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  1. Plant–environment interactions through a functional traits perspective: a review of Italian studies

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Giacomo Puglielli, Professor Alessandro Chiarucci, Dr Simon Pierce, Dr Carlo Ricotta, Giovanni Bacaro, Gabriella Buffa, Sandra Citterio, Dr Rodolfo Gentili, Eleonora Giarrizzo, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni, Dr Adriano AS Stinca, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Giovanna Aronne

  2. Ontogenetic shifts in plant ecological strategies

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce

  3. Differential biodiversity responses between kingdoms (plants, fungi, bacteria and metazoa) along an Alpine succession gradient

    Article • Molecular Ecology, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce, Valeria Mereghetti

  4. The role of adaptive strategies in plant naturalization

    Article • Ecology Letters, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce, Wenyong Guo

  5. Enzymatic scarification of Anacamptis morio (Orchidaceae) seed facilitates lignin degradation, water uptake and germination

    Article • Plant Biology, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce, Gabriella Buffa

  6. Ecology and floristic composition of heathlands in the Po basin and the Southern Alps (NW Italy)

    Article • Botany Letters, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon Pierce, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini

  7. Soil-mediated filtering organizes tree assemblages in regenerating tropical forests

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce, Bruno Pinho

  8. Linking plant strategies and plant traits derived by radiative transfer modelling

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce, Dr Teja Kattenborn

  9. General allometric scaling of net primary production agrees with plant adaptive strategy theory and has tipping points

    Article • Journal of Ecology, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce

  10. A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide

    Article • Functional Ecology, September 2016, Wiley

    Gabriella Buffa, Dr Simon Pierce, Bruno Pinho

  11. Implications for biodiversity conservation of the lack of consensus regarding the humped-back model of species richness and biomass production

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce

  12. The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems

    Article • April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Simon Pierce