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-01-2021)“…Aim To disentangle the role of evolutionary history, competition and environmental filtering in driving the niche evolution of four closely related…”
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Modelling the future spread of native and alien congeneric species in subterranean habitats — the case of Meta cave-dwelling spiders in Great Britain
Published in International journal of speleology (01-09-2017)“…The threshold zones between the epigean and hypogean environments are generally characterized by less harsh ecological conditions than deep subterranean…”
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Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-02-2021)“…Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology, biogeography and conservation biology to estimate relationships between environmental variables…”
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Impact of the reference list features on the number of citations
Published in Scientometrics (2021)“…Many believe that the quality of a scientific publication is as good as the science it cites. However, quantifications of how features of reference lists…”
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Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas
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Measuring the influence of non-scientific features on citations
Published in Scientometrics (01-07-2022)“…Citations remain a prime, yet controversial, measure of academic performance. Ideally, how often a paper is cited should solely depend on the quality of the…”
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Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions
Published in Biological conservation (01-02-2020)“…Here we build on the manifesto ‘World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, issued by the Alliance of World Scientists. As a group of conservation biologists deeply…”
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Does weighting presence records improve the performance of species distribution models? A test using fish larval stages in the Yangtze Estuary
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-11-2020)“…To obtain realistic forecasts of the impacts of climate change on species habitat suitability, novel approaches based on species distribution models (SDMs) are…”
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Rarity facets of biodiversity: Integrating Zeta diversity and Dark diversity to understand the nature of commonness and rarity
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-10-2021)“…Measuring commonness and rarity is pivotal to ecology and conservation. Zeta diversity, the average number of species shared by multiple sets of assemblages,…”
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Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects
Published in Biological conservation (01-02-2020)“…The fate of humans and insects intertwine, especially through the medium of plants. Global environmental change, including land transformation and…”
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Potential niche displacement in species of aquatic bdelloid rotifers between temperate and tropical areas
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-11-2021)“…Bdelloids are commonly found in freshwaters or limno-terrestrial habitats. No formal attempt has yet been performed to define bdelloid niche and to identify…”
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Scientists’ Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems
Published in Bioscience (01-08-2019)“…In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other environmental modifications, a “Warning to humanity” manifesto was…”
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Future climate change will severely reduce habitat suitability of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander
Published in Freshwater biology (01-05-2020)“…Being the largest extant amphibian in the world, the IUCN Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus is a charismatic species with great…”
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A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-11-2022)“…The widespread use of species traits in basic and applied ecology, conservation and biogeography has led to an exponential increase in functional diversity…”
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The effects of protected areas on the ecological niches of birds and mammals
Published in Scientific reports (08-07-2022)“…Protected areas are a cornerstone for biodiversity conservation, and typically support more natural and undisturbed habitats compared to unprotected lands. The…”
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Associations between habitat quality, body size and reproductive fitness in the alpine endemic spider Vesubia jugorum
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-09-2019)“…Aim In theory, the highest‐quality habitat across a species’ range should support individuals with the highest fitness, making it possible to evaluate the…”
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ecological niche of a specialized subterranean spider
Published in Invertebrate biology (01-03-2016)“…Hypogean habitats offer unique opportunities for ecological studies because they are characterized by low abundance and diversity of organisms, they receive…”
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