Lisa Brancaleoni

Research Fellowship
Department of Biology and Evolution
University of Ferrara
Corso Ercole I d’Este 32
I-44100 Ferrara, Italy

Email: bcl@unife.it
Tel. +39 0532 293771
Fax. +39 0532 208561

1998 Degree in Natural Science, University of Ferrara (Italy).

2000/2001 Visiting researcher at "Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas (C.A.D.I.C.) Ushuaia – Tierra del Fuego – Argentina"

2001 Environmental and Tourist Guide.

2003 Visiting researcher at Helsinki University.

2006 PhD in Biological Systems: Structure, Function and Evolution.

Publications

Gerdol R., Brancaleoni L., Menghini M. & Marchesini R. 2000.  Response of dwarf shrubs to neighbour removal and nutrient addition and their influence on community structure in a subalpine heath. Journal of Ecology 88: 1-12.

Gerdol R., Brancaleoni L., Marchesini R. & Bragazza L. 2002. Nutrient and carbon relations in subalpine dwarf shrubs after neighbour removal of fertilization in northern Italy. Oecologia130: 476-483.

Brancaleoni L., Strelin J. & Gerdol R. 2003. Relationships between landscape morphology and vegetation pattern in subantarctic Andean tundra of Tierra del Fuego. Polar Biology 26: 404-410.

Gerdol R., Petraglia A., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L. 2003. Effetti della fertilizzazione azotata sugli scambi di CO2 in una torbiera delle Alpi italiane. In: Atti del Convegno Nazionale: Deposizioni atmosferiche in aree forestate italiane, a cura di Paoletti E. Economia Montana - Linea Ecologica 6: 58-62.

Gerdol R., Anfodillo T., Gualmini M., Cannone N., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L. 2004. Biomass distribution of two subalpine dwarf shrubs with contrasting leaf habit in relation to soil moisture and soil nutrient. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 457-464.

Gerdol R., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L. 2005. Reduced sphagnum growth under increasing nitrogen deposition: Nutrient imbalance or struggle for light? 7th International Conference on Acid Deposition, Prague (Czech Republic), June 12-17, 2005. Poster

Gerdol R., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L. 2006. Microbial nitrogen cycling interacts with exogenous nitrogen supply in affecting growth of Sphagnum papillosum. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 57: 1-8.

Brancaleoni L. & Gerdol R. 2006. Recovery of subalpine dwarf shrub heath after neighbour removal and fertilization. Plant Ecology, 183: 227-235.

Brancaleoni L., Gualmini M., Tomaselli M. & Gerdol R. 2007. Responses of subalpine dwarf-shrub heath to irrigation and fertilization. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 337-344.

Johannes H.C. Cornelissen, Peter M. van Bodegom, Rien Aerts, Terry V. Callaghan, Richard S.P. van Logtestijn, Juha Alatalo, F. Stuart Chapin, Renato Gerdol, Jon Gudmundsson, Dylan Gwynn-Jones, Anne E. Hartley, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Staffan Karlsson, Julia A. Klein, Jim Laundre, Borgthor Magnusson, Anders Michelsen, Ulf Molau, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Helen M. Quested, Sylvi M. Sandvik, Inger K. Schmidt, Gus R. Shaver, Bjørn Solheim, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Anna Stenström, Anne Tolvanen, Ørjan Totland, Naoya Wada, Jeffrey M. Welker, Xinquan Zhao, Lisa Brancaleoni, Laura Brancaleoni, Miranda A.H. de Beus, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Linda Dalen, John Harte, Sarah E. Hobbie, Gerlof Hoefsloot, Annika Jägerbrand, Sven Jonasson, John A. Lee, Karin Lindblad, Jerry M. Melillo, Christopher Neill, Malcolm C. Press, Jelte Rozema, Matthias Zielke. 2007. Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes. Ecology Letters, 10: 619-627.

Gerdol R., Petraglia A., Bragazza L., Iacumin P. & Brancaleoni L. 2007. Nitrogen deposition interacts with climate in affecting production and decomposition rates in Sphagnum mosses. Global Change Biology 13: 1810-1821

Gerdol R., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L. 2008. Heatwave 2003: high summer temperature, rather than experimental fertilization, affects vegetation and CO2 exchange in an alpine bog. New Phytologist 179: 142-154