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Giovanni Zurlini

Giovanni Zurlini

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
3673
World Ranking
8114
National Ranking
172

Overview

Giovanni Zurlini is affiliated with the University of Salento in Italy. Their research focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on global and planetary change. Other subfields of study include ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in Zurlini's work span several key areas: land use and ecosystem services, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing in agriculture, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and environmental quality and pollution.

Zurlini has published in prominent venues, including Ecological Indicators and Land. Their recent papers include:

  • The Resilient Recurrent Behavior of Mediterranean Semi-Arid Complex Adaptive Landscapes, 2021, Land
  • Cross scale spatial and temporal indicators for measuring the effects of landscape heterogeneity on pollination service, 2022, Ecological Indicators
  • Editorial: The crucial issue of spatial and temporal scale in ecological indication, 2025, Ecological Indicators

These publications demonstrate engagement with landscape resilience, spatial and temporal ecological indicators, and underlying issues related to ecological indication scales.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Irene Petrosillo
  • Donatella Valente
  • Christian Mulder
  • Bai-Lian Li
  • K. Bruce Jones

The range of collaborators reflects involvement in interdisciplinary research within environmental science and ecology. The absence of book publications suggests a primary focus on journal articles and editorials in scientific journals.

Best Publications

  • Tourist perception of recreational environment and management in a marine protected area

    I. Petrosillo;G. Zurlini;M.E. Corlianò;N. Zaccarelli

  • Modelling socio-ecological tourism-based systems for sustainability

    Deborah Lacitignola;I. Petrosillo;M. Cataldi;G. Zurlini

  • People perception of landscape change effects on ecosystem services in small Mediterranean islands: A combination of subjective and objective assessments

    Roberta Aretano;Irene Petrosillo;Nicola Zaccarelli;Teodoro Semeraro

  • Indicating fragility of socio-ecological tourism-based systems

    I. Petrosillo;G. Zurlini;E. Grato;N. Zaccarelli

  • Informing landscape planning and design for sustaining ecosystem services from existing spatial patterns and knowledge

    K. Bruce Jones;Giovanni Zurlini;Felix Kienast;Irene Petrosillo

  • Disturbance patterns in a socio-ecological system at multiple scales

    G. Zurlini;Kurt H. Riitters;N. Zaccarelli;I. Petrosillo

  • The use of subjective indicators to assess how natural and social capital support residents’ quality of life in a small volcanic island

    Irene Petrosillo;Robert Costanza;Roberta Aretano;Nicola Zaccarelli

  • Mapping ecological vulnerability to fire for effective conservation management of natural protected areas

    Roberta Aretano;Teodoro Semeraro;Irene Petrosillo;Antonella De Marco

  • Scales, strategies and actions for effective energy planning: A review

    Maria Rita Pasimeni;Irene Petrosillo;Roberta Aretano;Teodoro Semeraro

  • Spatially explicit assessment of local biomass availability for distributed biogas production via anaerobic co-digestion - Mediterranean case study.

    Alyona Zubaryeva;Nicola Zaccarelli;Cecilia Del Giudice;Giovanni Zurlini

  • The effectiveness of different conservation policies on the security of natural capital

    Irene Petrosillo;Nicola Zaccarelli;Teodoro Semeraro;Giovanni Zurlini

  • Order and disorder in ecological time-series: Introducing normalized spectral entropy

    Nicola Zaccarelli;Bai-Lian Li;Irene Petrosillo;Giovanni Zurlini

  • Highlighting order and disorder in social–ecological landscapes to foster adaptive capacity and sustainability

    Giovanni Zurlini;Irene Petrosillo;K. Bruce Jones;Nicola Zaccarelli

  • A Landscape Approach to Biodiversity and Biological Health Planning: The Map of Italian Nature

    Giovanni Zurlini;Vittorio Amadio;Orazio Rossi

  • Multi-scale vulnerability of natural capital in a panarchy of social–ecological landscapes

    Irene Petrosillo;Nicola Zaccarelli;Giovanni Zurlini

  • The interplay between urban mitigation and adaptation strategies to face climate change in two European countries

    Maria Rita Pasimeni;Donatella Valente;Giovanni Zurlini;Irene Petrosillo

  • A constructed treatment wetland as an opportunity to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    Teodoro Semeraro;Cosimo Giannuzzi;Leonardo Beccarisi;Roberta Aretano

  • Patterns of disturbance at multiple scales in real and simulated landscapes

    Giovanni Zurlini;Kurt H. Riitters;Nicola Zaccarelli;Irene Petrosillo

  • Reproduction and growth of Euterpina acutifrons (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) under experimental conditions

    G. Zurlini;I. Ferrari;A. Nassogne

  • The contribution of Utility-Scale Solar Energy to the global climate regulation and its effects on local ecosystem services

    Antonella De Marco;Irene Petrosillo;Teodoro Semeraro;Maria Rita Pasimeni

  • Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security

    Irene Petrosillo;Felix Müller;K. Bruce Jones;Giovanni Zurlini

  • GIS Fuzzy Expert System for the assessment of ecosystems vulnerability to fire in managing Mediterranean natural protected areas.

    Teodoro Semeraro;Giovanni Mastroleo;Roberta Aretano;Gisella Facchinetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene Petrosillo
Irene Petrosillo University of Salento
Bai-Lian Li
Bai-Lian Li University of California, Riverside
K. Bruce Jones
K. Bruce Jones Desert Research Institute
Kurt H. Riitters
Kurt H. Riitters United States Department of Agriculture
Christian Mulder
Christian Mulder University of Catania
Felix Müller
Felix Müller Kiel University
Loreto Rossi
Loreto Rossi Sapienza University of Rome
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Roy Haines-Young
Roy Haines-Young University of Nottingham

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