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Cristiano Ballabio

Cristiano Ballabio

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
16706
World Ranking
3957
National Ranking
56

Overview

Cristiano Ballabio is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on soil science as a subfield. Their work spans related areas including ecology, water science and technology, earth-surface processes, and pollution.

The main topics addressed in their research include soil erosion and sediment transport, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, aeolian processes and effects, hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil and water nutrient dynamics, as well as the presence of heavy metals in the environment.

Ballabio has contributed to several recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2020) in 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
  • Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe (2023) in Nature Communications
  • Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 2050 (2021) in Environmental Science & Policy

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors. The most frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Panos Panagos
  • Pasquale Borrelli
  • Arwyn Jones
  • Alberto Orgiazzi
  • Emanuele Lugato

Ballabio's research has been featured repeatedly in key publication venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Nature Communications, European Journal of Soil Science, Journal of Hydrology, and Environmental Research. These venues reflect their focus on interdisciplinary environmental and soil science studies.

In addition to articles, Ballabio has contributed to book publications. One identified title is The state of soils in Europe: Fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation, published by KU Leuven in 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

  • 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

  • LUCAS Soil, the largest expandable soil dataset for Europe: a review

    A. Orgiazzi;C. Ballabio;P. Panagos;A. Jones

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • 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

  • Mapping topsoil physical properties at European scale using the LUCAS database

    Cristiano Ballabio;Panos Panagos;Luca Monatanarella

  • Copper distribution in European topsoils: An assessment based on LUCAS soil survey

    Cristiano Ballabio;Panos Panagos;Emanuele Lugato;Jen-How Huang

  • Mapping LUCAS topsoil chemical properties at European scale using Gaussian process regression.

    Cristiano Ballabio;Emanuele Lugato;Oihane Fernández-Ugalde;Alberto Orgiazzi

  • Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe

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  • Support Vector Machines for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: The Staffora River Basin Case Study, Italy

    Cristiano Ballabio;Simone Sterlacchini

  • A map of the topsoil organic carbon content of Europe generated by a generalized additive model

    D. de Brogniez;C. Ballabio;A. Stevens;R. J. A. Jones

  • Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 2050

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Mihaly Himics;Simone Scarpa

  • Global rainfall erosivity projections for 2050 and 2070

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  • Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe

    Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Katrin Meusburger

  • European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies

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  • A Soil Erosion Indicator for Supporting Agricultural, Environmental and Climate Policies in the European Union

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Jean Poesen;Emanuele Lugato

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

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Katrin Meusburger;Jonathan Spinoni

  • Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall erosivity and erosivity density in Greece

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Soil legacy data rescue via GlobalSoilMap and other international and national initiatives

    Dominique Arrouays;Johan G. B. Leenaars;Anne C. Richer-de-Forges;Kabindra Adhikari

  • TOWARDS A PAN‐EUROPEAN ASSESSMENT OF LAND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO WIND EROSION

    Pasquale Borrelli;Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Emanuale Lugato

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos Panagos
Panos Panagos European Commission
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Emanuele Lugato
Emanuele Lugato University of Padua
Andreas Klik
Andreas Klik BOKU University
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council
Silas Michaelides
Silas Michaelides Cyprus University of Technology

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