Scientific Journals Publications

Bragazza L., Siffi C., Iacumin P. & Gerdol R. 2010: Seasonal variation in nitrogen isotopic composition of bog plant litter during three years of field decomposition. Biology and Fertility of Soils 46: 877-881.

Bragazza L. & P. Iacumin, 2009: Seasonal variation in carbon isotopic composition of bog plant litter during three years of field decomposition. Biology and Fertility of Soils 46: 73-77.

Bragazza L., 2009: Conservation priority of Italian Alpine habitats: a floristic approach based on potential distribution of vascular plant species. Biodiversity and Conservation 18: 2823-2835.

Bragazza L., 2008: A climatic threshold triggers the die-off of peat mosses during an extreme heat wave. Global Change Biology 14: 2688-2695.

Bragazza L. & C. Freeman, 2007: High nitrogen availability reduces polyphenol content in Sphagnum peat. Science of the Total Environment 377: 439-443.

Bragazza L., C. Siffi, P. Iacumin & R. Gerdol, 2007: Mass loss and nutrient release during litter decay in peatland: the role of microbial adaptability to litter chemistry. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39: 257-267.

Bragazza L., C. Freeman, T. Jones, H. Rydin, J. Limpens, N. Fenner, T. Ellis, R. Gerdol, M. Hájek, T. Hájek, P. Iacumin, L. Kutnar, T. Tahvanainen & H. Toberman, 2006: Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 51 (103): 19386-19389.

Bragazza L., 2006: A decade of plant species changes on a mire in the Italian Alps: vegetation-controlled or climate-driven mechanisms? Climatic Change 77: 415-429.

Bragazza L., 2006: Heavy metals in bog waters: an alternative way to assess atmospheric precipitation quality? Global and Planetary Change 53: 290-298.

Bragazza L., J. Limpens, R. Gerdol, P. Grosvernier, M. Hájek, T. Hájek, P. Hajkova, I. Hansen, P. Iacumin, L. Kutnar, H. Rydin & T. Tahvanainen, 2005: Nitrogen concentration and δ15N signature of ombrotrophic Sphagnum mosses at different N deposition levels in Europe. Global Change Biology 11: 106-114.

Bragazza L., H. Rydin & R. Gerdol, 2005: Multiple gradients in mire vegetation - a comparison of a Swedish and an Italian bog. Plant Ecology 177: 223-236.

Bragazza L., T. Tahvanainen, L. Kutnar, H. Rydin, J. Limpens, M. Hájek, P. Grosvernier, T. Hájek, P. Hajkova, I. Hansen, P. Iacumin & R. Gerdol, 2004: Nutritional constraints in ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants under increasing atmospheric nitrogen depositions in Europe. New Phytologist 163: 609-616.

Bragazza L. & J. Limpens, 2004: Dissolved organic nitrogen dominates in European bogs under increasing atmospheric N deposition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GB4018, doi: 10.1029/2004GB002267.

Bragazza L., R. Gerdol & H. Rydin, 2003: Effects of mineral and nutrient input on mire bio-geochemistry in two geographical regions. Journal of Ecology 91(3): 417-426.

Bragazza L. & R. Gerdol, 2002: Does the gradient in nutrient availability coincide with the acidity-alkalinity gradient in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands? Journal of Vegetation Science 13: 473-482.

Bragazza L. & R. Gerdol, 1999: Ecological gradients in some Sphagnum mires in the south-eastern Alps (Italy). Applied Vegetation Science 2: 55-60.

Bragazza L. & R. Gerdol, 1999: Hydrology, groundwater chemistry, and peat chemistry in relation to habitat condition in a mire on the South-eastern Alps of Italy. Plant Ecology 144: 243-256.

Bragazza L., 1998: Spatial pattern of plant species in a poor mire on the southern Alps (Italy). Plant Biosystems 133(1): 83-92.

Bragazza L., R. Alber & R. Gerdol, 1998: Seasonal chemistry of pore water in hummocks and hollows in a poor mire in the southern Alps (Italy). Wetlands 18(3):320-328.

Bragazza L., 1997: Sphagnum niche diversification in two oligotrophic mires in the Southern Alps of Italy. The Bryologist 100(4): 507-515.

Bragazza L., 1996: Delimitation of the aerobic peat layer in a Sphagnum mire on the southern Alps. Oecologia Montana 5: 41-46.

Bragazza L. & R. Gerdol, 1996: Response surfaces of plant species along water-table depth and water pH gradients in a poor mire on the southern Alps. Annales Botanici Fennici 33: 11-20.

Bragazza L. & G. Vardanega, 1995: Alcune interessanti segnalazioni floristiche per il Massiccio del Grappa (Prealpi Venete). Museo Trentino di Scienze Naturali, Acta Biologica 70: 177-180.

Bragazza L., 1993: Seasonal changes in water chemistry in a bog on the southern Alps. Suo 44: 87-92.

Zaccone C., G. Casiello, F. Longobardi, L. Bragazza, A. Sacco & T.M. Miano, 2011: Evaluating the ‘conservative’ behavior of stable isotopic ratios (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, and δ¹⁸O) in humic acids and their reliability as paleoenvironmental proxies along a peat sequence. Chemical Geology 285: 124-132.

Limpens J., G. Granath,U. Gunnarsson, R. Aerts, S. Bayley, L. Bragazza, J. Bubier, A. Buttler, L.J.L. van den Berg, A.-J. Francez, R. Gerdol, P. Grosvernier, M.M.P.D. Heijmans, M.R. Hoosbeek, S. Hotes, M. Ilomets, I. Leith, E.A.D. Mitchell, T. Moore, M.B. Nilsson, J-F. Nordbakken, L. Rochefort, H. Rydin, L.J. Sheppard, M. Thormann, M.M. Wiedermann, B.L. Williams, B. Xu, 2011: Climatic modifiers of the response to nitrogen deposition in peat-forming Sphagnum mosses: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 191: 496-507.

Jiroušek M., Hájek M. & Bragazza L., 2011: Nutrient stoichiometry in Sphagnum along a nitrogen deposition gradient in highly polluted region of Central-East Europe. Environmental Pollution 159: 585-590.

Siegenthaler A., Buttler A., Bragazza L., van der Heijden E., Grosvernier P., Gobat JM, Mitchell EAD, 2010: Litter- and ecosystem-driven decomposition under elevated CO₂ and enhanced N deposition in a Sphagnum peatland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42: 968-977.

Gerdol R., Bragazza L. & Brancaleoni L., 2008: Heatwave 2003: high summer temperature, rather than experimental fertilization, affects vegetation and CO₂ exchange in an alpine bog. New Phytologist 179:142-154.

Gerdol R., A. Petraglia, L. Bragazza, P. Iacumin & L. Brancaleoni, 2007: Nitrogen deposition interacts with climate in affecting production and decomposition rates in Sphagnum mosses. Global Change Biology 13: 1810-1821.

Gerdol R. & L. Bragazza, 2006: Effects of altitude on element accumulation in alpine moss. Chemosphere 64: 810-816.

Gerdol R., L. Bragazza & L. Brancaleoni, 2005: Microbial nitrogen cycling interacts with exogenous nitrogen supply in affecting growth of Sphagnum papillosum. Environmental and Experimental Botany 57: 1-8.

Mitchell E.A.D., L. Bragazza & R. Gerdol, 2004: Testate amoebae (Protista) communities in Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) B.S.G. (Bryophyta): relationships with altitude, and moss elemental chemistry. Protist 155: 423-436.

Gerdol R., T. Anfodillo, M. Gualmini, N. Cannone, L. Bragazza & L. Brancaleoni, 2004. Biomass distribution of two subalpine dwarf-shrubs in relation to soil moisture and nutrient content. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 457-464.

Gerdol R., L. Bragazza, R. Marchesini, A. Medici, P. Pedrini, S. Benedetti, R. Bovolenta & S. Coppi, 2002: Use of moss (Tortula muralis Hedw.) as biomonitors of organic and inorganic air pollution in urban and rural areas in N Italy. Atmospheric Environment 36: 4069-4075.

Gerdol R., L. Bragazza & R. Marchesini, 2001: Elemental concentrations in the forest moss Hylocomium splendens: a variation associated with altitude, net primary production and soil chemistry. Environmental Pollution 116: 129-135.

Gerdol R. & L. Bragazza, 2001: Syntaxonomy and community ecology of mires in the Rhaetian Alps (Italy). Phytocoenologia 31(2): 271-299.

Gerdol R., L. Bragazza, R. Marchesini, R. Alber, L. Bonetti, G. Lorenzoni, M. Achilli, A. Buffoni, N. De Marco, M. Franchi, S. Pison, S. Giaquinta, F. Palmieri & P. Spezzano, 1999: Monitoring of heavy metals deposition in Northern Italy by moss analysis. Environmental Pollution 108: 201-208.

Gerdol R. & L. Bragazza, 1994: The distribution of Sphagnum species along an elevational gradient in the southern Alps (Italy). Botanica Helvetica 104: 93-101

Chapters in books

Bragazza L., Buttler A., Siegenthaler A. & Mitchell E.A.D. (2009): Plant litter decomposition and nutrient release in peatlands. In: “Carbon cycling in Northern Peatlands” (Eds: Baird A., Belyea L., Comas X. et al). Geophysical Monograph Series 184, pp. 99-110.

Bragazza L. (2006): Consequences of increasing levels of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on ombrotrophic peatlands: a plant-based perspective. In: “Peatlands: evolution and records of environmental and climate changes” (Eds: Martini I.P., Martinez-Cortizas A. & Chesworth W.). Elsevier, pp. 271-285.

Workshops (on invitation)

“Why is there peat?”, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 26-29 March 2008, Villanova - Philadelphia (USA).

“Sphagnum peatlands and long-range transboundary atmospheric pollutions”, 17-19 June 2011, Montbéliard (France).

“Peatlands and global change: effects of environmental changes on biogeochemistry”, Convener and Chairman, 12^th Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium, 3-8 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.

Papers published in Conference Proceedings

Bragazza, L. 1995. Delimitation of the aerobic peat layer in a Sphagnum mire on the southern Alps. Current Techniques in the Alpine Ecological Research II, 27-30 August 1995, Stara Lesna, High Tatra, Slovakia.

Bragazza, L. & Gerdol, R. 1998. The role of ecological gradients in species segregation in nutrient-poor mires on the southern Alps in Italy. In: Sjögren, E., van der Maarel, E. & Pokarzhevskaya, G. (eds.) Vegetation science in retrospective and perspective (Abstracts). Studies in Plant Ecology 20: pp. 71. 41^st IAVS Symposium, 26 July - 1 August, Uppsala, Sweden.

Bragazza, L. & Gerdol, R. 2000. The poor-rich gradient in Sphagnum mires: vegetation patterns and ecological mechanisms. 6^th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference, 6-12 August 2000, Québec City, Canada.

Bragazza, L., Gerdol, R. & Rydin, H. 2001. Control of mineral and nutrient availability in bogs: a comparison between an Italian and a Swedish site. Changing Wetlands: new developments in wetland Science. University of Sheffield, 11-13 September 2001, Sheffield, UK.

Bragazza, L., Tahvanainen T., Kutnar L., Gerdol, R., Money R. & Rydin H. 2002. Nitrogen and 15N content in Sphagnum at different levels of atmospheric depositions in Europe: how effective is the filtering ability of Sphagnum? Third International Symposium on the Biology of Sphagnum. Uppsala (S) - Trondheim (N), 13-21 August 2002.

Bragazza, L., Rydin, H. & Gerdol, R. 2003. Hydrological regime and effects on environmental conditions in a Swedish and an Italian bog. 46^th Symposium of the International Association of Vegetation Science, June 8 to 14, 2003, Naples (Italy).

Bragazza L., J. Limpens, R. Gerdol, P. Grosvernier, M. Hájek, T. Hájek, P. Hajkova, I. Hansen, P. Iacumin, L. Kutnar, H. Rydin & T. Tahvanainen. 2004. The consequences of increased atmospheric N inputs on N retention ability of ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants in Europe. 7^th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference, 25-30 July 2004, Utrecht (The Netherlands).

Bragazza L., Tahvanainen T., K.utnar L., Rydin H., Limpens J., Hájek M., Hájek T., Grosvernier P., Iacumin P. & Gerdol R. 2004. Nutrient limitation in ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants: what are the consequences of an increasing nitrogen availability? 32^nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, August 20-28, 2004.

Bragazza L. 2005. A comparison of heavy metal concentrations in bog waters and in the moss Hylocomium splendens: similar conclusions on atmospheric precipitation quality? 7^th International Conference on Acid Deposition, Prague (Czech Republic), June 12-17, 2005.

Bragazza L. & Freeman C. 2006. Increasing nitrogen deposition and peat decomposition in European bogs: from C sinks to C sources? 1^st Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists - Europe, 5^th-7^th January 2006, Bangor, Wales, UK.

Bragazza L., Siffi C. & Gerdol R. 2007. Decomposability, nutrient release and isotopic changes in vascular plant and Sphagnum litter. First International Symposium on Carbon in Peatlands. 15-18 April 2007, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Bragazza L., Mitchell E.A.D., Buttler A. 2009. Seasonal nutrient partitioning between microbes and plants in peat bogs. 6^th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior BIOGEOMON 2009, June 29 - July 3, 2009, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Bragazza L., Mitchell E.A.D. & Buttler A. 2010. Aboveground and belowground feedbacks for nutrient acquisition in bogs: responses to climate change. Latsis 2010, International Symposium on Ecohydrology, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, October 17-20, 2010.

Robroek BJM, Hefting MM, Bragazza L, Dise NB & Verhoeven JTA. 2011. Microtopographic and regional differences in nitrogen availability, and its concurrent role on the peatland plant community. Joint Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, WETPOL and Wetland Biogeochemical Symposium, 3-8 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.