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  1. Olm sweet olm: unearthing nine species of Proteus hidden beneath the Dinaric Karst

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, August 2026, De Gruyter

    Raoul Manenti, Christophe Dufresnes

  2. Living at the Interface: Behavioral, Evolutionary and Ecological Insights of Spring Use by Highly Mobile Stygobiont Crustaceans, Troglocaris planinensis (Decapoda: Atyidae)

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2026, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  3. Dietary data from surface and subterranean populations of Speleomantes cave salamanders

    Article • Ecology, January 2026, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  4. Genetic and Environmental Similarities Drive Repeated Genomic Evolution in Island Lizards

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2025, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  5. Importance of Spring Habitats for Amphibians: The Case of Estavelle Ecotones in the Classical Karst Region

    Article • Animals, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  6. First report of overwintering tadpoles in the endemic Italian agile frog Rana latastei

    Article • Acta Herpetologica, July 2025, Firenze University Press

    Raoul Manenti

  7. Light in the Darkness: Responses to Light and Diel Activity Rhythm in an Eyeless Cave Flatworm (Dendrocoelum italicum)

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2025, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  8. Integrating formal surveys and local knowledge: Insights into the subterranean fauna of Apulia

    Article • Subterranean Biology, May 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  9. First report of overwintering tadpoles in the endemic Italian agile frogRana latastei

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Raoul Manenti

  10. Differences in estimates of extinction risk between occupancy and abundance data

    Article • Conservation Biology, March 2025, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  11. Population Genomic Divergence Reveals Uncertainties in Species Identification of Cave‐Dwelling Isopods

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, January 2025, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  12. Integrating adult occurrence and reproduction data to identify conservation measures for amphibians

    Article • Conservation Biology, August 2024, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  13. Back from the underworld: the exploitation of spring habitats by stygobiont species

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  14. Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders

    Article • Scientific Data, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  15. A gap in media communication of human-bear conflicts management

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2024, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti, Pierfrancesco Biasetti, Dr Stefano Mammola

  16. The Role of Experience in the Visual and Non-Visual Prey Recognition of Fire Salamander Populations from Caves and Streams

    Article • Diversity, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  17. Microplastic pollution calls for urgent investigations in stygobiont habitats: A case study from Classical karst

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, April 2024, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  18. Microclimatic Influences on the Abundance of Three Non-Troglobiont Species

    Article • Diversity, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  19. Occurrence in Surface of the Olm (Proteus anguinus) Suggests to Approach Cave Biology Processes with More Flexibility

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, February 2024, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  20. Wandering outside of the Styx: Surface activity of an iconic subterranean vertebrate, the olm (Proteus anguinus)

    Article • Ecology, February 2024, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  21. Enigmatic cysts discovered in a population of European salamanders

    Article • January 2024, Authorea, Inc.

    Raoul Manenti

  22. Sit-and-wait foraging is not enough in food-deprived environments: evidence from groundwater and salamanders

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2024, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  23. Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range

    Article • Animals, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  24. Human Dimensions and Visitors’ Perspective in Freshwater Crayfish Conservation: The Case of a Protected Area in Italy

    Article • Diversity, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti, Pierfrancesco Biasetti

  25. Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range

    Article • August 2023, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  26. Landscape of fear in freshwater ecotones: How predation risk and light conditions affect mesopredator activity and foraging in springs

    Article • Freshwater Biology, July 2023, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  27. Environmental Factors Affecting Amphibian Communities in River Basins of the Southern Apennines

    Article • Diversity, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  28. Both Light Stimuli and Predation Risk Affect the Adult Behavior of a Stygobiont Crustacean

    Article • Diversity, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  29. Larval development and poor trophic resource availability: Local adaptations and plasticity in a widespread amphibian species

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, February 2023, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  30. Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  31. All that changes is not shift: methodological choices influence niche shift detection in freshwater invasive species

    Article • Ecography, December 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  33. Differential biochemical and behavioral responses induced by cocaine and benzoylecgonine exposure to the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2022, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  34. Assessing Population Trends of Species with Imperfect Detection: Double Count Analyses and Simulations Confirm Reliable Estimates in Brown Frogs

    Article • Animals, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  35. Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods

    Article • Ecosphere, August 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  36. Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2022, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Stefano Mammola

  37. Caves as evolutionary dead end? The journey of the stygobiont isopod Monolistra pavani toward sunlight

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  38. Groundwater invertebrates and droughts: resistance in stygobiont isopods and planarians

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  39. Preliminary study on differences characterizes the populations of olm (Proteus anguinus) in cave and those found in epigean environment

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  40. The laboratory of subterranean biology “Enrico Pezzoli”: a new underground facility for zoological research.

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  41. The roles of landscape of fear and light in allowing the exploitation of spring habitats by subterranean amphipods: an experimental and field approach

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  42. How Trophic Conditions Affect Development of Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) Larvae: Two Extreme Cases

    Article • Diversity, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

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    Article • Freshwater Biology, June 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  44. Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  45. Explaining declines of newt abundance in northern Italy

    Article • Freshwater Biology, April 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  46. Capture–mark–recapture data on the strictly protected Speleomantes italicus

    Article • Ecology, March 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

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    Article • Diversity and Distributions, March 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  48. A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders

    Article • Animals, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  49. Similar species, different fates: Abundance dynamics in spatially structured populations of common and threatened frogs

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, February 2022, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  50. Joint letter inspired by Hymas et al. (2021): There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics

    Article • PARKS, December 2021, IUCN

    Raoul Manenti

  51. Invasive predators induce plastic and adaptive responses during embryo development in a threatened frog

    Article • NeoBiota, December 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  52. Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2021, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  53. Don’t forget the vertical dimension: assessment of distributional dynamics of cave-dwelling invertebrates in both ground and parietal microhabitats

    Article • Subterranean Biology, October 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  54. Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Raoul Manenti

  55. A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

    Article • Conservation Letters, August 2021, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola

  56. Raised by aliens: constant exposure to an invasive predator triggers morphological but not behavioural plasticity in a threatened species tadpoles

    Article • Biological Invasions, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  57. Between darkness and light: spring habitats provide new perspectives for modern researchers on groundwater biology

    Article • PeerJ, July 2021, PeerJ

    Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  59. Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution: Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities

    Article • Sustainability, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  60. Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes

    Article • Diversity, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  61. Diel activity of Niphargus amphipods in spring habitats

    Article • Crustaceana, June 2021, De Gruyter

    Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Scientific Data, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  63. Value-conflicts in the conservation of a native species: a case study based on the endangered white-clawed crayfish in Europe

    Article • RENDICONTI LINCEI, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti, Pierfrancesco Biasetti

  64. Fluorescence Properties of a Novel Isoquinoline Derivative Tested in an Invertebrate Chordate, Ciona intestinalis

    Article • ChemBioChem, May 2021, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  65. Planarians, a Neglected Component of Biodiversity in Groundwaters

    Article • Diversity, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  66. Lockdown policy effects on invasive species: a perspective

    Article • Biodiversity, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Raoul Manenti

  67. Not Only Environmental Conditions but Also Human Awareness Matters: A Successful Post-Crayfish Plague Reintroduction of the White-Clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) in Northern Italy

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2021, Frontiers

    Raoul Manenti

  68. Embryotoxicity characterization of the flame retardant tris(1‐chloro‐2‐propyl)phosphate (TCPP) in the invertebrate chordate  Ciona intestinalis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, January 2021, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  69. Environmental DNA of Insects and Springtails from Caves Reveals Complex Processes of Edna Transfer in Soils

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  70. Long‐term drivers of persistence and colonization dynamics in spatially structured amphibian populations

    Article • Conservation Biology, December 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  71. Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  72. The post hoc measurement as a safe and reliable method to age and size plethodontid salamanders

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  73. The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2020, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  74. Are the Neglected Tipuloidea Crane Flies (Diptera) an Important Component for Subterranean Environments?

    Article • Diversity, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  75. Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

    Article • Biological Reviews, August 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  76. Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  77. Invasive Species and Amphibian Conservation

    Article • Herpetologica, June 2020, Herpetologists League

    Raoul Manenti

  78. Interspecific and interpopulation variation in individual diet specialization: Do environmental factors have a role?

    Article • Ecology, June 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  79. Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes

    Article • Scientific Data, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  80. Same Diet, Different Strategies: Variability of Individual Feeding Habits across Three Populations of Ambrosi’s Cave Salamander (Hydromantes ambrosii)

    Article • Diversity, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  81. Cave Communities: From the Surface Border to the Deep Darkness

    Article • Diversity, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  82. Do Salamanders Limit the Abundance of Groundwater Invertebrates in Subterranean Habitats?

    Article • Diversity, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  83. Invasive crayfish does not influence spawning microhabitat selection of brown frogs

    Article • PeerJ, April 2020, PeerJ

    Raoul Manenti

  84. Exploring miR-9 Involvement in Ciona intestinalis Neural Development Using Peptide Nucleic Acids

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  85. Microhabitat analyses support relationships between niche breadth and range size when spatial autocorrelation is strong

    Article • Ecography, February 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  86. Cave morphology, microclimate and abundance of five cave predators from the Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, February 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  87. Is landscape of fear of macroinvertebrate communities a major determinant of mesopredator and prey activity?

    Article • Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, January 2020, EDP Sciences

    Raoul Manenti

  88. Network‐scale effects of invasive species on spatially‐structured amphibian populations

    Article • Ecography, November 2019, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  89. Thirty years of invasion: the distribution of the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii in Italy

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, November 2019, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Raoul Manenti

  90. On the stability of the dorsal pattern of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)

    Article • Herpetozoa, October 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  91. miR-7 Knockdown by Peptide Nucleic Acids in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Raoul Manenti

  92. Predation on Amphibians May Enhance Eurasian Otter Recovery in Southern Italy

    Article • ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, August 2019, Zoological Society of Japan

    Raoul Manenti

  93. Continental‐scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2019, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  94. Use of prediction equations to evaluate body composition generate fake and dangerous results

    Article • International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Raoul Manenti, Professor Carlo / Agostoni, Guido Bottà

  95. Transgressive niche across a salamander hybrid zone revealed by microhabitat analyses

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, May 2019, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  96. Safe as a cave? Intraspecific aggressiveness rises in predator-devoid and resource-depleted environments

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  97. Consider species specialism when publishing datasets

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  98. Environmental DNA and metabarcoding for the study of amphibians and reptiles: species distribution, the microbiome, and much more

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, January 2019, Brill

    Raoul Manenti

  99. Think of what lies below, not only of what is visible above, or: a comprehensive zoological study of invertebrate communities of spring habitats

    Article • The European Zoological Journal, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Raoul Manenti

  100. Even worms matter: cave habitat restoration for a planarian species increased environmental suitability but not abundance

    Article • Oryx, December 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Raoul Manenti

  101. Causes and consequences of crayfish extinction: Stream connectivity, habitat changes, alien species and ecosystem services

    Article • Freshwater Biology, December 2018, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  102. What shapes the trophic niche of European plethodontid salamanders?

    Article • PLOS One, October 2018, PLOS

    Raoul Manenti

  103. The stenoendemic cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of the Italian Alps and Apennines: Conservation issues

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, September 2018, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  105. N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

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

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  108. Birds biodiversity in urban and periurban forests: environmental determinants at local and landscape scales

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  109. Batracobdella leeches, environmental features and Hydromantes salamanders

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  110. Is the Italian stream frog (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) an opportunistic exploiter of cave twilight zone?

    Article • Subterranean Biology, March 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Raoul Manenti

  111. Teratogenic potential of nanoencapsulated vitamin A evaluated on an alternative model organism, the tunicate Ciona intestinalis

    Article • International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Raoul Manenti

  112. The first ecological study on the oldest allochthonous population of European cave salamanders (Hydromantes sp.)

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, January 2018, Brill

    Raoul Manenti, Enrico Lunghi

  113. Effects of diet quality on morphology and intraspecific competition ability during development: the case of fire salamander larvae

    Article • The European Zoological Journal, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Raoul Manenti

  114. Cave exploitation by an usual epigean species: a review on the current knowledge on fire salamander breeding in cave

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, November 2017, California Digital Library (EZID)

    Raoul Manenti

  115. Biphasic predators provide biomass subsidies in small freshwater habitats: A case study of spring and cave pools

    Article • Freshwater Biology, July 2017, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti

  116. Fire salamander (<em>Salamandra salamandra</em>) males’ activity during breeding season: effects of microhabitat features and body size

    Article • Acta Herpetologica, June 2017, Firenze University Press

    Raoul Manenti

  117. Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers

    Article • PeerJ, May 2017, PeerJ

    Raoul Manenti

  118. Cases of albinism and leucism in amphibians in Italy: new reports

    Article • Natural History Sciences, April 2017, PAGEPress Publications

    Raoul Manenti

  119. Mountain protected areas as refuges for threatened freshwater species: the detrimental effect of the direct introduction of alien species

    Article • eco mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research), January 2017, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Raoul Manenti

  120. Factors driving semi-aquatic predator occurrence in traditional cattle drinking pools: conservation issues

    Article • Journal of Limnology, August 2016, PAGEPress Publications

    Raoul Manenti

  121. Amphibians breeding in refuge habitats have larvae with stronger antipredator responses

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  122. Thermal equilibrium and temperature differences among body regions in European plethodontid salamanders

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  123. Environmental factors associated with amphibian breeding in streams and springs: effects of habitat and fish occurrence

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, January 2016, Brill

    Raoul Manenti

  124. Seasonal variation in microhabitat of salamanders: environmental variation or shift of habitat selection?

    Article • PeerJ, August 2015, PeerJ

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  125. The distribution of cave twilight-zone spiders depends on microclimatic features and trophic supply

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, August 2015, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  126. Environmental factors determining growth of salamander larvae: A field study

    Article • Current Zoology, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Raoul Manenti

  127. Role of density and resource competition in determining aggressive behaviour in salamanders

    Article • Journal of Zoology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  128. Austropotamobius pallipes reduction vs. Procambarus clarkii spreading: Management implications

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, December 2014, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti

  129. Dry stone walls favour biodiversity: a case-study from the Appennines

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raoul Manenti

  130. Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species?

    Article • Acta Oecologica, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  131. Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  132. Salamanders breeding in subterranean habitats: local adaptations or behavioural plasticity?

    Article • Journal of Zoology, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  133. Odonata Occurrence in Caves: Active or Accidentals? A new Case Study

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, January 2013, National Speleological Society

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  134. Spatial segregation among age classes in cave salamanders: habitat selection or social interactions?

    Article • Population Ecology, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  135. Antagonizing Retinoic Acid and FGF/MAPK Pathways Control Posterior Body Patterning in the Invertebrate Chordate Ciona intestinalis

    Article • PLOS One, September 2012, PLOS

    Raoul Manenti

  136. Do cave salamanders occur randomly in cavities? An analysis with Hydromantes strinatii

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, January 2012, Brill

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  137. Can patterns of spatial autocorrelation reveal population processes? An analysis with the fire salamander

    Article • Ecography, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  138. Usefulness of volunteer data to measure the large scale decline of “common” toad populations

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  139. Spatial autocorrelation and the analysis of invasion processes from distribution data: a study with the crayfish Procambarus clarkii

    Article • Biological Invasions, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  140. Early assessment of the impact of alien species: differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti

  141. Water, stream morphology and landscape: complex habitat determinants for the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra

    Article • Amphibia-Reptilia, January 2009, Brill

    Dr Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Raoul Manenti