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Franco Andreone

Franco Andreone

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
7728
World Ranking
7761
National Ranking
164

Overview

Franco Andreone is affiliated with Regione Piemonte in Italy and has contributed extensively to environmental science, with a particular focus on amphibian and reptile biology. Their research spans several interconnected fields including global and planetary change, ecological modeling, ecology, social psychology, and genetics.

Their work frequently appears in scientific venues such as Animals, ZooKeys, Zootaxa, Systematics and Biodiversity, and Preprints.org, indicating a consistent presence in journals that cover biodiversity and zoological studies.

Andreone's research topics cover multiple areas:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal and Plant Science Education

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • "Ongoing declines for the world's amphibians in the face of emerging threats," 2023, Nature
  • "The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches," 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus)," 2020, Journal of Natural History
  • "Reconnecting research and natural history museums in Italy and the need of a national collection biorepository," 2022, ZooKeys
  • "An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the subgenus Brygoomantis (genus Mantidactylus) from Madagascar," 2022, Megataxa

Andreone has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Angelica Crottini
  • Frank Glaw
  • Mark D. Scherz
  • Gonçalo M. Rosa
  • Miguel Vences

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

    David R. Vieites;Katharina C. Wollenberg;Franco Andreone;Jörn Köhler

  • Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

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  • The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

    Michael S. Engel;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Gimo M. Daniel;Pablo M. Dellapé

  • Species Review of Amphibian Extinction Risks in Madagascar: Conclusions from the Global Amphibian Assessment

    Franco Andreone;John E. Cadle;Neil Cox;Frank Glaw

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • The Challenge of Conserving Amphibian Megadiversity in Madagascar

    Franco Andreone;Angus I. Carpenter;Neil Cox;Louis du Preez

  • N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates.

    Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Benedetta Barzaghi;Andrea Melotto;Martina Muraro

  • The Italian batrachofauna and its conservation status: a statistical assessment

    Franco Andreone;Luca Luiselli

  • Growth and longevity by skeletochronological analysis in Mantidactylus microtympanum, a rain-forest anuran from southern Madagascar

    Fabio M. Guarino;Franco Andreone;Francesco Angelini

  • Variations in age, size at maturity and gestation duration among two neighbouring populations of the alpine salamander (Salamandra lanzai)

    C. Miaud;Franco Andreone;Alexandre Ribéron;Sara De Michelis

  • Extinction Risks and the Conservation of Madagascar's Reptiles

    Richard K. B. Jenkins;Marcelo F. Tognelli;Philip Bowles;Neil Cox

  • Recurrent ecological adaptations revealed through a molecular analysis of the secretive cophyline frogs of Madagascar

    Franco Andreone;Miguel Vences;David R. Vieites;Frank Glaw

  • Widespread presence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in wild amphibian communities in Madagascar

    Molly C. Bletz;Molly C. Bletz;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Franco Andreone;Elodie Alice Courtois

  • The amphibians and reptiles of Nsy Be (NW Madagascar) and nearby islands: a case study of diversity and conservation of an insular fauna

    F. Andreone;F. Glaw;R.A. Nussbaum;C.J. Raxworthy

  • Fossorial but widespread: the phylogeography of the common spadefoot toad (Pelobates fuscus), and the role of the Po Valley as a major source of genetic variability

    Angelica Crottini;Franco Andreone;Joachim Kosuch;Joachim Kosuch;Leo J. Borkin

  • Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar

    Unknown

  • Life history traits, age profile, and conservation of the panther chameleon, Furcifer pardalis (Cuvier 1829), at Nosy Be, NW Madagascar

    F. Andreone;F. M. Guarino;J. E. Randrianirina

  • Trophic habits and aquatic microhabitat use in gilled immature, paedomorphic and metamorphic Alpine newts ( Triturus alpestris apuanus ) in a pond in central Italy

    Mathieu DENOëL;Franco Andreone

  • Conservation priorities and potential threats influencing the hyper‐diverse amphibians of Madagascar

    Franco Andreone;Luca Maria Luiselli

  • MEASURING AND MONITORING AMPHIBIAN DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS. II. ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS FROM STANDARDIZED TRANSECT CENSING

    Michael Veith;Stefan Lötters;Franco Andreone;Mark-Oliver Rödel

  • Natural history and larval morphology of Boophis occidentalis (Anura: Mantellidae: Boophinae) provide new insights into the phylogeny and adaptive radiation of endemic Malagasy frogs

    Franco Andreone;Miguel Vences;Fabio M. Guarino;Frank Glaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Frank Glaw
Frank Glaw University of Bonn
Christopher J. Raxworthy
Christopher J. Raxworthy American Museum of Natural History
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Ronald A. Nussbaum
Ronald A. Nussbaum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David R. Vieites
David R. Vieites Spanish National Research Council
Axel Meyer
Axel Meyer University of Konstanz
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Claude Miaud
Claude Miaud University of Montpellier
Michael Veith
Michael Veith University of Trier

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