News & field notes.
A window into our research: new discoveries, field campaigns, publications, technologies, events and the people working to understand our changing environment.
From replication plans to mountain paths: MountResilience in Val Pesarina
A MountResilience field visit in Tolmezzo and Val Pesarina brought climate adaptation, local knowledge and biodiversity into the same conversation — including our proposal to adapt participatory PPGIS to the Carnic Alps.
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From satellites to sustainable agriculture: Biodiversity Lab at ICAS 2026
Biodiversity Lab was represented at ICAS 2026 by our researchers Emilia Pafumi and Anna Lilian Gardossi, who brought two SICANSE studies to Bologna on crop diversity and satellite monitoring of soil-management practices.
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Can ecological networks also help alien plants?
Our new Landscape Ecology study shows why connectivity alone is not enough: habitat amount, fragmentation and network position jointly shape native and alien plant diversity.
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From alpha to gamma through time: a new way to read repeated biodiversity surveys
Our new Ecological Informatics paper introduces rarefaction profiles that reveal where temporal variability and directional biodiversity change emerge along sample-based accumulation curves.
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AAAA: four products, four Exceptional ratings
All four Biodiversity Lab research products evaluated in Italy’s VQR 2020–2024 were classified in Class A – Exceptional, highlighting methodological quality, impact and the collaborative network behind our research.
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Beyond species checklists: the biodiversity we don’t see
Drawing on our experience in biodiversity baselines, environmental impact assessment and offset planning, we argue that dark diversity should become part of international biodiversity safeguard standards.
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Dr. Idrissa Sawadogo joins Biodiversity Lab for a three-month research visit
A new TWAS–SISSA–Lincei visiting period brings climate-change ecology, species-distribution modelling and Sahelian rangeland research into the lab — while opening new opportunities for long-term institutional collaboration.
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Biodiversity Lab is live. Let’s build what comes next.
A new digital home for our research—and an open invitation to connect field ecology, advanced spatial technologies and international partnerships.
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Beyond the canopy: seeing biodiversity in three dimensions
Our new DJI Matrice 400 and Zenmuse L3 open a third dimension for ecology: measuring vegetation structure and connecting it with functional diversity, spectral data and environmental change.
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WISE starts: urban sustainability, remote sensing and urban forests
The Horizon Europe WISE project has officially started. Biodiversity Lab contributes to WP3 through remote sensing of urban forests and European case studies in Trieste, Porto and Kaunas.
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Wetlands lead, but all ecosystems matter
New open-access research in Biological Conservation shows why species-poor wetlands are essential to plant diversity—and why conserving connected agricultural mosaics matters.
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