Invasive alien plants are a major threat to biodiversity and they contribute to the
unfavourable conservation status of habitats of interest to the European Community. In order …

The use of functional traits (FTs) can provide quantitative information to explain macrophyte
ecology more effectively than traditional taxonomic-based methods. This research aims to …

The monitoring of water bio-physical parameters and the management of aquatic
ecosystems are crucial to cope with the current state of inland water degradation. Not only …

Invasive alien species (IAS) are non-native species with a rapid spread potential that can
have negative ecological, environmental, and economic effects on the environments where …

Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is a key functional group for the restoration of wetlands
and aquatic ecosystems. It plays a vital role in the stability of ecosystem structure and …

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 …

Both genetic and phenotypic intraspecific diversity play a crucial role in the ecological and
evolutionary dynamics of organisms. Several studies have compared phenotypic divergence …

PROSPECT is the most widely used optical leaf model for a wide range of remote sensing
applications on vegetation and has been developed and parameterised based on empirical …

Under the current high anthropic pressure and climate change scenarios, a trend towards
increasing changes in the trophic status of shallow lakes, and the development of …

The improved spatial and temporal resolution of latest-generation Earth Observation
missions, such as Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, has increased the potential of remote sensing …