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Emanuele Lugato

Emanuele Lugato

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
18377
World Ranking
3766
National Ranking
51

Overview

Emanuele Lugato is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work prominently addresses soil science, ecology, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and environmental engineering.

Their publications cover a range of topics including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, soil and water nutrient dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, phosphorus and nutrient management, as well as aeolian processes and effects.

Recent research contributions include:

  • Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070), 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe, 2023, Nature Communications

Lugato frequently publishes in scientific venues such as Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio, Arwyn Jones, Pasquale Borrelli, and Philippe Ciais, indicating a network of partnerships in their research community.

In addition to articles, Lugato has contributed to book publications, notably with KU Leuven, where the book titled The state of soils in Europe: Fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation was published 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

  • Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

    M. Francesca Cotrufo;Maria Giovanna Ranalli;Michelle L. Haddix;Johan Six

  • 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

  • Biochar as a strategy to sequester carbon and increase yield in durum wheat

    F.P. Vaccari;S. Baronti;E. Lugato;L. Genesio

  • A flexible unmanned aerial vehicle for precision agriculture

    Jacopo Primicerio;Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro;Edoardo Fiorillo;Lorenzo Genesio

  • Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter

    Emanuele Lugato;Jocelyn M. Lavallee;Michelle L. Haddix;Panos Panagos

  • How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review

    Neal R. Haddaway;Katarina Hedlund;Louise E. Jackson;Thomas Kätterer

  • Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models

    Panos Panagos;Gabriele Standardi;Pasquale Borrelli;Emanuele Lugato

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

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

  • Impact of biochar application on plant water relations in Vitis vinifera (L.)

    S. Baronti;F.P. Vaccari;F. Miglietta;C. Calzolari

  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage

    Bertrand Guenet;Benoit Gabrielle;Claire Chenu;Dominique Arrouays

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

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

  • Potential carbon sequestration of European arable soils estimated by modelling a comprehensive set of management practices.

    Emanuele Lugato;Francesca Bampa;Panos Panagos;Luca Montanarella

  • A new baseline of organic carbon stock in European agricultural soils using a modelling approach

    Emanuele Lugato;Panos Panagos;Francesca Bampa;Arwyn Jones

  • A linkage between the biophysical and the economic: Assessing the global market impacts of soil erosion

    Martina Sartori;George Philippidis;Emanuele Ferrari;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe

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  • Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU

    Julia Köninger;Emanuele Lugato;Panos Panagos;Mrinalini Kochupillai

  • Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N 2 O emissions

    Emanuele Lugato;Adrian Leip;Arwyn Jones

  • Low stabilization of aboveground crop residue carbon in sandy soils of Swedish long-term experiments

    Christopher Poeplau;Thomas Kätterer;Martin A. Bolinder;Gunnar Börjesson

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos Panagos
Panos Panagos European Commission
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Franco Miglietta
Franco Miglietta National Research Council (CNR)
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Adrian Leip
Adrian Leip Max Planck Society
Francesco Primo Vaccari
Francesco Primo Vaccari National Research Council (CNR)
Keith Paustian
Keith Paustian Colorado State University

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