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Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries

Terrestrial animals can be classified into distinct biogeographic regions, but less is known about what shapes these global boundaries. Here, the authors identify geological and climatic factors that determine the separation of realms through time.

Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Florent Mazel
Wilfried Thuiller
Research06 Mar 2017
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1-7
Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

The role of wild and domesticated animals on alpine ecosystems is unclear. Here, the authors use sedaDNA from 14 European alpine lakes to demonstrate a positive association between wild and domesticated animal and plant diversity through the past 14 thousand years.

Sandra Garcés-Pastor
Peter D. Heintzman
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access25 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change

Understanding species’ spatiotemporal dynamics is key to predicting their responses to climate change. Here, the authors combine landscape genomics, demographic reconstructions, and species distribution models to assess lineage-specific responses to past and future climate in a migratory raptor.

Joan Ferrer Obiol
Anastasios Bounas
Diego Rubolini
ResearchOpen Access13 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-16
The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat

Across 46 proglacial landscapes worldwide, environmental properties and biodiversity have shown complex patterns of change since glaciers retreated.

Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Silvio Marta
Alexis Carteron
Research31 Jul 2024
Nature

Volume: 632, P: 336-342
Molecular Phylogenies indicate a Paleo-Tibetan Origin of Himalayan Lazy Toads (Scutiger)

Sylvia Hofmann
Matthias Stöck
Joachim Schmidt
ResearchOpen Access12 Jun 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Seasonality of primary production explains the richness of pioneering benthic communities

The environmental drivers of species diversity at the global level are difficult to define. This paper, using standardised methodologies, shows that the seasonality of primary production explains marine pioneer metazoan richness comparatively or better than other measures like sea surface temperature.

Matteo Cecchetto
Agnès Dettai
Stefano Schiaparelli
ResearchOpen Access27 Sept 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-15
The importance of species addition ‘versus’ replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacier retreat

The mechanisms shaping plant succession are dynamic. Compositional dissimilarity between communities decreases over time, underlined by a predominance of taxa addition in early communities, with replacement becoming more important after 50 yr.

Isabel Cantera
Alexis Carteron
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Research17 Jan 2024
Nature Plants

Volume: 10, P: 256-267
Heterogeneous changes of soil microclimate in high mountains and glacier forelands

The high-resolution global model of soil temperature and snow cover change in mountain ecosystems developed here shows that areas nearby glaciers are warming faster than other mountain regions, and these effects are particularly rapid in tropical mountains.

Silvio Marta
Anaïs Zimmer
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access31 Aug 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation

Invasive species can influence the evolution of natives. Here, authors use common garden experiments to show that invasive predatory crayfish have homogenized the developmental timing of a native frog by selecting for more rapid development to avoid predation.

Andrea Melotto
Raoul Manenti
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access17 Jul 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years

Using a 150-year time series of data on arthropod species richness in Italy, the authors identify the main drivers of assemblage compositional turnover, finding that turnover is highest in locations with rapid changes in precipitation, particularly when human population density also increased rapidly.

Silvio Marta
Michele Brunetti
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Research15 Jul 2021
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 5, P: 1291-1300
Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

Agricultural expansion to grow food, fibre and biofuel will further threaten biodiversity. This study finds that almost 90% of terrestrial vertebrate species will lose habitat to such expansion, but proactive food policies could reduce these threats.

David R. Williams
Michael Clark
David Tilman
Research21 Dec 2020
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 4, P: 314-322
Consider species specialism when publishing datasets

Enrico Lunghi
Claudia Corti
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Correspondence11 Feb 2019
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 3, P: 319
Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

Luca Coppari
Milos Di Gregorio
Enrico Lunghi
ResearchOpen Access27 Jun 2024
Scientific Data

Volume: 11, P: 1-8
N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates

Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Benedetta Barzaghi
Raoul Manenti
ResearchOpen Access09 Jul 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-8
Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders

Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Enrico Lunghi
Raoul Manenti
ResearchOpen Access12 Jul 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-12
Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes

Enrico Lunghi
Simone Giachello
Raoul Manenti
ResearchOpen Access05 Jun 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-6
Updating salamander datasets with phenotypic and stomach content information for two mainland Speleomantes

Enrico Lunghi
Fabio Cianferoni
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access09 Jun 2021
Scientific Data

Volume: 8, P: 1-6
Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders

Enrico Lunghi
Fabio Cianferoni
Claudia Corti
ResearchOpen Access15 May 2018
Scientific Data

Volume: 5, P: 1-7
ClimCKmap, a spatially, temporally and climatically explicit distribution database for the Italian fauna

Silvio Marta
Michele Brunetti
Antonello Provenzale
ResearchOpen Access08 Oct 2019
Scientific Data

Volume: 6, P: 1-6
Spatial ecology of the invasive Asian common toad in Madagascar and its implications for invasion dynamics

Fulvio Licata
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Angelica Crottini
ResearchOpen Access02 Mar 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-11
Condition- and context-dependent variation of sexual dimorphism across lizard populations at different spatial scales

Martina Muraro
Stéphanie Sherpa
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access10 Oct 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-10
Factors determining the dorsal coloration pattern of aposematic salamanders

Benedetta Barzaghi
Andrea Melotto
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access12 Oct 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
The trophic niche of subterranean populations of Speleomantes italicus

Enrico Lunghi
Fabio Cianferoni
Giorgio Mancinelli
ResearchOpen Access29 Oct 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
Persistence of environmental DNA in cultivated soils: implication of this memory effect for reconstructing the dynamics of land use and cover changes

Anthony Foucher
Olivier Evrard
Jérôme Poulenard
ResearchOpen Access29 Jun 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-12
Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

Jorge L. D. Pinaya
Francisco W. Cruz
Paulo E. De Oliveira
ResearchOpen Access29 Nov 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-14
Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders

Enrico Lunghi
Raoul Manenti
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
ResearchOpen Access14 May 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-11

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Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries

Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change

The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat

Molecular Phylogenies indicate a Paleo-Tibetan Origin of Himalayan Lazy Toads (Scutiger)

Seasonality of primary production explains the richness of pioneering benthic communities

The importance of species addition ‘versus’ replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacier retreat

Heterogeneous changes of soil microclimate in high mountains and glacier forelands

Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation

Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

Consider species specialism when publishing datasets

Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates

Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders

Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes

Updating salamander datasets with phenotypic and stomach content information for two mainland Speleomantes

Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders

ClimCKmap, a spatially, temporally and climatically explicit distribution database for the Italian fauna

Spatial ecology of the invasive Asian common toad in Madagascar and its implications for invasion dynamics

Condition- and context-dependent variation of sexual dimorphism across lizard populations at different spatial scales

Factors determining the dorsal coloration pattern of aposematic salamanders

The trophic niche of subterranean populations of Speleomantes italicus

Persistence of environmental DNA in cultivated soils: implication of this memory effect for reconstructing the dynamics of land use and cover changes

Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders

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