Duccio Rocchini

Duccio Rocchini (born August 29, 1975) is an Italian ecologist and educator. Since 2019, he has been serving as a full professor at the University of Bologna and holds an honorary professorship at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague.

His career is marked by a commitment to ecology and biodiversity, having published over 200 papers in the field of ecology and beyond, with an H-index of 59 according to Google Scholar.

Rocchini created a package called "cblindplot" for the R programming language, which makes it easier for people with color blindness to interpret colorimetric maps.

He proposes the use of remote sensing for large-scale monitoring, presenting ''Rao's Q'' for analyzing remote sensing data. This approach overcomes the drawbacks of existing methods such as Shannon entropy, providing a tool for researchers when assessing biodiversity.

It emphasizes the spectral variation hypothesis (SVH), introducing "spectral species" through high-resolution remote sensing. The identification of separate spectral entities at landscape scales offered a direct approach to derive α- and β-diversity maps, improving understanding of biodiversity dynamics over large geographic areas.

He specializes in biodiversity analysis across multiple spatial scales, computational ecology, ecological informatics, mathematical ecology, remote sensing, spatial ecology, space-ecological modeling using open-source software, species distribution modeling, and theoretical ecology.

He is a member of the NASA group on Surface Biology and Geology (SBG). Provided by Wikipedia