Prof. Franco Biondi
DendroLab, Department of Geography,
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, College of Science
University of Nevada, USA
Email: fbiondi@unr.edu
Qualifications
1990-1994 Ph.D., Watershed
Management and Geosciences; University of Arizona, Tucson
1985-1987 M.S., Watershed
Management; University of Arizona, Tucson
1980-1985 Laurea summa cum laude
(Italian Doctorate), Forestry; Università di Firenze, Italy
Publications (Selected)
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Ziaco,
E. and F. Biondi (2016) Tree growth, cambial phenology, and wood anatomy of
limber pine at a Great Basin (USA) mountain observatory, Trees - Structure and
Function, 30, 1507–1521.
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Ziaco,
E., F. Biondi and I. Heinrich (2016) Wood cellular dendroclimatology: Testing
new proxies in Great Basin bristlecone pine, Frontiers in Plant Science-Functional
Plant Ecology, 7, 1602-1615, DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01602.
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Di
Filippo, A., F. Biondi, G. Piovesan and E. Ziaco (2016) Tree-ring based metrics
for assessing old-growth forest naturalness, Journal of Applied Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12793.
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Ziaco,
E., F. Biondi, S. Rossi and A. Deslauriers (2016) Environmental drivers of
cambial phenology in Great Basin bristlecone pine, Tree Physiology 36: 818–831.
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Biondi,
F. and S. Rossi (2015) Plant-water relationships in the Great Basin Desert of
North America derived from Pinus monophylla hourly dendrometer records, International
Journal of Biometeorology, 59(8): 939-953.
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Zang,
C. and F. Biondi (2015) treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of
proxy-climate relationships, Echography, 38: 431–436.
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L.
Saito, F. Biondi, R. Devkota, J. Vittori and J. Salas (2015) A water-balance
approach for reconstructing streamflow using tree-ring proxy records, Journal
of Hydrology, 529(Part 2): 535–547.
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Salas,
J.D., Z. Tarawneh and F. Biondi (2015) A hydrological record extension model
for reconstructing streamflows from tree-ring chronologies, Hydrological
Processes, 29(4): 544–556.
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Anderegg,
W.R.L., C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J.J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D.
Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A.P. Williams, A. Wolf, E. Ziaco and S. Pacala (2015)
Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for
carbon cycle models, Science, 349 (6247), 528-532.
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Biondi,
F. (2014) Paleoecology Grand Challenge, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2:
1-3, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00050.
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Biondi,
F. (2014) Dendroclimatic reconstruction at kilometer-scale grid points: A case
study from the Great Basin of North America, Journal of Hydrometeorology,
15(2): 891-906.
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Biondi,
F., M. Hay and S. Strachan (2014) The Tree-Ring Interpolation Model (TRIM) and
its application to Pinus monophylla chronologies in the Great Basin of North
America, Forestry, 87(4): 582–597.
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Ziaco,
E., F. Biondi, S. Rossi and A. Deslauriers (2014) Climatic influences on wood
anatomy and tree-ring features of Great Basin conifers at a new mountain
observatory, Applications in Plant Sciences, 2(10): 1400054-140067, DOI:
10.3732/apps.1400054.
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Ziaco,
E., F. Biondi, S. Rossi and A. Deslauriers (2014) Intra-annual wood anatomical
features of high-elevation conifers in the Great Basin, USA, Dendrochronologia,
32(4): 303–312.
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McLauchlan,
K , P. E. Higuera, D. G. Gavin, S. S. Perakis, M. C. Mack, H. Alexander, J.
Battles, F. Biondi, B. Buma, D. Colombaroli, S. Enders, D. R. Engstrom, F. S.
Hu, J. R. Marlon, J. Marshall, M. McGlone, J. L. Morris, L. E. Nave, B. N.
Shuman, E. Smithwick, D. H. Urrego, D. A. Wardle, C. J. Williams, J. J.
Williams (2014) Reconstructing disturbances and their biogeochemical
consequences over multiple timescales, BioScience, 64(2): 105-116.
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Biondi,
F. (2014) The fourth dimension of interdisciplinary modeling, Journal of Contemporary
Water Resources Education (JCWRE), 152(1): 42-48.
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Biondi,
F. and M. Bradley (2013) Long-term survivorship of single-needle pinyon (Pinus
monophylla) in mixed-conifer ecosystems of the Great Basin, USA, Ecosphere,
4(10): 120 -139, DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00149.1.
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Zang,
C. and F. Biondi (2013) Dendroclimatic calibration in R: The bootRes package
for response and correlation function analysis, Dendrochronologia, 31: 68-74.
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Kilpatrick,
M., F. Biondi, S. Strachan and J.S. Sibold (2013) Fire history of mixed conifer
ecosystems in the Great Basin/Mojave Deserts transition zone, Nevada, USA, Trees-Structure
and Function, 27: 1789–1803.
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Strachan, S., F. Biondi, S.G. Lindström, R. McQueen, P.E. Wigand (2013)
Application of dendrochronology to historic charcoal production sites in the
Great Basin, USA, Historical Archaeology, 47(4): 103–119.
Profile Details
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