Enrico Tordoni

Enrico Tordoni is a Researcher in Macroecology at the University of Tartu's Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences since 2021. His work focuses on integrating species traits, evolutionary biology, and species interactions to analyze biodiversity loss under global change, with particular emphasis on plant communities and alien species impacts across spatial scales. He actively contributes to dark diversity research, functional trait analysis, and habitat suitability modeling.

• Education: PhD in Ecology (2018) from the University of Trieste under Prof. Giovanni Bacaro
• Current Projects: Leading BIODECODE (2025-2029) on Anthropocene biodiversity changes; Co-investigator in agroecology and global change forecasting projects.

His research combines long-term ecological data with trait-based methodologies to address:

• Climate extremes' effects on plant communities
• Xylem embolism and drought-induced urban tree decline
• Spectral diversity for functional pattern detection
• Methodological improvements in species distribution modeling

He supervises two doctoral candidates and collaborates extensively with researchers in biodiversity informatics and ecological network analysis.