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Overview

Luca Luiselli is affiliated with the Institute for Development Ecology Conservation and Cooperation in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a strong emphasis on ecology. Over the course of their career, they have contributed extensively to the subfields of ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Luiselli has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions to these venues:

  • African Journal of Ecology (26 publications)
  • Diversity (14 publications)
  • Journal for Nature Conservation (7 publications)
  • Conservation (7 publications)
  • Herpetological Bulletin (7 publications)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble" (2020) published in Current Biology
  • "Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity" (2022) published in Science
  • "Wild meat hunting and use by sedentarised Baka Pygmies in southeastern Cameroon" (2020) published in PeerJ
  • "Correlation between increased human-elephant conflict and poaching of elephants in Burkina Faso (West Africa)" (2020) published in European Journal of Wildlife Research
  • "Venomous Snake Abundance Within Snake Species' Assemblages Worldwide" (2020) published in Diversity

Luca Luiselli frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of their most frequent co-authors are:

  • Daniele Dendi (53 joint works)
  • Julia E. Fa (32 joint works)
  • Fabio Petrozzi (29 joint works)
  • Giovanni Amori (28 joint works)
  • Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto (24 joint works)

Best Publications

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Are snake populations in widespread decline

    C.J. Reading;L.M. Luiselli;G.C. Akani;Xavier Bonnet

  • Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble

    Craig B. Stanford;Craig B. Stanford;John B. Iverson;Anders G.J. Rhodin;Peter Paul van Dijk

  • Trade in live reptiles, its impact on wild populations, and the role of the European market

    Mark Auliya;Sandra Altherr;Daniel Ariano-Sanchez;Ernst H. Baard

  • Global conservation status of turtles and tortoises (order Testudines)

    Anders G.J. Rhodin;Craig B. Stanford;Peter Paul Van Dijk;Carla Eisemberg

  • Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in snakes: the search for general geographical and guild patterns

    Luca Luiselli

  • Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review

    Hinrich Kaiser;Brian I. Crother;Christopher M.R Kelly;Luca Luiselli

  • Reproductive output, costs of reproduction, and ecology of the smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, in the eastern Italian Alps

    L. Luiselli;M. Capula;R. Shine

  • Interactions between anthropogenic litter and birds: A global review with a 'black-list' of species.

    Corrado Battisti;Eleonora Staffieri;Gianluca Poeta;Alberto Sorace

  • Conflict between insect conservation and public safety: the case study of a saproxylic beetle (Osmoderma eremita) in urban parks

    Giuseppe Maria Carpaneto;Adriano Mazziotta;Giorgia Coletti;Luca Luiselli

  • Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity

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  • Food habits, growth rates, and reproductive biology of grass snakes, Natrix natrix (Colubridae) in the Italian Alps

    L. Luiselli;M. Capula;R. Shine

  • Food resource partitioning of a community of snakes in a swamp rainforest of south-eastern Nigeria

    Luca Luiselli;Godfrey C. Akani;Dario Capizzi

  • Individual success in mating balls of the grass snake, Natrix natrix: size is important

    Luca Luiselli

  • Influences of area, isolation and habitat features on distribution of snakes in Mediterranean fragmented woodlands

    Luca Luiselli;Dario Capizzi

  • Status of the Italian snake fauna and assessment of conservation threats

    Ernesto Filippi;Luca Luiselli

  • Do lizard communities partition the trophic niche? A worldwide meta‐analysis using null models

    Luca Luiselli

  • On threats analysis approach applied to a Mediterranean remnant wetland: Is the assessment of human-induced threats related to different level of expertise of respondents?

    Corrado Battisti;Luca Luiselli;Daniele Pantano;Corrado Teofili

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

    Franco Andreone;Luca Luiselli

  • Composition and variation of the diet of Vipera aspis francisciredi in relation to age and reproductive stage

    Luca M. Luiselli;Umberto Agrimi

  • Reproductive strategies in alpine adders, Vipera berus. The black females bear more often

    M. Capula;L. Luiselli

Frequent Co-Authors

Corrado Battisti
Corrado Battisti Metropolitan City of Rome Capital
Julia E. Fa
Julia E. Fa Manchester Metropolitan University
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
John B. Iverson
John B. Iverson Earlham College
Luigi Boitani
Luigi Boitani Sapienza University of Rome
Franco Andreone
Franco Andreone Regione Piemonte
Marcio Martins
Marcio Martins Universidade de São Paulo
Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Truong Q. Nguyen
Truong Q. Nguyen University of California, San Diego

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