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Henry E., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.H., Benítez-López A. 2022. Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/GEB.13621
Bonifacino M., Pasquali L., Sistri G., Menchetti M., Santini L., Corbella C., Bonelli S., Balletto E., Vila R., Dinca V., Dapporto L. 2022. Climate change may cause the extinction of the butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana in the Apennines. Journal of Insect Conservation, doi: 10.1007/s10841-022-00441-z
Antunes A.C., Gauzens B., Brose U., Potapov A.M., Jochum M., Santini L., Eisenhauer N., Ferlian O., Cesarz S., Scheu S., Hirt M.R. 2022. Environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities. Oikos, doi: 10.1111/oik.09735
Eppley T.M., Hoeks S., Chapman C.A., Ganzhorn J.U., Hall K., Owen M.A., Adams D.B., Allgas N., Amato K.R., Andriamahaihavana M., Aristizabal J.F., Baden A.L., Balestri M., Barnett A.A., Bicca-Marques J.C., Bowler M., Boyle A.S., Brown M., Caillaud D., Calegaro-Marques C., Campbell C.J., Campera M., Campos F.A., Cardoso T.S., Carretero-Pinzón X., Champion J., Chaves O.M., Chen-Kraus C., Colquhoun I.C., Dean B., Dubrueil C., Ellis K.M., Erhart E.M., Evans K.J.E., Fedigan L.M., Felton A.M., Ferreira R.G., Fichtel C., Fonseca M.L., Fontes I.P., Fortes V.B., Fumian I., Gibson D., Guzzo G.B., Hartwell K.S., Heymann E.W., Hilário R.R., Holmes S.M., Irwin M.T., Johnson S.E., Kappeler P.M., Kelley E.A., King T., Knogge C., Koch F., Kowalewski M.M., Lange L.R., Lauterbur M.E., Louis Jr. E.E., Lutz M.C., Martínez J., Melin A.D., de Melo F.R., Mihaminekena T.H., Mogilewsky M.S., Moreira L.S., Moura L.A., Muhle C.B., Nagy-Reis M.B., Norconk M.A., Notman H., O’Mara M.T., Ostner J., Patel E.R., Pavelka M.S.M., Pinacho-Guendulain B., Porter L.M., Pozo-Montuy G., Raboy B.E., Rahalinarivo V., Raharinoro N.A., Rakotomalala Z., Ramos-Fernández G., Rasamisoa D.C., Ratsimbazafy J., Ravaloharimanitra M., Razafindramanana J., Razanaparany T.P., Righini N., Robson N.M., da Rosa Gonçalves J., Sanamo J., Santacruz N., Sato H., Sauther M.L., Scarry C.J., Serio-Silva J.C., Shanee S., de Souza Lins P.G.A., Smith A.C., Smith Aguilar S.E., Souza-Alves J.P., Stavis V.K., Steffens K.J.E., Stone A.I., Strier K.B., Suarez S.A., Talebi M., Tecot S.R., Tujague M.P., Valenta K., Van Belle S., Vasey N., Wallace R.B., Welch G., Wright P.C., Donati G., Santini L. 2022. Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121105119
Bellard C., Benítez-López A., Razgour O., Santini L., Zhan A. 2022. Recent developments in Diversity and Distributions and trends in the field. Diversity & Distributions, doi: 10.1111/DDI.13625
Festa, F., Ancillotto L., Santini L., Pacifici M., Rocha R., Toshkova N, Amorim F., Benítez-López A., Domer A., Hamidović D., Kramer-Schadt S., Mathews F., Radchuk V., Rebelo H., Ruczynski I., Solem E., Tsoar A., Russo D., Razgour O. 2022. Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review. Biological Reviews, doi: 10.1111/brv.12893
Broekman M., Hilbers, J.P., Schipper A.M, Benítez-López A., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2022. Time-lagged effects of habitat fragmentation on terrestrial mammals in Madagascar. Conservation Biology 36(5): e13942
Santini L., Benitez-Lopez A., Dormann C.F., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2022. Population density estimates for terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology & Biogeography 31(5): 978-994
Stewart P., Voskamp A., Santini L., Biber M., Devenish A. Hof C., Willis S., Tobias J. 2022. Global Impacts of Climate Change on Avian Functional Diversity.Ecology Letters 25(3): 673-685
Boonman C.C.F., Huijbregts M.A.J., Benítez-López A., Schipper, A.M., Thuiller W., Santini L. 2022. Trait-based projections of climate change effects on global biome distributions. Diversity & Distributions 28: 25–37
Cazalis V., Di Marco M., Butchart, S.H.M., Akçakaya H.R., González‐Suárez M, Meyer C., Clausnitzer V., Böhm M., Zizka A., Cardoso A., Schipper A.M., Bachman S.P., Young B.E., Hoffmann M., Benítez-López A., Lucas P.M., Pettorelli N., Patoine G., Pacifici M., Jörger-Hickfang T., Brooks T.M., Rondinini C., Hill S.L.L., Visconti P., Santini L. 2022. Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(4): 359-370
Sistri G., Menchetti M., Santini L., Pasquali L., Sapienti S., Cini A., Platania L., Balletto E., Barbero F., Bonelli S., Casacci L., Dinca V., Vila R., Mantoni C., Fattorini S., Dapporto L. 2021. The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change.Insect Conservation and Diversity 15(1): 136-148
Santini L., Antão L., Jung M., Benítez-López A., Rapacciuolo G., Di Marco M., Jones F., Haghkerdar J.M., González-Suárez M. 2021. The interface between Macroecology and Conservation: existing links and untapped opportunities. Frontiers of Biogeography 13(4): e53025
Wang Y.X.G., Matson K.D., Santini L., Visconti P., Hilbers J., Huijbregts M.A.J., Xu Y., Prins H.H.T., Dobson A., Allen T., Huang Z.Y.X., de Boer W.F. 2021. Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk. Global Change Biology 27(20): 4995–5007
Hoeks S., Tucker M.A., Huijbregts M.A.J., Harfoot M.B.J., Bithell M., Santini L. 2021. MadingleyR: an R package for mechanistic ecosystem modelling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(9): 1922-1933
Buschke F.T., Hagan J.G., Santini L., Coetzee B.W.T. 2021. Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 1145–1152
de Jonge, M.M.J., Benítez-López A., Hennekens S., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.J., Schipper, A.M. 2021. Conditional love? Co-occurrence patterns of drought-sensitive species in European grasslands are consistent with the stress-gradient hypothesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(8): 1609-1620
Boonman C., Santini L., Robroek B., Hoeks S., Dengler J., Bergamini A. Biurrun I.,
Carranza M.L., Cerabolini B., Chytrý M., Lysenko T., Stanisci A., Tatarenko I., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2021. Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(3): e13027
Santini L., Isaac N.J.B. 2021. Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules. Ecology Letters 24(7): 1318-1327
Santini L., Benítez-López A., Maiorano L., Čengić M., Huijbregts, M.A.J. 2021. Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research. Diversity & Distributions 27(6): 1035-1050
Conenna I., Santini L., Cabeza M., Rocha R., Monadjem A., Russo D. 2021. Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(5):1014-1029
Benítez-López A., Santini L., Gallego-Zamorano J., Milà B., Walkden P., Huijbregts M., Tobias J.A. 2021. The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution across terrestrial vertebrates. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 768–786
Cimatti M., Ranc N., Benítez-López A., Maiorano L., Boitani L., Cagnacci F., Čengić M., Ciucci P., Huijbregts M.A.J., Krofel M., López Bao J., Selva N., Andren H., Bautista C., Cirovic D., Hemmingmoore H., Reinhardt I., Marenče M., Mertzanis Y., Pedrotti L., Trbojević I., Zetterberg A., Zwijacz-Kozica T., Santini L. 2021. Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes. Diversity and Distributions 27(4): 602-617
Gonzalez-Suarez M., Gonzalez-Voyer A., von Hardenberg A., Santini L. 2020. The role of brain size on population density in mammals. Journal of Animal Ecology 90(3): 653-661
Tucker M, Santini L., Carbone C., Mueller T. 2020. Mammal population densities at a global scale are higher in human-modified areas. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.05126
Hoeks S., Huijbregts M.A.J., Busana M., Harfoot M.B.J., Svenning J.-C., Santini L. 2020. Mechanistic insights into the role of large carnivores for ecosystem structure and functioning. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.05191
Dallas T., Santini L., Decker R., Hasting A. 2020. Weighing the evidence for the abundant-centre hypothesis. Biodiversity Informatics 15(3): 81-91
Dallas T., Pironon S., Santini L. 2020. The abundant-centre is not all that abundant: a comment to Osorio-Olvera et al. 2020. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.02.27.968586
Dallas T., Santini L. 2020. The influence of stochasticity, landscape structure, and species traits on abundant-centre relationships. Ecography doi: 10.1111/ecog.05164
Boonman C.C.F., Benítez-López A., Schipper A.M., Thuiller W., Anand M., Cerabolini B.E.L, Cornelissen J.H.C., Gonzalez-Melo A., Hattingh W.N., Higuchi P., Laughlin D.C., Onipchenko V.G., Peñuelas J., Poorter L., Soudzilovskaia N.A., Huijbregts M.A.J., Santini L. 2020. Assessing the reliability of predicted plant trait distributions at the global scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29(6): 1034-1051
Donati G., Campera M., Crescent M., Balestri M., Barresi M., Kesch K., Ndremifidy K., Philemon, Rabenantoandro J., Racevska E., Randriatafika F., Ravaolahy M., Ravoahangy A.M., Roma M., Rowe F., Santini L., Serra V., Zander S.L., Tsagnangara C., Vincelette M., Ramanamanjato J.B. 2020. Life in a fragment: evolution of foraging strategies of translocated collared brown lemurs, Eulemur collaris, over an 18-year period. American Journal of Primatology 82(4): e23106
Eppley T., Santini L., Tinsman J., Donati G. 2020. Do functional traits offset the effects of fragmentation? The case of large-bodied diurnal lemur species. American Journal of Primatology 82(4): e23104
Gallego-Zamorano J., Benítez‐López A., Santini L., Hilbers J.P., Huijbregts M.A.J., Schipper A.M. 2020. Combined effects of land use and hunting on distributions of tropical mammals. Conservation Biology doi: 10.1111/cobi.13459
Benítez-López A., Santini L. 2020. Game of Tenure: the role of “hidden” citations on researchers’ ranking in Ecology. Frontiers of Biogeography 12(1): e45195e
Sykes L., Santini L., Etard A., Newbold T. 2020. Effects of rarity form on species’ responses to land use. Conservation Biology 34(3): 688-696
Campera M., Santini L., Balestri M., Nekaris K.A.I., Donati G. 2019. Elevation gradients of lemur abundance emphasise the importance of Madagascar’s lowland rainforest for conservation of endemic taxa. Mammal Review 50(1): 25-37
Burns K., Santini L., Zhan A. 2019. Building a better future for Diversity & Distributions. Diversity & Distributions 25(7): 1010-1011
Benítez-López A., Santini L., Schipper A.M., Busana M., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2019. Intact but empty forests? Patterns of hunting-induced mammal defaunation in the tropics. PLoS Biology 17(5): e3000247
Santini L., Butchart S.H.M., Rondinini C., Benítez-López A., Hilbers J.P., Schipper A., Cengic M., Tobias J.A., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2019. Applying habitat and population density models to land cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments. Conservation Biology 33(5): 1084–1093
Santini L., Pironon S., Maiorano L., Thuiller W. 2019. Addressing common pitfalls does not provide more support to geographical and ecological abundant-centre hypotheses. Ecography 42(4): 696-705
Santini L., González-Suárez M., Russo D., Gonzalez-Voyer A., von Hardenberg A., Ancillotto L. 2019. One strategy doesn’t fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals. Ecology Letters 22(2): 365-376
Peterson A.T., Anderson R.P., Beger M., Bolliger J., Brotons L., Burridge C.P., Cobos M.E., Cuervo‐Robayo A.P., Di Minin E., Diez J., Elith J., Embling C.B., Escobar L.E., Essl F.,Feeley K.J., Hawkes L., Jiménez‐García D., Jimenez L., Green D.M., Knop E., Kühn I., Lahoz‐Monfort J.J., Lira-Noriega A., Lobo J.M., Loyola R., MacNally R., Machado-Stredel F., Martínez-Meyer E., McCarthy M., Merow C., Nori J., Nuñez‐Penichet C., Osorio L., Pyše P., Rejmànek M., Ricciardi A., Robertson M., Rojas Soto O., Romero‐Alvarez D., Roura‐Pascual N., Santini L., Schoeman D.S., Schröder B., Soberon J., Strubbe D., Thuiller W., Traveset A., Treml E.A., Václavík T., Varela S., Watson J.E.M., Wiersma Y., Wintle B., Yanez-Arenas, Zurell D. 2019. Open Access Solutions for Biodiversity Journals: Don’t Replace One Problem with Another. Diversity & Distributions 25(1): 5-8
Verde Arregoitia L.D., Hernández-Canchola G., Santini L., Schweizer M., Cabrera-Garrido M.Y., León-Paniagua L.S. 2018. Co-occurrence and character convergence in two Neotropical bats. Journal of Mammalogy 99(5): 1055-1064
Santini L., Isaac N.J.B., Maiorano L., Ficetola G.F., Huijbregts M.A.J., Carbone C., Thuiller W. 2018. Global drivers of population abundance in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(8): 968-979
Santini L., Isaac N.J.B., Ficetola G.F. 2018. TetraDENSITY: a database of population density estimates in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(7): 787-791
Santini L., Benítez-López A., Ficetola G.F., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2018. Length – Mass allometries in Amphibians. Integrative Zoology 13(1): 36-45
Donati G., Santini L., Eppley T.M., Arrigo-Nelson S.J., Balestri M., Boinski S., Bollen A., Bridgeman L.B., Campera M., Carrai V., Chalise M.K., Derby A., Hohmann G., Kinnaird M.F., Koenig A., Kowalewski M., Lahann P., McLennan M.R., Nekaris A.K.I., Nijman V., Norscia I., Ostner J., Polowinsky S.Y., Schülke O., Schwitzer C., Stevenson P.R., Talebi M.G., Tan C., Tomaschewski I., Vogel E.R., Wright P.C., Ganzhorn J.U.. 2017. Low Levels of Fruit Nitrogen as Drivers for the Evolution of Madagascar’s Primate Communities. Scientific Reports 7(1): 14406
Santini L., González‐Suárez M., M., Rondinini C., Di Marco M. 2017. Shifting baseline in macroecology? Unraveling the influence of human impact on mammalian body mass. Diversity & Distributions 23(6): 640-649
Mori E., Iacucci A., Castiglia R., Santini L. 2017. Sexual-size dimorphism in two synanthropic rat species: Comparison and eco-evolutionary perspectives. Mammalian Biology 83: 78-80
Santini L., Belmaker J., Costello M.J., Pereira H.M., Rossberg A.G., Schipper A.M., Ceausu̦ S., Dornelas M., Hilbers J.P., Hortal J., Huijbregts M.A., Navarro L.M., Schiffers K., Visconti P., Rondinini C. 2017. Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change. Biological Conservation 213: 341–350
Santini L., Saura S., Rondinini C. 2016. A composite network approach for assessing multi-species connectivity: an application to road defragmentation prioritisation. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164794
Ranc N., Santini L., Rondinini C., Boitani L., Poitevin F., Angerbjorn A., Maiorano L. 2017. Performance tradeoffs in target-group bias correction for species distribution models. Ecography 40(9): 1076-1087
Hilbers J.P., Santini L., Visconti P., Schipper A.M., Pinto C., Rondinini C., Huijbregts. 2017. Setting population targets for mammals using body mass as a predictor of population persistence. Conservation Biology 31(2): 385-393 (Joint first author)
Santini L., Cornulier T., Bullock J.M., Palmer S.C.F., White S.M., Hodgson J.A., Bocedi G., Travis J.M.J. 2016. A trait-based approach for predicting species responses to environmental change from sparse data: How well might terrestrial mammals track climate change?. Global Change Biology 22(7): 2415-2424
Di Marco M., Santini L., Visconti P., Mortelliti A., Boitani L., Rondinini C. 2016. Using habitat suitability models to scale up population persistence targets. Hystrix, Italian Journal of Mammalogy 27(1)
Schipper A., Belmaker J., Dantas M., Navarro L., Böhning-Gaese K., Costello M., Dornelas M., Foppen R., Joaquín H., Huijbregts M., Martin B., Queiroz C., Rossberg A., Santini L., Schiffers K., Steinmann Z., Visconti P., Rondinini C., Pereira H., 2016. Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages over a 40 year period. Global Change Biology 22(12): 3948-3959
Ancillotto L., Santini L., Ranc N., Maiorano L., Russo D. 2016. Extraordinary range expansion in a common bat: the potential roles of climate change and urbanisation. The Science of Nature 103(15) (Joint first author)
Santini L., Saura S., Rondinini C. 2016. Connectivity of the global network of protected areas. Diversity & Distribution 22(2): 199-211
Di Marco M., Santini L. 2016. Climatic tolerance or geographic breadth: what are we measuring? Global Change Biology 22(3): 972–973
Visconti P., Bakkenes M., Baisero D., Brooks T., Butchart S.H.M., Joppa L., Alkemade R., Di Marco M., Santini L., Hoffmann M., Maiorano L., Pressey R.L., Arponen A., Boitani L., Reside A., van Vuuren D., Rondinini C. 2016. Projecting global biodiversity indicators under future development scenarios. Conservation Letters 9(1): 5-13
Sato H., Santini L., Patel E.R., Campera M., Yamashita N., Colquhoun I.C., Donati G. 2016. Dietary plasticity and feeding strategy of Eulemur: a comparison with Propithecus. International Journal of Primatology 37(1):109-129
Donati G., Campera M., Balestri M., Serra V., Barresi M., Schwitzer C., Curtis D.J., Santini L. 2016. Ecological and Anthropogenic Correlates of Activity Patterns in Eulemur. International Journal of Primatology 37(1): 26-46
Maiorano L., Amori G., Montemaggiori A., Rondinini C., Santini L., Saura S., Boitani L. 2015. On how much biodiversity is covered in Europe by national protected areas and by the Natura 2000 network: Insights from terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology 29(4): 986-995
Regan E.C., Santini L., Ingwall-King L., Hoffmann M., Rondinini C., Symes A., Taylor J., Butchart S.H.M. 2015. Global trends in the status of bird and mammal pollinators. Conservation Letters 8(6): 396-403
Santini L., Rojas D., Donati, G. 2015. Evolving through day and night: origin and diversification of activity patterns in modern primates. Behavioural Ecology 26 (3):789–796
Di Marco, Santini L. 2015. Human pressures predict species’ geographic range size better than biological traits. Global Change Biology 21: 2169-2178
Tittensor D.P., Walpole M., Hill S.L.L., Boyce D.G., Britten G.L., Burgess N.D., Butchart S.H.M., Leadley P.W., Regan E.C., Alkemade R., Baumung R., Bellard C., Bouwman L., Bowles-Newark N.J., Chenery A.M., Cheung W.W.L., Christensen V., Cooper H.D., Crowther A.R., Dixon M.J.R., Galli A., Gaveau V., Gregory R.D., Gutierrez N.L., Hirsch T., Hoft R., Januchowski-Hartley S.R., Karmann M., Krug C.B., Leverington F.J., Loh J., Lojenga R.K., Malsch K., Marques A., Morgan D.H.W., Mumby P.J., Newbold T., Noonan-Mooney K., Pagad S.N., Parks B.C., Pereira H.M., Robertson T., Rondinini C., Santini L., Scharlemann J.P.W., Schindler S., Sumaila U.R., Teh L.S.L., van Kolck J., Visconti P., Ye Y. 2014. A mid-term analysis of progress towards international biodiversity targets. Science 346(6206): 241-244
Santini L., Di Marco M., Boitani L., Maiorano L., Rondinini C. 2014. Incorporating spatial population structure in gap analysis reveals inequitable assessments of species protection. Diversity & Distributions 20(6): 698-707
Wegman M., Santini L., Leutner B., Safi K., Rocchini D., Bevanda M., Latifi H., Dech S., Rondinini C. 2014. Role of African Protected Areas in maintaining connectivity for large mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London series B. 369: 20130193
Pacifici M., Santini L., Di Marco M., Baisero D., Francucci L., Grottolo Marasini G.,Visconti P., Rondinini C. 2013. Generation length for mammals. Nature Conservation 5: 87–94
Santini L., Di Marco M., Visconti P., Baisero D., Boitani L., Rondinini C. 2013. Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals. Hystrix, Italian Journal of Mammalogy 24(2): 181-186
Donati G., Santini L., Razafindramana J., Boitani L., Borgognini-Tarli S. 2013. (Un-)expected nocturnal activity in “diurnal” Lemur catta supports cathemerality as one of the key adaptations of lemur radiation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 150: 99-106 (Joint first author)
Santini L. 2011. Conflictual behaviour in lemur mother toward dying infant. Lemur News v. 16
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