PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS 2010-2011

Gioria M, Bacaro G, Feehan, J. (2011)
Evaluating and interpreting cross-taxon congruence: potential pitfalls and solutions.
Acta Oecologica, doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.02.001

Maccherini S, Marignani M, Gioria M, Renzi M, Rocchini D, Santi E, Torri D, Tundo J, Honnay O. (2011)
Determinants of plant community composition of remnant biancane badlands: a hierarchical approach to quantify species-environment relationships.
Accepted for publication: Applied Vegetation Science, 11th February 2011

Gioria M, Bacaro G, Feehan J (2010)
Identifying the drivers of pond biodiversity: the agony of model selection.
Community Ecology 11: 179-186

Gioria M, Schaffers A, Bacaro G, Feehan J (2010)
Predicting the conservation value of farmland ponds: use of vascular plants as a surrogate group.
Biological Conservation 143: 1125-1133

Gioria M, Osborne B (2010)
Similarities in the impact of three large invasive plant species on soil seed bank communities.
Biological Invasions 12: 1671-1683

PEER-REVIEWED abstracts

Gioria, M (2011) Patterns of plant diversity in farmland ponds: drivers and functions. 54th IAVS (International Association for Vegetation Science) Symposium: Vegetation in and around water: patterns, processes and threats. University of Lyon, 20-24th June 2011. Abstract accepted for oral presentation.

Gioria, M (2010) Predictors of dytiscid species composition in Irish farmland ponds. Invited oral  presentation for the symposium ‘An Inordinate Neglect of Dytiscids: International Endeavors to Understand the Behavior, Ecology, and Systematics of Predaceous Diving Beetles’, 2010 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, 12-15 December 2010, San Diego, CA

Gioria M (2010) The conservation value of ponds in the Irish agricultural landscape. Abstracts of the workshop: Wetland Conservation in Ireland, 8th January 2010, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Gioria, M (2010) Modelling biodiversity patterns in ponds. 2010 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, 7-9 September 2010, University of Leeds, UK

Gioria, M (2010) Use of cross-taxon congruence analysis to identify potential surrogate taxa for freshwater biodiversity. Abstracts of the 40th GfÖ Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Annual Meeting 2010, 30 August-3 September 2010, University of Giessen, Germany

Gioria M, Bacaro G, Schaffers A (2010) Assessing the conservation value of farmland ponds: use of predictive techniques to identify surrogate groups. Abstracts of the 95th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-6 August 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA

In: Nature Precedings, doi:10.1038/npre.2010.5214.1