The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next?

L Gallien, M Carboni - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Alien species are continually introduced in most regions of the world, but not all survive and
coexist with the resident native species. Approaches analyzing the functional (or …

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

S Chelli, M Marignani, E Barni, A Petraglia… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Italy is among the European countries with the greatest plant diversity due to both a great
environmental heterogeneity and a long history of man–environment interactions. Trait …

Measuring Rao's Q diversity index from remote sensing: An open source solution

D Rocchini, M Marcantonio, C Ricotta - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Measuring biodiversity is a key issue in ecology to guarantee effective indicators of
ecosystem health at different spatial and time scales. However, estimating biodiversity from …

Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation

C Marcenò, R Guarino, J Loidi… - Applied Vegetation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Although many phytosociological studies have provided detailed local and regional
descriptions of coastal dune vegetation, a unified classification of this vegetation in Europe …

Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. and Solidago canadensis L. antagonistically affect community stability and community invasibility under the co-invasion condition

C Wang, M Wei, S Wang, B Wu, H Cheng - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The successful invasion of one invasive alien plant (IAP) can generate a favorable habitat in
the invaded communities that beneficial to the successful invasion of the subsequent IAP …

Height variation hypothesis: A new approach for estimating forest species diversity with CHM LiDAR data

M Torresani, D Rocchini, R Sonnenschein… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
An indirect method for estimating biodiversity from Earth observations is the Spectral
Variation Hypothesis (SVH). SVH states that the higher the spatial variability of the spectral …

Contrasting responses of native and alien plant species to soil properties shed new light on the invasion of dune systems

S Vitti, E Pellegrini, V Casolo, G Trotta… - Journal of Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims Among terrestrial ecosystems, coastal sandy dunes are particularly prone to alien plant
invasion. Many studies related the invasion of dune habitats to anthropic causes, but less is …

[HTML][HTML] Containing alien plants in coastal dunes: Evidence from a soil manipulation experiment

G Trotta, M Vuerich, E Pellegrini, M Vilà… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological invasion is recognised as one of the major threats to biodiversity, particularly in
disturbance-prone ecosystems such as costal dunes. Many studies have associated alien …

The invasion paradox dissolves when using phylogenetic and temporal perspectives

AR Ernst, RS Barak, AL Hipp, AT Kramer… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The prediction that higher biodiversity leads to denser niche packing and thus higher
community resistance to invasion has long been studied, with species richness as the …

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

D Rocchini, G Bacaro, G Chirici, D Da Re… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Assessing biodiversity from field-based data is difficult for a number of practical reasons:(i)
establishing the total number of sampling units to be investigated and the sampling design …