Carlo Ricotta

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
234 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Carlo Ricotta is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlo Ricotta has authored 234 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 104 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 97 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Carlo Ricotta's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (150 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (78 papers) and Plant and animal studies (75 papers). Carlo Ricotta is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (150 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (78 papers) and Plant and animal studies (75 papers). Carlo Ricotta collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United Kingdom. Carlo Ricotta's co-authors include Marco Moretti, Duccio Rocchini, Sofia Bajocco, Sandrine Pavoine, Giovanni Bacaro, Giancarlo Avena, János Podani, László Szeidl, C. Blasi and Alessandro Chiarucci and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Carlo Ricotta

227 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology
    2011 441 citations Carlo Ricotta et al. profile →

Peers

Carlo Ricotta
Karen H. Beard United States
Colby Loucks United States
Emma C. Underwood United States
Thomas Hickler Germany
Thomas F. Allnutt United States
Bethany A. Bradley United States
John Harte United States
Yumiko Kura United States
Carl Beierkuhnlein Germany
Steven I. Higgins Germany
Karen H. Beard United States
Carlo Ricotta
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Fields of papers citing papers by Carlo Ricotta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlo Ricotta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carlo Ricotta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carlo Ricotta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carlo Ricotta. Carlo Ricotta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Pavoine, Sandrine & Carlo Ricotta. (2024). Combining extinction probability and functional or phylogenetic distinctiveness to define conservation priorities. Biological Conservation. 295. 110657–110657. 2 indexed citations
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Pavoine, Sandrine & Carlo Ricotta. (2023). Identifying functionally distinctive and threatened species. Biological Conservation. 284. 110170–110170. 7 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, János Podani, Dénes Schmera, et al.. (2023). The ternary diagram of functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). 1168–1174. 11 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, Evsey Kosman, Fabien Laroche, & Sandrine Pavoine. (2021). Beta redundancy for functional ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). 1062–1069. 6 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, Gillian L. Rapson, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2017). British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras. Biological Invasions. 19(12). 3589–3599. 8 indexed citations
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Manrique, Rosa, Carlo Ricotta, Carlo Ferrari, & Giovanna Pezzi. (2014). Latitudinal pattern in plant composition along the Peruvian and Chilean fog oases. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 148(5). 1002–1008. 8 indexed citations
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Sadori, Laura, Alessia Masi, & Carlo Ricotta. (2014). Climate-driven past fires in central Sicily. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 149(1). 166–173. 26 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, et al.. (2013). Limited evidence of local phylogenetic clustering in the urban flora of Brussels. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 149(1). 31–37. 3 indexed citations
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Mazzoleni, Stefano, et al.. (2013). INCENDI E PAESAGGIO VEGETALE: IL CASO DEL CILENTO, CAMPANIA. L’Italia forestale e montana. 56(6). 417–429. 3 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo & María Laura Carranza. (2013). Measuring Scale-Dependent Landscape Structure with Rao’s Quadratic Diversity. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2(2). 405–412. 7 indexed citations
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Manes, Fausto, Carlo Ricotta, Elisabetta Salvatori, Sofia Bajocco, & C. Blasi. (2010). A multiscale analysis of canopy structure in Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus cerris L. old‐growth forests in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 144(1). 202–210. 21 indexed citations
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Bajocco, Sofia, Antonella De Angelis, Leonardo Rosati, & Carlo Ricotta. (2009). The relationship between temporal patterns of wildfires and phytoclimatic regions in Sardinia (Italy). Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 143(3). 588–596. 3 indexed citations
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Smiraglia, Daniela, Laura Zavattero, Carlo Ricotta, & C. Blasi. (2007). The use of adjacency analysis for quantifying landscape changes. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 141(3). 384–389. 22 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, et al.. (2005). A ‘fast-food approach’ to the standardization of quadratic diversity. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 139(3). 411–413. 3 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo & Giancarlo Avena. (2003). An information-theoretical measure of β-diversity. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 137(1). 57–61. 6 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, C. Blasi, María Laura Carranza, Pierpaolo Napolitano, & E. Massaro. (2001). Quantifying post-fire regrowth of remotely sensed mediterranean vegetation with percolation-based methods. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 135(3). 311–317. 4 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo & Giancarlo Avena. (2001). Rényi's generalized information as a linear combination of species richness and dominance concentration. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 135(2). 207–212. 3 indexed citations
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Ricotta, Carlo, et al.. (1990). Introduzione a Goldoni. Laterza eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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