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Concise Curriculum (2019)

Qualifications with dates:
1974, Baccalaureate at the high school Virgilio in Rome, Italy.
1978, Graduated 110/110 cum laude in Biological Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
1981, Postgraduate Doctor (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies) at the University of Lille, France.
1985, University Researcher in Botany at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo.
1991, Associated professor of Environmental and Applied Botany (BIO03) at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo.
2001 to present, Full Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany (BIO03) at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo

Title of qualification/thesis:
Indagini ecologico-fitogeografiche sulle zone umide interne del Lazio. 1 - Relazione tra lo stato chimico-fisico delle acque e le comunità macrofitiche della Bonifica Pontina.

Research interests:
The current topics of the research are mainly: 1) Floristic, with contributes to studies in the Apennines region, with the discovery of rare, new for the region or threatened species, as Hottonia palustris, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Vicia barbazitae, Viola kitaibeliana and others, 2) ex situ conservation (at the Botanical Garden of Viterbo, the UTV Herbarium and the Tuscia Germplasm Bank, with the definition of protocols for in vitro germination and storage and studies to promote the dissemination of knowledge on problems and methods of ex situ conservation, particularly of species of travertine that characterize the hydrothermal areas of Viterbo, of Pteridophytes and of species of the genus Trifolium; 3) Taxonomy and Systematics of species of Violaceae (Viola), Fabaceae (Trifolium, Vicia), Poaceae (Gastridium) and Pteridophytae. 4) biodiversity monitoring in protected areas of central Italy to develop techniques for the assessment of species diversity (vascular flora); 5) contributes to the Checklist of the Italian Vascular Flora and to the “Flora d’Italia”.
Employment history with dates:
1980-1984 in Bailleul, France, at the "Centre Regional Phytosociologie" under the direction of Prof. JM Géhu.
1985 to present at the University of Viterbo, Italy.
1996 to present, scientific head of the Herbarium of Tuscia (UTV).
2009-2011, Head of the Botanical Gardens of Viterbo, Italy.

Membership of professional bodies:
She is member of many Italian and International Scientific Associations where she holds some important tasks within Boards, Editorial Committees of Journals, Commissions: Società Botanica Italiana (SBI), in which she was the coordinator of the Floristic Working Group from 2000 to 2008.
- Società italiana di Scienze della vegetazione (SISV)
- Fédération Internationale de Phytosociologie (FIP)
- OPTIMA
Journals: Plant Biosystems, Phytocoenologia, Italian Botanist, Webbia, Plant Sociology, Biological Agriculture & Horticulture.
Other relevant information not covered above:
In the '90s member of the Habitat Working Group of the European Commission - DG IX - for the requirements of Directive 92/43, and Scientific representative for the Lazio region of Bioitaly national project.
She is, or has been, the recipient of funds allocated by the MIUR, the Lazio Region, the CNR, the SBI and other conventions for research projects such as: the P.S. CNR (2000) “Biodiversity and Ecosystems”; the Convention DABAC-SBI (2000-2002) about the priority Habitat of the E.U. Directive 92/43, the Convention between the Environment Minister and other Universities and Research Centres (2000-2003) on the “Completion of background Nature” (Scientific Supervisor of the Project “Nationwide Floral Survey”), the Convention DABAC-DBV (“La Sapienza” University.) on the “Knowledges on Italian Flora”. In 2000-2005, under the CCNB Progect funded by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and coordinated by the University La Sapienza of Rome, coordinator of the “Floristic analysis at national scale" that allowed to document and update the detailed distribution of rare, endemic and nationally endangered entities.
In 2008-2010 coordinator of the preparatory work for the institution of the Museums System of the University of Tuscia, and she is a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee, representing the Herbarium of Tuscia from 2010.
In 2009-2010 coordinator of the project "Garden of Europe" of the Casa De Gasperi Museum (Pieve Tesino, Trento) entrusted to the University of Tuscia, by Alcide De Gasperi Foundation, Trento.
In 2014 grant for SYNTHESYS Project financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 Capacities Program. application title: "Biosystematic study of the genus Viola Section Melanium".

Top 25 recent peer reviewed publications

SCOPPOLA A., MAGRINI S., 2019. Comparative palynology and seed morphology in annual pansies (Viola sect. Melanium, Violaceae): implications for species delimitation. Plant Biosystems, doi.org/ 10.1080/11263504.2019.1610113
SCOPPOLA A., CANCELLIERI L., 2019. A comparative morphometric study of genus Gastridium P. Beauv. (Poaceae) and its implications for species delimitation. Nordic Journal of Botany 37 (9): 1-20.
FANFARILLO E., SCOPPOLA A., LOSOSOVÁ Z., ABBATE G., 2019. Segetal plant communities of traditional agroecosystems: a phytosociological survey in central Italy. PHYTOCOENOLOGIA, vol. 49, p. 165-183.
G. GALASSO, F. CONTI, L. PERUZZI, N. M. G. ARDENGHI, E. BANFI, L. CELESTI-GRAPOW, A. ALBANO, A. ALESSANDRINI, G. BACCHETTA, S. BALLELLI, M. BANDINI MAZZANTI, G. BARBERIS, L. BERNARDO, C. BLASI, D. BOUVET, M. BOVIO, L. CECCHI, E. DEL GUACCHIO, G. DOMINA, S. FASCETTI, L. GALLO, L. GUBELLINI, A. GUIGGI, D. IAMONICO, M. IBERITE, P. JIMÉNEZ-MEJÍAS, E. LATTANZI, D. MARCHETTI, E. MARTINETTO, R. R. MASIN, P. MEDAGLI, N. G. PASSALACQUA, S. PECCENINI, R. PENNESI, B. PIERINI, L. PODDA, L. POLDINI, F. PROSSER, F. M. RAIMONDO, F. ROMA-MARZIO, L. ROSATI, A. SANTANGELO, SCOPPOLA A, S. SCORTEGAGNA, A. SELVAGGI, F. SELVI, A. SOLDANO, A. STINCA, R. P. WAGENSOMMER, T. WILHALM & F. BARTOLUCCI, 2018. An updated checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy. Plant Biosystems, 152: 556-592.
AMICI V, FILIBECK G, ROCCHINI D, GERI F, LANDI S, GIORGINI D, SCOPPOLA A, CHIARUCCI A, 2018. Are CORINE land cover classes reliable proxies of plant species assemblages? A test in Mediterranean forest landscapes. Plant Biosystems, 152: 994-1001.
F. BARTOLUCCI, L. PERUZZI, G. GALASSO, A. ALBANO, A. ALESSANDRINI, N. M. G. ARDENGHI, G. ASTUTI, G. BACCHETTA, S. BALLELLI, E. BANFI, G. BARBERIS, L. BERNARDO, D. BOUVET, M. BOVIO, L. CECCHI, R. DI PIETRO, G. DOMINA, S. FASCETTI, G. FENU, F. FESTI, B. FOGGI, L. GALLO, G. GOTTSCHLICH, L. GUBELLINI, D. IAMONICO, M. IBERITE, P. JIMÉNEZ-MEJÍAS, E. LATTANZI, D. MARCHETTI, E. MARTINETTO, R. R. MASIN, P. MEDAGLI, N. G. PASSALACQUA, S. PECCENINI, R. PENNESI, B. PIERINI, L. POLDINI, F. PROSSER, F. M. RAIMONDO, F. ROMA-MARZIO, L. ROSATI, A. SANTANGELO, A. SCOPPOLA S. SCORTEGAGNA, A. SELVAGGI, F. SELVI, A. SOLDANO, A. STINCA, R. P. WAGENSOMMER, T. WILHALM & F. CONTI, 2018. An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Italy. Plant Biosystems, 152: 179-303.
SCOPPOLA A, J. LÓPEZ TIRADO, F. MANZANO GUTIÉRREZ, S. MAGRINI, 2018. The genus Trifolium (Fabaceae) in south Europe: a critical review on species richness and distribution. Nordic Journal of Botany, 36: 1-17.
LATINI M., BARTOLUCCI F., CONTI F., IBERITE M, NICOLELLA G, SCOPPOLA A, ABBATE G., 2017. Detecting Phytogeographic Units Based on Native Woody Flora. A Case Study in Central Peninsular Italy. The Botanical Review, 83: 253-281.
SCOPPOLA A, LATTANZI E, BERNARDO L, 2016. Distribution and taxonomy of the Italian clovers belonging to Trifolium sect. Vesicastrum subsect. Mystillus (Fabaceae). Italian Botanist, 2: 7-27.
SCOPPOLA A., LATTANZI E., 2016. Remarks on the type material and the identity of the name Trifolium multistriatum W.D.J.Koch (T. vesiculosum aggr., Fabaceae). Phytotaxa, 277: 275-281.
MAGRINI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2015. Variability of pollen aperture heteromorphism in annual pansies (Viola Section Melanium). Acta Botanica Croatica, 74 (1): 1-10.
AMICI V., ROCCHINI D., FILIBECK G., BACARO G., SANTI E., GERI F., LANDI S., SCOPPOLA A., CHIARUCCI A., 2015. Landscape structure effects on forest plant diversity at local scale: exploring the role of spatial extent. Ecological Complexity, 21: 44–52.
SCOPPOLA A., CEOLONI C., GENNARO A., MAGRINI S., 2014. Violaceae. In: MARHOLD K. (ed.), IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 17. Taxon, 63(5): 1155; E26-E27.
AMICI V., SANTI E., FILIBECK G., DIEKMANN M., GERI F., LANDI S., SCOPPOLA A., CHIARUCCI A., 2013. Influence of secondary forest succession on plant diversity patterns in a Mediterranean landscape. Journal of Biogeography, 40: 2335-2347.
ABBRUZZESE G., KUZMINSKY E., ABOU JAOUDÉ R., ANGELACCIO C., ESHEL A., SCOPPOLA A., VALENTINI R., 2013. Leaf epidermis morphological differentiation between Tamarix africana Poir. and Tamarix gallica L. (Tamaricaceae) with ecological remarks. Plant Biosystems, 147: 573-582.
ARGENTI C., FRATOLIN F., MAGRINI S., MARCHETTI D., SCOPPOLA A., VIANE R., 2013. Prima segnalazione in Italia di due popolazioni di Ophioglossum realmente esaploidi (O. "azoricum" C. Presl., Ophioglossaceae, Pteridophyta). Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto, 28 (2012): 119-124.
SCOPPOLA A., LATTANZI E., 2012. Viola section Melanium in Italy. New data on morphology of Viola tricolor-Group. Webbia, 67(1): 47-64.
CHIARUCCI A., BACARO G., FILIBECK G., LANDI S., MACCHERINI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2012. Scale dependence of plant species richness in a network of protected areas. Biodiversity & Conservation, 21: 503–516.
MAGRINI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2012. First results from conservation studies of chlorophyllous spores of the Royal fern (Osmunda regalis, Osmundaceae). Cryobiology, 64: 65-69.
MAGRINI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2012. Agravitropic growth of apogamous sporophytes of Dryopteris tyrrhena. American Fern Journal, 102(2): 181-183.
SCOPPOLA A., MAGRINI S., CELESTINI M., 2011. Lupinus Sect. Albus (Fabaceae): taxonomic criticism and conservation value. The case of wild populations in Central Italy. Plant Biosystems, 145 (3): 514-526.
MAGRINI S., DE CARLI A., ONOFRI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2011. A comparative study of the seed germination capabilities of Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae), a threatened terrestrial orchid, and other more common Anacamptis species, by asymbiotic culture in vitro. European Journal of Environmental Sciences, 1: 71-79.
FILIBECK G., SCOPPOLA A., 2011. Two Mediterranean landscape types and their interface as a case study for “landscape red-listing”. Fitosociologia, 48: 119-125.
MAGRINI S., OLMATI C., ONOFRI S., SCOPPOLA A., 2010. Recovery of viable germplasm from herbarium specimens of Osmunda regalis L. American Fern Journal, 100 (3): 159-166.
SCOPPOLA A., FILIBECK G., STIRPE M.T., 2010. La vegetazione del Parco regionale Marturanum (Lazio settentrionale, Italia centrale): lineamenti fitosociologici e genesi del paesaggio vegetale. Braun-Blanquetia, 46: 403-413.

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