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Donatella Spano

Donatella Spano

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
10054
World Ranking
6629
National Ranking
130

Overview

Donatella Spano is affiliated with the University of Sassari in Italy and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several closely related subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research addresses a variety of topics centered around plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, fire effects on ecosystems, horticultural and viticultural research, climate change impacts on agriculture, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and plant physiology and cultivation studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Donatella Spano include Antonio Trabucco, Costantino Sirca, Valentina Mereu, Serena Marras, and José María Costa-Saura.

They have published extensively in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Open Research Europe, Sustainability, Plants, and Agricultural Water Management.

Recent publications by Donatella Spano include:

  • A Systematic Review on the Impacts of Climate Change on Coffee Agrosystems (2022, Plants)
  • A modelling platform for climate change impact on local and regional crop water requirements (2021, Agricultural Water Management)
  • X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X (2024, Biogeosciences)
  • A remote sensing and modeling integrated approach for constructing continuous time series of daily actual evapotranspiration (2021, Agricultural Water Management)
  • Modeling high-resolution climate change impacts on wheat and maize in Italy (2021, Climate Risk Management)

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Water Scarcity and Future Challenges for Food Production

    Noemi Mancosu;Noemi Mancosu;Richard L. Snyder;Gavriil Kyriakakis;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • A review of models and micrometeorological methods used to estimate wetland evapotranspiration

    Judy Z. Drexler;Richard L. Snyder;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Kyaw Tha Paw U

  • 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

    Josep Peñuelas;Patricia Prieto;Claus Beier;Carla Cesaraccio

  • Chilling and forcing model to predict bud-burst of crop and forest species

    Carla Cesaraccio;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Richard L. Snyder;Pierpaolo Duce

  • An evaluation of common evapotranspiration equations

    F. Ventura;D. Spano;P. Duce;R. L. Snyder

  • An improved model for determining degree-day values from daily temperature data.

    Carla Cesaraccio;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Pierpaolo Duce;Richard L. Snyder

  • Determining degree-day thresholds from field observations

    R. L. Snyder;Donatella Spano;Carla Cesaraccio;Pierpaolo Duce

  • SURFACE RENEWAL ANALYSIS FOR SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUX DENSITY

    R. L. Snyder;D. Spano;K. T. Pawu

  • Sustainable urban metabolism as a link between bio-physical sciences and urban planning : the BRIDGE project

    Nektarios Chrysoulakis;M. Lopes;R. San José;C.S.B Grimmond

  • Phenological stages of natural species and their use as climate indicators

    D. Spano;Carla Cesaraccio;Pierpaolo Duce;Richard L. Snyder

  • Evaluation of FARSITE simulator in Mediterranean maquis

    Bachisio Arca;Pierpaolo Duce;Maurizio Laconi;Grazia Pellizzaro

  • Estimating sensible and latent heat flux densities from grapevine canopies using surface renewal.

    D Spano;R.L Snyder;P Duce

  • Wildfire risk estimation in the Mediterranean area

    Alan A. Ager;Haiganoush K. Preisler;Bachisio Arca;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano

  • Using CERES-Wheat to simulate durum wheat production and phenology in Southern Sardinia, Italy

    Marco Dettori;Carla Cesaraccio;Andrea Motroni;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano

  • Assessing exposure of human and ecological values to wildfire in Sardinia, Italy

    Michele Salis;Michele Salis;Alan A. Ager;Bachisio Arca;Mark A. Finney

  • Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Wenping Yuan

  • Surface renewal analysis for sensible heat flux density using structure functions

    D Spano

  • Assessing climate change impacts on wildfire exposure in Mediterranean areas

    Olga M. Lozano;Michele Salis;Alan A. Ager;Bachisio Arca

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierpaolo Duce
Pierpaolo Duce National Research Council (CNR)
Richard L. Snyder
Richard L. Snyder University of California, Davis
Alan A. Ager
Alan A. Ager US Forest Service
Mark A. Finney
Mark A. Finney US Forest Service
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Kyaw Tha Paw U
Kyaw Tha Paw U University of California, Davis
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University

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