Marco Girardello

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Marco Girardello is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Girardello has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Marco Girardello's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Marco Girardello is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Marco Girardello collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Italy and Portugal. Marco Girardello's co-authors include Andrea Santangeli, Sandro Bertolino, Pieter S. A. Beck, Alessandro Cescatti, Evan R. Buechley, Ramón Perea, Achille Mauri, Alfonso San Miguel, Giovanni Forzieri and Guido Ceccherini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Marco Girardello

43 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

2021 215 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Girardello Finland	22	783	588	499	493	256	46	1.5k
Lawrence N. Hudson United Kingdom	13	775 1.0×	589 1.0×	556 1.1×	493 1.0×	445 1.7×	15	1.6k
Paul Caplat United Kingdom	22	560 0.7×	696 1.2×	390 0.8×	528 1.1×	319 1.2×	49	1.3k
Rebecca M. B. Harris Australia	18	512 0.7×	408 0.7×	512 1.0×	500 1.0×	320 1.3×	51	1.4k
Jayme Augusto Prevedello Brazil	18	1.0k 1.3×	815 1.4×	625 1.3×	321 0.7×	459 1.8×	51	1.8k
Erik Framstad Norway	19	711 0.9×	467 0.8×	480 1.0×	226 0.5×	173 0.7×	49	1.3k
Nicolas Casajus France	15	848 1.1×	704 1.2×	409 0.8×	927 1.9×	300 1.2×	32	1.7k
David A. Nipperess Australia	20	531 0.7×	591 1.0×	284 0.6×	509 1.0×	364 1.4×	38	1.4k
Cristián F. Estades Chile	21	907 1.2×	571 1.0×	364 0.7×	251 0.5×	344 1.3×	64	1.4k
Niels Blaum Germany	23	999 1.3×	705 1.2×	491 1.0×	276 0.6×	362 1.4×	80	1.7k
Jessie C. Buettel Australia	13	643 0.8×	317 0.5×	384 0.8×	381 0.8×	179 0.7×	50	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Girardello

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Girardello

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marco Girardello. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marco Girardello 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 Marco Girardello. Marco Girardello is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pickering, M. A., Gonzalo Otón, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2025). Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Girardello, Marco, et al.. (2024). Patterns and trends in the spatial heterogeneity of land surface phenology of global forests. Environmental Research Communications. 6(4). 41004–41004.

Bourgoin, Clément, Guido Ceccherini, Marco Girardello, et al.. (2024). Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated. Nature. 631(8021). 570–576. 44 indexed citations

Ceccherini, Guido, Marco Girardello, Pieter S. A. Beck, et al.. (2023). Spaceborne LiDAR reveals the effectiveness of European Protected Areas in conserving forest height and vertical structure. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 18 indexed citations

Mauri, Achille, Marco Girardello, Giovanni Forzieri, et al.. (2023). Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe. Global Environmental Change. 80. 102676–102676. 20 indexed citations

Wang, Shuting, Marco Girardello, & Wei Zhang. (2023). Potential and progress of studying mountain biodiversity by means of butterfly genetics and genomics. Journal of genetics and genomics. 51(3). 292–301. 3 indexed citations

Buechley, Evan R., Marco Girardello, Andrea Santangeli, et al.. (2021). Priority areas for vulture conservation in the Horn of Africa largely fall outside the protected area network. Bird Conservation International. 32(2). 188–205. 14 indexed citations

Forzieri, Giovanni, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2021). Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1081–1081. 215 indexed citations breakdown →

Santangeli, Andrea, Marco Girardello, Evan R. Buechley, et al.. (2019). Priority areas for conservation of Old World vultures. Conservation Biology. 33(5). 1056–1065. 60 indexed citations

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Forzieri, Giovanni, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2019). Vulnerability of European forests to climate risks. EGUGA. 15017. 1 indexed citations

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Giovanni, Forzieri, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, et al.. (2019). Vulnerability of European forests to natural disturbances. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations

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Naumann, Gustavo, et al.. (2019). Global warming and human impacts of heat and cold extremes in the EU. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 21 indexed citations

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Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja, Marco Girardello, Milan Chytrý, et al.. (2018). History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(3). 483–490. 68 indexed citations

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Santangeli, Andrea, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Mark Pogson, et al.. (2018). Mapping the global potential exposure of soaring birds to terrestrial wind energy expansion. Ornis Fennica. 95(1). 10 indexed citations

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Santangeli, Andrea, et al.. (2018). Synergistic effect of land-use and vegetation greenness on vulture nestling body condition in arid ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13027–13027. 18 indexed citations

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Quintana, Catalina, Marco Girardello, Anders S. Barfod, & Henrik Balslev. (2016). Diversity patterns, environmental drivers and changes in vegetation composition in dry inter-Andean valleys. Journal of Plant Ecology. rtw036–rtw036. 20 indexed citations

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Bertolino, Sandro, Marco Girardello, & Giovanni Amori. (2014). Identifying conservation priorities when data are scanty: A case study with small mammals in Italy. Mammalian Biology. 79(6). 349–356. 14 indexed citations

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Girardello, Marco & Federico Morelli. (2012). Modelling the environmental niche of a declining farmland bird species. Italian Journal of Zoology. 79(3). 434–440. 7 indexed citations

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Bertolino, Sandro, Lada Hofmannová, Marco Girardello, & David Modrý. (2010). Richness, origin and structure of anEimeriacommunity in a population of Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) introduced into Italy. Parasitology. 137(8). 1179–1186. 19 indexed citations

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Girardello, Marco, Matteo Griggio, Mark J. Whittingham, & Stephen Rushton. (2009). Models of climate associations and distributions of amphibians in Italy. Ecological Research. 25(1). 103–111. 21 indexed citations

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