Remote sensing is one of the tool which is very important for the production of Land use and
land cover maps through a process called image classification. For the image classification …

Habitat fragmentation is often considered a major threat to biodiversity; however, our
understanding of how fragmentation impacts populations is poor. Identifying appropriate …

Mediterranean ecosystems rival tropical ecosystems in terms of plant biodiversity. The
Mediterranean Basin (MB) itself hosts 25 000 plant species, half of which are endemic. This …

Summary 1 Throughout much of Britain, Ireland and north Italy, red squirrels (Sciurus
vulgaris L.) have been replaced by alien grey squirrels (S. carolinensis Gmelin) introduced …

Obtaining high-accuracy land use/land cover (LULC) maps is very costly; therefore, the use
of the global LULC maps may prove to be very effective in several domains, including for …

In 1997, the National Wildlife Institute, in co-operation with the University of Turin, produced
an action plan to eradicate the American grey squirrel from Italy, as this introduced species …

Red squirrels are declining in the United Kingdom. Competition from, and squirrel poxvirus
(SQPV) disease carried by, grey squirrels are assumed to be determining the decline. We …

Aim The establishment and spread of invasive alien species may be influenced by several
mutually interacting factors, whose understanding is paramount to develop effective …

Introduced mammals can cause extinction of native species due to replacement competition,
disease, predation or hybridization. We studied the colonization of Piedmont (NW-Italy) by …

Sciurognathi, family Sciuridae, subfamily Sciurinae, genus Sciurus. Variations in coat color
and morphology led to the description of> 40 subspecies (Corbet 1978; Ellerman and …