Associate Professor
Department of Environment, Health and Safety
University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Via Dunant, 3 – 21100 Varese
Tel: 0332.421.540
Fax: 0332.421.554
E-mail: guido.tosi@uninsubria.it

My major interest is in the field of wildlife biology and ecology, with emphasis on wildlife management and conservation, in Italy as well as in African countries. Particular interest in the evolutionary biology of Bovidae in Europe and Africa. I also conducted training on natural resources conservation and management.

I have coordinated many projects for local authorities in Italy (regions, provinces, national and regional parks and nature reserves) on a wide variety of topics: Georeferenced Wildlife Archives, reintroductions of mountain ungulates, research and management projects of several game species (hares, ungulates, alpine tetraonids).

I participated at the BioItaly Project in the framework of the Natura 2000 European Commission Project. Further interest is in Habitat Suitability Assessment for terrestrial vertebrates and Environmental Impact Assessment related to the construction of the hydroelectric power plants.

I also developed a special interest in ecology, management and conservation of African wildlife, in particular large herbivores, in and around the National Parks of Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia. This work includes counts and radio-telemetry studies of large herbivores (elephant, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo), National Park General Management Plans, (Mount Meru Conservation project, Tarangire National Park Natural Resource Monitoring and Conservation Studies).

I am further involved in the training of African National Parks and Wildlife Divisions personnel, to improve their technical skills and natural resource management capability and to offer research opportunities to graduate students. This is linked to interest in socio-economic development of local populations, that live around park boundaries and are affected by frequent human-wildlife conflict, and their sustainable use of renewable natural resources.

TOSI G., TOSO S. (1979). Night herons Nycticorax nycticorax wintering in the Po river valley. Ibis, 121: 336. (EN)

TOSI G., SCHERINI G. C., APOLLONIO M., FERRARIO G., PACCHETTI G., TOSO S., GUIDALI F. (1985). Evaluation of the Habitat Suitability of Ibex (Capra ibex). Abstract Fourth International Theriological Congress, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 13-20 Agosto 1985: 627. (EN)

SCHERINI G., GUIDALI F., TOSI G. (1987). Area of production of the european hare in the lombard plain. Abstracts XVIIIth Congress Int. Union Game Biologists. Jagiellonian University Krakow, Polland, Agosto 1987: 176-177. (EN)

RANDI E., TOSO S., TOSI G. (1989). Genetic variation and phylogenetic relationships among some Caprinae and related species. Abstracts World Conference on Mountain Ungulates, Camerino, 4-6 Settembre 1989: 34. (EN)

TOSI G., VAILATI G., ARDUINO S., PACCHETTI G. (1990). Morphology and functionality of the supraoccipital glands in the Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra L.). Bollettino di Zoologia, 57: 131-138. (EN)

RANDI E., TOSI G., TOSO S., LORENZINI R., FUSCO G. (1990). Genetic variability and conservation problems in Alpine ibex, domestic and feral goat population (genus Capra). Z. Saugetierkunde (Mammalian Biology), 55: 413-420. (EN)

GUIDALI F., MINGOZZI T., TOSI G. (1990). Historical and recent distribution of Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Northwestern Italy, during 19th and 20th Centuries. Mammalia, 54-4: 587-596. (EN)

SCHERINI G. C., TOSI G. (1990). Correlation between grouse and mountain hare hunting bags. XIX Congress Int. Union Game Biologists, NINA, Trondheim, 8-13 Settembre 1989, Vol. 1: 97-101. (EN)

RANDI E., FUSCO G., LORENZINI R., TOSO S., TOSI G. (1991). Allozyme divergence and phylogenetic relationships among Capra, Ovis and Rupicapra (Artyodactyla, Bovidae). Heredity, 67: 281-286. (EN)

TOSI G., PEDROTTI L. (1993). Estimates of the home-ranges of the alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex) in the Orobie Alps (Italy) by radio-tracking: preliminary results. Atti Congresso Internazionale sul genere Capra. Junta de Andalucia, Agencia de Medio Ambiente, Ronda (Spagna), 20-22 Ottobre 1992. (EN)

CAPURRO A. F., GATTO M., TOSI G. (1997). Delayed and inverse density dependence in a chamois population of the Italian Alps. Ecography, 20: 37-47. (EN)

TOSI G., LOVARI S. (1997). Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Caprinae. Wild Sheep and Goats and their Relatives. 6.9 Italy. In: Shackleton D.M. (Ed.), I.U.C.N./S.S.C. Caprinae Specialist Group. I.U.C.N.: 111-118. (EN)

DE MENEGHI D., MWASAGA B. C., TOSI G. (1998). Ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) on Wildebeest and Zebra from Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Parassitologia, 40(1): 44. (EN)

GALANTI V., ROSSI R., TOSI G., FOLEY C., FOLEY L. (2000). Elephant Capture, Collaring and radio-tracking in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Pachyderm, 28: 58-59. (EN)

MARTINOLI A., PREATONI D. G, TOSI G. (2000). Does Nathusius’ pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839) breed in northern Italy? J.Zool. London, 250: 217-220. (EN)

GALANTI V., TOSI G., ROSSI R., FOLEY C. (2000). The use of GPS radio-collars to track elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Tarangire National Park (Tanzania). Hystrix, 11(2): 27-37. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., GURNELL J., MARTINOLI A., TOSI G. (2001). Does interspecific competition with introduced grey squirrels affect foraging and food choice of Eurasian red squirrels? Animal behaviour, 61: 1079-1091. (EN)

MARTINOLI A., PREATONI D. G., CHIARENZI B., TOSI G. (2001). Diet of stoats (Mustela erminea) in an Alpine habitat: the importance of fruit consumption in summer. Acta Oecologica, 22: 1-9. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., GURNELL J., PREATONI D. G., TOSI G. (2001). Effects of spatial variation in food availability on spacing behaviour and demography of Eurasian red squirrel. Ecography, 24: 525-538. (EN)

GURNELL J., WAUTERS L. A., PREATONI D. G., TOSI G. (2001). Spacing behaviour, kinship, and population dynamics of grey squirrels in a newly colonized broadleaf woodland in Italy. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79(9): 1533-1543. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., GURNELL J., MARTINOLI A., TOSI G. (2002). Interspecific competition between native Eurasian red squirrels and alien grey squirrels: does resource partitioning occur? Behaviour Ecology and Sociobiology, 52(4): 332-341. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G., GURNELL J. (2002). Interspecific competition in tree squirrels: do introduced grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) deplete tree seeds hoarded by red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris)? Behaviour Ecology and Sociobiology, 51(4): 360-367. (EN)

MARTINOLI A., GAGLIARDI A., PREATONI D. G., DI MARTINO S., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G. (2003). The extent of Great Crested Grebe predation on Bleak in Lake Como, Italy. Waterbirds, 26(2): 201-208. (EN)

WICHT B., MORETTI M., PREATONI D. G., TOSI G., MARTINOLI A. (2003). The presence of Soprano pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) in Switzerland: first molecular and bioacustic evidences. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 110(2): 411-426. (EN)

SCHERINI G. C., TOSI G., WAUTERS L. A. (2003). Social behaviour, reproductive biology and breeding success of alpine rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus helveticus in northern Italy. Ardea, 91(1): 11-23. (EN)

CHIRICHELLA R., MATTIROLI S., NODARI M., PREATONI D. G., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G., MARTINOLI A. (2003). The Adamello-Brenta Natural Park bat community (Mammalia, Chiroptera): distribution and population status. Hystrix, It. J. Mamm., 14(1-2): 29-45. (EN)

GAGLIARDI A., MARTINOLI A., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G. (2003). A floating platform: a solution to collect cormorant’s pellets on acquatic surface. Waterbirds, 26(1): 54-55. (EN)

MUSTONI A., CARLINI E., CHIARENZI B., CHIOZZINI S., LATTUADA E., DUPRÉ E., GENOVESI P., PEDROTTI L., MARTINOLI A., PREATONI D. G., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G. (2003). The role of reintroduction in establishing a Brown bear Ursus arctos metapopulation in the central Italian Alps. Hystrix, It. J. Mamm., 14(1-2): 3-27. (EN)

TRIZIO I., PATRIARCA E., DEBERNARDI P., PREATONI D. G., TOSI G., MARTINOLI A. (2003). The alpine long-eared bat (Plecotus alpinus Kiefer and Veith, 2001) is present also in Piedmont: first record revealed by DNA analysis. Hystrix, It. J. Mamm., 14(1-2): 113-115. (EN)

GURNELL J., WAUTERS L. A., LURZ P. W. W., TOSI G. (2004). Alien species and interspecific competition: effects of introduced eastern grey squirrels on red squirrel population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 26-35. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., MATTHYSEN E., ADRIANENSEN F., TOSI G. (2004). Within-sex density dependence and population dynamics of red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 11-25. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., ZANINETTI M., TOSI G., BERTOLINO S. (2004). Is coat-colour polymorphism in Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris L.) adaptive? Mammalia, 68(1): 37-48. (EN)

TRIZIO I., PREATONI D. G., CHIRICHELLA R., MATTIROLI S., NODARI M., CREMA S., TOSI G., MARTINOLI A. (2004). First record of the alpine long-eared bat (Plecotus alpinus Kiefer and Veith, 2001) in Lombardy revealed by DNA analysis. Natura Bresciana, Ann. Mus. Civ. Sc. Nat., Brescia, 34. (EN)

TRIZIO I., CRESTANELLO B., GALBUSERA P., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G., MATTHYSEN E., HAUFFE H. C. (2005). Geographical distance and physical barriers shape the genetic structure of Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in the Italian Alps. Molecular Ecology, 14: 469-481. (EN)

TATTONI C., PREATONI D., BERTOLINO S., MARTINOLI A., TOSI G., WAUTERS L. A. (2005). Modelling the expansion of Sciurus carolinensis (Grey Squirrels) in Lombardy, northern Italy: implications for squirrel control. In: Nentwig W. et al. (Eds): Biological Invasions - From Ecology to Control. NEOBIOTA 6: 149-164. (EN)

WAUTERS L. A., BERTOLINO S., ADAMO M., VAN DONGEN S., TOSI G. (2005). Food shortage disrupts social organization: the case of red squirrels in conifer forests. Evolutionary Ecology, 19: 375-404. (EN)

MARTINOLI A., PREATONI D., GALANTI V., CODIPIETRO P., KILEWO J., FERNANDES C. A. R., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G. Species richness and habitat use of small carnivores in the Arusha National Park (Tanzania). Biodiversity and Conservation (In press). (EN)

PREATONI D., NODARI M., CHIRICHELLA R., TOSI G., WAUTERS L. A., MARTINOLI A. Identifying bats from time expanded recordings of search-calls: looking for the best classifier. Journal of Wildlife Management (In press). (EN)

PREATONI D. G., MUSTONI A., MARTINOLI A., CARLINI E., CHIARENZI B., CHIOZZINI S., VAN DONGEN S., WAUTERS L. A., TOSI G. Conservation of Brown Bear in the Alps: space use and settlement behaviour of reintroduced bears. Acta Oecologica (In press). (EN)