[Translate to English:] Experimentelle Pflanzenökologie


Alessandro Di Fabio

PhD candidate

I am interested in how phenotypic plasticity of forest trees can help them adapt to climate change. I use common garden experiments to investigate the genetic and environmental components of growth performance of important tree species, with a focus on phenology, leaf traits, and dendrometry.

My research is part of the EVA project (Evidence-based cultivation recommendations in climate change), aiming to provide indications for adapting forestry interventions to climate change.

 

Since 2021: PhD Candidate – University of Greifswald

2012 - 2018: Student at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

2015 - 2018: MSc in Conservation and Evolution, University of Pisa
Master Thesis: “Protected Areas worldwide: linking management information to predictions of anthropic impact changes”

2012 - 2015: BSc in Biological Sciences, University of Pisa
Bachelor Thesis: “Convergent evolution of morphogenetic mechanisms underlying eye loss in cavefishes"

Associate with Research Training Group (RTG 2010) “Biological RESPONSEs to Novel and Changing Environments”