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  1. Book review

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  2. Trapped in the web of water: Groundwater‐fed springs are island‐like ecosystems for the meiofauna

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  3. The Watson–Forbes Biogeographical Controversy Untangled 170 Years Later

    Article • Journal of the History of Biology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  4. Groundwater biodiversity in a chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem: how geochemistry regulates microcrustacean community structure

    Article • Aquatic Ecology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  5. What can the parameters of the species-area relationship (SAR) tell us? Insights from Mediterranean islands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  6. Corrigendum: A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2016, Nature

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  7. A history of chorological categories

    Article • History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  8. I Coleotteri Tenebrionidi del Sito d’Importanza Comunitaria “Foce Saccione – Bonifica Ramitelli” (Molise) (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, August 2016, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  9. Niche partitioning in tenebrionid species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) inhabiting Mediterranean coastal dunes

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, August 2016, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  10. Role of urban green spaces for saproxylic beetle conservation: a case study of tenebrionids in Rome, Italy

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  11. Response of macrophyte communities to flow regulation in mountain streams

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  12. When human needs meet beetle preferences: tenebrionid beetle richness covaries with human population on the Mediterranean islands

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  13. Human population density and tenebrionid richness covary in Mediterranean islands

    Article • Web Ecology, February 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  14. Are generalist parasites being lost from their hosts?

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  15. Using species abundance distribution models and diversity indices for biogeographical analyses

    Article • Acta Oecologica, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  16. A Red List of Italian Saproxylic Beetles: taxonomic overview, ecological features and conservation issues (Coleoptera)

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, December 2015, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  17. Corrigendum: A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2015, Nature

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  18. On the concept of chorotype

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2015, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  19. Phylogenetic diversity of regional beetle faunas at high latitudes: patterns, drivers and chance along ecological gradients

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  20. The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  21. Calling for a new strategy to measure environmental (habitat) diversity in Island Biogeography: a case study of Mediterranean tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, June 2015, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  22. Use of taxonomic and chorological diversity to highlight the conservation value of insect communities in a Mediterranean coastal area: the carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Castelporziano (Central Italy)

    Article • RENDICONTI LINCEI, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  23. ECo: A new measure evaluating the degree of consistency between environmental factors and spatial arrangement of species assemblages

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  24. Use of insect distribution across landscape-soil units to assess conservation priorities in a Mediterranean coastal reserve: the tenebrionid beetles of Castelporziano (Central Italy)

    Article • RENDICONTI LINCEI, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  25. Nuovi dati sui Coleotteri Tenebrionidi della città di Roma (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, December 2014, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  26. Cultural Erosion of Balinese Indigenous Knowledge of Food and Nutraceutical Plants

    Article • Economic Botany, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  27. Form, function and evolutionary significance of stridulatory organs in ant nest beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussini)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, September 2014, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  28. Island biogeography of urban insects: tenebrionid beetles from Rome tell a different story

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  29. On the methods to assess significance in nestedness analyses

    Article • Theory in Biosciences, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  30. Disentangling the effects of available area, mid-domain constraints, and species environmental tolerance on the altitudinal distribution of tenebrionid beetles in a Mediterranean area

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

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  31. A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2014, Nature

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  32. Assessing small island prioritisation using species rarity: the tenebrionid beetles of Italy

    Article • Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada, June 2014, Associacao Portuguesa dos Recursos Hidricos (APRH)

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  33. Urban biodiversity hotspots are not related to the structure of green spaces: a case study of tenebrionid beetles from Rome, Italy

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  34. Biogeography of western Mediterranean butterflies: combining turnover and nestedness components of faunal dissimilarity

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  35. Parasitic worms: how many really?

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  36. Tenebrionid beetles as proxy indicators of climate aridity in a Mediterranean area

    Article • Ecological Indicators, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  37. Nestedness for Dummies (NeD): A User-Friendly Web Interface for Exploratory Nestedness Analysis

    Article • Journal of Statistical Software, January 2014, Foundation for Open Access Statistic

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  38. A Few Good Reasons Why Species-Area Relationships Do Not Work for Parasites

    Article • BioMed Research International, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  39. Climatic correlates of body size in European tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  40. Identification of Monogenea made easier: a new statistical procedure for an automatic selection of diagnostic linear measurements in closely related species

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  41. Relations between Species Rarity, Vulnerability, and Range Contraction for a Beetle Group in a Densely Populated Region in the Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot

    Article • Conservation Biology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  42. Latitudinal trends in body length distributions of European darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  43. I COLEOTTERI TENEBRIONIDI DI ROMA (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, October 2013, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  44. Measuring insect rarity: practical issues, pragmatic approaches

    Article • Journal of Insect Biodiversity, September 2013, Journal of Insect Biodiversity

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  45. Should we correct rarity measures for body size to evaluate arthropod vulnerability? Insights from Mediterranean tenebrionid beetles

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  46. recluster: an unbiased clustering procedure for beta-diversity turnover

    Article • Ecography, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  47. Tenebrionid beetle distributional patterns in Italy: multiple colonisation trajectories in a biogeographical crossroad

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  48. Correction: Global-Scale Relationships between Colonization Ability and Range Size in Marine and Freshwater Fish

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  49. Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  50. Species distribution, ecology, abundance, body size and phylogeny originate interrelated rarity patterns at regional scale

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  51. Regional Insect Inventories Require Long Time, Extensive Spatial Sampling and Good Will

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2013, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  52. Fish parasites resolve the paradox of missing coextinctions

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2013, Nature

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  53. Faunistic knowledge and insect species loss in an urban area: the tenebrionid beetles of Rome

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  54. Longitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic community structure of European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) do not coincide with the major routes of postglacial colonization

    Article • Ecography, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  55. Species ecological preferences predict extinction risk in urban tenebrionid beetle guilds

    Article • Animal Biology, January 2013, Brill

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  56. Evaluating Alpha and Beta Taxonomy in Ant-Nest Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini)

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  57. Global-Scale Relationships between Colonization Ability and Range Size in Marine and Freshwater Fish

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  58. Environmental tuning of an insect ensemble: The tenebrionid beetles inhabiting a Mediterranean coastal dune zonation

    Article • Comptes Rendus Biologies, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  59. A protocol to compare nestedness among submatrices

    Article • Population Ecology, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  60. Drivers of species richness in European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)

    Article • Acta Oecologica, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  61. Use of Cross-Taxon Congruence for Hotspot Identification at a Regional Scale

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2012, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  62. Species-area relationships underestimate extinction rates

    Article • Acta Oecologica, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  63. Use of Arthropod Rarity for Area Prioritisation: Insights from the Azorean Islands

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2012, PLOS

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  64. Patterns of beta diversity in riparian ground beetle assemblages (Coleoptera Carabidae): A case study in the River Aniene (Central Italy)

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  65. Tackling the taxonomic impediment: a global assessment for ant-nest beetle diversity (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussini)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  66. Behavior ofPaussus favieri(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini): A Myrmecophilous Beetle Associated withPheidole pallidula(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  67. Spatial distributions of European Tenebrionidae point to multiple postglacial colonization trajectories

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  68. The generalism-specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  69. Biogeography of tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the circum-Sicilian islands (Italy, Sicily): Multiple biogeographical patterns require multiple explanations

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, October 2011, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  70. Species richness and turnover patterns in European tenebrionid beetles

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  71. Biogeographical kinetics on an island volcano (Capelinhos, Azores): fast colonisation rates and dominance of arthropod exotic species

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  72. Conserving organisms over large regions requires multi-taxa indicators: One taxon’s diversity-vacant area is another taxon’s diversity zone

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  73. Influence of island geography, age and landscape on species composition in different animal groups

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  74. Book Review

    Article • Ecoscience, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  75. Insect rarity, extinction and conservation in urban Rome (Italy): a 120-year-long study of tenebrionid beetles

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  76. Insect extinction by urbanization: A long term study in Rome

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  77. A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation: Butterflies in the British Landscape, Roger L.H. Dennis. Wiley-Blackwell (2010). 420 pp., £50.00/€57.50, Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4051-9945-2.

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  78. A RESOURCE-BASED HABITAT VIEW FOR CONSERVATION: BUTTERFLIES IN THE BRITISH LANDSCAPE

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, December 2010, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  79. Biotope prioritisation in the Central Apennines (Italy): species rarity and cross-taxon congruence

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  80. Biogeographical kinetics on mainland and island volcanoes

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  81. Influence of Recent Geography and Paleogeography on the Structure of Reptile Communities in a Land-Bridge Archipelago

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, June 2010, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  82. The use of cumulative area curves in biological conservation: A cautionary note

    Article • Acta Oecologica, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  83. Use of insect rarity for biotope prioritisation: the tenebrionid beetles of the Central Apennines (Italy)

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  84. The influence of geographical and ecological factors on island beta diversity patterns

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  85. Effects of fire on tenebrionid communities of a Pinus pinea plantation: a case study in a Mediterranean site

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  86. Darkling beetle communities in two geologically contrasting biotopes: testing biodiversity patterns by microsite comparisons

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  87. Faunal patterns in tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on the Tuscan Islands: The dominance of paleogeography over Recent geography

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2009, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  88. On the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  89. Hovenkamp's ostracized vicariance analysis: testing new methods of historical biogeography

    Article • Cladistics, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  90. How Island Geography and Shape may Influence Species Rarity and Biodiversity Loss in a Relict Fauna: A Case Study of Mediterranean Beetles

    Article • The Open Conservation Biology Journal, June 2008, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  91. Are planar areas adequate for the species–area relationship?

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  92. A statistical method for idiographic analyses in biogeographical research

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, July 2007, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  93. A multidimensional characterization of rarity applied to the Aegean tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  94. Non-randomness in the species-area relationship: testing the underlying mechanisms

    Article • Oikos, April 2007, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  95. Non-randomness in the species?area relationship: testing the underlying mechanisms

    Article • Oikos, April 2007, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  96. Levels of endemism are not necessarily biased by the co‐presence of species with different range sizes: a case study of Vilenkin and Chikatunov's models

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  97. Invertebrati di una foresta della Pianura Padana, Bosco della Fontana. Secondo contributo

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  98. Testing the latitudinal gradient: a narrow‐scale analysis of tenebrionid richness (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) in the Aegean archipelago (Greece)

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  99. To Fit or Not to Fit? A Poorly Fitting Procedure Produces Inconsistent Results When the Species–Area Relationship is used to Locate Hotspots

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  100. Detecting Biodiversity Hotspots by Species-Area Relationships: a Case Study of Mediterranean Beetles

    Article • Conservation Biology, February 2006, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  101. A biogeographical analysis of the tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) of the island of Thasos in the context of the Aegean Islands (Greece)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  102. A simple method to fit geometric series and broken stick models in community ecology and island biogeography

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  103. Comparative analysis of species diversity of Isopoda Oniscidea and Collembola communities in burnt and unburnt habitats in central Italy

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emiliano Trucchi, Dr Simone Fattorini

  104. Review of competing hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships of Paussinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on larval characters

    Article • Systematic Entomology, October 2003, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  105. Biogeography of the tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on the Aegean Islands (Greece)

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  106. The Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of a Tyrrhenian coastal area: diversity and zoogeographical composition

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2002, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  107. Aspetti biogeografici delle comunità di Carabidi (Coleoptera, Carabidae) dei sistemi costieri italiani

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2002, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  108. Spatial and seasonal organisation of a darkling beetle (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) community inhabiting a Mediterranean coastal dune system

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  109. Levels of endemism in the Aegean Tenebrionids (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2000, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  110. The zoogeographical composition and distribution of the Anatolian Pimeliini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2000, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  111. Dispersal, vicariance and refuges in the Anatolian Pimeliinae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae): remarks on some biogeographical tenets

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2000, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Dr Simone Fattorini

  112. A multidimensional characterization of rarity applied to the Aegean tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simone Fattorini