Silvia Zenari

Zenari was born in Udine, Italy and studied at the University of Padua, graduating in 1918.

[1] While working for the Istituto di Geologia,[1] Zenari studied the Dolomites in Belluno, Cadore, and Comelico between 1930 and 1950, eventually turning her focus on botany as well as geology.

She was the first to complete a study on the ecology of plant life at high elevations, primarily in the Sexten Dolomites range.

Her research included a statistical analysis of plants at various elevations, which explained the distribution of various species.

In 1942 Zenari published a monograph entitled Contributo alla conoscenza della flora del Comelico (alto Cadore): note di critica sistematica, which described various groups of organisms in the Comelico region.