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Pierluigi Viaroli

Pierluigi Viaroli

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
8052
World Ranking
4120
National Ranking
59

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
7890
World Ranking
16359
National Ranking
516

Overview

Pierluigi Viaroli is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in environmental and earth sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected disciplines, focusing primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, they have explored various subfields including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

The central topics in Pierluigi Viaroli's research are:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Viaroli's work has been published in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Water
  • River Research and Applications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Freshwater Biology

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Seasonal and Interannual Trends of Oceanographic Parameters over 40 Years in the Northern Adriatic Sea in Relation to Nutrient Loadings Using the EMODnet Chemistry Data Portal," 2020, Water
  • "Using invertebrate functional traits to improve flow variability assessment within European rivers," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Denitrification, Nitrogen Uptake, and Organic Matter Quality Undergo Different Seasonality in Sandy and Muddy Sediments of a Turbid Estuary," 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Communities in high definition: Spatial and environmental factors shape the micro-distribution of aquatic invertebrates," 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • "Effect of microhabitats, mesohabitats and spatial position on macroinvertebrate communities of a braided river," 2021, Journal of Ecohydraulics

Frequent collaborative partners in their research include:

  • Alex Laini
  • Gemma Burgazzi
  • Daniele Nizzoli
  • Paolo Vezza
  • Marco Bartoli

Best Publications

  • Community shifts, alternative stable states, biogeochemical controls and feedbacks in eutrophic coastal lagoons: a brief overview

    Pierluigi Viaroli;Marco Bartoli;Gianmarco Giordani;Mariachiara Naldi

  • Impact of clam and mussel farming on benthic metabolism and nitrogen cycling, with emphasis on nitrate reduction pathways

    Daniele Nizzoli;David Thomas Welsh;Elisa Anna Fano;Pierluigi Viaroli

  • Impact of Tapes philippinarum farming on nutrient dynamics and benthic respiration in the Sacca di Goro

    Marco Bartoli;Daniele Nizzoli;Pierluigi Viaroli;Edoardo Turolla

  • Denitrification, nitrogen fixation, community primary productivity and inorganic-N and oxygen fluxes in an intertidal Zostera noltii meadow

    David T. Welsh;Marco Bartoli;Daniele Nizzoli;Giuseppe Castaldelli

  • Macrophyte communities and their impact on benthic fluxes of oxygen, sulphide and nutrients in shallow eutrophic environments

    Pierluigi Viaroli;Marco Bartoli;Cristina Bondavalli;Robert R. Christian

  • Eutrophication in transitional waters: an overview

    José-Manuel Zaldívar;Pierluigi Viaroli;Alice Newton;Rutger De Wit

  • Typology in Mediterranean transitional waters: new challenges and perspectives

    A. Basset;L. Sabetta;A. Fonnesu;D. Mouillot

  • Iron, sulphur and phosphorus cycling in the rhizosphere sediments of a eutrophic Ruppia cirrhosa meadow (Valle Smarlacca, Italy)

    Roberta Azzoni;Gianmarco Giordani;Marco Bartoli;David T Welsh

  • Protocol handbook for NICE - Nitrogen Cycling in Estuaries: a project under the EU research programme: Marine Science and Technology (MAST III)

    T. Dalsgaard;L. P. Nielsen;V. Brotas;P. Viaroli

  • Seasonal variations of selected herbicides and related metabolites in water, sediment, seaweed and clams in the Sacca di Goro coastal lagoon (Northern Adriatic).

    R. Carafa;J. Wollgast;E. Canuti;J. Ligthart

  • Effect of organic enrichment and thermal regime on denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) in hypolimnetic sediments of two lowland lakes.

    Daniele Nizzoli;Elisa Carraro;Valentina Nigro;Pierluigi Viaroli

  • ROBUST: The ROle of BUffering capacities in STabilising coastal lagoon ecosystems

    R. De Wit;L.J. Stal;B.A. Lomstein;R.A. Herbert

  • Decomposition of four macrophytes in wetland sediments: Organic matter and nutrient decay and associated benthic processes

    Daniele Longhi;Marco Bartoli;Pierluigi Viaroli

  • Influence of hydrological connectivity of riverine wetlands on nitrogen removal via denitrification

    E. Racchetti;Marco Bartoli;E. Soana;D. Longhi

  • Nitrate uptake and storage in the seaweed Ulva rigida C. Agardh in relation to nitrate availability and thallus nitrate content in a eutrophic coastal lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Po River Delta, Italy)

    Mariachiara Naldi;Pierluigi Viaroli

  • Simple tools for assessing water quality and trophic status in transitional water ecosystems

    G. Giordani;J.M. Zaldívar;P. Viaroli

  • Implications for oxygen, nutrient fluxes and denitrification rates during the early stage of sediment colonisation by the polychaete Nereis spp. in four estuaries

    Daniele Nizzoli;Marco Bartoli;Martin Cooper;David Thomas Welsh

  • Impacts of mussel (mytilus galloprovincialis) farming on oxygen consumption and nutrient recycling in a eutrophic coastal lagoon

    Daniele Nizzoli;David Thomas Welsh;Marco Bartoli;Pierluigi Viaroli

  • Growth of the seaweed Ulva rigida C. Agardh in relation to biomass densities, internal nutrient pools and external nutrient supply in the Sacca di Goro lagoon (Northern Italy)

    Pierluigi Viaroli;Mariachiara Naldi;Cristina Bondavalli;Silvano Bencivelli

  • Evolution of the Trophic Conditions and Dystrophic Outbreaks in the Sacca di Goro Lagoon (Northern Adriatic Sea)

    P. Viaroli;R. Azzoni;M. Bartoli;G. Giordani

  • Space and time variations of watershed N and P budgets and their relationships with reactive N and P loadings in a heavily impacted river basin (Po river, Northern Italy).

    Pierluigi Viaroli;Elisa Soana;Silvano Pecora;Alex Laini

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Bartoli
Marco Bartoli University of Parma
G. Giordani
G. Giordani University of Parma
David T. Welsh
David T. Welsh Griffith University
Giuseppe Castaldelli
Giuseppe Castaldelli University of Ferrara
Robert R. Christian
Robert R. Christian East Carolina University
Alberto Basset
Alberto Basset University of Salento
Nico Salmaso
Nico Salmaso Fondazione Edmund Mach
Mauro Fabiano
Mauro Fabiano University of Genoa
Giulio A. De Leo
Giulio A. De Leo Stanford University

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