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Antonio Rolando

Antonio Rolando

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
4274
World Ranking
8984
National Ranking
202

Overview

Antonio Rolando is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy. Their research spans primarily across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions within subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Rolando has authored research published in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Ethology
  • Insects
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Biogeography

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Antonio Rolando include:

  • "Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Microclimate affects the distribution of grassland birds, but not forest birds, in an Alpine environment", 2020, Journal für Ornithologie
  • "Integrating thermal tolerance, water balance and morphology: An experimental study on dung beetles", 2021, Journal of Thermal Biology
  • "Trait-modulated decline of carabid beetle occurrence along elevational gradients across the European Alps", 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • "Dung beetle resistance to desiccation varies within and among populations", 2021, Physiological Entomology

Rolando's work shows frequent collaboration with several researchers, including:

  • Claudia Palestrini
  • Angela Roggero
  • Alex Laini
  • Dan Chamberlain
  • Beatrice Nervo

Best Publications

  • Consequences of pastoral abandonment for the structure and diversity of the alpine avifauna

    Paola Laiolo;Francesca Dondero;Enza Ciliento;Antonio Rolando

  • Dung Beetle Conservation: Effects of Habitat and Resource Selection (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

    Enrico Barbero;Claudia Palestrini;Antonio Rolando

  • A review and meta‐analysis of the effects of climate change on Holarctic mountain and upland bird populations

    Davide Scridel;Mattia Brambilla;Kathy Martin;Aleksi Lehikoinen

  • The effects of body mass on dung removal efficiency in dung beetles.

    Beatrice Nervo;Claudia Tocco;Enrico Caprio;Claudia Palestrini

  • The impact of high-altitude ski-runs on alpine grassland bird communities

    Antonio Rolando;Enrico Caprio;Enrico Rinaldi;Ivan Ellena

  • Assessing the sensitivity of alpine birds to potential future changes in habitat and climate to inform management strategies

    Dan E. Chamberlain;Matteo Negro;Enrico Caprio;Antonio Rolando

  • Organic versus conventional systems in viticulture: Comparative effects on spiders and carabids in vineyards and adjacent forests

    Enrico Caprio;Beatrice Nervo;Marco Isaia;Gianni Allegro

  • The altitudinal frontier in avian climate impact research

    Dan Chamberlain;Raphaël Arlettaz;Raphaël Arlettaz;Enrico Caprio;Ramona Maggini

  • Forest bird diversity and ski-runs: a case of negative edge effect

    Paola Laiolo;Antonio Rolando

  • The impact of forest ski-pistes on diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods and small mammals in the Alps

    Matteo Negro;Marco Isaia;Claudia Palestrini;Antonio Rolando

  • Habitat use, Home Ranges and Census Techniques in the Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius in the Alps

    Massimo Bocca;Loredana Carisio;Antonio Rolando

  • Assessing habitat/landscape predictors of bird diversity in managed deciduous forests: a seasonal and guild-based approach

    Enrico Caprio;Ivan Ellena;Antonio Rolando

  • Ecological functions provided by dung beetles are interlinked across space and time: evidence from 15N isotope tracing

    Beatrice Nervo;Enrico Caprio;Luisella Celi;Michele Lonati

  • Effects of logging and non-native tree proliferation on the birds overwintering in the upland forests of north-western Italy

    Paola Laiolo;Enrico Caprio;Antonio Rolando

  • The evolution of vocalisations in the genus Corvus : effects of phylogeny, morphology and habitat

    Paola Laiolo;Antonio Rolando

  • Climate change will increase the potential conflict between skiing and high‐elevation bird species in the Alps

    Mattia Brambilla;Paolo Pedrini;Antonio Rolando;Daniel Edward Chamberlain

  • Genetic and morphological differentiation patterns between sister species: the case of Onthophagus taurus and Onthophagus illyricus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

    Astrid Pizzo;Angela Roggero;Claudia Palestrini;Piero Cervella

  • Habitat use and movement patterns in the endangered ground beetle species, Carabus olympiae (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    Matteo Negro;Achille Casale;Luca Migliore;Claudia Palestrini

  • On the ecology of home range in birds

    Antonio Rolando

  • Vigilance and neighbour distance in foraging flocks of red-billed choughs, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

    Antonio Rolando;Riccardo Caldoni;Augusto De Sanctis;Paola Laiolo

  • A spatially explicit definition of conservation priorities according to population resistance and resilience, species importance and level of threat in a changing climate

    Mattia Brambilla;Enrico Caprio;Giacomo Assandri;Davide Scridel

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from dung pats vary with dung beetle species and with assemblage composition.

    Irene Piccini;Irene Piccini;Fabrizio Arnieri;Enrico Caprio;Beatrice Nervo

  • Landscape changes caused by high altitude ski-pistes affect bird species richness and distribution in the Alps

    Enrico Caprio;Dan E. Chamberlain;Marco Isaia;Antonio Rolando

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan E. Chamberlain
Dan E. Chamberlain University of Turin
Paola Laiolo
Paola Laiolo Spanish National Research Council
Marco Isaia
Marco Isaia University of Turin
Paolo Pedrini
Paolo Pedrini Science Museum
Raphaël Arlettaz
Raphaël Arlettaz University of Bern
Luisella Celi
Luisella Celi University of Turin
Renzo Motta
Renzo Motta University of Turin
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sandro Bertolino
Sandro Bertolino University of Turin
Giuseppe Bogliani
Giuseppe Bogliani University of Pavia

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