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Panayotis Dimopoulos

Panayotis Dimopoulos

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
7816
World Ranking
5773
National Ranking
15

Overview

Panayotis Dimopoulos is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution

Recent noteworthy publications authored by or involving Dimopoulos include:

  • Green roofs as a nature-based solution for improving urban sustainability: Progress and perspectives (2023), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021), Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Extinction Risk Assessment of the Greek Endemic Flora (2021), Biology
  • Plant Endemism Centres and Biodiversity Hotspots in Greece (2021), Biology
  • Plant Diversity Patterns and Conservation Implications under Climate-Change Scenarios in the Mediterranean: The Case of Crete (Aegean, Greece) (2020), Diversity

Dimopoulos frequently collaborates with a network of scholars, including Ioannis Kokkoris, Arne Strid, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Maria Panitsa, and Panayiotis Trigas. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches and regional expertise in Mediterranean ecosystems and biodiversity assessment.

The scientist's publications appear most often in journals such as Land, Forests, Sustainability, Phytotaxa, and Biology. This range of venues demonstrates active engagement with topics relating to land management, forest ecology, sustainability practices, plant taxonomy, and biological studies.

Best Publications

  • Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

    Ladislav Mucina;Ladislav Mucina;Helga Bültmann;Klaus Dierßen;Jean-Paul Theurillat

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • European Red List of Habitats : Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats

    J. A. M. Janssen;J. S. Rodwell;M. Garcia Criado;S. Gubbay

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Supplement

    Panayotis Dimopoulos;Thomas Raus;Erwin Bergmeier;Theophanis Constantinidis

  • Green roofs as a nature-based solution for improving urban sustainability: Progress and perspectives

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  • Where did the fires burn in Peloponnisos, Greece the summer of 2007? Evidence for a synergy of fuel and weather

    Nikos Koutsias;Margarita Arianoutsou;Athanasios S. Kallimanis;Giorgos Mallinis

  • Novel GPS tracking of sea turtles as a tool for conservation management

    Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield;Charles M. Bishop;Grant MacLean;Peter Brown

  • Microhabitat selection by sea turtles in a dynamic thermal marine environment

    Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield;Charles M. Bishop;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • Behaviour analysis of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta from direct in-water observation

    Gail Schofield;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos;John D. Pantis

  • Investigating the viability of photo-identification as an objective tool to study endangered sea turtle populations

    Gail Schofield;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos;John D. Pantis

  • Vegetation classification and biogeography of European floodplain forests and alder carrs

    Jan Douda;Jan Douda;Karel Boublík;Michal Slezák;Idoia Biurrun

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • Biogeographical determinants for total and endemic species richness in a continental archipelago

    A. S. Kallimanis;E. Bergmeier;M. Panitsa;K. Georghiou

  • Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)

    Evgenia Chaideftou;Costas A. Thanos;Erwin Bergmeier;Athanasios Kallimanis

  • Fagus sylvatica forest vegetation in Greece: syntaxonomy and gradient analysis.

    Erwin Bergmeier;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • Cultural landscapes and attributes of “culturalness” in protected areas: An exploratory assessment in Greece

    Vassiliki Vlami;Ioannis P. Kokkoris;Stamatis Zogaris;Constantinos Cartalis

  • Translating land cover/land use classifications to habitat taxonomies for landscape monitoring: a Mediterranean assessment

    Valeria Tomaselli;Panayotis Dimopoulos;Carmela Marangi;Athanasios S. Kallimanis

  • Ecoregions in the southern balkans: should their boundaries be revised?

    Stamatis Zogaris;Alcibiades N. Economou;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • Evaluation and mapping of the conservation significance of habitats using GIS: an example from Crete, Greece

    Dimitrina Boteva;Geoffrey Griffiths;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • What is a tree in the Mediterranean Basin hotspot? A critical analysis

    Frédéric Médail;Anne-Christine Monnet;Daniel Pavon;Toni Nikolic

  • Females first? Past, present and future variability in offspring sex ratio at a temperate sea turtle breeding area

    KA Katselidis;Gail Schofield;G Stamou;P Dimopoulos

  • THE VEGETATION ON SCREES - A SYNOPSIS OF HIGHER SYNTAXA IN EUROPE

    Milan Valachovič;Klaus Dierssen;Panayotis Dimopoulos;Emil Hadač

Frequent Co-Authors

Erwin Bergmeier
Erwin Bergmeier University of Göttingen
Athanasios S. Kallimanis
Athanasios S. Kallimanis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ladislav Mucina
Ladislav Mucina Murdoch University
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Gail Schofield
Gail Schofield Queen Mary University of London
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
John D. Pantis
John D. Pantis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Ute Jandt
Ute Jandt Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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