Gianni Boris Pezzatti
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Community Ecology
Insubric Ecosystems
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+41 91 8215 232
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+41 91 8215 239 |
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Be RA D 5 |
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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
via Belsoggiorno 22
6500 Bellinzona
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Curriculum vitae
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Academic education
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2012
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PhD thesis at the Laboratory of Applied Ecology of the University of Naples Federico
II (Dipartimento di Arboricoltura, Botanica e Patologia Vegetale, Facoltà di Agraria): Modeling plant biomass partitioning: responses to environmental conditions and disturbance (Prof. Dr. Stefano Mazzoleni)
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1997
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Degree in Natural Sciences at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Faculty of Environmental Sciences, specialization in Biology of terrestrial systems.
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Professional and research experience
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since 1998
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Scientific fellow [20-100%] at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Bellinzona: fire ecology, statistical analysis and data visualization, software development (databases, scientific applications, desktop/web).
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2003-2006
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Collaborator [60%] at the private office of environmental consultancy Trifolium, Arogno: agro-ecological projects, landscape concepts, vegetation cartography, butterfly surveys.
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Publications (ISI and peer reviewed)
Wastl C, Schunk C, Leuchner M, Pezzatti GB, Menzel A. 2012: Recent
climate change: Long-term trends in meteorological forest fire
danger in
the Alps. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 162–163: 1–13.
Pezzatti GB, Zumbrunnen T, Bürgi M, Ambrosetti P, Conedera M. in press: Fire regime shifts as a consequence of fire policy
and socio-economic development: An analysis based on the change point
approach. Forest Policy and Economics. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.07.002
Maringer J Wohlgemuth T Neff C, Pezzatti GB, Conedera M. 2012: Post-fire spread of alien plant species in a mixed broad-leaved forest of the Insubric region. Flora 207: 19-29.
Bajocco S, Pezzatti GB, De Angelis A, Conedera M, Ricotta C. 2011: Bootstrapping wildfire selectivity for the forest types of Canton Ticino (Switzerland). Earth Interact. 15 Paper no.19 doi: 10.1175/2011EI387.1: 9 p.
Conedera M, Barthold F, Spinedi F, Ferrario F, Pezzatti GB. 2011: Siccità estiva e castagno. Un'ulteriore minaccia dagli estremi climatici? Sherwood 17 178: 16-21.
Conedera M, Torriani D, Neff C, Ricotta C, Bajocco S, Pezzatti GB. 2011: Using Monte Carlo simulations to estimate relative fire ignition danger in a low-to-medium fire-prone region. For. Ecol. Manage. 261: 2179-2187.
Zumbrunnen T, Pezzatti GB, Menéndez P, Bugmann H, Bürgi M, Conedera M. 2011: Weather and human impacts on forest fires: 100 years of fire history in two climatic regions of Switzerland. For. Ecol. Manage. 261: 2188-2199.
Pezzatti GB, Reinhard M, Conedera M. 2010: Swissfire: die neue schweizerische Waldbranddatenbank. Schweiz. Z. Forstwes. 161 12: 465-469.
Krebs P, Pezzatti GB, Mazzoleni S, Talbot L.M, Conedera M. 2010: Fire regime: history and definition of a key concept in disturbance ecology. Theory Biosci. 129: 53-69.
Bajocco S, Pezzatti GB, Mazzoleni S, Ricotta C. 2010: Wildfire seasonality and land use: when do wildfires prefer to burn? Environ. Monit. Assess. 164: 445-452.
Telesca L, Kanevski M, Tonini M, Pezzatti GB, Conedera M. 2010: Temporal patterns of fire sequences observed in canton of Ticino (southern Switzerland). Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 10: 723-728.
Conedera M, Barthold F, Torriani D, Pezzatti GB. 2010: Drought Sensitivity of Castanea sativa: Case Study of Summer 2003 in the Southern Alps. Acta Hort 866: 297-302.
Pezzatti GB, Krebs P, Gehring E, Fedele G, Conedera M, Mazzoleni S, Monaco E, Giannino F. 2010: Using the Leaf Area/Sapwood Area (LA/SA) Relationship to Assess the Ecological Plasticity of the Chestnut Tree (Castanea sativa Mill.). Acta Hort 866: 103-109.
De Natale A, Pezzatti GB, Pollio A. 2009: Extending the temporal context of ethnobotanial databases: the case study of the Campania region (southern Italy). J. Ethnobiol. Ethnomed. 5:7 doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-5-7 18 S.
Pezzatti GB, Bajocco S, Torriani D, Conedera M. 2009: Selective burning of forest vegetation in Canton Ticino (southern Switzerland). Plant Biosyst. 143 3: 609-620.
Krivtsov V, Vigy O, Legg C, Curt T, Rigolot E, Lecomte I, Jappiot M, Lampin-Maillet C, Fernandes P, Pezzatti GB. 2009: Fuel modelling in terrestrial ecosystems: An overview in the context of the development of an object-orientated database for wild fire analysis. Ecol. Model. 220: 2915-2926.
Pezzatti GB, Irzan T, Cherix D. 1998:. Ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae) of Floreana: lost paradise? Noticias de Galapagos 59: 11–20.
