List of works - Alessandro Chiarucci

A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

A multifaceted approach for beech forest conservation: Environmental drivers of understory plant diversity

scholarly article

A new site for Sphagnum in Tuscany in the Belagaio forest

article by I. Bonini et al published January 1998 in Webbia

A sampling strategy for assessing habitat coverage at a broad spatial scale

scientific article published in 2022

A test of the scale-dependence of the species abundance-people correlation for veteran trees in Italy

scientific article

Absence of distance decay in the similarity of plots at small extent in an urban brownfield

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

article

Additive partitioning as a tool for investigating the flora diversity in oceanic archipelagos

scientific article published in 2010

Advances in the ecology of serpentine soils

AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years

scientific article published in 2022

An interspecific variation in rhizosphere effects on soil anti-erodibility

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Analysing methodological issues in short-term monitoring of rare European beech forests restoration

article by Simona Maccherini et al published 18 April 2018 in Plant Biosystems

Anthropogenic drivers of plant diversity: perspective on land use change in a dynamic cultural landscape

article

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

scientific article

Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

Applied Vegetation Scienceenters its 20th year

Applied Vegetation Sciencein 2016: the leading journal promoting the application of vegetation science

Applied vegetation science addresses emerging global issues

Aquatic Plant Diversity in Italy: Distribution, Drivers and Strategic Conservation Actions.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Assessing the diversity pattern of cryophilous plant species in high elevation habitats

article

Author Correction: Plant recording across two centuries reveals dramatic changes in species diversity of a Mediterranean archipelago

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

scientific article

Biodiversity response to forest structure and management: Comparing species richness, conservation relevant species and functional diversity as metrics in forest conservation

scientific article published in 2019

Biogeographical determinants of pteridophytes and spermatophytes on oceanic archipelagos

scholarly article by Alessandro Chiarucci et al published 8 August 2011 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Biogeography and ecology of the genus Turbinicarpus (Cactaceae): environmental controls of taxa richness and morphology

scholarly article by Davide Donati et al published 15 December 2016 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Biotic homogenization of oceanic islands depends on taxon, spatial scale and the quantification approach

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Can we compare lichen diversity data? A test with skilled teams

scientific article published in 2012

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

scientific article published in February 2024

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

scientific article published on 9 February 2023

Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2021

Coastline Dune Vegetation Dynamics: Evidence of No Stability

article

Commonness and rarity of plants in a reserve network: just two faces of the same coin

article

Competition, invasion effects versus invasiveness and fuzzy classification

article

Contrasting multitaxon responses to climate change in Mediterranean mountains

scientific article published in 2021

Data on alpine grassland diversity in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

article

Design concepts adopted in long-term forest monitoring programs in Europe--problems for the future?

scientific article published on July 2003

Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

article

Disturbance, seeds, restoration, and the importance of experiments and long‐term observations: the Editors' Award for 2005

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation

scientific article published in January 2024

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Drivers of distance‐decay in bryophyte assemblages at multiple spatial scales: Dispersal limitations or environmental control?

scholarly article

Drivers of floristic richness in the Mediterranean: a case study from Tuscany

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

EFFECTS OF PINE PLANTATIONS ON ULTRAMAFIC VEGETATION OF CENTRAL ITALY

article

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Editors’ Award, experimental approaches, functional traits and ecoinformatics

Editors’ Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration

Effects of an afforestation process on plant species richness: A retrogressive analysis

article

Effects of productivity on species-area curves in herbaceous vegetation: evidence from experimental and observational data

article

Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

scientific article published in 2023

Epiphytic lichens of the sacred natural site “Bosco di Sant’Antonio” (Majella National Park – Abruzzo)

scientific article published in 2019

Estimating species richness: still a long way off!

article

Evaluation and monitoring of the flora in a nature reserve by estimation methods

Experiments and field observations: Two predominant aspects of a multi-faceted vegetation science

Exploring patterns of beta-diversity to test the consistency of biogeographical boundaries: A case study across forest plant communities of Italy

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Exploring the relationships between ecology and species traits in cyanolichens: A case study on Italy

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

scientific article published on 22 May 2021

Flora and plant communities across a complex network of heavily modified water bodies: geographical patterns, land use and hydrochemical drivers in a temperate overexploited plain

scientific article published in 2022

From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Functional characters, texture and stress

Functional types, climatic change and species richness

Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: the role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance

scientific article published in 2022

Geostatistical modelling of regional bird species richness: exploring environmental proxies for conservation purpose

article

Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants

article

GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

article

Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago

scientific article published on 26 September 2020

How differences in plant abundance measures produce different species-abundance distributions

article

How to publish a good journal in plant community ecology?

article

Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands

scientific article published on 04 May 2021

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma

scientific article published on 29 November 2021

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

scientific article published in 2016

Influence of secondary forest succession on plant diversity patterns in a Mediterranean landscape

article

Influence of temperature and rainfall on fruit and seed production of Arbutus unedo L

article

Integrative models explain the relationships between species richness and productivity in plant communities

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Invasive species, management for conservation and remote sensing

scientific article published in 2008

Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora

scientific article published in 2021

Is floristic quality assessment reliable in human-managed ecosystems?

scientific article published in 2010

Is vascular plant species diversity a predictor of bryophyte species diversity in Mediterranean forests?

article

Journal development, vegetation survey and the restoration of invaded ecosystems

article

Journal of Vegetation Sciencein 2015: journal growth, celebrations and awards

Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve

article

Landscape metrics and topographical determinants of large-scale forest dynamics in a Mediterranean landscape

article

Landscape structure effects on forest plant diversity at local scale: Exploring the role of spatial extent

article

Linking biodiversity to ecosystems: A task for plant community ecologists

article

Long-term effects of climate and phosphorus fertilisation on serpentine vegetation

scientific article published on 9 March 2007

Long-term investigations and experimental manipulations: Useful perspectives for applied vegetation studies

Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data

scientific article

Mapping patterns of ferns species richness through the use of herbarium data

article

Mapping plant community ecology

article

Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation

scientific article published on 26 April 2021

Maximizing plant species inventory efficiency by means of remotely sensed spectral distances

article

Multi-scale sampling and statistical linear estimators to assess land use status and change

article by Duccio Rocchini et al published April 2009 in Applied Vegetation Science

Multi-stage cluster sampling for estimating average species richness at different spatial grains

article

Need for a global map of forest naturalness for a sustainable future

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Networks of epiphytic lichens and host trees along elevation gradients: Climate change implications in mountain ranges

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Old and new challenges in using species diversity for assessing biodiversity ⬇️

scientific article published on August 27, 2011

Optimizing sampling effort and information content of biodiversity surveys: a case study of alpine grassland

scientific article

Organic farming, vegetation restoration and survey

article

Performance of nonparametric species richness estimators in a high diversity plant community

article

Phytomining for nickel, thallium and gold

scholarly article by C.W.N Anderson et al published December 1999 in Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using an object-based approach and historical analysis

article

Plant communities: their conservation assessment and surveys across continents and in the tropics

article

Plant diversity changes in a nature reserve: a probabilistic sampling method for quantitative assessments

scientific article published in 2019

Plant movements and climate warming: intraspecific variation in growth responses to nonlocal soils

scientific article

Plant recording across two centuries reveals dramatic changes in species diversity of a Mediterranean archipelago

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands

scientific article

Prioritizing conservation of terrestrial orchids: A gap analysis for Italy

scientific article published in 2024

Progress in vegetation science: Trends over the past three decades and new horizons

Pronounced turnover of vascular plant species in Central European arable fields over 90 years

scientific article published in February 2024

Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 June 2024

Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 network: Old ideas and new proposals

article

Quantifying species richness at multiple spatial scales in a Natura 2000 network

article

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

Quantitative floristics as a tool for the assessment of plant diversity in Tuscan forests

article

Range shifts of native and invasive trees exacerbate the impact of climate change on epiphyte distribution: The case of lung lichen and black locust in Italy

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Rarefaction of beta diversity

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

ReSurveyEurope : A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in January 2024

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Recognizing and interpreting vegetational belts: New wine in the old bottles of a von Humboldt's legacy

scholarly article

Relating spectral and species diversity through rarefaction curves

article

Remote sensing of beta diversity: evidence from plant communities in a semi-natural system

article

Remote sensing reveals fire-driven enhancement of a C<sub>4</sub> invasive alien grass on a small Mediterranean volcanic island

scientific article published in 2024

Role of irrigation canal morphology in driving riparian flora in over-exploited catchments

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

STRUCTURE AND SPECIES DIVERSITY OF BROMUS ERECTUS GRASSLANDS OF BIANCANA BADLANDS

scientific article

Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review

scientific article published in 2021

Scale dependence of plant species richness in a network of protected areas

article

Scale‐dependent shifts in functional and phylogenetic structure of Mediterranean island plant communities over two centuries

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Serpentine: The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System. Edited by Susan Harrison and Nishanta Rajakaruna. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $70.00. xiv + 446 p.; ill.; species and subject indexes. ISBN: 978-0-520-26835-7. 2011

Shape matters in sampling plant diversity: Evidence from the field

article

Shrines in Central Italy conserve plant diversity and large trees

scientific article

Silver Jubilee of the journal and complexity of global change

Simple to sample: Vascular plants as surrogate group in a nature reserve

article

Spatial models and plant traits for conservation and restoration

article

Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction

article by Alessandro Chiarucci et al published December 2009 in Community Ecology

Species–area relationship and small‐island effect of vascular plant diversity in a young volcanic archipelago

scientific article published on 08 September 2021

Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Spectral rarefaction: linking ecological variability and plant species diversity

article

Structure and floristic diversity in permanent monitoring plots in forest ecosystems of Tuscany

scientific article published in 2001

Temporal beta diversity patterns reveal global change impacts in closed mountain grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Testing the spectral variation hypothesis by using satellite multispectral images

scientific article published in 2004

The Influence of Vegetation and Landscape Structural Connectivity on Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperiidae), Carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae), and Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) in Northern Italy Fa

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

The Phytoremediation Potential of Thallium-Contaminated Soils UsingIberis and BiscutellaSpecies

scholarly article by Cher LaCoste et al published October 1999 in International Journal of Phytoremediation

The concept of potential natural vegetation: an epitaph?

article

The invasion history of Elodea canadensis and E. nuttallii (Hydrocharitaceae) in Italy from herbarium accessions, field records and historical literature

scientific article published in 2022

The nature of vegetation science

The role of regional and local scale predictors for plant species richness in Mediterranean forests

article

The spatial domain matters: Spatially constrained species rarefaction in a Free and Open Source environment

article

The underpinnings of the relationship of species richness with space and time

article

There is room for everyone: Invasion credit cannot be inferred from the species–area relationship in fragmented forests

scientific article published in 2023

To sample or not to sample? That is the question ... for the vegetation scientist

Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

article

Transfer of scientific knowledge to practitioners: Do we need a reform of the journal policy?

Twentieth year of theJournal of Vegetation Science: the journal for all vegetation scientists

Uniqueness of Protected Areas for Conservation Strategies in the European Union.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Using Shannon's recursivity to summarize forest structural diversity

Using Vascular Plants as a Surrogate Taxon to Maximize Fungal Species Richness in Reserve Design

article

Using taxonomic data to assess and monitor biodiversity: are the tribes still fighting?

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

article

Vegetation at the Limits for Vegetation: Vascular Plants, Bryophytes and Lichens in a Geothermal Field

article

Vegetation of tuscan ultramafic soils in relation to edaphic and physical factors

Vegetation science during hectic times

scientific article published in 2021

Volcanic ash deposition as a selection mechanism towards woodiness

scientific article published in 2023

Water-energy relationships shape the phylogenetic diversity of terricolous lichen communities in Mediterranean mountains: Implications for conservation in a climate change scenario

scientific article published in 2022

Woody plant species diversity of the coastal forests of Kenya: filling in knowledge gaps in a biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Woody species diversity as predictor of vascular plant species diversity in forest ecosystems

article

Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Alessandro Chiarucci

A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe

A multifaceted approach for beech forest conservation: Environmental drivers of understory plant diversity

A new site for Sphagnum in Tuscany in the Belagaio forest

A sampling strategy for assessing habitat coverage at a broad spatial scale

A test of the scale-dependence of the species abundance-people correlation for veteran trees in Italy

Absence of distance decay in the similarity of plots at small extent in an urban brownfield

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

Additive partitioning as a tool for investigating the flora diversity in oceanic archipelagos

Advances in the ecology of serpentine soils

AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years

An interspecific variation in rhizosphere effects on soil anti-erodibility

Analysing methodological issues in short-term monitoring of rare European beech forests restoration

Anthropogenic drivers of plant diversity: perspective on land use change in a dynamic cultural landscape

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

Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

Applied Vegetation Scienceenters its 20th year

Applied Vegetation Sciencein 2016: the leading journal promoting the application of vegetation science

Applied vegetation science addresses emerging global issues

Aquatic Plant Diversity in Italy: Distribution, Drivers and Strategic Conservation Actions.

Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island

Assessing the diversity pattern of cryophilous plant species in high elevation habitats

Author Correction: Plant recording across two centuries reveals dramatic changes in species diversity of a Mediterranean archipelago

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

Biodiversity response to forest structure and management: Comparing species richness, conservation relevant species and functional diversity as metrics in forest conservation

Biogeographical determinants of pteridophytes and spermatophytes on oceanic archipelagos

Biogeography and ecology of the genus Turbinicarpus (Cactaceae): environmental controls of taxa richness and morphology

Biotic homogenization of oceanic islands depends on taxon, spatial scale and the quantification approach

Can we compare lichen diversity data? A test with skilled teams

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient

Coastline Dune Vegetation Dynamics: Evidence of No Stability

Commonness and rarity of plants in a reserve network: just two faces of the same coin

Competition, invasion effects versus invasiveness and fuzzy classification

Contrasting multitaxon responses to climate change in Mediterranean mountains

Data on alpine grassland diversity in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

Design concepts adopted in long-term forest monitoring programs in Europe--problems for the future?

Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

Disturbance, seeds, restoration, and the importance of experiments and long‐term observations: the Editors' Award for 2005

Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure

Drivers of distance‐decay in bryophyte assemblages at multiple spatial scales: Dispersal limitations or environmental control?

Drivers of floristic richness in the Mediterranean: a case study from Tuscany

EFFECTS OF PINE PLANTATIONS ON ULTRAMAFIC VEGETATION OF CENTRAL ITALY

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

Editors’ Award, experimental approaches, functional traits and ecoinformatics

Editors’ Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration

Effects of an afforestation process on plant species richness: A retrogressive analysis

Effects of productivity on species-area curves in herbaceous vegetation: evidence from experimental and observational data

Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Epiphytic lichens of the sacred natural site “Bosco di Sant’Antonio” (Majella National Park – Abruzzo)

Estimating species richness: still a long way off!

Evaluation and monitoring of the flora in a nature reserve by estimation methods

Experiments and field observations: Two predominant aspects of a multi-faceted vegetation science

Exploring patterns of beta-diversity to test the consistency of biogeographical boundaries: A case study across forest plant communities of Italy

Exploring the relationships between ecology and species traits in cyanolichens: A case study on Italy

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

Flora and plant communities across a complex network of heavily modified water bodies: geographical patterns, land use and hydrochemical drivers in a temperate overexploited plain

From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing

Functional characters, texture and stress

Functional types, climatic change and species richness

Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: the role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance

Geostatistical modelling of regional bird species richness: exploring environmental proxies for conservation purpose

Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants

GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago

How differences in plant abundance measures produce different species-abundance distributions

How to publish a good journal in plant community ecology?

Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma

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

Influence of secondary forest succession on plant diversity patterns in a Mediterranean landscape

Influence of temperature and rainfall on fruit and seed production of Arbutus unedo L

Integrative models explain the relationships between species richness and productivity in plant communities

Invasive species, management for conservation and remote sensing

Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora

Is floristic quality assessment reliable in human-managed ecosystems?

Is vascular plant species diversity a predictor of bryophyte species diversity in Mediterranean forests?