Search Results - "Rosario Acosta, Alicia Teresa"
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Based Mapping of Acacia saligna Invasion in the Mediterranean Coast
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-09-2021)“…Remote Sensing (RS) is a useful tool for detecting and mapping Invasive Alien Plants (IAPs). IAPs mapping on dynamic and heterogeneous landscapes, using…”
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Capturing Coastal Dune Natural Vegetation Types Using a Phenology-Based Mapping Approach: The Potential of Sentinel-2
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-06-2019)“…Coastal areas harbor the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, and cost-effective ways to monitor and protect them are urgently needed, but they represent a…”
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Measuring Alpha and Beta Diversity by Field and Remote-Sensing Data: A Challenge for Coastal Dunes Biodiversity Monitoring
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-05-2021)“…Combining field collected and remotely sensed (RS) data represents one of the most promising approaches for an extensive and up-to-date ecosystem assessment…”
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Mapping Coastal Dune Landscape through Spectral Rao’s Q Temporal Diversity
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-07-2020)“…Coastal dunes are found at the boundary between continents and seas representing unique transitional mosaics hosting highly dynamic habitats undergoing…”
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Coastal Dune Invaders: Integrative Mapping of Carpobrotus sp. pl. (Aizoaceae) Using UAVs
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-01-2023)“…Coastal dune ecosystems are highly threatened, and one of the strongest pressures is invasive alien plants (IAPs). Mitigating the negative effects of IAPs…”
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Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation
Published in Applied vegetation science (01-07-2018)“…Aims: Although many phytosociological studies have provided detailed local and regional descriptions of coastal dune vegetation, a unified classification of…”
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Within-species variation of seed traits of dune engineering species across a European climatic gradient
Published in Frontiers in plant science (11-08-2022)“…Within-species variation is a key component of biodiversity and linking it to climatic gradients may significantly improve our understanding of ecological…”
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Strength in Numbers: Combining Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Data to Model Plant Invasions in Coastal Dune Ecosystems
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-02-2019)“…A common feature of most theories of invasion ecology is that the extent and intensity of invasions is driven by a combination of drivers, which can be grouped…”
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Invasion success on European coastal dunes
Published in Plant sociology (12-05-2021)“…Many invasive plants are threatening the already highly vulnerable habitats of coastal dunes in Europe. Setting priority target species to control is mandatory…”
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Itineraries of the Working Group for Vegetation Science of the Italian Botanical Society – 1 (2022): Excursion to the Egadi Islands, Mount San Giuliano and Mount Cofano (Trapani, western Sicily, Italy)
Published in Italian botanist (2023)“…The results of the annual excursion of the Working Group for Vegetation Science of the Italian Botanical Society, held in the Egadi Islands, Mount San Giuliano…”
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Getting the measure of the biodiversity crisis in Mediterranean coastal habitats
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-03-2021)“…Assessing temporal changes in plant communities is a core aim of temporal ecology and a shared priority of global conservation agendas which is particularly…”
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Hard times for Italian coastal dunes: insights from a diachronic analysis based on random plots
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-03-2018)“…Multi-year temporal studies are invaluable tools for monitoring changes in biodiversity through time. However, their applications in coastal ecosystems are…”
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New insights into plants co-existence in species-rich communities: The pollination interaction perspective
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-01-2018)“…Questions: In animal-mediated pollination, pollinators can be regarded as a limiting resource for which entomophilous plant species might interact to assure…”
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Invasion dynamics and potential future spread of sea spurge across Australia’s coastal dunes
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-02-2022)“…Aim Invasive species provide an opportunity to study biogeography in action, allowing us to observe how species adapt and fill their environmental niche when…”
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Alien flora across European coastal dunes
Published in Applied vegetation science (01-07-2020)“…Questions The spread of alien plant species is one of the main threats to the biodiversity of different natural habitats, and coastal dune habitats are among…”
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Prioritizing management actions for invasive non-native plants through expert-based knowledge and species distribution models
Published in Ecological indicators (01-09-2024)“…[Display omitted] •We propose a replicable approach for prioritizing management of invasive plants.•Integration of expert elicitation and SDMs enhances the…”
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Sacred natural sites in Italy have landscape characteristics complementary to protected areas: Implications for policy and planning
Published in Applied geography (Sevenoaks) (01-12-2019)“…There is growing awareness that protected areas (PA) may not suffice to deliver all the targets set by international conventions and guarantee the conservation…”
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EU priority habitats: rethinking Mediterranean coastal pine forests
Published in Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze fisiche e naturali (01-06-2018)“…EU habitats knowledge is essential to better protect nature and to yield well-aimed management decisions. In this study, we analysed a debated habitat…”
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A first checklist of the alien-dominated vegetation in Italy
Published in Plant sociology (12-06-2020)“…This study provides a first step toward the knowledge of the alien-dominated and co-dominated plant communities present in Italy. The first ever checklist of…”
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Synergetic use of unmanned aerial vehicle and satellite images for detecting non-native tree species: An insight into Acacia saligna invasion in the Mediterranean coast
Published in Frontiers in environmental science (08-08-2022)“…Invasive alien plants (IAPs) are increasingly threatening biodiversity worldwide; thus, early detection and monitoring tools are needed. Here, we explored the…”
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