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Alessandro Chiarucci

Alessandro Chiarucci

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
9395
World Ranking
3484
National Ranking
62

Overview

Alessandro Chiarucci is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their research primarily spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, plant science, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The main topics explored in their work cover a range of ecological and botanical areas:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Botany and plant ecology studies
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Land use and ecosystem services

Chiarucci has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific venues. The most common publication platforms include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecological Informatics
  • Biodiversity and Conservation

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on plant ecology, biodiversity, and ecosystem modeling. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species," 2022, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • "Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats," 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • "From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing," 2020, Ecological Informatics
  • "Disturbance indicator values for European plants," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review," 2021, Biodiversity and Conservation

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Milan Chytrý
  • Idoia Biurrun
  • Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
  • Piero Zannini
  • Jürgen Dengler

Best Publications

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

    Duccio Rocchini;Joaquín Hortal;Szabolcs Lengyel;Jorge M. Lobo

  • Phytomining for nickel, thallium and gold

    C.W.N Anderson;R.R Brooks;A Chiarucci;C.J LaCoste

  • The nickel hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum bertolonii as a potential agent for phytoremediation and phytomining of nickel

    B.H. Robinson;B.H. Robinson;A. Chiarucci;R.R. Brooks;D. Petit

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

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Giovanni Bacaro;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • The concept of potential natural vegetation: an epitaph?

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Guillaume Decocq;Carl Beierkuhnlein

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

    Alessandro Chiarucci;N. J. Enright;G. L. W. Perry;B. P. Miller

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

    Duccio Rocchini;George L.W. Perry;Mariangela Salerno;Simona Maccherini

  • Testing the spectral variation hypothesis by using satellite multispectral images

    Duccio Rocchini;Alessandro Chiarucci;Steven Arthur Loiselle

  • Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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

    Samuel M. Scheiner;Alessandro Chiarucci;Gordon A. Fox;Matthew R. Helmus

  • Cover versus biomass as an estimate of species abundance: does it make a difference to the conclusions?

    A. Chiarucci;J. Bastow Wilson;Barbara J Anderson;V. Dominicis

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

    Chiara Lelli;Hans Henrik Bruun;Alessandro Chiarucci;Davide Donati

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

    A. Chiarucci;G. Bacaro;D. Rocchini;L. Fattorini

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

    Francesco Geri;Duccio Rocchini;Alessandro Chiarucci

  • Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

    Dirk S Schmeller;Dirk S Schmeller;Dirk S Schmeller;Romain Julliard;Peter J Bellingham;Monika Bohm

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

    Duccio Rocchini;Sergio Andreini Butini;Alessandro Chiarucci

  • Using satellite imagery to assess plant species richness: The role of multispectral systems

    D. Rocchini;C. Ricotta;A. Chiarucci

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

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Giovanni Bacaro;Duccio Rocchini

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

    A. Chiarucci;G. Bacaro;D. Rocchini;C. Ricotta

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

    Elisa Santi;Simona Maccherini;Duccio Rocchini;Ilaria Bonini

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

    Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Viktoria Wagner;Iwona Dembicz;Itziar García-Mijangos

  • Assessing plant diversity and composition in grasslands across spatial scales: the standardised EDGG sampling methodology

    Jürgen Dengler;Steffen Boch;Goffredo Filibeck;Alessandro Chiarucci

  • Estimating species richness: still a long way off!

    Alessandro Chiarucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Giovanni Bacaro
Giovanni Bacaro University of Trieste
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Juri Nascimbene
Juri Nascimbene University of Bologna
Valério D. Pillar
Valério D. Pillar Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
J. Bastow Wilson
J. Bastow Wilson University of Otago
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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