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  1. Future climate change will severely reduce habitat suitability of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander

    Article • Freshwater Biology, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  2. Environmental filtering and convergent evolution determine the ecological specialisation of subterranean spiders

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  3. Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae)

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, December 2019, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  4. Modelling the potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of ichthyoplankton in the Yangtze Estuary, China

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  5. Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β -diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  6. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  7. Distributional dynamics of a specialized subterranean community oppose the classical understanding of the preferred subterranean habitats

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  8. Exploring the Interplay Between Local and Regional Drivers of Distribution of a Subterranean Organism

    Article • Diversity, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  9. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Article • BioScience, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  10. Assessing similarity of n‐ dimensional hypervolumes: Which metric to use?

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  11. Extending Janzen's hypothesis to temperate regions: a test using subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Functional Ecology, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  12. Associations between habitat quality, body size and reproductive fitness in the alpine endemic spider Vesubia jugorum

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  13. Climate change going deep: The effects of global climatic alterations on cave ecosystems

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  14. An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

    Article • Zoosystema, February 2019, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  15. Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2019, Magnolia Press

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  16. Tracking the ice: Subterranean harvestmen distribution matches ancient glacier margins

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, January 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  17. Artificial lighting triggers the presence of urban spiders and their webs on historical buildings

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  18. What happens in cave at night?

    Article • Subterranean Biology, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  19. Exploring the morphospace in subterranean spiders

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  20. On climate change and subterranean spiders

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  21. Are caves good models systems in ecology?

    Article • Ecography, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  22. Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae : Linyphiidae : Troglohyphantes)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2018, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  23. Cave Communities and Species Interactions

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  24. Graphical abstract from: Mammola S, Piano E, Giachino P, Isaia M (2017) An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface. Subterranean Biology 24: 27-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.24.21585

    Article • December 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  25. An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface

    Article • Subterranean Biology, December 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  26. A review of subterranean spiders in Europe, with a checklist of the species

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  27. A discussion on the use of species distribution models in subterranean biology

    Article • Ecography, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  28. The Spider World Record: a list of record-breaking achievements by spiders

    Article • PeerJ, October 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  29. Competition affect large scale distribution of competing Meta spiders

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  30. Modelling the future spread of native and alien congeneric species in subterranean habitats — the case of Meta cave-dwelling spiders in Great Britain

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2017, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  31. Human-induced Alterations of the Mycobiota in an Alpine Show Cave (Italy, SW-Alps)

    Article • Acta Carsologica, July 2017, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  32. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  33. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning

    Article • June 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  34. A review on cave-dwelling spiders worldwide

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  35. Effect of Global warming on subterranean - cave - ecosystems

    Article • Ecography, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  36. IUCN assessment of Pimoa delphinica, a cave spider endemic to Italy

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, January 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  37. New data on Troglohyphantes cave spiders in Italy, with a phylogeny of the alpine species

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  38. IUCN assessment of Vesubia jugorum, a high alpine endangered spider

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2016, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  39. A comprehensive review on the subterranean habitat Mesovoid Shallow Stratum (MSS)

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  40. Niche dynamics in two cave apex predators evaluated via Hutchinson' niche hypervolumes

    Article • Acta Oecologica, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Elena Piano

  41. The first study on the ecological preferences of the water spider Argyroneta aquatica

    Article • Fragmenta Entomologica, June 2016, PAGEPress Publications

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  42. What happens to spider silk with ageing?

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2016, Nature

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  43. Ecological niche: a study focusing on spiders in artifical mines

    Article • Invertebrate Biology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  44. Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae : Pimoidae)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Dr Stefano Mammola

  45. Biogeography of two cave spiders through ecological niche modeling and genetic inferences

    Article • PeerJ, November 2015, PeerJ

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  46. Microclimatic niche and dispersal of the beetles Sphodropsis ghilianii and Dellabeffaella roccae

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2015, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  47. Nesting strategies affect altitudinal distribution and habitat use in Alpine dung beetle communities

    Article • Ecological Entomology, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola

  48. Environmental factors driving the deposition of spider cocoons (Meta menardi) in caves

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2015, Nature

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA

  49. Interspecific competition through conditional differentiation in two congeneric cave spiders

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2014, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Dr. Marco ISAIA