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Education

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

Vassiliki Kati

Department of Biological Applications & Technology

Contact Information

Tel.: +30-26510 07439
e-mail: Web: https://bc.lab.uoi.gr/en/

Research topics (related to the Institute)

  1. Biodiversity conservation
  2. Ecology
  3. Ecosystem management
  4. Sustainable development

Research summary

  • Biodiversity conservation: biodiversity regulating mechanisms, impact of land use change, climate change and human pressures on biodiversity, endangered species conservation.
  • Ecology: community ecology, species-environmental interactions, landscape ecology, road ecology
  • Ecosystem management focusing on Mediterranean mountainous ecosystems and protected areas.
  • Sustainable development: SGDs, sustainable spatial planning, sustainable game management, environmental policy, Natura 2000

Professional background

2012 - todayProfessor of Ecology, BET, UoI
2007 - 2012Assoc. Professor, BET, UoI
2017 - today Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biological Applications & Technology, Univ. of Ioannina
2010- 2016Assist. Professor, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Patras
2006-2010Lecturer, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Ioannina
2002-2006Scientific Associate, Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, Univ. of Ioannina
2002Assist. Professor Institut für Zoologie II, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (summer prof.)
2001-2003Scientific Associate. Dept of Fisheries. Technological Institute of Epirus.
2001-2003Scientific Associate. WWF Greece

Recent relevant publications/patents

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)

Recent Research projects / grants (last 5 years)

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