ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Spending years implementing research on the field can provide the professional with a clear understanding of the ecosystem dynamics and the effective needs of wildlife populations.
I first investigated (radio-tracking and direct observations) the spatial and behavioral ecology of a chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra, Linnaeus 1758) population in the Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park. This was the real starting point of my scientific career and brought me to live almost two years in the alpine environment. Nothing, as an ethological study on large mammals, gave me a clear comprehension of the ecosystems in terms of resources and habitat needs of a species/population: This always has an influence on the spatial ecology of the species, thus on its distribution, which is the basic information needed for management and conservation.
Similar and shorter research experiences brought me to monitor rams of bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis, - Shaw 1804) in Alberta, Canada (fellowship from the University of Sherbrooke, Québec) , as well as a lions (Panthera leo, Linnaeus 1758 ) population in Tarangire national Park, Tanzania.
I carried on a PhD study between 2007 and 2011. With this experience, I moved my interest from the behaviour of large mammals to a pure ecological study, where not a single individual, population or species is the protagonist, but entire ecological communities (Lepidoptera, Coleopteran, Araneae) distributed according abiotic variables, trough the ecological niches of the single species. The study provided, among the rest, information on habitat selection of almost 30 species of butterflies, sampled through a GPS-based geo-referencing activity of more than 3000 individuals and the applications of predictive GLMM models on land cover categories to predict habitat selection.
publications : publications_trivellini_2019.pdf
I first investigated (radio-tracking and direct observations) the spatial and behavioral ecology of a chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra, Linnaeus 1758) population in the Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park. This was the real starting point of my scientific career and brought me to live almost two years in the alpine environment. Nothing, as an ethological study on large mammals, gave me a clear comprehension of the ecosystems in terms of resources and habitat needs of a species/population: This always has an influence on the spatial ecology of the species, thus on its distribution, which is the basic information needed for management and conservation.
Similar and shorter research experiences brought me to monitor rams of bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis, - Shaw 1804) in Alberta, Canada (fellowship from the University of Sherbrooke, Québec) , as well as a lions (Panthera leo, Linnaeus 1758 ) population in Tarangire national Park, Tanzania.
I carried on a PhD study between 2007 and 2011. With this experience, I moved my interest from the behaviour of large mammals to a pure ecological study, where not a single individual, population or species is the protagonist, but entire ecological communities (Lepidoptera, Coleopteran, Araneae) distributed according abiotic variables, trough the ecological niches of the single species. The study provided, among the rest, information on habitat selection of almost 30 species of butterflies, sampled through a GPS-based geo-referencing activity of more than 3000 individuals and the applications of predictive GLMM models on land cover categories to predict habitat selection.
publications : publications_trivellini_2019.pdf
