A5019624629- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Plant responses to water stress
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2015-2018
Austrian Society for Environment and Technology
2018
University of Vienna
2015-2017
Polytechnic University of Turin
2012-2014
Abstract Research gaps in understanding flood changes at the catchment scale caused by forest management, agricultural practices, artificial drainage, and terracing are identified. Potential strategies addressing these proposed, such as complex systems approaches to link processes across time scales, long‐term experiments on physical‐chemical‐biological process interactions, a focus connectivity patterns spatial scales. It is suggested that will stimulate new research coherently addresses...
Drought stress is a dominant constraint to crop production. Breeding crops with adapted root systems for effective uptake of water represents novel strategy increase drought resistance. Due complex interaction between traits and high diversity hydrological conditions, modeling provides important information trait based selection. In this work we use architecture model combined soil-hydrological analyze whether there system ideotype general adaptation or efficiency function specific...
Abstract Known as “the hidden half”, plant roots are fundamental contributors to the riparian ecosystem functioning. Roots show an extraordinary architectural complexity that recalls their remarkable ability adapt environmental heterogeneity, resources availability, and climate. In fluvial environments, phreatophytes hydrophytes cope with flow sediment processes, hydrotropism aerotropism main drivers for root growth. this work, we how vertical density distribution in plants is result of...
The structure of heterogeneous forests has consequences for their biophysical environment. Variations in the local climate significantly affect tree physiological processes. We hypothesize that forest also alters root elongation and longevity through temporal spatial variations soil temperature water potential.We installed rhizotrons paired vegetation communities closed (tree islands) open patches (canopy gaps), along a gradient (elevations 1400, 1700 2000 m) mixed forest. measured number...