List of works - Raoul Manenti

A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders

scientific article published on 10 March 2022

A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

scientific article published on 13 August 2021

Activity of stygobionts in spring habitats: behavioral, ecological and evolutionary insights

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

All that changes is not shift: methodological choices influence niche shift detection in freshwater invasive species

scientific article published in 2022

Amphibians breeding in refuge habitats have larvae with stronger antipredator responses

article

Antagonizing retinoic acid and FGF/MAPK pathways control posterior body patterning in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis

scientific article

Austropotamobius pallipes reduction vs. Procambarus clarkii spreading: Management implications

Batracobdella leeches, environmental features and Hydromantes salamanders.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Biphasic predators provide biomass subsidies in small freshwater habitats: A case study of spring and cave pools

Birds biodiversity in urban and periurban forests: environmental determinants at local and landscape scales

Both Light Stimuli and Predation Risk Affect the Adult Behavior of a Stygobiont Crustacean

scientific article published in 2023

Can patterns of spatial autocorrelation reveal population processes? An analysis with the fire salamander

article

Causes and consequences of crayfish extinction: Stream connectivity, habitat changes, alien species and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Raoul Manenti et al published 2 December 2018 in Freshwater Biology

Cave exploitation by an usual epigean species: a review on the current knowledge on fire salamander breeding in cave

Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers.

scientific article

Cave morphology, microclimate and abundance of five cave predators from the Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

Consider species specialism when publishing datasets

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Continental-scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range

Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Differential biochemical and behavioral responses induced by cocaine and benzoylecgonine exposure to the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii

scientific article published in 2022

Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species?

article

Do cave salamanders occur randomly in cavities? An analysis with Hydromantes strinatii

article

Dry stone walls favour biodiversity: a case-study from the Appennines

Early assessment of the impact of alien species: differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians

article

Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes

scientific article published in 2021

Environmental DNA and metabarcoding for the study of amphibians and reptiles: species distribution, the microbiome, and much more

scientific article published in 2019

Environmental DNA of Insects and Springtails from Caves Reveals Complex Processes of Edna Transfer in Soils

scientific article published on 21 December 2021

Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Environmental factors associated with amphibian breeding in streams and springs: effects of habitat and fish occurrence

article

Environmental factors determining growth of salamander larvae: A field study

scientific article published in 2015

Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders.

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Evaluating human basal metabolism: the erroneous and misleading use of so-called "prediction equations"

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Even worms matter: cave habitat restoration for a planarian species increased environmental suitability but not abundance

Explaining declines of newt abundance in northern Italy

scientific article published in 2022

Exploring miR-9 Involvement in Ciona intestinalis Neural Development Using Peptide Nucleic Acids

scientific article published on 15 March 2020

Factors driving semi-aquatic predator occurrence in traditional cattle drinking pools: conservation issues

Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders.

scientific article

Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) males’ activity during breeding season: effects of microhabitat features and body size ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Fluorescence Properties of a Novel Isoquinoline Derivative Tested in an Invertebrate Chordate, Ciona intestinalis

scientific article published on 04 May 2021

Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders

article by Raoul Manenti et al published August 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on 27 June 2024

Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19

scientific article published on 13 May 2022

Groundwater invertebrates and droughts: resistance in stygobiont isopods and planarians

scientific article published in 2022

Habitat features and distribution of Salamandra salamandra in underground springs ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 December 2009

Inter-specific and inter-population variation in individual diet specialization: do environmental factors have a role?

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Invasive Species and Amphibian Conservation

scientific article

Invasive crayfish does not influence spawning microhabitat selection of brown frogs ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Is landscape of fear of macroinvertebrate communities a major determinant of mesopredator and prey activity?

scientific article published in 2020

Is the Italian stream frog (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) an opportunistic exploiter of cave twilight zone?

article

Joint letter inspired by Hymas et al. (2021): There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Landscape of fear in freshwater ecotones: How predation risk and light conditions affect mesopredator activity and foraging in springs

scientific article published in 2023

Larval development and poor trophic resource availability: Local adaptations and plasticity in a widespread amphibian species

Lockdown policy effects on invasive species: a perspective

scientific article published in 2021

Long-term drivers of persistence and colonization dynamics in spatially structured amphibian populations

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Microhabitat analyses support relationships between niche breadth and range size when spatial autocorrelation is strong

scientific article published in 2020

Mountain protected areas as refuges for threatened freshwater species: the detrimental effect of the direct introduction of alien species

article

N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates.

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

Network‐scale effects of invasive species on spatially‐structured amphibian populations

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Odonata Occurrence in Caves: Active or Accidentals? A new Case Study

On the stability of the dorsal pattern of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)

scientific article

Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Predation on Amphibians May Enhance Eurasian Otter Recovery in Southern Italy

scientific article published in 2019

Preliminary conservation status assessment of cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of Italian Alps and Apennines

article

Raised by aliens: constant exposure to an invasive predator triggers morphological but not behavioural plasticity in a threatened species tadpoles

scientific article published on 06 August 2021

Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods

scientific article published in 2022

Role of density and resource competition in determining aggressive behaviour in salamanders

article

Safe as a cave? Intraspecific aggressiveness rises in predator-devoid and resource-depleted environments

scientific article published in 2019

Salamanders breeding in subterranean habitats: local adaptations or behavioural plasticity?

article by Raoul Manenti & G. F. Ficetola published 31 January 2013 in Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Seasonal variation in microhabitat of salamanders: environmental variation or shift of habitat selection?

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Similar species, different fates: Abundance dynamics in spatially structured populations of common and threatened frogs

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial autocorrelation and the analysis of invasion processes from distribution data: a study with the crayfish Procambarus clarkii

article

Spatial segregation among age classes in cave salamanders: habitat selection or social interactions?

article

Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?

scientific article published in 2020

Teratogenic potential of nanoencapsulated vitamin A evaluated on an alternative model organism, the tunicate Ciona intestinalis

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

The distribution of cave twilight-zone spiders depends on microclimatic features and trophic supply

The first ecological study on the oldest allochthonous population of European cave salamanders (Hydromantes sp.)

The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

The post hoc measurement as a safe and reliable method to age and size plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

The roles of landscape of fear and light in allowing the exploitation of spring habitats by subterranean amphipods: an experimental and field approach

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

The stenoendemic cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of the Italian Alps and Apennines: Conservation issues

article

Thermal equilibrium and temperature differences among body regions in European plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Thirty years of invasion: the distribution of the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii in Italy

scientific article published in 2019

Transgressive niche across a salamander hybrid zone revealed by microhabitat analyses

scientific article published in 2019

Usefulness of volunteer data to measure the large scale decline of “common” toad populations

Value-conflicts in the conservation of a native species: a case study based on the endangered white-clawed crayfish in Europe

scientific article

Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator

scientific article published in 2021

Water, stream morphology and landscape: complex habitat determinants for the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra

What shapes the trophic niche of European plethodontid salamanders?

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Which processes are behind the relationship between species abundance and environmental suitability? Monte Albo cave salamander as model species

article

miR-7 Knockdown by Peptide Nucleic Acids in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Don’t forget the vertical dimension: assessment of distributional dynamics of cave-dwelling invertebrates in both ground and parietal microhabitats ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Invasive predators induce plastic and adaptive responses during embryo development in a threatened frog

scientific article

List of works by Raoul Manenti

A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders

A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

Activity of stygobionts in spring habitats: behavioral, ecological and evolutionary insights

All that changes is not shift: methodological choices influence niche shift detection in freshwater invasive species

Amphibians breeding in refuge habitats have larvae with stronger antipredator responses

Antagonizing retinoic acid and FGF/MAPK pathways control posterior body patterning in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis

Austropotamobius pallipes reduction vs. Procambarus clarkii spreading: Management implications

Batracobdella leeches, environmental features and Hydromantes salamanders.

Biphasic predators provide biomass subsidies in small freshwater habitats: A case study of spring and cave pools

Birds biodiversity in urban and periurban forests: environmental determinants at local and landscape scales

Both Light Stimuli and Predation Risk Affect the Adult Behavior of a Stygobiont Crustacean

Can patterns of spatial autocorrelation reveal population processes? An analysis with the fire salamander

Causes and consequences of crayfish extinction: Stream connectivity, habitat changes, alien species and ecosystem services

Cave exploitation by an usual epigean species: a review on the current knowledge on fire salamander breeding in cave

Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers.

Cave morphology, microclimate and abundance of five cave predators from the Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)

Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years

Consider species specialism when publishing datasets

Continental-scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range

Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders

Differential biochemical and behavioral responses induced by cocaine and benzoylecgonine exposure to the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii

Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species?

Do cave salamanders occur randomly in cavities? An analysis with Hydromantes strinatii

Dry stone walls favour biodiversity: a case-study from the Appennines

Early assessment of the impact of alien species: differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians

Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes

Environmental DNA and metabarcoding for the study of amphibians and reptiles: species distribution, the microbiome, and much more

Environmental DNA of Insects and Springtails from Caves Reveals Complex Processes of Edna Transfer in Soils

Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils

Environmental factors associated with amphibian breeding in streams and springs: effects of habitat and fish occurrence

Environmental factors determining growth of salamander larvae: A field study

Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders.

Evaluating human basal metabolism: the erroneous and misleading use of so-called "prediction equations"

Even worms matter: cave habitat restoration for a planarian species increased environmental suitability but not abundance

Explaining declines of newt abundance in northern Italy

Exploring miR-9 Involvement in Ciona intestinalis Neural Development Using Peptide Nucleic Acids

Factors driving semi-aquatic predator occurrence in traditional cattle drinking pools: conservation issues

Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders.

Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) males’ activity during breeding season: effects of microhabitat features and body size ⬇️

Fluorescence Properties of a Novel Isoquinoline Derivative Tested in an Invertebrate Chordate, Ciona intestinalis

Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders

Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19

Groundwater invertebrates and droughts: resistance in stygobiont isopods and planarians

Habitat features and distribution of Salamandra salamandra in underground springs ⬇️

Inter-specific and inter-population variation in individual diet specialization: do environmental factors have a role?

Invasive Species and Amphibian Conservation

Invasive crayfish does not influence spawning microhabitat selection of brown frogs ⬇️

Is landscape of fear of macroinvertebrate communities a major determinant of mesopredator and prey activity?

Is the Italian stream frog (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) an opportunistic exploiter of cave twilight zone?

Joint letter inspired by Hymas et al. (2021): There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics

Landscape of fear in freshwater ecotones: How predation risk and light conditions affect mesopredator activity and foraging in springs

Larval development and poor trophic resource availability: Local adaptations and plasticity in a widespread amphibian species

Lockdown policy effects on invasive species: a perspective

Long-term drivers of persistence and colonization dynamics in spatially structured amphibian populations

Microhabitat analyses support relationships between niche breadth and range size when spatial autocorrelation is strong

Mountain protected areas as refuges for threatened freshwater species: the detrimental effect of the direct introduction of alien species

N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates.

Network‐scale effects of invasive species on spatially‐structured amphibian populations

Odonata Occurrence in Caves: Active or Accidentals? A new Case Study

On the stability of the dorsal pattern of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)

Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes

Predation on Amphibians May Enhance Eurasian Otter Recovery in Southern Italy

Preliminary conservation status assessment of cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of Italian Alps and Apennines

Raised by aliens: constant exposure to an invasive predator triggers morphological but not behavioural plasticity in a threatened species tadpoles

Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation ⬇️

Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods

Role of density and resource competition in determining aggressive behaviour in salamanders

Safe as a cave? Intraspecific aggressiveness rises in predator-devoid and resource-depleted environments

Salamanders breeding in subterranean habitats: local adaptations or behavioural plasticity?

Seasonal variation in microhabitat of salamanders: environmental variation or shift of habitat selection?

Similar species, different fates: Abundance dynamics in spatially structured populations of common and threatened frogs

Spatial autocorrelation and the analysis of invasion processes from distribution data: a study with the crayfish Procambarus clarkii

Spatial segregation among age classes in cave salamanders: habitat selection or social interactions?

Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?

Teratogenic potential of nanoencapsulated vitamin A evaluated on an alternative model organism, the tunicate Ciona intestinalis

The distribution of cave twilight-zone spiders depends on microclimatic features and trophic supply

Don’t forget the vertical dimension: assessment of distributional dynamics of cave-dwelling invertebrates in both ground and parietal microhabitats ⬇️

Invasive predators induce plastic and adaptive responses during embryo development in a threatened frog