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Franco Biondi is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple aspects of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on tree-ring climate responses and plant water relations.

The primary fields of study for Biondi include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, Biondi's work spans several specialized subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

The main research topics they cover involve:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Biondi has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Forests
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent publication record includes the following papers:

  • "Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "On tree longevity" (2020) in New Phytologist
  • "The North American tree-ring fire-scar network" (2022) in Ecosphere
  • "Transpiration drivers of high-elevation five-needle pines (Pinus longaeva and Pinus flexilis) in sky-island ecosystems of the North American Great Basin" (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "No Future Growth Enhancement Expected at the Northern Edge for European Beech due to Continued Water Limitation" (2024) in Global Change Biology

Biondi's collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Emanuele Ziaco
  • J. Julio Camarero
  • Katarina Čufar
  • Martín de Luis
  • Edurne Martínez del Castillo

This researcher has also contributed to book publications, including the title:

  • "Symbiotische Strickmuster zwischen inniger Liebe und Entwicklungstrauma" (2021), published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Best Publications

  • DENDROCLIM2002: A C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies ☆

    Franco Biondi;Kishor Waikul

  • Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

    W. R.L. Anderegg;C. Schwalm;F. Biondi;J. J. Camarero

  • treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy‐climate relationships

    Christian Zang;Franco Biondi

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

  • North Pacific Decadal Climate Variability since 1661

    Franco Biondi;Alexander Gershunov;Daniel R. Cayan

  • A THEORY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO TREE-RING STANDARDIZATION: DEFINING THE BIOLOGICAL TREND FROM EXPECTED BASAL AREA INCREMENT

    Franco Biondi;Franco Biondi;Fares Qeadan

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

    Gianluca Piovesan;Franco Biondi;Franco Biondi;Alfredo Di Filippo;Alfredo Alessandrini

  • Dendroclimatic calibration in R: The bootRes package for response and correlation function analysis

    Christian Zang;Franco Biondi

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

    G. Piovesan;A. Di Filippo;A. Alessandrini;F. Biondi

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

    Alfredo Di Filippo;Franco Biondi;Katarina Čufar;Martín De Luis

  • Geostatistically modeling stem size and increment in an old-growth forest

    Franco Biondi;Donald E. Myers;Charles C. Avery

  • COMPARING TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES AND REPEATED TIMBER INVENTORIES AS FOREST MONITORING TOOLS

    Franco Biondi

  • Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers

    Jian-Guo Huang;Qianqian Ma;Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi;Franco Biondi

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

    Gianluca Piovesan;Franco Biondi;Mauro Bernabei;Alfredo Di Filippo

  • Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species

    Andrew J. Hacket-Pain;Davide Ascoli;Giorgio Vacchiano;Franco Biondi

  • Are Climate-Tree Growth Relationships Changing in North-Central Idaho, U.S.A.?

    Franco Biondi

  • On tree longevity.

    Gianluca Piovesan;Franco Biondi

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

    Alfredo Di Filippo;Alfredo Alessandrini;Franco Biondi;Silvia Blasi

  • INEQUALITY IN PALEORECORDS

    Franco Biondi;Fares Qeadan

  • A 400-year tree-ring chronology from the tropical treeline of North America.

    Franco Biondi

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

    Alfredo Di Filippo;Franco Biondi;Maurizio Maugeri;Bartolomeo Schirone

  • Climatic signals in tree rings of Fagus sylvatica L. from the central Apennines, Italy

    F. Biondi

  • Inter‐decadal signals during the last millennium (AD 1117–1992) in the Varve record of Santa Barbara Basin, California

    Franco Biondi;C. B. Lange;M. K. Hughes;W. H. Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca Piovesan
Gianluca Piovesan Tuscia University
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
George W. Koch
George W. Koch Northern Arizona University
Marcy E. Litvak
Marcy E. Litvak University of New Mexico
Wolfgang H Berger
Wolfgang H Berger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Annie Deslauriers
Annie Deslauriers Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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