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Federico Morelli is affiliated with the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Morelli has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Flight initiation distance and refuge in urban birds" (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Top ten birds indicators of high environmental quality in European cities" (2021) published in Ecological Indicators

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, among them:

  • Yanina Benedetti
  • Piotr Tryjanowski
  • Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki
  • Jukka Jokimäki
  • Mario Díaz

Morelli's work is often published in recurring venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Animals
  • Ecological Indicators
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Oikos

Best Publications

  • Can roads, railways and related structures have positive effects on birds? – A review

    Federico Morelli;Michal Beim;Leszek Jerzak;Darryl Noel Jones

  • Evidence of evolutionary homogenization of bird communities in urban environments across Europe

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Jukka Jokimäki

  • Global loss of avian evolutionary uniqueness in urban areas.

    Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Enrique Rubio;Yanina Benedetti;Federico Morelli

  • Landscape heterogeneity metrics as indicators of bird diversity: Determining the optimal spatial scales in different landscapes

    Federico Morelli;Fabio Pruscini;Riccardo Santolini;Paolo Perna

  • Towards an integrative approach to evaluate the environmental ecosystem services provided by urban forest

    Samson Roeland;Marco Moretti;Jorge Humberto Amorim;Cristina Branquinho

  • Bats as prey of diurnal birds: a global perspective

    Peter Mikula;Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Radek K. Lučan;Darryl N. Jones

  • Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds.

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Mario Díaz;Tomas Grim

  • Bird diversity in urban green space: A large-scale analysis of differences between parks and cemeteries in Central Europe

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Peter Mikula;Anton Krištín

  • Birds as useful indicators of high nature value (HNV) farmland in Central Italy

    Federico Morelli;Leszek Jerzak;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Anders Pape Møller;Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Waldemar Biaduń

  • Relative importance of marginal vegetation (shrubs, hedgerows, isolated trees) surrogate of HNV farmland for bird species distribution in Central Italy

    Federico Morelli

  • Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary uniqueness in bird communities of Beijing's urban parks: Effects of land use and vegetation structure

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Tongping Su;Tongping Su;Bo Zhou

  • Biodiversity within the city: Effects of land sharing and land sparing urban development on avian diversity.

    Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Enrique Rubio

  • Escape behaviour of birds in urban parks and cemeteries across Europe: Evidence of behavioural adaptation to human activity.

    Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Peter Mikula;Yanina Benedetti;Raphaël Bussière

  • Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe.

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • Flight initiation distance and refuge in urban birds.

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  • Associations among taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary distinctiveness vary among environments

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Paolo Perna;Riccardo Santolini

  • Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance

    Corey T. Callaghan;Corey T. Callaghan;Yanina Benedetti;John H. Wilshire;John H. Wilshire;Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli

  • Top ten birds indicators of high environmental quality in European cities

    Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Jiri Reif;Jiri Reif;Mario Díaz;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • EVI and NDVI as proxies for multifaceted avian diversity in urban areas.

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  • Presence of Cuckoo reliably indicates high bird diversity: A case study in a farmland area

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Federico Morelli

  • Who started first? Bird species visiting novel birdfeeders

    Piotr Tryjanowski;Federico Morelli;Piotr Skórka;Artur Goławski

  • Cemeteries support avian diversity likewise urban parks in European cities: Assessing taxonomic, evolutionary and functional diversity

    Federico Morelli;Federico Morelli;Peter Mikula;Yanina Benedetti;Raphaël Bussière

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Tryjanowski
Piotr Tryjanowski University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Jukka Jokimäki
Jukka Jokimäki University of Lapland
Wei Liang
Wei Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mario Díaz
Mario Díaz Spanish National Research Council
Marco Moretti
Marco Moretti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jukka Suhonen
Jukka Suhonen University of Turku
Richard A. Fuller
Richard A. Fuller University of Queensland
Timothy A. Mousseau
Timothy A. Mousseau University of South Carolina
Tomás Pérez-Contreras
Tomás Pérez-Contreras University of Granada

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