Dr Francesco Parisi joins Annals of Forest Science as new associate editor

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, Italy.
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.