The boar war: five hot factors unleashing boar expansion and related emergency

D Fulgione, M Buglione - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The recent and ever-growing problem of boar (Sus scrofa forms including wild boar, hybrid
and feral pig) expansion is a very complex issue in wildlife management. The damages …

Addressing challenges for large-scale trophic rewilding

D Saavedra, N Fernández, JC Svenning - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The climate and biodiversity crises are inextricably linked and curbing both requires large-
scale ecosystem restoration to be put into practice. In this context, trophic rewilding, which …

Population genomic, olfactory, dietary, and gut microbiota analyses demonstrate the unique evolutionary trajectory of feral pigs

S Petrelli, M Buglione, V Maselli, C Troiano… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Domestication is an intriguing evolutionary process. Many domestic populations are
subjected to strong human‐mediated selection, and when some individuals return to the …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular differentiation of Sarcocystis miescheriana and Sarcocystis suihominis using a new multiplex PCR targeting the mtDNA cox1 gene in wild boars in …

L Pacifico, S Rubiola, F Buono, M Sgadari… - Research in Veterinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increase of wild boar populations density and their meat consumption across Europe
could expose humans to a plethora of foodborne diseases as sarcocystosis, caused by the …

Moving buffalo farming beyond traditional areas: Performances of animals, and quality of mozzarella and forages

F Serrapica, F Masucci, G De Rosa, A Braghieri… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
An observational case study was designed to highlight issues associated with a possible
expansion of dairy buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) farming outside the traditional coastal plains of …

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

JC Svenning, RT Lemoine, J Bergman… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

Biocultural diversity in Italy

V Nazari, S Belardinelli, A Pieroni, R Motti, A Chiarucci… - Human Ecology, 2023 - Springer
As an initial step in more extensive research into the links between biological and cultural
diversity in present-day Italy, we reviewed Biocultural Diversity studies that explore the …

Health-nutrients and origin awareness: Implications for regional wine market-segmentation strategies using a latent analysis

A Petrontino, M Frem, V Fucilli, G Tricarico, F Bozzo - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
A healthy-nutrient wine has been recently developed by Apulian wineries (southern Italy),
using autochthonous wine grapes cultivars, selected strains and specific processes of …

Long-term dynamics of grasslands and livestock in Norwegian cultural landscapes: implications for a sustainable transition of rural livelihoods

SM Beyene, V Naumov, P Angelstam - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Context Abandonment of cultural landscape practices has had a notable impact on
grasslands and domestic livestock that depend on them. This affects the prerequisites for …

A multitemporal fragmentation-based approach for a dynamics analysis of agricultural terraced systems: the case study of Costa Viola Landscape (Southern Italy)

S Praticò, F Solano, S Di Fazio, G Modica - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Among landscapes, rural landscapes are important because they simultaneously present
functional and cultural aspects. Rural landscapes are often created to modify the Earth's …