Piero Visconti

This study shows land use and climate warming interact to reshape avian biodiversity through ecological filtering and homogenisation, with distinct effects across different land-use types and warming levels.

This paper analyzes the fragmentation and edge effects in the Natura 2000 network of protected areas in Europe, finding that small patches dominate and contribute to biodiversity loss.

The paper identifies global vertebrate conservation hotspots using data from 33,604 terrestrial vertebrate species, finding 13% of Earth's surface qualifies as priority areas.

The paper develops a machine-learning method to estimate favorable reference ranges for species in the EU, revealing fewer species in favorable conservation status than previously reported.

The paper assesses collision risks to 108 European bird species from wind-energy facilities, identifying risk hotspots and informing spatial planning to minimize biodiversity impacts.

This study identifies spatial priorities for protecting climatic niche variability and stability in European vertebrates, finding overlaps and trade-offs between conservation strategies.

The paper develops three positive nature futures narratives for Europe using the Nature Futures Framework, highlighting solutions that address biodiversity and nature's contributions to people across different sectors.

The paper introduces an operational framework for national-level spatial planning to achieve biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development goals through stakeholder collaboration and data integration.

The paper develops a biodiversity footprint indicator to quantify the impacts of land conversion on species, showing that soybean expansion has the greatest per-unit-area impact in the Cerrado Biome.