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Francesca Cagnacci

Francesca Cagnacci

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
9489
World Ranking
5002
National Ranking
91

Overview

Francesca Cagnacci is affiliated with Fondazione Edmund Mach in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, their work further specializes in:

  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Small Animals
  • Genetics

The topics they cover emphasize various aspects of wildlife and ecological research, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Francesca Cagnacci has a number of recent scientific publications, demonstrating engagement with contemporary research themes:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes," 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations," 2021, Science
  • "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors," 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Experimental evidence of memory-based foraging decisions in a large wild mammal," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, notably:

  • Federico Ossi
  • Nathan Ranc
  • Nicolas Morellet
  • Marco Heurich
  • P. R. Moorcroft

Publication venues where Francesca Cagnacci commonly contributes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology Letters
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: a perfect storm of opportunities and challenges

    Francesca Cagnacci;Luigi Boitani;Roger A. Powell;Mark S. Boyce

  • The home-range concept: are traditional estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

    John G. Kie;Jason Matthiopoulos;John R Fieberg;Roger A. Powell

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • Resolving issues of imprecise and habitat-biased locations in ecological analyses using GPS telemetry data.

    Jacqueline L. Frair;John R Fieberg;Mark Hebblewhite;Francesca Cagnacci

  • Metagenomic Profile of the Bacterial Communities Associated with Ixodes ricinus Ticks

    Giovanna Carpi;Francesca Cagnacci;Nicola E. Wittekindt;Fangqing Zhao

  • Partial migration in roe deer: migratory and resident tactics are end points of a behavioural gradient determined by ecological factors

    Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Marco Heurich;Anja Stache

  • Seasonality, weather and climate affect home range size in roe deer across a wide latitudinal gradient within Europe

    Nicolas Morellet;Christophe Bonenfant;Luca Börger;Federico Ossi;Federico Ossi

  • Analysis and visualisation of movement: an interdisciplinary review

    Urška Demšar;Kevin Buchin;Francesca Cagnacci;Kamran Safi;Kamran Safi

  • Wildlife tracking data management: a new vision

    Ferdinando Urbano;Francesca Cagnacci;Clément Calenge;Holger Dettki

  • Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes

    Marta Cimatti;Marta Cimatti;Nathan Ranc;Ana Benítez‐López;Ana Benítez‐López;Luigi Maiorano

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Comparison of social networks derived from ecological data: implications for inferring infectious disease dynamics.

    Sarah E. Perkins;Francesca Cagnacci;Anna Stradiotto;Daniele Arnoldi

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

    Marco Apollonio;Vladimir V. Belkin;Jakub Borkowski;Oleg I. Borodin

  • Saturation deficit and deer density affect questing activity and local abundance of Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodidae) in Italy

    V. Tagliapietra;R. Rosà;D. Arnoldi;F. Cagnacci

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Tick infestation on roe deer in relation to geographic and remotely sensed climatic variables in a tick-borne encephalitis endemic area

    G. Carpi;F. Cagnacci;M. Neteler;A. Rizzoli

  • How many routes lead to migration? Comparison of methods to assess and characterize migratory movements.

    Francesca Cagnacci;Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Anne Ghisla;Bram van Moorter

  • Fear of the dark? Contrasting impacts of humans versus lynx on diel activity of roe deer across Europe.

    Nadège C. Bonnot;Ophélie Couriot;Anne Berger;Francesca Cagnacci

  • Effects of deer density on tick infestation of rodents and the hazard of tick-borne encephalitis. I: empirical assessment.

    F. Cagnacci;L. Bolzoni;R. Rosà;G. Carpi

  • LoRa from the City to the Mountains: Exploration of Hardware and Environmental Factors

    Oana Iova;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco;Lorenzo Ghiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
Paul R. Moorcroft
Paul R. Moorcroft Harvard University
Petter Kjellander
Petter Kjellander Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefano Focardi
Stefano Focardi National Research Council (CNR)
Annapaola Rizzoli
Annapaola Rizzoli Fondazione Edmund Mach
A. J. Mark Hewison
A. J. Mark Hewison Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage

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