Tolley K.A., Tilbury C.R., Measey G.J., Menegon M., Branch W.R. and Matthee C.A. Ancient forest fragmentation or recent radiation? Testing refugial speciation models in chameleons within an African biodiversity hotspot Journal of Biogeography in press.
Menegon, M., Bracebridge, C., Owen, N. Loader, SP., Amphibians and reptiles of Mahenge Mountains, with comments on biogeography, diversity, and conservation. Fieldiana, in press (Special Eastern Arc Edition).
Loader SP, Poynton JC, Lawson, L, Blackburn, D, Menegon M, 2009. Amphibian diversity in the north-western elements of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania, with the description of new Arthroleptis (Anura: Arthroleptidae) species. Fieldiana, in press (Special Eastern Arc Edition).
Loader, SP, Wilkinson, M., Cotton, J., Müller, H., Menegon, M., Howell, KM., Gower, DJ. Molecular phylogenetics of Boulengerula (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) and implications for taxonomy, biogeography and conservation. Herpetological Journal in press.
Loader SP, Gower DJ, Ngalason W, Menegon M. 2010. Three new species of Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) highlight local endemism and conservation plight of Africa's Eastern Arc forests. Zoological Journal of Linnean Society 160, 496-514.
DeFries R., Rovero F., Wright P., Ahumada J., Andelman S., Brandon K., Dempewolf J., Hansen A., Hewson J. & Liu J. 2010. From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8: 153-160.
Gómez Díaz E., Sindaco R., Pupin F., Fasola M., Carranza S., Pella F. 2010 Diversidad criptica y elevada endemicidad en los geckos del genero Hemidactylus del archipiélago de Socotra. Abstract of the XI Congreso Luso-Español de herpetologìa, Sevilla.
Pupin F., Doherty-Bone T., Menegon M. 2010 A preliminary species list of the herpetofauna of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. Abstract of the VIII Congresso Nazionale of the Societas Herpetologica Italica, Chieti.
Van Bocxlaer, I., Loader, S.P., Roelants, K., Biju, S.D., Menegon, M. & F. Bossuyt, 2010. Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads. Science 327, 679-682
Rovero F. and DeFries R. 2010. Towards the definition of a “Zone of Interaction” of protected areas to quantify and monitor the human impact on biodiversity. Atti del XIX convegno della Società Italiana di Ecologia (S.It.E.), Bolzano, 189-196.
Marshall A.R., Jørgensbye H.I.O., Rovero F., Platts P.J., White P.C.L., and Lovett J.C. 2010. The Species–Area Relationship and Confounding Variables in a Threatened Monkey Community. American Journal of Primatology 72: 325-336..
Rovero F. and Marshall A.R. 2009. Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46: 1011-1017.
Rovero F., Marshall A.R., Jones T. and Perkin A. 2009. The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains: diversity, ecology and conservation. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 87: 93-126.
Menegon, M., Tolley, K., Jones, T., Rovero, F., Marshall, A.R. & Tilbury, C.R. 2009. A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology, 58(2): 59-70.
Menegon M., Loader, S., Burgess, N., Doggart N. & Owen, N., 2009. The South Nguru Mountains – a new Jewel in the Eastern Arc crown. Oryx , 43(2), 174–176
Poynton, J,,C., Menegon, M. & Loader, S. 2009. A new giant species of Arthroleptis (Amphibia: Anura) from the forests of the Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology. 57(2): 63-74
Rovero F. and Mtui A.S. 2009. The effect of human disturbance on primate abundance in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as revealed by fine-scale habitat modelling. Proceedings of the 19th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti, April 2009 (talk). Folia Primatologica, 80: 380.
Gatti D., Marshall A.R. and Rovero F. 2009. Primati e vegetazione arborea nei Monti Udzungwa, Tanzania: effetto del metodo di campionamento della vegetazione sull’analisi delle determinanti di abbondanza dei primati. Proceedings of the 19th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti, April 2009 (poster). Folia Primatologica, 80: 388-389.
Rovero, F., Struhsaker, T.T. 2009. Habitat determinants of primate abundance in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania: Conservation relevance of a fine-scale analysis. Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti, April 2009 (talk). Folia Primatologica, 79 127-128.
Rovero, F. 2009. A newly-established centre for monitoring primates in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti, April 2009 (poster). Folia Primatologica, 79: 157.
Bowkett A. E., Rovero F. and Marshall A.R. 2008. The use of camera-trap data to model habitat use by antelope species in the Udzungwa Mountain forests, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 46: 479-487.
Menegon M., Doggart N. Owen, N., 2008. The Nguru mountains of Tanzania, an outstanding hotspot of herpetofaunal diversity. Acta Herpetologica 3(2): 107-127
Rovero F., Rathbun G.B., Perkin A., Jones T., Ribble D.O., Leonard C., Mwakisoma R.R. and Doggart N. 2008. A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Zoology 274: 126-133.
Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Leonard, C., Perkin, A., Doggart, N., Mbilinyi, M. & Mlawila, L. 2008 A previously unsurveyed forest in the Rubeho Mountains of Tanzania reveals new species and range records Oryx, 42(1), 13–18
Rovero, F., Bowkett, A., De Luca, D., Jones, T., Marshall, A.R., Msirikale, J. and Mtui, A. 2008. Camera-trapping to study forest mammals in the Udzungwa Mountains: results from five years of research. Proceedings of the 6th TAWIRI Scientific Conference, December 2007, 268-276.
Menegon M., Salvidio S. Ngalason, W. & Loader S.P., 2007. A new dwarf forest toad (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Nectophrynoides) from the Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania. Zootaxa 1541: 31–40
Marshall A.R., Aloyce Z., Mariki S., Jones T., Burgess N., Kilahama F., Massao J., Nashanda E., Sawe C., Rovero F. and Watkin J. 2007. Tanzania’s second Nature Reserve: improving the conservation status of the Udzungwa Mountains? Oryx 41: 429-430.
Rovero F. and De Luca D.W. 2007. Checklist of mammals of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Mammalia 71: 47-55.
Rovero F. and Struhsaker T.T. 2007. Vegetative Predictors of Primate Abundance: Utility and Limitations of a Fine-scale Analysis. American Journal of Primatology, 69, 1242-1257.
Burgess, N.D., Butynski, T.M., Cordeiro, N.J., Doggart, N.H., Fjeldå, J., Howell, K.M., Kilahama, F.B., Loader, S.P., Lovett, J.C., Mbilinyi, B.,
Menegon, M., Moyer, D.C., Nashanda, E., Perkin, A., Rovero, F., Stanley, W.T. & Stuart, S.N. (2007) The biological importance of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya. Biological Conservation, 134, 209–231.
Bauer A. & Menegon M., 2006. A new species of Prehensile-tailed Gecko, Urocotyledon (Squamata: Gekkonidae), form the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology. 55(1): 13-22
De Luca D. and Rovero F. (2006). First records in Tanzania of the Vulnerable Jackson’s mongoose Bdeogale jacksoni (Herpestidae). Oryx 40: 468-471.
Loader S.P., Channing A., Menegon M. & Davenport T.R.B., 2006. A new species of Probreviceps (Amphibia: Anura) from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 1237: 45-60.
Rovero, F. and G. B. Rathbun 2006. A potentially new giant sengi (elephant-shrew) from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History, 95: 111-115.
Rovero F., Struhsaker T.T., Marshall A.R., Rynne T.A., Pedersen U.B., Ehardt C.L., Butynski T.M. and Mtui A.S. 2006. Abundance of Diurnal Primates in Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology, 27: 675-697.
Rovero, F., Doggart, N., Bowkett, A. & Burgess, N. 2006. New records for Lowe’s servaline genet from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Oryx 40: 139.
Bowkett, A.E., Lunt, N., Rovero, F. and Plowman, A.B. 2006. How do you monitor rare and elusive mammals? Counting duikers in Kenya,Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In: Animals, Zoos and Conservation. Zgrabczyñska, E., ?wiertnia, P. and Ziomek, J. (eds.), Zoological Garden in Poznan, Poland. pp.21-28.
Rovero F. and A. Mtui 2006. Comparing multi-observer, line transect data for primate monitoring: a case from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Primatological Society. International Journal of Primatology, 27 (Special Issue): abstract #350.
Menegon M. & Salvidio S., 2005. Amphibian and Reptile diversity in the southern Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, south-eastern Tanzania. In: Huber B.A., Sinclair B.J. e Lampe K.H. (eds.), African Biodiversity: Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Tropical Biology, Museum Koenig, Bonn, 205-212.
Rovero F., Jones T. and Sanderson J. 2005. Notes on Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix True 1890) and other forest antelopes of Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as revealed by camera-trapping and direct observations. Tropical Zoology 18: 13-23.
Poynton J. C., Menegon M. & Salvidio S., 2005. Bufo uzunguensis of southern Tanzania (Amphibia:Anura): a history of confusion. African Journal of Herpetology, 54(2): 159-170.
Jodice A., Salvidio S. & Menegon M. 2005 - The diet of Leptopelis uluguruensis. Herpetological Review 36 (4).
Channing A., Menegon M., Salvidio S. & Akker S., 2005. A new forest toad from the Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania (Bufonidae: Nectophrynoides). African Journal of Herpetology, 54(2): 149-157.
Menegon M., Rovero F., Kiure J. & Doggart N., 2005. Linking biodiversity survey results with landscape planning in the South Nguru Mountains, Mvomero District, Morogoro. 5th Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute Annual Scientific Conference.
Rovero F., Davenport T.R.B. and Machaga S. 2005. Abbott’s duiker, Africa’s forgotten antelope: notes on distribution and conservation status. Proceedings of the 5th Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute Scientific Conference, 2005: 177-182.
Rovero F. and Menegon M. 2005. Uzungwa Scarp, an outstanding Eastern Arc forest: biological value and urgent need for protection. Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute. Proceedings of the 5th Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute Scientific Conference, 2005: 183-187.
Pucci A. & Rovero F., 2004. Observations on the Food Habits of the Endemic Udzungwa Red Colobus (Piliocolobus gordonorum) from Different Forest Sites in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. 16th Meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Radicondoli (SI), October 28–30 2003. Folia Primatologica, 75: 406.
Rovero F., 2004. Line Transects to Estimate the Abundance of Diurnal Primates in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. 16th Meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Radicondoli (SI), October 28–30 2003. Folia Primatologica, 75: 386-387.
Menegon M., Salvidio S., Msuya C., 2004. Amphibians and Reptile diversity in the southern Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, south eastern Tanzania. Abstract of 5th International Symposium on Tropical Biology, Museum Koenig, Bonn, 2-7 maggio 2004, p. 83.
Salvidio S., Menegon M., Moyer D.C. & Sindaco R., 2004. A New Species of elongate seps from Udzungwa Grasslands, Southern Tanzania (Reptilia, Gerrhosauridae, Tetradactylus Merrem, 1820). Amphibia Reptilia, 25: 19-27.
Rovero F. & Mashall A.R. 2004. Estimating the abundance of forest antelopes by using line transect techniques: a case from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Tropical Zoology, 17: 267-277.
Menegon M., Salvidio S. & Loader S.P., 2004. Five new species of Nectophrynoides Noble, 1926, (Amphibia Anura Bufonidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Tropical Zoology, 17(1): 97-121.
Menegon M., Salvidio S. & Moyer D. C., 2003. Amphibians and Reptiles of Nguu North Forest Reserve, Tanzania, First Contribution. African Herps News, 36(2003): 2-8.
Menegon M., Salvidio S. & Tilbury C., 2002 - A new dwarf forest chameleon from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania, East Africa, (Squamata: Rhampholeon, Günther 1874). Journal of Herpetology, 36: 51-57.
Menegon M. & Salvidio S., 2002 - Notes on habitat, egg-laying and first record of the advertisement call of Hyperolius kihangensis Schiøtz & Westergaard, 1999 (Anura, Hyperoliidae). Biota, 3/1-2: 103-108.
Menegon M., Salvidio S. & Pedrini P., 2002 - Ricerche erpetologiche nel massiccio montuoso degli Udzungwa, Eastern Arc, Tanzania. 4th National Meeting of Societas Herpetologica Italica, Ercolano (NA), giugno 2002. Riassunti: 65.
Menegon M. & Salvidio S., 2001 - Notes on the ecology and breeding behaviour of the endemic Tanzanian tree frog Hyperolius kihangensis Anura, Hyperolidae). Acta of 11th Ordinary Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Slovenia, July 2001. Biota, 2(suppl.): 96.
Menegon M. & Salvidio S., 2000 - The diet of Nectophrynoides viviparus. Herpetological Review, 31(1): 41.
Books and book chapters
Rovero F., Brøgger-Jensen S., Sharff N., Pagh-Jensen F. (in preparation). The Udzungwa Mountains: the story of a unique rainforest in Eastern Africa .
Harper, E. B., Measey, G. J., Patrick, D. A., Menegon, M., and Vonesh, J. R. 2010. Field guide to the amphibians of the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya. Camerapix Publishers International.
Menegon M. & Davenport T. 2008. The Amphibian Fauna of the Eastern Arc Mountains. In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R.J., Ramani, P., and Young, B.E. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain; IUCN, Gland, Switzerland; and Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Hoffmann, A., Decher, J., Rovero, F., Schaer, J., Voigt, C., Wibbelt, G. (2010). Chapter 19 - Field Methods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals. In: Eymann, J., Degreef, J., Häuser, C., Monje, J.C., Samyn, Y. and VandenSpiegel, D. (eds). Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Abc Taxa, Vol. 8 (Part 2): 482-529.
Rovero F., Tobler M., Sanderson J. (2010). Chapter 6 - Camera-trapping for inventorying terrestrial vertebrates. In: Eymann, J., Degreef, J., Häuser, C., Monje, J.C., Samyn, Y. and VandenSpiegel, D. (eds). Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Abc Taxa, Vol. 8 (Part 1): 100-128.
Marshall, A.R., Rovero, F., Struhsaker, T.T. in press. Procolobus gordonorum. In: N. Rowe (ed.) All the World’s Primates. Pogonias Press expected 2009.
Rovero F., Davenport T.R.B. and Jones T. (in press). Abbott’s duiker. In: Kingdon, J.S. & Hoffmann, M. (Eds). The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 6. Pigs, Deer, Giraffe, Bovids, and Hippos. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
Kingdon J. and Rovero F. (in press). Harveys’ duiker. In: Kingdon, J.S. & Hoffmann, M. (Eds). The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 6. Pigs, Deer, Giraffe, Bovids, and Hippos. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
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Popular science
Rovero F., Davenport T. 2010. Forgotten antelope. Africa geographic, February 2010, p. 26
Menegon, M. 2010 La globalizzazione dei Rospi. Darwin, Editoriale Darwin S.r.l.
Menegon, M. 2010 La Carica dei Rospi, Sapere, edizioni Dedalo
Rovero F. and Jones T. 2008. The naming of the shrew. Africa Geographic, 2008, 16(5): 18-19.
Rovero F. 2008. Pachiderma bonsai. National Geographic Italia, 2008, 21(3).
Rovero F. 2008. Un nuovo mammifero dalla foreste della Tanzania. Darwin, 2008, 25: 14-19.
Rovero F. 2008. L’emozione della scoperta. Oasis, 174: 13.
Rovero F. 2008. Per la prima volta alla luce del sole. Il cefalofo di Abbott (Cephalophus spadix) in attività diurna. Natura Alpina, 2007(1/2): 48.
Rovero F. 2006. L’arco dei tesori. Le foreste più antiche e ricche dell’Africa. National Geographic Italia, 2006, 17(4): 122-125.
Rovero F. and Jones T. 2006. Forest ghosts: Francesco Rovero and Trevor Jones were part of a team investigating Tanzania’s elusive Sanje mangabey. Africa Geographic 14(9): 24-25.
Rovero F. 2005. Un’immagine di creature invisibili. L’uso di fotocamere automatiche per lo studio e la conservazione di mammiferi elusivi. Natura Alpina, 56(1/2): 1-14.
Jones T. and Rovero F. 2004. The duiker and the frog. BBC Wildlife, September 2004: 27.
Rovero F. and Marshall A.R., 2005. Diversity and abundance of diurnal primates and forest antelopes in relation to habitat quality: a case study from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania, pp. 297-304. In: African Biodiversity: Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems. Proc. 5th Intern. Symp. Trop. Biol., Museum Koenig, Bonn (BA Huber, BJ Sinclair, K-H Lampe, eds). Springer Verlag. 2005