Piermaria CORONA
Full Professor of Forest Management

Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente Forestale e delle Sue risorse
via San Camillo de Lellis s.n.c. - 01100 Viterbo (Italia)

 

 

Direct dial: +39 0761357425   Department phone: +39 0761357390   

 Fax:         +39 0761357389   Dept. e-mail:piermaria.corona@unitus.it
      
 Home phone:  +39 065003189    Home e-mail: p.corona@mclink.it

Curriculum vitae (brief)

From 1985 to 1992, Researcher at the Centro di Sperimentazione Agricola e Forestale
(Italian Pulp and Paper Agency, Rome, Italy), Dept. of Plantation Forestry .
From 1986 to 1992, Adjunct Professor of Sylviculture at the University of Basilicata, Italy.
From 1992 to 2000, Associate Professor of Forest Inventory at the University of Florence, Italy.
Since 2001, Full Professor (Chair of Forest management) at the University of Tuscia, Italy.
Dean of the School of Forest and Environmental Sciences, at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tuscia, Italy, since 2002.

 

  President of the Italian Forest Graduates Association.

 

  Director of the Department of Forest Environment and Resources of the University of Tuscia, Italy, since 2009.

Scientific and technical skills

Forest management
Forest inventory
Natural and forest resources assessment
Landscape ecological planning
He authored over 200 scientific publications dealing with the above mentioned issues, and a textbook on sampling for forest inventory

Selected papers

Growth model for Italian Douglas fir plantations. In: Recent advances in forest mensuration and growth and yield
research, Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute, Hornsholm, 1995, pp. 175-193.
Stem annual increments as ecobiological indicators in Turkey oak. Trees 10 (1995): 13-19.
Assessing and comparing forest plantations proximity to natural conditions.
Journal of Sustainable Forestry 4 (1996): 37-46.
Mathematical modelling in forestry : problems and perspectives.
Annali Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali 45 (1996): 41-61.
DOUG_IT: a growth-and-yield Java applet for Italian Douglas-fir plantations.
In: Modelling growth of fast grown tree species, IUFRO Conference Proceedings, Valdivia, 1997, pp. 118-126.
Sustainable management of forests for atmospheric CO2 depletion: the Italian case.
Journal of Sustainable Forestry 3/4 (1997): 81-91.
Notes on ethics in silviculture.
In: The forest and man, Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali, Firenze, 1997, pp. 183-195.
An afforestation experiment for the environmental improvement of a periurban rural area.
Journal of Environmental Design 2 (1998): 41-48
Plot size and shape for the early assessment of post-fire regeneration in Aleppo pine stands.
New Forests 16 (1998): 213-220 .
Forest growth-and-yield modelling: questioning support for sustainable forest management.
Journal of Sustainable Forestry 3/4 (1998): 131-143.
Relationship between environmental factors and site index in Douglas-fir plantations in central Italy.
Forest Ecology and Management 110 (1998): 195-207.
Forest management on a natural basis: the fundamentals and case studies.
Journal of Sustainable Forestry 1/2 (1999): 59-72.
Informational Analysis of Forest Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity.
Journal of Sustainable Forestry 1/2 (1999): 95-106.
Technical advances and new applications in multiresources forest inventory. In: Bucci G., Minotta G., Borghetti M. (eds.), Atti, Secondo Congresso SISEF, Edizioni Avenue media, Bologna, 1999, pp. 155-160.
Towards an effective integration of forest inventories and natural resources surveys: the Italian perspective.
In: Hansen M., Burk T. (eds.), Integrated Tools for Natural Resources Inventories in the 21st Century,
USDA, Forest Service, North Central Reseach Station GTR, NC-212, 2000, pp. 28-34.
Forest remote sensing in Italy in the framework of FRA2000.
In: Zawila-Niedzwiecki T., Brach M. (eds.), Remote sensing and forest monitoring, EUR 19530, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2000, pp. 284-299.
Quantifying the rate of change in landscape diversity across hierarchical classification schemes.
In: Belward A., Binaghi E., Brivio P.A., Lanzarone G.A., Tosi G. (a cura di), Proceedings of the International Workshop: Geo-Spatial Knowledge Processing for Natural Resource Management, Varese, 2001, pp. 119-123.
Forest ecosystem inventory and monitoring as a framework for terrestrial natural renewable resource survey programmes – Plant Biosystems 136 (2002): 69-82.
Top-down growth modelling: a prototype for poplar plantations in Italy.
Forest Ecology and Management 161 (2002): 65-73.
Complementary methods to assess forest landscape structure: Shannon's entropy and fractal dimension of remotely sensed imagery. In: Koch B. (ed.), Spatial Technologies for Forest Inventories. Berichte Freiburger Forstliche Forschung 37 (2002): 57-68. 
Landscape evenness measures: their nature and mutual relatedness.
In: Corona P., Folving S., Marchetti M. (ads.), Collecting and analyzing information for sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring with special reference to Mediterranean ecosystems, European Commission, EUR 20392 EN, Ispra, 2002, pp. 155-162.

 

 Beware of contagion. Landscape and Urban Planning 62 (2003): 173-177. 
Systemic forest management and operational perspectives for implementing forest conservation in Italy under a pan_European framework.
Proceedings, XII World Forestry Congress, vol. B, Quebec City, 2003, pp. 377-384.
Spatial distribution modelling of forest attributes coupling remotely sensed imagery and GIS techniques.
In: Amaro A., Reed D., Soares P. (a cura di), Modelling forest systems.
CAB International, Wallingford, 2003, pp. 41-50.
Testing Ikonos and Landsat 7 ETM+ potential for stand-level forest type mapping by soft supervised approaches. In: Corona P., Koehl M., Marchetti M. (eds.), Advances in forest inventory for sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003, pp. 71-85.

 

 Forest ecotone survey by line intersect sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34 (2004): 1776-1783.
Integrating remotely sensed data and GIS-based modelling to assess forest productivity on a national scale in Italy.
In: Hasenauer H., Makela A. (eds.), Modeling forest production. Scientific tools, data needs and sources, validation and application. BOKU University, Vienna, 2004, pp. 89-104.
A Pòlya-urn resampling scheme for estimating precision and confidence intervals under one-stage cluster sampling: application to map classification accuracy and cover-type frequencies.
Forest Science 6(2004): 810-822.
 Site quality evaluation by classification tree: an application to cork quality in Sardinia.
European Journal of Forest Research 124 (2005): 37-46
Combining remote sensing and field data for deriving unbiased estimates of forest parameters over large regions.
In: Corona P., Koehl M., Marchetti M. (eds.), Advances in forest inventory for sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003, pp. 19-32.
Assessing forest landscape structure using geographic windows. In: Corona P., Koehl M., Marchetti M. (eds.), Advances in forest inventory for sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring.
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003, pp. 221-229.
Estimation of Mediterranean forest attributes by the application of k-NN procedure to multitemporal Landsat ETM+ images.International Journal of Remote Sensing 17 (2005): 3781-3796.
 The assessment of tree row attributes by stratified two-stage sampling.
European Journal of Forest Research 125 (2006): 57-66.
 Utilizzo di immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione nel rilevamento delle risorse forestali.
Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2006.
 Use of remotely sensed and ancillary data for estimating forest gross primary productivity in Italy.
Remote Sensing of Environment 100 (2006): 563-575. [in collaborazione]
 Conversion of clearcut beech coppices into high forests with continuous cover: a case study in central Italy. Forest Ecology and Management 3 (2006): 235-240. [in collaborazione]
 Risorse forestali e rischio di desertificazione in Italia. Standard programmatici di gestione.
Università della Tuscia, Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali, Comitato nazionale per la Lotta alla Siccità e alla Desertificazione, Roma, 2006.
Estimation of Mediterranean forest attributes by the application of k-NN procedure to multitemporal Landsat ETM+ images. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17 (2005): 3781-3796.
The assessment of tree row attributes by stratified two-stage sampling.
European Journal of Forest Research 125 (2006): 57-66.
 Utilizzo di immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione nel rilevamento delle risorse forestali.
Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2006.
 Use of remotely sensed and ancillary data for estimating forest gross primary productivity in Italy.
Remote Sensing of Environment 100 (2006): 563-575. [in collaborazione]
 Conversion of clearcut beech coppices into high forests with continuous cover: a case study in central Italy. Forest Ecology and Management 3 (2006): 235-240. [in collaborazione]
 Risorse forestali e rischio di desertificazione in Italia. Standard programmatici di gestione.
Università della Tuscia, Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali, Comitato nazionale per la Lotta alla Siccità e alla Desertificazione, Roma, 2006.
Estimating forest area at the year 1990 by two-phase sampling on historical remotely sensed imagery in Italy. Journal of Forest Research 1 (2007): 8-13.

 

 A forest typology for monitoring sustainable forest management: the case of European Forest Types.
Plant Biosystems 1 (2007): 93-103.

 

 Metodi di inventariazione delle masse e degli incrementi legnosi in assestamento forestale.
Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2007.

 

 Aerial assessment of landscape net change by means of two-phase network sampling: an application to central Italy. Environmetrics 18 (2007): 205-215.
Outlining multi-purpose forest inventories to assess the ecosystem approach in forestry.
Plant Biosystems 2 (2007): 243-251.

 

 ForestBIOTA data on deadwood monitoring in Europe. Plant Biosystems 2 (2007): 222-230.
I boschi del Tesino. Cultura della natura.
Centro Studi Alpino dell'Università della Tuscia, Associazione Forestale Tesino. Centro Stampa Regione Autonoma Trentino Alto Adige, Trento, 2007.
Exploring forest structural complexity by multi-scale segmentation of VHR imagery.
Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2008): 2839-2849.

 

 Area-based lidar-assisted estimation of forest standing volume.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38 (2008): 2911-2916.

 

 Modelling natural forest expansion on a landscape level by multinomial logistic regression.
Plant Biosystems 142 (2008): 509-517
   

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