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Sabina Burrascano is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and agricultural biological sciences with significant contributions in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, insect science, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and ecology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Sabina Burrascano has published extensively in a variety of journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Biological Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers by Sabina Burrascano include:

  • Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset (2022, Scientific Data)
  • Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats (2021, Journal of Vegetation Science)
  • European primary forest database v2.0 (2021, Scientific Data)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sabina Burrascano include:

  • Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
  • Yoan Paillet
  • Tommaso Sitzia
  • Giovanni Trentanovi
  • Inken Doerfler

In addition to journal publications, Sabina Burrascano has contributed to book publications, including the "Handbook of sampling for multi-taxon biodiversity studies in European forests," published in 2022 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Where are Europe's last primary forests?

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

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Manuale Italiano di interpretazione degli habitat della Direttiva 92/43/CEE

    E Biondi;C Blasi;S Burrascano;S Casavecchia

  • Commonality and variability in the structural attributes of moist temperate old-growth forests: A global review

    Sabina Burrascano;William S. Keeton;Francesco M. Sabatini;Carlo Blasi

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Diagnosis and syntaxonomic interpretation of Annex I Habitats (Dir. 92/43/ EEC) in Italy at the alliance level

    E Biondi;S Burrascano;S Casavecchia;R Copiz

  • Multi‐taxon and forest structure sampling for identification of indicators and monitoring of old‐growth forest

    C. Blasi;M. Marchetti;U. Chiavetta;M. Aleffi

  • Old-growth forest structure and deadwood: Are they indicators of plant species composition? A case study from central Italy

    Sabina Burrascano;Fabio Lombardi;Marco Marchetti

  • Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity

    Sabina Burrascano;Milan Chytrý;Tobias Kuemmerle;Eleonora Giarrizzo

  • Lichens and bryophytes as indicators of old‐growth features in Mediterranean forests

    G Brunialti;L Frati;Michele Aleffi;M Marignani

  • Plant species diversity in Mediterranean old-growth forests: A case study from central Italy

    S. Burrascano;L. Rosati;C. Blasi

  • Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe

    Francesco M. Sabatini;Francesco M. Sabatini;William S. Keeton;Marcus Lindner;Miroslav Svoboda

  • Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests.

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Francesco Maria Sabatini;Rafael Barreto de Andrade;Yoan Paillet;Péter Ódor

  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

    Idoia Biurrun;Remigiusz Pielech;Iwona Dembicz;Iwona Dembicz;François Gillet

  • European primary forest database v2.0.

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Hendrik Bluhm;Zoltan Kun;Dmitry Aksenov

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

    Stefano Chelli;Michela Marignani;Elena Barni;Alessandro Petraglia

  • Beta diversity for functional ecology

    C. Ricotta;S. Burrascano

  • Testing indicators of sustainable forest management on understorey composition and diversity in southern Italy through variation partitioning

    S. Burrascano;F. M. Sabatini;C. Blasi

  • Congruence across taxa and spatial scales: Are we asking too much of species data?

    S. Burrascano;R. B. de Andrade;Y. Paillet;P. Ódor

  • Do National Parks play an active role in conserving the natural capital of Italy

    G. Capotorti;Laura Zavattero;I. Anzellotti;S. Burrascano

  • Quantifying the effect of sampling plot size on the estimation of structural indicators in old-growth forest stands

    F. Lombardi;M. Marchetti;P. Corona;P. Merlini

  • GrassPlot v. 2.00 – first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

    Idoia Biurrun;Sabina Burrascano;Iwona Dembicz;Riccardo Guarino

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Blasi
Carlo Blasi Sapienza University of Rome
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Péter Ódor
Péter Ódor Centre for Ecological Research
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Juri Nascimbene
Juri Nascimbene University of Bologna
Harald Pauli
Harald Pauli BOKU University
Tomáš Vrška
Tomáš Vrška Mendel University Brno
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University

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