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Giovanni Manca is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers main research topics including Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Giovanni Manca has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth system science data
  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Estimating emissions of methane consistent with atmospheric measurements of methane and δ 13 C of methane, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Spring enhancement and summer reduction in carbon uptake during the 2018 drought in northwestern Europe, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2measurements, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Manca include:

  • Ivan Mammarella
  • Nina Buchmann
  • Ignacio Goded
  • Torsten Sachs
  • Andrej Varlagin

The scientist's publications often appear in journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, and Atmospheric measurement techniques.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

  • Full accounting of the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O, CH4) budget of nine European grassland sites

    J.F. Soussana;V. Allard;K. Pilegaard;P. Ambus

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Drying and wetting of Mediterranean soils stimulates decomposition and carbon dioxide emission: the "Birch effect".

    Paul Jarvis;Ana Rey;Charalampos Petsikos;Lisa Wingate

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Using digital repeat photography and eddy covariance data to model grassland phenology and photosynthetic CO2 uptake

    Mirco Migliavacca;Marta Galvagno;Edoardo Cremonese;Micol Rossini

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • Soil respiration in a Mediterranean oak forest at different developmental stages after coppicing

    Vanessa Tedeschi;Ana Rey;Giovanni Manca;Riccardo Valentini

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Paired comparisons of carbon exchange between undisturbed and regenerating stands in four managed forests in Europe

    Andrew S. Kowalski;Denis Loustau;Paul Berbigier;Giovanni Manca

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Climatic controls and ecosystem responses drive the inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem exchange of an alpine meadow

    Barbara Marcolla;Alessandro Cescatti;Giovanni Manca;Roberto Zorer

  • Phenology and carbon dioxide source/sink strength of a subalpine grassland in response to an exceptionally short snow season

    M. Galvagno;G. Wohlfahrt;E. Cremonese;M. Rossini

  • High resolution field spectroscopy measurements for estimating gross ecosystem production in a rice field

    Micol Rossini;Michele Meroni;Mirco Migliavacca;Giovanni Manca

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Comparison between tower and aircraft-based eddy covariance fluxes in five European regions

    B Gioli;F Miglietta;B De Martino;Rwa Hutjes

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen and greenhouse gases at the NitroEurope core flux measurement sites: measurement strategy and first data sets

    U. Skiba;J. Drewer;Y.S. Tang;N. Van Dijk

  • Inverse modelling of European CH4 emissions during 2006–2012 using different inverse models and reassessed atmospheric observations

    Peter Bergamaschi;Ute Karstens;Ute Karstens;Alistair J. Manning;Marielle Saunois

  • Seasonal and interannual patterns of carbon and water fluxes of a poplar plantation under peculiar eco-climatic conditions

    Mirco Migliavacca;Michele Meroni;Giovanni Manca;Giorgio Matteucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
María José Sanz
María José Sanz Basque Centre for Climate Change
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Jean-François Soussana
Jean-François Soussana INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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