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ecology and conservation of corncrake and other rallids, red-backed shrike
and other passerines of open habitats. he has been working also in other
institutions on projects including regional ecological network in lombardy,
ecological network among natura 2000 sites in Varese province, Monitoring
plan for terrestrial Vertebrates of community interest in lombardy, conservation
and management of areas and species of community interest. he has
contributed to the “Assessment of conservation status of italian avifauna”
(liPu - MATTM, 2008-2009). he has published 15 articles in isi-ranked journals
(2004-2011).
MARco GiRARdello
Research fellow
Born in Treviso in 1977, he obtained a
degree in zoology from the university of
Abeerdeen (uK) and a Ph.d. degree in Biology
from the university of newcastle upon
Tyne (uK). during his Ph.d. he carried out
a resarch project on the application of machine-learning
methods to species distribution
modelling. his main research interests
are concered with understanding the determinants
of species distributions at the large
scale, and predicting how these distributions
change through time. he has worked
on several collaborative projects with various research institutes, both in
italy and europe. his main contribution to these projects has been the application
spatio-temporal modelling techniques to study the dynamics of
plant and animal populations. he authour of several pubblications on international
peer-reviewed journals. From June 2009 he works as Quantitative
ecologist at the centre for ecology and hydrology (uK). he has been collaborating
with the Vertebtrate zoology section at the Mds since 2009. his
work has focussed on developing predictive models for breeding birds in
the province of Trento to assess the potential impacts of land cover changes
in the breeding birds.
siMone TenAn
Ph.D. student
Born in Rovigo in 1974, M.sc. (hons) in natural
science at the university of Padua (italy)
with a dissertation focussed on ecology of
bird migration across the Mediterranean
sea. since 1995, he has been participating
in different projects on bird migration and
breeding birds, as collaborator of the italian
Ringing scheme of the institute for environmental
Protection and Research (isPRA). he
has been collaborating with the Vertabrate
zoology section of the Mds since 2008, on
the data analyses related to the “Progetto
Alpi”, on the post-nuptial bird migration. Ph.d. student at the university of
Pavia (italy) since november 2009, with a Ph.d. fellowship from the Mds, his
dissertation is focussed on modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of bird
migration across the italian Alps.
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