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People
Amelia Caffarra
Position
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Researcher |
Current site of work |
Fondazione Edmund Mach |
Street, number |
via Mach, 1 |
City |
S. Michele all'Adige TN |
Postal code |
38010 |
Country |
Italy |
E-mail |
amelia.caffarra@iasma.it |
Phone |
+39 0461 615395 |
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Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis |
MSc in Environmental Sciences 2003 (Thesis title: Vegetation patterns along the flooding gradient in turlough basins); Trinity College Dublin; Degree in Scienze Naturali 2001; PhD in Modelling plant phenology 2007 (Thesis title: Quantifying the environmental drivers of tree phenology) |
Expertise |
Plant phenology, modelling, statistics, ecology |
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Research experience, training, professional stages |
Research experience in:
- phenology
- phenological models for grapevine and perennial species;
- climatology and climate change, with particular reference to impacts on trees;
- statistical methods for model evaluation
- multivariate statistics for ecological application
- Experimental design for trials in controlled environment
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Current research area |
Grapevine phenology, climatic model downscaling. |
Publication List (last five years):
Eccel, E., Rea, R., Caffarra, A., e Crisci, A., 2009: Risk of spring frost to apple production under future climate scenarios: the role of phenological acclimation. International Journal of Biometeorology, 53:273-286.
Donnelly, A., Caffarra, A., Diskin, E., Pletsers, A., Proctor, H., Stirnemann, R., Cooney, T., Kelleher, C.T., O’Neill, B., O’Halloran, J., Jones, M., Peñuelas, J. & Sparks, T. Climate warming results in phenotypic changes and possibly evolutionary changes in spring events. (dal libro in preparazione: Climate Change, ecology and systematics, ed. Hodkinson T. and Parnell J.P, Cambridge University Press)
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