Enrico Lunghi

Publications

• Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers
• Is the Italian stream frog (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) an opportunistic exploiter of cave twilight zone?
• Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders
• Are Visual Implant Alpha tags adequate for individually marking European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)?
• Melanism in European plethodontid salamanders (Amphibia, Plethodontidae, Hydromantes)
• Cave exploitation by an usual epigean species: a review on the current knowledge on fire salamander breeding in caves
• Mitochondrial ghost lineages blur phylogeography and taxonomy of Natrix helvetica and N. natrix in Italy and Corsica
• Do Salamanders Limit the Abundance of Groundwater Invertebrates in Subterranean Habitats?
• Interspecific and interpopulation variation in individual diet specialization: Do environmental factors have a role?
• Same Diet, Different Strategies: Variability of Individual Feeding Habits across Three Populations of Ambrosi’s Cave Salamander (Hydromantes ambrosii)
• How Can We Record Reliable Information on Animal Colouration in the Wild?
• Preliminary conservation status assessment of cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of Italian Alps and Apennines.
• What shapes the trophic niche of European plethodontid salamanders?
• Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19
• Batracobdella leeches, environmental features and Hydromantes salamanders
• Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species
• Consider species specialism when publishing datasets
• Comparative reproductive biology of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes): nesting selection and multiple annual breeding
• Long-term reliability of Visual Implant Elastomers in the Italian cave salamander (Hydromantes italicus)
• The Herpetofauna of the Monte Albo, Sardinia (Italy)
• Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders
• Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes
• Do Chinese cavefish show intraspecific variability in morphological traits?
• Inter‐Specific and Inter‐Population Variation in Individual Diet Specialization: Do Environmental Factors Have a Role?
• Which processes are behind the relationship between species abundance and environmental suitability? Monte Albo cave salamander as model species
• Is the Sardinian grass snake (Natrix natrix cetti) an active hunter in underground environments?
• Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders
• Updating salamander datasets with phenotypic and stomach content information for two mainland Speleomantes
• The post hoc measurement as a safe and reliable method to age and size plethodontid salamanders
• Cave Communities: From the Surface Border to the Deep Darkness
• Capture–mark–recapture data on the strictly protected Speleomantes italicus
• Variability in the dorsal pattern of the Sardinian grass snake (Natrix natrix cetti) with notes on its ecology
• Ecology and life history of Meta bourneti (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)
• Transgressive niche across a salamander hybrid zone revealed by microhabitat analyses
• The stenoendemic cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of the Italian Alps and Apennines: Conservation issues
• N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates
• The first ecological study on the oldest allochthonous population of European cave salamanders (Hydromantes sp.)
• Are the Neglected Tipuloidea Crane Flies (Diptera) an Important Component for Subterranean Environments?
• Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment
• Cases of albinism and leucism in amphibians in Italy: new reports
• The golden jackal Canis aureus L. 1758 (Carnivora: Canidae) on the Tuscan Apennines
• A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders
• Occurrence of the Black lace-weaver spider, Amaurobius ferox, in caves
• Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes
• Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution: Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities
• Doubling the lifespan of European plethodontid salamanders
• On the stability of the dorsal pattern of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)
• Cave morphology, microclimate and abundance of five cave predators from the Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)
• Microhabitat analyses support relationships between niche breadth and range size when spatial autocorrelation is strong
• Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them
• First data on nesting ecology and behaviour in the imperial cave salamander Hydromantes imperialis
• Nesting of cave salamanders (Hydromantes flavus and H. italicus) in natural environments
• Oophagy in the Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)
• Dark coloration in Sardinian grass snakes (Natrix natrix cetti)
• Evidence of malformation in the European cave salamander, Hydromantes flavus
• Seasonal variation in microhabitat of salamanders: Environmental variation or shift of habitat selection?
• The distribution of cave twilight-zone spiders depends on microclimatic features and trophic supply
• Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species?
• Parasitism of the leech, Batracobdella algira (Moquin-Tandon, 1846), on Sardinian cave salamanders (Genus Hydromantes) (Caudata: Plethodontidae)
• Thermal equilibrium and temperature differences among body regions in European plethodontid salamanders
• Average telomere length in cave vs surface Astyanax mexicanus
• Convergent behaviours in subterranean species
• The Trophic Niche of Two Sympatric Species of Salamanders (Plethodontidae and Salamandridae) from Italy
• Monitoring of the Endangered Cave Salamander Speleomantes sarrabusensis
• A trait database for European subterranean spiders
• A trait database for European subterranean spiders
• Behavioural adjustments enable the colonization of subterranean environments
• Inferring on Speleomantes Foraging Behavior from Gut Contents Examination
• Recent Advances in the Behavioral Ecology of European Plethodontid Salamanders
• Microclimatic Influences on the Abundance of Three Non-Troglobiont Species
• Functional convergence underground? The scale‐dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders