BIASI Rita

Professore Associato 
Settore scientifico disciplinare di riferimento  (AGR/03)
Ateneo Università degli Studi della TUSCIA 
Struttura di afferenza Dipartimento di DIBAF - Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali 

Orari di ricevimento

Ricevimento Primo semestre aa 24/25 Su appuntamento Mercoledì-Giovedì - Sede didattica Polo Agraria Viterbo Su appuntamento Lunedì-Martedì - Facoltà Architettura, Sapienza - via Gianturco 4 Roma

Curriculum

Actual position • Associate professor (Disciplinary-Scientific-Sector AGRI/03 A , Arboriculture and Fruitculture) at the Department of Innovation in the Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), Tuscia University Italy. • PhD in Tree crops (1989) and Agronomist (1989_) • National Scientific Qualification for Full professor sector 07/B2 (Science and Technology of Arboreal and Forestry Systems) (2018_) • Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD program in ‘Landscape and Environment’, Sapienza University of Rome (2013_) • Teacher of the courses: Tree crop systems, Viticulture, Urban agriculture and landscape in the Bachelor degree courses (Joint Degree course Tuscia/Sapienza in Landscape, Environmental Planning and Design; Degree course in Food and Wine Technologies, Tuscia University) and in the Master degree course (Joint Degree Course in Landscape Architecture, Sapienza/Tuscia) • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Interuniversity Research Center "Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability" (CIRBISES) (2022_) • Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and of the Italian Society for Horticultural Science (SOI-HS) (2004_) • Aggregate member of the Academy of Georgofili (2017_). • Coordinator of the Working Group “Agrosystems and Landscapes” of the Italian Society for Horticultural Science (SOI) (2016_) • Member of the Executive Board in the European Network of Universities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention - UNISCAPE (2024_) Academic formation Master Degree in Agricultural Science, University of Bologna (110/110 cum laude) (1983). Graduate research fellowship (1984-1985), University of Bologna. Attendance of the Ph.D program (1986-1989) in Tree crops at the University of Bologna and the University of California, Davis (USA) University researcher, University of Udine (1990-1992) Associate professor (1992-1999), University of Basilicata Associate professor at the Tuscia University (1999_) Recent Academic activity A.Y. 2010/2013 - Member of Scientific Committee of the PhD program in ‘Environment and Landscape design and management’ by the Sapienza University of Rome; A.Y. 2017/2019 -Member of the Didactic Committee of Master in Landscape Design (University Consortium for Socioeconomic Research and the Environment (CURSA), UNISCAPE and the Architect Simonetta Bastelli Cultural Association. A.Y. 2015/2021 -President of the Bachelor Degree in Landscape, Environmental Planning and Design (Joint Degree Course Sapienza University of Rome-Tuscia University) A.Y. 2021/2022- Coordinator of the 1st International Summer School “Food, Landscapes and Ecosystems to Design Sustainable Future, 12-25 June 2022 Alpine Study Center (CSALP) Tuscia University A.Y. 2023/2024 – Coordinator of the 2nd International Summer School – Erasmus + Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) “Food, Landscapes and Ecosystems to Design Sustainable Future- Integrated landscape management for marginal areas”, 8-19 July 2024 Alpine Study Center (CSALP) Tuscia University Research activity The research focuses on environmental and landscape issues related to tree crop systems in both rural and urban areas. Studies aim to assess the productive and ecosystem services provided by traditional and modern agricultural systems while identifying strategies for sustainable intensification in the context of ongoing environmental changes. Particular attention is given to the biological and cultural significance of landscapes shaped by traditional Mediterranean agriculture. Research also evaluates land degradation risks to optimize plant-environment interactions, preserve agro-biodiversity, and maintain landscape complexity in vulnerable areas such as inner marginal territories and peri-urban zones. Additionally, the research addresses the grape-wine sector, including territorial zoning, the environmental impacts of viticulture, the valorization of native biodiversity, the structure and function of viticultural landscapes, vineyard multifunctionality, and precision vineyard management in response to climate change and sustainability challenges. The research further explores the design of productive landscapes in urban open spaces. Main research responsibilities - Agritech – National Center for Technology in Agriculture 2022-2025, PNRR Spoke 7 “Integrated models for the development of marginal areas to promote multifunctional production systems enhancing agroecological and socio-economic sustainability” , Task 7.1.4 Living lab and case studies for the transition towards agro-ecology and climatic neutrality in marginal areas and/or at risk of erosion (36 month – Project participant) - Lazio Innova- POR FESR Lazio 2014-2020. Project T0002E0001 (2021-2023). "Projects Research Groups 2020" (B.U.R. Lazio N.93 suppl.1 del 23/07/2020). "Biotech applied to mycorrhization of vines in the nursery and systems for detecting the performance of mycorrhized plants in vineyards on a geomatic basis" (MICOVIT) (24 months - Project coordinator); - EU Commission - LIFE 2019 Environment and Resource Efficiency. (2020-2023) “Precision Agriculture System to limit the impact on the environment, on health and on air quality of grape production - WINEgROVER” (LIFE ENV/IT/0000339) (36 months - Member U.O. and Coordinator Advisory Board); - Project PSR (Rural Development Program) Latium region 2020 (2020-2021) (PSR_2014/2020 - Measure 16.1 “Support for the establishment and management of the Operational Groups of PEI on agricultural productivity and sustainability") " Urban agriculture for a resilient and inclusive metropolitan city: short chain for the enhancement of agricultural production in parks and nature reserves in Rome and surrounding areas” (24 month - Project coordinator); - Project ERASMUS International Credit Mobility KA107 program between the Tuscia University and the Universidad National de Chilecito (UNdeC), La Rioja Argentina (Educational sector: Environment, natural resources and sustainability) (2022_) (36 months- Academic manager); - PSR (Rural Development Program) Umbria region (2018-2020) (PSR_2014 / 2020 - Measure 16 “Cooperation” - Intervention 16.2.2) - “Innovation for the defense and quality of wine production in the scenario of the next environmental emergencies” (18 months – Research Unit scientific manager); - PRIN (Research Project of National Interest) (2010-2011)- “Traditional landscapes of Italian agriculture: definition of a multidisciplinary and multiscale interpretative model aimed at planning and management” (36 months – Research Unit manager); - Regional project APQ grape-wine Supply Chain Project, SQF VS Project, CONVISAR (2008-2011) - "Identification, restoration and enhancement of multifunctional viticultural landscape systems in the Sardinia region" (18 months – Research Unit Manager); - PRIN (Research Project of National Interest) (2007) – “Traditional landscapes of Italian arboriculture: methodology for cataloging and evaluation” (36 months - Research Unit manager). Other activities - Scientific manager of the research activities in the experimental grapevine collection and vineyard in the Museum Botanical Garden of Rome (Sapienza University) (2020_). - Component of the Expert Board Interregional Roundtable expert Meeting under the European project CREAHLANDS (Creative Management of Heritage and Rural Landscape) funded by ERASMUS (Registry number 2020-1-ES01-KA227-ADU-094976) (2022-2023) - Member of the Scientific Committee of the • ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science), International Symposium on Greener Cities for More Efficient Ecosystem Services in a Climate Changing World | 12-15 Sept 2017, Bologna (Italy) • Third International ISHS Symposium on Greener Cities: Improving Ecosystem Services in a Climate-Changing World | 25-28 Sept 2024 | RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey (UK) • 1st Porto Urban Greening Biennal on Planting the Living City |17-18 Oct 2024 | Porto (Portugal) Peer reviewer of national and international journals; Editor of the MDPI journal Sustainability – Special Issue “Soil Ecosystem Services, Land Planning, Landscape Design and Management”; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal “Paesaggi – Città Natura Infrastrutture”, Franco Angeli Editore. Publications in Scopus Total number of publications in peer-review journals (Scopus): 51 Total number of citations: 929 H index: 17 Main Publications (2015_) Biasi R., Collotti F.V., Baia Curioni S. (2024). Returning to Integrated Landscape Management as an Approach to Counteract Land Degradation in Small Mediterranean Islands: The Case Study of Stromboli (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). Land 13, 1949. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/land13111949 Catalani A., Brunori E., Chilosi G., Bernardini A., Vanino S., Migliore M., Farina R., Biasi R. (2024). Soil Traits and Grapevine Rootstock Genotypes Modulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Rate and Species in a Mediterranean Environment. Agriculture 14, 1425. https:// doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081425 Biasi R., Brunori E. (2023). Agrobiodiversity-Based Landscape Design in Urban Areas. Plants, 12 (24), art. no. 4121. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12244121 Biasi R., Brunori E., Vanino S., Bernardini A., Catalani A., Farina R., Bruno A., Chilosi G. (2023). Soil Plant Interaction Mediated by Indigenous AMF in Grafted and Own-rooted Grapevines under Field Condition. Agriculture (Switzerland), 13 (5), art. no. 1051. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13051051 Barbera G., Biasi R. (2023). The landscape of olive tree: Old and new visions. In: The Olive: Botany and Production, (Fabbri A., Baldoni L., Caruso T. Eds) Pages 658 – 671, CABI Publisher, ISBN 1789247330. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789247350.0028 Brunori E., Bernardini A., Moresi F.V., Attorre F., Biasi R. (2022). Ecophysiological Response of Vitis vinifera L. in an Urban Agrosystem: Preliminary Assessment of Genetic Variability. Plants, 11 (22), art. no. 3026. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11223026 Biasi R., Brunori E., Moresi F.V., Maesano M., Cipriani F., Carpentieri S., Rossetti L., Attorre F. (2022). Resilience and resistance of viticultural biodiversity in the urban ecosystem: the case of the grapevine collection of the Botanical Garden of Rome. Acta Horticulturae, 1345, pp. 75-82. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2022.1345.10 Brunori E., Moresi F.V., Maesano M., De Horatis M., Salvati R., Mugnozza G.S., Biasi R. (2022). Field survey and UAV remote sensing as tools for evaluating the canopy management effects in smallholder grapevine farm. BIO Web of Conferences, 44, art. no. 05001. https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20224405001 Pasinetti S., Maesano M., Brunori E., Moresi F.V., Bernardini A., Cirenei P., Biasi R. (2022). Introducing on-the-go sensing rover for vines canopy abiotic stressors detection 2022 IEEE Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry, MetroAgriFor 2022 - Proceedings, pp. 208-212. Biasi R., Farina R., Brunori E. (2021). Family Farming Plays an Essential Role in Preserving Soil Functionality: A Study on Active Managed and Abandoned Traditional Tree Crop-Based Systems. Sustainability vol. 13, ISSN: 2071-1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073967 Sarlak M., Ferretti L.V., Biasi R. (2021). The productive landscape in the desert margin for the sustainable development of rural settlements: An innovative greenbelt for Maranjab desert in Iran. Sustainability, Vol. 13, Issue 4, Pages 1 – 212 Article number 2077. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042077 Brunori E., Maesano M., Moresi F.V., Matteucci G., Biasi R., Scarascia Mugnozza G. (2020). The hidden land conservation benefits of olive-based (Olea europaea L.) landscapes: An agroforestry investigation in the southern Mediterranean (Calabria region, Italy). Land Degradation & Development, vol. 31, p. 801- 815, ISSN: 1085-3278. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3484 Biasi R., Brunori E., Ferarra C., Salvati L. (2019). Assessing impacts of climate change on phenology and quality traits of Vitis vinifera L.: The contribution of local knowledge. Plants, vol. 8, p. 1-18, ISSN: 2223-7747, . https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8050121 Marchi M., Ferrara C., Biasi R., Salvia R., Salvati L. (2018). Agro-Forest Management and Soil Degradation in Mediterranean Environments: Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Land Use in Vineyard and Olive Cropland. Sustainability, vol. 10, p. 1-8, ISSN: 2071-1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072565 Brunori E., Salvati L., Antogiovanni A., Biasi R. (2018). Worrying about 'vertical landscapes': Terraced olive groves and ecosystem services in marginal land in central Italy. Sustainability, vol. 10, p. 1-20, ISSN: 2071-1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041164 Biasi R., Brunori E., Ferrara C., Salvati L. (2017). Towards sustainable rural landscapes? a multivariate analysis of the structure of traditional tree cropping systems along a human pressure gradient in a Mediterranean region. Agroforestry Systems, vol. 91, p. 1199-1217, ISSN: 0167-4366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-016-0006-0. Ferrara A., Salvati L., Sateriano A., Carlucci M., Gitas I., Biasi R. (2016). Unraveling the ‘stable’ landscape: a multi-factor analysis of unchanged agricultural and forest land (1987–2007) in a rapidly-expanding urban region. Urban Ecosystems, vol. 19, p. 835-848, ISSN: 1083-8155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-015-0509-x Brunori E., Farina R., Biasi R. (2016). Sustainable viticulture: The carbon-sink function of the vineyard agro-ecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, vol. 233, p. 10-21, ISSN: 0167-8809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.02.012. Biasi R., Brunori E., Smiraglia D., Salvati L. (2015). Linking traditional tree-crop landscapes and agro-biodiversity in central Italy using a database of typical and traditional products: a multiple risk assessment through a data mining analysis. Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 24, p. 3009-3031, ISSN: 0960-3115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0994-5 Biasi R., Brunori E. (2015). The on-farm conservation of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) landraces assures the habitat diversity in the viticultural agro-ecosystem. Vitis, vol. 54, p. 265-269, ISSN: 0042-7500