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Gianmaria Bonari
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🌳​Botanist, vegetation ecologist 🌳

Senior researcher @University of Siena, Italy

Editor of Vegetation Ecology and Diversity
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📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain

Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!

📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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A wonderful day celebrating the legacy of Sandro Pignatti. At the end of the event, a tree was planted by the Director of the Botanical Garden of Rome, Prof. Fabio Attorre, in memory of Prof. Pignatti.

@iavs5.bsky.social
#EVS
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The event "Celebration the legacy of Sandro Pignatti" is now happening at the Botanical Garden of Rome organised by La Sapienza University of Rome

@iavs5.bsky.social
#EVS
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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The problem of oak decline in southern Italy. VED new article addresses this topic and evaluates environmental and climate parameters for modelling purposes
➡️ ved.arphahub.com/article/1601...
Oak decline in southern Italy: environmental and climate parameters for modelling purposes
The future of the Mediterranean oak forests is under threat from the dangerous effects of global climate change, such as increasing droughts and heatwaves. The combined or individual action of certain...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Read the new article from VED entitled "Multi-faceted short-term dynamics of plant understory across forest regeneration stages". 👉 ved.arphahub.com/article/1578...
Multi-faceted short-term dynamics of plant understory across forest regeneration stages
Biodiversity is a multidimensional concept, and capturing its various facets simultaneously offers a more robust framework for predicting vegetation responses to anthropogenic disturbance. Yet, multif...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Check the new national and regional Annex I Habitat records (from #139 to #147) 👇
ved.arphahub.com/article/1605...
New national and regional Annex I Habitat records: from #139 to #147
This contribution presents new Italian data on the distribution of Annex I Habitats. Specifically, 9 records are reported, including 3 occurrences within Natura 2000 sites and the addition of 9 new ce...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy ved.arphahub.com/articles.php...

The ‘manifesto’ of our initiative is out in @vegecoldiv.bsky.social! If you have itv-level data and you want to share them read the paper and dm me!
ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy
Vegetation science is a branch of community ecology that relies on species identities and abundance to classify vegetation in coherent units and to explore species coexistence and turnover dynamics. T...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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📢New VED article presents the DALIA database: DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso (Italy) 🧑‍💻
Check It here! 👇
ved.arphahub.com/article/1552...
DALIA: a relational DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso (Italy)
We developed the DALIA relational database (DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa), which contains records of tree, shrub, and liana taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso, a small ...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🌳 A systematic review of Europe’s Traditional Agroforestry Systems: where nature and culture Meet 🌾

#Agroforestry #Biodiversity #SustainableFarming #CulturalHeritage #Conservation #Europe #traditionallandscapes

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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The members of the European Vegetation Survey are warmly welcome to the one-day seminar "Celebrating the Legacy of Sandro Pignatti" in Rome on 21 October.

Registration form: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#MAP-Rezia data collection is almost done! 🌺🌱 Thanks to @sonja, Angel & @gianmariabonari.bsky.social for completing botanical surveys between Stelvio & Swiss NP using the #ORCHAMP protocol. Now collecting remote sensing data✈️📡🛰️—will we detect the same biodiversity? Stay tuned for more…
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🚨New article entitled "Vegetation classification and conservation aspects of Atlantic dune pine forests in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula". Ready it at the following link 👇
ved.arphahub.com/article/1429...
Vegetation classification and conservation aspects of Atlantic dune pine forests in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula
This study refines the classification framework for Portuguese dune pine forests included in the alliance Coremato albi-Pinion pinastri at the association level after the syntaxonomic revision of Medi...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Biodiversity is the solution.

#NBFC
May 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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European Vegetation Survey excursion to Colfiorito wetlands, the high plains of Monti Sibillini (Castelluccio di Norcia) and Norcia led by Corrado Marcenò, Riccardo Guarino, and Alessandro Silvestre Gristina
April 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🌲 Our latest research looked at understory plant diversity in black pine forests within and outside their native range in Europe.

📚 Read more in our full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#Macroecology #Biodiversity #Conservation #PinusNigra #NonNativeForests
April 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Behind the paper post referring to the article "Grassland Changes in the Eastern Alps Over Four Decades: Unveiling Patterns Along an Elevation Gradient" by Gianmaria Bonari and colleagues, published in @applvegsci.bsky.social vegsciblog.org/2025/03/12/g... @iavs5.bsky.social
Grasslands change differently at different elevations - vegsciblog.org
Prepared by Gianmaria Bonari, Alessandro Bricca, Davide Andreatta, and Francesco Maria Sabatini This Behind the paper post refers to the
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March 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🌿 Grasslands in the Alps are changing—what’s happening? 🌿

🔎 Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Biodiversity #GrasslandsChange #Conservation
February 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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We are happy to announce that is now published an Editorial to introduce the new journal 🎉🍾
Read "Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)" through the following link
👉 ved.arphahub.com/article/1466...
Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)
The current issue is the first one of the journal Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, formerly Plant Sociology, the international peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV...
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February 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
☘ The first Editorial of the open-access society-owned Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED) journal is finally out!

We introduce the Editorial Board, Social Media Team, Topical Collections, and initiatives for young researchers.

ved.arphahub.com/article/1466...

@vegecoldiv.bsky.social
Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)
The current issue is the first one of the journal Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, formerly Plant Sociology, the international peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV...
ved.arphahub.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🌿 How do nature & humans shape Mediterranean coastal dunes? Our study shows that shoreline erosion indirectly drives biodiversity loss, while human activities shift plant communities, favoring ruderal species over typical dune plants.
🌊🏖️ #Biodiversity #Conservation #Dunes
January 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The website of the European Vegetation Survey conference in Perugia, Italy, 28 Apr - 2 May 2025, has been launched:
vnr.unipg.it/33evsperugia...

@iavs5.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Dear EVS Members,

We are pleased to announce the roles of the new European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Steering Committee for the term 2024-2028

🧵 below
December 20, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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🌱 Join Us for the BayCEER Colloquium 🌿

📅 05/12/2024, at 12:15 p.m.

Dr. Gian-Maria Bonari will present:

"Grassland changes in the Alps over the last four decades"

Explore how global changes have transformed Alpine grasslands and discover elevation-specific biodiversity trends.
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
New study in @natureecoevo.bsky.social comes to a surprising conclusion: Plant species can fulfil different functions within an #ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. Study led by Georg Hähn @Unibo and @HelgeBruelheide. More: bit.ly/3Vn9QyB
December 4, 2024 at 4:47 PM