Selected peer reviewed articles:

Submitted:

• Rocchini, D., McGlinn, D., Ricotta, C., Neteler, M., Wohlgemuth, T. (2010). Topographic complexity and spatial scale influence the relationship between remotely sensed spectral diversity and survey based plant species richness. Submitted to Applied Vegetation Science.
• Barni, E., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Falzoi, S., Spanna, F., Siniscalco, C. (2010). Distribution of non-native plant species along the elevation gradient in the Alps: establishing climatic constraints. Submitted to Diversity and Distributions.
• Santi, E., Maccherini, S., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Bonini, I., Brunialti, G., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Effects of the spatial scale and the type of predictor variable on cross-taxon congruence among vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens. Submitted to Oikos.
• Bacaro, G., Santi, E., Rocchini, D., Pezzo, F., Puglisi, L., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Predicting bird species richness at the regional scale: exploring possible environmental proxies useful for conservation purpose. Submitted to Diversity and Distributions.
• Maccherini, S., Marignani, M., Santi, E., Rocchini, D., Tundo, J., Renzi, M., Honnay, O. Determinants of plant community composition of remnant biancane badlands: a hierarchical approach to quantify species-environment relationships. Submitted to Applied Vegetation Science.

In press:

• Rocchini, D., Hortal, J., Lengyel, S., Lobo, J.M., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Ricotta, C., Bacaro, G., Chiarucci, A. Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: the need for maps of ignorance. Accepted by Progress in Physical Geography. (IF: 2.261)
• Rocchini, D., Balkenhol, N., Carter, G.A., Foody, G.M. Gillespie, T.W., He, K.S., Kark, S., Levin, N., Lucas, K., Luoto, M., Nagendra, H., Oldeland, J., Ricotta, C., Southworth, J., Neteler, M. Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: recent advances and open challenges. Ecological Informatics, in press. (IF: 1.299) (DOI | PDF)
• Rocchini, D., Neteler, M. (2010). Spectral rank-abundance for measuring landscape diversity. Accepted by International Journal of Remote Sensing. (IF: 1.089)
• Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D., Ghate, R. (2010). Beyond parks as monoliths: Spatially differentiating park-people relationships in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India. Accepted by Biological Conservation. (IF: 3.167)
• Neteler M. (2010). Open Source GIS. In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. London: SAGE Publications
• Neteler M. (2010). Open Source Geospatial Foundation. In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. London: SAGE Publications

Published:

2010:

1. F. Urbano, F. Cagnacci, C. Calenge, A. Cameron, H. Dettki, M. Neteler (2010) Wildlife tracking data management: a new approach. Theme issue "Challenges and opportunities of using GPS-based location data in animal ecology". Phil. Trans. Royal Society B - 27 July 2010, 365(1550), pp. 2177-2185 (IF: 5.1) [Abstract - PDF] 
2. Rocchini, D. (2010). Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems by J. Pastor. Book Review. Ecoscience, 17: 226-227. (IF: 1.117) (PDF)
3. Ricotta, C., Godefroid, S., Rocchini, D. (2010). Invasiveness of Brussels alien plants is related to their phylogenetic similarity to native species. Diversity and Distributions, 16: 655-662. (IF: 4.224) [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Vannini, A. (2010). What is up? Testing spectral heterogeneity vs. NDVI relationship by quantile regression. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31: 2745–2756. (IF: 1.089) [DOI | PDF]
5. Neteler, M. (2010). Spatio-temporal reconstruction of satellite-based temperature maps and their application to the prediction of tick and mosquito disease vector distribution in Northern Italy. PhD thesis, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. EDEN PhD summary catalogued by the EDEN EU/FP6 Steering Committee as EDEN0176.
6. Rocchini, D., He, K.S., Oldeland, J., Wesuls, D., Neteler, M. (2010). Spectral variation versus species beta-diversity at different spatial scales: a test in African highland savannas. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 12(4): 825-831 (IF: 2.225), [DOI | PDF]
7. Neteler, M. (2010): Estimating daily Land Surface Temperatures in mountainous environments by reconstructed MODIS LST data. Remote Sensing 2(1), 333-351. (DOI) [ Abstract | PDF ]
8. Amici, V., Geri, F., Csontos, P., Neteler, M., Rocchini, D. (2010). Fuzzy and boolean forest membership: on the actual separability of land cover classes. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 8: 39-50. [PDF]
9. Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D., Ghate, R., Sharma, B., Pareeth, S. (2010): Assessing biodiversity in a dry tropical forest: comparing the utility of Landsat and IKONOS satellite images, Remote Sensing, 2(2), pp 478-496. (DOI) [ Abstract | PDF ]
10. Geri, F., Amici, V., Rocchini, D. (2010). Human activity impact on the heterogeneity of a Mediterranean landscape. Applied Geography, 30: 370-379. (IF: 2.324) [DOI | PDF]
11. Geri, F., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Landscape metrics and topographical determinants of large-scale forest dynamics in a Mediterranean landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 95: 46-53. (IF: 2.17) [DOI | PDF]
12. Rocchini, D. (2010). While Boolean sets non-gently rip: a theoretical framework on fuzzy sets for mapping landscape patterns. Ecological Complexity, 7:125-129. [DOI | PDF]
13. Oldeland, J., Wesuls, D., Rocchini, D., Schmidt, M., Norbert, J. (2010). Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity? Ecological Indicators, 10: 390-396 (IF: 1.984) [DOI | PDF]
14. Santi, E., Maccherini, S., Rocchini, D., Bonini, I., Brunialti, G., Favilli, L., Perini, C., Pezzo, F., Piazzini, S., Rota, E., Salerni, E., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Simple to sample: vascular plants as surrogate group in a nature reserve. Journal for Nature Conservation, 18: 2-11. (IF: 0.94) [DOI | PDF]
15. Ricotta, C., Godefroid, S., Rocchini, D. (2010). Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: rejecting the “rich get richer” model. Biological Invasions, 12: 33-40. (IF: 3.074) [DOI | PDF]

2009

1. Rizzoli, A., Hauffe, H., Tagliapietra, V., Neteler, M., Rosà, R., 2009: Forest structure and roe deer abundance predict Tick-Borne Encephalitis risk in Italy. PLoS ONE, 4(2): e4336 (IF: 4.351) (DOI) [ PubMed | PDF ]
2. Rocchini, D., He, K.S., Zhang, J. (2009). Is spectral distance a proxy of beta diversity at different taxonomic ranks? A test using quantile regression. Ecological Informatics, 4: 254-259. [DOI | PDF]
3. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Palmer, M.W., Scheiner, S.M. (2009). Spatially Constrained Rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities in sample-based rarefaction. Community Ecology, 10: 209-214. [PDF]
4. Rocchini, D. (2009). Commentary on Krishnaswamy et al. - Quantifying and mapping biodiversity and ecosystem services: Utility of a multi-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distance surrogate. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 904-906. [DOI | PDF]
5. Rocchini, D., Nagendra, H., Ghate, R., Cade, B.S. (2009). Spectral distance decay: assessing species beta-diversity by quantile regression. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75: 1225–1230. [PDF]
6. Imre, A., Rocchini, D. (2009). Explicitly accounting for pixel dimension in calculating classical and fractal landscape shape metrics. Acta Biotheoretica, 57: 349-360. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2009). Algorithmic foundation of spectral rarefaction for measuring satellite imagery heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales. Sensors, 9: 303-310. [DOI | PDF]
8. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Chiarucci, A., De Dominicis, V., Cirillo, I., Maccherini, S. (2009). Relating spectral and species diversity through rarefaction curves. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30, 2705-2711. [DOI | PDF]

2008

1. Carpi G., Cagnacci F., Neteler M., Rizzoli A, 2008: Tick infestation on roe deer in relation to geographic and remotely-sensed climatic variables in a tick-borne encephalitis endemic area. Epidemiology and Infection, 136, pp. 1416-1424. (DOI) (ISI 2008: 2.36) [ PubMed ]
2. A. Jolma, D.P. Ames, N. Horning, H. Mitasova, M. Neteler, A. Racicot, and T. Sutton, 2008: Environmental Modeling Using Open Source Tools. In S. Shekhar and H. Xiong, editors, Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, New York [ http | entry ]
3. Rocchini, D., Marignani, M., Bacaro, G., Chiarucci, A., Ferretti, M., De Dominicis, V., Maccherini, S. (2008). Multi-scale sampling and statistical linear estimators to assess land use status and change. Applied Vegetation Science, 12: 225-236. [DOI | PDF]
4. Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D. (2008). Satellite imagery applied to biodiversity study in the tropics: the devil is in the detail. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17: 3431-3442. [DOI | PDF]
5. Rocchini, D., Wohlgemuth, T., Ghisleni, S., Chiarucci, A. (2008). Spectral rarefaction: linking ecological variability and plant species diversity. Community Ecology, 9: 169-176. [DOI | PDF]
6. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Vannini, A., Rocchini, D. (2008). Species diversity indicators in the Natura2000 network. Community Ecology, 9: 185-192. [DOI | PDF]
7. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D. (2008). Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 Network: old ideas and new proposals. Biological Conservation, 141: 2608-2618. [DOI | PDF]
8. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Fattorini, L. (2008). Discovering and … rediscovering the rarefaction formula in ecological literature. Community Ecology, 9: 121-123. [DOI | PDF]
9. Rocchini, D., Cade, B.S. (2008). Quantile regression applied to spectral distance decay. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5: 640-643. [DOI | PDF]
10. Gillespie, T.W., Foody, G.M., Rocchini, D., Giorgi, A.P., Saatchi, S. (2008). Measuring and modeling biodiversity from space. Progress in Physical Geography, 32: 203-221. [DOI | PDF]
11. Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Bonini, I., Marignani, M., Maccherini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2008). Ecological determinants of plant species richness at local scale in Mediterranean forests. Plant Biosystems, 142: 630-642. [DOI | PDF
12. Rocchini, D. (2008). Theory of reflectance and emittance spectroscopy, by B. Hapke, Book Review. The Photogrammetric Record, 23: 241. [DOI | PDF]
13. Marignani, M., Maccherini, S., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A., Torri, D. (2008). Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using object –based approach and historical analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning, 84: 28-37. [DOI | PDF]

2007

1. A. Rizzoli, M. Neteler, R. Rosà, W. Versini, A. Cristofolini, M. Bregoli, A. Buckley, and E.A. Gould, 2007: Early detection of TBEv spatial distribution and activity in the Province of Trento assessed using serological and remotely-sensed climatic data. Geospatial Health, 1(2), pp. 169-176. (ISI 2008: 1.472)  [ PubMed | PDF ]
2. Csontos, P., Rocchini, D., Bacaro, G. (2007). Modelling factors affecting litter mass components of pine stands. Community Ecology, 8: 247-256. [DOI | PDF]
3. Rocchini, D. (2007). Effects of spatial and spectral resolution in estimating ecosystem a-diversity by satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 111: 423-434. [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Chiarucci, A. (2007). Using remote sensing to assess plant species richness: the role of multispectral systems. Applied Vegetation Science, 10: 325-332. [PDF]
5. Baffetta, F., Bacaro, G., Fattorini, L., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A. (2007). Using nested plot design to obtain unbiased estimates of species richness. Community Ecology, 8: 119-127. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C. (2007). Are landscapes as crisp as we may think? Ecological Modelling, 204: 535-539. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2007). Distance decay in spectral space in analysing ecosystem b-diversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28: 2635-2644. [DOI | PDF]
8. Gerosa, G., Ferretti, M., Bussotti, F., Rocchini, D. (2007). An empirical method to estimate ozone AOT40 from passive sampling in forest sites in South-Western Europe. Environmental Pollution, 145: 629-635. [DOI | PDF]

2006

1. M. Benito Garzón, R. Blazek, M. Neteler, R. Sanchez de Dios, H. Sainz Ollero, and C. Furlanello, 2006: Predicting habitat suitability with Machine Learning models: the potential area of Pinus sylvestris L. in the Iberian Peninsula. Ecological Modelling, 197(3-4), pp. 383-393. (ISI 2006: 1.888) [PDF]
2. Rocchini, D., Perry, G.L.W., Salerno, M., Maccherini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2006). Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve. Landscape and Urban Planning, 77: 167-177. [DOI | PDF]
3. Rocchini, D. (2006). GI pioneers come back again. Book review of Longley et al. (2005), Geographic Information Systems and Science, 2nd edition. ISPRS Highlights, 11: 73-74. [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Cateni, C. (2006). On the measure of spatial centroid in Geography. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 5: 729-731. [PDF]

2005

1. M. Di Penta, M. Neteler, G. Antoniol, E. Merlo, 2005: A Language-Independent Software Renovation Framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 77(3), pp. 225-240. (ISI 2005: 0.744) [PDF]
2. M. Neteler, 2005: Time series processing of MODIS satellite data for landscape epidemiological applications. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 133-138 [PDF]
3. M. Neteler, D. Grasso, I. Michelazzi, L. Miori, S. Merler, and C. Furlanello, 2005: An integrated toolbox for image registration, fusion and classification. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 51-61 [PDF]
4. S. Masumoto, V. Raghavan, S. Nonogaki, M. Neteler, T. Nemoto, T. Mori, M. Niwa, A. Hagiwara, and N. Hattori, 2005: Multi-Language Support and Localization of GRASS GIS. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 33-40. [PDF]
5. Rocchini, D., Andreini Butini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2005). Maximizing plant species inventory efficiency by means of remotely sensed spectral distances. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14: 431-437. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D., Di Rita, A. (2005). Relief effects on aerial photos geometric correction. Applied Geography, 25: 159-168. TOP 25 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM October 2005 to July 2006. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2005). Resolution problems in calculating landscape metrics. Journal of Spatial Science, 50: 25-36. [PDF]
8. Rocchini, D. (2005). RS as Rubbish Sensing? A reply from a landscape ecologist. The Photogrammetric Record, 20: 404-406. [DOI | PDF]

2004

1. A. Rizzoli, R. Rosà, B. Mantelli, E. Pecchioli, H. Hauffe, V. Tagliapietra, T. Beninati, M. Neteler, and C. Genchi, 2004: Ixodes ricinus, transmitted diseases and reservoirs. Parassitologia, 46(1-2):119-122.
2. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2004: GRASS as Open Source - Free Software GIS: accomplishments and perspectives. Guest editorial. Transactions in GIS, 8(2), pp. 145-154.[ DOI ]
3. J. Stankovic, M. Neteler and R. Flor, 2004: Mobile Wireless GRASS GIS for Handheld Computers Running GNU/Linux. Transactions in GIS, Vol 8 (2), pp. 225-233. [ DOI ]
4. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2004: Free General-purpose GIS. A Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. The Journal of Survey, 54(2), pp. 34-38 (translation of GIM International 2003 article, in Japanese).
5. Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A., Loiselle, S.A. (2004). Testing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis by using satellite multispectral images. Acta Oecologica, 26: 117-120. TOP 25 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM October 2004 to June 2005. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D. (2004). Misleading information from direct interpretation of geometrically incorrect aerial photographs. The Photogrammetric Record, 19: 138-148. [DOI | PDF]

2003

1. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2003: Free General-purpose GIS. A Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. GIM International, 17(11), pp. 2-5.
2. V. Raghavan, K. Kita, K. Iwao, and M. Neteler, 2003: Open source GIS GRASS for developing spatial data infrastructure - Present status and future potential. Journal of Information Science and Technology Association, 4(53), pp. 216-222.
3. Salerni E., Perini C., Rocchini D., Laganà A., De Dominicis V. (2003). The Italian check-list of macrofungi: distribution of selected target species in Siena province, Italy. Mycotaxon, 86: 123-147.