Luca Malatesta

Luca Malatesta is a plant ecologist working in the fields of environmental conservation and systemic land use planning. He collaborated with international cooperation projects in Socotra Island (Yemen), Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland, for pastoral systems management, (semi-)arid grasslands biodiversity conservation, thematic cartography and biological collections digitization and maintenance. His scientific interests focus on vegetation description, analysis and mapping, conservation of endangered species and ecosystem services and functions, arid and semi-arid ecosystems management in face of livestock grazing, climate change and biodiversity data sharing.