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D-Index
55
Citations
9351
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3016
National Ranking
45

Renzo Motta publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renzo Motta sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 238 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Renzo Motta D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renzo Motta sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Renzo Motta is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, notably Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their scientific contributions include notable publications addressing forest ecology, climate change impacts, and sustainable management practices. Recent papers authored or co-authored by Renzo Motta include:

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests, 2022, Communications Biology
  • What is Climate-Smart Forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe, 2020, Ecosystem Services
  • The influence of land abandonment on forest disturbance regimes: a global review, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe, 2022, Ecological Applications

Renzo Motta frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, with the most common co-authors being:

  • Matteo Garbarino
  • Giorgio Vacchiano
  • Miroslav Svoboda
  • Tzvetan Zlatanov
  • Roberta Berretti

The scientist publishes often in several key venues within their domain. The places where Renzo Motta has multiple publications include:

  • Forest - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Nature Communications

The research topics that Renzo Motta covers are centered mainly on aspects of forest and ecological sciences, with emphasis on:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Conifers in cold environments synchronize maximum growth rate of tree-ring formation with day length.

    Sergio Rossi;Annie Deslauriers;Annie Deslauriers;Tommaso Anfodillo;Hubert Morin

  • Where are Europe's last primary forests?

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Sabina Burrascano;William S. Keeton;Christian Levers

  • Growth and yield of mixed versus pure stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

    H. Pretzsch;M. del Río;Ch. Ammer;A. Avdagic

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

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  • Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction

    Davide Ascoli;Giorgio Vacchiano;Marco Turco;Marco Conedera

  • Impact of wild ungulates on forest regeneration and tree composition of mountain forests in the western Italian Alps.

    Renzo Motta

  • Changes of forest cover and disturbance regimes in the mountain forests of the Alps.

    P. Bebi;R. Seidl;R. Motta;M. Fuhr

  • Growth trends and dynamics in sub-alpine forest stands in the Varaita Valley (Piedmont, Italy) and their relationships with human activities and global change

    Renzo Motta;Paola Nola

  • Coarse woody debris, forest structure and regeneration in the Valbona Forest Reserve, Paneveggio, Italian Alps

    Renzo Motta;Roberta Berretti;Emanuele Lingua;Pietro Piussi

  • Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

    Miren del Río;Miren del Río;Hans Pretzsch;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Evy Ampoorter

  • Distinct effects of climate warming on populations of silver fir (Abies alba) across Europe

    Antonio Gazol;J. Julio Camarero;Emilia Gutiérrez;Ionel Popa

  • Direct Measurement of Tree Height Provides Different Results on the Assessment of LiDAR Accuracy

    Emanuele Sibona;Alessandro Vitali;Fabio Meloni;Lucia Caffo

  • Regional variability of climate-growth relationships in Pinus cembra high elevation forests in the Alps

    Marco Carrer;Paola Nola;Jean Louis Eduard;Renzo Motta

  • What is Climate-Smart Forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe

    Euan Bowditch;Giovanni Santopuoli;Franz Binder;Miren del Río

  • Mixing of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) enhances structural heterogeneity, and the effect increases with water availability

    H. Pretzsch;M. del Río;G. Schütze;Ch. Ammer

  • Influence of tree age, tree size and crown structure on lichen communities in mature Alpine spruce forests

    Juri Nascimbene;Lorenzo Marini;Renzo Motta;Pier Luigi Nimis

  • Ungulate impact on rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) height structure in mountain forests in the eastern Italian Alps

    Renzo Motta

  • Contrasting tree-ring growth to climate responses of Abies alba toward the southern limit of its distribution area

    Marco Carrer;Paola Nola;Renzo Motta;Carlo Urbinati

  • Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species

    Andrew J. Hacket-Pain;Davide Ascoli;Giorgio Vacchiano;Franco Biondi

  • Spatial structure along an altitudinal gradient in the Italian central Alps suggests competition and facilitation among coniferous species

    Emanuele Lingua;Paolo Cherubini;Renzo Motta;Paola Nola

  • Human land-use, forest dynamics and tree growth at the treeline in the Western Italian Alps

    Renzo Motta;Mariano Morales;Paola Nola

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Carrer
Marco Carrer University of Padua
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Igor Drobyshev
Igor Drobyshev Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hans Pretzsch
Hans Pretzsch Technical University of Munich
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado Spanish National Research Council
Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Lluís Coll
Lluís Coll University of Lleida
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo Spanish National Research Council
Quentin Ponette
Quentin Ponette Université Catholique de Louvain

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