Danilo Russo Editor

Danilo Russo is the head of the Wildlife Research Unit and an associate professor of Ecology at Naples University Federico II and an honorary member at the University of Bristol, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Bristol in Nature Sciences. His interests include habitat selection, resource partitioning, sensory ecology, social behavior, evolutionary biology, biogeography, and invasion ecology. Much of his research focuses on bats. Since 2019 he has been chairing the Scientific Committee of the UNEP/EUROBATS Agreement (i.e. the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats). Dr. Russo proudly serves as the editor-in-chief of the top-ranking zoological journal Mammal Review. He is also the main proposer and the chair of the Management Committee of the EU COST Action “CLIMBATS” (CA18107). Prof. Russo has published over 140 scientific articles. M.B. (Brock) Fenton received his Ph.D. in 1969 for work in the ecology and behavior of bats. Since then he has held academic positions at Carleton University, York University and the University of Western Ontario. He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals (most about bats), as well as numerous nontechnical contributions. He has written four books about bats intended for a general audience. He continues his research on the ecology and behavior of bats, with special emphasis on echolocation and evolution. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Royals Society of Canada (FRSC) in November 2014. In November 2018 he began a three-year term as Deputy Executive Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Science Publishing. In February 2020 he began a three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of Bat Conservation International. He currently serves as an academic editor for PLoS ONE Biology, and Nature Scientific Reports.