Massimo Terzi
Role: Researcher
Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Bari
Tel: (39) 0805583400-212
E-mail: massimo.terzi@ibbr.cnr.it
Position : Research Scientist
2001- : Permanent position as Researcher at CNR - IBBR (ex-Germplasm Institute)
- PhD “Plant Biology and Ecology in Mediterranean Environment”, University of Catania, IT
- Postgraduate Specialized Training in “Energy and environmental management in industry”, CSEI / Polytechnic-University of Bari, IT
- Master’s degree in Natural Science, cum laude, University of Bari, IT
- Scientific high school degree, Inst. Di Cagno Abbrescia, Bari, IT
Position : Research Scientist
2001- : Permanent position as Researcher at CNR - IBBR (ex-Germplasm Institute
- - PhD “Plant Biology and Ecology in Mediterranean Environment”, University of Catania, IT
- - Postgraduate Specialized Training in “Energy and environmental management in industry”, CSEI / Polytechnic-University of Bari, IT
- - Master’s degree in Natural Science, cum laude, University of Bari, IT
- - Scientific high school degree, Inst. Di Cagno Abbrescia, Bari, IT
Main Research Interests
- Survey, classification and syntaxonomy of vegetation;
- Environmental and biogeographic pattern of plant communities;
- Phytosociological nomenclature;
- Phytodiversity in agroecosystems;
- Conservation of habitat and species (Natura 2000 network).
Section Editor for Acta Botanica Croatica (Phytosociology, Syntaxonomy and Phytosociological Nomenclature) and Reviewer for Acta Botanica Gallica (Botany Letters), Acta Botanica Croatica, Applied Vegetation Science, Hacquetia, Folia Geobotanica, Phytocoenologia, Plant Biosystems.
Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) and the following working groups: European Vegetation Survey (EVS), European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC), Working Group for Phytosociological Nomenclature della International Association for Vegetation Science, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), Vegetation Classification Working Group (VCWG).
List of selected papers
- Terzi, M., Bogdanović, S., D’Amico, F.S., Jasprica, N., 2020 Rare plant communities of the Vis Archipelago (Croatia), Botany Letters, 167:2, 241-254, DOI: 10.1080/23818107.2019.1684359
- Terzi, M., Ciaschetti, G., Fortini, P., Rosati, L., Viciani, D., Di Pietro, R., 2020. A revised phytosociological nomenclature for the Italian ’Quercus cerris’ woods. Mediterranean Botany, 41(1), 101-120. DOI: 10.5209/mbot.65052
- Dengler, J., et al. 2020. Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands. Journal of Biogeography, 47 (1): 72-86. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13697
- Di Pietro, R., Fortini, P., Ciaschetti, G., Rosati, L., Viciani, D., Terzi, M., 2020. A revision of the syntaxonomy of the Apennine-Balkan Quercus cerris and Q. frainetto forests and correct application of the name Melittio-Quercion frainetto, Plant Biosystems. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2019.1701127
- Tomaselli, V., Terzi, M., 2019. Rocky coastal vegetation of the Crithmo-Staticetea in the south-east of Italy. Acta Botanica Croatica, 78 (1): 46-56. DOI: 10.2478/botcro-2019-0007.
- F.S. D’Amico, G. Pazienza, M. Terzi. 2019. Physalis viscosa L. (Solanaceae). In: Galasso G. et al. Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 7. Italian Botanist 7: 157-182. https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.7.36386
- Terzi, M., Jasprica, N., Caković, D., Di Pietro, R. 2018. Revision of the central Mediterranean xerothermic cliff vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science 2018; 21: 514- 532. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12386
- Terzi, M., Jasprica, N., 2018. Syntaxonomic revision of chasmophytic vegetation of the Centaureo cuspidatae-Portenschlagiellion ramosissimae (Southeastern Adriatic), Plant Biosystems, 154:1, 9-16, DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2018.1549602
- Terzi, M., D’Amico F.S., 2018. Leontodon rosanoi (Ten.) DC. In: Bartolucci, F. et al. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 6. Italian Botanist 6: 45-64. https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.6.30575]
- Terzi M. & Jasprica N. 2018. Chasmophytic vegetation of the Centaureo cuspidatae-Portenschlagiellion ramosissimae (southeastern Adriatic, NE Mediterranean). Botanica Serbica 42, suppl. 1: 79
- Terzi, M., Jasprica, N., Caković D. & Di Pietro R. 2018. Xerothermic cliff vegetation of the central Mediterranean Basin. Botanica Serbica 42, suppl. 1: 79
- Terzi, M., Jasprica, N., Caković, D., 2017. Xerothermic chasmophytic vegetation of the central Mediterranean Basin: a nomenclatural revision. Phytocoenologia, 47 (4): 365 - 382. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0185
- Di Pietro, R., Terzi, M., Fortini, P., 2017. A revision of the high-altitude acidophilous and chionophilous grasslands of the Apennines (Peninsular Italy), a long-lasting intricate syntaxonomic issue. Phytocoenologia 47: 261-304. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0162
- Terzi, M., Di Pietro, R., Theurillat, J.-P., 2017. Proposal (21): to conserve the name Festucetalia valesiacae Braun-Blanquet et Tüxen ex Braun-Blanquet 1950 against the name Festucetalia Soó 1940. Phytocoenologia, 47 (3): 305-307; DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0186
- Theurillat J., Terzi M. & Di Pietro, R. 2017. Proposal (22): to conserve the name Mesobromion erecti (Braun-Blanquet & Moor 1938) Oberdorfer 1957 against the name Bromion erecti W. Koch 1926. Phytocoenologia, 47: 385-387. DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0187
- Fracchiolla M., Terzi M., D’Amico F.S., Tedone L., Cazzato E. 2017. Conservation and pastoral value of former arable lands in the agro-pastoral system of the Alta Murgia National Park (SE-Italy). Italian Journal of Agronomy 12: 124-132. DOI: 10.4081/ija.2017.847
- Jasprica, N. & Terzi, M. 2017 Limestone cliff vegetation of Portenschlagiello ramosissimae-Campanuletum portenschlagianae, Croatia. Nat. Croat. 26: 331-337. DOI: 10.20302/NC.2017.26.26
- Terzi, M., D’Amico F.S., Wagensommer RP. 2017. Piptatherum holciforme (M.Bieb.) Roem. & Schult. subsp. holciforme (Poaceae). In: Bartolucci et al. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 3. Italian Botanist 3: 29-48. https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.3.13200
- D’Amico, F.S., Terzi, M. 2017. Eragrostis virescens J. Presl subsp. virescens (Poaceae). In: Galasso et al. Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 3. Italian Botanist 3: 49-71. https://doi.org/10.3897/italianbotanist.3.13126
Selected Publications
(full list available at CNR People)
A revision of the syntaxonomy of the Apennine-Balkan Quercus cerris and Q. frainetto forests and correct application of the name Melittio-Quercion frainetto
Di Pietro R, Fortini P, Ciaschetti G, Rosati L, Viciani D, Terzi M
Year: 2020
A revised phytosociological nomenclature for the Italian Quercus cerris woods
Terzi M, Ciaschetti G, Fortini P, Rosati L, Viciani D, Di Pietro R
Year: 2020
Effetti di Ailanthus altissima sulla biodiversità del Parco Nazionale dell’Alta Murgia
Casella F, Terzi M
Year: 2019
Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands
Dengler J, Matthews TJ, Steinbauer MJ, Wolfrum S, Boch S, Chiarucci A, Conradi T, Dembicz I, Marcenò C, García-Mijangos I, Nowak A, Storch D, Ulrich W, Campos JA, Cancellieri L, Carboni M, Ciaschetti G, De Frenne P, Dolezal J, Dolnik C, Essl F, Fantinato E, Filibeck G, Grytnes J, Guarino R, Güler B, Janišová M, Klichowska E, Kozub Å, Kuzemko A, Manthey M, Mimet A, Naqinezhad A, Pedersen C, Peet RK, Pellissier V, Pielech R, Potenza G, Rosati L, Terzi M, Valkó O, Vynokurov D, White H, Winkler M, Biurrun I
Year: 2019
A new proposal of syntaxonomic framework for the Brachypodium rupestre communities in Italy
Di Pietro R, Fortini P, Ciaschetti G, Gianguzzi L, Rosati L, Terzi M
Year: 2019
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 7
Galasso G, Domina G, Ardenghi NM, Aristarchi C, Bacchetta G, Bartolucci F, Bonari G, Bouvet D, Brundu G, Buono S, Caldarella O, Calvia G, Cano-Ortiz A, Corti E, D’Amico F, D’Antraccoli M, Di Turi A, Dutto M, Fanfarillo E, Ferretti G, Fiaschi T, Ganz C, Guarino R, Iberite M, Laface VL, La Rosa A, Lastrucci L, Latini M, Lazzaro L, Lonati M, Lozano V, Luchino F, Magrini S, Mainetti A, Manca M, Mugnai M, Musarella CM, Nicolella G, Olivieri N, Orrù I, Pazienza G, Peruzzi L, Podda L, Prosser F, Ravetto Enri S, Restivo S, Roma-Marzio F, Ruggero A, Scoppola A, Selvi F, Spampinato G, Stinca A, Terzi M, Tiburtini M, Tornatore E, Vetromile R, Nepi C
Year: 2019
Floristic, ecological and chorological differentiation of Italian Quercus cerris woods
Rosati L, Viciani D, Terzi M, Ciaschetti G, Fortini P, Angiolini C, Armiraglio S, Caccianiga M, Ercole S, Foggi B, Gabellini A, Gennai M, Gigante D, Selvaggi A, Di Pietro R
Year: 2019
Rare plant communities of the Vis Archipelago (Croatia)
Terzi M, Bogdanović S, D’Amico FS, Jasprica N
Year: 2019
Amphi-Adriatic salt-sprayed rocky cliffs vegetation
Terzi M, Tomaselli V, Jasprica N
Year: 2019
Rocky coastal vegetation of the class Crithmo-Staticetea in the south-east of Italy
Tomaselli V, Terzi M
Year: 2019
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 6
Bartolucci F, Domina G, Ardenghi NM, Bacchetta G, Bernardo L, Buccomino G, Buono S, Caldararo F, Calvia G, Carruggio F, Cavagna A, D’amico FS, Di Carlo F, Festi F, Forte L, Galasso G, Gargano D, Gottschlich G, Lazzaro L, Magrini S, Maiorca G, Medagli P, Mei G, Mennini F, Mereu G, Miserocchi D, Olivieri N, Passalacqua NG, Pazienza G, Peruzzi L, Prosser F, Rempicci M, Roma-Marzio F, Ruggero A, Sani A, Saulle D, Steffanini C, Stinca A, Terzi M, Tondi G, Trenchi M, Viciani D, Wagensommer RP, Nepi C, Bartolucci F, Domina G, Ardenghi NM, Bacchetta G, Bernardo L, Buccomino G, Buono S, Caldararo F, Calvia G, Carruggio F, Cavagna A, D’amico FS, Di Carlo F, Festi F, Forte L, Galasso G, Gargano D, Gottschlich G, Lazzaro L, Magrini S, Maiorca G, Medagli P, Mei G, Mennini F, Mereu G, Miserocchi D, Olivieri N, Passalacqua NG, Pazienza G, Peruzzi L, Prosser F, Rempicci M, Roma-Marzio F, Ruggero A, Sani A, Saulle D, Steffanini C, Stinca A, Terzi M, Tondi G, Trenchi M, Viciani D, Wagensommer RP, Nepi C
Year: 2018
GrassPlot - a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands
Dengler J, Wagner V, Dembicz I, García-Mijangos I, Naqinezhad A, Boch S, Chiarucci A, Conradi T, Goffredo F, Guraino R, Janišová M, Steinbauer MJ, Aćić S, Acosta AT, Akasaka M, Allers MA, Apostolova I, Axmanová I, Bakan B, Baranova A, Bardy-Durchhalter M, Bartha S, Baumann E, Becker T, Becker U, Belonovskaya E, Bengtsson K, Benito Alonso JL, Berastegi A, Bergamini A, Bonini I, Bruun HH, Budzhak V, Bueno A, Campos JA
Year: 2018
Quercus pubescens forests in Italy. A syntaxonomical issue over three vegetation classes
Di Pietro R, Angiolini L, Armiraglio S, Caccianiga M, Ciaschetti G, Gigante D, Rosati L, Terzi M, Viciani D
Year: 2018
Floristic and phytosociological features of the Brachypodium rupestre communities in Italy
Fortini P, Caldarella O, Ciaschetti G, Gianguzzi L, Rosati L, Terzi M, Di Pietro R
Year: 2018
Chasmophytic vegetation of the Centaureo cuspidatae-Portenschlagiellion ramosissimae (south-eastern Adriatic, Mediterranean)
Terzi M, Jasprica N
Year: 2018
Syntaxonomic revision of chasmophytic vegetation of the Centaureo cuspidatae-Portenschlagiellion ramosissimae (Southeastern Adriatic)
Terzi M, Jasprica N
Year: 2018
Revision of the central Mediterranean xerothermic cliff vegetation
Terzi M, Jasprica N, Caković D, Di Pietro R
Year: 2018
Xerothermic cliff vegetation of the central Mediterranean basin
Terzi M, Jasprica N, Cakovic D, Di Pietro R
Year: 2018
Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 3
Bartolucci F, Domina G, Adorni M, Alessandrini A, Ardenghi NM, Banfi E, Baragliu GA, Bernardo L, Bertolli A, Biondi E, Carotenuto L, Casavecchia S, Cauzzi P, Conti F, Crisanti MA, D’amico FS, Di Cecco V, Di Martino L, Faggi G, Falcinelli F, Forte L, Galasso G, Gasparri R, Ghillani L, Gottschlich G, Guzzon F, Harpke D, Lastrucci L, Lattanzi E, Maiorca G, Marchetti D, Medagli P, Olivieri N, Pascale M, Passalacqua NG, Peruzzi L, Picollo S, Prosser F, Ricciardi M, Salerno G, Stinca A, Terzi M, Viciani D, Wagensommer RP, Nepi C
Year: 2017
A revision of the high-altitude acidophilous and chionophilous grasslands of the Apennines (Peninsular Italy), a long-lasting intricate syntaxonomic issue
Di Pietro R, Terzi M, Fortini P
Year: 2017
Conservation and pastoral value of former arable lands in the agro-pastoral system of the Alta Murgia National Park (Southern Italy)
Fracchiolla M, Terzi M, D’amico FS, Tedone L, Cazzato E
Year: 2017
Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 3
Galasso G, Domina G, Ardenghi NM, Assini S, Banfi E, Bartolucci F, Bigagli V, Bonari G, Bonivento E, Cauzzi P, D’amico FS, D’antraccoli M, Dinelli D, Ferretti G, Gennai M, Gheza G, Guiggi A, Guzzon F, Iamonico D, Iberite M, Latini M, Lonati M, Mei G, Nicolella G, Olivieri N, Peccenini S, Peraldo G, Perrino EV, Prosser F, Roma-Marzio F, Russo G, Selvaggi A, Stinca A, Terzi M, Tison JM, Vannini J, Verloove F, Wagensommer RP, Wilhalm T, Nepi C
Year: 2017
Limestone cliff vegetation of Portenschlagiello ramosissimae-Campanuletum portenschlagianae, Croatia
Jasprica N, Terzi M
Year: 2017
Proposal (21): to conserve the name Festucetalia valesiacae Br.-Bl. and Tx. ex Br.-Bl. 1950 against Festucetalia Soó 1940
Terzi M, Di Pietro R, Theurillat JP
Year: 2017
Xerothermic chasmophytic vegetation of the central Mediterranean Basin: a nomenclatural revision
Terzi M, Jasprica N, Caković D
Year: 2017
Proposal (22): to conserve the name Mesobromion erecti (Br.-Bl. & Moor 1938) Oberd. 1957 against the name Bromion erecti W. Koch 1926
Theurillat J-P, Terzi M, Di Pietro R
Year: 2017
Influence of different soil management practices on ground-flora vegetation in an almond orchard
Fracchiolla M, Terzi M, Frabboni L, Caramia D, Lasorella C, De Giorgio D, Montemurro P, Cazzato E
Year: 2016
Dry grasslands of Hippocrepido glaucae-Stipion austroitalicae in the Pollino Massif (Calabria, Italy)
Terzi M, D’Amico FS
Year: 2016
Dry grasslands of the Hippocrepido glaucae-Stipion austroitalicae in the Pollino Massif (Calabria, Italy)
Terzi M, D’Amico FS
Year: 2016
Nomenclatural remarks on the chasmophytic vegetation of the Centaureo - Campanuletalia
Terzi M, Di Pietro R
Year: 2016
Nomenclature of the class Festuco-Brometea in Italy and remarks on the interpretation of articles 1 and 2b ICPN
Terzi M, Di Pietro R, Theurillat JP
Year: 2016
Nomenclature and syntaxonomic notes on some high-rank syntaxa of the European grassland vegetation
Di Pietro R, Theurillat J-P, Capelo J, Fernández-González F, Terzi M, Carni A, Mucina L
Year: 2015
Notulae alla checklist della flora vascolare italiana: 2130. Thymus spinulosus Ten. (Lamiaceae)
Terzi M, Tomaselli V, Bartolucci F
Year: 2015
Notulae alla checklist della flora vascolare italiana: 2104. Anacyclus radiatus Loisel. subsp. radiatus (Asteraceae)
Tomaselli V, Terzi M
Year: 2015
Distribuzione, ecologia e stato di conservazione delle popolazioni a Stipa austroitalica Martinovský s.l. (specie di interesse comunitario) in Italia
Paura B, Caldarella O, Gianguzzi L, Terzi M, Uzunov D
Year: 2014
Numerical Analysis of the order Scorzoeneretalia villosae
Terzi M
Year: 2014
Notulae alla checklist della flora vascolare italiana
Tomaselli V, Terzi M
Year: 2014
Translating land cover/land use classifications to habitat taxonomies for landscape monitoring: a Mediterranean assessment
Tomaselli V, Dimopoulos P, Marangi C, Kallimanis AS, Adamo M, Tarantino C, Panitsa M, Terzi M, Veronico G, Lovergine F, Nagendra H, Lucas R, Mairota P, M
Year: 2013
Translating land cover/land use classifications to habitat taxonomies for landscape monitoring: a Mediterranean assessment
Tomaselli V, Dimopoulos P, Marangi C, Kallimanis AS, Adamo M, Tarantino C, Panitsa M, Terzi M, Veronico G, Lovergine F, Nagendra H, Lucas R, Mairota P, Mücher S, Blonda P
Year: 2013
Comparison of Land Cover/Land Use and Habitat classification systems for Habitat mapping from space: strengths and weaknesses evidenced in Mediterranean sites of Natura 2000 network
Tomaselli V, Dimopoulos P, Marangi C, Kallimanis AS, Adamo M, Tarantino C, Panitsa M, Terzi M, Veronico G, Lovergine F, Nagendra H, Lucas R, Mairota P, Mà¼cher CA, Blonda P
Year: 2013
Characterization of plant diversity of pastures and volatile organic compound (voc) analysis in ewe’s milk from a typical farm system in the Alta Murgia National Park (Southern Italy): opportunities for a sustainable land use
Ciani E, Tedone L, Terzi M, De Cillis FM, Castellana E, Fracchiolla M
Year: 2012
Nomenclatural Revision for the Order Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia
Terzi M
Year: 2011
Analisi delle specie Indicatrici applicata alle comunità a Stipa austroitalica Martinovsky e relative problematiche sintassonomiche
Terzi M, Di Pietro R, D’Amico
Year: 2010
Application of Indicator Species Analysis to communities with Stipa austroitalica Martinovsky and relevant syntaxonomic problems
Terzi M, Di Pietro R, D’Amico FS
Year: 2010
Chasmophytic vegetation of the class Asplenietea trichomanis in south-eastern Italy
Terzi M, D’Amico FS
Year: 2008