Cecilia Di Bernardi

I am a postdoc at Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, SLU. My research focuses on the ecology and management of large and medium-sized terrestrial mammals.

Bachelor's degree in Biology (2015) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with a thesis in primate ethology carried out at the Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome. Master's degree in Ecobiologia (2018) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with a thesis on arctic fox ecology conducted at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway. PhD in Animal Biology from the Doctoral Programme in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in collaboration with the Scandinavian wolf research project SKANDULV at Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, SLU. 

Wikenros, C., Sand, H., Di Bernardi, C., & Zimmermann, B. (2024). The role of predation, forestry and productivity in moose harvest at different spatial levels of management units. Wildlife Biology, e01248.

Wikenros, C., Di Bernardi, C., Zimmermann, B., Åkesson, M., Demski, M., Flagstad, Ø., ... & Sand, H. (2023). Scavenging patterns of an inbred wolf population in a landscape with a pulse of human‐provided carrion. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), e10236.

Di Bernardi, C., Wikenros, C., Ciucci, P., Boitani, L., Sand, H., & Åkesson, M. (2023). Experimental feeding validates nanofluidic array technology for DNA detection of ungulate prey in wolf scats. Environmental DNA, 5(4), 723-732.

Di Bernardi, C., Wikenros, C., Hedmark, E., Boitani, L., Ciucci, P., Sand, H., & Åkesson, M. (2021). Multiple species‐specific molecular markers using nanofluidic array as a tool to detect prey DNA from carnivore scats. Ecology and Evolution, 11(17), 11739-11748.

Tietgen, L., Hagen, I. J., Kleven, O., Di Bernardi, C., Kvalnes, T., Norén, K., ... & Jensen, H. (2021). Fur colour in the Arctic fox: genetic architecture and consequences for fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1959), 20211452.

Di Bernardi, C., Thierry, A. M., Eide, N. E., Bowler, D. E., Rød‐Eriksen, L., Blumentrath, S., ... & Landa, A. (2021). Fitness and fur colouration‐testing the camouflage and thermoregulation hypotheses in an Arctic mammal. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13457.

Visalberghi, E., Di Bernardi, C., Marino, L. A., Fragaszy, D., & Izar, P. (2017). Female bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) use objects to solicit the sexual partner. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 131(3), 207.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-1516

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