Research profile
Research trajectory & current work.
Enrico Tordoni is a Tenure-Track Researcher in Environmental and Applied Botany at the University of Bologna. His research addresses biodiversity patterns and changes in the Anthropocene by integrating taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dimensions across scales ranging from local communities to global datasets.
His work combines macroecology, trait-based ecology, biogeography and ecological modelling, with particular attention to how species characteristics, evolutionary history and environmental change shape biodiversity. Current research spans global-change ecology, extinction risk, biological invasions, temporal community dynamics and the development of quantitative and open-science workflows for large ecological datasets.
Enrico completed his PhD in Environmental Life Sciences at the University of Trieste under the supervision of Giovanni Bacaro, studying native and alien plant diversity in coastal ecosystems from local to global scales. After postdoctoral research in Trieste, he moved to the University of Tartu, where he led the Estonian Research Council projects SPECTRA and BIODECODE before joining the University of Bologna in 2026.
His academic activity also includes teaching in community ecology, phylogenetic methods, ecological modelling and biodiversity monitoring, supervision of PhD, MSc and BSc students, and editorial service for journals including Journal of Vegetation Science and npj Biodiversity.
