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Giovanna Battipaglia is affiliated with the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Italy. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Ecology.

Their body of work extensively addresses topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, and Climate Variability and Models.

Giovanna Battipaglia has published research in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent appearances in journals such as Forests, Dendrochronologia, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Global Change Biology, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Several recent papers highlight the scope and nature of their research:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Tree Vitality and Forest Health: Can Tree-Ring Stable Isotopes Be Used as Indicators?, 2021, Current Forestry Reports
  • A smart multiple spatial and temporal resolution system to support precision agriculture from satellite images: Proof of concept on Aglianico vineyard, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree-ring isotopes suggests site-specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought-induced dieback, 2021, Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Francesco Niccoli
  • Jerzy Piotr Kabala
  • Simona Altieri
  • J. Julio Camarero
  • Veronica De Micco

Best Publications

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Elevated CO2 increases tree‐level intrinsic water use efficiency: insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Matthias Saurer;Paolo Cherubini;Carlo Calfapietra

  • Feedback interactions between needle litter decomposition and rhizosphere activity

    Jens-Arne Subke;Volker Hahn;Giovanna Battipaglia;Sune Linder

  • Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment.

    Kerstin Treydte;Sonja Boda;Elisabeth Graf Pannatier;Patrick Fonti

  • Intra-annual density fluctuations in tree rings: how, when, where, and why?

    V. De Micco;F. Campelo;M. De Luis;A. Bräuning

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • Variations of vessel diameter and δ13C in false rings of Arbutus unedo L. reflect different environmental conditions

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Veronica De Micco;Willi A. Brand;Petra Linke

  • Drought impact on water use efficiency and intra-annual density fluctuations in Erica arborea on Elba (Italy)

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Veronica De Micco;Willi A. Brand;Matthias Saurer

  • A dynamic leaf gas-exchange strategy is conserved in woody plants under changing ambient CO2 : evidence from carbon isotope discrimination in paleo and CO2 enrichment studies

    Steven L. Voelker;J. Renée Brooks;Frederick C. Meinzer;Rebecca D. Anderson

  • Tree rings indicate different drought resistance of a native (Abies alba Mill.) and a nonnative (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) species co-occurring at a dry site in Southern Italy.

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Matthias Saurer;Paolo Cherubini;Rolf T.W. Siegwolf

  • Plant respiration: Controlled by photosynthesis or biomass?

    Alessio Collalti;Mark G. Tjoelker;Günter Hoch;Annikki Mäkelä

  • Low-frequency noise in δ13C and δ18O tree ring data: A case study of Pinus uncinata in the Spanish Pyrenees

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Giovanna Battipaglia;Ulf Büntgen

  • From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes

    Veronica De Micco;Marco Carrer;Cyrille B.K. Rathgeber;J. Julio Camarero

  • A multi-proxy assessment of dieback causes in a Mediterranean oak species.

    Michele Colangelo;J. Julio Camarero;Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Marco Borghetti

  • Tree vitality and forest health: Can tree-ring stable isotopes be used as indicators?

    Paolo Cherubini;Paolo Cherubini;Giovanna Battipaglia;John L. Innes

  • Structure and Function of Intra–Annual Density Fluctuations: Mind the Gaps

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Filipe Campelo;Joana Vieira;Michael Grabner

  • Accelerating upward treeline shift in the Altai Mountains under last-century climate change

    Roberto Cazzolla Gatti;Roberto Cazzolla Gatti;Terry Callaghan;Terry Callaghan;Alena Velichevskaya;Anastasia Dudko

  • Tree-ring anatomy and carbon isotope ratio show both direct and legacy effects of climate on bimodal xylem formation in Pinus pinea.

    Daniele Castagneri;Giovanna Battipaglia;Georg von Arx;Arturo Pacheco

  • Stand structure modulates the long‐term vulnerability of Pinus halepensis to climatic drought in a semiarid Mediterranean ecosystem

    Cristina Moreno‐Gutiérrez;Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Paolo Cherubini;Matthias Saurer

  • Site-aspect influence on climate sensitivity over time of a high-altitude Pinus cembra tree-ring network

    Giovanni Leonelli;Manuela Pelfini;Giovanna Battipaglia;Paolo Cherubini

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

    Stergios Adamopoulos;Elias Milios;Dimitris Doganos;Ioannis Bistinas

Frequent Co-Authors

Veronica De Micco
Veronica De Micco University of Naples Federico II
Paolo Cherubini
Paolo Cherubini Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Matthias Saurer
Matthias Saurer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Roberto Tognetti
Roberto Tognetti University of Molise
Marco Marchetti
Marco Marchetti University of Molise
M. Francesca Cotrufo
M. Francesca Cotrufo Colorado State University
Simona Castaldi
Simona Castaldi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Katarina Čufar
Katarina Čufar University of Ljubljana

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