• Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target 

      Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; Zannini, Piero; Piovesan, Gianluca; Alessi, Nicola; Basset, Alberto; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Di Musciano, Michele; Field, Richard; Halley, John M.; Hoffmann, Samuel; Iaria, Jacopo; Kallimanis, Athanasios; Lövei, Gabor L.; Morera, Albert; Provenzale, Antonello; Rocchini, Duccio; Vetaas, Ole Reidar; Chiarucci, Alessandro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Protecting global biodiversity is one of the most urgent tasks for the coming decades. Area-based conservation is a pillar for preserving ecosystems and species. Strictly protected areas specifically preserve biodiversity ...
    • Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure 

      Cervellini, Marco; Di Musciano, Michele; Zannini, Piero; Fattorini, Simone; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Agrillo, Emiliano; Attorre, Fabio; Angelini, Pierangela; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Casella, Laura; Field, Richard; Fischer, Jan-Christopher; Genovesi, Piero; Hoffmann, Samuel; Irl, Severin D.H.; Nascimbene, Juri; Rocchini, Duccio; Steinbauer, Manuel; Vetaas, Ole Reidar; Chiarucci, Alessandro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat ...
    • Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora 

      Musciano, Michele Di; Zannini, Piero; Ferrara, Chiara; Spina, Lorenzo; Nascimbene, Juri; Vetaas, Ole R.; Bhatta, Kuber P.; d'Agostino, Marco; Peruzzi, Lorenzo; Carta, Angelino; Chiarucci, Alessandro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Apuan Alps are one of the most peculiar mountain chain in the Mediterranean, being very close to the coastline and reaching an elevation of almost 2000 m. Based on published flora, we investigated the distribution of ...