Vincenzo Ferri- Natural Sciences Italian laurea - PhD Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
Vincenzo Ferri
- Natural Sciences Italian laurea - PhD Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
Chair for Regional Group Europe of IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (A.S.G.)
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Chiroptera Project in the Regional Park of “Castelli Romani” (Rome province, Latium).
We present results of a bat sampling carried out in the Regional Park “Castelli Romani” of Latium during 2018. Bat surveys were performed in a total of 25 sampling point distributed along the ZSC IT6030017
“Maschio dell’Artemisio”, the ZSC IT6030018 “Cerquone-Doga...
The surveys of the last ten years have shown that amphibian populations of the lower Lombardy plain are extremely localized and the most important species, from a conservationist perspective, survive only in areas free from their predators. In fact, the presence of at least 13 species of allochthonous fish and 3 species of allochthonous freshwater...
Presentazione
Immaginate un’assolata giornata primaverile sulla riva di uno stagno. Gli
uccelli cantano nel canneto e tra le fronde degli alberi, le rane gracidano dalle rive o
semisommerse. Sopra lo specchio d’acqua vedremmo sicuramente sfrecciare alcuni
insetti simili ad elicotteri in miniatura, mentre altri saranno appoggiati, ad ali spiegate...
Ecology aspects of Vipera u. ursinii in the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park (Abruzzo): confirmations and new knowledge.
The available data on the ecology of the Vipera u. ursinii population of the S.A.C. IT7110202 “Gran Sasso”, were analyzed, where studies and monitoring have taken place since 1985. The data from recent research and...
Long-term Monitoring of the Agile Frog in the SAC IT6030018 “Cerquone-Doganella”
(Lazio, Regional Park of the Castelli Romani).
Long-term monitoring of important amphibian species in Italy are numerous, but the one concerning the population of the agile frog (Rana dalmatina) in the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) IT6030018 “Cerquone-Doganella”,...
Water crisis and reproductive success of the amphibians of Monte Maddalena in Brescia: ten years of monitoring.
Le piccole zone umide sono habitat importanti per gli anfibi. Ciò vale oltremodo nelle aree montane con rocce calcaree significativamente interessate dal carsismo e con rare e localizzate permanenze di acqua piovana in superficie.
Lo stu...
Pantherophis guttatus is a North American Colubridae with a wide native
distribution and, being ubiquitous, its habitats can be densely anthropized. It is an
elusive species because it lives mostly inside cavities and rodent tunnels, where it goes
into latency in the winter months (in its southernmost area it can be active all year
round). It is an...
The common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758), is a robust aquatic turtle native to southeast North America. However, it has also been introduced to other countries through the exotic pet trade, where it has gained popularity due to its distinctive appearance and impressive size. Over the past decade, a considerable number of ind...
The River Mignone (Tarquinia, Viterbo, central Italy) is one of the best preserved watercourses in Lazio. Here, in April and May of the years 2020-2023, a conspicuous contingent of Alosa fallax (Lacépède 1803) was reported. The frenetic behaviour of the individuals observed, some of which showed swollen bellies and considerable size, suggested that...
We report a case study of high prey richness of small mammals recorded in Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) pellets from a site of Northern La-tium, the highest known for Italy (also after normalization with sample size). We compared our data to a large set of available literature, obtaining a significant correlation between prey species and sample size. How...
Il “Manuale di tutela e gestione degli anfibi in Lombardia” illustra i risultati del
Progetto LIFE GESTIRE2020. Salamandra atra, Triturus carnifex, Rana latastei,
Bombina variegata e Pelobates fuscus insubricus sono le specie target del
progetto, sono specie inserite negli allegati II e IV della Direttiva “Habitat”
e la cui situazione è molto p...
Lazio is one of Italy's most diverse herpetological regions, with 23 native reptile species and 15 amphibian species. Many of these are under threat from pervasive anthropogenic pressures and synergistic effects such as habitat loss, alien species introduction, and climate change. In 2019, twenty years after the publication of the first Atlas of Am...
We examined the entrapment effect of discarded bottles on small mammals, along a road network located in North-Western Sardinia (Italy). On 162 bottles, 49 (> 30%) contained at least one animal specimen (invertebrate or vertebrate) and 26 (16%) entrapped 151 small mammals: insectivorous shrews (Soricomorpha) were more frequently recorded. Larger bo...
We examined the entrapment effect of discarded bottles on small mammals, along a road network located in NorthWestern Sardinia (Italy). On 162 bottles, 49 (> 30%) contained at least one animal specimen (invertebrate or vertebrate) and 26 (16%) entrapped 151 small mammals: insectivorous shrews (Soricomorpha) were more frequently recorded. Larger bot...
Dehesas (i.e., substeppic prairies with Quercus suber) represent a poorly studied Mediterranean habitat type of high eco-biogeographic interest. Here, we applied a point-transect method along a yearly cycle (from spring to autumn), to focus on seasonal differences in bird assemblages inhabiting a Dehesas landscape in north-western Sardinia (Italy)....
SCHEDA per raccogliere i dati del salvataggio di anfibi sulle strade
In this study we report the distribution of Bombina pachypus (Bonaparte, 1838) in Lazio. In every site, Appenine Yellow-bellied Toad conservation measures appear strictly connected with the environmental conservation. Furthermore, we analyzed risk factors concerning the species survival and we present a preliminary Action Plan for this threatened a...
In order to investigate diversity patterns and similarities in the small mammal communities of an agroforestry landscape in western central Italy (Maremma of Lazio), we analyzed, in a multivariate setting (Cluster analysis, DCA-Detrended Correspondence Analysis), the prey content of barn owl Tyto alba pellets collected along one year in five sampli...
Le Aree di Rilevanza Erpetologica in Italia (A.R.E.) a cura della Commissione Conservazione della Societas Herpetologica Italica (S.H.I.)
First reports of Trachemys scripta specimens abandoned in Italian artificial and natural wetlands, date back to 1972. Over the course of twenty years (1998-2018) of the ARCADIA / Trachemys Project in Lombardy we were able to monitor progressive and subsequent introduction of this species and of other allochthonous freshwater turtles in main wetland...
Three years of reporting and direct observations have proved that Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni) reproduces succesfully in some Italian wetlands located in distinct climatic contexts, both in Northern (Parco Nord Milano, MI; Parco Arcadia in Bareggio,MI; S.A.C. IT20100023 “Torbiere del Sebino”, BS; Parco Ducos2 in Bresci...
Alien species are considered one of the main threats to biodiversity, and amongst them turtles are the most traded taxon worldwide. We are reporting observations on the Chinese striped-necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis Gray, 1834) and particularly the first evidence of reproduction in a European wetland. During an eradication project of non-native t...
Urban waterways are important habitat for wildlife including bats: along them there may be important roosting sites, as crevices in stone work of old and modern bridges and they are also important foraging areas for these threatened mammals. In the course of a broader research on distribution and situation of Chiroptera populations, bioacoustic sur...
[The spring presence of two individuals of the Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, in the River Mignone near Tarquinia (Northern Lazio) could highlight a new Italian reproductive site of this rare and endangered species. This exceptional possibility could certainly be favored by the good quality of both the waters of the Mignone, and the environmental...
Kinosternon subrubrum Bonnaterre, 1789 is a North
American semi-aquatic freshwater turtle found primarily
in the mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States. This primarily carnivorous species prefers lentic freshwater systems, but it also has been reported to inhabit brackish marshes. Here, we provided the first records of K. subr...
Il rapporto ISPRA 330/2020 riporta i risultati della sperimentazione dell’efficacia delle misure previste dal Piano di Azione Nazionale per l’uso sostenibile dei prodotti fitosanitari (PAN - DM 22/1/2014 – punto A.5.8 – che attua la Dir. 2009/128/CE e il D.Lgs. 150/2012) volte alla tutela della biodiversità, da applicare in particolare in Siti Natu...
We report the first case of sexual interaction between two phylogenetically unrelated species (coypu Myocastor coypus and pond slider Trachemys scripta, a freshwater pond turtle), both of them non-native in the study area, a remnant coastal wetland of Tyrrhenian, central Italy (41°57'34.0''N 12°02'58.0''E). We inductively propose two different hypo...
Riassunto
Viene segnalata la presenza di Lindenia tetraphylla nella Valle del Fiume Mignone di Tarquinia (VT) (ZSC IT6010035 "Fiume Mignone-basso corso") riconfermando la presenza di questo gonfide per il Lazio. Questa rara libellula risulta localizzata in Italia ed è segnalata in poche località di Toscana, Campania, Umbria, Molise, Abruzzo, Puglia...
APPENDIX S6: Multi-approach species delimitation of the 31 Zygoptera and 57 Anisoptera species investigated in this study based on Holarctic COI DNA barcode sequences from DS2. A Bayesian tree is used as a base to summarize the two threshold-based (OT and ABGD) and four character explicit-based (PTP, MPTP, GMYC, bGMYC) approaches. Specimen haplotyp...
In wind-farm impact assessments, it is useful to know the level of uncertainty that characterizes some key variables used to assess the sensitivity to risk in species of conservation concern. Here, we have introduced the use of the Shannon entropy as a value of ecological uncertainty of the prediction of the risk assessment index, obtained from two...
The Odonata are considered among the most endangered freshwater faunal taxa. Their DNA‐based monitoring relies on validated reference datasets that are often lacking or do not cover important biogeographical centres of diversification. This study presents the results of a DNA barcoding campaign on Odonata, based on the standard 658 bp 5’ end region...
The Odonata are considered among the most endangered freshwater faunal taxa. Their DNA-based monitoring relies on validated reference datasets that are often lacking or do not cover important biogeographical centres of diversification. This study presents the results of a DNA barcoding campaign on Odonata, based on the standard 658 bp 5’ end region...
Il progetto Life IP “GESTIRE 2020”, coordinato da Regione Lombardia
con il coinvolgimento di numerosi partner, mira a garantire il raggiungimento degli obiettivi di conservazione della biodiversità di cui alle Direttive Habitat e Uccelli, contribuendo in modo sostanziale a migliorare la capacità di gestione della Rete Natura 2000. Nel corso del 201...
Il regolamento UE 1143/2014, recepito in Italia con il DLgs 230 del
15.12.2017 pubblicato il 30 gennaio 2018, prevede norme atte a prevenire,
ridurre al minimo e mitigare gli effetti negativi sulla biodiversità causati
dall'introduzione e dalla diffusione, sia deliberata che accidentale, di specie
esotiche invasive all'interno dell'Unione, nonché a...
Sono 21 le specie di testuggini alloctone segnalate negli ultimi anni
negli ambienti naturali terrestri e acquatici del Lazio. Tra queste soprattutto
individui appartenenti a specie abbondantemente commerciate come Trachemys scripta, Pseudemys concinna, Graptemys pseudogeographica, Testudo cfr. graeca, Testudo marginata. Numerose però le segnalazio...
La riproduzione di Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni (Baur,
1890) è stata registrata nel 2018 in alcune località italiane situate in contesti bioclimatici distinti: nel centro e nord Lombardia in ambienti Continentali (Parco Nord Milano, Parco Arcadia Bareggio, Z.S.C. IT20100023 Torbiere del Sebino) e nel centro Lazio in ambiente Mediterraneo (Z.S....
Il Bodrio Oasi Le Margherite ed il Bodrio di Cascina Margherita
sono due zone umide nel territorio di San Daniele Po, in provincia di Cremona,
Lombardia, in cui le osservazioni di Emys orbicularis si sono susseguite a partire
dal 1997 e gli interventi di habitat management hanno avuto risultati efficaci.
Entrambi hanno alimentazione perenne tramite...
Le popolazioni vitali di Emys orbicularis al di fuori delle aree protette
sono molto rare in Italia e ogni studio che le riguarda è di grande interesse per rilevare aspetti ecologici importanti per la conservazione della specie. È il caso della popolazione di Gaggio di Piano [GP] e Castelfranco Emilia (MO), nell’areale di Emys o. hellenica e di Civ...
Sono 21 le specie di testuggini alloctone segnalate negli ultimi anni negli ambienti naturali terrestri e acquatici del Lazio. Tra queste soprattutto individui appartenenti a specie abbondantemente commerciate come Trachemys scripta, Pseudemys concinna, Graptemys pseudogeographica, Testudo cfr. graeca, Testudo marginata. Numerose però le segnalazio...
The present study reports on a case of high richness in an assemblage of non-native freshwater turtles in a suburban wetland of Tyrrhenian Central Italy (Torre Flavia Nature Reserve), providing evidence for rst observations of species at regional, national and continental levels. Following a standardized sampling procedure, 54 specimens belonging t...
D’Antoni S., Bellucci V., Bianco P., Rivella E., Bonelli S., Vercelli M., Ferri V., 2020. LE MISURE DEL PIANO D’AZIONE NAZIONALE (PAN) PER L’USO SOSTENIBILE DEI PRODOTTI FITOSANITARI PER LA TUTELA DEGLI IMPOLLINATORI: BUONE PRATICHE E SPERIMENTAZIONE DELLA LORO EFFICACIA. Comunicazione. Giornata formativa per il monitoraggio e la tutela degli impol...
The project, funded by the Ministry of the Environment from 2015, is coordinated by ISPRA and carried out in collaboration with the Piedmont Regional Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA) and the Universities of Turin (DBIOS and DISAFA) and Rome Tor Vergata (DIBIO). According to the 2009/128/EC Directive the Member States have to define and implem...
We report the first case of sexual interaction between two phylogenetically unrelated species (coypu Myocastor coypus and pond slider Trachemys scripta, a freshwater pond turtle), both of them non-native in the study area, a remnant coastal wetland of Tyrrhenian, central Italy (41°57'34.0''N 12°02'58.0''E). We inductively propose two different hypo...
In wind-farm impact assessments, it is useful to know the level of uncertainty that characterizes some key variables used to assess the sensitivity to risk in species of conservation concern. Here, we have introduced the use of the Shannon entropy as a value of ecological uncertainty of the prediction of the risk assessment index, obtained from two...
The present study reports on a case of high richness in an assemblage of non-native freshwater turtles in a suburban wetland of Tyrrhenian Central Italy (Torre Flavia Nature Reserve), providing evidence for first observations of species at regional, national and continental levels. Following a standardized sampling procedure, 54 specimens belonging...
Volume dei Riassunti delle presentazioni e dei Contributi post-conferenza dell'evento divulgativo "Anfibi e Rettili di Guidonia e dintorni: Conosciamoli e Conserviamoli", svolto il 6 Ottobre 2019 e organizzato da ANVA (Associazione Naturalistica Valle dell'Aniene) in sinergia con la Sezione Lazio della Societas Herpetologica Italica (SHI). Questo i...
Il presente studio sulla Chirotterofauna ha riguardato l’intero bacino idrografico del
Torrente Garza, un corso d’acqua che si sviluppa dalle Prealpi bresciane e dopo aver attraversato la città di Brescia ed il territorio di 10 comuni (Lumezzane, Agnosine,
Caino, Nave, Bovezzo, Brescia, Borgosatollo, Castenedolo, Ghedi e Calvisano) si riversa nell...
We present results of a bat sampling carried out in the Regional Park “Castelli Romani” of Latium during 2018. Bat surveys were performed in a total of 25 sampling point distributed along the ZSC IT6030017 “Maschio dell’Artemisio”, the ZSC IT6030018 “Cerquone-Doganella” and other important natural area in the Park (Nemi Lake, Albano Lake and Pianta...
We present various recent reports of free-ranging Pantherophis guttatus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Latium
(Central Italy). These findings raise many concerns since snakes are popular pets and since pet trade is the most
important introduction pathway for allochthonous reptiles. Corn snake is one of the most bred and traded exotic
ophidians and even recomm...
The study was carried out within the Life GESTIRE 2020 action A14: Plan on priority interventions for significant herpetofauna in Lombardy based on a survey on the status of populations and on the analysis of threats. The genetic screening of Bombina variegata has been performed for complementing demographic census data in Lombardy, which is the we...
Chiroptera in the Regional Park Marturanum (Barbarano Romano, VT, Latium).
© 2013 Parco regionale Marturanum, Barbarano Romano (Viterbo).Collana: Conoscenza per la Conservazione.
PREFAZIONE
La Societas Herpetologica Italica è un‟associazione a carattere scientifico e didattico fondata nel 1993, ormai un quarto di secolo fa.
Pur non essendo un‟associazione ambientalista, né animalista, la S.H.I. ha tra le sue finalità statutarie “la tutela degli Anfibi e dei Rettili e dei loro habitat, in ogni parte del mondo e in particolar...
We here report a new European case of Snake Fungal Disease in a free-ranging Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758) from Ticino Canton (Switzerland). This is the first Swiss case and only the second occurrence in a wild snake from continental Europe. We provide a description of clinical and methodological aspects beginning with the capture and the stabling...
Riassunto. Nel presente lavoro vengono aggiornati i dati sulla distribuzione del rospo smeraldino occidentale Bufotes balearicus (Boettger, 1880) in Abruzzo e vengono individuate le azioni strategiche per la conservazione delle popolazioni presenti.
Abstract. In this work data on the distribution in Abruzzo of the western green-toad Bufotes
balear...
This work updates the distribution of the smooth snake Coronella austriaca Laurenti,
1768 and the southern smooth snake Coronella girondica Daudin, 1803 in the Abruzzo region, with a considerable data increase with respect to the regional atlas of reptiles published in 2008.
Il regolamento (UE) n. 1143/2014, entrato in vigore il 1°gennaio 2015, stabilisce le norme atte a prevenire, ridurre al minimo e mitigare gli effetti negativi sulla biodiversità causati dall'introduzione e dalla diffusione, sia deliberata che accidentale, di specie esotiche invasive all'interno dell'Unione europea, nonché a ridurre al minimo e miti...
In some cases, species’ distributions have not been accurate and some geographical areas were not accounted for in the New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe (NA2RE), a project per-formed by the Mapping Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH). The distribu-tion of species within the Vipera ursinii-renardi group were presented...
In this paper we studied the herpetofauna of a small area of about 10 hectares in the middle valley of the Vomano River, localized west of the medieval village of Poggio Umbricchio (Crognaleto, teramo), between “Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga” National Park and SIC IT7120082 “Fiume Vomano (from Cusciano to Villa Vomano”. Inside this area we observed...
Salamandra salamandra is a species located in Abruzzo region in mature forests of beech on the Gran sasso and Laga mountains, Majella and mountains among Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. With targeted research in order to identify new presence sites or reconfirm old reports, it was possible to confirm the presence of a reproductive population of this spe...
This paper updates the distribution map of Abruzzo Italian crested newt Triturus carnifex (Laurenti, 1768) with a significant increase of the data published in 2007 in Regional Atlas of Amphibians. It also highlighted the plasticity and environmental adaptability of the species, as well as the ascertained capability of this urodel to colonize also...
In this paper the data on the spread of “cervone” Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacepede, 1789) in Abruzzo and are identified actions designed to protect the species are updated.
In question were taken all the bibliographic information available on the presence and ecology, integrated with personal search data of the authors, intensified in the last three...
L’Aquila province holds a significant biological diversity heritage and a large portion of its territory is preserved through parks, reserves and sites of community importance. Nevertheless, the only published and thorough information as to its herpetofauna came from regional herpetological atlases published on 2007 and 2008. We updated the distrib...
An analysis of a 30-year dataset (1985–2014) concerning a herpetofauna assemblage studied in a site of conservation concern (Northern Italy) is reported with the aim of evidencing a trend in species richness which may reveal the most sensitive ones (i.e., the first to go extinct locally). Our results point to a progressive loss of species (nested s...
Grazie ai loro particolari adattamenti fisiologici e comportamentali i chirotteri sono
uno dei pochi gruppi di mammiferi in grado di colonizzare gli ambienti più disparati.
Insieme all’adattamento al volo, infatti, presentano diverse caratteristiche peculiari
come la capacità di “vedere” nella più completa oscurità, grazie ad un sistema di
ecolocal...
Italian cave salamander (Speleomantes italicus Dunn, 1923), present in Abruzzo at its southern edge range, has populations in unexpected sites of the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga and in neighbouring areas but these are not currently considered as Natura2000 sites or other form of regional protection. Thanks to the extensive rese...
L’Aquila province holds a significant biological diversity heritage and a large portion of its territory is preserved through parks, reserves and sites of community importance. Nevertheless, the only published and thorough information as to its herpetofauna came from regional herpetological atlases published on 2007 and 2008. We updated the distrib...
Nel presente lavoro vengono aggiornati i dati sulla diffusione del " cervone " Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacépède, 1789) in Abruzzo e vengono individuate azioni finalizzate alla tutela della specie.
The results of faunistic and ecological research on the populations of Odonata, Amphibians and Reptiles of the complex of quarry lakes in San Polo Location in the municipality of Brescia (Lombardy, northern Italy) are on display. During the years of research (2014-2017) 7 species of Zygoptera, 11 species of Anisoptera, 6 species of Amphibians and 8...
Aim of our study was to monitor Lithobates catesbeianus invasion in three sites with different period of its introduction: for over 50 years (around Villimpenta, Mantua), for about 20 years (around Nonantola, Modena), less 10 years (around Fiano Romano and Monterotondo Scalo, Rome), and the situation of the native populations of amphibians. Results...
An analysis of a 30-year dataset (1985–2014) concerning a herpetofauna assemblage studied in a site of conservation concern (Northern Italy) is reported with the aim of evidencing a trend in species richness which may reveal the most sensitive ones (i.e., the first to go extinct locally). Our results point to a progressive loss of species (nested s...
We reported data on flying bat assemblages in a Mediterranean mountain landscape of central Italy on a 5-year time span (2005-2010) where a wind farm repowering has been carried out (from 2009, 17 three-blade turbines substituted an a priori set of one-blade turbines). In 4 yearly based surveys, we calculated a set of univariate metrics at species...
La maggior parte degli italiani non ha mai visto un serpente libero in natura, ma chi ha avuto la possibilità di osservarne un esemplare con grande probabilità ha incontrato per lo più quella che è la specie più diffusa e adattabile tra i nostri colubri: il biacco maggiore.
Una delle principali fonti di pericolo per i Rettili in generale ed i serpenti in particolare è rappresentata dall’Uomo e dalle sua attività. Per molteplici ragioni: antropizzazione e male intesa “bonifica” del territorio; distruzione o modifica degli habitat naturali; uccisione volontaria o accidentale e cattura diretta, per collezionismo e talora...
Italian cave salamander (Speleomantes italicus Dunn, 1923), present in
Abruzzo at its southern edge range, has populations in unexpected sites of
the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti dellaLaga and in neighboring
areas but these are not currently considered as Natura2000 sites or other
form of regional protection. Thanks to the extensive resear...
The common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Tiber River (Latium)
The common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758), is a large and robust aquatic turtle with a widespread native distribution
throughout North America. Its diffusion in other countries is to the exotic pet trade: it is a popular species due...
We reported data on flying bat assemblages in a Mediterranean mountain landscape of central Italy on a 5-year time span (2005-2010) where a wind farm repow-ering has been carried out (from 2009, 17 three-blade turbines substituted an a priori set of one-blade turbines). In 4 yearly based surveys, we calculated a set of univariate metrics at species...
We studied a set of common breeding birds living in a heterogeneous oak wood mosaic of Apennines (central Italy) where a wind farm occurred. Aim to assess differences in composition and structure between a treatment area (with wind farm turbines) and a control area (without wind farm turbines). We did not observe differences at assemblage (uni-and...
