Publications
SCI Publications
Quaglietta L., Braz L., Da Luz M.M. In Press. Galemys pyrenaicus (E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1811) - Chapter in: “Eulipotyphla volume” of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe. Springer Nature.
Quaglietta L., Gisbert, J., García-Perea, R., Fernández-González, A. In Press. Galemys pyrenaicus - European Red List assessment. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Paupério J., Gonzalez L.M., Martinez J., González M.A., Martins F.M., Veríssimo J., Puppo P., Pinto J., Chaves C., Pinho C.J., Grosso-Silva J.M., Quaglietta L., Silva T.L.L., Sousa P., Alves P.C., Fonseca N., Beja P., Ferreira S. 2023. The InBIO barcoding initiative database: DNA barcodes of Iberian Trichoptera, documenting biodiversity for freshwater biomonitoring in a Mediterranean hotspot. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e97484. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e97484.
Braz L., Pedroso N.M., Fernández-González A., Quaglietta L. 2022. Galemys pyrenaicus toupeira-de-água. In EDITORES (eds.): Livro Vermelho dos Mamíferos de Portugal Continental. FCiências.ID, ICNF, Lisboa. https://admin.livrovermelhodosmamiferos.pt/wp-content/uploads/LIVRO-VERMELHO-MAMIFEROS_WEBv2.pdf.
Quaglietta L. 2022. Galemys pyrenaicus (amended version of 2021 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T8826A214429993. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T8826A214429993.en. Accessed on 12 April 2024.
Ferreira S., Tierno de Figueroa J.M., Martins F.M.S., Veríssimo J., Quaglietta L., Grosso-Silva J.M., Lopes P.B., Sousa P., Paupério J., Fonseca N.A., Beja P. 2020. The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: contribution to the knowledge on DNA barcodes of Iberian Plecoptera. Biodiversity Data Journal: Data Paper (Biosciences). https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e55137.
Marcolin F.#, Iordan F.#, Pizzul E., Pallavicini A., Torboli V., Manfrin C., Quaglietta L. 2020. Otter diet and prey selection in a recently recolonized area assessed using microscope analysis and DNA barcoding. Hystrix, The Italian Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00260-2019. # These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Sousa D., Quaglietta L., Ilhéu M. Under Review. Movement and activity Patterns of Iberian barbell, Barbus bocagei, in an intermittent Mediterranean stream. River Research and Applications - Special Issue “TempRiv”.
Quaglietta L., Porto M., Ford A. 2019. Simulating animal movements to predict wildlife-vehicle collisions: illustrating an application of the novel R package SiMRiv. Road Ecology Topical Collection Eur J Wild Res 65:100. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-019-1333-z.
Quaglietta L., Porto M. 2019. SiMRiv: an R package for mechanistic, high-frequency simulation of individual multistate movements in rivers, heterogeneous and homogeneous spaces incorporating landscape bias. Movement Ecology 7-11. DOI: 10.1186/s40462-019-0154-8.
Ripple, W.J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T.M., Barnard, P., Moomaw, W.R. 2019. World scientists’ warning of a climate emergency. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088.
Quaglietta L., Fusillo F., Marcelli M., Loy A., Boitani L. 2018. First telemetry data on wild otters from the threatened isolated Italian population (Lutra lutra). Mammalia 83 (5): 447-452. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0157.
Quaglietta L., Beja P. 2018. Direct observations of vertebrate killing and consumption by the endangered Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) in the wild. Mammalia 83 (5): 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0111.
Quaglietta L. 2018. Semi-aquatic. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_394-1.
Quaglietta L., Paupério J., Martins F., Alves P.C., Beja P. 2018. Recent range contractions in the globally threatened Pyrenean desman highlight the importance of stream headwater refugia. Animal Conservation 21 (6) 515-525. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12422.
Quaglietta L., Mira A., Boitani L. 2018. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting the daily rhythms of a semiaquatic carnivore in a Mediterranean environment. Hystrix, The Italian Journal of Mammalogy 29(1):128–136. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00022-2017 .
Ripple W.J., Wolf C., Newsome T.M., Galetti M., Alamgir M., Crist E., Mahmoud M.I., Laurance W.F. et al. 2017. World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice. BioScience 67: 1026–1028. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix125.
Filipe A.F.#, Quaglietta L.#, Ferreira M., Magalhães M.F., Beja P. 2017. Geostatistical distribution modelling of two invasive crayfish across dendritic stream networks. Biological Invasions 19(10), 2899-2912. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1492-3. # These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Quaglietta L. and M. Porto. 2016. SiMRiv: Individual-Based, Spatially-Explicit Simulation and Analysis of Multi-State Movements in River Networks and Heterogeneous Landscapes. R package version 0.9. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SiMRiv/index.html.
Quaglietta L., Hájková P., Mira A., Boitani L. 2015. Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) density estimate based on radio tracking and other data sources. Mammal Research 60:127-137. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-015-0216-2.
Quaglietta L., Fonseca V., Mira A., Boitani L. 2014. Socio-spatial organization of a solitary carnivore, the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra). Journal of Mammalogy 95(1): 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-073.1.
Karamanlidis A., Hornigold K., Krambokoukis L., Papakostas G., Stefanidis K., Quaglietta L. 2013. Occurrence, food habits, and activity patterns of Eurasian otters Lutra lutra in northwestern Greece: implications for research and conservation. Mammalia 78: 239–243. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2013-0096.
Quaglietta L.#, Fonseca V.#, Hájková P., Mira A., Boitani L. 2013. Fine-scale population genetic structure and short range sex-biased dispersal in a solitary carnivore, the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra). Journal of Mammalogy 94: 561-571. https://doi.org/10.1644/12-MAMM-A-171.1. # These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Quaglietta L., Martins B.H., de Jongh A., Mira A., Boitani L. 2012. Low-Cost GPS GSM/GPRS Telemetry System: Performance in Stationary Field Tests and Preliminary Data on Wild Otters (Lutra lutra). PLoS ONE 7(1): e29235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029235.
Quaglietta L. 2012 Ph.D. Thesis (in Italian). Ecology and behaviour of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in a Mediterranean area (Alentejo, Portugal). University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ – Italy. 419 pp.
Communications
Quaglietta L., Rocha R. 2024. "Galaxes weir removal: An ORP-funded project kickstarting the civic movement for the restoration of river connectivity in Portugal". Free-Flow Conference 2024. Groningen, Abril 2024. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L. 2022. "Dam Removal in Portugal: challenges, opportunities and status quo". VII Dam Removal Europe International Seminar CONNECTED RIVERS - International seminar on scaling up dam removal as a river restoration tool in Europe 2022. Lisbon, May 2022. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta L. 2021. "Benefícios e oportunidades da remoção de barreiras fluviais artificiais". Seminário Online (Webinar) Tejo Vivo e Vivido. October 2021. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Sampaio S., Paupério J., Quaglietta L., Queirós J., Pinto J., Alves P.C., Beja P. 2022. "Feeding ecology of the Pyrenean desman in NW Iberia revealed by DNA metabarcoding: the role of habitat suitability". BIODIV Annual meeting 2022. CIBIO, Online, January 2022. [Oral presentation]
Braz L., Fernández A., Quaresma C.M., Santos C.P., Quaglietta L. 2021. “La situación del Desmán Ibérico en Portugal: contracciones recientes en su distribución”. Segundas Jornadas Técnicas de Conservación del Desmán Ibérico - CENEAM, Segóvia, Spain, December 2021. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Sampaio S., Paupério J., Quaglietta L., Queirós J., Pinto J., Alves P.C., Beja P. 2021. “Feeding ecology of the Pyrenean desman in NW Iberia revealed by DNA metabarcoding: the role of habitat suitability”. XV CONGRESO DE LA SECEM - Córdoba, Spain, December 2021. [Oral presentation]
Cosentino F., Quaglietta L., Barbosa A.M.A 2021. “Dangerous fur: potential impact of American mink on the Pyrenean desman, an endemic and globally threatened mammal”. International Biogeography Society ECBC (Early Career Biogeographers Conference) (virtual). [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta L. 2021. "Benefícios e oportunidades da remoção de barreiras fluviais artificiais". ProTejo Webinar - Online, October 2021. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta L. 2021. "Predicting wildlife-vehicle collisions using movement simulation models with the novel software SiMRiv". LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions - Online, January 2021. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L. 2020. "Software for Ecological Modeling in Linear/Heterogeneous Landscapes". I Congreso Internacional de Innovación: “Hacia la Innovación y el Desarrollo Tecnológico, una Visión para el 2030” - Online, Moquegua, Peru, November 2020. [Oral presentation] [Invited speaker]
Quaglietta L. 2020. "Field and Analytical Methods applied to Otters and other Aquatic and Semiaquatic Animals". III Himalayan Otter Network Meeting - Kathmandu, Nepal, February 2020. [Oral presentation] [Invited speaker]
Quaglietta L. 2020. "Field and Analytical Methods applied to Otters and other Aquatic and Semiaquatic Animals". Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry - Pokhara, Nepal, February 2020. [Lecture] [Invited speaker]
Quaglietta L. 2018. "Field and analytical techniques applied to otters and other semiaquatic mammals: challenges and way forward". Southamerican otter workshop - Lima, Peru, November 2018. [Oral presentation] [Invited, key note speaker]
Quaglietta L.; Paupério J.; Martins F.M.S.; Alves P.C.; Beja P. 2018. "Severe range contraction in the globally endangered Pyrenean desman revealed by stream geostatistical modeling and non-invasive genetic sampling". XI CONGRESSO ITALIANO DI TERIOLOGIA - Firenze, Italy, June 2018. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Monteiro M.; Figueira R.; Porto M.; Beja P. 2018. "IMIData: a new Database of Iberian Mammal Interactions". XI CONGRESSO ITALIANO DI TERIOLOGIA - Firenze, Italy, June 2018. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Mira A.; Boitani L. 2018. "Activity patterns of semiaquatic carnivores living in Mediterranean climates: do higher temperatures affect species current behavior?". XI CONGRESSO ITALIANO DI TERIOLOGIA - Firenze, Italy, June 2018. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Paupério J.; Martins F.M.S.; Alves P.C.; Beja P. 2017. "Contracción del área de distribución e importancia de los arroyos de cabecera para el desmán ibérico". XIII CONGRESO DE LA SECEM - Guadalajara, Spain, December 2017. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Paupério J.; Martins F.M.S.; Alves P.C.; Beja P. 2017. "Range contraction and the importance of stream headwater refugia for the endangered Pyrenean desman in Northeast Portugal". 16º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia - Lisboa, Portugal, November 2017. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Porto M. 2017c. "(Mechanistic) Multistate Movement Modelling in Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, and Linear Landscapes". Sessão Pública de Divulgação do Projeto MODELYNX - Mertola, Portugal, September 2017. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta L.; Porto M. 2017b. “SiMRiv, a new R package conceived to simulate movements in rivers and heterogeneous landscapes - uses and potentialities”. Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution 2017 - BIO-LOGGING - CIBIO, Vairão (Porto), Portugal, June 2017. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L.; Porto M. 2017a. “Exploring potential uses of the New R Package SiMRiv for evaluating the Influence of Roads on Wildlife Movements and Predicting Road Mortality Risk”. Road Ecology experiences - Research, planning and design for the ecological sustainability of infrastructures - Pettorano sul Gizio, Italy, June 2017. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Paupério, J.; Ferreira, S.; Martins, F.M.S.; Veríssimo, J.; Cordero-Rivera, A.; Garrido-González, J.; Martin, L.; Martínez, J.; González, M.A.; Tierno de Figueroa, J.M.; Grosso-Silva, J.M.; Quaglietta, L.; Muñoz-Merida, A.; Monaghan, M.T.; Filipe, A.F.; Alves, P.C.; Jarman, S.; Beja, P. 2017. "InBIO Barcoding Initiative: building a freshwater insects reference database using Next Generation Sequencing". DNAqua-Net EU Cost Action kick-off Conference - University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Germany, March 2017. [Poster presentation]
Beja P.; Paupério J.; Martins F.; Veríssimo J.; Filipe A.F.; Rebelo H.; Mata V.; Ferreira S.; Corley M.; Ferreira M.; Quaglietta L.; Porto M.; Penado A.; Grosso-Silva J.M.; Muñoz A.; Amorim F.; Henriques S.; Alves P.C. 2016. "Barcoding Lter Biodiversity: a case study and applications in Lter Sabor (Portugal)". ILTER 1st Open Science Meeting - Kruger National Park, South Africa, October 2016. [Oral presentation]
Carneiro I.; Quaglietta L.; Gama Mota P.; Beja P. 2016. “Territorial and social behaviour of the pyrenean desman assessed from scat deposition". XVIII Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia - Lisbon, Portugal, October 2016. [Oral presentation]
Filipe A.F.#; Quaglietta L.#; Ferreira M.; Magalhães M.F.; Beja P. 2016. “Accounting for stream pathways improves species distribution models of invasive crayfishes”. XVIII Congresso da Associação Ibérica de Limnologia - Tortosa, Spain, July 2016. # These authors have contributed equally to this work. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta L. 2016. “Otter behavioural ecology - field techniques, methodological approaches, novel results”. Post mortem analysis workshop - Potenza, Italy, May 2016. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta L. 2015. "Ecology and behaviour of a semiaquatic carnivore, the otter (Lutra lutra), in a Mediterranean area (Alentejo, Southern Portugal): insights from a combination of field and molecular techniques". Seminars in Biodiversity and Evolution - CIBIO, Vairão (Porto), Portugal, October 2015. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta, L.; Fonseca, V.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2014. "New findings in the sociality of the Eurasian otter: further evidence that solitary carnivores may be highly flexible in their social behaviour". Congresso Sociedade Portuguesa Etologia - Vairão (CIBIO), Porto, Portugal, October 2014. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Tinker, T. 2014. "Otter telemetry: past, present and future". XII International Otter Colloquium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2014. [Oral presentation] [Invited] [keynote]
Quaglietta, L.; Fonseca, V.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2014. "Social interaction patterns of Eurasian otters in a Mediterranean environment". XII International Otter Colloquium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2014. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; de Jongh, A.; Van Dijk, J.; Marnell, F.; O'Néill, L.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2013. “GPS telemetry & otters: preliminary experiences from three pioneer European projects”. Wild Musteloid Conference – Oxford University, UK, March 2013. [Poster presentation]
Sousa, D.; Quaglietta, L.; Ilhéu, M. 2012. “Patterns of movement and diel activity of the Iberian barbel (Barbus bocagei, Linnaeus, 1758) in a temporary Mediterranean stream”. International Conference on Temporary Rivers – Évora, Portugal, September 2012. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L. 2012. “Influence of the high variability in the Mediterranean environmental conditions on otter (Lutra lutra) ecology and behaviour”. VIII Incontro dei dottorandi in ecologia e scienze dei sistemi acquatici – Roma, Italy, February 2012. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2011. “Home ranges, activity patterns and habitat selection of Mediterranean otters (Lutra lutra): the need to cope with highly variable environmental conditions”. XI International Otter Colloquium – Pavia, Italy, September 2011. [Oral presentation]
Fonseca, V.; Quaglietta, L. 2011. “Fine scale genetic structure, relatedness and dispersal of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in a Mediterranean environment”. XI International Otter Colloquium – Pavia, Italy, September 2011. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Fonseca, V.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2011. “Social interactions of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in a Mediterranean environment”. XI International Otter Colloquium – Pavia, Itália, September 2011. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L. 2010. “Brief summary on Otter (Lutra lutra) Post Mortem procedures in Portugal and Italy”. Otter Post Mortem Workshop – Aarhus, Denmark, February 2010. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta, L.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2010. “Otter (Lutra lutra) mortality in Southern Portugal”. Otter Post Mortem Workshop – Aarhus, Denmark, February 2010. [Oral presentation]
Bernardo, J.; Quaglietta, L., Mira, A.; Fonseca, C. 2009. "Uso del espacio en una población de nutrias en ambientes humanizados". IX Jornadas de la Sociedad Española para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos. Bilbao, Spain, December 2009. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Zina, H.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2009. “Assessing the use of spraints as indicator of space use by otters”. 27th Mustelids Colloquium – Lisbon, Portugal, November 2009. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Ilhéu, M.; Fonseca, V.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2009. “Foraging behaviour of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Southern Portugal: The role of alien species”. BIOLIEF Conference, Porto, Portugal, October 2009. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Fonseca, V.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2009. “Dynamic interactions among Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra): a case-study in Southern Portugal”. III Congresso Lation-amaericano de Ecologia – São Lourenço, Brasil, September 2009. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L. 2009. “Are all the animals we find on the road really road-killed? An incredible mysterious case of a feral ferret in Évora, Southern Portugal”. Infra Euro Network Europe (IENE) Conference – Évora, Portugal, April 2009. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2008. “Behavioural ecology of Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Alentejo, Southern Portugal: Background, Objectives and Preliminary Results of an ongoing project”. European Otter Workshop – Slovenia, October 2008. [Oral presentation]
Quaglietta, L. 2008. “Recording the behavior of Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra L.) with camera traps: two case studies in Italy and Portugal”. European Otter Workshop – Eslovenia, October 2008. [Poster presentation]
Quaglietta, L. 2008. “Rádio-telemetria de lontras em ecossistemas mediterrânicos: um “case study” no Alentejo”. Seminário Espécies Silvestres – Évora, Portugal, May 2008. [Oral presentation] [Invited]
Quaglietta, L.; Mira, A.; Boitani, L. 2008. “On an ongoing project on the behavioural ecology of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Southern Portugal”. 4th Meeting in Ecology and Behaviour – Toulouse, France, April 2008. [Oral presentation]