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Curriculum Vitae

 

name: Franco Pedrotti

 

residence: Camerino, Italy

 

interests and expertise: nature conservation; plant sociology and geobotany; protected areas; publishing                       

 

environmental organisations: Founder member of IYF in 1956 - Movimento Italiano Protezione Natura, and organiser of the 2nd IYF General Assembly in Gran Paradiso, 1957; President of the Italian Botanical Society 1982-1990

 

educational qualifications: PhD in Botany

 

profession (current): Professor Emeritus, University of Camerino 

 

profession (previous): lecturer and professor - Milan, Padova, Catania, Ferrara and Camerino                                                                                                                                  

publications, conferences, etc.

- over 500 scientific publications, including Plant and Vegetation Mapping, Springer. 2013;

- joint editor (1982-2007) of the journal Documents Phytosociologiques;

- editor-in-chief and publisher of the Braun-Blanquetia series, 1984-2012 (now Geobotany Studies, Springer);

- founder in 1970 of the Torricchio Nature Reserve (350 hectares) in the central Apennines;

- research on vegetation in various parts of Italy, as well as Poland, Romania, Siberia and Bolivia