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  1. Investigating sacred natural sites and protected areas for forest area changes in Italy

    Article • Conservation Science and Practice, June 2022, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  2. Unveiling the complex canopy spatial structure of a Mediterranean old-growth beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest from UAV observations

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2022, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  3. Old and ancient trees are life history lottery winners and vital evolutionary resources for long-term adaptive capacity

    Article • Nature Plants, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  4. Mediterranean old-growth forests exhibit resistance to climate warming

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  5. Characterizing historical transformation trajectories of the forest landscape in Rome's metropolitan area (Italy) for effective planning of sustainability goals

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, August 2021, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  6. Italy: Forest harvesting is the opposite of green growth

    Article • Nature, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  7. Warmer springs have increased the frequency and extension of late-frost defoliations in southern European beech forests

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  8. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 11

    Article • Italian Botanist, May 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  9. On tree longevity

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2021, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  10. In the Mediterranean Mountains, Some Sessile Oaks Can Live for a Millennium

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, January 2021, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  11. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Derived Canopy Gaps in the Old-Growth Beech Forest of Mount Pollinello (Italy): Preliminary Results

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

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

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, October 2020, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  13. Radiocarbon dating of Aspromonte sessile oaks reveals the oldest dated temperate flowering tree in the world

    Article • Ecology, September 2020, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  14. Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Ricardo Villalba

  15. A consilience-driven approach to land use history in relation to reconstructing forest land use legacies

    Article • Landscape Ecology, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  16. Climate–human interactions contributed to historical forest recruitment dynamics in Mediterranean subalpine ecosystems

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2020, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  17. Toward the development of sustainable ecotourism in Italian national parks of the Apennines: insights from hiking guides

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2020, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  18. A light‐demanding pine spreads into a closed forest

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

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

    Article • Conservation Biology, September 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  20. Slow Growth Leads to Longevity in Temperate Hardwoods

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  21. Lessons from the wild: slow but increasing long‐term growth allows for maximum longevity in European beech

    Article • Ecology, May 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  22. IDENTIFYING THE 993–994 CE MIYAKE EVENT IN THE OLDEST DATED LIVING TREE IN EUROPE

    Article • Radiocarbon, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  23. Lakes as paleoseismic records in a seismically-active, low-relief area (Rieti Basin, central Italy)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  24. Tree growth patterns associated with extreme longevity: implications for the ecology and conservation of primeval trees in Mediterranean mountains

    Article • Anthropocene, March 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  25. Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

    Article • Global Change Biology, February 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  26. Land Use and the Human Impact on the Environment in Medieval Italy

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary History, November 2018, The MIT Press

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  27. Challenging X-ray Fluorescence Applications for Environmental Studies at XLab Frascati

    Article • Condensed Matter, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  28. The oldest dated tree of Europe lives in the wild Pollino massif: Italus , a strip-bark Heldreich's pine

    Article • Ecology, May 2018, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  29. The potential of paleoecology for functional forest restoration planning: lessons from Late Holocene Italian pollen records

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Maria Mercuri, Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  30. Historical ecology reveals landscape transformation coincident with cultural development in central Italy since the Roman Period

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  31. Tree growth dynamics during early ontogenetic stages in closed forests

    Article • Trees, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  32. Dating old hollow trees by applying a multistep tree-ring and radiocarbon procedure to trunk and exposed roots

    Article • MethodsX, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  33. From the Late Medieval to Early Modern in the Rieti Basin (AD 1325–1601): Paleoecological and Historical Approaches to a Landscape in Transition

    Article • Historical Geography, January 2018, Project Muse

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Edward Schoolman

  34. Large-scale atmospheric circulation enhances the Mediterranean East-West tree growth contrast at rear-edge deciduous forests

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, May 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  35. Hydrochemical determination of source water contributions to Lake Lungo and Lake Ripasottile (central Italy)

    Article • Journal of Limnology, December 2016, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  36. Tree ring-based metrics for assessing old-growth forest naturalness

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, October 2016, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  37. From Landsat to leafhoppers: A multidisciplinary approach for sustainable stocking assessment and ecological monitoring in mountain grasslands

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  38. Human and climatically induced environmental change in the Mediterranean during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: A case from central Italy

    Article • Anthropocene, September 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  39. Silvicultural and logging impact on soil characteristics in Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) Mediterranean coppice

    Article • Ecological Engineering, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  40. Missing Rings in Pinus halepensis – The Missing Link to Relate the Tree-Ring Record to Extreme Climatic Events

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, May 2016, Frontiers

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Katarina Cufar

  41. Erratum to: Dendrochemical investigation on hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) in poplars by an integrated study of micro-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography

    Article • Trees, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  42. Dendrochemical investigation on hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) in poplars by an integrated study of micro-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography

    Article • Trees, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  43. Tree ring ecological signal is consistent with floristic composition and plant indicator values in MediterraneanFagus sylvaticaforests

    Article • Journal of Ecology, October 2015, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  44. Vegetation patterns in the Southern Apennines (Italy) during MIS 13: Deciphering pollen variability along a NW-SE transect

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  45. The longevity of broadleaf deciduous trees in Northern Hemisphere temperate forests: insights from tree-ring series

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, May 2015, Frontiers

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  46. 2700 years of Mediterranean environmental change in central Italy: a synthesis of sedimentary and cultural records to interpret past impacts of climate on society

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  47. Natural regeneration and gender-specific spatial pattern of Taxus baccata in an old-growth population in Foresta Umbra (Italy)

    Article • Dendrobiology, March 2015, Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  48. Phenorhythms and Forest Refugia

    Article • May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  49. Correction: Plasticity in Dendroclimatic Response across the Distribution Range of Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis)

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2014, PLOS

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Katarina Cufar

  50. Plasticity in Dendroclimatic Response across the Distribution Range of Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis)

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2013, PLOS

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Katarina Cufar

  51. Ecological behavior of Quercus suber and Quercus ilex inferred by topographic wetness index (TWI)

    Article • Trees, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  52. A dendrochronological analysis of Pinus pinea L. on the Italian mid-Tyrrhenian coast

    Article • Geochronometria, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  53. Biogeoclimatic influences on tree growth releases identified by the boundary line method in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) populations of southern Europe

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  54. Soil microarthropod communities from Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Central Italy under different disturbances

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  55. Old-growth attributes in a network of Apennines (Italy) beech forests: Disentangling the role of past human interferences and biogeoclimate

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  56. Bioclimate and growth history affect beech lifespan in the Italian Alps and Apennines

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2012, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  57. Tree size distribution at increasing spatial scales converges to the rotated sigmoid curve in two old-growth beech stands of the Italian Apennines

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  58. Communicating old-growth forest through an educational trail

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  59. Combined dendroecological and normalized difference vegetation index analysis to detect regions of provenance in forest species

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  60. Irrigation regime as a key factor to improve growth performance ofQuercus suberL.

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  61. Climate change and oak growth decline: Dendroecology and stand productivity of a Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) old stored coppice in Central Italy

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  62. Population ecology of yew (Taxus baccata L.) in the Central Apennines: spatial patterns and their relevance for conservation strategies

    Article • Plant Ecology, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  63. Drought-driven growth reduction in old beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests of the central Apennines, Italy

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2008, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  64. Bioclimatology of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the Eastern Alps: spatial and altitudinal climatic signals identified through a tree-ring network

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2007, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Katarina Cufar

  65. La hêtraie pluri-séculaire de la vallée Cervara (Parc national des Abruzzes, Italie)

    Article • Acta Botanica Gallica, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mauro Bernabei, Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  66. The evolutionary ecology of masting: does the environmental prediction hypothesis also have a role in mesic temperate forests?

    Article • Ecological Research, July 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  67. Long series relationships between global interannual CO2 increment and climate: Evidence for stability and change in role of the tropical and boreal-temperate zones

    Article • Chemosphere, June 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  68. Spatial and altitudinal bioclimatic zones of the Italian peninsula identified from a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree-ring network

    Article • Acta Oecologica, May 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  69. Structure, dynamics and dendroecology of an old-growth Fagus forest in the Apennines

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2005, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  70. A long-term tree ring beech chronology from a high-elevation old-growth forest of Central Italy

    Article • Dendrochronologia, January 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  71. Uncertainties in the role of land vegetation in the carbon cycle

    Article • Chemosphere, December 2002, Elsevier

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  72. The Case for Genetic Engineering of Native and Landscape Trees against Introduced Pests and Diseases

    Article • Conservation Biology, August 2002, Wiley

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  73. Climatic factors controlling reproduction and growth of Norway spruce in southern Norway

    Article • Canadian Journal of Forest Research, February 2002, Canadian Science Publishing

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  74. Masting behaviour in beech: linking reproduction and climatic variation

    Article • Canadian Journal of Botany, January 2001, Canadian Science Publishing

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  75. Winter North Atlantic oscillation effects on the tree rings of the Italian beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.)

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  76. Biosistematica Vegetale

    Article • Giornale botanico italiano, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  77. Taxonomic evaluations of the genusPinus (Pinaceae) based on electrophoretic data of salt soluble and insoluble seed storage proteins

    Article • Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  78. Biologia Riproduttiva

    Article • Giornale botanico italiano, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  79. A taxonomic analysis of seed proteins inPinus spp.(Pinaceae)

    Article • Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan

  80. Sistematica, Filogenesi E Citotassonomia

    Article • Giornale botanico italiano, January 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan