A5036259500- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Forest ecology and management
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Marine and coastal plant biology
University of Trieste
2016-2025
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection
2012-2015
University of Siena
2007-2014
Accurate mapping of species distributions is a fundamental goal modern biogeography, both for basic and applied purposes. This commonly done by plotting known occurrences, expert-drawn range maps or geographical estimations derived from distribution models. However, all three kinds are implicitly subject to uncertainty, due the quality bias raw distributional data, process map building, dynamic nature themselves. Here we review main sources uncertainty suggesting code good practices in order...
Abstract Trait‐based ecology has already revealed main independent axes of trait variation defining spaces that summarize plant adaptive strategies, but often ignoring intraspecific variability (ITV). By using empirical ITV‐level data for two dimensions leaf form and function 167 species across five habitat types (coastal dunes, forests, grasslands, heathlands, wetlands) in the Italian peninsula, we found ITV: (i) rotated define space; (ii) increased variance explained by these (iii)...
Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of several functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics, population connectivity or gene flow.In this paper, we present new R package-rasterdiv-to calculate indices based on remotely sensed data. We also provide an application at the landscape scale demonstrate its power in revealing potentially hidden patterns.The rasterdiv package allows calculating multiple indices, robustly rooted...
Abstract Questions (a) Are there differences in abundance‐weighted functional trait values between native and alien species coastal plant communities? (b) Which traits are associated with a higher level of invasion these (c) Do diversity patterns differ species? (d) Is occurrence linked to small‐scale homogenization effects on the resident Location N‐Adriatic ecosystems (Marano Grado lagoon, Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy). Methods We sampled vegetation within two habitats (foredunes...
Seagrass meadows play a vital role for lagoon ecosystems and their biota, sustaining multiple ecosystem services. Their distribution functioning are closely tied to the environmental pressures induced by global changes. Long-term monitoring of seagrass species communities is, hence, important depict response past future scenarios. The availability long term open-access satellite data offers new remote sensing perspective dynamics in shallow waters, especially when combined with machine...
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 Question Remote sensing is a fundamental tool to monitor biodiversity and spectral diversity may represent proxy for different facets such as taxonomic (TD) functional (FD). We used fine‐resolution multispectral imagery explore (SD) patterns across spatial scales (i.e., plot, transect, area), assess SD relationships with TD FD along an environmental gradient. Location Coastal sand dune, Viareggio, Italy (“Migliarino–San Rossore–Massaciuccoli” Regional Park, 43°83′ N, 10°25′ E)....
Summary 1. Recently a number of rarefaction curves including information on species’ functional traits were proposed for those measures diversity that monotonically increase with species richness. 2. Building these methods, in this paper, we propose curve abundance data is obtained using the classical decomposition Rao quadratic into alpha, beta and gamma diversity. 3. The abundance‐based illustrated one dedicated case study sand dune communities Italy. 4. Although put emphasis only, because...