Gabriella BUFFA
- Position
- Full Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 7738 / Lab. 7739
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buffag@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Systematic Botany [BIOS-01/B]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/buffag(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dais
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office Z.C23 (Zeta C building)
- Safety Role
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Preposto di Laboratorio
Responsabile dell’Attività di Didattica e Ricerca in Laboratorio (RDRL)
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Botanica sistematica [BIOS-01/B]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- BOTANICA AMBIENTALE E APPLICATA [BIO/03]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa
- Known languages
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inglese
(scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
francese (scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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Comitato editoriale "Plant Sociology"
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
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Referee progetto del Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)/NWO domain/ Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW)
‘Connecting Innovators’ Open Technology Programme
Project Title: DuneForce; DUNEs FOR Coastal safety and Habitat Development
Membro della Giuria Nazionale del premio Quarry Life Award promosso da HeidelbergCement AG
Reviewer progetti per la Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Ambiente Linea:
Ecologia animale/vegetale
Area: Ambiente Linea: Pianificazione territorio
Area: Ambiente
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - modelli e metodi
- Salvaguardia e monitoraggio della biodiversità
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- Description:
- Biodiversity monitoring and management
- Keywords:
- Biodiversity status and trends, Habitat and species restoration and rehabilitation, Nature conservation
- ATECO code:
- [72.1] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze naturali e dell’ingegneria
- Ecologia del Paesaggio e Strategie di Conservazione: struttura e dinamica del paesaggio
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- Description:
- Landscape ecology and Conservation strategies
- Keywords:
- Environmental science, Environmental monitoring, Natural resources management
- ATECO code:
- [72.1] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze naturali e dell’ingegneria
- Impollinazione
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- Description:
- Pollination ecology
- Keywords:
- Natural sciences, Plant ecology, Natural sciences
- ATECO code:
- [72.1] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze naturali e dell’ingegneria
- Nature-based solutions
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- Description:
- Restoration Ecology
- Keywords:
- Anthropogenic impact on ecosystems, Plant ecology, Habitat and species restoration and rehabilitation
- ATECO code:
- [72.1] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze naturali e dell’ingegneria
- Aggiornamento di schede e banca dati aliene ISPRA
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- An ecosystem-based approach for conservation strategies of some target Orchidaceae species
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Analisi dei processi di invasione di piante esotiche nei paesaggi costieri sabbiosi del Veneto
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- BIODIVERSITY PATTERNS IN DRY CALCAREOUS GRASSLANDS
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Conservazione e gestione degli ecosistemi forestali di pianura
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Definizione delle tecniche di riproduzione e impianto di piante nemorali erbacee
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Definizione di un manuale per il monitoraggio di habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CE) in Italia
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Ecological intensification in agroecosystem
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Other members of the research group:
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Edy FANTINATO
Sebastiano FAVARIN
- How to preserve coastal wetlands threatened by climate change-driven sea level rise?
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Landscape restoration
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Other members of the research group:
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Alberto CERCATO
Edy FANTINATO
Simone Marino PREO
- Monitoraggio degli habitat di interesse comunitario
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Nature-based solutions for coastal sand dune restoration
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Other members of the research group:
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Edy FANTINATO
- Plant responses to environmental changes
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- Plant-Pollinator interaction networks
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- SSD:
- BIO/02
- Other members of the research group:
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Edy FANTINATO
Sebastiano FAVARIN
Simone Marino PREO
- Selecting indicator species to monitor plant invasion threats on sandy coastal ecosystems
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- SSD:
- BIO/03
- UTILIZZO E VALORIZZAZIONE DI VARIETÀ DI CEREALI ANTICHI
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- SSD:
- BIO/02
- ECOSS ECOlogical observing System in the Adriatic Sea: oceanographic observations for biodiversity
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- Funding body:
- Comunità Europea
- Type:
- Interreg V Italia - Croazia
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/ecoss
- Starting date:
- Year: 2019 Length in months: 30
- Other members of the research group:
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Fabio PRANOVI
- Honey BEE VOLatility: An environmental index for assessing climatic risk impact on ecosystems service provision
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- Funding body:
- MIUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Sito di progetto:
- /
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Luca DI CORATO
Edy FANTINATO
Marco LI CALZI
- IRIDE: How to preserve coastal wetlands threatened by climate change-driven sea level rise?
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- Funding body:
- DAIS - Incentivi alla Ricerca Individuale
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2013 Length in months: 12
- Individuazione descrizione e restituzione cartografica delle associazioni vegetali e habitat di interesse comunitario direttiva CEE 92/43 Oasi Valle Averto
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- Funding body:
- WWF società unipersonale a r.l.
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2010 Length in months: 12
- LIFE PollinAction Actions for boosting pollination in rural and urban areas
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- Funding body:
- Comunità Europea
- Type:
- LIFE
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://lifepollinaction.eu/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2020 Length in months: 54
- Other members of the research group:
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Alberto CERCATO
Chiara FACCA
Edy FANTINATO
Stefano MALAVASI
Fabio PRANOVI
Simone Marino PREO
- LIFE REDUNE Restoration of dune habitats in Natura 2000 sites of the Veneto coast
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- Funding body:
- Comunità Europea
- Type:
- LIFE
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- www.liferedune.it
- Starting date:
- Year: 2016 Length in months: 48
- Other members of the research group:
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Fabio PRANOVI
- Miglioramento dell’efficienza della produzione di canapa come opportunità di innovazione e sviluppo dei territori marginali collinari
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- Funding body:
- Regione Veneto
- Type:
- POR FESR (2014-2020)
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2017 Length in months: 12
- Other members of the research group:
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Gabriele CAPODAGLIO
Sabrina MANENTE
- PROGETTO DI RILIEVI FITOSOCIOLOGICI PER GLI ANNI 2013-2015 A SUPPORTO DELLA REDAZIONE E DELLA VALUTAZIONE DEGLI STUDI DI INCIDENZA
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- Funding body:
- Regione del Veneto
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Parco della Pace: Progetto Pilota per la Biodiversità
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- Funding body:
- Fondazione Cariverona
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2024 Length in months: 48
- Other members of the research group:
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Edy FANTINATO
- Supporto alle attività dell’Osservatorio della laguna e del territorio del Comune di Venezia per l’implementazione di un database naturalistico della terraferma veneziana
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- Funding body:
- Comune di Venezia
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2011 Length in months: 12
- Un nuovo “Volto”: Biodiversità nell’ex Cava
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- Funding body:
- Fondazione CariVerona Bando CAPITALE NATURALE
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2024 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Edy FANTINATO
Publication highlights
Favarin, Sebastiano; Fantinato, Edy; Della Bella, Andrea; Buffa, Gabriella Butterflies as indicators of restoration success: insights from habitat restoration in agricultural landscapes in RESTORATION ECOLOGY, vol. nd (ISSN 1061-2971)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113571
Fantinato, Edy; Zendri, Elisabetta; Rummo, Rosario; Fiorin, Federico; Glasnović, Peter; Aronne, Giovanna; Della Bella, Andrea; Preo, Simone Marino; Buffa, Gabriella Species–park networks reflect the spatial structure of urban green infrastructure in URBAN ECOSYSTEMS, vol. 29 (ISSN 1083-8155)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5117067
Fanfarillo, Emanuele; Bacaro, Giovanni; Bacchetta, Gianluigi; Bagella, Simonetta; Barni, Elena; Bonari, Gianmaria; Buffa, Gabriella; Caldarella, Orazio; Calderisi, Giulia; Cangelmi, Giacomo; Canella, Marco; Cannucci, Silvia; Caria, Maria Carmela; Castello, Miris; Cogoni, Donatella; Chiaffarelli, Gemma; Cuena-Lombraña, Alba; D'Agostino, Martina; Fratte, Michele Dalle; de Simone, Leopoldo; Del Vecchio, Silvia; Deola, Thomas; De Francesco, Maria Carla; Fantinato, Edy; Farris, Emmanuele; Fenu, Giuseppe; Fiaschi, Tiberio; Fois, Mauro; Gianguzzi, Lorenzo; Lastrucci, Lorenzo; Lazzaro, Lorenzo; Lonati, Michele; Lozano, Vanessa; Maccioni, Alfredo; Mainetti, Andrea; Marengo, Giacomo; Mascia, Francesco; Minuzzo, Chiara; Misuri, Alice; Mugnai, Michele; Murgia, Luca; Pafumi, Emilia; Patera, Glauco; Potenza, Giovanna; Rosati, Leonardo; Sarmati, Simona; Siccardi, Eugenia; Stanisci, Angela; Tavilla, Gianmarco; Tiloca, Maria Teresa; Tomaselli, Valeria; Vagge, Ilda; Viciani, Daniele; Zangari, Giulio; Angiolini, Claudia; Maccherini, Simona Wetlands lead, but all ecosystems matter: quantifying conservation priorities for plant communities in agricultural landscapes in BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, vol. 323 (ISSN 0006-3207)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125907
Pärtel, Meelis; Tamme, Riin; Carmona, Carlos P.; Riibak, Kersti; Moora, Mari; Bennett, Jonathan A.; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Chytrý, Milan; de Bello, Francesco; Eriksson, Ove; Harrison, Susan; Lewis, Robert John; Moles, Angela T.; Öpik, Maarja; Price, Jodi N.; Amputu, Vistorina; Askarizadeh, Diana; Atashgahi, Zohreh; Aubin, Isabelle; Azcárate, Francisco M.; Barrett, Matthew D.; Bashirzadeh, Maral; Bátori, Zoltán; Beenaerts, Natalie; Bergholz, Kolja; Birkeli, Kristine; Biurrun, Idoia; Blanco-Moreno, José M.; Bloodworth, Kathryn J.; Boisvert-Marsh, Laura; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Brearley, Francis Q.; Brown, Charlotte; Bueno, C. Guillermo; Buffa, Gabriella; Cahill, James F.; Campos, Juan A.; Cangelmi, Giacomo; Carbognani, Michele; Carcaillet, Christopher; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Chevalier, Richard; Clavel, Jan S.; Costa, José M.; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Čuda, Jan; Dairel, Mariana; Dalle Fratte, Michele; Danilova, Alena; Davison, John; Deák, Balázs; Del Vecchio, Silvia; Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen; Dolezal, Jiri; Domene, Xavier; Dvorsky, Miroslav; Ejtehadi, Hamid; Enrico, Lucas; Epikhin, Dmitrii; Eskelinen, Anu; Essl, Franz; Fan, Gaohua; Fantinato, Edy; Fazlioglu, Fatih; Fernández-Pascual, Eduardo; Ferrara, Arianna; Fidelis, Alessandra; Fischer, Markus; Flagmeier, Maren; Forte, T'ai G. W.; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Fujinuma, Junichi; Furquim, Fernando F.; Garris, Berle; Garris, Heath W.; Giorgis, Melisa A.; Giusso del Galdo, Gianpietro; González-Robles, Ana; Good, Megan K.; Guardiola, Moisès; Guarino, Riccardo; Guerrero, Irene; Guillemot, Joannès; Güler, Behlül; Guo, Yinjie; Haesen, Stef; Hejda, Martin; Heleno, Ruben H.; Høye, Toke T.; Hrivnák, Richard; Huang, Yingxin; Hunter, John T.; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Ibáñez, Ricardo; Ingerpuu, Nele; Irl, Severin D. H.; Janíková, Eva; Jansen, Florian; Jeltsch, Florian; Jentsch, Anke; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Jõks, Madli; Jouri, Mohammad H.; Karami, Sahar; Katal, Negin; Kelemen, András; Khairullin, Bulat I.; Khuroo, Anzar A.; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; Konečná, Marie; Kook, Ene; Korell, Lotte; Koroleva, Natalia; Korznikov, Kirill A.; Kozhevnikova, Maria V.; Kozub, Łukasz; Laanisto, Lauri; Lager, Helena; Lanta, Vojtech; Lasagno, Romina G.; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Li, Liping; Lisner, Aleš; Liu, Houjia; Liu, Kun; Liu, Xuhe; Lucas-Borja, Manuel Esteban; Ludewig, Kristin; Lukács, Katalin; Luther-Mosebach, Jona; Macek, Petr; Marignani, Michela; Michalet, Richard; Miglécz, Tamás; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Moeys, Karlien; Montesinos, Daniel; Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo; Moysiyenko, Ivan; Mucina, Ladislav; Muñoz-Rojas, Miriam; Murillo, Raytha A.; Nambahu, Sylvia M.; Neuenkamp, Lena; Normand, Signe; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Nuche, Paloma; Oja, Tatjana; Onipchenko, Vladimir G.; Pachedjieva, Kalina L.; Paganeli, Bruno; Peco, Begoña; Peralta, Ana M. L.; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Peri, Pablo L.; Petraglia, Alessandro; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Plaza-Álvarez, Pedro Antonio; Plue, Jan; Prentice, Honor C.; Prokhorov, Vadim E.; Radujković, Dajana; Rahmanian, Soroor; Reitalu, Triin; Ristow, Michael; Robin, Agnès A.; Robles, Ana Belén; Rodríguez Ginart, Daniel A.; Román, Raúl; Roos, Ruben E.; Rosati, Leonardo; Sádlo, Jiří; Salimbayeva, Karina; Sánchez de Dios, Rut; Sanchir, Khaliun; Sattler, Cornelia; Scasta, John D.; Schmiedel, Ute; Schrader, Julian; Schultz, Nick L.; Sellan, Giacomo; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Silan, Giulia; Skálová, Hana; Skobel, Nadiia; Sonkoly, Judit; Štajerová, Kateřina; Svitková, Ivana; Świerszcz, Sebastian; Tanentzap, Andrew J.; Tanentzap, Fallon M.; Tarifa, Rubén; Tejero, Pablo; Tekeev, Dzhamal K.; Tholin, Michael; Thormodsæter, Ruben S.; Tian, Yichen; Tokaryuk, Alla; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Tomaselli, Marcello; Tordoni, Enrico; Török, Péter; Tóthmérész, Béla; Toussaint, Aurèle; Touzard, Blaise; Trindade, Diego P. F.; Tsakalos, James L.; Türkiş, Sevda; Valencia, Enrique; Valerio, Mercedes; Valkó, Orsolya; Van Meerb Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity in NATURE, vol. na (ISSN 0028-0836)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5094308
Fantinato, Edy; Manente, Sabrina; Gastaldi, Edoardo; Menegazzo, Andrea; Presotto, Francesco; Scapinello, Giovanni; Toniolo, Nicolò; Lorenzato, Leonardo; Buffa, Gabriella Linking leaf economic spectrum to floral resources along an environmental gradient in JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, vol. na (ISSN 0022-0477)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5096168
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
She is Full Professor of Botany at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, where she teaches Plant Biology and Landscape Ecological Planning and Design. She graduated from the University of Padua, where she also began her academic career as a permanent lecturer. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Integrative Nature Conservation Research (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), and a visiting researcher at the Conservatoire Botanique National de Bailleul (France), the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
Her research activity focuses on the study of terrestrial ecosystems, with the aim of contributing to the understanding, conservation, and management of biodiversity across different levels of organization, from species diversity to community diversity and up to the landscape scale. Particular attention is devoted to plant organisms, the complex interactions they establish with the environment and other organisms, and their role in maintaining ecosystem functioning. Her research adopts an integrated approach, combining multiple spatial and temporal scales and complementary methodologies, including vegetation science, functional ecology, conservation ecology, and restoration ecology. This approach is aimed at interpreting ecological processes in relation to both natural environmental gradients and anthropogenic pressures.
Her main research lines include:
- Analysis of the structure, functions, and dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and landscapes;
- Investigation of ecological interactions, particularly plant–pollinator networks, across different levels of biodiversity organization;
- Assessment of the effects of environmental pressures and land-use changes on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning;
- Planning and monitoring of green infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services;
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of restoration interventions for degraded ecosystems, in line with the objectives of the EU Restoration Law;
- Study of invasion dynamics of alien species and their impacts on native biodiversity, with particular reference to coastal ecosystems.
She is involved in several national and international research projects, including the LIFE REDUNE project on the restoration of coastal dune systems (Project Coordinator), the LIFE PollinAction project aimed at developing green infrastructure in urban and rural areas to support pollination services (Project Coordinator), and the PRIN PNRR BeeVol project (partner), which focuses on assessing the effects of climate variability on honeybee colonies.
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