Pietro Serroni's scientific contributions

... Besides temporal activity patterns of wolves and fallow deer and their mutual interspecific overlap, we also compared the temporal activity of the fallow deer between sites with high versus (vs.). low wolf activity (Mori et al. 2020;Oberosler et al. 2017;Rossa et al. 2021). For each location, the frequency of wolf activity (i.e., its detection rate) was calculated as N detections/N days (N days = days of actual camera functioning). ...

... In Italy, following the same fate as other countries, 14,15 all griffon vulture populations (with the exception of the Sardinian one) became extinct between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 16 It represented an important loss, as the species played a central role in maintaining the delicate balance of mountain ecosystems together with other iconic and ecologically important species (as the endemic marsican brown bear Ursus arctos marsicanus, the apennine wolf Canis lupus italicus and the apennine chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata), in an environment still deeply characterized by traditional agriculture and rural activities (i.e., livestock transhumance). With the aim to restore the species and its important ecological role, several reintroduction projects have been carried out in Italy between 1992 and 2020. ...