A5077373357- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Plant and animal studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Cruise Tourism Development and Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
University of Trieste
2014-2024
Centro di Ecologia Teorica ed Applicata
1996
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
1992
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
1991
Western University
1979-1984
Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma
1980
Abstract Aims Classification of vegetation is an essential tool to describe, understand, predict and manage biodiversity. Given the multiplicity approaches classify vegetation, it important develop international consensus around a set general guidelines purpose‐specific standard protocols. Before these goals can be achieved, however, necessary identify understand different choices that are made during process classifying vegetation. This paper presents framework facilitate comparisons...
A supposed weakness of most diversity measures is their non-linearity with respect to species addition. Even for a community where all have equal abundance, each added usually leads smaller increment in the measure than before it. recent proposal solve this problem was transform classical 'effective numbers species' or 'Hill numbers.' For any D, effective number N equally abundant that needed get value D. The conversion Hill makes them linear addition such that, given two large and...
Abstract Aim The majority of work done to gather information on the Earth's biodiversity has been carried out using in‐situ data, with known issues related epistemology (e.g., species determination and taxonomy), spatial uncertainty, logistics (time costs), among others. An alternative way about ecosystem variability is use satellite remote sensing. It works as a powerful tool for attaining rapid standardized information. Several metrics used calculate remotely sensed diversity ecosystems...
Abstract In the light of unprecedented planetary changes in biodiversity, real-time and accurate ecosystem biodiversity assessments are becoming increasingly essential for informing policy sustainable development. Biodiversity monitoring is a challenge, especially large areas such as entire continents. Nowadays, spaceborne airborne sensors provide information that incorporate wavelengths cannot be seen nor imagined with human eye. This also now accomplished at spatial resolutions, defined by...
Net-zooplankton data collected monthly at one coastal station of the Gulf Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea) from 1970 to 1980 were analysed in order test existence any successional trend among copepod community. No periodicity was evident for single species. However, a clear found two species groups obtained by cluster analysis. One group characterized Acartia clausi and Temora longicornis showed regular appearance late spring–summer. The other stylifera Oncaea sp. autumn–winter. Time-series...
Current studies indicate that biodiversity and pedodiversity may have similar patterns, for example diversity–area relationships. This study examines biodiversity–area relationships on a global scale using countries as spatial units. The Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) soil database International Union the Conservation of Nature–World Commission Protected Areas (IUCN–WCMC) biological datasets been used in this analysis. results show target groups (the number species vascular plants,...
In this paper a desertification risk index (DRI) based on the integration of climatic data and normalised difference vegetation (NDVI), obtained from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration advance very high‐resolution radiometer (NOAA‐AVHRR) images, is discussed at light aridity some eco‐physiological parameters. The good correlation between DRI, parameters suggests that DRI could be useful to measure risk. One advantage that, with help geographic information system (GIS), maps can...
Abstract Questions The community patterns in kwongan, a mediterranean‐type scrub on nutrient‐poor soils occurring Western Australia, are poorly understood due to only few, focused studies using disparate sampling designs. We aimed determine whether (a) classification of the kwongan vegetation Eneabba Sandplains leads an ecologically informative scheme, and (b) we could identify environmental drivers underpinning plant patterns. Location Township (29°82′S, 115°27′E), approximately 250 km...