New Associate Editors
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Francesco Parisi to the Associate Editorial Board of Annals of Forest Science.
Francesco Parisi is currently a researcher at the University of Molise.
He holds a PhD in Crops and Forestry Quality and Protection and a Master's degree in "Natural capital and protected areas: planning, design and management", La Sapienza University.
As a Postdoc, he carried out his study activities in Forest Sciences at the University of Molise and at the University of Florence.
His research activity focuses on ecology and forest management, ecology of saproxylic insects, monitoring programs, forest management and conservation, long-term systematic ecological research. He also worked in the field of habitat and species conservation, with particular interest in biodiversity indicators of old-growth forests.
His interests mainly concern the study of biodiversity indicators in forest and urban ecosystems; studies on the ecological dynamics of saproxylic organisms in relation to forest structure, deadwood and tree-related microhabitat (TreM) also through the use of Remote Sensing. He conducted research in the oldest European forests of Bosnia ed Erzegovina and Montenegro, but also in the tropical forests of Africa.
He has published more than 40 publications, among which peer-reviewed articles and other scientific products, and joined several competitive research projects at both national and European scales. He regularly carries out reviewing activities for numerous international journals on forest ecology and forest management.
He has been a speaker at national and international conferences. He is a Corresponding Member of the Italian Academy of Forest Sciences.
We are pleased to welcome Dr Frédéric Bonin to the Associate Editorial Board of Annals of Forest Science.
Frédéric Bonin’s research is twofold, linked to forest planning and change management. He holds a PhD in management sciences, through which he explored the adaptation of the organizational routines of forest planning in the context of grand challenges.
His current research focuses on exploring participatory and nimble approaches of forest planning, on the one hand. He is particularly interested in issues relating to the organizational design of forest planning and its governance approaches. On the other hand, he is exploring the modalities of transferring and raising collective (group of actors, stakeholders, territories, etc) competences around forest planning and how this dynamic can promote change of routines and practices, for forest planning and beyond.
His research approach is interdisciplinary; he collaborates, for example, with actors in forest science, management sciences, economic sciences as well as innovation sciences.
He has presented his work in several conferences, and is involved in national and international networks both in management sciences, such as the Routines.Research.Community or the Risk, Uncertainty and Management group of the AIMS (International Association in Strategic Management), and in forest planning, such as IUFRO 4.04. He is also involved within the Forest Inn Lab (AgroParisTech), an innovation-support platform.
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rafael (Rafa) Poyatos to the Associate Editorial Board of Annals of Forest Science.
Dr. Rafael (Rafa) Poyatos is Associate Professor at the Autonomous Univesity of Barcelona (UAB) and Researcher at CREAF. He obtained a PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona in 2006 and worked as postdoc at Durham University (UK, 2008 – 2009) and at CREAF (2009 – 2015), where he also was junior PI (2015 – 2023). He was visiting fellow at Ghent University (Belgium, 2017) and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogechemistry in Jena, Germany (2019 – 2023), where he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Previous to his current position, he has also been Adjunct Professor at UAB (2018 – 2023).
His research lies at the crossroads of plant ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology and the Earth sciences. He is interested in understanding plant water and carbon fluxes, studying the interactions between whole-plant physiology, plant traits and ecosystem processes. In particular, he focuses on plant functioning at multiple spatial and temporal scales, in the context of global change and with a strong focus on trees and forests.
Currently, his main research topic deals with how trees regulate water use and how the diversity of water use strategies across and within species determine tree responses to environmental change. He coordinates the SAPFLUXNET initiative, the first global database of tree transpiration from sap flow measurements. More recently, he has also become involved in designing and implementing forest functional monitoring networks at the regional level.
Rafa Poyatos has participated in 30 research projects and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers. He is currently the Chair of the Working Group on Sensing Plant Water Status of the International Society of Horticultural Science.