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Happy new Year with the two most recent papers published by UAGRA!
2019 opens with two interesting papers where UAGRA has been involved.
The first one is on Invasive Alien Species and in particular invasive squirrels, indeed UAGRA with a very wide collaboration (Dipartimento di Bioscienze e territorio del Molise, Insititute de Biologia Evolutiva (Barcelona), Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Wildlife Research Unit, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Museo di Storia naturale della Calabria e orto Botanico, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, università di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Siena) focus on modelling the future spread of invasive squirrels, pointing out as climate change by itself does not properly describe future IAS range expansion and how much important is to include also land-use change in modelling. You can find out everything here!
The second one brings everybody in a wonderful National Park in Myanmar where UAGRA works since a lot of time in collaboration with Istituto Oikos e Dipartimento di Scienze della terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. This time UAGRA uses Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) to understand illegal human presence in the Lampi Marine National Park with aim to address in the best way patrol activities. If animals range can be modelled, why not human range? Find out more info here!
Sun Bear in Lubiana
Actually there are not Sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in Lubiana! but…
UAGRA team in collaboration with Istituto Oikos will present part of its recent work on Sun bear conservation in Myanamr at the IBA Conference: “Life with Bears” next week (16-21 Spetember) in Lubiana.
Welcome in to the ARENA
Lions and Tigers in the ARENA! Who is going to survive? Bold or shy?
What is it more interesting to read when you are on the beach this summer, then such interesting topic?
Do you want to know more on “Open Field Test (OFT) and Mirror Image Stimulation (MIS) for behaviour testing”?
And do you know that “Relationships between personality and fitness components can vary with changes in population density and/or habitat quality”?
Have a look of the two new UAGRA papers!
Stress in biological invasions
It is online the last UAGRA paper! Invasive alien species can increase phisiological stress in native causing lower reproductive output.
Have a look of what British Ecological Society reports and find the paper in UAGRA publication section
di terra e di cielo
Anche quest’anno l’Università degli Studi dell’Insubria non solo patrocinerà l’evento promosso da Filmstudio ’90, ma parteciperà attivamente mettendo a disposizione l’Aula Magna “Granero- Porati” al Campus Bizzozero e collaborando al percorso di approfondimento sul tema del rapporto uomo-lupo con iniziative ad hoc, anche in collaborazione con l’Associazione Studentesca EnvironMental. Se volete maggiori infomrazioni scaricate il programma qui!
Borse di Studio per Corso di Birdwatching
Il Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate dell’Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, in collaborazione con il Gruppo Insubrico di Ornitologia, offre l’opportunità a 10 studenti meritevoli iscritti al Corso di Laurea Triennale Interdipartimentale in Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Natura o al Corso di Laurea Magistrale Interdipartimentale in Scienze Ambientali (Varese e Como) di usufruire di una borsa di studio per partecipare al “Corso Base di Birdwatching” (4 lezioni teoriche e 3 uscite sul campo) – vedi locandina.
Ciascuna borsa di studio comprenderà la copertura dei costi di iscrizione al Corso (4 lezioni e 3 visite guidate sul campo), e darà diritto a ricevere l’attestato di partecipazione e i due volumi Quaderni del GIO n. 1 (2012) e n. 2 (2015).
Le indicazioni per la partecipazione al bando le trovate qui, si specifica inoltre che per il Curriculum Vitae (CV) non è richiesta una formattazione specifica.
Who wants to live forever?
Which is the answer to this QUEEN famous song?
Well UAGRA team recaptured a Myotis bechsteinii 16 years after the first observation in the Campo dei Fiori Regional Park (Varese, Italy).
If you are interested in how UAGRA team did it have a look at the recently new short comunication.
New UAGRA Ph.D. candidate
Giacomo Cremonesi – Assessing the impact of human activities on wildlife in Myanmar tropical forests using emerging technologies
I’m Giacomo,I have a master degree in Ecobiology achieved at La Sapienza University of Rome. I have already had the pleasure of collaborating in both of my theses with the group UAGRA and this year I will start my PhD. The principals aims of my work will be:
– Increase knowledge on distribution and ecology of medium-large endangered mammals in tropical forests
– Evaluation of human activities and their role on degradation of tropical ecosystems
– Identification of criticalities for conservation and planning of improving management strategies currently in progress
Have you got a kingdom? no? well you are a Protist!
Despite the overlapping ranges of native and introduced tree squirrels in Northern Italy, Sciurus vulgaris was exclusively infected with Cryptosporidium ferret genotype while C. ubiquitum and skunk genotype may have been introduced to Europe with invasive squirrels.
If you are interested in this strange topic for UAGRA team read the recent publication in collaboration with the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, the Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic, the Department of Pathology and Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, the Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy and the Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.