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  1. Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests

    Article • Science Advances, July 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam, Dr. Orelvis Portal, Lene Sigsgaard, Matteo Dainese, Professor Christoph Scherber

  2. Disentangling biodiversity and temperature effects on bees and pollination services in mountain agroecosystems

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2026, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  3. Eco-physiological responses of Hieracium pilosella and Trifolium pratense to reduced air pressure

    Article • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, December 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Matteo Dainese

  4. Air pressure as a driver of plant-specific microbial responses in the rhizosphere

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  5. Influence of land management on soil organic matter pools, plant traits and enzymatic activity in mountain grasslands

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, July 2025, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  6. Global change experiments in mountain ecosystems: A systematic review

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, May 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Matteo Dainese

  7. New distribution records of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in South Tyrol (Italy): expanding the wild bee database

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, February 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Matteo Dainese

  8. Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  9. Short-term impact of low air pressure on plants’ functional traits

    Article • PLOS One, January 2025, PLOS

    Silvia Lembo, Matteo Dainese

  10. Global change experiments in mountain ecosystems: A systematic review

    Article • Ecological Monographs, September 2024, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  11. Cascading social-ecological benefits of biodiversity for agriculture

    Article • Current Biology, June 2024, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  12. Maintaining habitat diversity at small scales benefits wild bees and pollination services in mountain apple orchards

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, April 2024, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  13. Relationship between landscape complexity and ecosystem services from the perspective of smallholder agroecosystems in China—A review

    Article • Cell Reports Sustainability, February 2024, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  14. Pollination supply models from a local to global scale

    Article • Web Ecology, October 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Matteo Dainese

  15. The impact of pesticides on non-target organisms

    Article • March 2023, Research Square

    Matteo Dainese

  16. Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, February 2023, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese, Dr. Frederic Lens

  17. The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

    Article • Scientific Data, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  18. Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese, Professor Christoph Scherber

  19. Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change

    Article • Ecological Applications, June 2022, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  20. Plant genetic diversity affects interactions among multiple trophic levels

    Article • May 2022, Research Square

    Matteo Dainese, Professor Christoph Scherber

  21. Spatial aggregation of herbivores and predators enhances tri‐trophic cascades in paddy fields: rice monoculture vs. rice‐fish co‐culture

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, May 2022, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  22. Ground cover vegetation promotes biological control and yield in pear orchards

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, December 2021, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  23. CropPol : a dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination

    Article • Ecology, December 2021, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  24. Models of natural pest control: Towards predictions across agricultural landscapes

    Article • Biological Control, November 2021, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  25. Decline of three farmland pest species in rapidly urbanizing landscapes

    Article • iScience, September 2021, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  26. Ground Cover Vegetation Promotes Ecological Intensification of Pear Production

    Article • February 2021, Research Square

    Matteo Dainese

  27. Ecotrons: push the buttons of an ecosystem

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Sarah Garre, Matteo Dainese

  28. Decline of Dominant Native Farmland Moths in Rapidly Urbanized Landscapes

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  29. Networks of epiphytic lichens and host trees along elevation gradients: climate change implications in mountain ranges

    Article • Journal of Ecology, October 2020, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  30. Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition: a global analysis

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Matteo Dainese

  31. Understanding the pathways from biodiversity to agro-ecological outcomes: A new, interactive approach

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2020, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  32. The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis

    Article • Ecology Letters, August 2020, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  33. Global synthesis of effects of plant species diversity on trophic groups and interactions

    Article • Nature Plants, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  34. Global synthesis of the effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield

    Article • April 2020, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  35. A review of models of natural pest control: toward predictions across agricultural landscapes

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Matteo Dainese

  36. Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  37. Why does biodiversity matter for agriculture?

    Article • TheScienceBreaker, January 2020, The Science Breaker

    Matteo Dainese

  38. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2019, Wiley

    Tereza Mašková, Piermaria Corona, Matteo Dainese, Dr. Frederic Lens, Dr Julia C Sfair, Dr David YP Tng, Dr Fabio Carvalho, Katarina Cufar, Péter Török, Dr Jaime E Villacís, Dr Francesco Chianucci

  39. Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2019, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  40. Exploring patterns of beta‐diversity to test the consistency of biogeographical boundaries: A case study across forest plant communities of Italy

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2019, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  41. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Article • Science Advances, October 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Matteo Dainese, Berta Caballer-López

  42. The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

    Article • Ecology Letters, April 2019, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese, Berta Caballer-López

  43. Altitudinal Shift of Tetrao urogallus in an Alpine Natura 2000 Site: Implications for Habitat Restoration

    Article • Applied Sciences, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Matteo Dainese

  44. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Matteo Dainese, Berta Caballer-López

  45. Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese, Dr. Frederic Lens

  46. Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2018, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  47. Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Article • Nature, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  48. Contrasting multi-taxa diversity patterns between abandoned and non-intensively managed forests in the southern Dolomites

    Article • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, October 2017, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Matteo Dainese

  49. Complementarity among natural enemies enhances pest suppression

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2017, Nature

    Matteo Dainese

  50. Landscape metrics as functional traits in plants: perspectives from a glacier foreland

    Article • PeerJ, July 2017, PeerJ

    Matteo Dainese

  51. Human disturbance and upward expansion of plants in a warming climate

    Article • Nature Climate Change, July 2017, Nature

    Matteo Dainese

  52. Managing trap-nesting bees as crop pollinators: Spatiotemporal effects of floral resources and antagonists

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  53. Assembly patterns of soil-dwelling lichens after glacier retreat in the European Alps

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2017, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  54. Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe

    Article • Global Change Biology, February 2017, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  55. Fine-scale population dynamics help to elucidate community assembly patterns of epiphytic lichens in alpine forests

    Article • Fungal Ecology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese, Prof. Matteo Garbarino

  56. Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe

    Article • Ecology Letters, August 2016, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  57. High cover of hedgerows in the landscape supports multiple ecosystem services in Mediterranean cereal fields

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2016, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  58. Plant spatial patterns and functional traits interaction along a chronosequence of primary succession: evidence from a central Alpine glacier foreland

    Article • June 2016, PeerJ

    Matteo Dainese

  59. Plant spatial patterns and functional traits interaction along a chronosequence of primary succession: evidence from a central Alpine glacier foreland

    Article • June 2016, PeerJ

    Matteo Dainese

  60. Spillover of tachinids and hoverflies from different field margins

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, February 2016, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  61. Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps, Matteo Dainese

  62. Epiphytic lichen conservation in the Italian Alps: the role of forest type

    Article • Fungal Ecology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  63. Environmental factors interact with spatial processes to determine herbaceous species richness in woody field margins

    Article • Plant Ecology, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  64. Topsoil organic matter properties in contrasted hedgerow vegetation types

    Article • Plant and Soil, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  65. Patterns of traffic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution in mountain areas can be revealed by lichen biomonitoring: A case study in the Dolomites (Eastern Italian Alps)

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2014, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  66. Capturing cross-scalar variation of habitat selection with grid sampling: an example with hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia L.)

    Article • European Journal of Wildlife Research, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  67. Alien plant species distribution in the European Alps: influence of species’ climatic requirements

    Article • Biological Invasions, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  68. Contrasting responses of epiphytic and dead wood-dwelling lichen diversity to forest management abandonment in silver fir mature woodlands

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, February 2013, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  69. Assessing the influence of environmental gradients on seed mass variation in mountain grasslands using a spatial phylogenetic filtering approach

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, February 2013, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  70. Using Natural Gradients to Infer a Potential Response to Climate Change: An Example on the Reproductive Performance of Dactylis Glomerata L.

    Article • Biology, December 2012, MDPI AG

    Matteo Dainese

  71. Plant species diversity in alien black locust stands: A paired comparison with native stands across a north-Mediterranean range expansion

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2012, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  72. Does residence time affect responses of alien species richness to environmental and spatial processes?

    Article • NeoBiota, August 2012, Pensoft Publishers

    Matteo Dainese

  73. Do climate, resource availability, and grazing pressure filter floristic composition and functioning in Alpine pastures?

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2012, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Jan Leps, Matteo Dainese

  74. Stand structure and plant species diversity in managed and abandoned silver fir mature woodlands

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, April 2012, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  75. Plant traits across different habitats of the Italian Alps: a comparative analysis between native and alien species

    Article • Alpine Botany, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  76. Plant and animal diversity in a region of the Southern Alps: the role of environmental and spatial processes

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  77. Impact of land use intensity and temperature on the reproductive performance of Dactylis glomerata populations in the southeastern Alps

    Article • Plant Ecology, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese

  78. Growth prediction for five tree species in an Italian urban forest

    Article • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, January 2011, Elsevier

    Matteo Dainese

  79. Seed production of an Arrhenatherion elatioris hay-meadow in the eastern Italian Alps

    Article • Grass and Forage Science, June 2009, Wiley

    Matteo Dainese

  80. Seed Harvesting for Ecological Restoration: Efficiency of Haymaking and Seed-Stripping on Different Grassland Types in the Eastern Italian Alps

    Article • Ecological Restoration, February 2009, University of Wisconsin Press

    Matteo Dainese