A5014187555- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Research Data Management Practices
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
University of Florence
2024-2025
Marche Polytechnic University
2023-2024
University of Sassari
2018-2023
Bern University of Applied Sciences
2019
Eco-hydro-meteorological variables (EHM) are key indicators for assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, affecting hydrological processes and resilience forest systems. Meteorological forcing, such as precipitation vapor pressure deficit, notably determines soil moisture variability, strongly related to tree transpiration sap flow rate. In turn, is affected by uptake. Understanding feedback among these crucial effectively managing water resources more robust predictions effect...
Preferential flow (PF) is a key hydrological process that influences water infiltration, soil moisture redistribution, and streamflow generation. In Mediterranean forested catchments, the dynamics of PF its controls remain largely underexplored. Here, we investigated mechanisms their impact on response in Re della Pietra experimental catchment (2 km²) Tuscan Apennines, central Italy. Two hillslope transects with sensors at shallow (15 cm) deep (35 layers were monitored for 34 18...
Suspended sediment plays a crucial role in shaping stream morphology and maintaining ecological balance, yet the main controls on its sources dynamics forested mountain catchments are still poorly documented. In this study we aimed at assessing suspended spatio-temporal transport Mediterranean catchment. A relevant might be played by large wood debris retention release: structures can significantly influence trapping sediments creating stable habitats for aquatic organisms. This aspect is...
Assessing and quantifying bedload dynamics sediment transport rates in rivers is critical for evaluating the landscape evolution, which turn controls channel morphology catchment erosion. In last decades, seismic observations emerged as one of most promising tools monitoring river dynamics. particular, recorded energy has been shown to correlate with discharge amount transported sediments. However, uncertainties persist using signals. This lack particularly relevant small mountain streams,...
Forested catchments play a key role in storing and releasing fresh water. Climate changes affect global hydrological ecosystem processes with effects also observed at small scales. In this context, investigating spatial temporal water origins forested is fundamental to understand better predict the behavior of processes. However, very little known about both origin across different ecohydrological compartments Mediterranean catchments.In study, we collected hydrometeorological isotopic data...
The '2018 Marganai Forest Soil Erosion Experiment Database' is a comprehensive collection of measures taken during scientific experiment trials designed to investigate the effects forest canopy coverage on soil erosion under intense artificial rainfall, four years after coppicing. investigation involved establishment eight paired plots with and without coverage, subjected rainfall simulation aimed measure amount sediment transported by runoff. work represents valuable resource for...
The analysis and control of a biological reactor is usually carried out inadequately, owing to lack resources or apparent complexity the whole process. present work based on description algorithms use ADM model; this model, developed after empirical in an anaerobic at our laboratory, allows behaviour with minimum number variables. It represents helpful tool for that working reactors order optimize production methane quality treated wastewaters.
This paper examines the potential for using Mobile Data Collection (MDC) as an effective database supported technology to substantially improve forest mensuration practices. Open source Kit (ODK) procedures and tools were used during a survey campaign that initiated local monitoring process in Marganai (Sardinia). The ODK suite is practical use its allow authoring of digital forms without users needing software development expertise. Form design enables high degree customization be achieved...
On the Canary Islands, during 2007 (30 July - 2 August) wildfire, about 18.000 hectares of forest were destroyed. After event, to avoid erosion, a series mixed check dams (wooden elements and stones with core filled residues) built in gullies created by surface runoff. This first study aims investigate different responses vegetation its recovery after fire, three types structures. We analyzed performance evolution nine years their construction post-fire response bio-engineering techniques...
Today, a forest is also understood as real social actor with multiple-scale influences, capable of significantly conditioning the social, economic, and cultural system whole territory. The aim this paper to reconstruct interpret population’s perception silvicultural activities related traditional use resources southwestern Sardinian Marganai State Forest. “Marganai case” has brought attention mass media role its silviculture. research was carried out via semi-structured interviews main...
Although topography and evapotranspiration rates are the main determinants of soil moisture, climatic forcings play a crucial role. In Mediterranean climate, marked sensitivity moisture to alternations between wet dry periods exerts strong control on hydrological ecohydrological processes at hillslope catchment scales.We monitored in two hillslopes Re della Pietra experimental catchment, Appennine mountains, Tuscany, central Italy. The (HS1 HS2) show different morphological characteristics,...
Incident gross precipitation is divided by tree canopies into three main parts: i) intercepted rainfall, which evaporates directly from the canopies, ii) throughfall, reaches soil surface after passing through and iii) stemflow, concentrated to stems. Stemflow tends infiltrate preferentially around base of stem, once belowground, channeled roots.The objective this research was investigate contribution stemflow throughflow subsurface water dynamics in a hillslope forested with beech trees....
Land cover changes in mountainous areas due to silvo-pastoral abandonment can affect soil stability, especially on steep slopes. In addition, the increase rainfall intensity recent decades requires re-assessing landslide susceptibility and vegetation management for protection. This study was carried out using software SlideforMAP Mt. Nerone massif (central Italy) assess (i) effects of land slope stability over past 70 years (1954–2021) (ii) role actual during intense events. The area has...
NuoroForestrySchool (a study center of the Department Agriculture, University Sassari, Italy) has developed and published a ‘data documentation procedure’ (link to NFS-DDP) enabling improvement dataset FAIRness that any data collector wishes share as open data. Datasets are frequently shared spreadsheet files. While this tool is very handy in preparation preliminary analysis, its structure composition not effective for storing sharing consolidated data, unless...
<p>SlideforMAP and SOSlope are part of a suite software available through ecorisQ (www.ecorisq.org), an international, non-profit association promoting solutions for risk reduction natural hazards. SlideforMap is probabilistic model that quantifies the stabilizing effect vegetation at regional scale localizes potential areas where forest protection could be improved. hydro-mechanical computes factor safety slope scale, using strain-step discrete element method, which includes...
Rainfall-induced shallow landslides are among the most common gravitational mass movements on natural and artificial slopes. In addition, these events also responsible for severe consequences ecosystem services provided by forests rural landscapes, human lives, activities infrastructures. Considering that frequency of critical rainfall is expected to increase in future due climate change, development application physically-based models assessing hydrogeological instability necessary monitor...
The development and application of deterministic models for vegetated slope stability analysis at a local scale is pivotal issue in international research. Such tools identify mitigation risk management techniques during increasingly frequent critical rainfall events. In this sense, the SOSlope software, developed by ecorisQ association (www.ecorisq.org), allows simulation hydro-mechanical dynamics that may influence shallow landslides' occurrence, focusing on progressive activation root...