Jacopo Cerri

My research deals with the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data about wildlife. Namely, my research focuses on: i) the analysis of GPS telemetry data about vertebrates and the quantification of space use in time, with its implication for restocked individuals and endangered species, as well as on ii) the ecology and conservation of wild ungulates and the gray wolf in anthropized ecosystems.

Publication list

1. Azzurro, E., Strafella, P., Bertolino, S., Carnevali, L., Crocetta, F., Di Muri, C., ... & Cerri, J. (2025). TRACKS: Six good practices for Non-Indigenous Species research and their SWOT evaluation. Neobiota.
2. Costantino, C., Cerri, J., Fozzi, I., De Rosa, D., & Berlinguer, F. (2025). The Wind of Change: Mapping Wind Energy Growth and Multi‐Species Vulnerability in Sardinia, Mediterranean. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.70043
3. Brogi, R., Neirotti, G., Cerri, J., Lazzaroni, M., Marshall-Pescini, S., Mattioli, L., & Apollonio, M. (2025). Wolves on the phone: public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02264-z
4. De Rosa, D., Fozzi, I., Uleri, G. I., Caddeo, G., Aresu, M., Cerri, J., ... & Berlinguer, F. (2025). Which future for the Red Kite Milvus milvus in Sardinia? An analysis of the future scenario of developing wind farms. Bird Study, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2025.2557422
5. Nowak, K., Cerri, J., Kudrenko, S., Kopatz, A., Stachowicz, I., Selva, N., Asefaw Berhe, A., Kojola, I., & Šprem, N. (2025). Weaponizing Europe’s borders imperils wildlife. Science,  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz1318
6. Fozzi, I., Cerri, J., Costantino, C., De Rosa, D., Aresu, M., Muzzeddu, M., ... & Berlinguer, F. (2025). Where do Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture) feed? Combining biologging with socio-economic analysis can guide sustainable ecotourism development. Ornithological Applications, duaf042. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duaf042
7. Santangeli, A., Fozzi, I., De Rosa, D., Aresu, M., Campus, A. , Muzzeddu, M., Secci, D., Cerri, J., Berlinguer, F. (2024). Quantifying the regulation and cultural ecosystem services associated to Griffon Vultures in Sardinia, Italy. Bird Conservation International. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270924000327
8. Cerri, J., Costantino, C., De Rosa, D., Banic, D. A., Urgeghe, G., Fozzi, I., Echeverria, J., Aresu, M., & Berlinguer, F. (2024). Widely used datasets of wind energy infrastructures can seriously underestimate onshore turbines in the Mediterranean. Biological Conservation 300 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110870
9. Cerri, J., Musto, C., Ferretti, M., Delogu, M., Bertolino, S., Martinoli, A., Bisi, F., Preatoni, D., Tattoni, C., & Apollonio, M. (2024). COVID-19 could accelerate the decline in recreational hunting: a natural experiment from Northern Italy. PLoS ONE 19(8): e0309017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309017
10. Cerri, J., Serra, E., Stefanuto, A., & Mori, E. (2024).  The “IAS Management Attitude” scale: a tool for measuring consensus between experts and practitioners in invasion biology. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03379-2
11. Cerri, J., Contardo, T., Sciandra, C., Bertolino, S. (2024). Local economic conditions affect Aedes albopictus management. EcoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-024-01682-x
12. Musto, C., Cerri, J., Capizzi, D., Fontana, M. C., Rubini, S., Merialdi, G., ... & Garbarino, C. (2024). First evidence of widespread positivity to anticoagulant rodenticides in grey wolves (Canis lupus). Science of The Total Environment, 169990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169990
13. Cerri, J., De Rosa, D., Fozzi, I., Terraube, J., Tavares, J., Lörcher, F., ... & Berlinguer, F. (2024). Movements of translocated Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus) from Sardinia to Corsica call for the transboundary management of an expanding vulture population. Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 94(1).a https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2024.714
14. Bertolino, S., et al. (2023). The strange case of beaver return in Italy: origins and management. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00654-2023
15. De Rosa, D., Cerri, J., Fozzi, I., Muzzeddu, M., Secci, D., Berlinguer, F. (2023). First breeding of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in Sardinia and temporal and environmental factors affecting its frequentation of a supplementary feeding station. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2023.2301310
16. Cerri, J., Fozzi, I., De Rosa, D., Aresu, M., Apollonio, M., & Berlinguer, F. (2023). Griffon Vulture movements are concentrated around roost and supplementary feeding stations: implications for wind energy development on Mediterranean islands. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02651
17. Cerri, J., Stendardi, L.,  Bužan, E., & Pokorny, B. (2023). Accounting for cloud cover and circannual variation puts the effect of lunar phase on deer-vehicle collisions into perspective. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14432
18. Fozzi, I., Brogi, R., Cavazza, S., Chirichella, R., De Rosa, D., Aresu, M., Cerri, J., Apollonio, M. & Berlinguer, F. (2023). Insights on the best release strategy from post-release movements and mortality patterns in an avian scavenger. IScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106699
19. Cerri, J., Musto, C., Stefanini, F. M., di Nicola, U., Riganelli, N., Fontana, M. C., Rossi, A.,  Garbarino, C., Merialdi, G., Ciuti, F., & Apollonio, M. (2023). A human-neutral large carnivore? No patterns in the body mass of gray wolves across a gradient of anthropization. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282232
20. Ferrari, C., Cerri, J., Rolando, A., Bassano, B., Hardenberg, A. V., & Bertolino, S. (2023). See you in spring: overwinter survival is higher than post summer in the Alpine marmot. Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2022): 1-12.https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2022.2157891
21. D'Andrea, L., Kalpazidou Schmidt, E., Bužan, E., Vidal Merino, M., Dall, E., Colonnello, C., ... & Feudo, F. (2022). Evaluating citizen science initiatives through a citizen science-based approach. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, (54), 43-50. http://doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2022.570
22. Musto, C., Cerri, J., Manieri Sentimenti, E., & Delogu, M. (2022). Evaluation of limiting factors of Oral Rabies Vaccinations (ORV) in wild canids, evidence from a field trial in Central Italy. Hystrix, https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00517-2021
23. Carisio, L., Cerri, J., Lioy, S., Bianchi, E., Bertolino, S., & Porporato, M. (2022). Impacts of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina on native wasp species: a first effort to understand population-level effects in an invaded area of Europe. Journal of Insect Conservation, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-022-00405-3
24. Cerri, J., Lioy, S., Porporato, M., & Bertolino, S. (2022). Combining surveys and on-line searching volumes to analyze public awareness about invasive alien species: a case study with the invasive Asian yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) in Italy. NeoBiota, 73, 177-192. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.80359
25. Musto, C., Tamba, M., Calzolari, M., Torri, D., Marzani, K., Cerri, J., Bonilauri, P., & Delogu, M. (2022) Usutu virus in blackbirds (Turdus merula) with neurological signs, a case study from Northern Italy. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 68:23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01572-z
26. Pokorny, B., Cerri, J., Bužan, E. (2022). Wildlife roadkill and COVID-19: a biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction. Journal of Applied Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14140
27. Cerri, J., Carnevali, L., Monaco, A., Genovesi, P., & Bertolino, S. (2022). Blacklists do not necessarily make people curious about invasive alien species. A case study with Bayesian structural time series and Wikipedia searches about invasive mammals in Italy. NeoBiota, 71, 113-128. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.71.69422
28. Musto, C., Cerri, J., Galaverni, M., Caniglia, R., Fabbri, E., Mucci, N., Bonilauri, P., Maioli, G., Fontana, M. C., Gelmini, L., Prosperi, A., Rossi, A., Garbarino, C., Fiorentini, L., Ciuti, F., Berzi, D., Merialdi, G., & Delogu, M. (2021). Men and wolves: are anthropogenic causes the main driver of wolf mortality in human-dominated landscapes in Italy?. Global Ecology and Conservation, 32, e01892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01892
29. Testa, F., Di Iorio, V., Cerri, J., & Pretner, G. (2021). Five shades of plastic in food: Which potentially circular packaging solutions are Italian consumers more sensitive to. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 173, 105726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105726
30. Sogliani, D., Cerri, J., Turetta, R., Crema, M., Corsini, M., & Mori, E. (2021). Feral rabbit populations in a peri-urban area: insights about invasion dynamics and potential management strategies. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 67(3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-021-01505-2
31. Berzi, D., Cerri, J., Musto, C., & Zanni, M. L. (2021). Use of European Funds and Ex Post Evaluation of Prevention Measures against Wolf Attacks (Canis lupus italicus) in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy). Animals, 11, 1536. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11061536
32. Cerri, J., Mori, E., Ancillotto, L., Russo, D., & Bertolino, S. (2021). COVID‐19, media coverage of bats and related Web searches: a turning point for bat conservation?. Mammal Review. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12261
33. Cerri, J., Davis, E. O., Veríssimo, D., & Glikman, J. A. (2021). Specialized questioning techniques and their use in conservation: A review of available tools, with a focus on methodological advances. Biological Conservation, 257, 109089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109089
34. Caudera, E., Viale, S., Bertolino, S., Cerri, J., & Venturino, E. (2021). A mathematical model supporting a hyperpredation effect in the apparent competition between invasive Eastern cottontail and native European hare. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 83(5), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-021-00873-9
35. Azzurro, E., & Cerri, J. (2021). Participatory mapping of invasive species: A demonstration in a coastal lagoon. Marine Policy, 126, 104412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104412
36. Cerri, J., Procaccio, E. L., Ferretti, M., & Mori, E. (2021). Modernization-induced socio-economic changes and their effect over the spatial distribution of recreational hunting and volunteering with animals. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 26(4), 401-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2020.1825878
37. Bertolino, S., Ancillotto, L., Bartolommei, P., Benassi, G., Capizzi, D., Gasperini, S., Lucchesi, M., Mori, E., Scillitani, L., Sozio, G., Falaschi, M., Ficetola, G. F., Cerri, J., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Loy, A., & Monaco, A. (2020). A framework for prioritising present and potentially invasive mammal species for a national list. Frameworks used in Invasion Science. NeoBiota, 62, 31-54. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.62.52934
38. Cerri, J., Chiesa, S., Bolognini, L., Mancinelli, G., Grati, F., Dragičević, B., Dulćić, J., & Azzurro, E. (2020). Using online questionnaires to assess marine bio-invasions: a demonstration with recreational fishers and the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun, 1896) along three Mediterranean countries. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 156, 111209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111209
39. Azzurro, E., Bariche, M., Cerri, J., & Garrabou, J. (2020). The long reach of the Suez Canal: Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) an unwanted Indo-Pacific pest at the Atlantic gates. BioInvasions Records, 9(2), 204-208. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.05
40. Sbragaglia, V., Cerri, J., Bolognini, L., Dragićević, B., Dulćić, J., Grati, F., & Azzurro; E. (2020). Local ecological knowledge of recreational fishers reveals different meridionalization dynamics of two Mediterranean subregions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 634 (2020): 147-157. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13193
41. Cerri, J., Mori, E., Zozzoli, R., Gigliotti, A., Chirco, A., & Bertolino, S. (2020). Managing invasive Siberian chipmunks Eutamias sibiricus in Italy: a matter of attitudes and risk of dispersal. Biological Invasions, 22(2), 603-616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02115-5
42. Cerri, J., Martinelli, E., & Bertolino, S. (2019). Graphical factorial surveys reveal the acceptability of wildlife observation at protected areas. Journal for Nature Conservation, 50, 125720.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125720
43. Azzurro, E., Sbragaglia, V., Cerri, J., Bariche, M., Bolognini, L., Ben Souissi, J., Busoni, G., Coco, S., Chryssanthi, A., Fanelli, E., Ghanem, R., Garrabou, J., Gianni, F., Grati, F., Kolitari, J., Letterio, G., Lipej, L., Mazzoldi, C., Milone, N., Pannacciulli, F., Pešić, A., Samuel-Rhoads, Y., Saponari, L.Tomanic, J., Topçu, N. E., Vargiu, G., & Moschella, P. (2019). Climate change, biological invasions, and the shifting distribution of Mediterranean fishes: A large‐scale survey based on local ecological knowledge. Global change biology, 25(8), 2779-2792 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14670
44. Cerri, J., Testa, F., Rizzi, F., & Frey, M. (2019). Factorial surveys reveal social desirability bias over self-reported organic fruit consumption. British Food Journal, 121(4), 897-909. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-04-2018-0238
45. D'Angelo, A., Cerri, J., Cavadini, P., Lavazza, A., Capucci, L., & Ferretti, M. (2019). The Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) in Tuscany (Central Italy): weak evidence for its role as a host of EBHSV and RHDV. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 30(1), 8-11. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00146-2018
46. Cerri, J., Thøgersen, J., & Testa, F. (2019). Social desirability and sustainable food research: A systematic literature review. Food Quality and Preference, 71, 136-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.06.013
47. Cerri, J., Ciappelli, A., Lenuzza, A., Zaccaroni, M., & Nocita, A. (2018). Recreational angling as a vector of freshwater invasions in Central Italy: perceptions and prevalence of illegal fish restocking. Knowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, (419), 38. https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2018028
48. Cerri, J., Ferretti, M., & Coli, L. (2018). Where the wild things are: urbanization and income affect hunting participation in Tuscany, at the landscape scale. European journal of wildlife research, 64(3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-018-1183-0
49. Cerri, J., Batisti, G., Ferretti, M., Zaccaroni, M., & Bertolino, S. (2018). Hunters’ preferences for engaging in control programs of introduced Eastern cottontails in Italy: a factorial survey approach. European journal of wildlife research, 64(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-018-1181-2
50. Cerri, J., Testa, F., & Rizzi, F. (2018). The more I care, the less I will listen to you: How information, environmental concern and ethical production influence consumers' attitudes and the purchasing of sustainable products. Journal of Cleaner Production, 175, 343-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.054
51. Cerri, J., Ciappelli, A., Lenuzza, A., Nocita, A., & Zaccaroni, M. (2017). The randomised response technique: A valuable approach to monitor pathways of aquatic biological invasions. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 24(6), 504-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12258
52. Cerri, J., Mori, E., Vivarelli, M., & Zaccaroni, M. (2017). Are wildlife value orientations useful tools to explain tolerance and illegal killing of wildlife by farmers in response to crop damage?. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 63(4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-017-1127-0
53. Cerri, J., Ferretti, M., & Bertolino, S. (2017). Rabbits killing hares: an invasive mammal modifies native predator–prey dynamics. Animal Conservation, 20(6), 511-519.  https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12343
54. Cerri, J., Ferretti, M., & Tricarico, E. (2016). Are you aware of what you are doing? Asking Italian hunters about an invasive alien species they are introducing. Journal for Nature Conservation, 34, 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2016.08.003
55. Cerri, J., Ferretti, M., Merci, E., & Petralia, L. (2015). Defecation rate of Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and European Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus). Wildlife Biology in Practice, 11(2), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.2461/wbp.2015.11.6