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Paola Adamo is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. The subfields of study where they have contributed include Plant Science, Pollution, Physiology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their work cover Heavy metals in environment, Planetary Science and Exploration, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects, Light effects on plants, Lichen and fungal ecology, Identification and Quantification in Food, and Spaceflight effects on biology.

Frequent collaboration is evident with several co-authors, including Antonio Giandonato Caporale, Stefania De Pascale, Luigi Giuseppe Duri, Diana Agrelli, and Youssef Rouphael. These collaborations point to a focus on interdisciplinary research involving agriculture, environmental science, and space-related biological studies.

Their research has been published extensively in specific academic venues such as Plants, Agronomy, The Science of The Total Environment, Food Chemistry, and the Journal of Environmental Management.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paola Adamo include:

  • Copper accumulation in agricultural soils: Risks for the food chain and soil microbial populations (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • The Potential for Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants to Sustain Plant Growth: A Multidisciplinary Overview (2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences)
  • Bioaccessibility of potentially toxic metals in soil, sediments and tailings from a north Africa phosphate-mining area: Insight into human health risk assessment (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Use of near-infrared spectroscopy combined with chemometrics for authentication and traceability of intact lemon fruits (2021, Food Chemistry)
  • Mars Regolith Simulant Ameliorated by Compost as in situ Cultivation Substrate Improves Lettuce Growth and Nutritional Aspects (2020, Plants)

Their work often addresses the impact of environmental contaminants such as heavy metals on agricultural ecosystems and human health risk assessment. Additionally, they explore plant growth under extraterrestrial soil conditions, intersecting planetary science and biological experimentation relevant to space exploration.

Research themes related to the effects of light on plants, as well as the ecological roles of lichens and fungi, also appear prominently in their publication record.

Best Publications

  • Spatial distribution of heavy metals in urban soils of Naples city (Italy).

    M Imperato;P Adamo;D Naimo;M Arienzo

  • Distribution and partition of heavy metals in surface and sub-surface sediments of Naples city port.

    P. Adamo;M. Arienzo;M. Imperato;D. Naimo

  • Weathering of rocks and neogenesis of minerals associated with lichen activity

    Paola Adamo;Pietro Violante

  • Moss bag biomonitoring: a methodological review.

    A. Ares;J.R. Aboal;A. Carballeira;S. Giordano

  • Trace element accumulation by moss and lichen exposed in bags in the city of Naples (Italy)

    P Adamo;S Giordano;S Vingiani;R Castaldo Cobianchi

  • The potential of Lolium perenne for revegetation of contaminated soil from a metallurgical site.

    M. Arienzo;P. Adamo;V. Cozzolino

  • Trace Elements in Manganese-Iron Nodules from a Chinese Alfisol

    F. Liu;C. Colombo;P. Adamo;J. Z. He

  • Bioavailability and soil-to-plant transfer factors as indicators of potentially toxic element contamination in agricultural soils.

    Paola Adamo;Pietro Iavazzo;Stefano Albanese;Diana Agrelli

  • Atmospheric trace metal pollution in the Naples urban area based on results from moss and lichen bags

    S. Giordano;P. Adamo;S. Sorbo;S. Vingiani

  • Chemical and mineralogical forms of Cu and Ni in contaminated soils from the Sudbury mining and smelting region, Canada.

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  • Lichen and moss bags as monitoring devices in urban areas. Part I: Influence of exposure on sample vitality

    M. Tretiach;P. Adamo;R. Bargagli;L. Baruffo

  • Lichen and moss bags as monitoring devices in urban areas. Part II: trace element content in living and dead biomonitors and comparison with synthetic materials

    P. Adamo;P. Crisafulli;S. Giordano;V. Minganti

  • Characterization of heavy metals in contaminated volcanic soils of the Solofrana river valley (southern Italy)

    Paola Adamo;Laurence Denaix;Fabio Terribile;Mariavittoria Zampella

  • Monitoring metal pollution in soils using portable-XRF and conventional laboratory-based techniques: Evaluation of the performance and limitations according to metal properties and sources.

    Antonio G. Caporale;Paola Adamo;Fiore Capozzi;Giuliano Langella

  • Retention of arsenic on hydrous ferric oxides generated by electrochemical peroxidation

    Michele Arienzo;Paola Adamo;Jeffrey Chiarenzelli;Maria R. Bianco

  • Impact of river overflowing on trace element contamination of volcanic soils in south Italy: Part II. Soil biological and biochemical properties in relation to trace element speciation

    R. D'Ascoli;M.A. Rao;P. Adamo;G. Renella

  • Copper accumulation in agricultural soils: Risks for the food chain and soil microbial populations

    Massimo Fagnano;Diana Agrelli;Alberto Pascale;Paola Adamo

  • Accumulation of airborne trace elements in mosses, lichens and synthetic materials exposed at urban monitoring stations: Towards a harmonisation of the moss-bag technique

    S. Giordano;P. Adamo;V. Spagnuolo;Mauro Tretiach

  • Heavy metal contamination of the soils used for stocking raw materials in the former ILVA iron-steel industrial plant of Bagnoli (southern Italy).

    P Adamo;M Arienzo;M.R Bianco;F Terribile

  • Environmental and agronomic impact of fertilization with composted organic fraction from municipal solid waste: A case study in the region of Naples, Italy

    Massimo Fagnano;Paola Adamo;Mariavittoria Zampella;Nunzio Fiorentino

  • Mineralogy and chemical forms of lead and zinc in abandoned mine wastes and soils: An example from Morocco

    Pietro Iavazzo;Paola Adamo;Maria Boni;Stephen Hillier

  • Distribution of Trace Elements in Soils from the Sudbury Smelting Area (Ontario, Canada)

    Paola Adamo;S. Dudka;M. J. Wilson;W. J. McHardy

  • Impact of river overflowing on trace element contamination of volcanic soils in south Italy: part I. Trace element speciation in relation to soil properties.

    P. Adamo;M. Zampella;L. Gianfreda;G. Renella

Frequent Co-Authors

Simonetta Giordano
Simonetta Giordano University of Naples Federico II
Roberto Bargagli
Roberto Bargagli University of Siena
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University
Jesús R. Aboal
Jesús R. Aboal University of Santiago de Compostela
Stefano Albanese
Stefano Albanese University of Naples Federico II
Giancarlo Renella
Giancarlo Renella University of Padua
Youssef Rouphael
Youssef Rouphael University of Naples Federico II
Eva L. Decker
Eva L. Decker University of Freiburg
Nanthi Bolan
Nanthi Bolan University of Western Australia
Loretta Landi
Loretta Landi University of Florence

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