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  1. Blind spots in conservation planning: How well are subterranean species and habitats protected across the European Natura 2000 network?

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  2. The power of naming: shorter and simpler species names draw more attention

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  3. Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2026, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  4. Elevated extinction risk of sea moths under climate change

    Article • Ecological Informatics, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  5. Factors Influencing Species Distribution Model Performance in Tropical Reef Fishes

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, February 2026, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  6. Ensuring reliable cave temperature data for climate change research

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  7. Non‐native parrot species expand the trait space of avian communities by filling empty niches in urban areas

    Article • Ibis, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  8. The impacts of biological invasions

    Article • Biological Reviews, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr James E Byers, Dr Stefano Mammola

  9. Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr Ricardo A Correia

  10. How a 5% GDP military investment could impact European Union biodiversity

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  11. Integrating expert range maps and opportunistic occurrence records of marine fish species in range estimates

    Article • Conservation Biology, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  12. Adapted Yet at Risk: The Paradox of Thermotolerant Species in a Warming World

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  13. Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG)

    Article • Subterranean Biology, August 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr Nuno Simoes

  14. Evidence of population stress linked to droughts in cave-dwelling spiders: the case of Meta bourneti in north-western Italy

    Article • The European Zoological Journal, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  15. A unifying theoretical framework for conservation flagships

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  16. Scholarly discourse in polarizing interdisciplinary contexts

    Article • BioScience, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  17. An expert-curated dataset on cave-dwelling spider communities in the Western Italian Alps –an open tool for eco-evolutionary research

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, July 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  18. Socio‐Economic Status and Non‐Native Species Drive Bird Ecosystem Service Provision in Urban Areas

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  19. Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias

    Article • BioScience, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  20. Population Genomics of a Cave‐Dwelling Arachnid (Palpigradi, Eukoeneniidae) From the South‐Western Italian Alps

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  21. The use of eponyms can also promote gender equity in modern taxonomy

    Article • BioScience, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  22. Impact of climate and land use change on the distribution of orchids in Estonia

    Article • Plant Ecology, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  23. Social media filtering of sensationalistic news on spiders—A global overview

    Article • People and Nature, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  24. Subterranean environments contribute to three-quarters of classified ecosystem services

    Article • June 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  25. Ecosystem services provided by spiders

    Article • Biological Reviews, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  26. A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  27. Impacts of bat use of anthropogenic structures on bats and humans

    Article • Conservation Biology, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  28. On the quest for novelty in ecology

    Article • Peer Community Journal, May 2025, Peer Community In

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  29. Integrating intraspecific trait variability in functional diversity: An overview of methods and a guide for ecologists

    Article • Ecological Monographs, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  30. Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  31. The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology

    Article • Ecography, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  32. Differences in predictions of marine species distribution models based on expert maps and opportunistic occurrences

    Article • Conservation Biology, March 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  33. Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature

    Article • Communications Biology, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  34. Too much and not enough data: Challenges and solutions for generating information in freshwater research and monitoring

    Article • Ecosphere, March 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  35. On art, science, and the conservation of subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Subterranean Biology, February 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  36. Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration

    Article • Biological Reviews, February 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  37. Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  38. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

    Article • BMC Biology, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law, Dr Michael S Rosenberg, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Stefano Mammola

  39. Conceptual and ethical considerations in invasion science

    Article • BioScience, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  40. EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  41. Moving forward: Mitigating the effect of climate change in subterranean ecosystems

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  42. EU needs groundwater ecosystems guidelines

    Article • Science, December 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  43. Conservation needs and opportunities drive LIFE funding allocation for European birds

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  44. The influence of spider news on online information-seeking

    Article • PLOS One, October 2024, PLOS

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  45. Protecting subterranean ecosystems for the wellbeing of surface environments and humanity

    Article • Open Access Government, October 2024, Adjacent Digital Politics Ltd

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  46. Long‐term monitoring of a population of greater horseshoe bat emphasises the importance of a pest beetle prey on demographic trends

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  47. Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species

    Article • Ecography, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  48. Competency in invasion science: addressing stagnation challenges by promoting innovation and creative thinking

    Article • Environmental Management, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  49. The what, how and why of trait-based analyses in ecology

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

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

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2024, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti, Pierfrancesco Biasetti, Dr Stefano Mammola

  51. Intercontinental invasion dynamics of Cercopagis pengoi, an IUCN-listed planktonic invasive species

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  52. Incorporating physiological knowledge into correlative species distribution models minimizes bias introduced by the choice of calibration area

    Article • Marine Life Science & Technology, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  53. Biological invasions are a population‐level rather than a species‐level phenomenon

    Article • Global Change Biology, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  54. Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees

    Article • Ecography, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  55. Functional convergence underground? The scale‐dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  56. Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science

    Article • Biological Reviews, March 2024, Wiley

    Francisco Javier Oficialdegui, Mr Baran Yoğurtçuoğlu, Dr Stefano Mammola, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw

  57. From caves to continents: phylogeography and niche shift of an invasive subterranean spider

    Article • March 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  58. Where do the antibiotic resistance genes come from? A modulated analysis of sources and loads of resistances in Lake Maggiore

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, February 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  59. Perspectives and pitfalls in preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas

    Article • npj Biodiversity, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  60. Considering biotic interactions exacerbates the predicted impacts of climate change on coral‐dwelling species

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  61. Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  62. Biodiversity communication in the digital era through the Emoji tree of life

    Article • iScience, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  63. A global meta-analysis reveals multilevel and context-dependent effects of climate change on subterranean ecosystems

    Article • One Earth, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  64. Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life

    Article • eLife, October 2023, eLife

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  65. Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life

    Article • eLife, October 2023, eLife

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  66. Behavioural adjustments enable the colonization of subterranean environments

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  67. What drives our aesthetic attraction to birds?

    Article • npj Biodiversity, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  68. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life

    Article • September 2023, eLife

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  69. Identifying ‘climate keystone species’ as a tool for conserving ecological communities under climate change

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  70. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life

    Article • August 2023, eLife

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  71. Effective conservation of subterranean‐roosting bats

    Article • Conservation Biology, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, alice hughes

  72. A dark side of conservation biology: Protected areas fail in representing subterranean biodiversity

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  73. The searchscape of fear: A global analysis of internet search trends for biophobias

    Article • People and Nature, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  74. An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Biological Conservation, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  75. Toward a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity

    Article • Science Advances, June 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  76. The iratebirds Citizen Science Project: a Dataset on Birds’ Visual Aesthetic Attractiveness to Humans

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  77. The power of academic and public opinion in conservation: The case of Ayyalon Cave, Israel

    Article • Integrative Conservation, May 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  78. A relict subterranean spider (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes) reveals a unique component of the biogeography of Corsica

    Article • Insect Systematics and Diversity, May 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  79. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  80. Functional convergence underground? The scale-dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  81. On the quest for novelty in ecology

    Article • March 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  82. Environmental factors shaping copepod distributions in cave waters of the Lessinian unsaturated karst (NE-Italy)

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  83. On the quest for novelty in ecology

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  84. Taxonomic practice, creativity and fashion: what’s in a spider name?

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  85. Aliens in caves: the global dimension of biological invasions in subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Biological Reviews, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  86. An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  87. How much biodiversity is concealed in the word ‘biodiversity’?

    Article • Current Biology, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  88. Dissolving morphological and behavioral traits of groundwater animals into a functional phenotype

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  89. Physiological tolerance and ecotoxicological constraints of groundwater fauna

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  90. Climate change will redefine taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of Odonata in space and time

    Article • npj Biodiversity, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  91. A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide

    Article • Nature Conservation, November 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  92. Trends in habitat suitability and conservation status of aquatic spiders in Europe

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  93. How much biodiversity is concealed in the word “biodiversity”?

    Article • September 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  94. Quantifying the internationalization and representativeness in research

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  95. The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  96. A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses

    Article • Ecography, August 2022, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  97. Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the north-western Dinarides

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, August 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  98. The global spread of misinformation on spiders

    Article • Current Biology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  99. 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

  100. Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  101. The global social-economic dimension of biological invasions by plankton: Grossly underestimated costs but a rising concern for water quality benefits?

    Article • Water Research, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Tatenda Dalu, Dr Stefano Mammola

  102. Convergent behaviours in subterranean species

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  103. On the conservation of subterranean ecosystems

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  104. The effects of protected areas on the ecological niches of birds and mammals

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

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  105. Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the North-western Dinarides

    Article • June 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  106. Measuring the influence of non-scientific features on citations

    Article • Scientometrics, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  107. Priorities for research and action to prevent a New World vulture crisis

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  108. A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  109. Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2022, Wiley

    Professor Jianjun Wang, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko, Dr Stefano Mammola

  110. The promise and perils of engineering cave climates: response to Turner et al.

    Article • Conservation Biology, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  111. Towards a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity

    Article • April 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  112. Quantifying troglomorphism in hyperspace

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, April 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  113. Overview: Recent advances in the understanding of the northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China – a Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme perspective

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", April 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  114. Climate change will redefine taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity patterns of Odonata in space and time

    Article • April 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  115. Life in the Darkness of Caves

    Article • Frontiers for Young Minds, April 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  116. An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites

    Article • Scientific Data, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  117. Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Biological Reviews, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  118. Brazilian cave heritage under siege

    Article • Science, March 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    alice hughes, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  119. Climatic stability, not average habitat temperature, determines thermal tolerance of subterranean beetles

    Article • Ecology, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  120. Unique and shared effects of local and catchment predictors over distribution of hyporheic organisms: does the valley rule the stream?

    Article • Ecography, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  121. The global spread of (mis)information on spiders

    Article • February 2022, Research Square

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  122. Taxonomic practice, creativity, and fashion: What’s in a spider name?

    Article • February 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  123. A multi-layered approach uncovers overlooked taxonomic and physiological diversity in Alpine subterranean spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2022, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  124. Quantifying the international collaboration of researchers and research institutions

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  125. Climate and landscape changes enhance the global spread of a bloom-forming dinoflagellate related to fish kills and water quality deterioration

    Article • Ecological Indicators, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  126. Getting the ‘most out of the hotspot’ for practical conservation of groundwater biodiversity

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  127. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  128. A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses

    Article • October 2021, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  129. The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

    Article • Database, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  130. Rarity facets of biodiversity: Integrating Zeta diversity and Dark diversity to understand the nature of commonness and rarity

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  131. Potential niche displacement in species of aquatic bdelloid rotifers between temperate and tropical areas

    Article • Hydrobiologia, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  132. A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

    Article • Conservation Letters, August 2021, Wiley

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

  133. Concepts and applications in functional diversity

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  134. The use of the term ‘limnology’ and its scientometrics consequences for limnologists

    Article • Journal of Limnology, July 2021, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  135. Intraspecific genetic variation matters when predicting seagrass distribution under climate change

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  136. Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas

    Article • Nature Climate Change, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  137. Plant scientists’ research attention is skewed towards colourful, conspicuous and broadly distributed flowers

    Article • Nature Plants, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  138. Habitat differences filter functional diversity of low dispersive microscopic animals (Acari, Halacaridae)

    Article • Hydrobiologia, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  139. Exploring ecological specialization in pipefish using genomic, morphometric and ecological evidence

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  140. Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  141. Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  142. Spider conservation in Europe: a review

    Article • Biological Conservation, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  143. Global distribution of microwhip scorpions (Arachnida: Palpigradi)

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  144. Front Cover

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  145. Microhabitat selection of a Sicilian subterranean woodlouse and its implications for cave management

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, March 2021, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  146. Lineage‐level distribution models lead to more realistic climate change predictions for a threatened crayfish

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, January 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  147. Niche Partitioning at Emergence of Two Syntopic Dragonflies

    Article • Ecologies, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  148. Collecting eco-evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them

    Article • December 2020, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  149. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

    Article • December 2020, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  150. Concepts and applications in functional diversity

    Article • December 2020, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  151. Automated Discovery of Relationships, Models, and Principles in Ecology

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, December 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  152. Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Ricardo A Correia, Dr Stefano Mammola

  153. Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models

    Article • Ecography, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  154. Let research on subterranean habitats resonate!

    Article • Subterranean Biology, November 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  155. Does weighting presence records improve the performance of species distribution models? A test using fish larval stages in the Yangtze Estuary

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  156. A trade‐off between latitude and elevation contributes to explain range segregation of broadly distributed cave‐dwelling spiders

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  157. Impact of the reference list features on the number of citations

    Article • Scientometrics, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  158. Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  159. Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, September 2020, American Arachnological Society

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  160. Standardised spider (Arachnida, Araneae) inventory of Kilpisjärvi, Finland

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, September 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  161. Integrating Multiple Lines of Evidence to Explore Intraspecific Variability in a Rare Endemic Alpine Plant and Implications for Its Conservation

    Article • Plants, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  162. Media framing of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments

    Article • People and Nature, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  163. Taxonomic and functional homogenisation of macroinvertebrate communities in recently intermittent Alpine watercourses

    Article • Freshwater Biology, August 2020, Wiley

    Elena Piano, Dr Stefano Mammola

  164. Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

    Article • Biological Reviews, August 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  165. Specialized terminology limits the reach of new scientific knowledge

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  166. To invade or not to invade? Exploring the niche-based processes underlying the failure of a biological invasion using the invasive Chinese mitten crab

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  167. Towards a taxonomically unbiased EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  168. Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life

    Article • Biological Conservation, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  169. Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n ‐dimensional hypervolumes

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  170. On Deepest Caves, Extreme Habitats, and Ecological Superlatives

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  171. Alien Crayfish Species in the Deep Subalpine Lake Maggiore (NW-Italy), with a Focus on the Biometry and Habitat Preferences of the Spiny-Cheek Crayfish

    Article • Water, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  172. Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale

    Article • Ecological Entomology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  173. Media representation of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments by framing a distorted perception of risk

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  174. [Final version available] Explainable Artificial Intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black-box species distribution models

    Article • April 2020, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  175. Scientometric correlates of high-quality reference lists in ecological papers

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  176. Social Media and Large Carnivores: Sharing Biased News on Attacks on Humans

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  177. Future climate change will severely reduce habitat suitability of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander

    Article • Freshwater Biology, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  178. Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  179. Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  180. Functional diversity metrics using kernel densityn-dimensional hypervolumes

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  181. Environmental filtering and convergent evolution determine the ecological specialisation of subterranean spiders

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  182. Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae)

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, December 2019, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  183. Modelling the potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of ichthyoplankton in the Yangtze Estuary, China

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  184. Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β -diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  185. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  186. Distributional dynamics of a specialized subterranean community oppose the classical understanding of the preferred subterranean habitats

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  187. Exploring the Interplay Between Local and Regional Drivers of Distribution of a Subterranean Organism

    Article • Diversity, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  188. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Article • BioScience, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  189. Assessing similarity of n‐ dimensional hypervolumes: Which metric to use?

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  190. Extending Janzen's hypothesis to temperate regions: a test using subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Functional Ecology, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  191. Associations between habitat quality, body size and reproductive fitness in the alpine endemic spider Vesubia jugorum

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  192. Climate change going deep: The effects of global climatic alterations on cave ecosystems

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  193. An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

    Article • Zoosystema, February 2019, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  194. Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2019, Magnolia Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  195. Tracking the ice: Subterranean harvestmen distribution matches ancient glacier margins

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, January 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  196. Artificial lighting triggers the presence of urban spiders and their webs on historical buildings

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  197. What happens in cave at night?

    Article • Subterranean Biology, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  198. Exploring the morphospace in subterranean spiders

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  199. On climate change and subterranean spiders

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  200. Are caves good models systems in ecology?

    Article • Ecography, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  201. Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae : Linyphiidae : Troglohyphantes)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2018, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  202. Cave Communities and Species Interactions

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  203. Graphical abstract from: Mammola S, Piano E, Giachino P, Isaia M (2017) An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface. Subterranean Biology 24: 27-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.24.21585

    Article • December 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  204. An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface

    Article • Subterranean Biology, December 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  205. A review of subterranean spiders in Europe, with a checklist of the species

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  206. A discussion on the use of species distribution models in subterranean biology

    Article • Ecography, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  207. The Spider World Record: a list of record-breaking achievements by spiders

    Article • PeerJ, October 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  208. Competition affect large scale distribution of competing Meta spiders

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  209. Modelling the future spread of native and alien congeneric species in subterranean habitats — the case of Meta cave-dwelling spiders in Great Britain

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2017, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  210. Human-induced Alterations of the Mycobiota in an Alpine Show Cave (Italy, SW-Alps)

    Article • Acta Carsologica, July 2017, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  211. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  212. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  213. A review on cave-dwelling spiders worldwide

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  214. Effect of Global warming on subterranean - cave - ecosystems

    Article • Ecography, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  215. IUCN assessment of Pimoa delphinica, a cave spider endemic to Italy

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, January 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  216. New data on Troglohyphantes cave spiders in Italy, with a phylogeny of the alpine species

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  217. IUCN assessment of Vesubia jugorum, a high alpine endangered spider

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2016, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  218. A comprehensive review on the subterranean habitat Mesovoid Shallow Stratum (MSS)

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  219. Niche dynamics in two cave apex predators evaluated via Hutchinson' niche hypervolumes

    Article • Acta Oecologica, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  220. The first study on the ecological preferences of the water spider Argyroneta aquatica

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, June 2016, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  221. What happens to spider silk with ageing?

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2016, Nature

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  222. Ecological niche: a study focusing on spiders in artifical mines

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  223. Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae : Pimoidae)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  224. Biogeography of two cave spiders through ecological niche modeling and genetic inferences

    Article • PeerJ, November 2015, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  225. Microclimatic niche and dispersal of the beetles Sphodropsis ghilianii and Dellabeffaella roccae

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2015, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  226. Nesting strategies affect altitudinal distribution and habitat use in Alpine dung beetle communities

    Article • Ecological Entomology, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  227. Environmental factors driving the deposition of spider cocoons (Meta menardi) in caves

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2015, Nature

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  228. Interspecific competition through conditional differentiation in two congeneric cave spiders

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2014, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA