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D-Index
48
Citations
8460
World Ranking
4241
National Ranking
75

Nico Salmaso publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nico Salmaso sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 174 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Nico Salmaso D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nico Salmaso sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nico Salmaso is affiliated with Fondazione Edmund Mach in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography as key subfields. Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation also represent notable areas within their studies.

The scientist has contributed extensively to understanding aquatic and marine ecosystems, with main topics of work including:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Salmaso has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Adriano Boscaini
  • Leonardo Cerasino
  • Massimo Pindo
  • Fabio Buzzi
  • Fabio Lepori

Their publication record includes contributions to a variety of scientific journals, with repeated publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Advances in Oceanography and Limnology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Salmaso are:

  • Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs, 2023, Nature
  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Morpho-Functional Groups and phytoplankton development in two deep lakes (Lake Garda, Italy and Lake Stechlin, Germany)

    Nico Salmaso;Judit Padisák

  • Functional classifications and their application in phytoplankton ecology

    Nico Salmaso;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Judit Padisák

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Orlane Anneville;Fabien Arnaud;Yoann Baulaz

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Evanthia Mantzouki;Miquel Lürling;Jutta Fastner;Lisette de Senerpont Domis

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Daphne Donis;Evanthia Mantzouki;Daniel F. McGinnis;Dominic Vachon;Dominic Vachon

  • Mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms: strategies for control of nitrogen and phosphorus loads

    David P. Hamilton;Nico Salmaso;Hans W. Paerl

  • Global expansion of toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria: effect on ecosystem functioning

    Assaf Sukenik;A. Quesada;N. Salmaso

  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

    Benjamin M. Kraemer;Rachel M. Pilla;R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Orlane Anneville

  • Factors affecting the seasonality and distribution of cyanobacteria and chlorophytes: a case study from the large lakes south of the Alps, with special reference to Lake Garda

    Nico Salmaso

  • Long‐term phytoplankton community changes in a deep subalpine lake: responses to nutrient availability and climatic fluctuations

    Nico Salmaso

  • Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes

    Rachel M. Pilla;Craig E. Williamson;Boris V. Adamovich;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian

  • Effects of climatic fluctuations and vertical mixing on the interannual trophic variability of Lake Garda, Italy

    Nico Salmaso

  • Phytoplankton as an Indicator of the Water Quality of the Deep Lakes South of the Alps

    Nico Salmaso;Giuseppe Morabito;Fabio Buzzi;Letizia Garibaldi

  • Anatoxin-a producing Tychonema (Cyanobacteria) in European waterbodies.

    Shiva Shams;Camilla Capelli;Leonardo Cerasino;Andreas Ballot

  • Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties.

    Gábor Borics;András Abonyi;Nico Salmaso;Robert Ptacnik

  • Climatic effects on vertical mixing and deep-water oxygen content in the subalpine lakes in Italy

    Michela Rogora;Fabio Buzzi;Claudia Dresti;Barbara Leoni

  • Limnological research in the deep southern subalpine lakes: synthesis, directions and perspectives

    Nico Salmaso;Rosario Mosello

  • Ecological patterns of phytoplankton assemblages in Lake Garda: seasonal, spatial and historical features

    Nico Salmaso

  • Factors controlling the seasonal development and distribution of the phytoplankton community in the lowland course of a large river in Northern Italy (River Adige)

    Nico Salmaso;Maria G. Braioni

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Judit Padisák
Judit Padisák University of Pannonia
Luigi Naselli-Flores
Luigi Naselli-Flores University of Palermo
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

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