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Sandro Lovari

Sandro Lovari

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
8383
World Ranking
4063
National Ranking
71

Overview

Sandro Lovari is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Small Animals, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their contributions are concentrated around key topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Ecology and biodiversity studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Lovari's recent publications demonstrate an active engagement with these themes. Significant recent papers include:

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of wolf, mesocarnivores and prey in a Mediterranean area (2021, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
  • Climatic changes and the fate of mountain herbivores (2020, Climatic Change)
  • Only the largest terrestrial carnivores increase their dietary breadth with increasing prey richness (2020, Mammal Review)
  • Recolonizing wolves and opportunistic foxes: interference or facilitation? (2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • Safety or satiety? Spatiotemporal behaviour of a threatened herbivore (2020, Mammalian Biology)

Frequent collaboration is a feature of Lovari's research, with notable coauthors including:

  • Francesco Ferretti
  • Emiliano Mori
  • Niccolò Fattorini
  • Charudutt Mishra
  • Justine Shanti Alexander

Their scientific works have been disseminated through several recurring publication venues such as:

  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Mammal Review
  • Mammalian Biology
  • Biologia
  • Oryx

Best Publications

  • Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates

    Luca Börger;Luca Börger;Luca Börger;Novella Franconi;Giampiero De Michele;Alberto Gantz

  • A review of wolf predation in southern Europe: does the wolf prefer wild prey to livestock?

    Alberto Meriggi;Sandro Lovari

  • Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

    Frank E. Zachos;Marco Apollonio;Eva V. Bärmann;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Social behaviour of the calves of semi-wild Maremma cattle, Bos primigenius taurus

    A. F. Vitale;M. Tenucci;M. Papini;Sandro Lovari

  • Food habits and trophic niche overlap of the badger (Meles meles L.) and the red fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) in a Mediterranean coastal area

    B. Ciampalini;Sandro Lovari

  • Environmental factors influencing the use of habitat in the red fox, Vulpes vulpes

    P. Cavallini;S. Lovari

  • Food habits and trophic niche overlap of the red fox and the stone marten in a Mediterranean rural area

    Paola Serafini;Sandro Lovari

  • Home range, habitat selection and activity of the red fox in a Mediterranean coastal ecotone

    Paolo Cavallini;Sandro Lovari

  • Restoring a keystone predator may endanger a prey species in a human-altered ecosystem: the return of the snow leopard to Sagarmatha National Park

    S. Lovari;R. Boesi;I. Minder;N. Mucci

  • The biology and management of mountain ungulates

    Sandro Lovari;Other Mountain Ungulates

  • Coexistence of the tiger and the common leopard in a prey-rich area: the role of prey partitioning

    S. Lovari;C. P. Pokheral;C. P. Pokheral;S. R. Jnawali;L. Fusani

  • A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines

    Mario Posillico;Alberto Meriggi;Elisa Pagnin;Sandro Lovari

  • Habitat use and ranging behaviour of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in a Mediterranean rural area: is shelter availability a key factor?

    M. Lucherini;S. Lovari;G. Crema

  • Food habits and trophic niche overlap of the wolf Canis lupus, L. 1758 and the red Fox vulpes vulpes (L. 1758) in a Mediterranean mountain area

    Marianna Patalano;Sandro Lovari

  • Habitat richness affects home range size in the red fox Vulpes vulpes

    M. Lucherini;Sandro Lovari

  • Systematics, phylogenetic relationships, and dispersal of the chamois (Rupicapra spp.)

    Federico Masini;Sandro Lovari

  • Behavioural interference between ungulate species: roe are not on velvet with fallow deer

    Francesco Ferretti;Andrea Sforzi;Sandro Lovari

  • Male Alpine Chamois Occupy Territories at Hotspots Before the Mating Season

    Achaz von Hardenberg;Bruno Bassano;Alberto Peracino;Sandro Lovari

  • Ranging behaviour and activity of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes: Mammalia) in relation to environmental variables, in a Mediterranean mixed pinewood

    S. Lovari;P. Valier;M. Ricci Lucchi

  • The Predatory Habits of the Barn Owl (Tyto Alba Scopoli) in Relation to the Vegetation Cover

    Sandro Lovari;Aristeo Renzoni;Roberto Fondi

  • The conservation of the chamois Rupicapra spp.

    Luca Corlatti;Rita Lorenzini;Sandro Lovari

  • Coastal waders and wildfowl in winter: Edited by P. R. Evans, J. D. Goss-Custard & W. G. Hale. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & London, 1984. 331 pp. ISBN 0 521 25928 2. Price: £27·50 (US$54·50)

    Sandro Lovari

Frequent Co-Authors

Emiliano Mori
Emiliano Mori National Research Council (CNR)
Luca Börger
Luca Börger Swansea University
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Marco Apollonio
Marco Apollonio University of Sassari
Philip A. Stephens
Philip A. Stephens Durham University
Simonetta Corsolini
Simonetta Corsolini University of Siena
Frank E. Zachos
Frank E. Zachos Natural History Museum Vienna
Carlo Ferrari
Carlo Ferrari University of Parma
Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Elisabeth Haring
Elisabeth Haring Natural History Museum Vienna

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