Publications' List

BIO_SOS publications from 2013

• Mairota P., Leronni V., Xi W., Mladenoff D. 2013. Using spatial simulations of habitat modification for adaptive management of protected areas: Mediterranean grassland modification by woody plant encroachment. (Paper submitted to Environmental Conservation)

• M. Rossi, D. Torri and E. Santi. Bias in topographic thresholds for gully heads. Oral presentation, 6th International Symposium on Gully Erosion in a Changing World (6th ISGE), 6-12 May 2013, Iasi, Romania.

• D. Torri, J. Poesen, O. Terranova, P. Iaquinta, M. Rossi. Reviewing and modelling topographic thresholds for gully heads. Oral presentation, 6th International Symposium on Gully Erosion in a Changing World (6th ISGE), 6-12 May 2013, Iasi, Romania.

• D. Torri, J. Poesen. A review of topographic threshold conditions for gully head development in different environments. Earth Science Review, Submitted.

• Kosmidou, V., Petrou, Z.I., Bunce, R.G.H., M�cher, C.A., Jongman, R.H.G., Bogers, M.M., Lucas, R.M., Tomaselli, V., Blonda, P., Padoa-Schioppa, E., Manakos, I., Petrou, M., 2013. Harmonization of the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) with the General Habitat Categories (GHC) classification system. Ecol. Indic. Under review.

• Petrou, Z.I., Kosmidou, V., Manakos, I., Stathaki, T., Adamo, M., Tarantino, C., Tomaselli, V., Blonda, P, 2013. A rule-based classification methodology to handle uncertainty in habitat mapping employing evidential reasoning and fuzzy logic. Pattern Recogn. Lett. Submitted.

• Kosmidou, V, Petrou, Z.I., Adamo, M., Manakos, I., M�cher, C.A., Lucas, R., Tarantino, C., Jongman, R.H.G., Bogers, M.M.B., Tomaselli, V., Bunce, R.G.H., Blonda, P., 2013. Harmonizing the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) and the General Habitat Categories (GHC) taxonomies. Earth Observation for biodiversity surveillance: technology for policy implementation, IALE, 9-12 September, Manchester, UK[AB1].

• Adamo, M., Tarantino, C., Kosmidou, V., Petrou, Z., Manakos, I., Lucas, R.M., Tomaselli, V., Mucher, C.A., Blonda, P., 2013. Land cover to habitat map translation: Disambiguation rules based on Earth Observation data, in: IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp., IEEE, Melbourne. Accepted for publication.

• Adamo, M., Tarantino, C., Kosmidou, V., Petrou, Z.I., Manakos, I., Tomaselli, V., Lucas, R., Muncher, C.A., Blonda, P., 2013. Disambiguation rules based on Earth Observation data for Land Cover to habitat map translation: a case study. GI_Forum conference, 2-5 July 2013, Salzburg, Austria[AB2][AB3].

• G.F. Ficetola, A. Bonardi, P. Mairota, V. Leronni, E. Padoa-Schioppa. Predicting wild boar damages to croplands in a mosaic of agricultural and natural areas. Submitted to Current Zoology.

• G.F. Ficetola, A. Bonardi, N. Gilissen, C.A. Mucher, E. Padoa-Schioppa Many predictors in species distribution models at the landscape scale? Land use versus LiDAR derived canopy height. Submitted to International Journal of Geographic Information Science.

• M. Niphadkar, G.F. Ficetola, A. Bonardi, H. Nagendra, E. Padoa-Schioppa. Logistic regression modeling of the invasive species Lantana camara in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve, India. Submitted to Tropical Ecology.

• H. Nagendra, P. Mairota, C. Marangi, D. Torri, R. Lucas, P. Dimopoulos, J.P. Honrado, M. Niphadkar, C.A. Mucher, V. Tomaselli, M. Panitsa, I. Manakos, P.Blonda. A framework to apply remote sensing for threat analysis in protected areas. Submitted to Ecological Applications.

• Damien Arvor, Laurent Durieux, Samuel Andrés, Marie-Angélique Laporte, 2013. Advances in Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis with ontologies: A review of main contributions and limitations from a remote sensing perspective. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Volume 82, Pages 125–137.

• Valeria Tomaselli, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Carmela Marangi, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Maria Adamo, Cristina Tarantino, Maria Panitsa, Massimo Terzi, Giuseppe Veronico, Francesco Lovergine, Harini Nagendra, Richard Lucas, Paola Mairota, Caspar A. Mucher, Palma Blonda, 2013. Translating land cover/land use classifications to habitat taxonomies for landscape monitoring: a Mediterranean assessment. Landscape Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10980-013-9863-3.

• From Space to species: Solutions for biodiversity monitoring by Palma Blonda, Richard Lucas and João Pradinho Honrado – on behalf of BIO_SOS consortium. Window on GMES, Special Issue on Discover what GMES can do for European regions and cities, ISSN 2030-5419. 

Abstracts accepted in Conferences (manuscripts in preparation);

• Labadessa R., Campochiaro M. B., Antolino G., Forte L., Mairota P. 2013. Orthoptera life forms as indicators of grassland quality. 10th European Dry Grassland Meeting. Zamosc (PL), 26-31/05/2013

• Labadessa R., Antolino G., Campochiaro M. B., Forte L., Mairota P. 2013. Functional groups as helpful tools for grassland conservation. Annual Meeting of International Association for Vegetation Science. Tartu (EE), 26-31/06/2013

• Labadessa R., Antolino G., Campochiaro M. B., Forte L., Mairota P. 2013. Testing functional groups for the monitoring of biodiversity and habitat quality. European Congress of International Association for Landscape Ecology. Manchester (UK), 9-12/09/2013

• Mairota P., Labadessa R., Lovergine F., Tarantino C., Cafarelli, B., 2013. Testing very high resolution Earth Observation features as predictors of biodiversity surrogates at multiple scales for habitat quality change detection. European Congress of International Association for Landscape Ecology. Manchester (UK), 9-12/09/2013

BIO_SOS publications from 2012

• Harini Nagendra, Richard Lucas, João Pradinho Honrado, Rob H.G. Jongman, Cristina Tarantino, Maria Adamo, Paola Mairota. Remote sensing for conservation monitoring: Assessing protected areas, habitat extent, habitat condition, species diversity, and threats. Ecological Indicators.

• Mairota P., Cafarelli B., Boccaccio L., Leronni V., Labadessa R., Kosmidou V., Nagendra H. Using landscape structure to develop quantitative baselines for protected area monitoring. Ecological Indicators, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.08.017.

• Boccaccio, L., Labadessa, R., Leronni, V., & Mairota, P. (2012) Landscape changes in the Natura 468 2000 "Murgia Alta" site and dry grassland fragmentation. Proceedings of the IX National 469 Biodiversity Congress. Bari Italy 3:351-357, ISBN 2-85352-499-x (Abstract in English).

• F. Diele, C. Marangi, Spatially explicit and implicit models for cyclic metapopulation dynamics, Poster presented at 7th Workshop SDS2012 (Structural Dynamical Systems): Computational Aspects, Monopoli, Italy, June 12-15, 2012

• F. Diele, C. Marangi, and S. Ragni, Implicit - symplectic partitioned (IMSP) Runge-Kutta schemes for predator-prey dynamics, AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 1479, pp. 1177-1180, Doi 10.1063/1.4756360
  F. Diele, C. Marangi, and S. Ragni, Exponential Runge-Kutta integrators for modelling Predator-Prey interactions, AIP Conf. Proc., Vol 1479, pp. 1177-1180, Doi 10.1063/1.4756361

• F. Diele, C. Marangi, and S. Ragni, The effect of corridor size reduction on cyclic metapopulation dynamics in spatially explicit models, submitted to Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.

• Palma Blonda, Rob Jongman, Jens Stutte, Dimopoulos Panayotis, Safeguarding Biodiversity: From Space to Species. Research Innovation.

• Mücher, C.A.., Kooistrra, L., Vermeulen, M., Vanden Borre, J., Haest, B., Haveman, R., Quantifying structure and function of Natura 2000 heathland habitats using spectral mixture analysis and segmentation techniques on hyperspectral imagery. Ecological Indicators.

• Palma Blonda, Panayotis Dimopoulos , Maria Petrou, Rob Jongman, Harini Nagendra, Daniela Iasillo, Alain Arnoud, Paola Mairota, Joao Jhonrado, EmilioPadoa Schioppa, Richard Lucas,Laurent Durieux, Laura Candela, Jordi Inglada, BIOdiversity Multi-source Monitoring System: from Space TO Species (BIO_SOS). GA 2623435. Lets’ embrace Space, 2nd

• Mairota, P, Cafarelli, B, Boccaccio, L., Leronni, V., Labadessa, R., Kosmidou, V., Nagendra, H., Using landscape structure to develop quantitative baselines for protected area monitoring. Ecological Indicators (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.08.017).

• Kosmidou, V., Petrou, Z., Bunce, R.G.H., Mucher, C.A., Lucas, R.M., Tomaselli, V., Blonda, P., Jongman, R.H.G.,. Bogers, M.M.B., Padoa-Schioppa, E., Petrou, M., Harmonization of the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) with the General Habitat Categories (GHC) classification system: linkage between remote sensing and ecology. Ecological Indicators (Submitted).

• Palma Blonda on behalf of BIO_SOS Consortium, BIO_SOS –Biodiversity Multi-source Monitoring System:from Space to Species. GMES Land User Newsletter

BIO_SOS publications from 2011

• Harini Nagendra, Richard Lucas, João P Honrado, Rob H Jongman, Paola Mairota, Cristina Tarantino, Maria Adamo, Remote Sensing for Protected Area Assessment: Monitoring Habitat Area, Condition, Biodiversity and Threat. Ecological Indicators (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.09.014).

• Palma Blonda on behalf of BIO_SOS Consortium, BIO_SOS Project The Parliament magazine.