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Simone Fattorini

Simone Fattorini

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
6236
World Ranking
6127
National Ranking
117

Overview

Simone Fattorini is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy and has a research profile spanning environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their scholarly work is concentrated in subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, and genetics.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Fattorini's frequent publication venues highlight journals such as:

  • Insects
  • Diversity
  • Biology
  • Plants
  • Insect Conservation and Diversity

Key recent papers include:

  • Variations in Plant Richness, Biogeographical Composition, and Life Forms along an Elevational Gradient in a Mediterranean Mountain, 2021, published in Plants
  • Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost, 2021, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Influence of elevation on the species-area relationship, 2020, published in Journal of Biogeography
  • A new protocol for assessing the conservation priority of groundwater-dependent ecosystems, 2020, published in Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss, 2021, published in Nature Communications

Frequently collaborating coauthors include Letizia Di Biase, Cristina Mantoni, Loretta Pace, Noëlline Tsafack, and Thomas J. Matthews.

In addition to journal articles, Fattorini has authored books published by Cambridge University Press and CABI eBooks. Notable titles are The Species-Area Relationship (2021) and Habitat (expected 2025).

Best Publications

  • A proposal for a chorotype classification of the Near East fauna, in the framework of the Western Palearctic Region

    Augusto Vigna Taglianti;A. Audisio Paolo;Maurizio Biondi;A. Bologna Marco

  • A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

    Giovanni Strona;Domenico Nappo;Francesco Boccacci;Simone Fattorini

  • Insect extinction by urbanization: A long term study in Rome

    Simone Fattorini;Simone Fattorini

  • Biogeography of the tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on the Aegean Islands (Greece)

    Simone Fattorini

  • The generalism-specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species

    Roger L. H. Dennis;Roger L. H. Dennis;Leonardo Dapporto;Simone Fattorini;Simone Fattorini;Laurence M. Cook

  • Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long‐term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

    Paulo A. V. Borges;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Holger Kreft;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • A Red List of Italian Saproxylic Beetles: taxonomic overview, ecological features and conservation issues (Coleoptera)

    Giuseppe Maria Carpaneto;Cosimo Baviera;Alessandro Bruno Biscaccianti;Pietro Brandmayr

  • Cultural Erosion of Balinese Indigenous Knowledge of Food and Nutraceutical Plants

    Wawan Sujarwo;Ida Bagus Ketut Arinasa;Francois Salomone;Giulia Caneva

  • A simple method to fit geometric series and broken stick models in community ecology and island biogeography

    Simone Fattorini

  • Detecting Biodiversity Hotspots by Species‐Area Relationships: a Case Study of Mediterranean Beetles

    Simone Fattorini

  • recluster: an unbiased clustering procedure for beta‐diversity turnover

    Leonardo Dapporto;Matteo Ramazzotti;Simone Fattorini;Gerard Talavera

  • Integrating landscape disturbance and indicator species in conservation studies.

    Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;François Rigal;Simone Fattorini;Simone Fattorini;Sofia Terzopoulou;Sofia Terzopoulou

  • The influence of geographical and ecological factors on island beta diversity patterns

    Simone Fattorini

  • On the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography

    Simone Fattorini

  • To Fit or Not to Fit? A Poorly Fitting Procedure Produces Inconsistent Results When the Species–Area Relationship is used to Locate Hotspots

    Simone Fattorini

  • A new method to identify important conservation areas applied to the butterflies of the Aegean Islands (Greece)

    S. Fattorini

  • Nestedness for Dummies (NeD): a User Friendly Web Interface for Exploratory Nestedness Analysis

    Giovanni Strona;Paolo Galli;Davide Seveso;Simone Montano

  • Island biogeography of insect conservation in urban green spaces

    Simone Fattorini;Cristina Mantoni;Livia De Simoni;Diana M.P. Galassi

  • Both Recent and Pleistocene geography determine animal distributional patterns in the Tuscan Archipelago

    S. Fattorini

  • Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    Marco Girardello;Andrea Santangeli;Emiliano Mori;Anna Chapman

  • A RESOURCE-BASED HABITAT VIEW FOR CONSERVATION: BUTTERFLIES IN THE BRITISH LANDSCAPE

    Simone Fattorini

  • Cause and Correlation in Biology. A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference with R, Second edition, Bill Shipley. Cambridge University Press (2016), (ISBN: 978-1-107-44259-7, 314 pp., £39.99, paperback)

    Simone Fattorini

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Leonardo Dapporto
Leonardo Dapporto University of Florence
Paolo Galli
Paolo Galli University of Milano-Bicocca
Diana M. P. Galassi
Diana M. P. Galassi University of L'Aquila
Luca Salvati
Luca Salvati Sapienza University of Rome
Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Vlad Dincă
Vlad Dincă University of Oulu
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna

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