Conservation biological control, including landscape management
and conservation of insect fauna; integrated pest
management of insects, management of non-crop plants (ecological
infrastructures) in rural landscape to enhance beneficial insect
populations; insect modelling and spatial data analysis;
sampling techniques of insects of economic importance; role
of Hoverflies (Diptera Syrphidae) in rural landscape; systematic od
Hoverflies.
His main topic of interest is conservation biological control,
including landscape management and conservation of insect fauna.
His particular expertise is the role and management of non-crop
plants (ecological infrastructures) in rural landscape to enhance
beneficial insect populations. Within this field, he is also
studying advanced techniques like geostatistics for spatial data
analysis of insects. His other topics of interest include:
integrated pest management of insects, sampling techniques applied
to insects, and insect systematics (Diptera Syrphidae), selectivity
of new insecticided against coccinellid, and validation and
calibration of a population model of heneybee. He is also studing,
in agreement with Daniele Sommaggio (DiSTA PhD) the
application of SYRPH THE NET, an informatised expert system based
on syrphid monitoring, whiche enables to an evaluation of the
quality of rural habitats and landscapes.
