
Claudia CanedoliUniversità degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca | UNIMIB · Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Claudia Canedoli
Master of Science
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Introduction
My research focuses on the valuation and mapping of ecosystem services in terrestrial ecosystems. With a background in both natural science and urban ecology, I engage in research projects that encompass natural protected areas as well as urban environments. Additionally, I investigate fundamental ecological themes, particularly the interconnections and reciprocal effects between biophysical structure and biodiversity on ecosystem functioning.
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January 2018 - present
January 2014 - December 2017
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Publications (41)
Understanding users’ perception of natural areas and their ecosystem services is crucial for managers and policy makers as it directly informs decisions that balance conservation efforts with public acceptance. The alpine areas are particularly vulnerable to climate change, making it critical to understand how visitors perceive these areas to devel...
Quantitative assessment of organic carbon (OC) stocks in different habitats is crucial in ecology. Understanding the drivers affecting OC stocks across distinct carbon pools is essential for comprehending current patterns and predicting future changes. Alpine ecosystems, important for atmospheric CO2 regulation and highly vulnerable to climate chan...
Urban trees are crucial in delivering essential ecosystem services, including air pollution mitigation. This service is influenced by plant associated microbiomes, which can degrade hydrocarbons, support tree health, and influence ecological processes. Yet, our understanding of tree microbiomes remains limited, thus affecting our ability to assess...
Ecosystem services (ES) assessment is crucial in ecology, with numerous studies seeking to evaluate them. Despite the abundance o methods and indicators, standardization is lacking, hindering comparability and progress in ES understanding and monitoring. This paper reviews indicators used in scientic literature to evaluate mountain ES and then ex...
Protected areas play an important role due to their twofold capacity for biodiversity conservation and the provision of many benefits to human well-being. Tourism can be a tool for protecting nature, enhancing people’s sensitivity, and a threat to biodiversity management. This study investigates users’ attitudes and perceptions and managers’ concer...
Green areas suffer the growing influence of urbanization and may benefit from the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) which can provide biodiversity estimation and conservation especially in fragile environments such as urban parks and protected areas. A network of low-cost sensors has been distributed over an area of approximately 20 hectares...
The aim of this paper is to propose the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) as a non-invasive method to investigate the state of communities and ecosystems. PAM operates through the study and characterization of the soundscape of an area. One of the three components of the soundscape (beside geophony and biophony) is anthrophony, which is the...
Despite its recognized importance for understanding the evolution of animal sociality as well as for conservation, long term analysis of social networks of animal populations is still relatively uncommon. We investigated social network dynamics in males of a gregarious mountain ungulate (Alpine ibex, Capra ibex) over ten years focusing on groups, s...
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Analyses of biogeographical patterns and macroecology of islands require large datasets reporting the occurrence of species. The Mediterranean region is a biodiversity hotspot, which hosts a large number of reptile species and has been the focus of many studies. Nevertheless, comprehensive inventories describing the features and biodiversity of...
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A landscape is defined as a “system of ecosystems” and this is a model in which karst areas can easily be integrated. In karst areas, much of the connectivity between the units of the landscape is underground, with aquifers and caves forming a continuous layered tissue. However, underground environments are among the least studied landscape...
Despite its recognized importance for understanding the evolution of animal sociality as well as for conservation, long term analysis of social networks of animal populations is still relatively uncommon. We investigated social network dynamics in males of a gregarious mountain ungulate (Alpine ibex, Capra ibex) over ten years focusing on groups, s...
Le Linee guida volontarie per l'uso sostenibile del Suolo, sviluppate nell'ambito del progetto europeo Soil4Life, si configurano come un documento di indirizzo per tecnici e progettisti che, operando a diversi livelli nel settore pubblico o privato, si trovano a intervenire e a collaborare nella definizione di strategie o scelte pianificatorie e pr...
Soil biodiversity is fundamental for ecosystems, ensuring many ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition, soil formation, and organic carbon pool increase. Due to these roles, there is a need to study and completely understand how soil biodiversity is composed through different habitats. The aim of this study was t...
Urban areas are major producers of atmospheric CO2 emissions, but at the same time they can offset some of the associated C losses by retaining stable organic carbon in their soils (SOC). Despite the importance of urban SOC there are still many uncertainties associated, resulting in low accuracy of SOC stock estimations or in its neglection in the...
Plants and phyllosphere microorganisms may effectively contribute to reducing air pollution in cities through the adsorption and biodegradation of pollutants onto leaves. In this work, during all seasons, we sampled atmospheric particulate matter (PM10) and leaves of southern magnolia Magnolia grandiflora and deodar cedar Cedrus deodara, two evergr...
• Given the ongoing decline of many species, it is important to perform multifactorial analyses of conservation status and to assess the effects of species extinction on ecosystem services.
• In this study, we used long‐term surveys to assess the influence of habitat change, landscape alteration and invasive species on extinction risk of the native...
Article impact statement: Biodiversity of unexplored and unmapped environments cannot be conserved until they have been described, mapped, and analyzed.
A significant decline in biodiversity is associated with the current and upcoming degree of urbanization. A challenging strategy to address this conflict is to make urban growth compatible with biodiversity protection and in this context urban parks can play a crucial role. Urban systems are highly dynamic and complex human-shaped ecosystems, where...
The extent to which closely related species share similar niches remains highly debated. Ecological niches are increasingly analysed by combining distribution records with broad-scale climatic variables, but interactions between species and their environment often occur at fine scales. The idea that macroscale analyses correctly represent fine-scal...
Accurate measures of species abundance are essential to identify conservation strategies. N-mixture models are increasingly used to estimate abundance on the basis of species counts. In this study we tested whether abundance estimates obtained using N-mixture models provide consistent results with more traditional approaches requiring capture (capt...
Information on the life history of European cave salamanders remains limited. Despite a handful of studies carried out both under natural and controlled conditions, one of the least known aspects concerns the reproductive and breeding behaviour. Here we present information on the breeding behaviour of all the eight European Hydromantes species coll...
Urban and peri-urban forests determine different habitat services for biodiversity according to their characteristics. In this study, we relate ecological characteristics of urban and peri-urban forests to forest bird species richness and we assess whether their effect changed over time due to the urban sprawl within the urban region of Milan, Ital...
Spatial expansion of cities appears to be unavoidable. Despite concern around landscape alterations caused by urban expansion, the understanding of the amounts and patterns of this phenomenon is sorely lacking. In this study, we quantified the current pattern of landscape fragmentation in the urban region (UR) of Milan and analysed the trend of urb...
Ecosystem services may be underestimated, and consequently threatened, when land-use planning and management decisions are based on inadequate information. Unfortunately, most of the studies aimed to evaluate and map cultural ecosystem services (CES) are not used for actual decision support therefore there is a gap in the literature about its use i...
Very little information is available on relationships between sardinian cave salamanders (genus Hydro -
mantes; subgenera Speleomantes and Atylodes) and other cave-dwelling organisms. Cave salamanders are known
to be parasitized by the leech, Batracobdella algira, but no information exists on the prevalence of this parasite on
cave salamanders or t...
Very little information is available on relationships between sardinian cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes;
subgenera Speleomantes and Atylodes) and other cave-dwelling organisms. Cave salamanders are known
to be parasitized by the leech, Batracobdella algira, but no information exists on the prevalence of this parasite on cave salamanders or the...
Introduced fish are a major threat for high altitude aquatic habitats and Salvelinus fontinalis have been widely used throughout the Alps for stocking lakes and rivers. Understanding its feeding ecology is a basic, but essential tool for interpreting its impact. To assess which factors determine the diet of S. fontinalis we analyzed more than 500 s...
The diet of Rana temporaria (Linnaeus, 1758) was studied in the Gran Paradiso National Park, at and above the local timberline, up to the upper limit of its altitudinal distribution. A total of 128 adult frogs (length range: 3.7-9.0 cm) were captured from 2010 to 2012. Stomach content from 46 individuals was obtained by stomach flushing, of which 6...
During the dry season, the European Plethodontid salamanders (genus Hydromantes) usually occupy underground environments (i.e. caves), where they can find cold temperatures and high moisture. Hydromantes breed in hypogean environments, where they usually lay eggs in hidden shelters. Mothers perform a long-lasting parental care of the eggs, which al...
Lunghi E., Murgia R., De Falco G., Buschettu S., Mulas C., Mulargia M., Canedoli
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Questions (2)
Hi all, I am searching for some values of Crop Evapotranspiration Coefficient (Kc) for natural forest habitats (coniferous forests, broadleaves forests...). On FAO database they only refer to crops like beans, rice, and wheat, but no data on forests. Thank you very much to anyone who can help
I have data about tree species and DBH for alpine coniferous and broadleaved forests. I know there are many equations relating biomass and DBH that are species-specific, but I cannot find the right one. It seems there is not a univocal database of allometric equations, but many are proposed. Does anybody know where to find equations for these species:
Larix decidua
Picea abies
Acer pseudoplatanus
Corylus avellana
Betula pendula
Fraxinus excelsior
Pinus cembra
Alnus glutinosa
Sorbus aucuparia
Carpinus betulus
Thanks a lot