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Christine Alewell

Christine Alewell

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
21593
World Ranking
1196
National Ranking
32

Overview

Christine Alewell is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work focuses on areas such as soil erosion and sediment transport, peatlands and wetlands ecology, hydrology and watershed management studies, as well as soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Their recent scientific contributions include papers published across several recognized academic venues. Notable publications include "Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)" (2020) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion" (2020) in Nature Communications, "Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment, "Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis" (2021) in Environmental Research, and "Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland" (2022) in Nature Sustainability.

The frequent co-authors of Christine Alewell include Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli, Jens Leifeld, Katrin Meusburger, and Surya Gupta. This network demonstrates collaboration across their primary research themes.

Christine Alewell's publications span multiple reputable journals and platforms, with a particular concentration in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research covers various subfields, including Ecology, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Key topics within their work include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Christine Alewell has also contributed to book publications, with a recent title published by KU Leuven: "The state of soils in Europe: Fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation" (2024).

Best Publications

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.

    Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Larissa R. Fleischer;Emanuele Lugato

  • The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Jean Poesen;Cristiano Ballabio

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070).

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Panos Panagos;Emanuele Lugato

  • Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Christine Alewell

  • Using the USLE: Chances, challenges and limitations of soil erosion modelling

    Christine Alewell;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Panos Panagos

  • Rainfall Erosivity in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Christiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion

    Christine Alewell;Bruno Ringeval;Cristiano Ballabio;David A. Robinson

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis.

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell;Pablo Alvarez;Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache

  • Soil erodibility in Europe: A high-resolution dataset based on LUCAS

    Panos Panagos;Katrin Meusburger;Cristiano Ballabio;Pasqualle Borrelli

  • Modelling the effect of support practices (P-factor) on the reduction of soil erosion by water at European Scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Emma H. van der Zanden

  • Recovery from acidification in European surface waters

    Christopher D. Evans;J. M. Cullen;Christine Alewell;Jiří Kopáček

  • Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall erosivity factor for Switzerland

    Katrin Meusburger;A. Steel;P. Panagos;L. Montanarella

  • Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review

    L. Mabit;M. Benmansour;J.M. Abril;D.E. Walling

  • The biogeochemistry of sulfur at Hubbard Brook

    Gene E. Likens;Charles T. Driscoll;Donald C. Buso;Myron J. Mitchell

  • Sulphate, Nitrogen and Base Cation Budgets at 21 Forested Catchments in Canada, the United States and Europe

    Shaun A. Watmough;Julian Aherne;Christine Alewell;Paul Arp

  • Biological residues define the ice nucleation properties of soil dust

    F. Conen;C. E. Morris;J. Leifeld;M. V. Yakutin

  • Trends in nitrogen deposition and leaching in acid-sensitive streams in Europe

    Richard F. Wright;Christine Alewell;J. M. Cullen;Christopher D. Evans

  • Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe

    Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Katrin Meusburger

  • Soil conservation in Europe: Wish or Reality?

    Panos Panagos;Anton Imeson;Katrin Meusburger;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Towards estimates of future rainfall erosivity in Europe based on REDES and WorldClim datasets.

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Katrin Meusburger;Jonathan Spinoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Panos Panagos
Panos Panagos European Commission
Franz Conen
Franz Conen University of Basel
Lionel Mabit
Lionel Mabit International Atomic Energy Agency
Jens Leifeld
Jens Leifeld University of Basel
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Egbert Matzner
Egbert Matzner University of Bayreuth
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Gunnar Lischeid
Gunnar Lischeid University of Potsdam

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