BIOME - Biodiversity & MacroEcology

The Research Group in Biodiversity and Macroecology (BIOME) is focused on the study of plant diversity at different levels of biological and ecological organization: from intraspecific variability to plant-plant and plant-animal interactions, from plant communities assembly to macroecological and biogeographical patterns. Our team includes scientists with different skills, which are reflected in a multidisciplinary approach to our teaching and research activities.

Research Topics:

1. Vegetation ecology, macroecology and biogeography (Prof. Alessandro Chiarucci, Prof. Francesco Maria Sabatini)
2. Plant reproductive ecology, plant-pollinator interactions (Prof. Marta Galloni)
3. Landscape ecology, habitat changes and management (Dr. Giovanna Pezzi)
4. Remote sensing and spatial ecology (Prof. Duccio Rocchini)
5. Lichenology (Prof. Juri Nascimbene)
6. Conservation Biology (Prof. Roberto Cazzolla Gatti)

ERC Subjects:

LS8_1 Ecosystem and community ecology, macroecology
LS8_2 Biodiversity
LS8_3 Conservation biology
LS8_4 Population biology, population dynamics, population genetics
LS8_10 Ecology and evolution of species interactions
PE10_4 Terrestrial ecology, land cover change
PE10_14 Earth observations from space/remote sensing

Contact
Alessandro Chiarucci (Full Professor)

Group members

Duccio Rocchini (Full Professor)

Juri Nascimbene (Full Professor)

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Associate Professor)

Marta Galloni (Associate Professor)

Francesco Maria Sabatini (Associate Professor)

Giovanna Pezzi (Assistant Professor)

Marco Cantonati (Senior Assistant Professor)

Silvia Del Vecchio (Senior Assistant Professor)

Riccardo Testolin (Junior Assistant Professor)

Gianfranco Samuele (Technician)

Marta Barberis (Post-Doc)

Manuele Bazzichetto (Post-Doc)

Fabrizio Buldrini (Post-Doc)

Vanessa Bruzzaniti (Post-Doc)

Gabriele Gheza (Post-Doc)

Luca Di Nuzzo (Post-Doc)

Sara Landi (Post-Doc)

Polina Lemenkova (Post-Doc)

Michele Lussu (Post-Doc)

Paola Merelli (Post-Doc)

Lorenzo Ricci (Post-Doc)

Fortunato Fulvio Bitonto (PhD Student)

Ludovico Chieffallo (PhD Student)

Rocio Beatriz Cortes Lobos (PhD Student)

Arianna Ferrara (PhD Student)

Luana Francesconi (PhD Student)

Georg Johannes Albert Hahn (PhD Student)

Jacopo Iaria (PhD Student)

Martina Livornese (PhD Student)

Elisa Marchetto (PhD Student)

Chiara Pistocchi (PhD Student)

Sofia Prandelli (PhD Student)

Francesco Santi (PhD Student)

Diletta Santovito (PhD Student)

Jiarui Sun (PhD Student)