Prof. Franco Biondi

Natural Resources & Environmental Science Department

University of Nevada, USA

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1990-1994 Ph.D., Watershed Management and Geosciences; University of Arizona, Tucson

1985-1987 M.S., Watershed Management; University of Arizona, Tucson

1980-1985 Laurea summa cum laude (Italian Doctorate), Forestry; Università di Firenze, Italy

Publications (Selected)

1. Biondi F, Waikul K, DENDROCLIM2002: A C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies, Computers & geosciences, 30(3), 303-311, 2004.
2. Anderegg WRL, Schwalm C, Biondi F, Camarero JJ, Koch G, Litvak M, et al., Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models, Science, 349(6247), 528-532, 2015.
3. Zang C, Biondi F, treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy‐climate relationships, Ecography, 38(4), 431-436, 2015.
4. Schwalm CR, Anderegg WRL, Michalak AM, Fisher JB, Biondi F, et al., Global patterns of drought recovery, Nature, 548, 202–205, 2017.
5. Biondi F, Gershunov A, Cayan DR, North Pacific decadal climate variability since 1661, Journal of climate, 14(1), 5-10, 2001.
6. Biondi F, Qeadan F, A theory-driven approach to tree-ring standardization: defining the biological trend from expected basal area increment, Tree-Ring Research, 64(2), 81-96, 2008.
7. Bunn A, Korpela M, Biondi F, Campelo F, Mérian P, Qeadan F, Zang C, dplR: dendrochronology program library in R, R package version 1(1), 2020.
8. Piovesan G, Biondi F, Di Filippo A, Alessandrini A, Maugeri M, Drought‐driven growth reduction in old beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests of the central Apennines, Italy, Global Change Biology, 14(6), 1265-1281, 2008.
9. Piovesan G, Di Filippo A, Alessandrini A, Biondi F, Schirone B, Structure, dynamics and dendroecology of an old‐growth Fagus forest in the Apennines, Journal of Vegetation Science, 16(1), 13-28, 2005.
10. Zang C, Biondi F, Dendroclimatic calibration in R: The bootRes package for response and correlation function analysis, Dendrochronologia, 31(1), 68–74, 2013.
11. Biondi F, Myers DE, Avery CC, Geostatistically modeling stem size and increment in an old-growth forest, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 24(7), 1354-1368, 1994.
12. Di Filippo A, Biondi F, Čufar K, De Luis M, Grabner M, Maugeri M, et al., Bioclimatology of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the Eastern Alps: spatial and altitudinal climatic signals identified through a tree‐ring network, Journal of Biogeography, 34(11), 1873-1892, 2007.
13. Biondi F, Comparing tree‐ring chronologies and repeated timber inventories as forest monitoring tools, Ecological Applications, 9(1), 216-227, 1999.
14. Biondi F, Evolutionary and moving response functions in dendroclimatology, Dendrochronologia, 15, 139-150, 1997.
15. Piovesan G, Biondi F, Bernabei M, Di Filippo A, Schirone B, Spatial and altitudinal bioclimatic zones of the Italian peninsula identified from a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree-ring network, Acta oecologica, 27(3), 197-210, 2005.
16. Huang JG, Ma Q, Rossi S, Biondi F, Deslauriers A, Fonti P, Liang E, et al., Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(34), 20645-20652, 2020.
17. Biondi F, Are climate-tree growth relationships changing in North-Central Idaho, USA?, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 32(2), 111-116, 2000.
18. Di Filippo A, Alessandrini A, Biondi F, Blasi S, Portoghesi L, Piovesan G, Climate change and oak growth decline: Dendroecology and stand productivity of a Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) old stored coppice in Central Italy, Annals of Forest Science, 67(7), 706 (14 pp.), 2010.
19. Hacket‐Pain AJ, Ascoli D, Vacchiano G, Biondi F, Cavin L, Conedera M, et al., Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species, Ecology Letters, 21(12), 1833-1844, 2018.
20. Biondi F, Climatic signals in tree rings of Fagus sylvatica L. from the central Apennines, Italy, Acta Oecologica, 14(1), 57-71, 1993.

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Web of Science ResearcherID: G-2536-2010