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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (* EQUAL CONTRIBUTION)
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2025
42. Ferrante M*, Kirsch F* & Westphal C. Stable pollinator communities in different white clover populations suggest potential win-win scenarios for crop yield and biodiversity. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 378, 109295.
​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109295
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2024
​41. Ferrante M, Howe AG & Lövei GL. Experimental considerations support the use of artificial sentinel prey—a comment on Rodriguez-Campbell et al. Journal of Biogeography 51, 2152-2155.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14978
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40. Rosa-Schleich J, Loos J, Ferrante M, Mußhoff O & Tscharntke T. Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming. Ecological Economics 220, 108174.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108174
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39. Lövei GL & Ferrante M. The use and future prospects of non-lethal methods in entomology. Annual Review of Entomology 69, 183198.
doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-024402
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38. Ferrante M*, Schulze M* & Westphal C. Hedgerows can promote predation rates in wheat fields in homogeneous landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management 349, 119498.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119498
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2023
37. Lamelas-Lopez L, Ferrante M, Borges PA, do Rosário IA & Neves V. Nest predation of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis (Aves, Procellariiformes) by introduced mammals on Terceira Island, Azores. Biodiversity Data Journal 11, e112871.
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e112871
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36. Robinson M, et al. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain variability in global herbivory. Science 382, 679-683.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830
35. Ganem Z*, Ferrante M*, Lubin Y, Steinpress IA, Gish M, Sharon R, Harari AR, Keasar T & Gavish-Regev E. Effects of natural habitat and season on cursorial spider assemblages in Mediterranean vineyards. Insects 14, 782.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14100782
34. Ferrante M, Lavigne L, Caballero M, Tarantino E, Horta Lopes D, Monjardino P, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. Flowering coriander (Coriandrum sativum) strips do not enhance ecosystem services in Azorean orchards. Insects 14, 634.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14070634
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33. Lövei GL, Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G & Vincze E. The need for a (non-destructive) method revolution in entomology. Biological Conservation 282, 110075
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110075
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32. Ferrante M, Lövei, GL, Nunes R, Monjardino P, Lamelas-López L, Möller D, Soares AO & Borges PAV. Gains and losses in ecosystem services and disservices after converting native forest to agricultural land on an oceanic island. Basic and Applied Ecology 68, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.11.010
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2022
31. Valdes-Correcher E, et al. Herbivory on the pedunculate oak along an urbanization gradient in Europe: effects of impervious surface, local tree cover and insect feeding guild. Ecology & Evolution 12, e8709.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8709
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30. Ferrante M, Lamelas-López L, Nunes R, Monjardino P, Lopes DJH, Soares AO, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. A simultaneous assessment of multiple ecosystem services and disservices in vineyards and orchards on Terceira Island, Azores. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 330, 107909.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107909
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29. Ferrante M, Nunes R, Lamelas-López L, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. A novel morphological phenotype does not ensure reduced biotic resistance on an oceanic island. Biological Invasions 24, 987-997.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02686-2
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​2021
28. Borges PAV, et al. Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES. Biodiversity Data Journal 9, e77548.
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e77548
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27. Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G, Menares E, Lubin Y & Segoli M. Invertebrate and vertebrate predation rates in a hyper-arid ecosystem following an oil spill. Ecology & Evolution 11, 12153-12160.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.7978
26. Ferrante M, Dangol A, Didi-Cohen S, Winters G, Tzin V & Segoli M. Oil pollution affects the central metabolism of keystone Vachellia (Acacia) trees. Sustainability 66, 6660.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126660
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25. Valdes-Correcher E, et al. Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 651–665.
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13244
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24. Möller G, Keasar T, Shapira I, Möller D, Ferrante M & Segoli M. Effect of weed management on the parasitoid community in Mediterranean vineyards. Biology 10, 1.
https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10010007
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23. Lamelas López L & Ferrante M. Using camera-trapping to assess grape consumption by vertebrate pests in a World Heritage vineyard region. Journal of Pest Science 94, 585–590.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-020-01267-x
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22. Lövei GL, Lang A, Ferrante M & Bacle V. Can the growing of transgenic maize threaten protected Lepidoptera in Europe? Insect Science 28, 1159-1168.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12849
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2020
21. Imboma TS, Ferrante M, You M-S Y, You S & Lövei GL. Diversity of bird communities in tea (Camellia sinensis) plantations in Fujian Province, south-eastern China. Diversity 12, 457.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120457
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20. Möller DM*, Ferrante M*, Möller GM, Rozenberg T & Segoli M. The impact of terrestrial oil pollution on parasitoid wasps associated with Vachellia trees in a desert ecosystem, Israel. Environmental Entomology 49, 1355–1362.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa123
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19. Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G, Lubin Y & Segoli M. Seed predation on oil-polluted and upolluted Vachellia (Acacia) trees in a hyper-arid desert ecosystem. Insects 11, 665.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11100665
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18. Salman I*, Ferrante M*, Möller D, Gavish-Regev E & Lubin Y. Trunk refugia: a simple, inexpensive method for sampling tree trunk arthropods. Journal of Insect Science 20, 5.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieaa012
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17. Lubin Y, Ferrante M, Musli I & Lövei GL. Diversity of ground spiders in desert habitats. Journal of Arid Environments 183, 104252.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104252
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16. Magura T, Ferrante M & Lövei GL. Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanisation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, 1978-1987.
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13168
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15. González E, Seidl M, Kadlec T, Ferrante M & Knapp M. Distribution of ecosystem services within oilseed rape fields: effects of field defects on pest and weed seed predation rates. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 295, 106894.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106894
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14. Castagneyrol B, et al. Can school children support ecological research? Lessons from the ‘Oak bodyguard’ citizen science project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 5, 10.
http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.267
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13. Kidane D, Ferrante M, Man XM, Liu WX, Wan FH & Yang, N.-W. Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati. Insects 11, 428.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428
12. Zhang X, Ferrante M, Wan F, Yang N & Lövei GL. The parasitoid Eretmocerus hayati is compatible with barrier cropping to decrease whitefly (Bemisia tabaci MED) densities on cotton in China. Insects 11, 57.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11010057
11. Zhang X, Lövei GL, Ferrante M, Yang N & Wan F. The potential of trap and barrier cropping to decrease densities of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on cotton in China. Pest Management Science 76, 366-374.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5524
2019
10. Ferrante M, et al. Predation pressure in maize across Europe and Argentina: an intercontinental comparison. Insect Science 26, 545-554.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12550
2018
9. Kale M, et al. The effect of urbanization on the functional and scale-sensitive diversity of bird assemblages in Central India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 34, 341-350.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467418000317
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8. Kale M, et al. Nestedness of bird assemblages along an urbanisation gradient in Central India. Journal of Urban Ecology, 4, juy017.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juy017