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.com/citations?user=GivDlqMAAAAJ&hl=it https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-3959
RECENT PAPERS
Ricotta, C., Pavoine, S. (2026) Beyond branch lengths: a fuzzy theory of evolutionary distinctiveness. Ecosphere 17: e70541. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70541
Masi, A., Masci, L., Liakopoulos, G.C., Bini, M., Francke, A., Isola, I. et al. (2026) Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change. Journal of Quaternary Science 41: 996–1019. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.70087
Ferrara, C., Bregaglio, S., Chianucci, F., Ricotta, C., Bajocco, S. (2026) Phenological variability reveals environmental gradients in European beech forests. International Journal of Biometeorology 70: 109. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-026-03175-8
Thouverai, E., Pavoine, S., Tordoni, E., Chiarucci, A., Ricotta, C., Rocchini, D., Bacaro, G. (2026) Rarefy: an R package for the calculation of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic sample-based spatially explicit rarefaction curves. Ecological Informatics 96: 103803. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103803
Bajocco, S., Ricotta, C., Bregaglio, S. (2026) Rocking around the pheno-clock: bridging vegetation phenology and chronobiology. bioRxiv DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707703
Ricotta, C., Campagner, A., Pavoine, S., Ciucci, D. (2026) Diversity in a fuzzy world: a review of models and measures. EcoEvoRxiv DOI: 10.32942/X22M26
Schmera, D., Ricotta, C., Podani, J. (2026) Novel functional dissimilarity measures bridging species- and trait-based community analyses. Ecological Modelling 514: 111492. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2026.111492
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