Marco Ciolfi- PhD
- Technologist at Italian National Research Council
Marco Ciolfi
- PhD
- Technologist at Italian National Research Council
Research technologist @ CNR-IRET - https://publications.cnr.it/authors/marco.ciolfi
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Introduction
I currently work at the Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Italian National Research Council CNR-IRET. My background lies in mathematical physics and quantum mechanics. My current research fields include forestry, geostatistics, remote sensing, GIS and the spatial and temporal modelling of stable isotopes distribution (isoscapes). I am also the lecturer of two physics academic courses at Tuscia University, Italy.
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September 2019 - February 2022
June 2013 - January 2019
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Background In this study, we introduce the application of ensemble averages, a concept rooted in statistical mechanics, to the analysis of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs). This novel approach is employed to investigate stakeholder perceptions of the organic and sustainable food chain across Europe and identify leverage points for its improvement. The F...
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of urban heat islands and stormwater flooding. In order to mitigate these threats cities are turning toward green infrastructure to restore the hydrologic cycle in a way that increases the ecosystem services provided by trees. Strategically designed green infrastructure can mitigate runoff vo...
Through experimental observations of carbon and energy exchange in Urban Green Areas (UGA) using the Eddy Covariance technique we show that the vegetation air cooling capacity and carbon uptake are influenced by water availability: multivariate analysis shows that solar radiation (Rg) was the primary control factor in latent heat (LE) and CO 2 flux...
The chapter describes the current picture of water use in Italy. It deals with the topic of civil, irrigation and industrial uses, including energy production. From a quantitative point of view, the three mentioned are the uses that most impact the overall water balance. Furthermore, the chapter reports the most commonly used technological and IT t...
The Asian chestnut gall wasp (ACGW) (Hymenoptera Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu) is a severe pest of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) with a strong impact on growth and nut production. A comparative field trial in Central Italy, including provenances from Spain, Italy, and Greece, was screened for ACGW infestation over consecutive years. The...
Agroforestry systems with multipurpose tree species, for the double production of timber and fruit, along with the intercropping with herbaceous crops, can be fundamental land use systems for multiple ecosystems services. Research was conducted in Italy, for one growing season, in 18 years old agroforestry experimental plots with common walnut (Jug...
Italy is the second largest extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) producer within the European Union. Despite its importance in preserving rural landscape and in supporting household economy, the EVOO sector faces several constraints due to high management costs, small farm size, lack of cooperation and investment, production vulnerability, and farmers’ ag...
The development of genetically modified mosquitoes (GMM) and their subsequent field release offers innovative approaches for vector control of malaria. A non-gene drive self-limiting male-bias Ag(PMB)1 strain has been developed in a 47-year-old laboratory G3 strain of Anopheles gambiae s.l. When Ag(PMB)1 males are crossed to wild-type females, expr...
Cities host more than half of the world's population and due to global warming and land use change their vulnerability to deadly heat waves has increased. A healthy vegetated landscape can abate heat wave severity and diminish the related urban heat island through the process of evapotranspiration. This research aimed to develop a methodology for c...
We developed a novel approach in the field of spatiotemporal modeling, based on the spatialisation of time, the Timescape algorithm. It is especially aimed at sparsely distributed datasets in ecological research, whose spatial and temporal variability is strongly entangled. The algorithm is based on the definition of a spatiotemporal distance that...
We developed a novel approach in the field of spatiotemporal modelling, based on the spatialisation of time: the Timescape algorithm. It is especially aimed at sparsely distributed datasets in ecological research, whose spatial and temporal variability is strongly entangled. The algorithm is based on the definition of a spatiotemporal distance that...
This study proposes an automated method for distinguishing trees (T) from no-trees (NT) by means of optical data. We make use of an optical approach based on a statistical threshold to detect T areas on visible and near infrared bands. An object-based image classification allows to detect three kinds of tree out of forest (TOF) structures: forest p...
Olive tree is a vector of cultural heritage in Mediterranean. This study explored the biocultural geography of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) from the cultivar Ogliarola campana in Campania region, Italy. Here, the rich cultural elements related to olive tree and oil represent a suitable case study for a biocultural analysis. We joined analytical te...
The variability in carbon isotope composition (δ13C) of the main olive oil fatty acids, together with their relative contents, have been measured in 60 monovarietal olive oils, produced from plants grown in the same orchard and harvested at five ripening stages. The fatty acid content was mainly influenced by the cultivar, without significant
chan...
Agroforestry is a land use practice in which woody perennials (trees or shrubs) are integrated with crops and/or livestock on the same land unit. Such practices have shaped key features of the rural landscape in Mediterranean countries, where trees have been traditionally and deliberately retained by farmers or included in cultivated or grazed land...
Environment of Ghannouch in the south-east of Tunisia is characterized by the wide-spread hypersaline soils, typically colonized by halophytes. The study of their distribution is required in order to reveal the extent of salinization and its dynamic. Mapping and monitoring with a remote sensing approach are foreseen as the ways to trace the spatial...
Agroforestry denotes land use systems combining trees with agricultural crops and/or livestock. The woody component, consisting of scattered or linear trees, can be located either inside the field or along the field boundaries as tree hedgerows. Such land use approach aims to optimize both ecological interactions and economical revenue and offers a...
Agroforestry denotes land use systems combining trees with agricultural crops and/or livestock. The woody component, consisting of scattered or linear trees, can be located either inside the field or along the field boundaries as tree hedgerows. Such land use approach aims to optimize both ecological interactions and economical revenue and offers a...
Agroforestry denotes land use systems in which trees grow in combination with agricultural crops and/or livestock. The woody component usually consists of scattered or linear trees (planted or naturally growing), that can be located either inside the field or along the field boundaries, as tree hedgerows. This land use approach is aimed at the opti...
Forest ecological systems are complex environments. Often they show both space and time patterns of variability of the values of the measured variables. The state-of-the-art algorithms currently employed in forestry research are focused on spatial variability (geostatistics) or on time-related variability (time series analysis), but not both.We pro...
In order to invade new ecosystems, invasive alien plants need to cope with different microbial communities. Whilst the ability to avoid antagonists is well recognized, the opportunity to establish mutualistic associations is less known, even in widespread invasive species such as Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle. We sought to evaluate whether th...
The AGFORWARD research project (January 2014 - December 2017), funded by the European Commission, is promoting agroforestry practices in Europe that will advance sustainable rural development. This report, which focuses on “Trees for timber with arable crops in Italy” contributes to the second objective, to identify, develop and field-test innovati...
Common walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide for its high-quality wood and nuts. It is generally accepted that after the last glaciation J. regia survived and grew in almost completely isolated stands in Asia, and that ancient humans dispersed walnuts across Asia and into new habitats via trade and cultu...
List of 450 fossil pollen sites from Eurasia considered in this study.
The geographic coordinates in decimal degrees (Latitude, Longitude), early presence (1700–11.923 Ka BP), first detection of discontinuous and continuous occurrence of Juglans-type fossil pollen (radiocarbon-dating) during the Holocene and the related citation (a) and the presenc...
All scenarios tested in stages 1–2 of DIYABC analysis.
All scenarios tested in stage 1 (a) and stage 2 (b) of DIYABC analysis. In these scenarios, N# refers to effective population size of each corresponding gene pool, and t# refers to time-scale in terms of the number of generations (more details for population parameters and models in S3 and S4 T...
Description of 91 common walnut populations sampled in Eurasia.
Number of samples (N), geographic coordinates (Lat, Long) and elevation above sea level (Elev) for 91 common walnut populations collected in Eurasia.
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Parameters used for DIYABC analysis.
Population pools and the prior distributions of the parameters used for the two stages of DIYABC analysis.
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Bottleneck analysis of 91 common walnut populations sampled across Eurasia using 14 SSR markers.
Wilcoxon’s signed-rank’ test [35], shifted allele distribution analysis [37] and the M-ratio test [38] for each walnut population are reported.
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Geographic location of 91 common walnut populations collected across Eurasia.
Kyrgyzstan (1–9), Uzbekistan (10–26), China (27–32), Pakistan (33–34), Tajikistan (35), Iran (36), Georgia (37–38), Turkey (39–40), Greece (41–44), Romania (45), Moldova (46), Hungary (47–56), Slovakia (57),France (58–61), Spain (62) and Italy (63–91).
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Bayesian inference of the most probable number of clusters and sub-clusters for 91 walnut populations.
Bayesian Inference of (a) K, the most probable number of clusters, based on microsatellite analysis of all 2,008 common walnut samples, (b) K’, the most probable number of sub-clusters, based on microsatellite analysis of 217 common walnut samples...
Scenarios considered in the two stages of DIYABC analysis.
Description of the scenarios of common walnut expansion across Europe considered in the two stages of DIYABC analysis.
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Genetic characterization of 14 microsatellite loci for 91 common walnut populations.
Total number of alleles (A), the effective number of alleles (Ae), observed (Ho) and expected heterozygosity (HE), polymorphic information content (PIC), and the unbiased estimate of Wright’s fixation indices, within-population inbreeding coefficient f (FIS), total...
Genetic diversity of 91 common walnut populations.
Mean number of alleles per locus (A), effective number of alleles (Ne), allelic richness (Rs) and private allelic richness (PAR) standardized to eight individuals from the original number of trees per population, observed (HO), expected (HE), and unbiased expected heterozygosity (UHE) and inbreedin...
Mean percentage of membership (Qi) of each common walnut population inferred by STRUCTURE.
Percentage of membership (admixture proportion-Q) of each predefined common walnut population in each of the four (K = 4) clusters, two (K’ = 4) sub-clusters for cluster 1, two (K” = 2) sub-clusters for cluster 2 and two (K”‘ = 2) sub-clusters for cluster 4 i...
Model checking of the most likely scenario inferred in the first and second stage.
Model checking of the most likely scenario inferred in the first stage (scenario 5a) and in the second stage (scenario 6b) of DIYABC analysis. Deviation of summary statistics computed for the observed dataset from the posterior predictive distribution of the most lik...
Distribution of Juglans-types fossil pollen in Europe before the LGM and during the Holocene.
Distribution of the radio-carbon dated Juglans-types fossil pollen in Europe and western Asia before the LGM and during the Holocene.
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Summary form only given, as follows. Urban traffic numeric simulations are currently performed on the base of a relatively little knowledge, since field vehicle data collection is expensive and limited in both space and time. On the other hand, aerial stereoscopic photography allows detection of vehicles simultaneously and over large areas. However...
