Reconstructing community dynamics and ecosystem functioning after glacial retreat

Project Information

IceCommunities

Grant agreement ID: 772284

DOI 10.3030/772284

Project closed

EC signature date 30 January 2018

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 31 January 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 845 773,00

EU contribution € 1 845 773,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

The importance of species addition versus replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacial retreat

Author(s): Cantera, I.; Carteron, A.; Guerrieri, A.; Marta, S.; Bonin, A.; Ambrosini, R.; Anthelme, F.; Azzoni, R.S.; Almond, P.; Gazitúa, P.A.; Cauvy-Fraunié, S.; Lievano, J.L.C.; Chand, P.; Sharma, M.C.; Clague, J.; Rapre, J.A.C.; Compostella, C.; Encarnación, R.C.; Dangles, O.; Eger, A.; Erokhin, S.; Franzetti, A.; Gielly, L.; Gili, F.; Gobbi, M.; Hagvar, S.; Khedim, N.; Meneses, R.I.; Peyre, G.; Pitti
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 256–267, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Nature Publications Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01609-4

Heterogeneous changes of soil microclimate in high mountains and glacier forelands

Author(s): Marta, S.; Zimmer, A.; Caccianiga, M.; Gobbi, M.; Ambrosini, R.; Azzoni, R.S.; Gili, F.; Pittino, F.; Thuiller, W.; Provenzale, A.; Ficetola, G.F.
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 5306, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41063-6

Evaluation of Soil Biodiversity in Alpine Habitats through eDNA Metabarcoding and Relationships with Environmental Features

Author(s): Noemi Rota, Claudia Canedoli, Chiara Ferrè, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Alessia Guerrieri, Emilio Padoa-Schioppa
Published in: Forests, Issue 11/7, 2020, Page(s) 738, ISSN 1999-4907
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/f11070738

Effects of soil preservation for biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA

Author(s): Guerrieri A., Bonin A., Münkemüller T., Gielly L., Thuiller W., Ficetola G.F.
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 2020, 2020, ISSN 1365-294X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15674

Optimal sequence similarity thresholds for clustering of molecular operational taxonomic units in DNA metabarcoding studies

Author(s): Aurélie Bonin; Alessia Guerrieri; Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 368-381, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13709

Multi‐taxa colonisation along the foreland of a vanishing equatorial glacier

Author(s): Pedro Rosero, Verónica Crespo‐Pérez, Rodrigo Espinosa, Patricio Andino, Álvaro Barragán, Pierre Moret, Mauro Gobbi, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Ricardo Jaramillo, Priscilla Muriel, Fabien Anthelme, Dean Jacobsen, Olivier Dangles, Thomas Condom, Ludovic Gielly, Jérôme Poulenard, Antoine Rabatel, Rubén Basantes, Bolívar Cáceres Correa, Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié
Published in: Ecography, 2021, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05478

Local climate modulates the development of soil nematode communities after glacier retreat

Author(s): Alessia Guerrieri; Isabel Cantera; Silvio Marta; Aurélie Bonin; Alexis Carteron; Roberto Ambrosini; Marco Caccianiga; Fabien Anthelme; Roberto Sergio Azzoni; Peter Almond; Pablo Alviz Gazitúa; Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié; Jorge Luis Ceballos Lievano; Pritam Chand; Milap Chand Sharma; John Clague; Justiniano Alejo Cochachín Rapre; Chiara Compostella; Rolando Cruz Encarnación; Olivier Dangles;
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) e17057, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17057

A hole in the nematosphere: tardigrades and rotifers dominate the cryoconite hole environment, whereas nematodes are missing

Author(s): Zawierucha, K., Porazinska, D.L., Ficetola, G.F., Ambrosini, R., Baccolo, G., Buda, J., Ceballos, J.L., Devetter, M., Dial, R., Franzetti, A., Fuglewicz, U., Gielly, L., Łokas12, E., Janko, K., Jaromerska, T., Koscinski, A., Kozłowska, A., Ono, M., Parnikoza, I., Pittino, F., Poniecka, E., Sommers, P., Schmidt, K.S., Shain, D., Sikorska, S., Uetake, J., Takeuchi, N.
Published in: Journal of Zoology, 2020, ISSN 1469-7998
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12832

Optimal sequence similarity thresholds for clustering of molecular operational taxonomic units in <scp>DNA</scp> metabarcoding studies

Author(s): Aurélie Bonin; Alessia Guerrieri; Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 1755-0998
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13709

Connecting high-throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site-based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis

Author(s): Paula Arribas; Carmelo Andújar; Martin I. Bidartondo; Martin I. Bidartondo; Kristine Bohmann; Eric Coissac; Simon Creer; Jeremy R deWaard; Vasco Elbrecht; Gentile Francesco Ficetola; Gentile Francesco Ficetola; Marta Goberna; Susan Kennedy; Susan Kennedy; Henrik Krehenwinkel; Florian Leese; Vojtech Novotny; Vojtech Novotny; Fredrik Ronquist; Douglas W. Yu; Douglas W. Yu; Douglas W. Yu; Lucie Zing
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 1365294X, 2021, Page(s) 1120–1135, ISSN 1365-294X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15797

Vanishing permanent glaciers: climate change is threatening a European Union habitat (Code 8340) and its poorly known biodiversity

Author(s): M. Gobbi, R. Ambrosini, C. Casarotto, G. Diolaiuti, G. F. Ficetola, V. Lencioni, R. Seppi, C. Smiraglia, D. Tampucci, B. Valle, M. Caccianiga
Published in: Biodiversity and Conservation, Issue 30/7, 2021, Page(s) 2267-2276, ISSN 0960-3115
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-021-02185-9

Toward a common set of functional traits for soil protists

Author(s): Giachello, S.; Cantera, I.; Carteron, A.; Marta, S.; Cipriano, C.; Guerrieri, A.; Bonin, A.; Thuiller, W.; Ficetola, G.F.
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 187, 2023, Page(s) 109207, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109207

Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years.

Author(s): Silvio Marta; Michele Brunetti; Raoul Manenti; Antonello Provenzale; Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 5, 2021, Page(s) 1291-1300, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01513-0

Comparison of markers for the monitoring of freshwater benthic biodiversity through DNA metabarcoding

Author(s): Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Frédéric Boyer, Alice Valentini, Aurélie Bonin, Albin Meyer, Tony Dejean, Coline Gaboriaud, Philippe Usseglio‐Polatera, Pierre Taberlet
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15632

Metabarcoding data reveal vertical multi-taxa variation in topsoil communities during the colonization of deglaciated forelands

Author(s): Alessia Guerrieri; Alexis Carteron; Aurélie Bonin; Silvio Marta; Roberto Ambrosini; Marco Caccianiga; Isabel Cantera; Chiara Compostella; Guglielmina Diolaiuti; Diego Fontaneto; Ludovic Gielly; Fabrizio Gili; Mauro Gobbi; Jerome Poulenard; Pierre Taberlet; Andrea Zerboni; Wilfried Thuiller; Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 31, 2022, ISSN 1365-294X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16669

The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database

Author(s): Silvio Marta; Roberto Sergio Azzoni; Davide Fugazza; Levan Tielidze; Pritam Chand; Katrin Sieron; Peter Almond; Roberto Ambrosini; Fabien Anthelme; Pablo Alviz Gazitúa; Rakesh Bhambri; Aurélie Bonin; Marco Caccianiga; Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié; Jorge Luis Ceballos Lievano; John Clague; Justiniano Alejo Cochachín Rapre; Olivier Dangles; Philip Deline; Andre Eger; Rolando Cruz Encarnación; Sergey Er
Published in: Data, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 10.3390/data6100107, ISSN 2306-5729
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/data6100107

Towards all-inclusive community ecology via DNA metabarcoding

Author(s): Gentile Francesco Ficetola; Pierre Taberlet
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 6320-6329, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16881

Immersive and virtual tools to see and understand climate change impacts on glaciers: a new challenge for scientific dissemination and inclusive education

Author(s): Diolaiuti, G.; Maugeri, M.; Senese, A.; Panizza, M.; Ambrosini, R.; Ficetola, G.F.; Parolini, M.; Fugazza, D.; Traversa, G.; Scaccia, D.; Franceschini, M.; Citron, L.; Pelfini, M.
Published in: Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, Issue 44, 2022, Page(s) 83-93, ISSN 0391-9838
Publisher: Comitato Glaciologico Italiano
DOI: 10.4461/gfdq.2021.44.6

Lack of data on the colonization by Amphibians and Reptiles of the ecosystems developing after retreat of glaciers.

Author(s): G.F. Ficetola
Published in: Naturalista Siciliano, Issue 46, 2022, Page(s) 203-206, ISSN 0394-0063
Publisher: Società Siciliana di Scienze Naturali
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6787208

Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils

Author(s): Lunghi, E.; Valle, B.; Guerrieri, A.; Bonin, A.; Cianferoni, F.; Manenti, R.; Ficetola, G.F.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment, Issue 826, 2022, Page(s) 154022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154022

Cryophilic Tardigrada have disjunct and bipolar distribution and establish long-term stable, low-density demes

Author(s): Zawierucha K.; Kašparová E.S.; McInnes S.; Budam J.; Ambrosini R.; Devetter M.; Ficetola G.F.; Franzetti A.; Takeuchi N.; Horna P.; Jaroměřská T.N.; Ono M.; Šabacká M.; Janko K.
Published in: Polar Biology, Issue 46, 2023, Page(s) 1011–1027, ISSN 0722-4060
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-023-03170-4

Conditionally autoregressive models improve occupancy analyses of autocorrelated data: An example with environmental DNA

Author(s): Wentao Chen, Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 19/1, 2019, Page(s) 163-175, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12949

Continental‐scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles

Author(s): Mattia Falaschi, Raoul Manenti, Wilfried Thuiller, Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 25/10, 2019, Page(s) 3504-3515, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14739

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

Author(s): Lucie Zinger, Aurélie Bonin, Inger G. Alsos, Miklós Bálint, Holly Bik, Frédéric Boyer, Anthony A. Chariton, Simon Creer, Eric Coissac, Bruce E. Deagle, Marta De Barba, Ian A. Dickie, Alex J. Dumbrell, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Noah Fierer, Luca Fumagalli, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Simon Jarman, Ari Jumpponen, Håvard Kauserud, Ludovic Orlando, Johan Pansu, Jan Pawlowski, Leho Tedersoo, Philip F
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 28/8, 2019, Page(s) 1857-1862, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15060

Climate and land-use changes drive taxonomic and functional biodiversity through time

Author(s): Silvio Marta; Michele Brunetti; Raoul Manenti; Antonello Provenzale; Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 5, 2021, Page(s) 1291–1300, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01513-0

Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world

Author(s): Norine Khedim, Lauric Cécillon, Jérôme Poulenard, Pierre Barré, François Baudin, Silvio Marta, Antoine Rabatel, Cédric Dentant, Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié, Fabien Anthelme, Ludovic Gielly, Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Franzetti, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Marco Stefano Caccianiga, Chiara Compostella, John Clague, Levan Tielidze, Erwan Messager, Philippe Choler, Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 27/8, 2021, Page(s) 1662-1677, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15496

Cryoconite – From minerals and organic matter to bioengineered sediments on glacier's surfaces

Author(s): Rozwalak, Piotr; Podkowa, Paweł; Buda, Jakub; Niedzielski, Przemysław; Kawecki, Szymon; Ambrosini, Roberto; Azzoni, Roberto S.; Baccolo, Giovanni; Ceballos, Jorge L.; Cook, Joseph; Di Mauro, Biagio; Ficetola, Gentile Francesco; Franzetti, Andrea; Ignatiuk, Dariusz; Klimaszyk, Piotr; Łokas, Edyta; Ono, Masato; Parnikoza, Ivan; Pietryka, Mirosława; Pittino, Francesca; Poniecka, Ewa; Porazinska,
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 807, 2022, Page(s) 150874, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150874

In silico assessment of 18S rDNA metabarcoding markers for the characterization of nematode communities

Author(s): Ficetola, G.F.; Guerrieri, A.; Cantera, I.; Bonin, A.
Published in: Plos One, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) e0298905, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298905

Desoria calderonis sp. nov., a new species of alpine cryophilic springtail (Collembola: Isotomidae) from Apennines (Italy), with phylogenetic and ecological considerations

Author(s): Valle, B.; Cucini, C.; Nardi, F.; Caccianiga, M.; Gobbi, M.; Di Musciano, M.; Carapelli, A.; Ficetola, G.F.; Guerrieri, A.; Fanciulli, P.P.
Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy, Issue 787, 2021, Page(s) 32–52, ISSN 2118-9773
Publisher: EJT
DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.787.1599

Shifting aspect or elevation? The climate change response of ectotherms in a complex mountain topography

Author(s): Stephan Feldmeier, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Michael Veith, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Stefan Lötters
Published in: Diversity and Distributions, Issue 26/11, 2020, Page(s) 1483-1495, ISSN 1366-9516
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13146