List of works - Francesco Rovero

A landscape-scale assessment of tropical mammals reveals the effects of habitat and anthropogenic disturbance on community occupancy

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

A new species of chameleon (Sanria: Chamaeleonidae:Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania

article

A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scientific article published in February 2008

A new subspecies of giant sengi (Macroscelidea: Rhynchocyon) from coastal Kenya

scientific article

A novel landscape genetic approach demonstrates the effects of human disturbance on the Udzungwa red colobus monkey (Procolobus gordonorum).

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Abundance of Diurnal Primates in Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

scholarly article by Francesco Rovero et al published June 2006 in International Journal of Primatology

Aggressive Interactions and Mating in Wild Populations of the European Pond Turtle Emys orbicularis ⬇️

scientific article published in June 1999

Altitude and human disturbance are associated with helminth diversity in an endangered primate, Procolobus gordonorum

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Assessing the activity pattern overlap among leopards ( Panthera pardus ), potential prey and competitors in a complex landscape in Tanzania

scientific article published in 2020

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Automatic recording of the radular activity of dogwhelks (Nucella lapillus) drilling mussels (Mytilus edulis)

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 79 no. 6, December 1999

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

Behavior of the European brown bear at rub trees

scientific article published in July 2021

Brain volume of the newly-discovered species Rhynchocyon udzungwensis (Mammalia: Afrotheria: Macroscelidea): implications for encephalization in sengis

scientific article published in 2013

Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates

article

Camera trapping surveys of forest mammal communities in the Eastern Arc Mountains reveal generalized habitat and human disturbance responses

article

Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data

scientific article published in 2023

Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

scientific article published in 2014

Cardiac and behavioural responses of mussels to risk of predation by dogwhelks

article

Checklist of mammals of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Francesco Rovero & Daniela W. De Luca published January 2007 in Mammalia

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2011)

Consistent diel activity patterns of forest mammals among tropical regions

scientific article published on 19 November 2022

Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics ⬇️

scientific article

DNA metabarcoding reveals that African leopard diet varies between habitats

scientific article published in 2020

Density Estimation of the Endangered Udzungwa Red Colobus (Procolobus gordonorum) and Other Arboreal Primates in the Udzungwa Mountains Using Systematic Distance Sampling

Distribution and genetic diversity of the Endangered Abbott’s duiker Cephalophus spadix in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

scholarly article by AE Bowkett et al published 8 May 2014 in Endangered Species Research

Distribution, occupancy, and habitat associations of the gray-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) as revealed by camera traps

article by Francesco Rovero et al published August 2013 in Journal of Mammalogy

Does variation between dry and wet seasons affect tropical forest mammals' occupancy and detectability by camera traps? Case study from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

scholarly article by Emanuel H. Martin et al published 11 May 2016 in African Journal of Ecology

Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

scientific article published on 17 July 2024

Effect of experience on predatory behaviour of dogwhelks

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on primate density at the landscape scale

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Estimating species richness and modelling habitat preferences of tropical forest mammals from camera trap data

scientific article

Estimating the abundance of forest antelopes by line transect techniques: a case from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

article

Estimating the energetic cost of fighting in shore crabs by noninvasive monitoring of heartbeat rate

article

Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

scientific article published in 2023

Evolutionary history of the grey-faced Sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, from Tanzania: a molecular and species distribution modelling approach

scientific article published in 2013

First records in Tanzania of the Vulnerable Jackson's mongoose Bdeogale jacksoni (Herpestidae)

scientific article (publication date: October 2006)

From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2010

Genetic Patterns in Forest Antelope Populations in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as Inferred from Non-Invasive Sampling

scientific article published in 2015

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity

scientific article published on 26 January 2022

Guest or pest? Spatio-temporal occurrence and effects on soil and vegetation of the wild boar on Elba island

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Habitat fragmentation is associated to gut microbiota diversity of an endangered primate: implications for conservation

scientific article

High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

scientific article published on 25 August 2021

Human density modulates spatial associations among tropical forest terrestrial mammal species

scientific article published on 29 September 2022

Hunting or habitat degradation? Decline of primate populations in Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania: An analysis of threats

article

Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

scientific article published in January 2017

Integrating field and satellite data for spatially explicit inference on the density of threatened arboreal primates

scientific article

Interactions between parasitic helminths and gut microbiota in wild tropical primates from intact and fragmented habitats

scientific article published in 2021

Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

article

Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds

scientific article

Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds

scientific article published in 2015

Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide

scientific article published in 2019

Loss of protozoan and metazoan intestinal symbiont biodiversity in wild primates living in unprotected forests

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Modeling Primate Abundance in Complex Landscapes: A Case Study From the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Claudia Barelli et al published 6 March 2015 in International Journal of Primatology

Modelling fine-scale habitat associations of medium-to-large forest mammals in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania using camera trapping

scholarly article by Emanuel H. Martin et al published 2 October 2015 in Tropical Zoology

Nesting migrations in a population of the European pond turtleEmys orbicularis(L.) (Chelonia Emydidae) from central Italy

article

Non-human predator interactions with wild great apes in Africa and the use of camera traps to study their dynamics.

scientific article

Notes on Abbott's duiker (Cephalophus spadixTrue 1890) and other forest antelopes of Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as revealed by camera-trapping and direct observations

scholarly article by Francesco Rovero et al published July 2005 in Tropical Zoology

Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis

scientific article published on 13 July 2022

Occurrence dynamics of mammals in protected tropical forests respond to human presence and activities

scientific article published in 2023

Optimizing field and analytical procedures for estimating densities of arboreal and threatened primates in tropical rainforest

scientific article

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity ⬇️

article

Physiological stress levels in the endemic and endangered Udzungwa red colobus vary with elevation

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2015

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

scientific article

Primates decline rapidly in unprotected forests: evidence from a monitoring program with data constraints

scientific article

Primates in Human-Modified and Fragmented Landscapes: The Conservation Relevance of Modelling Habitat and Disturbance Factors in Density Estimation

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Reserve size and anthropogenic disturbance affect the density of an African leopard (Panthera pardus) meta-population

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Snow leopard (<i>Panthera uncia</i>) predation and consumption of an adult yak in the Mongolian Altai

scientific article published in 2021

Spatio‐temporal occurrence and sensitivity to livestock husbandry of Pallas's cat in the Mongolian Altai

scientific article published in 2021

Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Areas: The End Is Not in Sight

scientific article

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania

article

The Gut Microbiota Communities of Wild Arboreal and Ground-Feeding Tropical Primates Are Affected Differently by Habitat Disturbance

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

The Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network: An early warning system for tropical rain forests

scientific article

The biological importance of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya

scholarly article by N.D. Burgess et al published January 2007 in Biological Conservation

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The influence of human disturbance on occupancy and activity patterns of mammals in the Italian Alps from systematic camera trapping

article

The number of tree species on Earth

scientific article

The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains: diversity, ecology and conservation.

scientific article

The species-area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community

scientific article

The use of camera-trap data to model habitat use by antelope species in the Udzungwa Mountain forests, Tanzania

article

Tropical mammal functional diversity increases with productivity but decreases with anthropogenic disturbance

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Unraveling elephant shrews: phylogenetic relationships and unexpected introgression among giant sengis

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Using camera trap data to assess the impact of bushmeat hunting on forest mammals in Tanzania

scholarly article by Carla Hegerl et al published 9 October 2015 in Oryx

Vanishing Wildlife Corridors and Options for Restoration: A Case Study from Tanzania

scholarly article by Trevor Jones et al published December 2012 in Tropical conservation science

Variation in Primate Abundance Along an Elevational Gradient in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article published 17 November 2013

Vegetative predictors of primate abundance: utility and limitations of a fine-scale analysis

scientific article published on November 2007

When parks work: Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on occupancy of tropical forest mammals

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

When time is of the essence: choosing a currency for prey-handling costs

article by Francesco Rovero et al published July 2000 in Journal of Animal Ecology

Wildcat population density on the Etna volcano, Italy: a comparison of density estimation methods

article

Wildlife Corridors in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Francesco Rovero & T. Jones published 23 November 2012 in Ecological Restoration

XXIII Italian Association of Primatology Congress. Trento, Italy, September 14-16, 2017: Abstracts

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List of works by Francesco Rovero

A landscape-scale assessment of tropical mammals reveals the effects of habitat and anthropogenic disturbance on community occupancy

A new species of chameleon (Sanria: Chamaeleonidae:Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania

A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

A new subspecies of giant sengi (Macroscelidea: Rhynchocyon) from coastal Kenya

A novel landscape genetic approach demonstrates the effects of human disturbance on the Udzungwa red colobus monkey (Procolobus gordonorum).

A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics

Abundance of Diurnal Primates in Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Aggressive Interactions and Mating in Wild Populations of the European Pond Turtle Emys orbicularis ⬇️

Altitude and human disturbance are associated with helminth diversity in an endangered primate, Procolobus gordonorum

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

Assessing the activity pattern overlap among leopards ( Panthera pardus ), potential prey and competitors in a complex landscape in Tanzania

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

Automatic recording of the radular activity of dogwhelks (Nucella lapillus) drilling mussels (Mytilus edulis)

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

Behavior of the European brown bear at rub trees

Brain volume of the newly-discovered species Rhynchocyon udzungwensis (Mammalia: Afrotheria: Macroscelidea): implications for encephalization in sengis

Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates

Camera trapping surveys of forest mammal communities in the Eastern Arc Mountains reveal generalized habitat and human disturbance responses

Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data

Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

Cardiac and behavioural responses of mussels to risk of predation by dogwhelks

Checklist of mammals of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network

Consistent diel activity patterns of forest mammals among tropical regions

Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics ⬇️

DNA metabarcoding reveals that African leopard diet varies between habitats

Density Estimation of the Endangered Udzungwa Red Colobus (Procolobus gordonorum) and Other Arboreal Primates in the Udzungwa Mountains Using Systematic Distance Sampling

Distribution and genetic diversity of the Endangered Abbott’s duiker Cephalophus spadix in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Distribution, occupancy, and habitat associations of the gray-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) as revealed by camera traps

Does variation between dry and wet seasons affect tropical forest mammals' occupancy and detectability by camera traps? Case study from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

Effect of experience on predatory behaviour of dogwhelks

Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on primate density at the landscape scale

Estimating species richness and modelling habitat preferences of tropical forest mammals from camera trap data

Estimating the abundance of forest antelopes by line transect techniques: a case from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

Estimating the energetic cost of fighting in shore crabs by noninvasive monitoring of heartbeat rate

Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

Evolutionary history of the grey-faced Sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, from Tanzania: a molecular and species distribution modelling approach

First records in Tanzania of the Vulnerable Jackson's mongoose Bdeogale jacksoni (Herpestidae)

From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales

Genetic Patterns in Forest Antelope Populations in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as Inferred from Non-Invasive Sampling

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity

Guest or pest? Spatio-temporal occurrence and effects on soil and vegetation of the wild boar on Elba island

Habitat fragmentation is associated to gut microbiota diversity of an endangered primate: implications for conservation

High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

Human density modulates spatial associations among tropical forest terrestrial mammal species

Hunting or habitat degradation? Decline of primate populations in Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania: An analysis of threats

Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

Integrating field and satellite data for spatially explicit inference on the density of threatened arboreal primates

Interactions between parasitic helminths and gut microbiota in wild tropical primates from intact and fragmented habitats

Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds

Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds

Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide

Loss of protozoan and metazoan intestinal symbiont biodiversity in wild primates living in unprotected forests

Modeling Primate Abundance in Complex Landscapes: A Case Study From the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

Modelling fine-scale habitat associations of medium-to-large forest mammals in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania using camera trapping

Nesting migrations in a population of the European pond turtleEmys orbicularis(L.) (Chelonia Emydidae) from central Italy

Non-human predator interactions with wild great apes in Africa and the use of camera traps to study their dynamics.

Notes on Abbott's duiker (Cephalophus spadixTrue 1890) and other forest antelopes of Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as revealed by camera-trapping and direct observations

Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis

Occurrence dynamics of mammals in protected tropical forests respond to human presence and activities

Optimizing field and analytical procedures for estimating densities of arboreal and threatened primates in tropical rainforest

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity ⬇️

Physiological stress levels in the endemic and endangered Udzungwa red colobus vary with elevation

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

Primates decline rapidly in unprotected forests: evidence from a monitoring program with data constraints

Primates in Human-Modified and Fragmented Landscapes: The Conservation Relevance of Modelling Habitat and Disturbance Factors in Density Estimation

Reserve size and anthropogenic disturbance affect the density of an African leopard (Panthera pardus) meta-population

Snow leopard (<i>Panthera uncia</i>) predation and consumption of an adult yak in the Mongolian Altai

Spatio‐temporal occurrence and sensitivity to livestock husbandry of Pallas's cat in the Mongolian Altai

Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Areas: The End Is Not in Sight

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania

The Gut Microbiota Communities of Wild Arboreal and Ground-Feeding Tropical Primates Are Affected Differently by Habitat Disturbance

The Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network: An early warning system for tropical rain forests