Pubblicazioni

FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=lhwizP8AAAAJ&hl=it

Recent Publications in international journals.

Saraf S., John R., Kolluru V., Jain K., Henebry G., Chen J., and Lafortezza R., 2025. Spatiotemporal mapping of invasive yellow sweetclover blooms using Sentinel-2 and high-resolution drone imagery. Earth System Science Data (in press) https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-353
Su Y., Zhang C., Cescatti A., Yu K., Ciais P., Smith T., Shang J., Carnicer J., Liu J., Chen J.M., Green J.K., Wu J., Ponce-Campos G.E., Zhang Y., Zuo Z., Liao J., Lafortezza R., et al. 2025. Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9 (9): 1670–1684.
Wang F., Xue M., Zhou L., Doughty C.E., Ciais P., Reich P.B., Shang J., Chen J.M., Liu J., Green J.K., Hao D., Tao S., Su Y., Liu L., Xia J., Wang H., Yu K., Zhu Z., Zhu P., Li X., Liu H., Zeng Y., Yan K., Liu L., Lafortezza R., et al., 2025. Contrasting age-dependent leaf acclimation strategies drive vegetation greening across deciduous broadleaf forests in mid- to high latitudes. Nature Plants, 11 (9): 1748-1758
Ren Y., Feng F., Elia M., Giannico V., Sanesi G., Lafortezza R.*, Understanding the coupling effect of multiple urban features on land surface temperature in Europe. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 105: 128723
Jiang S., Feng F., Zhang X., Xu C., Jia B., Lafortezza R.*, 2025, 2025. Driving factors of fragmentation in urban landscapes: Local contributions, spatial relationships, and causal effects. Ecological Indicators, 174, 113454
Shen N., Feng F., Xu C., Li X., Chiriacò M.V., Lafortezza R., 2025. Drone-based assessment of urban green space structure and cooling capacity. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 112, 128953
Cao X., Feng F., Xu C., Li X., Jia B., Zhang L., Yu Q., Lafortezza R.*, 2025. Spatiotemporal characteristics and robustness analysis of the thermal network in Beijing, China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 119: 106092
Ma Q., Su Y., Chen X., Meng X., Zhang F., Lafortezza R., Li Y., 2025. Unravelling the 3D thermal environment differences between forest center and edge: A case study on 22 urban forests in Hefei city, China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 366, 110481
Zhang L., Feng F., Huang H., Cao Y., Jiang S., Shi W., Lv H., Xu C., Sanesi G., Lafortezza R, Scenario-based simulation of ecosystem service supply and demand in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt. Environmental Research, 285, 122264
Mostafa M., Elia M., Giannico V., Tedim F., Sanesi G., Lafortezza R., 2025. Road network connectivity explains wildfire probability in Southern Italy. Ecological Indicators, 178, 114001
Wu J., Xiao Z., Zhang C., Yan W., Ren J., Liao Z., Lafortezza R., Li X., Su Y., 2025. Comprehensive Evaluation of Water-Retention and Cooling Capacities of Urban Green Space Under Different Climatic Conditions Across China. Earth's Future, 13 (5), e2024EF004757
Su Y., Li X., Zhang C., Yan W., Ciais P., Cook-Patton S.C., Phillips O.L., Shang J., Cescatti A., Chen J.-M., Liu J., Chave J., Doughty C.E., Heinrich V., Tian F., Luo Y., Liu Y., Yu Z., Hao D., Tao S., Zhang Y., Zeng Z., Lafortezza R., et al., 2025. Carbon accumulation rate peaks at 1,000-m elevation in tropical planted and regrowth forests. One Earth, 8 (1): 101147
Pantaleo E., Giannico V., Cilli R., Camposeo S., Elia M., Lafortezza R., Monaco A., Sanesi G., Tangaro S., Bellotti R., Vivaldi G.A., Amoroso N., 2025. Automated olive grove classification and tree counting in very high resolution aerial imagery using deep learning. Smart Agricultural Technology, 12, 101551
Lin D., Elia M., Cappelluti O., Huang H., Lafortezza R., Sanesi G., Giannico V., 2025. From Spaceborne LiDAR to Local Calibration: GEDI’s Role in Forest Biomass Estimation. Remote Sensing, 17 (16), 2849,
Mokhtari Z., Bergantino A.S., Intini M., Elia M., Buongiorno A., Giannico V., Sanesi G., Lafortezza R.*, 2025. Nighttime light extent and intensity explain the dynamics of human activity in coastal zones. Scientific reports, 15 (1): 1663
Mokhtari Z., Russo A., Lafortezza R., 2025. How Do Vegetation Biomass, Area, and Shape Attributes Influence the Cooling Effect of Urban Green Spaces? Environments, 12(1): 11
Lafortezza R*., Giordano F, Capolongo D., Refice A., Lovergine F.P., Elia M. Amoroso N., Nitti D.O., Parisi A., Ursi A., Sacco P., Virelli M., Tapete D., 2024. The GEORES project: geospatial application in support of environmental sustainability and resilience to climate changes in urban areas. IGARSS – IEEE 979-8-3503-6032-5/24, 1593-1596. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642728
Giannico V., Garofalo S.P., Brillante L., Sciusco P., Elia M., Lopriore G., Camposeo S., Lafortezza R., Sanesi G., Vivaldi G.A., 2024. Temporal Vine Water Status Modeling Through Machine Learning Ensemble Technique and Sentinel-2 Multispectral Images Under Semi-Arid Conditions. Remote Sensing, 16 (24) 4784
Pambuku A., Elia M., Gardelli A., Giannico V., Sanesi G., Bergantino A.S., Intini M., Lafortezza R., 2024. Assessing urbanization dynamics using a pixel-based nighttime light indicator. Ecological Indicators, 166: 112486. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112486
Jiang Y., Zhang Z., He H., Zhang X., Feng, F., Xu C., Zhang M., Lafortezza R., 2024. Research on Leaf Area Index inversion based on LESS 3D radiative transfer model and machine learning algorithms. Remote Sensing, 16, 3627. doi.org/10.3390/rs16193627
Feng F., Ren Y., Xu C., Jia B., Wu S., Lafortezza, R.*, 2024. Exploring the non-linear impacts of urban features on land surface temperature using explainable artificial intelligence. Urban Climate, 56, 102045. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102045
Jiang S., Feng F., Zhang X., Xu C., Jia B., Lafortezza R., 2024. Ecological transformation is the key to improve ecosystem health for resource-exhausted cities: A case study in China based on future development scenarios. Science of the Total Environment, 921, 171147
Portela Ribeiro A., Rakauskas F., Alberto Bollamann H., Yume Sawamura Theophilo C., Gonçalves Moreira E., Aranha S., Jordão Santos C., Giannico V., Elia M., Lafortezza R.*, Spatiotemporal monitoring of subtropical urban forests in mitigating air pollution: Policy implications for nature-based solutions. Ecological Indicators, 158, 111386. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111386
Ramon M., Lafortezza R., Ribeiro A.P., de Camargo P.B., Domingos M., Gomes E.P.C., dos Reis Tavares A., Dias A.G., Kniess C.T., Ferreira M.L., 2024. Carbon and nitrogen stock in soils of subtropical urban forests: Isotopic δ13C and δ15N indicators for nature-based solutions in a megacity. Ecological Indicators, 160, 111743. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111743
Yan W., Wu J., Zhang C., Chen X., Ren J., Xiao Z., Liao Z., Lafortezza R., Li X., Su Y., 2024. Developing an annual building volume dataset at 1-km resolution from 2001 to 2019 in China. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17 (1), 2330690. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2024.2330690
Elia M., Lafortezza R.*, Cappelluti., Costa-Saura J.M., Bacciu V., Giannico V., Shao C., Sanesi G., 2024. Coupling heat wave and wildfire occurrence across multiple ecoregions within a Eurasia longitudinal gradient. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 169269. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169269
Wu S., Lin X., Bian Z., Lipson M., Lafortezza R., et. al., 2024. Satellite observations reveal a decreasing albedo trend of global cities over the past 35 yeara. Remote Sensing of Environment, 303, 114003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114003
Yan W., Su Y., Zhang J., Zhang C., Liu L., Liu X., Lafortezza R., 2024. Differentiated influences of atmospheric dryness on urban plant cooling effect between temperate and tropical/subtropical zones, Urban Climate, 55, 101915 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.101915
Giannico V., Garofalo S.P., Brillante L., Sciusco P., Elia M., Lopriore G., Camposeo S., Lafortezza R., Sanesi G., Vivaldi G.A., 2024. Temporal Vine Water Status Modeling Through Machine Learning Ensemble Technique and Sentinel-2 Multispectral Images Under Semi-Arid Conditions. Remote Sensing, 16 (24) 4784
P.Y., Tsoi K.H., Feng X., Zhang H., Lin Y., Huang Z., Lafortezza R., Xu Z., Lin H., 2024. Cities and Urbanization: Balancing the Environmental and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Sustainability. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8 (7): 2300401, DOI: 10.1002/adsu.202300401
Zingaro M., Scicchitano G., Refice A., Marsico A., Kushabaha A., Elia M., Lafortezza R., Capolongo D., 2024. Assessing the impact of vegetation cover changes and post-fire effects through an enhanced sediment flow connectivity index (SfCI), 2024. Catena, 247, 108474
Lin D., Giannico V., Lafortezza R., Sanesi G., Elia M., 2024. Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe. Fire Ecology, 20 (1), 58
Su Y., Zhang C., Ciais P., Zeng Z., Cescatti A., Shang J., Chen J.M., Liu J., Wang Y.-P., Yuan W., Peng S., Lee X., Zhu Z., Fan L., Liu X., Liu L., Lafortezza R., Li Y., Ren J., Yang X., Chen X., 2023. Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature. Nature Climate Change. 13(8): 823–831 https://doi.org/823-831 10.1038/s41558-023-01757-7
Zhang C., Su Y., Liu L., Wu J., Huang G., Li X., Bi C., Yan W., and Lafortezza R., 2023. Seasonal and long-term dynamics in forest microclimate effects: global pattern and mechanism. Nature - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1): 116 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00442-y
Ren Y., Lafortezza R.*, Giannico V., Sanesi G, Zhang Z., Xu C., 2023. The unrelenting global expansion of the urban heat island over the last century. Science of the Total Environment, 80, 163276 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163276
Saraf S., John R., Goljani Amirkhiz R., Kolluru V., Jain K., Rigge M., Giannico V., Boyte S., Chen J., Henebry G., Jarchow M., Lafortezza R., 2023. Biophysical drivers for predicting the distribution and abundance of invasive yellow sweetclover in the Northern Great Plains. Landscape Ecology, 38(6), pp. 1463–1479 doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01613-1
Lafortezza R.* and Davies C., 2023. Pandemic urban development is leading us away from nature Environmental Research, 217: 114858
Xu D., Li X., Lafortezza R., 2022. Employers - stop discrimination against people who've had COVID-19. Nature, 608 (7924): 667
Lin X, Wu S., Chen G., Lin Z., Yan Z., Chen X., Yin G., You D., Wen J., Liu Q., Xiao Q., Liu Q. and Lafortezza R., 2022. Estimating 10-m land surface albedo from Sentinel-2 satellite observations using a direct estimation approach with Google Earth Engine. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 194: 1:20
Cilli R., Elia M., D'Este M., Giannico V., Amoroso N., Lombardi A., Pantaleo E., Monaco A., Sanesi G., Tangaro S., Bellotti R. and Lafortezza R., 2022. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) detects wildfire occurrence in the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe. Scientific Reports, 12 (1): 16349
So H.W. and Lafortezza R.*, 2022. Reviewing the impacts of eco-labelling of forest products on different dimensions of sustainability in Europe. Forest Policy and Economics, 145: 102851
Chen, Y., Chen W.Y., Giannico V., Lafortezza R., 2022. Modelling inter-pixel spatial variation of surface urban heat island intensity. Landscape Ecology, 37(8):2179 - 2194
Zhang C., Wu X., et al. and Lafortezza R., 2022. Differential impacts of urbanization characteristics on city-level carbon emissions from passenger transport on road: Evidence from 360 cities in China. Building and Environment. 219: 109165
Su Y., Wu J., Zhang C., Wu X., Li Q., Liu L., Bi C., Zhang H., Lafortezza R., Chen X., 2022. Estimating the effect of urban vegetation on understory temperature in different climate zone using multi-source remote sensing. Urban Climate, 43: 101155
Li Q., Wu J., Zhang C., Wu X., Wen X., Huang G., Lafortezza R., 2022. Estimating ecological sustainability in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China: Retrospective analysis and prospective trajectories. Journal of Environmental Management, 303: 114167
Elia, M., Giannico, V., Ascoli, D., Argararaz, J.P., D'Este, M., Spano, G., Lafortezza, R., Sanesi, G., 2022. Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics. Ecological Processes, 11 (1): 15
D'Este M., Giannico V., Lafortezza R., Sanesi G., Elia M., 2021. The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management. Data in Brief, 38: 107427
Su Y., Chen X, Liu L., Ciais P., Peng J., Wu S., Wu J., Shang J., Wang Y., Yuan W., Zhou G., Lafortezza R., 2021. Aerodynamic resistance and Bowen ratio explain the diverse biophysical effects of forests on local air and soil temperatures. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 3008-309: 108615