Author

Gian Carlo Avena

Observed names: AVENA G. C, AVENA G. C., AVENA, Giancarlo, Avena G., Avena G. C., Avena G.C., G. AVENA, G. Avena, G. C. AVENA, G. C. Avena, G.C. Avena, Giancarlo Avena

Observed institution: Sapienza University of Rome

OpenAlex ID: A5110153438

The flaming sandpile: self-organized criticality and wildfires

1999 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena, et al. · Ecological Modelling · 139

Quantifying the network connectivity of landscape mosaics: a graph-theoretical approach

2000 · C. Ricotta, A. Stanisci, et al. · Community Ecology · 100

On the relationship between Pielou’s evenness and landscape dominance within the context of Hill’s diversity profiles

2003 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena · Ecological Indicators · 85

The influence of principal component analysis on the spatial structure of a multispectral dataset

1999 · G. C. Avena, C. Ricotta, et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 68

Mapping and monitoring net primary productivity with AVHRR NDVI time-series: statistical equivalence of cumulative vegetation indices

1999 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena, et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 64

Computing β-diversity from species-area curves

2002 · Carlo Ricotta, Maria Laura Carranza, et al. · Basic and Applied Ecology · 63

Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

2002 · Carlo Ricotta, Maria Laura Carranza, et al. · Applied Vegetation Science · 58

Topological analysis of the spatial distribution of plant species richness across the city of Rome (Italy) with the echelon approach

2001 · Carlo Ricotta, Laura Celesti Grapow, et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning · 48

Quantitative comparison of the diversity of landscapes with actual vs. potential natural vegetation

2000 · Carlo Ricotta, Maria Laura Carranza, et al. · Applied Vegetation Science · 34

On the Information-Theoretical Meaning of Hill's Parametric Evenness

2002 · C. Ricotta, G.C. Avena · Acta Biotheoretica · 29

Monitoring the landscape stability of Mediterranean vegetation relation to fire with a fractal algorithm

1998 · C. Ricotta, G. C. Avena, et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 26

Temporal and spatial changes in a mountainous area of central Italy

2000 · Patrizia Peroni, Fernando Ferri, et al. · Journal of Vegetation Science · 25

An Information-Theoretical Measure of Taxonomic Diversity

2003 · C. Ricotta, G.C. Avena · Acta Biotheoretica · 24

Using the scaling behaviour of higher taxa for the assessment of species richness

2002 · Carlo Ricotta, Mara Ferrari, et al. · Biological Conservation · 22

The remote sensing approach in broad‐scale phenological studies

2000 · C. Ricotta, G.C. Avena · Applied Vegetation Science · 21

Fractal modelling of the remotely sensed two-dimensional net primary production pattern with annual cumulative AVHRR NDVI data

1998 · C. Ricotta, G. C. Avena · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 14

On the evaluation of ordinal data with conventional multivariate procedures

2006 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena · Journal of Vegetation Science · 13

Quantifying the effects of nutrient addition on the taxonomic distinctness of serpentine vegetation

2005 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena, et al. · Plant Ecology · 13

Evaluating the degree of fuzziness of thematic maps with a generalized entropy function: A methodological outlook

2002 · C. Ricotta, G. C. Avena · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 11

Analysis of human impact on a forested landscape of central Italy with a simplified NDVI texture descriptor

1996 · C. RICOTTA, G. C. AVENA, et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 11

Quantifying the effects of nutrient addition on community diversity of serpentine vegetation using parametric entropy of type α

2004 · Carlo Ricotta, Alessandro Chiarucci, et al. · Acta Oecologica · 8

A parametric index of community evenness

2000 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena · Ecoscience · 8

A partial order approach for summarizing landscape quality

2003 · C. Ricotta, M. Marignani, et al. · Community Ecology · 7

An index of divergence from species to life-form diversity based on the notion of intrinsic diversity ordering

2003 · Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena, et al. · Plant Ecology · 6

Parametric scaling from species to growth-form diversity: an interesting analogy with multifractal functions

2002 · Carlo Ricotta, Alessandra Pacini, et al. · Biosystems · 6

Works count: 72

Citation count: 938

H-index: 15

I10-index: 20