Ettore Fedele (Former member of the team)
Ettore has a background in conservation ecology, with an MSc in Conservation and Management of Protected Areas from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. His main interests include terrestrial ecology, biological monitoring and ecosystem services, having chosen to focus his master’s research project on mega-herbivores impacts on the ecosystem.
His professional experience includes working as a volunteer at Mankwe Wildlife Reserve (South Africa) where he was involved in anti-poaching and wildlife management activities, and as a researcher in the Greater Kruger National Park, where he analyzed the effects of African elephants on biodiversity. He has also worked at Royal Botanic Gardens – Kew, where his duties included the production of plant species checklists and distribution maps. All these undertakings required extensive use of R, ArcGIS and management of large datasets.
Ettore joined the EASIN Team in September 2017 and his main tasks concern the assessment of invasive alien species impacts, aiming at investigating the applicability of a recently developed index for measuring socio-economic IAS impacts of in Europe.