List of works by Simone Fattorini

A Red List of Italian Saproxylic Beetles: taxonomic overview, ecological features and conservation issues (Coleoptera)

scholarly article by Giuseppe Maria Carpaneto published in December 2015

A biogeographical analysis of the tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) of the island of Thasos in the context of the Aegean Islands (Greece)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in December 2005

A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals.

scientific article

A few good reasons why species-area relationships do not work for parasites

scientific article

A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

A history of chorological categories.

scientific article

A multidimensional characterization of rarity applied to the Aegean tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in April 2007

A new method to identify important conservation areas applied to the butterflies of the Aegean Islands (Greece)

article by Simone Fattorini published February 2006 in Animal Conservation

A protocol to compare nestedness among submatrices

scientific article published in 2012

A simple method to fit geometric series and broken stick models in community ecology and island biogeography

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published November 2005 in Acta Oecologica

A statistical method for idiographic analyses in biogeographical research

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published 26 July 2007 in Diversity and Distributions

AQUALIFE Software: A New Tool for a Standardized Ecological Assessment of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

scientific article

Activity density of carabid beetles along an urbanisation gradient

scientific article published in 2020

Are generalist parasites being lost from their hosts?

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Author Correction: Plant recording across two centuries reveals dramatic changes in species diversity of a Mediterranean archipelago

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Beetle Species-Area Relationships and Extinction Rates in Protected Areas

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Behavior ofPaussus favieri(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini): A Myrmecophilous Beetle Associated withPheidole pallidula(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

scholarly article by Emanuela Maurizi published in January 2012

Biogeographical kinetics on an island volcano (Capelinhos, Azores): fast colonisation rates and dominance of arthropod exotic species

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini & Paulo A.V. Borges published 19 September 2011 in Insect Conservation and Diversity

Biogeographical kinetics on mainland and island volcanoes

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published 27 July 2010 in Journal of Biogeography

Biogeography of the tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on the Aegean Islands (Greece)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in January 2002

Biogeography of western Mediterranean butterflies: combining turnover and nestedness components of faunal dissimilarity

scholarly article by Leonardo Dapporto et al published 3 April 2014 in Journal of Biogeography

Biota from the coastal wetlands of Praia da Vitória (Terceira, Azores, Portugal): Part 1 - Arthropods

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Biotope prioritisation in the Central Apennines (Italy): species rarity and cross-taxon congruence

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Carabid community structure in northern China grassland ecosystems: Effects of local habitat on species richness, species composition and functional diversity

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Children's preferences for less diverse greenspaces do not disprove biophilia

scientific article

Climatic correlates of body size in European tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in December 2013

Comparison of Soil Biology Quality in Organically and Conventionally Managed Agro-Ecosystems Using Microarthropods

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

Competing Vegetation Structure Indices for Estimating Spatial Constrains in Carabid Abundance Patterns in Chinese Grasslands Reveal Complex Scale and Habitat Patterns

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Conservation biogeography of high‐altitude longhorn beetles under climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Conserving organisms over large regions requires multi-taxa indicators: One taxon’s diversity-vacant area is another taxon’s diversity zone

Corals hosting symbiotic hydrozoans are less susceptible to predation and disease.

scientific article published in December 2017

Correction: Global-Scale Relationships between Colonization Ability and Range Size in Marine and Freshwater Fish

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Corrigendum: A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Corrigendum: A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Detecting biodiversity hotspots by species-area relationships: a case study of Mediterranean beetles

scientific article

Development and reproduction of <i>Cataclysta lemnata</i>, a potential natural enemy of the invasive alien duckweed <i>Lemna minuta</i> in Italy

scientific article published in 2021

Disentangling the effects of available area, mid-domain constraints, and species environmental tolerance on the altitudinal distribution of tenebrionid beetles in a Mediterranean area

article published in 2014

Diversity Patterns of Dung Beetles along a Mediterranean Elevational Gradient

scientific article published in 2021

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Drivers of species richness in European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in August 2012

Earthquake impacts on microcrustacean communities inhabiting groundwater-fed springs alter species-abundance distribution patterns

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Earthquake-Related Changes in Species Spatial Niche Overlaps in Spring Communities

scientific article

Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Effects of fire on tenebrionid communities of a Pinus pinea plantation: a case study in a Mediterranean site

Ellenberg Indicator Values Disclose Complex Environmental Filtering Processes in Plant Communities along an Elevational Gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Environmental tuning of an insect ensemble: the tenebrionid beetles inhabiting a Mediterranean coastal dune zonation

scientific article

Evaluating Alpha and Beta Taxonomy in Ant-Nest Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in January 2013

Far from Naturalness: How Much Does Spatial Ecological Structure of European Tree Assemblages Depart from Potential Natural Vegetation?

scientific article

Fauna Europaea: Coleoptera 2 (excl. series Elateriformia, Scarabaeiformia, Staphyliniformia and superfamily Curculionoidea)

scientific article

Faunistic knowledge and insect species loss in an urban area: the tenebrionid beetles of Rome

article by Simone Fattorini et al published 16 April 2013 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Fine-Scale Vegetation Characteristics Drive Insect Ensemble Structures in a Desert Ecosystem: The Tenebrionid Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Inhabiting the Ulan Buh Desert (Inner Mongolia, China)

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Fish parasites resolve the paradox of missing coextinctions

scientific article published in January 2013

Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Marco Girardello et al published 4 April 2019 in Scientific Reports

Global-scale relationships between colonization ability and range size in marine and freshwater fish.

scientific article

Ground spiders (Chelicerata, Araneae) of an urban green space: intensive sampling in a protected area of Rome (Italy) reveals a high diversity and new records to the Italian territory

scientific article published in 2024

Groundwater biodiversity in a chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem: how geochemistry regulates microcrustacean community structure

scientific article

Hovenkamp's ostracized vicariance analysis: testing new methods of historical biogeography

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published August 2008 in Cladistics

How Island Geography and Shape may Influence Species Rarity and Biodiversity Loss in a Relict Fauna: A Case Study of Mediterranean Beetles

Human population density and tenebrionid richness covary in Mediterranean islands

scientific article published in 2016

Identification of Monogenea made easier: a new statistical procedure for an automatic selection of diagnostic linear measurements in closely related species

article by Giovanni Strona et al published 12 November 2013 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Influence of Climate and Local Habitat Characteristics on Carabid Beetle Abundance and Diversity in Northern Chinese Steppes

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Influence of grazing and solar panel installation on tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae) of a central Asian steppe

scientific article published in 2022

Influence of island geography, age and landscape on species composition in different animal groups

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Insect extinction by urbanization: A long term study in Rome

article by Simone Fattorini et al published January 2011 in Biological Conservation

Integrating landscape disturbance and indicator species in conservation studies

scientific article

Interactional behaviors of the parasitic beetle Paussus favieri with its ant host Pheidole pallidula: the mimetic role of the acoustical signals

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Island biogeography of urban insects: tenebrionid beetles from Rome tell a different story

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published August 2014 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Latitudinal trends in body length distributions of European darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)

scientific article published in 2013

Levels of endemism are not necessarily biased by the co-presence of species with different range sizes: a case study of Vilenkin and Chikatunov's models

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Longitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic community structure of European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) do not coincide with the major routes of postglacial colonization

scholarly article by Werner Ulrich published in March 2013

Macroecology of ground beetles: Species richness, range size and body size show different geographical patterns across a climatically heterogeneous area

scientific article published on 25 August 2019

Measuring insect rarity: practical issues, pragmatic approaches

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

Niche overlap and species co-occurrence patterns in carabid communities of the northern Chinese steppes

scientific article

On the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published June 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

On the methods to assess significance in nestedness analyses

scientific article published on 29 June 2014

Parasitic worms: how many really?

scientific article

Patterns of beta diversity in riparian ground beetle assemblages (Coleoptera Carabidae): A case study in the River Aniene (Central Italy)

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Paul A. Keddy and Daniel C. Laughlin: A Framework for Community Ecology. Species Pools, Filters and Traits

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic diversity of regional beetle faunas at high latitudes: patterns, drivers and chance along ecological gradients

Plant recording across two centuries reveals dramatic changes in species diversity of a Mediterranean archipelago

scientific article

Predicting beta diversity of terrestrial and aquatic beetles using ecogeographical variables: insights from the replacement and richness difference components

scientific article published on 4 December 2018

Regional insect inventories require long time, extensive spatial sampling and good will.

scientific article

Relations between species rarity, vulnerability, and range contraction for a beetle group in a densely populated region in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Response of macrophyte communities to flow regulation in mountain streams.

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Review of competing hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships of Paussinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on larval characters

scholarly article by Andrea Di Giulio et al published October 2003 in Systematic Entomology

Role of urban green spaces for saproxylic beetle conservation: a case study of tenebrionids in Rome, Italy

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Should we correct rarity measures for body size to evaluate arthropod vulnerability? Insights from Mediterranean tenebrionid beetles

Small world in the real world: Long distance dispersal governs epidemic dynamics in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Species distribution, ecology, abundance, body size and phylogeny originate interrelated rarity patterns at regional scale

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini et al published May 2013 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Species ecological preferences predict extinction risk in urban tenebrionid beetle guilds

scientific article published in 2013

Species richness and turnover patterns in European tenebrionid beetles

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Species-area relationships underestimate extinction rates

scientific article published in 2012

Tenebrionid beetle distributional patterns in Italy: multiple colonisation trajectories in a biogeographical crossroad

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Tenebrionid beetles as proxy indicators of climate aridity in a Mediterranean area

scientific article published in 2014

Testing the latitudinal gradient: a narrow‐scale analysis of tenebrionid richness (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) in the Aegean archipelago (Greece)

scholarly article by Simone Fattorini published in September 2006

The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle's Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours

scientific article

The Role of Inter- and Intraspecific Variations in Grassland Plant Functional Traits along an Elevational Gradient in a Mediterranean Mountain Area

scientific article published on 14 February 2021

The Role of Small Lowland Patches of Exotic Forests as Refuges of Rare Endemic Azorean Arthropods

scientific article published on 17 September 2021

The Watson-Forbes Biogeographical Controversy Untangled 170 Years Later

scientific article

The influence of geographical and ecological factors on island beta diversity patterns

The use of cumulative area curves in biological conservation: A cautionary note

scientific article published in 2010

To Fit or Not to Fit? A Poorly Fitting Procedure Produces Inconsistent Results When the Species–Area Relationship is used to Locate Hotspots

Trapped in the web of water: Groundwater-fed springs are island-like ecosystems for the meiofauna

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Urban biodiversity hotspots are not related to the structure of green spaces: a case study of tenebrionid beetles from Rome, Italy

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Use of arthropod rarity for area prioritisation: insights from the Azorean Islands.

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Use of cross-taxon congruence for hotspot identification at a regional scale

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Use of insect rarity for biotope prioritisation: the tenebrionid beetles of the Central Apennines (Italy)

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Use of microarthropods to evaluate the impact of fire on soil biological quality

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Using species abundance distribution models and diversity indices for biogeographical analyses

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Variations in Plant Richness, Biogeographical Composition, and Life Forms along an Elevational Gradient in a Mediterranean Mountain

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

What can the parameters of the species-area relationship (SAR) tell us? Insights from Mediterranean islands

When human needs meet beetle preferences: tenebrionid beetle richness covaries with human population on the Mediterranean islands

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Wildfire does not affect the dung beetle diversity of high-altitude Mediterranean habitats

scientific article published in 2021

recluster: an unbiased clustering procedure for beta-diversity turnover

scientific article published in 2013