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Carlo Ricotta is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has a research focus predominantly in the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly work encompasses several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in their research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Ricotta has contributed papers to a variety of scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Biological Conservation
  • Ecological Informatics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • rasterdiv-An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Plant invasion as an emerging challenge for the conservation of heritage sites: the spread of ornamental trees on ancient monuments in Rome, Italy, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • A framework for understanding how biodiversity patterns unfold across multiple spatial scales in urban ecosystems, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Reviewing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis: Twenty years in the tumultuous sea of biodiversity estimation by remote sensing, 2024, Ecological Informatics

Carlo Ricotta has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Sandrine Pavoine, Duccio Rocchini, Giovanni Bacaro, Marco Malavasi, and Vítězslav Moudrý.

Best Publications

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

    Carlo Ricotta;Marco Moretti

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

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

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

    Duccio Rocchini;Niko Balkenhol;Gregory A. Carter;Giles M. Foody

  • Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

    Carlo Ricotta;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Marco Moretti;Marco Caccianiga

  • Partitioning diversity for conservation analyses

    Lou Jost;Philip DeVries;Thomas Walla;Harold Greeney

  • On some properties of the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and their ecological meaning

    C. Ricotta;J. Podani

  • A note on functional diversity measures

    Carlo Ricotta

  • Through the jungle of biological diversity.

    Carlo Ricotta

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

    Carlo Ricotta;Laszlo Szeidl

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

    Fausto Manes;Guido Incerti;Elisabetta Salvatori;Marcello Vitale

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

    János Podani;Carlo Ricotta;Dénes Schmera;Dénes Schmera

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

    Sofia Bajocco;Carlo Ricotta

  • The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

    Daniel Sol;Christopher Trisos;Christopher Trisos;Cesc Múrria;Alienor Jeliazkov

  • The flaming sandpile: self-organized criticality and wildfires

    Carlo Ricotta;Giancarlo Avena;Marco Marchetti

  • Uncertainty in ecosystem mapping by remote sensing

    Duccio Rocchini;Giles M. Foody;Harini Nagendra;Carlo Ricotta

  • Quantifying the network connectivity of landscape mosaics: a graph-theoretical approach

    C. Ricotta;A. Stanisci;G. C. Avena;C. Blasi

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

    Duccio Rocchini;Matteo Marcantonio;Matteo Marcantonio;Carlo Ricotta

  • Diversity partitioning of Rao's quadratic entropy.

    Carlo Ricotta;Laszlo Szeidl

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

    Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini;Sandra Luque;Nathalie Pettorelli;Lucy Bastin

  • Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions A modelling perspective

    Duccio Rocchini;Veronica Andreo;Michael Förster;Carol Ximena Garzon-Lopez

  • Modeling the ecological niche of long-term land use changes: The role of biophysical factors

    S. Bajocco;T. Ceccarelli;D. Smiraglia;L. Salvati

Frequent Co-Authors

Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Giovanni Bacaro
Giovanni Bacaro University of Trieste
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Carlo Blasi
Carlo Blasi Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Mazzoleni
Stefano Mazzoleni University of Naples Federico II
Marco Marchetti
Marco Marchetti University of Molise
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta Roma Tre University
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Maria Laura Carranza
Maria Laura Carranza University of Molise

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