BIOME - Biodiversity & MacroEcology

Areas: Biology

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:

Vegetation ecology, macroecology and biogeography (Prof. Alessandro Chiarucci)
Plant systematics, plant microevolution and conservation (Prof. Lucia Conte)
Plant reproductive ecology, plant-pollinator interactions (Prof. Marta Galloni)
Landscape ecology, habitat changes and management (Dr. Giovanna Pezzi)
Remote sensing and spatial ecology (Prof. Duccio Rocchini)
Lichenology (Prof. Juri Nascimbene)

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