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Andrea Buffagni

Andrea Buffagni

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
4342
World Ranking
8979
National Ranking
14

Andrea Buffagni publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Buffagni sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 62 publications — 1st percentile

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Andrea Buffagni D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrea Buffagni sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Andrea Buffagni is affiliated with IRSA in Poland and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on freshwater ecosystems and aquatic ecology. Their research spans multiple subfields including ecology, water science and technology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work addresses several main topics, notably freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Andrea Buffagni has contributed to scholarly understanding through publications in various scientific journals. Recent papers include:

  • Groundwater-dependent ecosystems as transfer vectors of nitrogen from the aquifer to surface waters in agricultural basins: The fontanili of the Po Plain (Italy), 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The lentic and lotic characteristics of habitats determine the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers, 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • The ratio of lentic to lotic habitat features strongly affects macroinvertebrate metrics used in southern Europe for ecological status classification, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Macroinvertebrate metrics responses to morphological alteration in Italian rivers, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Italian reference rivers under the Water Framework Directive umbrella: do natural factors actually depict the observed nutrient conditions?, 2022, Environmental Sciences Europe

Their frequent coauthors include Stefania Erba, Marcello Cazzola, Carlo Belfiore, Raffaella Balestrini, and C.A. Delconte.

Andrea Buffagni's research has appeared in a range of publication venues including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Environmental Sciences Europe

The scientist's body of work contributes to understanding the ecological dynamics of freshwater habitats, particularly through the study of benthic macroinvertebrates and their responses to environmental and morphological changes. Their research also explores the interaction between groundwater systems and surface water quality, relevant to nutrient transport and ecosystem health in agricultural and natural river basins.

Best Publications

  • The Development of a System to Assess the Ecological Quality of Streams Based on Macroinvertebrates – Design of the Sampling Programme within the AQEM Project

    Daniel Hering;Andrea Buffagni;Otto Moog;Leonard Sandin

  • Non-perennial Mediterranean rivers in Europe: Status, pressures, and challenges for research and management

    Nikolaos T. Skoulikidis;Sergi Sabater;Thibault Datry;Manuela M. Morais

  • The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches

    Mike T. Furse;Daniel Hering;Otto Moog;Piet Verdonschot

  • A comparative analysis of restoration measures and their effects on hydromorphology and benthic invertebrates in 26 central and southern European rivers

    Sonja C. Jähnig;Karel Brabec;Andrea Buffagni;Stefania Erba

  • Establishing Reference Conditions for European Streams

    R.C. Nijboer;R.K. Johnson;P.F.M. Verdonschot;M. Sommerhäuser

  • The European reference condition concept: A scientific and technical approach to identify minimally-impacted river ecosystems

    Isabel Pardo;Carola Gómez-Rodríguez;Jean-Gabriel Wasson;Roger Owen

  • Stream macroinvertebrate occurrence along gradients in organic pollution and eutrophication

    Nikolai Friberg;Jens Skriver;Søren Erik Larsen;Morten Lauge Pedersen

  • A novel approach to analysing the regimes of temporary streams in relation to their controls on the composition and structure of aquatic biota

    F. Gallart;N. Prat;E. M. García-Roger;J. Latron

  • The AQEM Multimetric System for the Southern Italian Apennines: Assessing the Impact of Water Quality and Habitat Degradation on Pool Macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean Rivers

    Andrea Buffagni;Stefania Erba;Marcello Cazzola;Joanna Lynn Kemp

  • Linking organism groups — major results and conclusions from the STAR project

    Daniel Hering;Richard K. Johnson;Andrea Buffagni

  • Least Disturbed Condition for European Mediterranean rivers

    M.J. Feio;F.C. Aguiar;S.F.P. Almeida;J. Ferreira

  • The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods

    Mike T. Furse;Daniel Hering;Karel Brabec;Andrea Buffagni

  • Quality assessment of bed sediments of the Po River (Italy).

    Luigi Viganò;Attilio Arillo;Andrea Buffagni;Marina Camusso

  • The STAR common metrics approach to the WFD intercalibration process: Full application for small, lowland rivers in three European countries

    Andrea Buffagni;Stefania Erba;Marcello Cazzola;John Murray-Bligh

  • THE MIRAGE TOOLBOX: AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR TEMPORARY STREAMS

    N. Prat;F. Gallart;D. Von Schiller;S. Polesello

  • A Europe-wide system for assessing the quality of rivers using macroinvertebrates: the AQEM Project*) and its importance for southern Europe (with special emphasis on Italy)

    Andrea Buffagni;Joanna L. Kemp;Stefania Erba;Carlo Belfiore

  • Using macroinvertebrate species assemblages to identify river channel habitat units: an application of the functional habitats concept to a large, unpolluted Italian river (River Ticino, northern Italy)

    Andrea Buffagni;Giuseppe A. Crosa;David M. Harper;Joanna L. Kemp

  • Secondary production of benthic communities at the habitat scale as a tool to assess ecological integrity in mountain streams

    Andrea Buffagni;Ester Comin

  • Occurrence and variability of River Habitat Survey features across Europe and the consequences for data collection and evaluation

    Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz;Andrea Buffagni;John Davy-Bowker;Jacek Lesny

  • RESPONSES OF CHIRONOMID LARVAE (INSECTA, DIPTERA) TO ECOLOGICAL QUALITY IN MEDITERRANEAN RIVER MESOHABITATS (SOUTH ITALY)

    Laura Marziali;David Giordano Armanini;Marcello Cazzola;Stefania Erba

Frequent Co-Authors

Narcís Prat
Narcís Prat University of Barcelona
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Piet F. M. Verdonschot Wageningen University & Research
Nikolaos Skoulikidis
Nikolaos Skoulikidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Richard K. Johnson
Richard K. Johnson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Maria Rieradevall
Maria Rieradevall University of Barcelona
Sergi Sabater
Sergi Sabater University of Girona
Leonard Sandin
Leonard Sandin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Maria João Feio
Maria João Feio University of Coimbra
Núria Bonada
Núria Bonada University of Barcelona

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