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Gianluca Piovesan

Gianluca Piovesan

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
5047
World Ranking
7131
National Ranking
147

Overview

Gianluca Piovesan is affiliated with Tuscia University in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a broad range of topics including tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, land use and ecosystem services, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

The main subfields of their work comprise global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, and plant science.

Piovesan's recent publications illustrate the scope of their research. Notable papers include:

  • Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs, 2020, Nature Communications
  • On tree longevity, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Old and ancient trees are life history lottery winners and vital evolutionary resources for long-term adaptive capacity, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ancient trees: irreplaceable conservation resource for ecosystem restoration, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors working with Piovesan include Jordan Palli, Michele Baliva, Alessandro Chiarucci, Francesco Solano, and Scott Mensing.

The scientist's work appears regularly in a variety of publication venues. These include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Masting behaviour in beech: linking reproduction and climatic variation

    Gianluca Piovesan;Jonathan M. Adams

  • 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

  • Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs.

    R. J. W. Brienen;L. Caldwell;L. Duchesne;S. Voelker

  • 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

  • Climatic factors controlling reproduction and growth of Norway spruce in southern Norway

    Vidar Selås;Gianluca Piovesan;Jonathan M Adams;Mauro Bernabei

  • Plasticity in dendroclimatic response across the distribution range of Aleppo Pine ( Pinus halepensis )

    Martin de Luis;Katarina Čufar;Alfredo Di Filippo;Klemen Novak

  • 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

  • A long-term tree ring beech chronology from a high-elevation old-growth forest of Central Italy

    G. Piovesan;M. Bernabei;A. Di Filippo;M. Romagnoli

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

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

  • Old and ancient trees are life history lottery winners and vital evolutionary resources for long-term adaptive capacity

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  • The longevity of broadleaf deciduous trees in Northern Hemisphere temperate forests: insights from tree-ring series

    Alfredo Di Filippo;Neil Pederson;Michele Baliva;Michele Brunetti

  • Winter North Atlantic oscillation effects on the tree rings of the Italian beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

    Gianluca Piovesan;Bartolomeo Schirone

  • Ancient trees: irreplaceable conservation resource for ecosystem restoration.

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  • Population ecology of yew (Taxus baccata L.) in the Central Apennines: spatial patterns and their relevance for conservation strategies

    Gianluca Piovesan;Emanuele Presutti Saba;Franco Biondi;Alfredo Alessandrini

  • Silvicultural and logging impact on soil characteristics in Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) Mediterranean coppice

    Rachele Venanzi;Rodolfo Picchio;Gianluca Piovesan

  • 2700 years of Mediterranean environmental change in central Italy: a synthesis of sedimentary and cultural records to interpret past impacts of climate on society

    Scott A. Mensing;Irene Tunno;Leonardo Sagnotti;Fabio Florindo

  • Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

    Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Gianluca Piovesan;Elisabet Martínez-Sancho;Elisabet Martínez-Sancho;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

  • Tree size distribution at increasing spatial scales converges to the rotated sigmoid curve in two old-growth beech stands of the Italian Apennines

    Alfredo Alessandrini;Franco Biondi;Alfredo Di Filippo;Emanuele Ziaco

  • Uncertainties in the role of land vegetation in the carbon cycle.

    J.M Adams;G Piovesan

  • Plasticity in dendroclimatic response across the distribution range of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis)

    Stergios Adamopoulos;Elias Milios;Dimitris Doganos;Ioannis Bistinas

Frequent Co-Authors

Franco Biondi
Franco Biondi University of Nevada Reno
Fabio Florindo
Fabio Florindo National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Jonathan M. Adams
Jonathan M. Adams Nanjing University
Leonardo Sagnotti
Leonardo Sagnotti National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Katarina Čufar
Katarina Čufar University of Ljubljana
Martin de Luis
Martin de Luis University of Zaragoza
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Annette Menzel
Annette Menzel Technical University of Munich

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