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Giovanni Bacaro

Giovanni Bacaro

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4682
World Ranking
7380
National Ranking
155

Overview

Giovanni Bacaro is affiliated with the University of Trieste in Italy. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Giovanni Bacaro has authored multiple papers that demonstrate the scope of their research interests. Notable recent publications include:

  • "rasterdiv-An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back," 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Connectivity, landscape structure, and plant diversity across agricultural landscapes: novel insight into effective ecological network planning," 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Intraspecific variability of leaf form and function across habitat types," 2024, Ecology Letters
  • "Addressing reproductive stochasticity and grazing impacts in the restoration of a canopy-forming brown alga by implementing mitigation solutions," 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • "Shift in proximate causes of mortality for six large migratory raptors over a century," 2020, Biological Conservation

Their frequent co-authors include Enrico Tordoni, Francesco Petruzzellis, Simona Maccherini, Duccio Rocchini, and Carlo Ricotta, indicating collaborative research relationships in related scientific domains.

Giovanni Bacaro's publication record is also notable for contributions to several recurring venues. These include Diversity, Ecological Indicators, Biological Conservation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

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

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

  • Old and new challenges in using species diversity for assessing biodiversity

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Giovanni Bacaro;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • Functional traits of epiphytic lichens as potential indicators of environmental conditions in forest ecosystems

    Paolo Giordani;Giorgio Brunialti;Giovanni Bacaro;Juri Nascimbene

  • Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

    A. Chiarucci;G. Bacaro;D. Rocchini;L. Fattorini

  • The conservation value of farmland ponds: Predicting water beetle assemblages using vascular plants as a surrogate group

    Margherita Gioria;André Schaffers;Giovanni Bacaro;John Feehan

  • Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 network: Old ideas and new proposals

    Alessandro Chiarucci;Giovanni Bacaro;Duccio Rocchini

  • Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

    Duccio Rocchini;Luca Delucchi;Giovanni Bacaro;Paolo Cavallini

  • Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction.

    A. Chiarucci;G. Bacaro;D. Rocchini;C. Ricotta

  • Landscape effects on diversity of semi-natural grasslands

    Monika Janišová;Dana Michalcová;Giovanni Bacaro;Anne Ghisla

  • Biodiversity, roads, & landscape fragmentation: Two Mediterranean cases

    Matteo Marcantonio;Duccio Rocchini;Francesco Geri;Giovanni Bacaro

  • Evaluating and interpreting cross-taxon congruence: Potential pitfalls and solutions

    Margherita Gioria;Giovanni Bacaro;John Feehan

  • Plant–environment interactions through a functional traits perspective: a review of Italian studies

    Stefano Chelli;Michela Marignani;Elena Barni;Alessandro Petraglia

  • Connectivity, landscape structure, and plant diversity across agricultural landscapes: novel insight into effective ecological network planning.

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  • Make it simpler: Alien species decrease functional diversity of coastal plant communities

    Enrico Tordoni;Francesco Petruzzellis;Andrea Nardini;Tadeja Savi

  • rasterdiv-An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back.

    Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini;Elisa Thouverai;Matteo Marcantonio;Martina Iannacito

  • Coastline Dune Vegetation Dynamics: Evidence of No Stability

    Daniela Ciccarelli;Giovanni Bacaro;Alessandro Chiarucci

  • Landscape structure effects on forest plant diversity at local scale: Exploring the role of spatial extent

    Valerio Amici;Duccio Rocchini;Goffredo Filibeck;Giovanni Bacaro

  • Functional rarefaction for species abundance data

    Carlo Ricotta;Sandrine Pavoine;Sandrine Pavoine;Giovanni Bacaro;Alicia T. R. Acosta

  • Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study

    Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini;Giovanni Bacaro;Gherardo Chirici;Daniele Da Re

  • Computing diversity from dated phylogenies and taxonomic hierarchies: does it make a difference to the conclusions?

    Carlo Ricotta;Giovanni Bacaro;Michela Marignani;Michela Marignani;Sandrine Godefroid;Sandrine Godefroid

  • Distributional patterns of endemic, native and alien species along a roadside elevation gradient in Tenerife, Canary Islands

    G. Bacaro;S. Maccherini;A. Chiarucci;Anke Jentsch

  • Scale dependence of plant species richness in a network of protected areas

    A. Chiarucci;G. Bacaro;G. Filibeck;S. Landi

  • Forest condition in Europe. 2008 technical report of ICP forests

    M. Lorenz;R. Fischer;G. Becher;O. Granke

Frequent Co-Authors

Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Nardini
Andrea Nardini University of Trieste
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Dino Torri
Dino Torri Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection
Marco Ferretti
Marco Ferretti University of Camerino
Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg

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