Degree: PhD
Year: 2001
Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Department: Biology
Degree: D.E.A.
Year: 1999
Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Department: Biology
Degree: B.S.
Year: 1996
Institution: AUTH, Thessaloniki
Department: Biology
Department of Biological Applications & Technology
2012 - today | Professor of Ecology, BET, UoI |
2007 - 2012 | Assoc. Professor, BET, UoI |
2017 - today Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biological Applications & Technology, Univ. of Ioannina | |
2010- 2016 | Assist. Professor, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Patras |
2006-2010 | Lecturer, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Ioannina |
2002-2006 | Scientific Associate, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Ioannina |
2002 | Assist. Professor Institut für Zoologie II, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (summer prof.) |
2001-2003 | Scientific Associate. Dept of Fisheries. Technological Institute of Epirus. |
2001-2003 | Scientific Associate. WWF Greece |
1. Kati, V., Kassara, Ch., Psaralexi, M., Tzortzakaki, O., Petridou, M., Galani, A., Hoffmann, M.T. 2020. Conservation policy under a roadless perspective: minimizing fragmentation in Greece. Biological Conservation (in press)
2. Kati, V., Kassara, Ch., Vassilakis, D., Papaioannou, H. 2020. Balkan Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra balcanica) Avoids Roads, Settlements, and Hunting Grounds: An Ecological Overview from Timfi Mountain, Greece. Diversity, 12 (4), pp 124.
3. Zografou, K., Grill, A., Wilson, R.J., Halley, J.M., Adamidis, G.C., Kati, V. 2020. Butterfly phenology in Mediterranean mountains using space‐for‐time substitution. Ecology and Evolution, 10: 928– 939.
4. Tzirkalli, E., Kadis, C., Halley, J.M., Vogiatzakis, I., Wilson, R.J., Zografou, K., Antoniou, A., Tsintides, T., Makris, C., Kati, V., 2019. Conservation ecology of butterflies on Cyprus in the context of Natura 2000. Biodiversity and Conservation. 28(7), 1759-1782.
5. Maes, D., et al. 2019. Integrating national checklists and Red Lists for prioritising European butterfly conservation actions. Journal of Insect Conservation 22 (2):301-330,
6. Tzortzakaki, O., Kati, V., Panitsa, M., Tzanatos, E., Giokas, S. 2019. Butterfly diversity along the urbanization gradient in a densely-built Mediterranean city: Land cover is more decisive than resources in structuring communities. Landscape and Urban Planning 183: 79-87.
7. Petridou, M, Youlatos, D., Lazarou, Y., Selinides, K., Pylidis, Ch., Giannakopoulos, A., Kati, V. Iliopoulos, Y. 2019. Wolf diet and livestock selection in central Greece. Mammalia
8. Tzortzakaki, O., Papadatou, E., Kati, V., and Giokas, S. 2019. Winners and losers in an urban bat community: a case study from southeastern Europe. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 30(2), pp.0.
9. Zakkak, S., Radovic, A., Panitsa, M., Vassilev, K., Shuka, L., Kuttner, M., Schindler, S., Kati, V. 2018. Vegetation patterns along agricultural land abandonment in the Balkans. Journal of Vegetation Science 29: 877-886.
10. Avtzis, D.N., et al. 2018. Quantifying the conservation value of Sacred Natural Sites. Biological Conservation 222: 95-103.
11. Lemonnier-Darcemont, M., Kati, V., Willemse, L., Darcemont, C. 2018. Effects of changing grazing systems on the threatened genus Peripodisma (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) in the Mediterranean mountains of the southern Balkans. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 16: 67-79.
12. Muggia, L., Kati, V., Rohrer, A., Halley, J., Mayrhofer, H. 2018. Species diversity of lichens in the sacred groves of Epirus (Greece). – Herzogia 31: 231–244.
Number of publications 55 (24-10-2020), Number of citations: >1430 (Scopus 24-10-2020)
H factor = 19 (Scopus 24-10-2020)
1. WIND: Windfarms and Sustainable Development Goals: optimal approach for fragmentation and land use change. Funded by NCESD. 2020-2021. Coordinator.
2. BUTALL: Butterflies of Greece: Linking science with society. Funded by NCESD. 2019-2020. Coordinator.
3. ROADLESS: Roadless areas and sustainable development in Greece. Funded by the Green Fund (Pindos Perivallontiki). 2019-2020. Scientific coordinator.
4. AOOS: Contribution to biodiversity knowledge of Aoos catchment. Funded by Euronatur (Pindos Perivallontiki). 2019. Coordinator.
5. COEXIST: Conflict of livestock-wolf in selected regions of Greece. Funded by WWF-Greece. 2018. Coordinator.
6. SOER-National Environmental Status Report – Nature / Biodiversity 2018. Funded by NCESD. 2017. Coordinator.
7. LACON-Epirus grasshopper conservation: linking genetics and ecology under a conservation perspective. Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund. 2016-2017. Coordinator