Novella Franconi

Swansea University | SWAN · Department of Biosciences

There are numerous examples of phenological shifts that are recognized both as indicators of climate change and drivers of ecosystem change. A pressing challenge is to understand the causal mechanisms by which climate affects phenology. We combined annual population census data and individual longitudinal data (1992–2018) on grey seals, Halicheorus...

The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research, especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the most appropriate sensors and sensor combinations to specific biological questions and how to analyse complex biologging data, are mostly ignored. Here, we fill this gap by revie...

1. Although the home range is a fundamental ecological concept, there is considerable debate over how it is best measured. There is a substantial literature concerning the precision and accuracy of all commonly used home range estimation methods; however, there has been considerably less work concerning how estimates vary with sampling regime, and...

Animal home range use is a central focus of ecological research. However, how and why home range size varies between individuals is not well studied or understood for most species. We develop a hierarchical analytical approach--using generalized linear mixed-effects modeling of time series of home range sizes--that allows variance in home range siz...

L'istrice, il più grande roditore della fauna italiana, ha colonizzato negli ultimi 30 anni gran parte del territorio italiano, ma ancora scarse sono le conoscenze scientifiche su questa specie. L'istrice, un erbivoro generalista capace di colonizzare habitat molto diversi, mostra una marcata flessibilità nell´uso dello spazio: lo home ra...