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  1. Dunal plants intercepting macrolitter: Implications for beach clean-ups
  2. Marine mollusk thanatocoenoses along the coasts of the San Pietro Island (South-Western Sardinia): a first reasoning on species composition and biodiversity
  3. General macro-litter as a proxy for fishing lines, hooks and nets entrapping beach-nesting birds: Implications for clean-ups
  4. A “diary of events” to support the management actions on two beach-nesting birds of conservation concern: Historicization of experiences, learned lessons, and SWOT analysis
  5. Seabirds pecking polystyrene items in offshore Adriatic Sea waters
  6. One year after on Tyrrhenian coasts: The ban of cotton buds does not reduce their dominance in beach litter composition
  7. Temporal changes of plastic litter and associated encrusting biota: Evidence from Central Italy (Mediterranean Sea)
  8. Cages Mitigate Predation on Eggs of Threatened Shorebirds: A Manipulative-Control Study
  9. Are Afrotropical Protected Areas Effective in Increasing Waterbird Richness and Diversity? A Case Study from South Sudan (East Africa)
  10. Anthropogenic particles in coypu (Myocastor coypus; Mammalia, Rodentia)’ faeces: first evidence and considerations about their use as track for detecting microplastic pollution
  11. Foraging diet of the two commonest non-native parakeets (Aves, Psittaciformes) in Italy: assessing their impact on ornamental and commercial plants
  12. Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas
  13. Habitat Fragmentation, Connectivity Conservation and Related Key-Concepts: Temporal Trends in Their Recurrences on Web of Science (1960–2020)
  14. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Conservation Project on Two Threatened Birds: Applying Expert-Based Threat Analysis and Threat Reduction Assessment in a Mediterranean Wetland
  15. Seasonal bird assemblages in Dehesas (substeppic prairies with Quercus suber) of North-Western Sardinia (Italy): A poorly studied landscape of high eco-biogeographic interest
  16. Not only jackals in the cities and dolphins in the harbours: less optimism and more systems thinking is needed to understand the long-term effects of the COVID-19 lockdown
  17. Carpobrotus spp. patches as trap for litter: Evidence from a Mediterranean beach
  18. Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
  19. Anthropogenic litter along a coastal-wetland gradient: Reed-bed vegetation in the backdunes may act as a sink for expanded polystyrene
  20. From Citizen Science to Citizen Management: Suggestions for a pervasive fine-grained and operational approach to biodiversity conservation
  21. Is the weight of plastic litter correlated with vegetal wrack? A case study from a Central Italian beach
  22. Environmental management of waters and riparian areas to protect biodiversity through River Contracts: The experience of Tiber River (Rome, Italy)
  23. A fine-grained analysis of a Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) nest suggests a nonhomogeneous internal structure
  24. The synanthropic Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) in North Africa: The Impact of habitat degradation on breeding performances
  25. Species-Area Relationships in Urban Ponds Differ between Wild and Human-Fed Domesticated Birds
  26. Anthills: stressor or opportunity for plant assemblage diversity? Evidence from Mediterranean Dasypyretum grasslands
  27. Vertebrates in the “Palude di Torre Flavia” Special Protection Area (Lazio, central Italy): an updated checklist
  28. Quantifying the entrapment effect of anthropogenic beach litter on sand‐dwelling beetles according to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive
  29. The road to invasion: fine-grained distribution and suitability model for Carpobrotus sp. pl., a plant invader on a small Mediterranean island
  30. Alien-dominated plant communities’ syntopic with seabird’s nests: evidence and possible implication from a Mediterranean insular ecosystem
  31. First successful reproduction of the Chinese striped-necked turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) in a European wetland
  32. Introduced fish assemblages in a mosaic of urban ponds: evidence for species-area and diversity-dominance patterns
  33. Attempted copulatory behaviour between two phylogenetically unrelated alien species (Coypu, Myocastor coypus, and Pond slider, Trachemys scripta): first evidence
  34. Peninsular effect on species richness in Italian small mammals and bats
  35. Habitat selection of Coot ( Fulica atra ) and Moorhen ( Gallinula chloropus ) in a remnant Mediterranean wetland (Italy): Implications for conservation
  36. Small Environmental Actions Need of Problem-Solving Approach: Applying Project Management Tools to Beach Litter Clean-Ups
  37. Introducing ecological uncertainty in risk sensitivity indices: the case of wind farm impact on birds
  38. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of a Semi-Aquatic Reptile Community in Caspian Reed Bed Ecosystems
  39. Giant Reed (Arundo donax) wrack as sink for plastic beach litter: First evidence and implication
  40. Response of specialized birds to reed-bed aging in a Mediterranean wetland: Significant changes in bird biomass after two decades
  41. Impact of exotic plant detritus on macrozoobenthic assemblages: evidence from a transitional aquatic ecosystem
  42. Toward a new generation of effective problem solvers and project-oriented applied ecologists
  43. Applying abundance/biomass comparison curves to small mammals: a weak tool for detect urbanization-related stress in the assemblages?
  44. Assessing the Nature Reserve Management Effort Using an Expert-Based Threat Analysis Approach
  45. A hotspot of xenodiversity: First evidence of an assemblage of non‐native freshwater turtles in a suburban wetland in Central Italy
  46. Mapping bird assemblages in a Mediterranean urban park: Evidence for a shift in dominance towards medium-large body sized species after 26 years
  47. Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) and starling (Sturnus vulgaris) syntopics in a Mediterranean urban park: evidence for competition in nest-site selection?
  48. First records of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda Cambaridae) from a small circum-Sardinian island (central Mediterranean Sea)
  49. Heterogeneous composition of anthropogenic litter recorded in nests of Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) from a small Mediterranean island
  50. Polystyrene seedling trays used as substrate by native plants
  51. Small mammal assemblages in land-reclaimed areas: do historical soil use changes and recent anthropisation affect their dominance structure?
  52. Bird population declines in the Chametla wetland (Southern Gulf of California): Evidence of stress at the assemblage level
  53. Reviewing an eco-biogeographic question at regional scale: the unexpected absence of a ubiquitous mammal species (Microtus savii, Rodentia) in coastal Southern Tuscany (central Italy)
  54. Correction to: A recent colonizer bird as indicator of human-induced landscape change: Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in a small Mediterranean island
  55. A recent colonizer bird as indicator of human-induced landscape change: Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) in a small Mediterranean island
  56. Do disturbance-sensitive and habitat-specialized species have a smaller range size? Evidence for a set of common mammals at regional scale
  57. Altitudinal variation of community metrics in Italian small mammal assemblages as revealed by Barn Owl (Tyto alba) pellets
  58. Unsafe management of a zoological garden as a cause of introduction of an alien species into the wild: First documented case of feral naturalized population of Lama glama in Europe
  59. Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
  60. Interactions between anthropogenic litter and birds: A global review with a ‘black-list’ of species
  61. Not just trash! Anthropogenic marine litter as a ‘charismatic threat' driving citizen-based conservation management actions
  62. Synanthropic-dominated biomass in an insular landbird assemblage
  63. Children as drivers of change: The operational support of young generations to conservation practices
  64. Fishing lines and fish hooks as neglected marine litter: first data on chemical composition, densities, and biological entrapment from a Mediterranean beach
  65. Pressure and impact of anthropogenic litter on marine and estuarine reptiles: an updated “blacklist” highlighting gaps of evidence
  66. The older the richer: significant increase in breeding bird diversity along an age gradient of different coppiced woods
  67. Applying diversity metrics to plastic litter ‘communities’: a first explorative and comparative analysis
  68. Experiential Key Species for Nature-disconnected Generations: An Expert-based Framework for Their A-priori Selection
  69. Microplastics in Talitrus saltator (Crustacea, Amphipoda): new evidence of ingestion from natural contexts
  70. Structural changes in bird communities before and after coppice management practices: a comparison using a diversity/dominance approach
  71. Comparing disturbance and generalism in birds and mammals: A hump-shaped pattern
  72. The impact of Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) on orchards: first quantitative evidence for Southern Europe
  73. Preparing students for the operational environmental career: an integrated project-based road map for academic programs
  74. Why is it so difficult to have success? Applying the Swiss Cheese theory to environmental practices
  75. Do McKinnon lists provide reliable data in bird species frequency? A comparison with transect-based data
  76. Non-native invasive species as paradoxical ecosystem services in urban conservation education
  77. Unifying the trans-disciplinary arsenal of project management tools in a single logical framework: Further suggestion for IUCN project cycle development
  78. Europe as a model for large carnivores conservation: Is the glass half empty or half full?
  79. Paradoxical environmental conservation: Failure of an unplanned urban development as a driver of passive ecological restoration
  80. More cool than tool: Equivoques, conceptual traps and weaknesses of ecological networks in environmental planning and conservation
  81. Pervasive plastisphere: First record of plastics in egagropiles ( Posidonia spheroids)
  82. Nest tree selection in a crowded introduced population of Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) in Rome (central Italy): evidence for selectivity
  83. Vanishing herpetofauna: 30 years of species relaxation in a wetland remnant of the Po plain (Northern Italy)
  84. Disturbance and generalism in bird communities
  85. Xenodiversity in a hot-spot of herpetological endemism: first records of Trachemys scripta, Ameiurus melas and Carassius auratus in a circum-Sardinian island
  86. Characterization of plastic beach debris finalized to its removal: a proposal for a recycling scheme
  87. Assessing disturbance-sensitivity and generalism in mammals: Corroborating a hump-shaped relationship using a hemerobiotic approach
  88. How to make (in)effective conservation projects: look at the internal context!
  89. Measuring non-biological diversity using commonly used metrics: Strengths, weaknesses and caveats for their application in beach litter management
  90. Plastisphere in action: evidence for an interaction between expanded polystyrene and dunal plants
  91. Occurrence patterns of alien freshwater turtles in a large urban pond ‘Archipelago’ (Rome, Italy): Suggesting hypotheses on root causes
  92. Diversity metrics, species turnovers and nestedness of bird assemblages in a deep karst sinkhole
  93. An Unexpected Consequence of Plastic Litter Clean-Up on Beaches: Too Much Sand Might Be Removed
  94. The cotton buds beach: Marine litter assessment along the Tyrrhenian coast of central Italy following the marine strategy framework directive criteria
  95. Beach litter occurrence in sandy littorals: The potential role of urban areas, rivers and beach users in central Italy
  96. The importance of dead wood for hole-nesting birds: a two years study in three beech forests of central Italy
  97. Experiential key species for the nature-disconnected generation
  98. Threat analysis for a network of sites in West Bank (Palestine): An expert-based evaluation supported by grey literature and local knowledge
  99. Interspecific interactions in nesting and feeding urban sites among introduced Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) and syntopic bird species
  100. Lack of evidence for short-term structural changes in bird assemblages breeding in Mediterranean mosaics moderately perforated by a wind farm
  101. Bats in a Mediterranean Mountainous Landscape: Does Wind Farm Repowering Induce Changes at Assemblage and Species Level?
  102. Applying indicators of disturbance from plant ecology to vertebrates: The hemeroby of bird species
  103. Threat Quantification and Ranking
  104. The Concept of Disturbance
  105. Role and Effects of Disturbances in Natural Systems
  106. Disturbances and Coexistence of Species
  107. Anthropogenic Threats
  108. Threat Regime
  109. Conclusions and Prospects
  110. Classification Criteria for Disturbance Events
  111. An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology
  112. Including Threats in Adaptive Management
  113. Threat Mapping
  114. Nomenclature and Taxonomy of Threats
  115. Categories of Natural Disturbances
  116. The Disturbance Regime
  117. Heterogeneity, Dynamism, and Diversity of Natural Systems
  118. Seasonal and habitat-related changes in bird assemblage structure: applying a diversity/dominance approach to Mediterranean forests and wetlands
  119. Don’t think local! Scale in conservation, parochialism, dogmatic bureaucracy and the implementing of the European Directives
  120. Schematizing a historical demographic collapse on a large time span using local, secondary and grey data: The case of Italian roe deer Capreolus capreolus italicus in Central Italy
  121. Bird assemblages on a Mediterranean sandy beach: a yearly study
  122. Water‐related bird assemblages in an urban pond ‘archipelago’: Winter patterns of bird species occurrence, abundance and richness
  123. Bird and beetle assemblages in relict beech forests of central Italy: a multi-taxa approach to assess the importance of dead wood in biodiversity conservation
  124. Marine litter in Mediterranean sandy littorals: Spatial distribution patterns along central Italy coastal dunes
  125. The data reliability in ecological research: a proposal for a quick self-assessment tool
  126. Check-list of Vertebrates in the “Tenuta dei Massimi” nature reserve (Rome, central Italy) with some remarks on local conservation priorities
  127. Peninsular patterns in biological diversity: historical arrangement, methodological approaches and causal processes
  128. Comparing alpha-diversity between plants and birds in a remnant wetland: evidence for a threshold and implication for management
  129. Comparing disturbance-sensitivity between plants and birds: a fine-grained analysis in a suburban remnant wetland
  130. Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Searching the Conditioning Factors Explaining the (In)Effectiveness of Protected Areas Management: A Case Study Using a SWOT Approach
  131. Conservation of species occupying ephemeral and patchy habitats in agricultural landscapes: The case of the Eurasian reed warbler
  132. Ecological network planning – from paradigms to design and back: a cautionary note
  133. Habitat Suitability and Landscape Structure: A Maximum Entropy Approach in a Mediterranean Area
  134. Estimating the indirect impact of wind farms on breeding bird assemblages: a case study in the central Apennines
  135. Detritus-based assemblage responses under salinity stress conditions in a disused aquatic artificial ecosystem
  136. Effect of habitat amount, configuration and quality in fragmented landscapes
  137. Breeding bird assemblages in a Mediterranean mature beech forest: evidence of an intra-seasonal stability
  138. Habitat fragmentation sensitivity in mammals: a target selection for landscape planning comparing two different approaches (bibliographic review and expert based)
  139. Devolution and evolution in the policy of biodiversity conservation in Italy: central or local approach?
  140. Applying abundance/biomass comparisons on a small mammal assemblage from Barn owl (Tyto alba) pellets (Mount Soratte, central Italy): a cautionary note
  141. Effects of Trampling Limitation on Coastal Dune Plant Communities
  142. Mammal road-killing from a Mediterranean area in central Italy: evidence from an atlas dataset
  143. Contrasting effects of water stress on wetland‐obligated birds in a semi‐natural Mediterranean wetland
  144. The ecological importance of wetlands for aerial insectivores (swifts, martins and swallows) along the Tyrrhenian coast
  145. Selecting focal species in ecological network planning following an expert-based approach: Italian reptiles as a case study
  146. Diving times and feeding rate by pecking in the Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
  147. Can the grey literature help us understand the decline and extinction of the Near Threatened Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in Latium, central Italy?
  148. May the Conservation Measures Partnership open standards framework improve the effectiveness of the Natura 2000 European Network? A comparative analysis
  149. Diving times and pecking rates of the Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) in different habitat types: a pilot study
  150. Diversity Indices as ‘Magic’ Tools in Landscape Planning: A Cautionary Note on their Uncritical Use
  151. Does human-induced heterogeneity differently affect diversity in vascular plants and breeding birds? Evidences from three Mediterranean forest patches
  152. Coypu (Myocastor coypus) in a Mediterranean remnant wetland: a pilot study of a yearly cycle with management implications
  153. Frequency of occurrence of a set of water-related bird species in an archipelago of remnant marshlands of Central Italy
  154. Independent effects of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and structural connectivity on forest-dependent birds
  155. An integrated method to create habitat suitability models for fragmented landscapes
  156. Landscape heterogeneity affects the use of sampling methods: a case study of bird communities in mountains of Central Italy
  157. On the water depth in diving sampling sites of Tachybaptus ruficollis
  158. Are there latitudinal gradients in taxa turnover? A worldwide study with Sciuridae (Mammalia: Rodentia)
  159. More rich means more diverse: Extending the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’ to taxonomic diversity
  160. Selecting Focal Species in Ecological Network Planning following an Expert-Based Approach: A Case Study and a Conceptual Framework
  161. Effect of seasonal water level decrease on a sensitive bird assemblage in a Mediterranean wetland
  162. Area-sensitivity of three reed bed bird species breeding in Mediterranean marshland fragments
  163. Quantifying threats in a Mediterranean wetland: are there any changes in their evaluation during a training course?
  164. Sciuridae, Rapoport’s effect and the mismatch between range size, conservation needs, and scientific productivity: an approach at the genus level
  165. Habitat preferences of anatidae (Aves, Anseriformes) in a Mediterranean patchy wetland (Central Italy)
  166. Diversity/dominance diagrams show that fire disrupts the evenness in Mediterranean pinewood forest bird assemblages
  167. On threats analysis approach applied to a Mediterranean remnant wetland: Is the assessment of human-induced threats related to different level of expertise of respondents?
  168. Area effect on bird species richness of an archipelago of wetland fragments in Central Italy
  169. Nature reserve selection on forest fragments in a suburban landscape (Rome, Central Italy): indications from a set of avian species
  170. The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy
  171. Area effect on bird communities, guilds and species in a highly fragmented forest landscape of central Italy
  172. Conservation in the Urban-Countryside Interface: a Cautionary Note from Italy
  173. Habitat fragmentation, fauna and ecological network planning: Toward a theoretical conceptual framework
  174. On the morphology ofSuncus etruscus(Mammalia, Soricidae): A negative relation between size and temperature
  175. The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy