Luigi Ponti
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Rome
MS, PhD, University of Perugia, Italy, 2001
Agricultural Sciences/Entomology.
“Master and Back” Fellowship from Sardinia Region, Italy;
Recipient of a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant under the Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Union.
Research Interests: Analysis of global change effects on agroecosystems. Design of biodiversified, pest stable agroecosystems. Environmental impacts of transgenic crops.
Languages: Italian, English, and French
Relevant Experience : Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley under an International Grant from the Italian National Research Council;
Assistant specialist in Agroecosystem Analysis, University of California, Berkeley;
GIS Developer, Analysis of climate effects on agricultural systems, California Climate Change Center;
Consultant, climate change effects on agricultural systems, SafeCrop Center, Trento, Italy;
Reviewer for scientific journals (e.g. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment and Acta Oecologica).
Honors & Awards: Diploma thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Parasitis Award with A.P. Gutierrez
Students: 1 PhD and 1 MS.
Refereed Publications: 20 and coauthor in two books.
Ponti L., 2005. Transgenic crops and sustainable agriculture in the European context. Bulletin of Science Technology and Society 25: 289-305.
Gutierrez A.P., d’Oultremont T., Ellis C.K., Ponti L., 2006. Climatic limits of pink bollworm in Arizona and California: effects of climate warming. Acta Oecologica, 30: 353-364.
Ponti L., Altieri M.A., Gutierrez A.P., 2007. Effects of crop diversification levels and fertilization regimes on abundance of Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) and its parasitization by Diaeretiella rapae (M’Intosh) in broccoli. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 9: 209-214.
Gutierrez A.P., Daane K.M., Ponti L., Walton V.M., Ellis C.K., 2008. Prospective evaluation of the biological control of vine mealybug: refuge effects and climate. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 524-536.
Gutierrez A.P., Ponti L., Ellis C.K., d’Oultremont T., 2008. Climate change effects on poikilotherm tritrophic interactions. Climatic Change 87: 167-192.
Ponti L., Cossu Q.A., Gutierrez A.P., 2008. Physiologically based demographic models integrated into geographic information systems for ecologically based pest management in perennial Mediterranean agroecosystems under climate change. Atti Giornate Fitopatologiche 2008, 1: 345-352.
Gutierrez A.P., Ponti L., Cossu Q.A., 2008. Potential Effects of climate change on Olive and olive fly (Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin)): Arizona-California and Italy. Climatic Change (submitted).
