86. Melchionna M, Di Febbraro M, Carotenuto F, Rook L, Mondanaro A, Castiglione S, Serio C, Vero VA, Tesone G, Piccolo M, Diniz-Filho JAF, Raia P Fragmentation of Neanderthals' pre-extinction distribution by climate change (2018) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Article in Press.
85. Castiglione S, Tesone G, Piccolo M, et al. A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution (2018) Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Article in Press.
84. Piras, P., Silvestro, D., Carotenuto, F., Castiglione, S., Kotsakis, A., Maiorino, L., Melchionna, M., Mondanaro, A., Sansalone, G., Serio, C., Vero, V.A., Raia, P. Evolution of the sabertooth mandible: A deadly ecomorphological specialization (2018) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Article in Press.
83. Maiorino, L., Farke, A.A., Kotsakis, T., Raia, P., Piras, P. Who is the most stressed? Morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Marginocephalia) (2018) Cretaceous Research, 84: 483-500.
82. Profico, A., Piras, P., Buzi, C., Di Vincenzo, F., Lattarini, F., Melchionna, M., Veneziano, A., Raia, P., Manzi, G. The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration (2017) American Journal of Primatology, 79 (12), art. no. e22721
81. Castiglione, S., Mondanaro, A., Melchionna, M., Serio, C., Di Febbraro, M., Carotenuto, F., Raia, P. Diversification rates and the evolution of species range size frequency distribution (2017) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 (NOV), art. no. 147
80. Mondanaro, A., Castiglione, S., Melchionna, M., Di Febbraro, M., Vitagliano, G., Serio, C., Vero, V.A., Carotenuto, F., Raia, P. Living with the elephant in the room: Top-down control in Eurasian large mammal diversity over the last 22 million years (2017) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485, pp. 956-962.
79. Romano, A., Costa, A., Basile, M., Raimondi, R., Posillico, M., Scinti Roger, D., Crisci, A., Piraccini, R., Raia, P., Matteucci, G., De Cinti, B. Conservation of salamanders in managed forests: Methods and costs of monitoring abundance and habitat selection (2017) Forest Ecology and Management, 400, pp. 12-18.
78. Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Raia, P. Island rule, quantitative genetics and brain-body size evolution in homo floresiensis (2017) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1857), art. no. 20171065
77. Raia, P., Ferranti, L., Castiglione, S., Melchionna, M., Saggese, F., Raimondi, R., Serio, C., Carotenuto, F., Passaro, F., Antonioli, F. Predicted sea-level changes and evolutionary estimates for age of isolation in Central Mediterranean insular lizards (2017) Holocene, 27 (3), pp. 418-426.
76. Lega, C., Fulgione, D., Genovese, A., Rook, L., Masseti, M., Meiri, M., Cinzia Marra, A., Carotenuto, F., Raia, P. Like a pig out of water: Seaborne spread of domestic pigs in Southern Italy and Sardinia during the Bronze and Iron Ages (2017) Heredity, 118:154-159.
74. Castiglione, S., Mondanaro, A., Carotenuto, F., Passaro, F., Fortelius, M., Raia, P. The many shapes of diversity: Ecological and evolutionary determinants of biodiversity through time (2017) Evolutionary Ecology Research, 18: 25-39.
73. Slavenko, A., Tallowin, O.J.S., Itescu, Y., Raia, P., Meiri, S. Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates (2016) Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1308-1320.
72. Raia, P., Carotenuto, F., Mondanaro, A., Castiglione, S., Passaro, F., Saggese, F., Melchionna, M., Serio, C., Alessio, L., Silvestro, D., Fortelius, M. Progress to extinction: Increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades (2016) Scientific Reports, 6: 30965
71. Carotenuto, F., Di Febbraro, M., Melchionna, M., Castiglione, S., Saggese, F., Serio, C., Mondanaro, A., Passaro, F., Loy, A., Raia, P. The influence of climate on species distribution over time and space during the late Quaternary (2016) Quaternary Science Reviews, 149: 188-199.
70. Raia, P., Passaro, F., Carotenuto, F., Meiri, S., Piras, P. From evolutionary allometry to sexual display: (A reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen) (2016) American Naturalist, 188:276-277
69. Carotenuto, F., Tsikaridze, N., Rook, L., Lordkipanidze, D., Longo, L., Condemi, S., Raia, P. Venturing out safely: The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa (2016) Journal of Human Evolution, 95:1-12.
68. Piras, P., Teresi, L., Traversetti, L., Varano, V., Gabriele, S., Kotsakis, T., Raia, P., Puddu, P.E., Scalici, M. The conceptual framework of ontogenetic trajectories: Parallel transport allows the recognition and visualization of pure deformation patterns (2016) Evolution and Development, 18:182-200.
67. Villalobos, F., Carotenuto, F., Raia, P., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F. Phylogenetic fields through time: Temporal dynamics of geographical co-occurrence and phylogenetic structure within species ranges (2016) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1691), 10
66. Lega, C., Raia, P., Rook, L., Fulgione, D. Size matters: A comparative analysis of pig domestication (2016) Holocene, 26:327-332.
65. de Moura Bubadué, J., Cáceres, N., dos Santos Carvalho, R., Sponchiado, J., Passaro, F., Saggese, F., Mondanaro, A., Raia, P., Carotenuto, F. Character displacement under influence of bergmann’s rule in Cerdocyon thous (Mammalia: Canidae) (2016) Hystrix, 27
64. Meloro, C., Clauss, M., Raia, P. Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution (2015) Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 15 (4), pp. 711-720.
63. Carotenuto F., J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, and P. Raia. (2015) Space and time: The two dimensions of Artiodactyla body mass evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 437: 18-25. (read)
62. Fortelius, M., Geritz, S., Gyllenberg, M., Raia, P., Toivonen, J. Modeling the population-level processes of biodiversity gain and loss at geological timescales (2015) American Naturalist, 186 (6), pp. 742-754.
61. Race, M., Nabelkova, J., Fabbricino, M., Pirozzi, F., Raia, P. Analysis of Heavy Metal Sources for Urban Creeks in the Czech Republic (2015) Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 226 (10): 2579.
60. Meloro, C., Cáceres, N.C., Carotenuto, F., Sponchiado, J., Melo, G.L., Passaro, F., Raia P. (2015) Chewing on the trees: constraints and adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible. Evolution. 69: 1690-1700. (read)
59. Raia P., Passaro F., Carotenuto F., Maiorino L., Piras P., Teresi L., Meiri S., Itescu Y., Novosolov M., Baiano M. A., Martínez R., Fortelius M. (2015) Cope's rule and the universal scaling law of ornament complexity. American Naturalist 186: 167-175.(read)
58. Maselli, V., Rippa, D., Russo, G., Ligrone, R., Soppelsa, O., D'Aniello, B., Raia, P., Fulgione, D. (2014) Wild boars' social structure in the Mediterranean habitat.Italian Journal of Zoology81, 610-7. (read)
57. Fulgione D, Trapanese M, Maselli V, Rippa D, Itri F, Avallone B, Van Damme R, Monti DM, P. Raia (2014) Seeing through the skin: dermal light sensitivity provides cryptism in moorish gecko. Journal of Zoology 294, 122-128. (read)2014 Journal of Zoology Paper of the Year Award
56. Meiri S, Kadison A, Novosolov M, Pafilis P, Foufopoulos J, Itescu Y, Raia P, Pincheira-Donoso D (2014). The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism. Journal of Animal Ecology83, 1302-1312.(read)
55. Ruggiero E, Raia P (2014) Oichnus taddeii, a new fossil trace produced by capulids on brachiopod shells. Spanish Journal of Paleontology 29, 15-23 (read)
54. Meloro C, Cáceres N, Carotenuto F, Passaro F, Sponchiado J, Melo GL, Raia P (2014) Ecogeographical variation in skull morphometry of howler monkeys (Primates: Atelidae). Zoologishcer Anzeiger 253, 345-359. (read)
53. Maselli V., Polese G., Larson G., Raia P., Forte N., Rippa D., Ligrone R., Vicidomini R., Fulgione D. (2014) A dysfunctional sense of smell: The irreversibility of olfactory evolution in free-living pigs. Evolutionary Biology 41, 229-39. (read)
52. Piras P., Buscalioni A., Teresi L., Raia P., Sansalone G. (2014) Morphological integration and functional modularity in the crocodilian skull. Integrative Zoology 9, 498-516. (read)
51. Cau A., Baiano M.A., Raia P. (2014) A new sphenodontian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy and the phylogenetic affinities of the Pietraroia Plattenkalk rhynchocephalians. Cretaceous Research 49, 172-180. (read)
50. Itescu Y, Karraker N, Raia P, Pritchard P, Meiri S. (2014) Is the Island Rule General? Turtles Disagree. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23, 689-700. (read)
49. Fortelius M., Eronen J.T., Kaya F., Tang H., Raia P., Puolamäki K., (2014) Evolution of Neogene Mammals in Eurasia: Environmental Forcing and Biotic Interactions. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 42, 579-604. (read)
48. Raia P., Rook L. (2014) The evolution of large mammal communities: beyond biochronology. Annales Zoologici Fennici 51, 57-65. (read)
47. Cáceres N., Meloro C., Carotenuto F., Passaro F., Sponchiado J., Melo G.L. and P. Raia (2014) Ecogeographical variation in skull shape of capuchin monkeys. Journal of Biogeography 41, 501-512. (read)
46. Meloro C, Cáceres N, Carotenuto F, Sponchiado J, Melo GL, Passaro F, and Raia P (2014) In and out the Amazonia: evolutionary ecomorphology in howler and capuchin monkeys. Evolutionary Biology 41, 38-51. (read)
45. Raia P &Fortelius M (2013) Cope's Law of the Unspecialized, Cope's Rule, and weak directionality in evolution. Evolutionary Ecology Research 15, 747-756.(read)
44. Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Loyola, R.D., Raia, P., Mooers, A.O. & L.M. Bini (2013) Darwinian shortfalls in biodiversity conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 689-695. (read)
43. Piras P., Maiorino L., Teresi L., Meloro C., Lucci F., T. Kotsakis and Raia P. (2013) Bite of the Cats: Relationships between Functional Integration and Mechanical Performance as Revealed by Mandible Geometry. Systematic Biology 62(6):878–900.(read)
42. Soppelsa O., Raia P., Maselli V., and D. Fulgione (2013) The study of ontogenetic trajectory reveals the timing of reproductive events in Ancylus fluviatilis (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Molluscan Research 33, 80-86. DOI:10.1080/13235818.2013.777889. (read)
41. Novosolov M., Raia P., Meiri S. (2013) The island syndrome in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22, 184-191.(read)
40. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Passaro F., Piras P., Fulgione D., Werdelin L., Saarinen J., and M. Fortelius (2013) Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Cenozoic mammals. Proc. Royal Soc Lon B. 280. (read)
39. Monti D.M., Raia P., Vroonen J., Maselli V., Van Damme R., Fulgione D. (2013) Physiological change in insular lizard population confirms the Reversed Island Syndrome. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108, 144-150. (read)
38. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Passaro F., Fulgione D., and M. Fortelius. (2012) Ecological specialization in fossil mammals explains Cope's rule. American Naturalist 179, 328-337. (read)Read the commentary in Nature
37. Raia P., Passaro F., Carotenuto F. (2012) Habitat tracking, stasis and survival in Neogene large mammals. Biology Letters 8, 64-66. (read)
36. Meloro C., Raia P. Carotenuto F., S.N. Cobb (2011) Phylogenetic signal, function and integration in the subunitsof the carnivoran mandible. Evolutionary Biology 38, 465-475. (read)
35. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Eronen J.T., Fortelius M. (2011) Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in Neogene ruminants. Proc. Royal Soc Lon B. 278, 3474-3481. (read)
34. Raia P., and Meiri S. (2011) The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals. Evolution 65, 1927-1934. (read)
33. Meiri S., Raia P., Phillimore A. (2011). Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands. Journal of Biogeography 38, 89-100. (read)
32. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Meloro C., Piras P., and Barbera C. (2011) Species accumulation over space and time in European Plio-Holocene mammals. Evolutionary Ecology 25, 171-188. (read)
31. Piras P., Marcolini F., Raia P., Curcio M.T., and T. Kotsakis, (2010). Ecophenotypic variation and phylogenetic inheritance in first lower molar shape of extant Italian populations of Microtus savii Rodentia). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99, 632-647. (read)
30. Piras P., Maiorino L., Raia P., Marcolini F., Salvi D., Vignoli L., and T. Kotsakis. (2010). Functional and phylogenetic constraints in Rhinocerotinae craniodental morphology. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12, 897-928. (read)
29. Raia P., Carotenuto F., and S. Meiri (2010). One size does not fit all: No evidence for an optimal body size on islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19, 475–185.484. (read)
28. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Meloro C., Piras P., and D. Pushkina (2010) The shape of contention.Adaptation, history and contingency in ungulate mandibles. Evolution 64 (5), 1489 -1503. (read)
27. Meiri S., and Raia P. (2010). Reptilian all the way? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107, E27 (read)
26. Raia P. (2010) Phylogenetic community assembly over time in Eurasian Plio-Pleistocene mammals. Palaios 25, 327–338. [1.709]
25. Carotenuto F., Barbera C., and Raia P. (2010). Occupancy, range size and phylogeny in Eurasian Pliocene to Recent large mammals. Paleobiology 36, 399-414. (read)
24. Taddei Ruggiero E., Raia P. (2010). Bioerosion structures and their distribution on shells of the terebratulid brachiopod Gryphus minor. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 293, 157-166. (read)
23. Raia P., Guarino F.M., Turano M., Polese G., Rippa D., Carotenuto F., Monti D.M., Cardi M. and D. Fulgione. (2010). The Blue lizard spandrel and the Island Syndrome. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:289 (read)
22. Piras P., Colangelo P., Adams D.C., Buscalioni A., Cubo J., Kotsakis T., Meloro C., and Raia P. (2010) The Gavialis-Tomistoma debate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships. Evolution & Development 12, 568-579. (read)
21. Meloro C., Raia P. (2010). Cats and dogs down the tree: the tempo and mode of evolution in the lower carnassial of fossil and living Carnivora. Evolutionary Biology 37, 177-186. (read)
20. Piras P., Marcolini F., Raia P., Curcio M.T., Kotsakis T. (2009) Testing evolutionary stasis and trends in first lower molar shape of extinct Italian populations of Terricola savii (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) by means of Geometric Morphometrics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 179-191. (read)
19. Raia P., Carotenuto F., Meloro C., Piras P., Barbera C., and Kotsakis T. (2009). More than three million years of community evolution. The temporal and geographical resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene Western Eurasia mammal faunas. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 276, 15-23. (read)
18. Ruggiero, E.T., Raia, P. (2008). Ontogeny in Terebratula species: Functional convergence and allometry but not heterochrony. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 120, 320-331.
17. Pushkina D., Raia P. (2008) Human influence on distribution and extinctions of the late Pleistocene Eurasian megafauna. Journal of Human Evolution 54, 769-782. (read)
16. Meloro C., Raia P., Carotenuto F., Barbera C. (2008) Diversity and turnover of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal fauna from the Italian Peninsula. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 268, 58-64. (read)
15. Meloro C., Raia P., Piras P., Barbera C., and P. O’Higgins. (2008) The shape of the mandibular corpus in large fissiped carnivores: allometry, function and phylogeny. Zool J Linnean Soc Lond 154, 832 – 845. (read)
14. Raia P., Meloro C., Barbera C. (2007) Inconstancy in predator/prey ratios in Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy, with an appraisal of mechanisms. Quaternary Research 67, 255-263. (read)
13. Meloro C., Raia P., Barbera C. (2007) Effect of predation on prey abundance and survival in Plio-Pleistocene mammalian communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9, 505-25. (read)
12. Aiello G., Barattlo F., Barra D., Fiorito G., Mazzarella A., Raia P., and Viola R. (2007) Fractal analysis of ostracod shell variability: A comparison with geometric and classic morphometrics. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (3), 563–573. (read)
11. Evans S, Raia P., Barbera C. (2006) Chometokadmon and the early Cretaceous lizard assemblage of Pietraroia, Italy. Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology 24, 55A.
10. Raia P., Meloro C., Loy A., & Barbera C. (2006) Species occupancy and its course in the past: macroecological patterns in extinct communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8, 181-194. (read)
9. Raia P., Piras P., Kotsakis T. (2006) Detection of Plio-Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy: integration to biochronology. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 846-854. (read)
8. Ruggiero, E.T., Buono, G., Raia, P. (2006) Bioerosion on brachiopod shells of a thanatocoenosis of Alboràn sea (Spain). Ichnos 13, 175-184. (read)
7. Evans S.E., Raia P., Barbera C. (2006) The Lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy. Cretaceous Research 27, 673-683. (read)
6. Raia P., and Meiri S. (2006) The island rule in large mammals: Paleontology meets Ecology. Evolution 60 (8), 1731-1742. (read)
5. Raia P., Piras P., Kotsakis T. (2005) Turnover pulse or red queen?Evidence from the large mammal communities during the Plio-Pleistocene of Italy. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 221, 293-312. (read)
4. Palombo, M.R., Raia, P., Giovinazzo, C. (2005) Early-Middle Pleistocene structural changes in mammalian communities from the Italian peninsula. Geological Society Special Publication 247, 251-262. (read)
3. Raia P. (2004) Morphological correlates of tough food consumption in carnivores. Italian Journal of Zoology 71, 45-50. (read)
2. Evans S.E., Raia P., Barbera C. (2004) New lizards and rhynchocephalians from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy. Acta Paleontologica Polonica 49, 393-408. (read)
1. Raia P., Barbera C. and M. Conte (2003) The fast life of a dwarfed giant. Evolutionary Ecology 17 (3), 293-313. (read)
