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Selected papers

Topic 1

• Santi, I., Carrari, E., De Frenne, P., Valerio, M., Gasperini, C., Cabrucci, M., Selvi, F. 2024. Impact of coppicing on microclimate and understorey vegetation diversity in an ancient Mediterranean oak forest. Science of The Total Environment, 170531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170531
• Gasperini, C., Bollmann, K., Brunet, J., ...Selvi, F., Frenne, P.D. 2022. Soil seed bank responses to edge effects in temperate European forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(9), pp. 1877–1893  10.1111/geb.13568
• Selvi, F., Campetella, G., Canullo, R., ...Wellstein, C., Carrari, E. 2023. The Italian endemic forest plants: an annotated inventory and synthesis of knowledge. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2023, 156(1), pp. 29–45. https://plecevo.eu/article/95929/
• Gasperini, C., Carrari, E., Govaert, S., ...De Frenne, P., Selvi, F. 2021. Edge effects on the realised soil seed bank along microclimatic gradients in temperate European forests. Science of the Total Environment,  798, 149373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149373
• Iacopetti, G., Bussotti, F., Carrari, E., Martini, S., Selvi, F. 2021. Understorey changes after an extreme drought event are modulated by overstorey tree species mixtures in thermophilous deciduous forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 484, 118931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118931

Topic 2

• Alderotti F., Sillo F., Brilli L., Bussotti F., Centritto M., Ferrini F., Gori A., Inghes R., Pasquini D., Pollastrini M., Saurer M., Cherubini P., Balestrini R., Brunetti C. 2023. Quercus ilex L. dieback is genetically determined: evidence provided by dendrochronology, δ13C and SSR genotyping. Science of the Total Environment 904, 166809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166809
• Pollastrini M., Bruggeman W., Fotelli M., Bussotti F. 2022. Downregulation of PSI regulates photosynthesis in early successional tree species. Evidence from a field survey across European forests. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 12, 100145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpap.2022.100145
• Bussotti F., Papitto G., Di Martino D., Cocciufa C., Cindolo C., Cenni E., Bettini D., Iacopetti G., Pollastrini M. 2021. Defoliation, recovery and increasing mortality in Italian forests: levels, patterns and possible consequences for forest multifunctionality. Forests, 12, 1476. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111476
• Pollastrini M., Puletti N., Selvi F., Iacopetti N., Bussotti F. 2019. Widespread crown defoliation after a drought and heat wave in the forests of Tuscany (central Italy) and their recovery – a case study from summer 2017. Front. For. Glob. Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00074
• Bussotti F., Pollastrini M. 2015. Evaluation of leaf features in forest trees: methods, techniques, obtainable information and limits. Ecological Indicators 52, 219-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.12.010

Topic 3 

• Marini, L., Bini, L.,  Gori, M., Foggi, B., Galbany-Casals, M., Palchetti, E., Bruschi. P. (2023). Genetic and morphological assessment of Helichrysum Mill. from Tuscan Archipelago (Italy). SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE, 321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2023.112360
• Milani, F., Bottoni, M., Bardelli, L., Colombo, L., P.S. Colombo, Bruschi, P.,  Giuliani, C.,  Fico. G.  2023. Remnants from the Past: From an 18th Century Manuscript to 21st Century Ethnobotany in Valle Imagna (Bergamo), Italy. PLANTS 12(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12142748 
• Marini, L., Palchetti, E., Brilli, L., Fico, G., Giuliani, C., Michelozzi, M., Cencetti, G.,  Foggi, B.,  Bruschi P. (2022). Terpene Profiles Composition and Micromorphological Analysis on Two Wild Populations of Helichrysum spp. from the Tuscan Archipelago (Central Italy).  Plants, 11(13), 1719.  https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11131719
• Rivera, D., Alcaraz, F., Verde, A.,......Egea, T., Bruschi, P. 2017. Is there nothing new under the sun? The influence of herbals and pharmacopoeias on ethnobotanical traditions in Albacete (Spain). Journal of ethnopharmacology, 195, 96-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2016.11.040
• Urso, V., Signorini, M.A., Tonini, M., Bruschi, P.  2016. Wild medicinal and food plants used by communities living in Mopane woodlands of southern Angola: Results of an ethnobotanical field investigation. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 177, pp. 126-139. 10.1016/j.jep.2015.11.041

Topic 4 

• Colzi, I., Gonnelli, C., Bettarini, I., Selvi, F. 2023. Polyploidy affects responses to Nickel in Ni-hyperaccumulating plants: Evidence from the model species Odontarrhena bertolonii (Brassicaceae)  Environmental and Experimental Botany, 213, 105403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105403
• Coppi, A., Lazzaro, L., Selvi, F. 2022. Plant mortality on ultramafic soils after an extreme heat and drought event in the Mediterranean area. Plant and Soil, 471(1-2), pp. 123–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05179-2
• Cecchi, L., Bettarini, I., Colzi, I., ...Gonnelli, C., Selvi, F. 2018. The genus Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) in Albania: Taxonomy and nickel accumulation in a critical group of metallophytes from a major serpentine hot-spot. Phytotaxa,  351(1), pp. 1–28. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.351.1.1
• Selvi, F., Carrari, E., Colzi, I., Coppi, A., Gonnelli, C. 2017. Responses of serpentine plants to pine invasion: Vegetation diversity and nickel accumulation in species with contrasting adaptive strategies. Science of the Total Environment,  595, pp. 72–80. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.249