Young researcher
Davide Fornacca
Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research, Dali University, China
International Centre for Biodiversity and Primates Conservation, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China
Current affiliations
Davide Fornacca holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and currently works at the Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research, Dali University. Davide has an educational background in Human Geography, Geoinformatics (GIS) and Remote Sensing, and pursues his research in Environmental Risks Modelling and Machine Learning. His projects encompass Fire risk/vulnerability modeling, global ecological models of biodiversity distribution, and the mountain environment.
Recent publications
Fornacca D, Deng W, Yang YQ, Zhang F, Yang XY, and Xiao W (2024) Linking watershed formation with the phylogenetic distribution of a soil microscopic fungus in Yunnan Province, China. BMC Microbiology 24(1): 305. doi: 10.1186/s12866-024-03451-w
Gao T, Zhao C, Fornacca D, Wang RX, and Xiao W (2024) Effects of wildfire on bird diversity in a Pinus yunnanensis forest. Forest Ecology and Management 565: 122021. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122021
Niu X, Fang XL, Ba S, et al. (2024) Coexistence Patterns of Sympatric Black-and-white Snub-nosed Monkeys and Rhesus Monkeys in Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 56(3): 1133. doi: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20220615080617
Deng W, Zhang F, Fornacca D, and Xiao W (2023) Those nematode-trapping fungi that are not everywhere: Hints towards soil microbial biogeography. Journal of Microbiology 61(5): 511-523. doi: 10.1007/s12275-023-00043-7
Pansini R and Fornacca D (2021) Early Spread of COVID-19 in the Air-Polluted Regions of Eight Severely Affected Countries. Atmosphere 12(6): 795. doi: 10.3390/atmos12060795
Pansini R and Fornacca D (2020) COVID-19 higher mortality in Chinese Regions with chronic exposure to lower air quality. Frontiers in Public Health 8: 999. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.597753
Fornacca D, Ren GP, and Xiao W (2020) Small fires, frequent clouds, rugged terrain and no training data: a methodology to reconstruct fire history in complex landscapes. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30(2): 125-138. doi: 10.1071/WF20072
Li YP, Zhang LX, Gao Y, et al. (2019) Ecotourism in China, misuse or genuine development? An analysis based on map browser results. Sustainability 11(18): 4997. doi: 10.3390/su11184997
Fornacca D, Ren GP, and Xiao W (2018) Evaluating the best spectral indices for the detection of burn scars at several post-fire dates in a mountainous region of Northwest Yunnan, China. Remote Sensing 10(8): 1196. doi: 10.3390/rs10081196
Fornacca D, Ren GP, and Xiao W (2017) Performance of three MODIS fire products (MCD45A1, MCD64A1, MCD14ML), and ESA Fire_CCI in a mountainous area of Northwest Yunnan, China, characterized by frequent small fires. Remote Sensing 9(11): 1131. doi: 10.3390/rs9111131