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Franco biondi

Franco Biondi

Professor, Ecoclimatology/Tree Rings

Summary

I am a tree biologist with a specialty in dendroecology, which is the study of tree rings and wood formation to infer ecological changes. In collaboration with students and colleagues, I have studied tree-dominated landscapes in the western USA, Mexico, and southern Europe. I am now involved in grant-funded projects aimed at understanding the environmental drivers of intra-annual tree-ring features. Studies performed by DendroLab personnel are focused on examining the connection between wood form and function in conifer species of the western US. We use automated point dendrometers, wood anatomy, and cellular phenology to uncover the exquisitely intricate connections between dendrochronology, wood science, tree physiology, forest ecology, mensuration, and allometry. These new activities also include domestic and international collaborations, the latter with scientists in Canada, Germany, France, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy.

My teaching responsibilities are closely tied to my research experience and interests. At the 夜色视频, I have taught several courses, from introductory undergraduate classes to graduate seminars (see list below). I also developed, proposed, and established a few new classes on climate and environmental change.

From 2010 to 2023, I served as Subject Matter Editor for , the open鈥恆ccess journal published by the Ecological Society of America. Starting in 2024, I have become the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the track for that journal.

Teaching

  • Natural Resource Ecology (NRES  217): Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
  • Mountain Ecoclimatology (NRES  355): Spring 2021, Spring 2022
  • Regional and Global Issues in Environmental Sciences (ENV/NRES 467): Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020
  • Autocorrelation in time and space: Applied analysis using R (NRES 730): Spring 2024, Spring 2025

Honors and Awards

  • 2024-present , Ecosphere
  • 2022-present Invited Member, , Princeton, New Jersey
  • 2007-present , Ecological Society of America (ESA) Board of Professional Certification
  • 2023 University of Bolu (Turkey)
  • 2023 , Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between the USA and Spain and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • 2021 (links to news articles and social media reports listed in Altmetrics place this publication in the top 5% of all scientific articles)
  • 2020 Research and Innovation Leadership Fellow, 夜色视频
  • 2018 , Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson
  • 2018 and 2013 Participant in the Expert Witness Training Academy, William Mitchell College of Law, Saint Paul,  Minnesota
  • 2017 Habilitation Committee Member, Fakultät Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan für Ernährung, Landnutzung und Umwelt, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • 2015 Visiting Professor ("Poste Rouge"), Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (EcoLab), Université Toulouse III, France
  • 2014 , Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts
  • 2013 Visiting Scientist, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • 2013 CIRES Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 2011 Fulbright Senior Specialist in Environmental Science, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
  • 2008 Hyung K. Shin Award for Excellence in Research, College of Science, 夜色视频
  • 2008 Outstanding Researcher Award, Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, 夜色视频
  • 2007 Foreign Member of the Ph.D. Program in "Scienze e Tecnologie per la Gestione Forestale e Ambientale", University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
  • 2007 Blaustein Visiting Fellowship, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences
  • 2007 Guest Professorship, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Chair of Forest Ecology
  • 2006 National Academy of Sciences Committee
  • 2002 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
  • 2001 AAG Paper of the Year Award
  • 1992 in Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson
  • 1992 , Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson
  • 1985 Fulbright Award

Accomplishments

My long-term goal is to understand drivers of tree and forest growth in current, past, and future environments. I pursue this goal using instrumental and proxy records (mostly from tree rings), with an emphasis on field observations, numerical calibration, and automated sensors to bridge temporal and spatial scales. My experience and interests are in climate and forest dynamics, particularly in mountain watersheds. This places my work at the intersection between ecology, climatology, biogeography, and hydrology.

My dissertation work on forest growth trends in Arizona had both regional and global relevance. Regionally, it provided evidence for the impact of fire suppression on the ecology of southwestern conifer forests, ultimately contributing to landscape conservation plans. Globally, it showed the importance of placing twentieth-century patterns into a longer historical perspective to disentangle the impact of land use changes (in this case, European settlement) from stand dynamics and other factors. From 1994 to 2000, I conducted research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on past climate using proxy records from terrestrial tree rings and oceanic sediments (varves). At Scripps, I also established a research program in dendroclimatology, and assembled the tree-ring laboratory that I then transferred to the 夜色视频. My recent studies deal with quantifying climate and tree growth variability from mountain ecosystems in the Great Basin of North America. Special emphasis is placed on understanding responses to disturbance (wildfire, land use changes) in relation to climate dynamics and to the distribution of woody species at the watershed level.

From 2008 to 2013, I was the statewide lead for the Ecological Change component of an NSF-EPSCoR project entitled “Nevada Infrastructure for Climate Change Science, Education and Outreach”, which was funded for a total of $15 million. As part of the research infrastructure funded by this large multi-investigator project, we established the Nevada Climate-ecohydrological Assessment Network (), which includes valley-to-peak instrumental transects designed to measure changes in atmospheric, hydrologic, and ecologic variables, including the spatial and temporal processes that control, and are recorded by, wood growth of lower and upper treeline species.

Education

Publications

Book Chapter(s)

2025

Santamarta Cerezal, J.C., L.F. Arencibia Aguilar, and G.A. Medina Méndez (Eds.), RETOS Y OPORTUNIDADES DEL PLAN FORESTAL DE CANARIAS, Consejería de Transición Ecológica y Energía, Gobierno de Canarias, pp. 365-394, doi: 10.25145/b.2025.03

Arencibia Aguilar, L.F., F. Biondi, and P. Rodríguez Rodríguez

2015

W.J. Rink and J.W. Thompson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany; pp. 221-227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_24-1

Biondi, F.

Journals

2026

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 123(24): art. e2529341123 (3 pp.), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2529341123

Piovesan, G., M. Baliva, F. Biondi, J. Palli, L. Calcagnile, A. Chiarucci, R. Manicone, G. Quarta, G. Quilghini, A. Siclari, C.H. Cannon

2026

Forests 17(6): art. 683 (15 pp.)

Rodriguez, A. D., E. Ziaco, D.M. Meko, and F. Biondi

2026

Forest Ecology and Management 618: art. 123991 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123991

Wang, Y., X. Deng, L. Chen, Z. Huang, S. Ouyang, F. Biondi, and W. Xiang

2026

Radiocarbon (12 pp.), doi: 10.1017/RDC.2026.10196

Palli, J., M. Baliva, F. Biondi, R. Brienen, L. Calcagnile, M. D鈥橢lia, G. Quarta, A. Siclari, and G. Piovesan

2025

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 371: art. 110644 (15 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644

Serrano-Notivoli, R., J. Jev拧enak, E.M. del Castillo, K. Cufar, N. 艩krk-Dolar, G. Battipaglia, J.J. Camarero, A.H. Pain, A. Jump, R. Motta, P. Nola, M. Panayotov, I.C. Petritan, A. Popa, I. Popa, C.-C. Roibu, M. Svoboda, C. Zang, T. Zlatanov, A. Balzano, F. Biondi, and 25 other authors

2025

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 122(18): art. e2424096122 (9 pp.), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2424096122

Shriver, R.K., E. Pletcher, F. Biondi, A.K. Urza, and P.J. Weisberg

2025

Forests 16(7): art.1142 (13 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f16071142

Biondi, F. and J. Roberts

2025

Radiocarbon (9 pp.), doi:10.1017/RDC.2025.10149

Biondi, F., G.M. Santos, J. Palli, G. Piovesan, and P.A. Sosa

2025

Nature Climate Change website: 19 pp., doi: 10.1038/s41558-025-02474-z

Li, X., Silvestro, R., Liang, E., Mencuccini, M., Camarero, J.J., Rathgeber, C.B., Sylvain, J.D., Nabais, C., Giovannelli, A., Saracino, A., Saulino, L., Guerrieri, R., Gricar, J., Prislan, P., Peters, R.L., Cufar, K., Yang, B., Antonucci, S., Babushkina, E., Biondi, F., and 31 other authors

2024

Science of The Total Environment, 937: art. 173321 (14 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321

Leifsson, C., A. Buras, S. Klesse, C. Baittinger, B. Bat-Enerel, G. Battipaglia, F. Biondi, and 49 other authors

The multiple significant interaction terms in our model elucidate the complexity of European beech's drought sensitivity, which needs to be taken into consideration when assessing this species'...

2024

Plants 13: art. 45 (12 pp.), doi: 10.3390/plants13010045

Biondi, F., G.M. Santos, P.R. Rodríguez, and P.A. Sosa

2024

Global Change Biology 30(10): art. e17546 (16 pp.), doi: 10.1111/gcb.17546

Klesse, S., R.L. Peters, R. Alfaro-Sánchez, V. Badeau, C. Baittinger, G. Battipaglia, D. Bert, F. Biondi, and 63 other authors

2024

Nature Communications, Volume 15, Article number: 6169 (2024)

Silvestro, R., M. Mencuccini, R. García-Valdés, S. Antonucci, A. Arzac, F. Biondi, and 67 other authors

Our findings suggest that high-resolution seasonal data of ecosystem carbon fluxes, wood formation and the associated physiological processes may reduce uncertainties in carbon source-sink...

2024

Earth Interactions 28(1): art. e230018 (19 pp.), doi: 10.1175/EI-D-23-0018.1

Meko, D.M., F. Biondi, A.H. Taylor, I.P. Panyushkina, R.D. Thaxton, A.A. Prusevich, A.I. Shiklomanov, R.B. Lammers, and S. Glidden.

2023

Science of the Total Environment 890, art. 164103 (11 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164103

Piovesan, G., A. Rita, F. Biondi, M. Baliva, M. Borghetti, M. Brunetti, G. De Vivo, A. Di Filippo, A. Dinella, T. Gentilesca, M. Maugeri, J. Palli, A. Piotti, E. Presutti Saba, F. Ripullone, A. Schettino, and G.G. Vendramin

2023

Dendrochronologia 81, art. 126116 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126116

Ziaco, E., X. Liu, and F. Biondi

We investigated the relationships between xylem anatomy, plant hydraulic functioning, and stem growth in bristlecone pine and limber pine...

2023

Forests 14 (9), art. 1719 (14 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f14091719

Arencibia Aguilar, L.F., P. Rodríguez Rodríguez, and F. Biondi

2023

iScience 26 (3), art. 106138 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106138

Biondi, F., D. Meko, and G. Piovesan

Maximum tree lifespans for 157 conifers and 80 angiosperms; 22 conifers exceeded 1,000 years of age, whereas angiosperms peaked around 500 years....

2023

Environments 10(1), art. 12 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/environments10010012

Winitsky, A.G., D.M. Meko, A.H. Taylor, and F. Biondi

2023

Science of the Total Environment 892, art. 164351 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164351

Liu, X., E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi

Comparing canopy conductance and xylem hydraulics of limber pine and Engelmann spruce....

2023

Land 12(3), art. 550 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/land12030550

Palli, J., M. Baliva, F. Biondi, L. Calcagnile, D. Cerbino, M. D'Elia, R. Muleo, A. Schettino, G. Quarta, N. Sassone, F. Solano, P. Zienna, and G. Piovesan

Some of the oldest scientifically dated fruit trees in the world: olive (680 ± 57 years), mulberry (647 ± 66 years), chestnut (636 ± 66 years), and pear (467 ± 89 years)....

2022

Ecosphere 13(7), art. e4159 (36 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4159

Margolis, E.Q., C.H. Guiterman, 53 other authors, F. Biondi, and other 31 authors

2021

Forest Ecology and Management 491, art. 119157 (10 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119157

Liu, X. and F. Biondi

2021

New Phytologist 231: 1318鈥1337 (Tansley Review), doi: 10.1111/nph.17148

Piovesan, G. and F. Biondi

Identifying old trees helps with managing entire landscapes, and to revisit classic ecological theories. Among the most-downloaded and most-cited New Phytologist articles from 2020 and 2021....

2021

Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 12, art. 787297 (11 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.787297

Liu, X., E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi

2021

Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 12(1812), art. 702442 (14 pp.), doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.702442

Balanzategui, D., H. Nordhauß, I. Heinrich, F. Biondi, N. Miley, A.G. Hurley, and E. Ziaco

2020

Forests 11 (2), art. 146 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f11020146

Biondi, F.

How to use tree rings for much more than climate reconstructions....

2020

PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 117 (34): 20645鈥20652. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2007058117

Huang, J.-G., Q. Ma, S. Rossi, F. Biondi, and other 47 authors

2020

Forests 11(9), art. 900 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f11090900

Kilpatrick, M. and F. Biondi

2020

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 547, art. 109689 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109689

Ziaco, E., N. Miley, and F. Biondi

2020

Science of the Total Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139861

Liu, X., and F. Biondi.

2019

Tree-Ring Research 75(2): 127鈥138. doi: 10.3959/1536-1098-75.2.127

Kilpatrick, M., J. Roberts, and F. Biondi

2019

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 271: 46-53. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.02.031

Ren, P., E. Ziaco, S. Rossi, F. Biondi, P. Prislan, and E. Liang

2019

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 51(1): 115鈥127. doi: 10.1080/15230430.2019.1585175

Cameletti, M. and F. Biondi

2019

Radiocarbon (in press). doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.37

Quarta, G., A. Di Filippo, L. Calcagnile, M. D鈥橢lia, F. Biondi, E. Presutti Saba, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and G. Piovesan

2019

Ecology 100(9): art. e02737 (4 pp.), doi: 10.1002/ecy.2737

Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, V. Marchiano, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo

2019

Water Resources Research 55(7): 5559鈥5574. doi: 10.1029/2019WR024735

Biondi, F. and D. Meko

2019

Atmosphere 10(7): art. 420 (18 pp.), doi: 10.3390/atmos10070420

Truettner, C., M.D. Dettinger, E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi

2019

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 100(3): art.e01560 (6 pp.), doi: 10.1002/bes2.1560

Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, V. Marchiano, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo

2019

Anthropocene 26, art.100199 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100199

Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, A. Dinella, L. Di Fiore, V. Marchiano, E. Presutti Saba, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo

2018

Water 10(4), article 420 (21 pp.), doi:10.3390/w10040420

Devitt, D., B. Bird, B. Lyles, L. Fenstermaker, R. Jasoni, S. Strachan, J. Arnone, F. Biondi, S. Mensing, and L. Saito

2018

Ecology Letters 21(12): 1833-1844. doi: 10.1111/ele.13158

Hacket-Pain, A.J., D. Ascoli, G. Vacchiano, F. Biondi, L. Cavin, M. Conedera, I. Drobyshev , I. Dorado Liñán, A.D. Friend, M. Grabner, C. Hartl, J. Kreyling, F. Lebourgeois, T. Levanic, A. Menzel, E. van der Maaten, M. van der Maaten-Theunissen, L. Muffler, R. Motta, C.-C. Roibu, I. Popa , T. Scharnweber, R. Weigel, M. Wilmking, and C. Zang

2018

Forest Ecology and Management 418: 55鈥62. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044

Truettner, C., W.R.L. Anderegg, F. Biondi, G.W. Koch, K. Ogle, C. Schwalm, M.E. Litvak, J.D. Shaw, and E. Ziaco

2018

MethodsX 5: 495-502. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2018.05.015

Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, and A. Di Filippo

2018

Plant, Cell & Environment 41 (4): 823鈥836. DOI: 10.1111/pce.13152

Ziaco, E., C. Truettner, F. Biondi, and S. Bullock

2018

Forests 9 (7), art.396 (21 pp.). doi: 10.3390/f9070396

Ziaco, E. and F. Biondi

2018

Ecology 99 (7): 1682-1684. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2231

Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, E. Presutti Saba, M. Baliva, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, M. D鈥橢lia, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo

Finding the 鈥渙ldest tree in the world鈥 is a perfect motivation for doing science because it's closely linked with exploration and discovery, which are the purest scientific motives....

2017

Nature 548, 202鈥205 (10 August 2017). doi:10.1038/nature23021

Schwalm, C.R., W.R.L. Anderegg, A.M. Michalak, J.B. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D.N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain, and H. Tian

2017

Journal of Applied Ecology 54 (3): 737鈥749. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12793

Di Filippo, A., F. Biondi, G. Piovesan, and E. Ziaco

The definition of "old-growth" forest stands needs to be revised and updated in light of modern scientific research results, especially from dendrochronology....

2016

Tree Physiology 36: 818鈥831. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpw006

Ziaco, E., F. Biondi, S. Rossi, and A. Deslauriers

2016

Trees - Structure and Function 30: 1507鈥1521. doi: 10.1007/s00468-016-1384-7

Ziaco, E. and F. Biondi.

2016

Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 7: 1602 (13 pp.), doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01602

Ziaco, E., F. Biondi, and I. Heinrich

2015

Hydrological Processes 29(4): 544鈥556. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10160

Salas, J.D., Z. Tarawneh, and F. Biondi

2015

Journal of Hydrology 529(Part 2): 535鈥547. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.022

Saito, L., F. Biondi, R. Devkota, J. Vittori, and J. Salas

2015

Science 349 (6247), 528-532. DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1833

Anderegg,W.R.L., C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J.J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A.P. Williams, A. Wolf, E. Ziaco, and S. Pacala

2015

International Journal of Biometeorology 59(8): 939-953. doi: 10.1007/s00484-014-0907-4

Biondi, F. and S. Rossi

2015

Ecography 38: 431鈥436. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01335

Zang, C., and F. Biondi