Giuseppe Vecchio- PhD presso Agrofauna
- Agronomist at Studio Agrofauna
Giuseppe Vecchio
- PhD presso Agrofauna
- Agronomist at Studio Agrofauna
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Introduction
Giuseppe Vecchio currently works Studio Agrofauna, Wildlife managment and research.
I have a PhD title with a thesis entitled "Identification and monitoring through the use of photo-traps associated with radiotracking, some fitness-desired pheasant and porcupine, important species of hunting and conservation interest.
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Studio Agrofauna
Current position
- Agronomist
Publications
Publications (26)
Invasive alien species (IAS) are negatively impacting native species and ecosystems worldwide. Among them, the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) has been extensively studied in Italy due to its detrimental effects on ecosystems and native crayfish species. While extensive data are reported on the diet of P. clarkii, less is known about its r...
Invasive alien species (IAS) are negatively impacting native species and ecosystems worldwide. Among them, the red swamp crayfish ( Procambarus clarkii ) has been extensively studied in Italy due to its detrimental effects on ecosystems and native crayfish species. While extensive data are reported on the diet of P. clarkii, less is known about its...
Riassunto - La sterna zampenere (Gelochelidon nilotica) è una specie politipica la cui distribuzione in Italia è legata principalmente alle zone umide costiere e la presenza di bacini d'acqua dolce. Le colonie che presentano un maggiore numero di individui nidificanti sono localizzate lungo la costa nord-est dell'Adriatico, come la laguna di Venezi...
Riassunto - Riportiamo l'osservazione di un individuo adulto di Fiorrancino (Regulus ignicapilla) intrappolato all'interno di una ragnatela di Ragno ingegnere (Cyrthyphora citricola), a Coltano, in provincia di Pisa. L'individuo, impossibilitato nel movimento della testa e delle ali, risultava incapace di liberarsi autonomamente. Evidenziamo le ecc...
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Wildlife rescue centers play a key role for crested porcupine rescue and conservation. There is a lack of guidelines for management and liberation, which is a crucial issue, especially for porcupettes to ensure a suitable behavioral development for wildlife. In this work, preliminary data on the post-liberation behavior and survival...
Anthropic areas play a pivot role for main wolf conservation challenges. Wolf presence in the higher Pisan hills has been well documented while wolf settlement in the lower Pisan hills is still uncertain. In this study, long‐term information on wolf presence in a highly anthropic area of the lower Pisan hills was collected by using non‐invasive mon...
In Italy, porcupines, badgers and red foxes share the same settlements. However, there is lack of informa-tion concerning their cohabitation. From 2012 to 2019, cohabitation by these three mammals was studied using camera-trapping and was found to occur only between porcupines and badgers, even in the presence of porcupettes. Cohabitation was assoc...
The vegetarian diet of many herbivorous mammals is supplemented with proteins of animal origin, especially in young individuals and in breeding females, to provide key proteins necessary for both growth and breeding. Among porcupine species, only the Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) has been observed to consume carrion flesh. From June to...
Free-ranging corvids-678 magpies (Pica pica) and 120 hooded crows (Corvus cornix) from nine protected areas of the Pisa province (central Italy)-were examined for Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella pseudospiralis. The intracardiac blood clots from 651 magpies and 120 hooded crows were serologically examined for T. gondii. The DNA extracted from the...
The crested porcupine is a mainly nocturnal mammal that shows both moonlight avoidance and some diurnal motor activity, the latter as an extension of its night-time foraging behaviour. Furthermore, a peculiar daytime behaviour, described as “sunbathing”, was reported as episodic in H. africaeaustralis. Between 2016 and 2019 a camera-trapping monito...
The european wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is one of the most widespread species in the world among the mammals and it is considered an endemic species of the North-Western Mediterranean area. In Italy, the current distribution of this lagomorph is the result of many introductions made by humans starting from the second century A.D. The distr...
La reintroduzione della Lepre italica in aree idonee è una delle priorità del Piano Nazionale per la Conservazione di Lepus corsicanus. Quest’ultimo delinea e promuove le iniziative necessarie a garantire la sopravvivenza e il recupero delle popolazioni di Lepre italica, incrementando le informazioni sul suo status attuale, proponendo adeguamenti n...
I danni da fauna selvatica rappresentano un aspetto di rilevante importanza nella gestione faunistica e agricola del territorio rurale.Gli Ambiti Territoriali di Caccia della provincia di Pisa, da sempre, operano per la salvaguardia delle coltivazioni agricole. Il progetto, nasce quindi dall’esigenza di proteggere le coltivazioni di quest’area dagl...
Nel 2009 la Commissione europea ha finanziato il progetto LIFE09 NAT/IT/000099 “Urgent actions for the conservation of the Alectoris graeca whitakeri” finalizzato alla conservazione della Coturnice di Sicilia all’interno della ZPS ITA010029 MONTE COFANO, CAPO SAN VITO E MONTE SPARAGIO. In tale area è presente una popolazione di cinghiale che potreb...
The countryside is visited daily by feral pigeons that find in agricultural habitat an important and well exploited source of food. These feeding flights are a significant source of damage to agriculture and for this reason a plan for pigeons culling has been drawn by the Pisa Province for crop protection. In order to better assess interactions bet...
Small populations of red-legged partridge are present in Pisa province (Tuscany, central Italy) as a result of reintroductions carried out for hunting purposes. This two-years research aimed to the evaluation of some survival and behaviour parameters of wild and just released reared red-legged partridge through the use of radio-tracking. Wild partr...
Il progetto si propone come una sperimentazione che sia di interesse per la gestione della Pernice rossa (Alectoris rufa, Linnaeus 1758) in Provincia di Pisa. Questa specie è già stata reintrodotta in varie occasioni in diverse aree della Provincia di Pisa, ottenendo risultati a volte incoraggianti. Le caratteristiche di adattabilità della specie e...
La riduzione della variabilità ambientale legata al declino delle piante infestanti e degli invertebrati ed esse associati, è dovuto, secondo alcuni studi, al cambiamento delle pratiche agricole (O’Connor e Shrubb 1986). Con la meccanizzazione gli appezzamenti sono stati unificati per migliorare l’efficienza delle lavorazioni con conseguente riduzi...
