List of works by Mirko Di Febbraro

A 450 million years long latitudinal gradient in age-dependent extinction

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Analyse the Effects of Environmental Variables on Geographic Range and Genetic Structure of a Perennial Psammophilous Geophyte: The Case of the Sea Daffodil Pancratium maritimum L. in the Mediterranean Basin

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A Noninvasive Genetic Insight into the Spatial and Social Organization of an Endangered Population of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra, Mustelidae, Carnivora)

scientific article published in 2022

A modelling approach to infer the effects of wind farms on landscape connectivity for bats

scientific article published in 2014

A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution

scientific article published in 2018

A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

A systematic conservation planning approach to fire risk management in Natura 2000 sites

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Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears

article by Alessandro Mondanaro et al published 9 February 2019 in Boreas

Assessing habitat quality in relation to the spatial distribution of protected areas in Italy

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

Assessment of the current distribution of free-living parrots and parakeets (Aves: Psittaciformes) in Italy: a synthesis of published data and new records

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Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 August 2023

Coastal Biodiversity Assessment Aided by Citizen Science Volunteers: A Look at the Italian Central Adriatic

scientific article published on 6 November 2023

Coastal Dune Invaders: Integrative Mapping of Carpobrotus sp. pl. (Aizoaceae) Using UAVs

scientific article published in 2023

Cold-blooded in the Ice Age: “refugia within refugia”, inter-and intraspecific biogeographic diversification of European whipsnakes (Squamata, Colubridae, Hierophis )

scholarly article by Marcello Mezzasalma et al published April 2018 in Zoology

Diagnostic Species Diversity Pattern Can Provide Key Information on Vegetation Change: An Insight into High Mountain Habitats in Central Apennines

scientific article published on 07 September 2021

Different bat guilds perceive their habitat in different ways: a multiscale landscape approach for variable selection in species distribution modelling

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Different facets of the same niche: Integrating citizen science and scientific survey data to predict biological invasion risk under multiple global change drivers

scientific article published in 2023

Distribution, spatial interaction and niche analysis in three species of European moles (genus Talpa, Soricomorpha: Mammalia) in Italy

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Diversification Rates and the Evolution of Species Range Size Frequency Distribution

scientific article published in 2017

Does the jack of all trades fare best? Survival and niche width in Late Pleistocene megafauna

Expert-based and correlative models to map habitat quality: Which gives better support to conservation planning?

Fragmentation of Neanderthals' pre-extinction distribution by climate change

scholarly article by Marina Melchionna published in May 2018

From Smart Apes to Human Brain Boxes. A Uniquely Derived Brain Shape in Late Hominins Clade

From the Apennines to the Alps: recent range expansion of the crested porcupineHystrix cristataL., 1758 (Mammalia: Rodentia: Hystricidae) in Italy

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Global change on the roof of the world: Vulnerability of Himalayan otter species to land use and climate alterations

scientific article published on 20 July 2021

Habitat suitability vs landscape connectivity determining roadkill risk at a regional scale: a case study on European badger (Meles meles)

Hydromorphology Meets Mammal Ecology: River Morphological Quality, Recent Channel Adjustments and Otter Resilience

Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats

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Integrating climate and land‐use change scenarios in modelling the future spread of invasive squirrels in Italy

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Large scale faecal (spraint) counts indicate the population status of endangered Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra)

scientific article published in 2020

Living with the elephant in the room: Top-down control in Eurasian large mammal diversity over the last 22 million years

scholarly article by Alessandro Mondanaro published in November 2017

Long-term effects of traditional and conservation-oriented forest management on the distribution of vertebrates in Mediterranean forests: a hierarchical hybrid modelling approach

scientific article published in 2015

MInOSSE: A new method to reconstruct geographic ranges of fossil species

scientific article published in 2020

Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Tree-Related Microhabitats using Airborne Laser Scanning

scientific article published in 2020

Measuring Alpha and Beta Diversity by Field and Remote-Sensing Data: A Challenge for Coastal Dunes Biodiversity Monitoring

scientific article published in 2021

Modeling regional drought-stress indices for beech forests in Mediterranean mountains based on tree-ring data

scholarly article by Roberto Tognetti et al published February 2019 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Open MICE : an open spatial and temporal data set of small mammals in south‐central Italy based on owl pellet data

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Plant invasion risk inside and outside protected areas: Propagule pressure, abiotic and biotic factors definitively matter

scientific article published in 2023

Potential distribution of alien parakeets in Tuscany (Central Italy): a bioclimatic model approach

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Protecting one, protecting both? Scale-dependent ecological differences in two species using dead trees, the rosalia longicorn beetle and the barbastelle bat

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Rare species habitat suitability assessment and reliability evaluation of an expert-based model: A case study of the insectivorous plantPinguicula crystallinaSibth. et Smith subsp.hirtiflora(Ten.) Strid (Lentibulariaceae)

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Regional-scale modelling of the cumulative impact of wind farms on bats

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Relationships between stand structural attributes and saproxylic beetle abundance in a Mediterranean broadleaved mixed forest

scientific article published in 2019

Remote Sensing and Invasive Plants in Coastal Ecosystems: What We Know So Far and Future Prospects

scientific article published in 2023

Shedding light on the effects of climate change on the potential distribution of Xylella fastidiosa in the Mediterranean basin

scholarly article by Luciano Bosso et al published 16 March 2016 in Biological Invasions

Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Species distribution models as a tool to predict range expansion after reintroduction: A case study on Eurasian beavers ( Castor fiber )

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Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact

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The Monetary-Equivalent Effect of Voluntary Work on Mental Wellbeing in Europe

The decline of the lanner falcon in Mediterranean landscapes: competition displacement or habitat loss?

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The influence of climate on species distribution over time and space during the late Quaternary

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The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

The role of protected areas in preserving habitat and functional connectivity for mobile flying vertebrates: the common noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) in Tuscany (Italy) as a case study

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The use of climatic niches in screening procedures for introduced species to evaluate risk of spread: a case with the American Eastern grey squirrel

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The well-behaved killer: Late Pleistocene humans in Eurasia were significantly associated with living megafauna only

scholarly article by F. Carotenuto published in July 2018

Tracing the evolutionary history of the mole,Talpa europaea, through mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and species distribution modelling

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Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins.

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Using macroecological constraints on spatial biodiversity predictions under climate change: the modelling method matters

scientific article published in 2018

What story does geographic separation of insular bats tell? A case study on Sardinian rhinolophids

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Where will it cross next? Optimal management of road collision risk for otters in Italy

scientific article published on 23 September 2019