Piovesan, G. (2024). Book review.  Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests: Ecology, History and Management. Edited by Alper H. Çolak, Simay Kirca, and Ian D. Rotherham. London, (UK): Pelagic Publishing. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY, volume 99, 58-59. 

Mikolāš, M., Piovesan, G., Ahlström, A., Donato, D. C., Gloor, R., Hofmeister, J., ... & Kuemmerle, T. (2023). Protect old-growth forests in Europe now. Science, 380 (6644), 466-466.

Chiti, E., & Piovesan, G. (2023). Il giudice, la faggeta e la tutela delle foreste vetuste. LE ISTITUZIONI DEL FEDERALISMO, 399-416.

Cazzolla Gatti, R., Zannini, P., Piovesan, G., Alessi, N., Basset, A., Beierkuhnlein, C., ... & Chiarucci, A. (2023). Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target. Biodiversity and Conservation, 1-18.

Palli, J., Monaco, L., Bini, M., Cosma, E., Giaccio, B., Izdebski, A., ... & Zanchetta, G. (2023). The recent evolution of the salt marsh ‘Pantano Grande’(NE Sicily, Italy): interplay between natural and human activity over the last 3700 years. Journal of Quaternary Science.

Filibeck, G., Baliva, M., Calcagnile, L., Chiarucci, A., D'Elia, M., Quarta, G., Quilghini, G.,  Piovesan, G. (2023). Rediscovering Montecristo’s treasure: the island’s holm oaks reveal exceptional longevity. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4064 La Repubblica 

Filibeck, G., Baliva, M., Calcagnile, L., Chiarucci, A., D'Elia, M., Quarta, G., Quilghini, G.,  Piovesan, G. (2023). The Real “Treasure” of Montecristo Island: The Oldest Dated Holm Oaks in the Mediterranean. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, e2094 

Piovesan, G., Rita, A., Biondi, F., Baliva, M., Borghetti, M., Brunetti, M., ... & Vendramin, G. G. (2023). Bell-shaped tree-ring responses to air temperature drive productivity trends in long-lived mountain Mediterranean pines. Science of The Total Environment, 890: 164103.

Biondi, F., Meko, D. M., & Piovesan, G. (2023). Maximum tree lifespans derived from public-domain dendrochronological data. iScience. 26, 106138 

Jordan Palli, Scott A. Mensing, Edward M. Schoolman, Francesco Solano, Gianluca Piovesan (2023). Rewilding is Restoring Mediterranean Mountain Forest Ecosystems. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2034

Gianluca Piovesan, Charles H. Cannon, Jiajia Liu, Sergi Munné-Bosch (2022). Ancient trees: irreplaceable conservation resource for ecosystem restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.09.003  The Guardian, Independent, Our Narratives

Palli J, Mensing SA, Schoolman EM, Solano F, Piovesan G. (2022) Historical ecology identifies long-term rewilding strategy for conserving Mediterranean mountain forests in south Italy. Ecol Appl. 2022 Oct 4:e2758. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2758.

Charles H. Cannon, Gianluca Piovesan, Sergi Munné-Bosch (2022). Old and ancient trees are life history lottery winners and vital evolutionary resources for long-term adaptive capacity. Nature Plants,  DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-01088-5. Science News, EurekAlert!, C3 

Solano, F., Modica, G., Praticò, S., Box, O. F., & Piovesan, G. (2022). Unveiling the complex canopy spatial structure of a Mediterranean old-growth beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest from UAV observations. Ecological Indicators, 138, 108807.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108807 

Palli, J., Cagnetti, C., Emanuel, C., Ferrari, S., Filibeck, G., Forte, T. A. G. W., ... & Piovesan, G. (2022). The environmental dimension of ecotourism in Italian protected areas: a comparison of two bio-geographical regions based on the assessment of accredited hiking guides. Journal of Ecotourism, 1-23.

Zannini P., et al. , A. (2022). Investigating sacred natural sites and protected areas for forest area changes in Italy. Conservation Science and Practice, e12695. 

Izdebski, A., Bauch, M., Guzowski, P., Mensing, S., Mercuri, A. M., Newfield, T., ... & Masi, A. (2022). Reply to ‘Reduction in grain pollen indicates population decline, but not necessarily Black Death mortality’. Nature ecology & evolution, 1-2.

Adam et al. (2022). Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic. Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01652-4. NY Times, Nature

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Gianluca Piovesan, Alessandro Chiarucci (2021). Italy: Forest harvesting is not green growth.  Nature 595, 353. 

Gianluca Piovesan and Franco Biondi (2021). On tree longevity. Tansley Review, New Phytologist, 231(4), pp. 1318–1337 . DOI: 10.1111/nph.17148. Phys.org, Plantae, NevadaToday, Scientific American

Solano, F., Praticò, S., Piovesan, G., & Modica, G. (2021). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Derived Canopy Gaps in the Old-Growth Beech Forest of Mount Pollinello (Italy): Preliminary Results. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2021, 12955 LNCS, pp. 126–138 . Springer, Cham.

Colangelo, M., Camarero, J. J., Gazol, A., Piovesan, G., Borghetti, M., Baliva, M., ... & Ripullone, F. (2021). Mediterranean old-growth forests exhibit resistance to climate warming. Science of The Total Environment, 801, 149684. La Repubblica, Huffpost

Solano, F., Praticò, S., Piovesan, G., Chiarucci, A., Argentieri, A., & Modica, G. (2021). Characterising historical transformation trajectories of the forest landscape in Rome's Metropolitan area (Italy) for effective planning of sustainability goals. Land Degradation & Development, 32(16), pp. 4708–4726.

Brusco, A., Marchianò, R., Giglio, G., Piovesan, G., & Sperone, E. (2021). Eat until bursting: an unusual feeding attempt by a European Asp, Vipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758), on a Western Green Lizard, Lacerta bilineata Daudin, 1802, in Calabria (Southern Italy). Herpetology Notes, 14, 563-565. 

Sangüesa-Barreda, G., Di Filippo, A., Piovesan, G., Rozas, V., Di Fiore, L., García-Hidalgo, M., García-Cervigón, A. I., ... & Olano, J. M. (2021). Warmer springs have increased the frequency and extension of late-frost defoliations in southern European beech forests. Science of The Total Environment, 775, 145860.

Poponi, S., J. Palli, S. Ferrari, G. Filibeck, T. G. W. Forte, C. Franceschini, A. Ruggieri and G. Piovesan. (2020). Toward the development of sustainable ecotourism in Italian national parks of the Apennines: insights from hiking guides. Ecology and Society 25 (4):46. [online] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-11996-250446 . Phys.org

Piovesan, G., Baliva, M., Calcagnile, L., D’Elia, M., Dorado-Liñán, I., Palli, J., ... & Quarta, G. (2021). In the Mediterranean Mountains, Some Sessile Oaks Can Live for a Millennium. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 102(1), 1-6.

Gianluca Piovesan, Michele Baliva, Lucio Calcagnile, Marisa D’Elia, Isabel Dorado-Liñán, Jordan Palli, Antonino Siclari, Gianluca Quarta (2020). Radiocarbon dating of Aspromonte sessile oaks reveals the oldest dated temperate flowering tree in the world. Ecology, 101(12), e03179. DOI:10.1002/ecy.3179. Esa blog, Phys.org, The Times

Brienen Roel et al.  (2020). Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs. Nature Communications  11, Article number: 4241. DOI: 0.1038/s41467-020-17966-z 

Chiara Lelli, Juri Nascimbene,  Davide Alberti, Nevio Agostini, Antonio Zoccola, Gianluca Piovesan, Alessandro Chiarucci (2020). Long term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), e12939. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12939 

Mensing, S., Schoolman, E.M., Palli, J. & Piovesan, G. (2020). A consilience-driven approach to land use history in relation to reconstructing forest land use legacies. Landscape Ecol. (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-01079-5 , Shared link, Phys.org

Sangüesa-Barreda, G., Esper, J., Büntgen, U., Camarero, J.J., Di Filippo, A., Baliva, M. & Piovesan, G. (2020). Climate-human interactions contributed to historical forest recruitment dynamics in Mediterranean subalpine ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 26(9), pp. 4988–4997. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15246. DCYT, Phys.org, la Repubblica

Alessandro Chiarucci & Gianluca Piovesan (2020). Need for a global map of forest naturalness for a sustainable future. Conservation Biology, 34 (2), 368-372 . Phys,org, Technology, Il punto quotidiano, Adnkronos, TUTTOGREEN - La Stampa, Quoted Business

Gianluca Piovesan, (2019) A light‐demanding pine spreads into a closed forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Ecopics, DOI:10.1002/fee.2109. ESA twitter

Gianluca Piovesan, Franco Biondi, Michele Baliva, Giuseppe De Vivo, Vittoria Marchiano, Aldo Schettino, Alfredo Di Filippo, (2019). Lessons from the wild: slow but increasing long-term growth allows for maximum longevity in European beech, Ecology, Volume100, Issue9, e02737, ESA Blog, Ecology Twitter, Press release, Corriere della sera, le Scienze, Corriere della Calabria,  Non Sprecare,  Touring Club Italiano 

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2019): Slow Growth Leads to Longevity in Temperate Hardwoods, Bull Ecol Soc Am 100(3):e01560. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1560 

Gianluca Quarta, Alfredo Di Filippo, Lucio Calcagnile, Marisa D’Elia, Franco Biondi, Emanuele Presutti Saba, Michele Baliva, Giuseppe De Vivo, Aldo Schettino, Gianluca Piovesan (2019) IDENTIFYING THE 993–994 CE MIYAKE EVENT IN THE OLDEST DATED LIVING TREE IN EUROPE.  Radiocarbon, 61(5), 1317-1325. TG3 Leonardo

Gianluca Piovesan, Franco Biondi, Michele Baliva, Anna Dinella, Luca Di Fiore, Vittoria Marchiano, Emanuele Presutti Saba, Giuseppe De Vivo, Aldo Schettino, Alfredo Di Filippo (2019). Tree growth patterns associated with extreme longevity: implications for the ecology and conservation of primeval trees in Mediterranean mountains (click Share Link). Anthropocene,  26, June 2019, 100199.  Press release;  Comunicato stampa;  La Repubblica, NewTuscia, 

Archer, C., Noble, P., Rosen, M. R., Sagnotti, L., Florindo, F., Mensing, S., Piovesan, G and Michetti, A. M. (2019). Lakes as paleoseismic records in a seismically-active, low-relief area (Rieti Basin, central Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews, 211, 186-207. 

Dorado‐Liñán I., Piovesan G.,  et al. (2019) Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests. Global change biology  25 (4), 1296-1314 .  

Edward M. Schoolman, Scott Mensing, and Gianluca Piovesan (2018). Land Use and the Human Impact on the Environment in Medieval Italy. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 419–444

G. Piovesan, F. Biondi, M. Baliva, E. Presutti Saba, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, M. D’Elia, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, A. DiFilippo (2018). The oldest dated tree of Europe lives in the wild Pollino massif: Italus, a strip-bark Heldreich’s pine. Ecology, Volume 99, Issue 7, 1682-1684

Press release. ITALUS: THE OLDEST EUROPEAN TREE DISCOVERED IN POLLINO NATIONAL PARK - National Geographic - NG España - NG Italia - Discover - La Repubblica - Smithsonian- Live Science-Atlas Obscura - RAITG3 Calabria

G. Piovesan, F. Biondi, M. Baliva, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, A. Di Filippo (2018) Dating old hollow trees by applying a multistep tree-ring and radiocarbon procedure to trunk and exposed roots. MethodsX, 5, 495-502 

Piovesan, G. & Lüttge, U. (2018) Tree growth dynamics during early ontogenetic stages in closed forests. Trees, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 671–673 

Mensing, Scott A., Schoolman, Edward M., Tunno, Irene, Noble, Paula J., Sagnotti, Leonardo, Florindo, Fabio, Piovesan, Gianluca (2018) Historical ecology reveals landscape transformation coincident with cultural development in central Italy since the Roman Period. Scientific Reports, 2138, 8, 1 NEVADA Today. The messy history of pristine landscapes

Piovesan Gianluca, Mercuri Anna Maria, Mensing A. Scott (2018)  The potential of paleoecology for functional forest restoration planning: lessons from Late Holocene Italian pollen records. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology,  152 (3), 508-514    

A new method for assessing the age of old-growth forests. In this post, Associate Editor Nathalie Butt discusses a recent paper ‘Tree-ring based metrics for assessing the functional naturalness of forests‘ by Alfredo Di Filippo, Franco Biondi, Gianluca Piovesan and Emanuele Ziaco  (2017)  Tree ring‐based metrics for assessing old‐growth forest naturalness. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(3): 737-749. 

The Scientific Naturalist (Ecology) trilogy of the oldest trees in Europe

Recent Projects

Combining Historic and Ecologic Archives to Understand Past Environmental Change, NSF Award

ITALIAN MOUNTAIN LAB  - Research and Innovation for the Mountain environment and territories 

Dafne-Unitus, Department excellence project 2017 -  WP1: Nature, Forests and Sustainable Management of Agro-Silvo-Pastoral systems.  Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (web site coming soon).  

VITERBO DECLARATION - On safeguarding functional beech forest ecosystems

Forest Conservation - Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe - Unesco World Heritage site. Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park   ----  Forest beat -

Historical-ecological aspect of sustainability - Understanding Human Responses to Environmental Change Using a 2,500-Year Reconstruction of Paleoecologic and Socioeconomic History  - NSF Award

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