List of works - Carlo Ricotta

A Generalized Framework for Analyzing Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Community Structure Based on Presence–Absence Data

A cautionary note on some phylogenetic dissimilarity measures

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta et al published 30 July 2014 in Journal of Plant Ecology

A classical measure of phylogenetic dissimilarity and its relationship with beta diversity

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta et al published February 2015 in Basic and Applied Ecology

A cost-effective approach for improving the quality of soil sealing change detection from Landsat imagery

A family of (dis)similarity measures based on evenness and its relationship with beta diversity

scientific article published in 2018

A family of functional dissimilarity measures for presence and absence data

scientific article

A framework for understanding how biodiversity patterns unfold across multiple spatial scales in urban ecosystems

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data

article by János Podani et al published September 2013 in Ecological Complexity

A multiple-site dissimilarity measure for species presence/absence data and its relationship with nestedness and turnover

article

A multivariate approach for mapping fire ignition risk: the example of the National Park of Cilento (southern Italy).

scientific article published on 10 April 2015

A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties.

scientific article

A new method for quantifying the phylogenetic redundancy of biological communities.

scientific article

A new parametric measure of functional dissimilarity: Bridging the gap between the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and the Euclidean distance

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

A note on functional diversity measures

scientific article published in 2005

A parametric diversity measure combining the relative abundances and taxonomic distinctiveness of species

article

A parametric index of community evenness

scientific article published in 2000

A partial ordering approach for functional diversity.

scientific article

A recipe for unconventional evenness measures.

scientific article published in January 2004

A semantic taxonomy for diversity measures

scientific article published on 08 May 2007

A simple translation from indices of species diversity to indices of phylogenetic diversity

scientific article published in 2019

Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

article

Additive partition of parametric information and its associated beta-diversity measure.

scientific article

Additive partitioning of Rao's quadratic diversity: a hierarchical approach

scientific article published in 2005

Alien plant species do have a clear preference for different land uses within urban environments

article

An information-theoretical measure of taxonomic diversity

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

An information-theoretical measure of β-diversity

scientific article published in 2003

Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

scientific article

Aquatic macrophyte diversity assessment: Validation of a new sampling method for circular-shaped lakes

article

Are differences in functional diversity among plant communities on Mediterranean coastal dunes driven by their phylogenetic history?

article

Are landscapes as crisp as we may think?

article published in 2007

Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

article

Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

Assessing the Influence of Roads on Fire Ignition: Does Land Cover Matter?

Assessing the functional turnover of species assemblages with tailored dissimilarity matrices

article

Beta diversity reconsidered

scientific article published in 2013

Beta redundancy for functional ecology

scientific article published in 2021

Beware of contagion!

article published in 2003

Biotic homogenization of urban floras by alien species: the role of species turnover and richness differences

article

Bootstrapping Wildfire Selectivity for the Forest Types of Canton Ticino (Switzerland)

article

Boundary-based analysis for the assessment of coastal dune landscape integrity over time

article

Bridging the gap between ecological diversity indices and measures of biodiversity with Shannon's entropy: comment to Izsák and Papp

scientific article published in 2002

British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras

article

CO2 sequestration in two mediterranean dune areas subjected to a different level of anthropogenic disturbance

scholarly article by Andrea Bonito published in September 2017

CWM and Rao's quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology.

scientific article

Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

scientific article published in 2013

Characterizing self-similar temporal clustering of wildfires in the Cilento National Park (Southern Italy)

article

Common species have lower taxonomic diversity Evidence from the urban floras of Brussels and Rome

article

Comparison of the spectral information content of Landsat Thematic Mapper and Resurs-01 NDVI data for vegetation discrimination and monitoring in central Italy

article

Complementing daily fire-danger assessment using a novel metric based on burnt area ranking

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Computing additive beta-diversity from presence and absence scores: a critique and alternative parameters.

scientific article

Computing diversity from dated phylogenies and taxonomic hierarchies: does it make a difference to the conclusions?

scientific article

Computing parametric beta diversity with unequal plot weights: a solution based on resampling methods

scientific article published in 2008

Computing β-diversity from species-area curves

article

Computing β-diversity with Rao's quadratic entropy: a change of perspective

article

Contrasting Impacts of Cultivated Exotics on the Functional Diversity of Domestic Gardens in Three Regions with Different Aridity

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Diversity partitioning of Rao's quadratic entropy

scientific article

Does Ordinal Cover Estimation Offer Reliable Quality Data Structures in Vegetation Ecological Studies?

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta & Enrico Feoli published 15 February 2013 in Folia Geobotanica

Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset

scientific article published in 2022

Estimating tree species diversity from space in an alpine conifer forest: The Rao's Q diversity index meets the spectral variation hypothesis

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Evidence of selective burning in Sardinia (Italy): which land-cover classes do wildfires prefer?

article

Exploring taxonomic filtering in urban environments

Fourier transforms for detecting multitemporal landscape fragmentation by remote sensing

Fractal Size Distributions of Wildfires in Hierarchical Landscapes: Natura Facit Saltus?

scientific article published in 2003

From abundance-based to functional-based indicator species

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

From phylogenetic to functional originality: Guide through indices and new developments

scholarly article by Sandrine Pavoine et al published November 2017 in Ecological Indicators

From the euclidean distance to compositional dissimilarity: What is gained and what is lost

scientific article published in 2021

From theoretical ecology to statistical physics and back: self-similar landscape metrics as a synthesis of ecological diversity and geometrical complexity

article published in 2000

From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy

scientific article published on 15 March 2021

Functional and phylogenetic similarity among communities

scholarly article by Sandrine Pavoine & Carlo Ricotta published 10 May 2014 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Functional rarefaction for species abundance data

article

Geographical constraints are stronger than invasion patterns for European urban floras ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Identifying functionally distinctive and threatened species

scientific article published in 2023

Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Incorporating functional dissimilarities into sample-based rarefaction curves: from taxon resampling to functional resampling

Incorporating spatial autocorrelation in rarefaction methods: Implications for ecologists and conservation biologists

scientific article published in 2016

Informational Analysis of Forest Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity

Invasiveness of alien plants in Brussels is related to their phylogenetic similarity to native species

article

Isoprenoid emission in hygrophyte and xerophyte European woody flora: ecological and evolutionary implications

scientific article published in 2013

Land degradation versus fire: A spiral process?

Landscape complexity and spatial scale influence the relationship between remotely sensed spectral diversity and survey-based plant species richness

article

Leaf thickness and density drive the responsiveness of photosynthesis to air temperature in Mediterranean species according to their leaf habitus

scholarly article by Loretta Gratani et al published March 2018 in Journal of Arid Environments

Let the concept of indicator species be functional!

Linking fire ignitions hotspots and fuel phenology: The importance of being seasonal

scientific article published in 2017

Mapping and monitoring net primary productivity with AVHRR NDVI time-series: statistical equivalence of cumulative vegetation indices

Mapping fire ignition risk in a complex anthropogenic landscape

Mapping forest fuels through vegetation phenology: the role of coarse-resolution satellite time-series

scientific article

Measuring Rao's Q diversity index from remote sensing: An open source solution

scientific article published in 2017

Measuring Scale-Dependent Landscape Structure with Rao’s Quadratic Diversity

Measuring beta-diversity from taxonomic similarity

Measuring diversity from space: a global view of the free and open source rasterdiv R package under a coding perspective

scientific article published in 2021

Measuring forest fragmentation using multitemporal remotely sensed data: three decades of change in the dry Chaco

article by Maria Laura Carranza et al published January 2014 in European Journal of Remote Sensing

Measuring functional dissimilarity among plots: Adapting old methods to new questions

scientific article published in 2019

Measuring similarity among plots including similarity among species: an extension of traditional approaches

article

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

article published in 2016

Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Mediterranean shrublands carbon sequestration: environmental and economic benefits

scholarly article by Loretta Gratani et al published 29 August 2012 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Modeling the landscape drivers of fire recurrence in Sardinia (Italy).

scientific article published on 5 April 2014

Modelling fire occurrence at regional scale: does vegetation phenology matter?

Modelling the meteorological forest fire niche in heterogeneous pyrologic conditions

scientific article

Modelling the phenological niche of large fires with remotely sensed NDVI profiles

article published in 2012

Monitoring Water Stress Induced Variation in the Remotely Sensed Biomass Pattern of Sardinia (Italy) with Variograms

article

More rich means more diverse: Extending the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’ to taxonomic diversity

scientific article published in 2009

Of beta diversity, variance, evenness, and dissimilarity.

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

On beta diversity decomposition: trouble shared is not trouble halved.

scientific article

On hierarchical diversity decomposition

On parametric evenness measures ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 2003

On parametric fragmentation measures

On the evaluation of ordinal data with conventional multivariate procedures

On the relationship between Pielou’s evenness and landscape dominance within the context of Hill’s diversity profiles

article published in 2003

On the relationships between rarity, uniqueness, distinctiveness, originality and functional/phylogenetic diversity

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

On two dissimilarity-based measures of functional beta diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Parametric scaling from species relative abundances to absolute abundances in the computation of biological diversity: a first proposal using Shannon's entropy.

scientific article published in January 2003

Parametric scaling from species to growth-form diversity: an interesting analogy with multifractal functions

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Partitioning diversity for conservation analyses

scientific article published in 2009

Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: rejecting the ‘rich get richer’ model

article

Phenological variability drives the distribution of wildfires in Sardinia

scholarly article by Antonella De Angelis et al published 16 October 2012 in Landscape Ecology

Phenotypic dissimilarity index: Correcting for intra‐ and interindividual variability when quantifying phenotypic variation

scientific article published in 2022

Phyloecology of urban alien floras

scientific article published in 2009

Phylogenetic beta diversity of native and alien species in European urban floras

article

Plant invasion as an emerging challenge for the conservation of heritage sites: the spread of ornamental trees on ancient monuments in Rome, Italy

scientific article

Plant–environment interactions through a functional traits perspective: a review of Italian studies

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions

article

Quantifying ecological mosaic connectivity and hemeroby with a new topoecological index

Quantifying evenness and linking it to diversity, beta diversity, and similarity

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Quantifying landscape change with actual vs. potential natural vegetation maps

Quantifying post-fire regrowth of remotely sensed mediterranean vegetation with percolation-based methods

scientific article published in 2001

Quantifying the effects of nutrient addition on community diversity of serpentine vegetation using parametric entropy of type α

article

Quantifying the effects of nutrient addition on the taxonomic distinctness of serpentine vegetation

article

Quantifying the taxonomic diversity in real species communities

article

Quantitative comparison of the diversity of landscapes with actual vs. potential natural vegetation

Random sampling does not exclude spatial dependence: The importance of neutral models for ecological hypothesis testing

Rarefaction of beta diversity

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Relationship between fire regime and vegetation symphenological timing in Sardinia

Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study

scientific article published in 2018

Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges

article

Rényi's generalized information as a linear combination of species richness and dominance concentration

scientific article published in 2001

Self-organized criticality of wildfires ecologically revisited

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta et al published July 2001 in Ecological Modelling

Spatial Algorithms Applied to Landscape Diversity Estimate from Remote Sensing Data

article

Spatial complexity of ecological communities: Bridging the gap between probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty measures

scientific article published in 2006

Spatio-ecological complexity measures in GRASS GIS

Strong requirements for weak diversities

article published in 2006

Testing for differences in beta diversity from plot-to-plot dissimilarities

scientific article published in 2011

Testing for differences in beta diversity with asymmetric dissimilarities

scientific article published in 2009

Testing for phylogenetic signal in biological traits: the ubiquity of cross-product statistics

scientific article

The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color

scientific article published in 2022

The flaming sandpile: self-organized criticality and wildfires

scholarly article by Carlo Ricotta et al published July 1999 in Ecological Modelling

The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Through the jungle of biological diversity.

scientific article published in January 2005

Time-lapsing biodiversity: An open source method for measuring diversity changes by remote sensing

scientific article published in 2019

Topological analysis of the spatial distribution of plant species richness across the city of Rome (Italy) with the echelon approach

article

Towards a Complex, Plural and Dynamic Approach to Diversity: Rejoinder to Myers and Patil, Podani, and Sarkar

Towards a unifying approach to diversity measures: bridging the gap between the Shannon entropy and Rao's quadratic index.

scientific article published on 13 June 2006

Towards a unifying framework for diversity and dissimilarity coefficients

scientific article published on 19 July 2021

Trade-offs in the conservation of phylogenetically distinctive species

scientific article published in 2022

Uncertainty in ecosystem mapping by remote sensing

Urban ecosystem services: tree diversity and stability of tropospheric ozone removal

scientific article published on January 2012

Using Monte Carlo simulations to estimate relative fire ignition danger in a low-to-medium fire-prone region

article

Using Shannon's recursivity to summarize forest structural diversity

Using the scaling behaviour of higher taxa for the assessment of species richness

Wildfire seasonality and land use: when do wildfires prefer to burn?

scientific article published on 25 April 2009

‘Equivalent numbers’ for species, phylogenetic or functional diversity in a nested hierarchy of multiple scales

article

List of works by Carlo Ricotta

A Generalized Framework for Analyzing Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Community Structure Based on Presence–Absence Data

A cautionary note on some phylogenetic dissimilarity measures

A classical measure of phylogenetic dissimilarity and its relationship with beta diversity

A cost-effective approach for improving the quality of soil sealing change detection from Landsat imagery

A family of (dis)similarity measures based on evenness and its relationship with beta diversity

A family of functional dissimilarity measures for presence and absence data

A framework for understanding how biodiversity patterns unfold across multiple spatial scales in urban ecosystems

A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data

A multiple-site dissimilarity measure for species presence/absence data and its relationship with nestedness and turnover

A multivariate approach for mapping fire ignition risk: the example of the National Park of Cilento (southern Italy).

A new measure of functional evenness and some of its properties.

A new method for quantifying the phylogenetic redundancy of biological communities.

A new parametric measure of functional dissimilarity: Bridging the gap between the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and the Euclidean distance

A note on functional diversity measures

A parametric diversity measure combining the relative abundances and taxonomic distinctiveness of species

A parametric index of community evenness

A partial ordering approach for functional diversity.

A recipe for unconventional evenness measures.

A semantic taxonomy for diversity measures

A simple translation from indices of species diversity to indices of phylogenetic diversity

Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

Additive partition of parametric information and its associated beta-diversity measure.

Additive partitioning of Rao's quadratic diversity: a hierarchical approach

Alien plant species do have a clear preference for different land uses within urban environments

An information-theoretical measure of taxonomic diversity

An information-theoretical measure of β-diversity

Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

Aquatic macrophyte diversity assessment: Validation of a new sampling method for circular-shaped lakes

Are differences in functional diversity among plant communities on Mediterranean coastal dunes driven by their phylogenetic history?

Are landscapes as crisp as we may think?

Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

Assessing the Influence of Roads on Fire Ignition: Does Land Cover Matter?

Assessing the functional turnover of species assemblages with tailored dissimilarity matrices

Beta diversity reconsidered

Beta redundancy for functional ecology

Beware of contagion!

Biotic homogenization of urban floras by alien species: the role of species turnover and richness differences

Bootstrapping Wildfire Selectivity for the Forest Types of Canton Ticino (Switzerland)

Boundary-based analysis for the assessment of coastal dune landscape integrity over time

Bridging the gap between ecological diversity indices and measures of biodiversity with Shannon's entropy: comment to Izsák and Papp

British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras

CO2 sequestration in two mediterranean dune areas subjected to a different level of anthropogenic disturbance

CWM and Rao's quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology.

Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

Characterizing self-similar temporal clustering of wildfires in the Cilento National Park (Southern Italy)

Common species have lower taxonomic diversity Evidence from the urban floras of Brussels and Rome

Comparison of the spectral information content of Landsat Thematic Mapper and Resurs-01 NDVI data for vegetation discrimination and monitoring in central Italy

Complementing daily fire-danger assessment using a novel metric based on burnt area ranking

Computing additive beta-diversity from presence and absence scores: a critique and alternative parameters.

Computing diversity from dated phylogenies and taxonomic hierarchies: does it make a difference to the conclusions?

Computing parametric beta diversity with unequal plot weights: a solution based on resampling methods

Computing β-diversity from species-area curves

Computing β-diversity with Rao's quadratic entropy: a change of perspective

Contrasting Impacts of Cultivated Exotics on the Functional Diversity of Domestic Gardens in Three Regions with Different Aridity

Diversity partitioning of Rao's quadratic entropy

Does Ordinal Cover Estimation Offer Reliable Quality Data Structures in Vegetation Ecological Studies?

Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset

Estimating tree species diversity from space in an alpine conifer forest: The Rao's Q diversity index meets the spectral variation hypothesis

Evidence of selective burning in Sardinia (Italy): which land-cover classes do wildfires prefer?

Exploring taxonomic filtering in urban environments

Fourier transforms for detecting multitemporal landscape fragmentation by remote sensing

Fractal Size Distributions of Wildfires in Hierarchical Landscapes: Natura Facit Saltus?

From abundance-based to functional-based indicator species

From phylogenetic to functional originality: Guide through indices and new developments

From the euclidean distance to compositional dissimilarity: What is gained and what is lost

From theoretical ecology to statistical physics and back: self-similar landscape metrics as a synthesis of ecological diversity and geometrical complexity

From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy

Functional and phylogenetic similarity among communities

Functional rarefaction for species abundance data

Geographical constraints are stronger than invasion patterns for European urban floras ⬇️

Identifying functionally distinctive and threatened species

Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity

Incorporating functional dissimilarities into sample-based rarefaction curves: from taxon resampling to functional resampling

Incorporating spatial autocorrelation in rarefaction methods: Implications for ecologists and conservation biologists

Informational Analysis of Forest Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity

Invasiveness of alien plants in Brussels is related to their phylogenetic similarity to native species

Isoprenoid emission in hygrophyte and xerophyte European woody flora: ecological and evolutionary implications

Land degradation versus fire: A spiral process?