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Since 2017 Muse carried out specific studies on Salamandra atra aurorae population
located in Vezzena plateau (Trentino), as a part of Rete Natura 2000 monitoring plan. This rare and threatened salamander lives exclusively in forest environments in a very restricted area (Sette Comuni plateaux). In 2017 has been employed both a capture-mark-recaptu...
Cent'anni di solitudine. Lo strano caso del marasso in Trentino tra il 1912 e il 2020 RIASSUNTO Il marasso viene ritenuto una specie tipica di ambienti montani, in Italia. Nel presente lavoro sono stati confrontati dati storici distributivi fino al 1912 dell'area trentina con quelli recenti (2000-2020). Risulta evidente una distribuzione passata an...
Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for botanical monitoring. A case study for monitoring populations of Saxifraga tombeanensis on vertical cliffs.
Riassunto: In un'epoca come quella attuale, segnata da una profonda crisi degli ecosistemi e delle specie, la facilità di accesso ai "dati di biodiversità" rappresenta un fattore non trascurabile nello sviluppo di strategie di conservazione mirate ed efficaci. Allo stesso modo, emerge la necessità di superare la frammentazione delle informazioni do...
The use of Artificial Cover Objects (ACOs) for herpetological monitoring activities is widely documented in bibliography. We placed 100 ACOs in five areas of Trentino, in different environments and at different altitudes; results point out a differential use of ACOs by reptiles in relation to environmental and altitudinal factors.
We analyzed the large-scale drivers of biological invasions using freshwater fish in a Mediterranean country as a test case, and considering the contribution of single species to the overall invasion pattern. Using Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) models, variation partitioning and Redundancy Analysis (RDA), we found that human factors (especially eut...
Surveying Reptiles using Artificial Cover Objects in Trentino. The use of Artificial Cover Objects (ACOs) for herpetological monitoring activities is widely documented in bibliography. We placed 100 ACOs in five areas of Trentino, in different environments and at different altitudes; results point out a differential use of ACOs by reptiles in relat...
“Save the Prince”: a coordinated nation-wide project for amphibian protection from road mortality. Amphibians are a class of vertebrates at the highest conservation risk, particularly due to the fragmentation of terrestrial refuges and reproduction areas: this fragmentation takes place in a dense road network that ends up killing thousands of them...
The "European Union Strategy for Biodiversity for 2030" sets the ambitious goal of drawing up a nature restoration plan " An EU Nature Restoration Plan - a series of concrete commitments and actions to restore degraded ecosystems across the EU by 2030, and manage them sustainably, addressing the key drivers of biodiversity loss.: ...". WWF Italy, i...
I cambiamenti climatici globali stanno manifestando forti ripercussioni sulle colture agrarie e tra queste la vite (Vitis vinifera L.). L’aumento delle temperature e la carenza di precipitazioni hanno importanti ripercussioni sulla produttività e qualità delle uve raccolte: una mancata compensazione degli effetti delle alterazioni climatiche potreb...
Interspecific interactions are crucial in determining species occurrence and community assembly. Understanding these interactions is thus essential for correctly predicting species' responses to climate change. We focussed on an avian forest guild of four hole-nesting species with differing sensitivities to climate, that show a range of well-unders...
Since the first reintroductions in the early 2000s, the Alpine bear population has been continuously monitored and genetically sampled through the joint effort of various authorities. This long-term monitoring, combined with the advent of new technologies, has produced a comprehensive and ecologically diverse dataset. However, the high amount of da...
Large-bodied mammals are a rich and diversified faunal group in tropical rainforests. However, knowledge on community size and composition, and on species’ distribution and ecology remains often scant and inadequate against their chronic status of threats. We used camera trapping to detect mammals in the forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM) o...
As human activities increase in natural areas, so do threats to wildlife, potentially leading to immediate and long-term impacts on species’ distribution, activity, reproduction and survival. This is particularly relevant for large-bodied vertebrates that are especially sensitive to human presence and human-driven habitat changes. Assessing the imp...
Species distributions are strongly affected by climate, and climate change is impacting on species and populations. Thermal niches have been widely used as proxies for estimating thermal sensitivity of species and have been frequently related to community composition, population trends and latitudinal/elevational shifts in distribution. To our know...
The conservation of wildlife requires management based on quantitative evidence and, especially for large carnivores, unravelling cause-specific mortalities and understanding their impact on population dynamics is crucial. Acquiring this knowledge is challenging because many long term data available for endangered populations stem from sparse and/o...