Vegetation height and structure drive foraging habitat selection of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) in intensive agricultural landscapes

Sara Cioccarelli, Anna Terras, Giacomo Assandri4, Alessandro Berlusconi, Nunzio Grattini, Alessandro Mercogliano, Aliona Pazhera, Andrea Sbrilli, Jacopo G. Cecere, Diego Rubolini, and Michelangelo Morganti

Articolo in rivista: PeerJ
Keywords: Alfalfa; Agroecosystems; Biodiversity-friendly cultivations; GPS tracking; Harvesting; Habitat selection; Winter cereals

Changes in rice cultivation affect population trends of herons and egrets in Italy

Mauro Fasola (a), Elisa Cardarelli (a), Luigi Ranghetti (b), Eleonora Boncompagni (a), Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa (a), Daniele Delle Monache (c), Michelangelo Morganti (d)

Articolo in rivista: Global Ecology and Conservation 36, pp. e02135
Keywords: Grey Heron; Little Egret; Black-crowned Night-heron; Population; Rice; Conservation

Intra-guild spatial niche overlap among three small falcon species in an area of recent sympatry

Berlusconi, A.; Preatoni, D.; Assandri, G.; Bisi, F.; Brambilla, M.; Cecere, J. G.; Cioccarelli, S.; Grattini, N.; Gustin, M.; Martinoli, A.; Rubolini, D.; Sbrilli, A.; Zanichelli, A.; Martinoli, A.; Morganti, M.

Articolo in rivista: The European Zoological Journal 89 (1), pp. 510–526
Keywords: Agricultural landscapes; environmental niche models; falcons; interspecific competition; coexistence

Context-dependent foraging habitat selection in a farmland raptor along an agricultural intensification gradient

Assandri G.; Cecere J.G.; Sara M.; Catoni C.; De Pascalis F.; Morinay J.; Berlusconi A.; Cioccarelli S.; Mercogliano A.; Pazhera A.; Terras A.; Imperio S.; Morganti M.; Rubolini D.

Articolo in rivista: Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (Print) 326
Keywords: Falco naumanni; Functional response; Grassland; Landscape composition; Landscape configuration

Exposure assessment of PFAS-contaminated sites using avian eggs as a biomonitoring tool: A frame of reference and a case study in the Po River valley (Northern Italy)

Morganti M.; Polesello S.; Pascariello S.; Ferrario C.; Rubolini D.; Valsecchi S.; Parolini M.

Articolo in rivista: Integrated environmental assessment and management (Online)
Keywords: PFAS; AVIAN EGGS; BIOMONITORING; CONTAMINATED SITES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT

Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor

Morinay J.; De Pascalis F.; Dominoni D.M.; Morganti M.; Pezzo F.; Pirrello S.; Visceglia M.; De Capua E.L.; Cecere J.G.; Rubolini D.

Articolo in rivista: Animal behaviour (Print) 180, pp. 167–178
Keywords: CAVITY NESTING; CONSPECIFIC ATTRACTION; DOUBLE-BOX; FALCO NAUMANNI; INFORMED DECISION; LESSER KESTREL; NEST REUSE; NEST SUBSTRATE; NESTBOX CHOICE EXPERIEMENT; OLD NEST MATERIAL

Post-fledging habitat selection of a Purple Heron Ardea purpurea revealed by GPS/GSM telemetry

Michelangelo Morganti, Enrico Viganò, Alessandro Berlusconi, Sara Cioccarelli, Mauro Fasola

Articolo in rivista: Avocetta (Torino) 45 (2)
Keywords: ARDEA PURPUREA; DITCHES; INLAND WETLANDS; MOVEMENT ECOLOGY; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; WATERBIRDS; TYPHA SP.

A review of the bioaccumulation and adverse effects of PFAS in free-living organisms from contaminated sites nearby fluorochemical production plants.

Parolini M, De Felice B, Marianna Rusconi, Michelangelo Morganti, Stefano Polesello, Sara Valsecchi

Articolo in rivista: Water emerging contaminants & nanoplastics 1 (4)
Keywords: Polyfluoroalkyl substances; ecotoxicology; toxic effects; free-living organisms; contaminated sites

Five decades of breeding populations census for 12 species of colonial waterbirds in northwestern Italy

Fasola, Mauro; Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele; Pinoli, Guido; Alessandria, Gianfranco; Boncompagni, Eleonora; Boano, Giovanni; Brangi, Anna; Carpegna, Franco; Cassone, Pietro; Della Toffola, Mauro; Ferlini, Flavio; Gagliardi, Alessandra; Gargioni, Arturo; Gola, Laura; Grattini, Nunzio; Gustin, Marco; Lavezzi, Franco; Maffezzoli, Lorenzo; Martignoni, Cesare; Musumeci, Roberto; Pirotta, Giuliana; Provini, Ivan; Ravasini, Maurizio; Re, Alessandro; Riboni, Bassano; Tamietti, Alberto; Vigano, Enrico; Morganti, Michelangelo

Articolo in rivista: Scientific data 10 (1)
Keywords: data paper; herons; long-term dataset; biodiversity; wetlands; conservation; global change; birds

Within-colony segregation of foraging areas: from patterns to processes

Morinay, Jennifer; Riotte-Lambert, Louise; Aarts, Geert; De Pascalis, Federico; Imperio, Simona; Morganti, Michelangelo; Catoni, Carlo; Assandri, Giacomo; Ramellini, Samuele; Rubolini, Diego; Cecere, Jacopo G.

Articolo in rivista: Oikos (Kbh.)
Keywords: colonial central-place foraging; competitive exclusion; individual-based model; lesser kestrel Falco naumanni; memory; spatial overlap

The occurrence of a flagship raptor species in intensive agroecosystems is associated with more diverse farmland bird communities: Opportunities for market-based conservation

Giacomo Assandri a,*, Gaia Bazzi a, Leonardo Siddi b, Riccardo Nardelli a, Jacopo G. Cecere a, Diego Rubolini b,c, Michelangelo Morganti c

Articolo in rivista: Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (Print)
Keywords: HAY CROP; FALCO NAUMANNI; LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY; LIVESTOCK; PEDOLOGY; SPATIAL SCALE

Experimental nest cooling reveals dramatic effects of heatwaves on reproduction in a Mediterranean bird of prey

Alejandro Corregidor-Castro1,2 | Jennifer Morinay3,4 | Susan E. McKinlay5 | Samuele Ramellini5 | Giacomo Assandri3,6 | Gaia Bazzi3 | Alexandra Glavaschi1 | Enrico L. De Capua7 | Alessandro Grapputo1,8 | Andrea Romano5 | Michelangelo Morganti2 | Jacopo G. Cecere3 | Andrea Pilastro1,8 | Diego Rubolini2,5

Articolo in rivista: Global change biology (Print)
Keywords: early development; extreme temperature; heat stress; heatwaves; nest microclimate; temperature manipulation

How much biodiversity is concealed in the word 'biodiversity'?

Stefano Mammola, Caroline S. Fukushima, Girolama Biondo, Lucia Bongiorni, Fabio Cianferoni, Paolo Domenici, Carmelo Fruciano, Angelina Lo Giudice, Nuria Macías-Hernández, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Marija Mili?i?, Michelangelo Morganti, Emiliano Mori, Ana Munévar, Paola Pollegioni, Ilaria Rosati, Simone Tenan, Fernando Urbano-Tenorio, Diego Fontaneto, Pedro Cardoso

Articolo in rivista: Current biology 33 (2), pp. R59–R60
Keywords: biodiversity

Sibling competition for food and kin selection in nestlings of a colonial raptor

Romano, Andrea; Morganti, Michelangelo; Assandri, Giacomo; Bazzi, Gaia; Corregidor-Castro, Alejandro; Morinay, Jennifer; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Pilastro, Andrea; Rubolini, Diego

Articolo in rivista: Animal behaviour (Print) 194, pp. 233–238
Keywords: coloniality; food theft; kin selection; relatedness; resource monopolization; sibling competition; sibling interaction

Italy at a turning point in its ecological research world (or not ?)

michelangelo morganti

Editoriale in rivista: Avocetta (Torino)
Keywords: research; PNRR; NRPP

Year-round multi-scale habitat selection by Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus) in lowland mixed forests (northern Italy)

Alessandro Berlusconi, Alessio Martinoli, Lucas A. Wauters, Giulia Tesoro, Stefania Martini, Erminio Clerici, Gualtiero Guenzani, Gabriele Pozzi, Diego Rubolini, Michelangelo Morganti, Adriano Martinoli

Articolo in rivista: Avian Research 13
Keywords: Crested Tit; Functional Response; Habitat Selection; Multi-scale approach; Scots pine

The cloacal microbiome of a cavity- nesting raptor, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Alessandra Costanzo1, Roberto Ambrosini1, Andrea Franzetti2, Andrea Romano1, Jacopo G. Cecere3, Michelangelo Morganti4, Diego Rubolini1,4 and Isabella Gandolfi2

Articolo in rivista: PeerJ
Keywords: ASV; Lesser kestrel; Microbiome; Wild raptor; Falco naumanni; Cavity-nesting bird

Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird

Samuele Ramellini, Simona Imperio, Jennifer Morinay, Federico De Pascalis, Carlo Catoni, Michelangelo Morganti, Diego Rubolini, Jacopo G Cecere

Articolo in rivista: Animal behaviour (Online)
Keywords: Falco naumanni; energy; home range; intraspecific competition; philopatry

Multi-species habitat models highlight the key importance of flooded reedbedsfor inland wetland birds: implications for management and conservation

Morganti, Michelangelo; Manica, Milo; Bogliani, Giuseppe; Gustin, Marco; Luoni, Federica; Trotti, Paolo; Perin, Vincenzo; Brambilla, Mattia

Articolo in rivista: Avian Research 10
Keywords: Multivariate adaptive regression spline; Natura 2000; Pre-Alpine belt; Species-habitat relationship; Umbrella species; Urbanized landscape

Assessing the relative importance of managed crops and semi-natural grasslands as foraging habitats for breeding lesser kestrels Falco naumanni in southeastern Italy

M. Morganti (1), J. G. Cecere (2), S. Quilici (3), C. Tarantino (4), P. Blonda (4), M. Griggio (5), R. Ambrosini (3), D. Rubolini (3)

Articolo in rivista: Wildlife biology (Papirform) 2021(1)
Keywords: agricultural intensification conservation; farmland management; land use; raptors

Experimental nest cooling reveals dramatic effects of heatwaves on reproduction in a Mediterranean bird of prey

Corregidor-Castro, Alejandro; Morinay, Jennifer; McKinlay, Susan E.; Ramellini, Samuele; Assandri, Giacomo; Bazzi, Gaia; Glavaschi, Alexandra; De Capua, Enrico L.; Grapputo, Alessandro; Romano, Andrea; Morganti, Michelangelo; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Pilastro, Andrea; Rubolini, Diego

Articolo in rivista: Global change biology (Print) 29 (19), pp. 5552–5567
Keywords: early development; extreme temperature; heat stress; heatwaves; nest microclimate; temperature manipulation

Exploratory analyses of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) and sexual dichromatism (SD) in free-living purple herons (Ardea purpurea)

Fasola, E., Stefani, F., Forcina, G., Fasola, M., Viganò, E., Dorosencu, A., Monrós, J.S. & Morganti, M.

Articolo in rivista: Waterbirds (De Leon Springs Fla. Online) 45 (3)
Keywords: Ardeidae; Biometrics; Molecular sexing; Sexual dichromatism (SD); Sexual size dimorphism (SSD)