What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Climate change
Donatella Spano focuses on Eddy covariance, Mediterranean climate, Atmospheric sciences, Ecology and Evapotranspiration.
Her Eddy covariance study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Remote sensing, Earth system science and Time series.
Her research in Mediterranean climate intersects with topics in Fire regime, Vegetation, Boreal and Phenology.
She has included themes like Mean radiant temperature, Latent heat, Energy balance and Temporal scales in her Atmospheric sciences study.
Donatella Spano interconnects Canopy, Carbon dioxide, Process engineering and Water vapor in the investigation of issues within Evapotranspiration.
Donatella Spano usually deals with Canopy and limits it to topics linked to Daytime and Hydrology.
Her most cited work include:
- A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity (283 citations)
- A review of models and micrometeorological methods used to estimate wetland evapotranspiration (259 citations)
- Response of plant species richness and primary productivity in shrublands along a north–south gradient in Europe to seven years of experimental warming and drought: reductions in primary productivity in the heat and drought year of 2003 (201 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Her primary areas of study are Mediterranean climate, Climate change, Evapotranspiration, Hydrology and Ecology.
Her research integrates issues of Shrubland, Climatology, Meteorology and Fire regime in her study of Mediterranean climate.
Her work on Wind speed as part of general Meteorology research is frequently linked to Simulation modeling and Wildfire modeling, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science.
Her work carried out in the field of Climate change brings together such families of science as Agriculture, Precipitation, Environmental resource management, Phenology and Physical geography.
Her Evapotranspiration study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Water balance, Eddy covariance, Atmospheric sciences and Irrigation.
The concepts of her Eddy covariance study are interwoven with issues in Latent heat, Energy balance, Sensible heat and Vegetation.
She most often published in these fields:
- Mediterranean climate (31.38%)
- Climate change (24.27%)
- Evapotranspiration (19.25%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?
- Mediterranean climate (31.38%)
- Climate change (24.27%)
- Ecosystem (17.15%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her main research concerns Mediterranean climate, Climate change, Ecosystem, Eddy covariance and Hydrology.
Her Mediterranean climate research incorporates themes from Monoculture, Agronomy, Species richness, Forest ecology and Scale.
Donatella Spano combines subjects such as Agroforestry, Natural resource economics, Precipitation and Environmental planning with her study of Climate change.
Her Ecosystem research incorporates elements of Grassland and Physical geography.
Her Eddy covariance research includes themes of Marine engineering, Atmospheric sciences and Earth system science.
In her work, Meteorology is strongly intertwined with Urban ecosystem, which is a subfield of Atmospheric sciences.
Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (67 citations)
- Assessing climate change impacts on wildfire exposure in Mediterranean areas (34 citations)
- Assessing climate change impacts on wildfire exposure in Mediterranean areas (34 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Climate change
Donatella Spano mainly investigates Mediterranean climate, Vegetation, Ecosystem, Soil respiration and Meteorology.
Her Mediterranean climate research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Wind speed, Climate change and Scale.
Her Climate change research integrates issues from Precipitation, Water scarcity, Irrigation and Water resource management.
Her Vegetation study combines topics in areas such as Wildland–urban interface and Environmental resource management.
Donatella Spano has researched Ecosystem in several fields, including Atmospheric sciences and Urban ecosystem.
Donatella Spano performs integrative study on Meteorology and Simulation modeling in her works.
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