Danilo Russo, specialista in conservation ecology dei Chirotteri, è Docente a contratto di Zoologia Applicata presso la Seconda Università di Napoli. Ha conseguito il PhD presso l’Università di Bristol (U.K.), nel 2002. Consulente scientifico, visiting fellow presso il Bat Ecology and Bioacoustics Laboratory (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol), incaricato di ricerca presso il Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata della Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Le sue principali linee di ricerca vertono su:
1) biologia della conservazione della chirotterofauna mediterranea, e in particolare a) pattern di selezione dell’habitat in chirotteri fitofili, b)strategie di segregazione di nicchia ecologica, c) ecolocalizzazione, d) rapporti tra attività dei chirotteri e struttura del paesaggio.
2) Effetti dell’abbandono delle attività agro-silvo-pastorali sulla fauna in area mediterranea.

Pubblicazioni (selezionate):

1. RUSSO D. & Jones G. (1999). The social calls of Kuhl’s pipistrelles Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1819): structure and variation (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology, London, 249: 476-481.
2. RUSSO D. & Jones G. (2000). The two cryptic species of Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) occur in Italy: evidence from echolocation and social calls. Mammalia, 64(2): 187-197.
3. RUSSO D., Jones G. E Mucedda, M. (2001). Influence of age, sex and body size on echolocation calls of Mediterranean (Rhinolophus euryale) and Mehely’s (Rhinolophus mehelyi) horseshoe bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) Mammalia 65: 429-436.
4. RUSSO D. & Jones G. (2002). Identification of twenty–two bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Italy by analysis of time-expanded recordings of echolocation calls. Journal of Zoology, London, 258: 91-103.
5. RUSSO D., Jones G. & Migliozzi A. (2002). Habitat selection by the Mediterranean horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus euryale (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in a rural area of southern Italy and implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 107: 71-81.
6. RUSSO D. (2002). Elevation affects the distribution of the two sexes in Daubenton’s bats Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Italy. Mammalia, 4: 543-551.
7. RUSSO D. & Jones G. (2003). Use of foraging habitats by bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in a Mediterranean area determined by acoustic surveys: conservation implications. Ecography, 26: 197-209.
8. RUSSO, D. (2003). Dead trees mean life to Italian barbastelle bats. Ecologia Mediterranea 29: 258-260.
9. RUSSO D., Cistrone L., Jones G. & Mazzoleni S. (2004). Roost selection by barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in beech woodlands of central Italy: consequences for conservation. Biological Conservation 117: 73, 81.
10. Jones G., Vaughan N., RUSSO D. & Wickramasinghe L.P. (2004). Designing bat activity surveys using time expansion and direct sampling of ultrasound. In: Brigham, R.M., Jones, G., Kalko, E. & Parsons, S. Proceedings of the 2002 International Bat Echolocation Symposium, Austin, Texas. Published by Bat Conservation International, Austin, Texas.
11. RUSSO D., Almenar D., Aihartza J., Goiti U.,Salsamendi E e Garin I. (2005). Habitat selection in sympatric Rhinolophus mehelyi and R. euryale (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Spain. Journal of Zoology, London 266: 327-332.
12. RUSSO D., Cistrone L. and Jones, G (2005). Spatial and temporal patterns of roost use by tree-dwelling barbastelle bats, Barbastella barbastellus. Ecography 28: 769-776.
13. RUSSO, D., G. Jones & R. Arlettaz (2007). Echolocation and passive listening by foraging mouse-eared bats Myotis myotis and M. blythii. The Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 166-176
14. RUSSO, D., Cistrone, L. & G. Jones (2007). Emergence time in forest bats: the role of canopy closure. Acta Oecologica (in press: doi:10.1016/j.actao.2006.11.001)