J. Cerri

Artificial feeding of invasive grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) at urban parks: a social norms approach to understand its drivers and to guide behavioral interventions

The paper investigates why people feed grey squirrels in urban parks and finds that it is driven by social norms and perceptions of risk, suggesting interventions based on descriptive norms could reduce feeding.

Graphical factorial surveys reveal the acceptability of wildlife observation at protected areas.

The paper assesses visitor acceptability of human-wildlife encounters with alpine ibex using modified images, finding that distance and group size significantly influence perceived acceptability.

Invasive Siberian chipmunks Eutamias sibiricus in Italy: a socio-ecological analysis indicates that they could, and should, be removed

The paper assesses the feasibility of eradicating invasive Siberian chipmunks in Italy through socio-ecological analysis, finding public support and spatial expansion indicating urgency for removal.

Characterizing noncompliance in conservation: a multidimensional Randomized Response Technique for multinomial responses.

The paper develops a multidimensional Randomized Response Technique (mRRT) for multinomial responses to measure noncompliance in conservation, applying it to assess illegal catfish restocking in Italy.

A fish rots from the head down: how to use the leading digits of ecological data to detect their falsification.

The paper uses Benford's Law to detect anomalies and potential falsification in ecological data by analyzing the distribution of leading digits in two case studies.