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Campera M., Santini L., Balestri M., Nekaris K.A.I., Donati G. Elevation gradients of lemur abundance emphasise the importance of Madagascar’s lowland rainforest for conservation of endemic taxa. Mammal Review (ACCEPTED)

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. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13279

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. 2018. 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. 2018. Open Access Solutions for Biodiversity Journals: Don’t Replace One Problem with Another. Diversity & Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12885

Verde Arregoitia L.D., Hernández-Canchola G., Santini L., Schweizer M., Cabrera-Garrido M.Y., León-Paniagua L.S. Co-occurrence and character convergence in two Neotropical bats. Journal of Mammalogy https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy112

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