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Overview

Francesco de Bello is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a considerable number of publications in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, ecological modeling, and general ecology.

The main topics covered in Francesco de Bello's work include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Animal ecology and behavior studies
  • Botany and plant ecology studies
  • Plant parasitism and resistance

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species (2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)

Other notable papers where de Bello is a co-author include:

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life (2021, Science Advances)
  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats (2021, Journal of Vegetation Science)

Francesco de Bello has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Lars Götzenberger, Carlos P. Carmona, Jan Lepš, Marco Moretti, and André T. C. Dias, reflecting extensive co-authorship relationships in their field.

Their work appears regularly in a number of publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecology

In addition to journal articles, de Bello has contributed to book publications, including the "Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools" published by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and the "Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology" by Cambridge University Press, both published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sandra Lavorel;Francesco de Bello;Fabien Quétier

  • Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

    Joaquín Hortal;Francesco de Bello;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Myrna Diaz;Richard Harrington

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

    Marie Vandewalle;Marie Vandewalle;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Matty P. Berg;Thomas Bolger

  • Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology.

    Bill Shipley;Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;J. Hans C. Cornelissen;Etienne Laliberté

  • Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

    Gary W. Luck;Richard Harrington;Paula A. Harrison;Claire Kremen

  • A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

    Norman W.H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;David Mouillot;Sandrine Pavoine

  • Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

    Jan Lepš;Francesco de Bello;Petr Šmilauer;Jiří Doležal

  • Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

    Carlos P. Carmona;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Norman W.H. Mason;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

    Marco Moretti;André T. C. Dias;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sébastien Lavergne;Cécile H. Albert

  • Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

    Christian K. Feld;Pedro Martins da Silva;José Paulo Sousa;Francesco De Bello

  • Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients

    Francesco De Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

    Michael Kleyer;Stéphane Dray;Stéphane Dray;Francescode Bello;Jan Lepš

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

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

  • The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

    Francesco De Bello;Sébastien Lavergne;Christine N. Meynard;Jan Lepš

  • Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

    Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;Wilfried Thuiller;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš;Philippe Choler

  • A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services.

    Sandra Lavorel;Jonathan Storkey;Richard D. Bardgett;Francesco de Bello

  • Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Cécile H. Albert;Wilfried Thuiller

  • CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora.

    Jitka Klimešová;Francesco De Bello

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Lars Götzenberger
Lars Götzenberger Czech Academy of Sciences
Carlos P. Carmona
Carlos P. Carmona University of Tartu
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Matty P. Berg
Matty P. Berg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marco Moretti
Marco Moretti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Jitka Klimešová
Jitka Klimešová Czech Academy of Sciences
Norman W. H. Mason
Norman W. H. Mason Landcare Research

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