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Nicola Surian

Nicola Surian

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
7303
World Ranking
6366
National Ranking
192

Overview

Nicola Surian is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

Surian's work extensively covers several subfields, including ecology, soil science, management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, and water science and technology.

The main topics of research addressed by Surian include hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, landslides and related hazards, hydrology and watershed management studies, geological formations and processes, and tree-ring climate responses.

Frequent publication venues for Surian include:

  • Geomorphology
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Surian are:

  • Sediment-water flows in mountain streams: Recognition and classification based on field evidence, 2020, Geomorphology
  • Channel Changes and Controlling Factors over the Past 150 Years in the Basento River (Southern Italy), 2020, Water
  • River widening in mountain and foothill areas during floods: Insights from a meta-analysis of 51 European Rivers, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • What drives major channel widening in mountain rivers during floods? The role of debris floods during a high-magnitude event, 2023, Geomorphology
  • Sediment-water flows in mountain catchments: Insights into transport mechanisms as responses to high-magnitude hydrological events, 2021, Journal of Hydrology

Surian has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Andrea Brenna, Lorenzo Marchi, Simone Bizzi, Massimiliano Ghinassi, and Vittoria Scorpio.

Best Publications

  • Morphological response to river engineering and management in alluvial channels in Italy

    Nicola Surian;Massimo Rinaldi

  • A REVIEW OF TECHNIQUES AVAILABLE FOR DELIMITING THE ERODIBLE RIVER CORRIDOR: A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO MANAGING BANK EROSION

    H Piegay;Se Darby;E Mosselman;Nicola Surian

  • Sediment mining in alluvial channels: physical effects and management perspectives

    M. Rinaldi;B. Wyżga;N. Surian

  • Channel changes due to river regulation: the case of the Piave River, Italy

    Nicola Surian

  • A method for the assessment and analysis of the hydromorphological condition of Italian streams: The Morphological Quality Index (MQI)

    M Rinaldi;N Surian;Francesco Comiti;M Bussettini

  • A multi-scale hierarchical framework for developing understanding of river behaviour to support river management

    A. M. Gurnell;M. Rinaldi;B. Belletti;S. Bizzi

  • Channel adjustments and vegetation cover dynamics in a large gravel bed river over the last 200 years

    F. Comiti;M. Da Canal;N. Surian;L. Mao

  • CHANNEL ADJUSTMENTS AND ALTERATION OF SEDIMENT FLUXES IN GRAVEL-BED RIVERS OF NORTH-EASTERN ITALY: POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS FOR CHANNEL RECOVERY

    Nicola Surian;Luca Ziliani;Francesco Comiti;Mario A. Lenzi

  • Multi-thread river channels: A perspective on changing European alpine river systems

    Angela Gurnell;Nicola Surian;Luca Zanoni

  • Characterizing geomorphological change to support sustainable river restoration and management

    Robert C. Grabowski;Robert C. Grabowski;Nicola Surian;Angela M. Gurnell

  • Understanding reference processes: linkages between river flows, sediment dynamics and vegetated landforms along the Tagliamento River, Italy†

    Walter Bertoldi;Angela Gurnell;Angela Gurnell;Nicola Surian;Klement Tockner

  • Evolutionary trajectory of channel morphology and controlling factors in a large gravel-bed river

    Luca Ziliani;Nicola Surian

  • Island dynamics in a braided river from analysis of historical maps and air photographs

    Luca Zanoni;Angela Gurnell;Nicholas Drake;Nicola Surian

  • Downstream variation in grain size along an Alpine river: analysis of controls and processes

    Nicola Surian

  • Channel adjustments, bedload transport and sediment sources in a gravel-bed river, Brenta River, Italy

    Nicola Surian;Alberto Cisotto

  • Channel response to extreme floods: Insights on controlling factors from six mountain rivers in northern Apennines, Italy

    Nicola Surian;Margherita Righini;Ana Lucía;Laura Nardi

  • Channel adjustments in northern and central Italy over the last 200 years

    Nicola Surian;Massimo Rinaldi;Luisa Pellegrini;Chiara Audisio

  • A methodological framework for hydromorphological assessment, analysis and monitoring (IDRAIM) aimed at promoting integrated river management

    M. Rinaldi;N. Surian;F. Comiti;M. Bussettini

  • Morphological effects of different channel-forming discharges in a gravel-bed river

    Nicola Surian;Luca Mao;Matteo Giacomin;Luca Ziliani

  • Vegetation turnover in a braided river: frequency and effectiveness of floods of different magnitude

    Nicola Surian;Matteo Barban;Luca Ziliani;Giovanni Monegato

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Comiti
Francesco Comiti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Massimo Rinaldi
Massimo Rinaldi University of Florence
Luca Mao
Luca Mao University of Lincoln
Lorenzo Marchi
Lorenzo Marchi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Angela M. Gurnell
Angela M. Gurnell Queen Mary University of London
Walter Bertoldi
Walter Bertoldi University of Trento
Mario Aristide Lenzi
Mario Aristide Lenzi University of Padua
Matteo Massironi
Matteo Massironi University of Padua
Saskia Keesstra
Saskia Keesstra Wageningen University & Research

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