Articles

Russo L.F., Girardi G., Penteriani V., Loy A., Santini L. 2026. Shared waters, divided interests: A systematic review of human–otter conflicts worldwide. Mammal Reviews. doi: 10.1111/mam.70021 ACCEPTED

Zampetti A., Santini L., Ferreiro Arias I., Paltrinieri L., Ortiz Solano I., Cedeño Pánchez B.A., Baltzinger C., Beirne C., Bowler M., Forget P.M., Guilbert E., Kemp Y., Peres C., Scabin A., Whitworth A., Benítez-López A. 2025. Introducing TropiCam-AI: A taxonomically flexible automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. ACCEPTED

Fundarò D., Vivaldi C., Santini L. 2025. Fishing shapes cetacean population density patterns in the Mediterranean basin. Ecography. doi: 10.1002/ecog.07919

Mancini G., Di Marco M., Carboni M., Cerretti P., Maiorano L., Santini L. 2025. On the importance of expert-informed variable selection in species distribution modeling. Journal of Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/jbi.70037

Schrodt F., Beck M., Estopinan J., Bowler D. E., Fontaine C., Gaüzère P., Grenié M., Goury R., Martins I. S., Morueta-Holme N., Santini L., Hedde M., Martin G., Porcher E., Si-Moussi S., Tzivanopoulos M., Vernham G., Violle C., Thuiller W. 2025. Advancing Causal Inference in Ecology: Pathways for Biodiversity Change Detection and Attribution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.70131

Loft, T., Menor, I.O., Stevens, N., Clements, H.S., Santini, L., Thomas, S., Tobias, J.A., Malhi, Y. 2025. Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa. Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09660-1

Gaüzère, P., Violle, C., Schrodt, F., Grenié, M., Santini, L., Hedde, M., Porcher, E., Goury, R., Beck, M., Thuiller, W. 2025. Bridging macroecology and temporal dynamics to better attribute global change impacts on biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(7): e70086

Donatelli, A. Ćirović, D. Haroldson, M. Huber, Đ. Kindberg, J. Kojola, I. Kusak, J. Mastrantonio, G. Ordiz, A. Reljić, S. Santini, L. van Manen, F. Ciucci, P. 2025. The diel niche of brown bears: constraints on adaptive capacity in human-modified landscapes. Ecography, doi: 10.1002/ecog.07979

Russo L.F., Andrello M., Giuliani M., Ancillotto L., Carboni M. La Bella G., Martelli F., Santini L. 2025. Mapping the urban landscape at multiple ecological scales. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128849

Fialas P.C., Santini L., Russo D., Amorim F., Rebelo H., Novella-Fernandez R., Marques F., Domer A., Vella A., Martinoli A., Figurek A., Tsoar A., Sandor A., Ibanez C., Korine C., Kerbiriou C., Voigt C., Mifsud C., Jére C., Ridha D., Preatoni D., Hamidović D., Tidenberg, E.M., Çoraman E., Mathews F., Lison F., Joanna F., Petersons G., Loumassine H., Garin I., Csősz I., Liira J., Juste J.,Julien J.F., van der Kooij J., Darija J., Aihartza J., Eldegard K., Phelps K., Olival K.J., Marina K., Ancillotto L., Grzegorz L., Barti L., Cantú Salazar L., Bosso L., Rodrigues L., Hamel L., Uhrin M., Mas M., Cerekovic N., Toshkova N., Roche N., Kalda O., Aizpurua O., Georgiakakis P., Kanuch P., Presetnik P., Bilgin R., McKay R.A., Dina R., Goran R., Ireneusz R., Sørås R., Robert S., Aulagnier S., Kramer-Schadt S., Gazaryan S., Bücs S.L., Yorulmaz T., Stjernberg T., Liukko U.M., Nistreanu V., Vintulis V., Radchuk V., Puig-Montserrat X., Bas Y., Zagmajster M., Zegarek M., Vida Z., Razgour O. 2025. Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change. Conservation Biology 29(4): e70025

Mancini G., Santini L., Cazalis V., Ficetola G.F., Meiri S., Roll U., Silvestri S., Pincheira-Donoso D., Di Marco M. 2025. Generation length of the world’s amphibians and reptiles. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.07527

Mirante D., Santini L., Costantini D., Benítez‐López A. 2024. Glucocorticoid responses of wildlife to anthropogenic stressors are influenced by disturbance type and species traits. Functional Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14741

Gérard S., Decaëns T., Butt K.R., Briones M.J.I., Capowiez Y., Cluzeau D., Hoeffner K., Le Bayon R.C., Marchán D.F., Marsden C., Muys B., Pelosi C., Pérès G., Phillips H.R.P., Santini L., Thuiller W., Hedde M. 2024. Putting earthworm conservation on the map: Shortfalls and solutions for developing earthworm conservation. Biological Conservation 302: 110911

Zampetti A., Mirante D., Palencia P., Santini L. 2024. Towards an automated protocol for wildlife density estimation using camera-traps. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 15(12): 2276-2288

Santini, L., Fernando M., Mancini G., Di Marco M. 2024. The neglected role of sex-biased dispersal in range-shift prediction under climate range. Diversity & Distributions, doi: 10.1111/DDI.13942

Prima M.C., Renaud J., Witté I., Suarez L., Rouveyrol P., Fernando M., Sacchi A., Cosentino F., Santini L., Maiorano L., Thuiller W. 2024. A comprehensive framework to assess multi-species landscape connectivity. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14444

Santini L., Mendez Angarita V.Y., Karoulis, C., Fundarò D., Pranzini N., Vivaldi C., Zhang T., Zampetti A., Gargano S.J., Mirante D., Paltrinieri L. 2024. TetraDENSITY 2.0 – A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods. Global Ecology & Biogeography 33(12): e13929

Paige L., Santini L., Rasamisoa D., Andriamahaihavana M.A., Ganzhorn J., Gibson, D. Owen M., Razafindramanana J., Vasey N., Donati G., Eppley T. 2024. Weathering the storm: Long-term implications on the feeding ecology and habitat use of a frugivorous lemur following a tropical cyclone. Biotropica: e13385

Pranzini N., Maiorano L., Cosentino F., Thuiller W., Santini L. 2024. On the role of species interactions in shaping the geographic pattern of ungulate abundance across African savannah. Scientific Reports 14: 19647

Cazalis V., Di Marco M., Zizka, A., Butchart, S.H.M., González-Suárez M., Böhm M., Bachman S.P., Hoffmann M., Rosati I., De Leo F., Jung M., Bénitez-López A., Claustizner V., Cardoso P., Brooks T.M., Mancini G., Lucas P.M., Young B.E., Akcakaya H.R., Schipper A.M., Hilton-Taylor C., Pacifici M., Meyer C., Santini L. 2024. Accelerating and standardising IUCN Red List assessments with sRedList. Biological Conservation 298: 110761

Saracino D., Santini L., Mirante D., Ancillotto L. 2024. Traits and trails: guild-specific effects of forest paths on bat activity. Forest Ecology and Management 591: 122204

Giuliani M., Mirante D., Abbondanza E., Santini L. (2024). Acoustic indices fail to represent different facets of biodiversity. Ecological Indicators 166: 112451

Mirante D., Ancillotto L., Zampetti A., Coiro G., Pisa G., Santocchi C., Giuliani M., Santini L. 2024. Fine-tuning coexistence: Wildlife’s short-term responses to dynamic human disturbance patterns. Global Ecology & Conservation 54: e03053

Ferreiro-Arias I., Santini L., Sagar H.S.S.C, Richard-Hansen C., Guilbert E., Forget P-M., van Kuijk M., Scabin A.B., Peres, C.A., Revilla E., Benítez-López A. 2024. Drivers and spatial patterns of avian defaunation in tropical forests. Diversity & Distributions, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13855

Lucas P.M., Di Marco M., Cazalis V., Luedtke J., Neam K., Brown M.H., Langhammer P., Mancini G., Santini L. 2024. Using comparative extinction risk analysis to prioritize the Red List reassessments of amphibians. Conservation Biology, e14316

Eppley, T.M., Reuter, K.E., Sefczek, T.M., Tinsman, J., Santini, L., et al. 2024. Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment. Conservation Letters 17(2): 13007

Callaghan C., Santini L., Spake R., Bowler D.E. 2024. Population abundance estimates in conservation and biodiversity research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39(6): 515-523

Henry, E. G., Santini L., Butchart S.H.M., González‐Suárez M., Lucas P.M., Benítez-López A., Mancini G., Jung M., Cardoso P., Zizka A., Meyer C., Akçakaya H.R., Berryman A., Cazalis V., Di Marco M. 2023. Modelling the probability of meeting IUCN Red List criteria to support reassessments. Global Change Biology 30(1): e17119

Santini L., Berzaghi F., Bénitez-López A. 2023. Total population reports are ill-suited for global biomass estimation of wild animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (4) e2308958121

Pranzini N., Bertolino S., Santini L. 2023. Predicting population size at large scale: the case of two large felids. Global Ecology and Conservation, 48: e02677

Mancini G., Santini L., Cazalis V., Akcakaya R., Lucas P., Brooks T., Foden W., Di Marco M. 2023. A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments. Conservation Biology 38: e14227

Mammola S., Adamo M., Antić D., Calevo J., Cancellario T., Cardoso P., Chamberlain D., Chialva M., Durucan F., Fontaneto D., Goncalves D., Martínez A., Santini L., Rubio-Lopez I., Sousa R., Villegas-Rios D., Verdes A., Correia R.A. 2023. Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life. eLife 12, RP88251

Hoeks S., Huibregts M.A.J. Boonman C.C.F., Faurby S., Svenning J-C, Harfoot M.B.J., Santini L. 2023. Shifts in ecosystem equilibria following trophic rewilding. Diversity & Distributions, 29(12): 1512-1526

Di Marco M., Santini L., Corcos D., Tschorsnig E., Cerretti P. Elevational homogenisation of mountain parasitoids across six decades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 120 (46): e2308273120

Wolff N.H., Visconti P., Kujala H., Santini L., Hilbers J.P., Possingham H.P., Oakleaf J.R., Kennedy C.M., Kiesecker J., Fargione J., Game E.T. 2023. Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk. One Earth, 6(11): 1564-1575

Cazalis V., Santini L., Pablo L.M., Gonzalez-Suarez M., Hoffmann M., Benítez-López A., Pacifici M., Schipper A., Böhm M., Zizka A., Clausnitzer V., Meyer C., Jung M., Butchart S., Cardoso P., Mancini G., Akçakaya R.H., Young B., Patoine G., Di Marco M. 2023. Prioritizing the reassessment of Data Deficient species in the Red List. Conservation Biology 37(6):e14139

Buschke F.T., Hagan J.G., Santini L., Coetzee B.W.T. 2021. Reply to: Capturing stochasticity properly is key to understanding the nuances of the Living Planet Index. Nature Ecology and Evolution 7: 1196–1198

Mancini G., Benítez-López A., Di Marco M., Pacifici M., Rondinini C., Santini L. 2023. Synergistic effects of habitat fragmentation and hunting on the extinction risk of neotropical primates. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32: 655–2669

Froidevaux J., Toshkova N., Barbaro L., Benitez Lopez A., Kerbiriou C., Le Viol I., Pacifici M., Santini L., Stawski C., Russo D., Dekker J., Alberdi A., Amorim F., Ancillotto L., Barré K., Bas Y, Cantú-Salazar L., Devaux T., Eldegard K., Fereidouni F., Furmankiewicz J., Hamidovic D., Hill D., Ibáñez C., Julien J.F., Juste J., Kaňuch P., Korine C., Laforge A., Legras G., Leroux C., Lesiński G., Mariton L., Marmet J., Mata V., Mifsud C., Nistreanu V., Novella-Fernandez R., Rebelo H., Roche N., Roemer C., Ruczyński I., Sørås R., Uhrin M., Vella A., Voigt C., Razgour O. 2023. EuroBaTrait 1.0, a species-level trait database of bats in Europe and beyond. Scientific Data 10, 253

Santini L., Tobias J., Callaghan C., Gallego-Zamorano J., Benítez López A. 2023. Global patterns and predictors of avian population density. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(7): 1189-1204

Jenkins G., Beckerman A., Bellard C., Benítez López A., Ellison A., Foote C., Hufton A; Lashley M.; Lortie C.J., Ma Z., Moore A., Narum S., Nilsson J., Provete D., Razgour O., Rieseberg L., Riginos C., Santini L., Peres-Neto P. 2023. Reproducibility in ecology & evolution: minimum standards for data and code. Ecology and Evolution 13(5): e9961

Khamila C.N., Groen T.A., Toxopeus T.A., Santini L., Neumann M. Van Swaay C., Sierdsema H. 2023. There is a trade-off between forest productivity and animal biodiversity in Europe. Biodiversity and Conservation 32: 1879–1899

Trouillier M., Meyer K., Santini L., Peer G. 2023. A comparison of population viability measures. Ecology and Evolution 13(1): e9752

Henry E., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.H., Benítez-López A. 2022. Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(2): 267-280

Bonifacino M., Pasquali L., Sistri G., Menchetti M., Santini L., Corbella C., Bonelli S., Balletto E., Vila R., Dinca V., Dapporto L. 2022. Climate change may cause the extinction of the butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana in the Apennines. Journal of Insect Conservation 26: 959–972

Antunes A.C., Gauzens B., Brose U., Potapov A.M., Jochum M., Santini L., Eisenhauer N., Ferlian O., Cesarz S., Scheu S., Hirt M.R. 2022. Environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities. Oikos 2023(2): e09735

Eppley T.M., Hoeks S., Chapman C.A., Ganzhorn J.U., Hall K., Owen M.A., Adams D.B., Allgas N., Amato K.R., Andriamahaihavana M., Aristizabal J.F., Baden A.L., Balestri M., Barnett A.A., Bicca-Marques J.C., Bowler M., Boyle A.S., Brown M., Caillaud D., Calegaro-Marques C., Campbell C.J., Campera M., Campos F.A., Cardoso T.S., Carretero-Pinzón X., Champion J., Chaves O.M., Chen-Kraus C., Colquhoun I.C., Dean B., Dubrueil C., Ellis K.M., Erhart E.M., Evans K.J.E., Fedigan L.M., Felton A.M., Ferreira R.G., Fichtel C., Fonseca M.L., Fontes I.P., Fortes V.B., Fumian I., Gibson D., Guzzo G.B., Hartwell K.S., Heymann E.W., Hilário R.R., Holmes S.M., Irwin M.T., Johnson S.E., Kappeler P.M., Kelley E.A., King T., Knogge C., Koch F., Kowalewski M.M., Lange L.R., Lauterbur M.E., Louis Jr. E.E., Lutz M.C., Martínez J., Melin A.D., de Melo F.R., Mihaminekena T.H., Mogilewsky M.S., Moreira L.S., Moura L.A., Muhle C.B., Nagy-Reis M.B., Norconk M.A., Notman H., O’Mara M.T., Ostner J., Patel E.R., Pavelka M.S.M., Pinacho-Guendulain B., Porter L.M., Pozo-Montuy G., Raboy B.E., Rahalinarivo V., Raharinoro N.A., Rakotomalala Z., Ramos-Fernández G., Rasamisoa D.C., Ratsimbazafy J., Ravaloharimanitra M., Razafindramanana J., Razanaparany T.P., Righini N., Robson N.M., da Rosa Gonçalves J., Sanamo J., Santacruz N., Sato H., Sauther M.L., Scarry C.J., Serio-Silva J.C., Shanee S., de Souza Lins P.G.A., Smith A.C., Smith Aguilar S.E., Souza-Alves J.P., Stavis V.K., Steffens K.J.E., Stone A.I., Strier K.B., Suarez S.A., Talebi M., Tecot S.R., Tujague M.P., Valenta K., Van Belle S., Vasey N., Wallace R.B., Welch G., Wright P.C., Donati G., Santini L. 2022. Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(46): e2308273120

Bellard C., Benítez-López A., Razgour O., Santini L., Zhan A. 2022. Recent developments in Diversity and Distributions and trends in the field. Diversity & Distributions 28(10): 2038-2041

Festa, F., Ancillotto L., Santini L., Pacifici M., Rocha R., Toshkova N, Amorim F., Benítez-López A., Domer A., Hamidović D., Kramer-Schadt S., Mathews F., Radchuk V., Rebelo H., Ruczynski I., Solem E., Tsoar A., Russo D., Razgour O. 2022. Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review. Biological Reviews 98(1): 19-33

Broekman M., Hilbers, J.P., Schipper A.M, Benítez-López A., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2022. Time-lagged effects of habitat fragmentation on terrestrial mammals in Madagascar. Conservation Biology 36(5): e13942

Santini L., Benitez-Lopez A., Dormann C.F., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2022. Population density estimates for terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology & Biogeography 31(5): 978-994

Stewart P., Voskamp A., Santini L., Biber M., Devenish A. Hof C., Willis S., Tobias J. 2022. Global Impacts of Climate Change on Avian Functional Diversity.Ecology Letters 25(3): 673-685

Boonman C.C.F., Huijbregts M.A.J., Benítez-López A., Schipper, A.M., Thuiller W., Santini L. 2022. Trait-based projections of climate change effects on global biome distributions. Diversity & Distributions 28: 25–37

Cazalis V., Di Marco M., Butchart, S.H.M., Akçakaya H.R., González‐Suárez M, Meyer C., Clausnitzer V., Böhm M., Zizka A., Cardoso A., Schipper A.M., Bachman S.P., Young B.E., Hoffmann M., Benítez-López A., Lucas P.M., Pettorelli N., Patoine G., Pacifici M., Jörger-Hickfang T., Brooks T.M., Rondinini C., Hill S.L.L., Visconti P., Santini L. 2022. Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(4): 359-370

Sistri G., Menchetti M., Santini L., Pasquali L., Sapienti S., Cini A., Platania L., Balletto E., Barbero F., Bonelli S., Casacci L., Dinca V., Vila R., Mantoni C., Fattorini S., Dapporto L. 2021. The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change.Insect Conservation and Diversity 15(1): 136-148

Santini L., Antão L., Jung M., Benítez-López A., Rapacciuolo G., Di Marco M., Jones F., Haghkerdar J.M., González-Suárez M. 2021. The interface between Macroecology and Conservation: existing links and untapped opportunities. Frontiers of Biogeography 13(4): e53025

Wang Y.X.G., Matson K.D., Santini L., Visconti P., Hilbers J., Huijbregts M.A.J., Xu Y., Prins H.H.T., Dobson A., Allen T., Huang Z.Y.X., de Boer W.F. 2021. Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk. Global Change Biology 27(20): 4995–5007

Hoeks S., Tucker M.A., Huijbregts M.A.J., Harfoot M.B.J., Bithell M., Santini L. 2021. MadingleyR: an R package for mechanistic ecosystem modelling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(9): 1922-1933

Buschke F.T., Hagan J.G., Santini L., Coetzee B.W.T. 2021. Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 1145–1152

de Jonge, M.M.J., Benítez-López A., Hennekens S., Santini L., Huijbregts M.A.J., Schipper, A.M. 2021. Conditional love? Co-occurrence patterns of drought-sensitive species in European grasslands are consistent with the stress-gradient hypothesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(8): 1609-1620

Boonman C., Santini L., Robroek B., Hoeks S., Dengler J., Bergamini A. Biurrun I., Carranza M.L., Cerabolini B., Chytrý M., Lysenko T., Stanisci A., Tatarenko I., Huijbregts M.A.J. 2021. Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(3): e13027

Santini L., Isaac N.J.B. 2021. Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules. Ecology Letters 24(7): 1318-1327

Di Marco, Santini L. 2015. Human pressures predict species’ geographic range size better than biological traits. Global Change Biology 21: 2169-2178

Tittensor D.P., Walpole M., Hill S.L.L., Boyce D.G., Britten G.L., Burgess N.D., Butchart S.H.M., Leadley P.W., Regan E.C., Alkemade R., Baumung R., Bellard C., Bouwman L., Bowles-Newark N.J., Chenery A.M., Cheung W.W.L., Christensen V., Cooper H.D., Crowther A.R., Dixon M.J.R., Galli A., Gaveau V., Gregory R.D., Gutierrez N.L., Hirsch T., Hoft R., Januchowski-Hartley S.R., Karmann M., Krug C.B., Leverington F.J., Loh J., Lojenga R.K., Malsch K., Marques A., Morgan D.H.W., Mumby P.J., Newbold T., Noonan-Mooney K., Pagad S.N., Parks B.C., Pereira H.M., Robertson T., Rondinini C., Santini L., Scharlemann J.P.W., Schindler S., Sumaila U.R., Teh L.S.L., van Kolck J., Visconti P., Ye Y. 2014. A mid-term analysis of progress towards international biodiversity targets. Science 346(6206): 241-244

Santini L., Di Marco M., Boitani L., Maiorano L., Rondinini C. 2014. Incorporating spatial population structure in gap analysis reveals inequitable assessments of species protection. Diversity & Distributions 20(6): 698-707

Wegman M., Santini L., Leutner B., Safi K., Rocchini D., Bevanda M., Latifi H., Dech S., Rondinini C. 2014. Role of African Protected Areas in maintaining connectivity for large mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London series B. 369: 20130193

Pacifici M., Santini L., Di Marco M., Baisero D., Francucci L., Grottolo Marasini G.,Visconti P., Rondinini C. 2013. Generation length for mammals. Nature Conservation 5: 87–94

Santini L., Di Marco M., Visconti P., Baisero D., Boitani L., Rondinini C. 2013. Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals. Hystrix, Italian Journal of Mammalogy 24(2): 181-186

Donati G., Santini L., Razafindramana J., Boitani L., Borgognini-Tarli S. 2013. (Un-)expected nocturnal activity in “diurnal” Lemur catta supports cathemerality as one of the key adaptations of lemur radiation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 150: 99-106 (Joint first author)

Santini L. 2011. Conflictual behaviour in lemur mother toward dying infant. Lemur News v. 16