RicottaLab provides a platform for free, rigorous and elegant research on all aspects of community ecology and geoecology (including invasion and urban ecology, multivariate analysis and biodiversity, spatial statistics, macroecology, historical geography, landscape and satellite ecology) with strong bias towards quantitative and methodological issues.

CARLO RICOTTA

Dept. of Environmental Biology
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’

E-mail: carlo.ricotta@uniroma1.it

https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=GivDlqMAAAAJ
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-3959

RECENT PAPERS

Ricotta, C., Dalle Fratte, M., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Pavoine, S. (2025) Beyond mean trait distance: an integrated approach to functional distinctiveness. Ecological Indicators 181: 114477. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114477

Bajocco, S., Ricotta, C., Bregaglio, S. (2025) Bridging the gap between remotely sensed phenology and the underlying ecophysiological processes: The SWELL model. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16: 1473-1488. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.70067

Ricotta, C., Pavoine, S. (2025) What do functional diversity, redundancy, rarity, and originality actually measure? A theoretical guide for ecologists and conservationists. Ecological Complexity 61: 101116.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2025.101116

Pavanetto, N., Tordoni, E., Petruzzellis, F., Maccherini, S., Nardini, A., Beccari, E., Ricotta, C., Rocchini, D., Conti, L., Fanfarillo, E., Castello, M., Bacaro, G. (2025) Effect of climate extremes and grazing on functional traits of a grassland community: insights from a 20-year experiment. Annals of Botany 136: 129-139. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf059

Costa-Saura, J.M., Midolo, G., Ricotta, C., Baudena, M., Calfapietra, C., Elia, M., Fiorucci, P., Mereu, S., Sirca, C., Spano, D., Vivaldo, G., Ottaviani, G. (2025) Are trait responses of tree species across pyroregions indicative of fire-modulated plant functional strategies? Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 67: 125867. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2025.125867

Bajocco, S., Guglietta, D., Costa Saura, J.M., Vivaldo, G., Ricotta, C. (2025) Coarse-scale effects of land cover and fragmentation on Pyrodiversity. EcoEvoRxiv. DOI: 10.32942/X2VW57

Pavoine, S., Ricotta, C., (2024) Functional and phylogenetic β diversities and their link with clustering/overdispersion and uniqueness/redundancy. EcoSphere 15: e70045. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70045 

Chianucci, F., Napoleone, F., Ricotta, C., Ferrara, C., Fusaro, L., et al. (2024) Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 61: 2350-2364. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14740

Di Giulio, M., Lososová, Z., Carboni, M., Ricotta, C. (2024) Measuring plant functional specialization in urban environments with Grime’s CSR strategies. Applied Vegetation Science 27: e12803. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12803

Torresani, M., Rossi, C., Perrone, M., Hauser, L.T., Féret, J.B., Moudrý, V., Simova, P., Ricotta, C., Foody, G.M., Kacic, P., Feilhauer, H., Malavasi, M., Tognetti, R., Rocchini, D. (2024) Reviewing the spectral variation hypothesis: Twenty years in the tumultuous sea of biodiversity estimation by remote sensing. Ecological Informatics 82: 102702. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102702

Pavoine, S., Ricotta, C. (2024) Combining extinction probability and functional or phylogenetic distinctiveness to define conservation priorities. Biological Conservation 295: 110657. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110657

Ricotta, C., Pavoine, S. (2024) A new look at functional beta diversity. Ecological Indicators 163: 112136. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112136

Ricotta, C., Feoli, E. (2024) Hill numbers everywhere. Does it make ecological sense? Ecological Indicators 161: 111971. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111971

Rocchini, D., Torresani, M., Ricotta, C. (2024) On the mathematical properties of spatial Rao’s Q to compute ecosystem heterogeneity. Theoretical Ecology 17: 247-254. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-024-00587-3