PUBLICATIONS

Hallett, R.A., Piana, M.R., Johnson, M.L. and Brandt, L.A., 2024. Climate change and urban forests. In Future Forests (pp. 243-264). Elsevier.

Romanelli, J.P., Piana, M.R., Klaus, V.H., Brancalion, P.H., Murcia, C., Cardou, F., Wallace, K.J., Adams, C., Martin, P.A., Burton, P.J. and Diefenderfer, H.L., 2024. Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration. Biological Reviews, 99(1), pp.295-312.

Piana, M.R., Pevzner, N. and Hallett, R.A., 2023. Beyond the axe: Interdisciplinary approaches towards an urban silviculture. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18(1), pp.70-81.

Hahs, A.K., Fournier, B., Aronson, M.F., [and 19 others, including Piana, M.R], 2023. Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide. Nature Communications, 14(1), p.4751. 

Brown, J.A., Lockwood, J.L., Piana, M.R. and Beardsley, C., 2023. Introduction of artificial light at night increases the abundance of predators, scavengers, and parasites in arthropod communities. Iscience, 26(3).

Meixler, M.S., Piana, M.R. and Henry, A., 2023. Modeling present and future ecosystem services and environmental justice within an urban-coastal watershed. Landscape and Urban Planning, 232, p.104659.

Rega-Brodsky, C.C., Aronson, M.F., Piana, M.R.., [and 15 others], 2022. Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions. Urban Ecosystems, 25(4), pp.1083-1096. 

Piana, M.R., Hallett, R.A., Johnson, M., [and 12 others], 2021. Climate adaptive silviculture for the city: Practitioners and researchers co-create a framework for studying urban oak-dominated mixed hardwood forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, p.750495. 

Piana, M.R., Pregitzer, C.C. and Hallett, R.A., 2021. Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(9), pp.526-535.

Piana, M.R., Hallett, R.A., Aronson, M.F., Conway, E. and Handel, S.N., 2021. Natural regeneration in urban forests is limited by early‐establishment dynamics: implications for management. Ecological Applications, 31(2), p.e02255.

Knapp, S., Aronson, M.F., Carpenter, E., [and 20 others, including Piana, M.R], 2021. A research agenda for urban biodiversity in the global extinction crisis. BioScience, 71(3), pp.268-279.

Piana, M.R., Aronson, M.F.J., Pickett, S.T.A., & Handel, S.N. 2019. Plants in the city: understanding recruitment dynamics in urban landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17(8):455-463.

Piana, M.R., Aronson, M.F.J., Pickett, S.T.A., and Handel, S.N. (2019). Plants in the city: understanding recruitment dynamics in urban landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(8):455-463.

Aronson, M.F.J., M.R. Piana, J.S. MacIvor, and C.C. Pregitzer. (2018). Management of plant diversity in urban green spaces. In A. Ossola and J. Niemelä (eds), Urban Biodiversity: From Research to Practice. Taylor & Francis.

Piana, M.R., & Carlisle, S. (2015). Green Roof Plant Assemblage and Dynamics. In Green Roof Ecosystems (pp. 285-310). Springer International Publishing.

Piana, M. R., & Carlisle, S. C. (2014). Green roofs over time: a spatially explicit method for studying green roof vegetative dynamics and performance. Cities and the Environment (CATE), 7(2), 1.

Piana, M.R. & Troxel, B. (2014). Beyond Planting: An Urban Forestry Primer. Scenario Journal.

Carlisle, S. and Piana, M.R. (2013). Growing resilience: long-term plant dynamics and green roof performance. In Cities Alive, 11th annual green roof and wall conference, San Franciso, October (pp. 23-26).

Troxel, B., Piana, M.R., Ashton, M. S., & Murphy-Dunning, C. (2013). Relationships between bole and crown size for young urban trees in the northeastern USA. Urban forestry & urban greening, 12(2).

Jack-Scott, E., Piana, M.R., Troxel, B., Murphy-Dunning, C., & Ashton, M. S. (2013). Stewardship success: how community group dynamics affect urban street tree survival and growth. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry, 39(4), 189-196.