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Stefano Focardi is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. This researcher's work primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology and related subfields.

The main areas of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Focardi has contributed to multiple publications, including papers in various scientific journals. Recent papers include:

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Population assessment without individual identification using camera-traps: A comparison of four methods, 2022, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Effects of pulsed resources on the dynamics of seed consumer populations: a comparative demographic study in wild boar, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Sex differences in condition dependence of natal dispersal in a large herbivore: dispersal propensity and distance are decoupled, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Day versus night use of forest by red and roe deer as determined by Corine Land Cover and Copernicus Tree Cover Density: assessing use of geographic layers in movement ecology, 2022, Landscape Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Focardi include:

  • Francesca Cagnacci
  • Marco Heurich
  • Giacomo Santini
  • Barbara Franzetti
  • Mario Melletti

Stefano Focardi often publishes in venues such as:

  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Science
  • Ecosphere
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Stochastic modelling of animal movement

    Peter E. Smouse;Stefano Focardi;Paul R. Moorcroft;John G. Kie

  • Partial migration in roe deer: migratory and resident tactics are end points of a behavioural gradient determined by ecological factors

    Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Marco Heurich;Anja Stache

  • Influence of harvesting pressure on demographic tactics: implications for wildlife management.

    Sabrina Servanty;Sabrina Servanty;Sabrina Servanty;Jean‐Michel Gaillard;Francesca Ronchi;Stefano Focardi

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Competition for acorns among wild boar (Sus scrofa) and small mammals in a Mediterranean woodland

    Stefano Focardi;Dario Capizzi;Daniel Monetti

  • Do ungulates exhibit a food density threshold? A field study of optimal foraging and movement patterns

    S. Focardi;P. Marcellini;P. Montanaro

  • Investigating population dynamics in ungulates: Do hunting statistics make up a good index of population abundance?

    Simona Imperio;Massimiliano Ferrante;Alessandra Grignetti;Giacomo Santini

  • How many routes lead to migration? Comparison of methods to assess and characterize migratory movements.

    Francesca Cagnacci;Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Anne Ghisla;Bram van Moorter

  • Inter-specific competition from fallow deer Dama dama reduces habitat quality for the Italian roe deer Capreolus capreolus italicus

    Stefano Focardi;Paola Aragno;Paolo Montanaro;Francesco Riga

  • Line transect estimates of ungulate populations in a Mediterranean forest

    Stefano Focardi;Roberto Isotti;Aleandro Tinelli

  • Social cohesion and foraging decrease with group size in fallow deer (Dama dama)

    Stefano Focardi;Elena Pecchioli

  • Survival of Wild Boars in a Variable Environment: Unexpected Life-history Variation in an Unusual Ungulate

    Stefano Focardi;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Francesca Ronchi;Sophie Rossi

  • Grassland-herbivore interactions: How do grazers coexist?

    Keith Farnsworth;S. Focardi;J.A. Beecham

  • A Preliminary Estimate of The Apennine Brown Bear Population Size Based on Hair-Snag Sampling and Multiple Data Source Mark–Recapture Huggins Models

    Vincenzo Gervasi;Paolo Ciucci;John Boulanger;Mario Posillico

  • Spatial patterns and density dependence in the dynamics of a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) population in central Italy

    Stefano Focardi;Elisabetta Raganella Pelliccioni;Roberta Petrucco;Silvano Toso

  • The population modelling of fallow deer and wild boar in a Mediterranean ecosystem

    S. Focardi;S. Toso;E. Pecchioli

  • Adaptive Lévy walks in foraging fallow deer.

    Stefano Focardi;Paolo Montanaro;Elena Pecchioli

  • The decline of the grey partridge in Europe: comparing demographies in traditional and modern agricultural landscapes

    Giulio A De Leo;Stefano Focardi;Marino Gatto;Isabella M Cattadori

  • Large herbivore migration plasticity along environmental gradients in Europe: life‐history traits modulate forage effects

    Wibke Peters;Mark Hebblewhite;Atle Mysterud;Daniel Eacker

  • A comparative study on the movement patterns of two sympatric tropical chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)

    Guido Chelazzi;Stefano Focardi;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Analysis of Movement Patterns and Orientation Mechanisms in Intertidal Chitons and Gastropods

    Guido Chelazzi;Stefano Focardi;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Nocturnal line transect sampling of wild boar ( Sus scrofa ) in a Mediterranean forest: long-term comparison with capture–mark–resight population estimates

    Barbara Franzetti;Francesca Ronchi;Francesca Marini;Marianne Scacco

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Jean-Louis Deneubourg Université Libre de Bruxelles
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Petter Kjellander
Petter Kjellander Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
Paolo Marcellini
Paolo Marcellini University of Florence

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