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105

Overview

Luca Santini is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their primary research focus lies within Environmental Science, with a prolific output spanning several subfields such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their main topics of study revolve around species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies. Additional areas of investigation include animal ecology and behavior, bat biology and ecology, plant and animal studies, and primate behavior and ecology.

Santini's recent publications include:

  • Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research (2021), published in Diversity and Distributions
  • Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes (2021), published in Diversity and Distributions
  • The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates (2021), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review (2022), published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Their frequent co-authors include Ana Benítez-López, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Moreno Di Marco, Giordano Mancini, and Victor Cazalis.

Santini has published most frequently in a variety of scientific venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, and Conservation Biology.

Best Publications

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Matt Walpole;Samantha L. L. Hill;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce

  • Generation length for mammals

    Michela Pacifici;Luca Santini;Moreno Di Marco;Daniele Baisero

  • Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios

    Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;Michel Bakkenes;Daniele Baisero;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks

  • Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research

    Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Ana Benítez-López;Ana Benítez-López;Luigi Maiorano;Mirza Čengić

  • One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals.

    Luca Santini;Manuela González-Suárez;Danilo Russo;Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer

  • Intact but empty forests? Patterns of hunting-induced mammal defaunation in the tropics.

    Ana Benítez-López;Luca Santini;Aafke M. Schipper;Aafke M. Schipper;Michela Busana

  • Human pressures predict species' geographic range size better than biological traits.

    Moreno Di Marco;Luca Santini

  • Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change

    Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Mark J. Costello;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira

  • Connectivity of the global network of protected areas

    Luca Santini;Santiago Saura;Carlo Rondinini

  • 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

  • Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments.

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  • The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates.

    Ana Benítez-López;Ana Benítez-López;Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Juan Gallego-Zamorano;Borja Milá

  • Extraordinary range expansion in a common bat: the potential roles of climate change and urbanisation.

    L. Ancillotto;L. Santini;N. Ranc;L. Maiorano

  • On how much biodiversity is covered in Europe by national protected areas and by the Natura 2000 network: insights from terrestrial vertebrates.

    L. Maiorano;G. Amori;A. Montemaggiori;C. Rondinini

  • Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals

    Luca Santini;Moreno Di Marco;Piero Visconti;Daniele Baisero

  • Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review

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  • Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators

    Eugenie C. Regan;Luca Santini;Lisa Ingwall-King;Michael Hoffmann;Michael Hoffmann

  • Addressing common pitfalls does not provide more support to geographical and ecological abundant‐centre hypotheses

    L. Santini;S. Pironon;L. Maiorano;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010.

    Aafke M Schipper;Jonathan Belmaker;Murilo Dantas de Miranda;Laetitia M Navarro

  • Evolving through day and night: origin and diversification of activity pattern in modern primates

    Luca Santini;Danny Rojas;Danny Rojas;Giuseppe Donati

  • Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates

    Luca Santini;Nick J. B. Isaac;Luigi Maiorano;Gentile Francesco Ficetola

  • A trait-based approach for predicting species responses to environmental change from sparse data : how well might terrestrial mammals track climate change?

    Luca Santini;Thomas Cornulier;James M. Bullock;Stephen C. F. Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
Carlo Rondinini
Carlo Rondinini Sapienza University of Rome
Aafke M. Schipper
Aafke M. Schipper Radboud University
Piero Visconti
Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Moreno Di Marco
Moreno Di Marco Sapienza University of Rome
Giuseppe Donati
Giuseppe Donati Oxford Brookes University
Luigi Boitani
Luigi Boitani Sapienza University of Rome
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK

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