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Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011
Tropical biodiversiTy research group
FRAncesco RoVeRo
Head of the Tropical Biodiversity Section
Born in Firenze in 1970, he is a zoologist
and conservation biologist. he obtained a
degree in natural sciences in 1995 at the
university of Florence with eco-ethological
research thesis, and a Ph.d. in Animal
ecology in 2000 at the university of Wales
(Bangor), uK. since 1999 is conducting
research and environmental cooperation
activities in eastern Africa. since 2003 he
is affiliated to Mds, and conducted during
2004-2007 a post-doctoral research
project funded by the Provincia Autonoma
di Trento on ecology and conservation of
primates and forest ungulates in the udzungwa
Mountains, Tanzania, where he has
been working since 2002. in 2008 he became the curator of the newlyestablished
Tropical Biodiversity section within Mds. his main research
interests are on threatened populations of forest mammals in Tanzania;
research aims include abundance estimation, habitat use and modeling,
and conservation status assessment. Besides pure and applied research,
he developed a keen interest in ecological monitoring, technical support
to protected areas, habitat connectivity analysis, development of community
conservation plans. This led to the establishment of the udzungwa
ecological Monitoring centre (www.udzungwacentre.org) that he directs
since 2006. it is a field station annexed to the udzungwa Mountains national
Park that facilitates researchers and provides technical support to
the park, also serving as a bridge between park management and community’s
environmental attitudes. The station became the first site in Africa
of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TeAM) network, managed
by conservation international. he wrote over 50 scientific and public
science papers, and book chapters.
FABio PuPin
Research fellow
Born in Asiago (Vi) in 1978, since 2009 he
collaborates with Mds where he contributes
to the various projects on east Africa herpetofauna.
in particular, he has been involved
in a research program on the herpetofauna
of the Albertine Rift and he is implementing
the contents of the website Tanzaniaherps.
org. Before joining the Tropical Biodiversity
section he collaborated with the Animal Biology
section of the university of Pavia (italy)
on various researches on ecology, behaviour
and morphology of amphibians and reptiles.
in the same university he achieved his bachelor and Ph.d. degrees.
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