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35
Citations
7062
World Ranking
7283
National Ranking
153

Overview

Pierpaolo Duce is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, focusing on research within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects such as fire effects on ecosystems, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, landslides and related hazards, species distribution and climate change, land use and ecosystem services, and horticultural and viticultural research.

They have authored several recent papers, including:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2021) published in Scientific Data
  • Direct observations of CO2 emission reductions due to COVID-19 lockdown across European urban districts (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Application of simulation modeling for wildfire exposure and transmission assessment in Sardinia, Italy (2021) published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Spatial Patterns and Intensity of Land Abandonment Drive Wildfire Hazard and Likelihood in Mediterranean Agropastoral Areas (2022) published in Land

Their frequent co-authors include Bachisio Arca, Grazia Pellizzaro, Michele Salis, Enrico Vagnoni, and Liliana Del Giudice.

Common venues for their publications are Scientific Data, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Cleaner Environmental Systems, Data in Brief, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Chilling and forcing model to predict bud-burst of crop and forest species

    Carla Cesaraccio;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Richard L. Snyder;Pierpaolo Duce

  • An improved model for determining degree-day values from daily temperature data.

    Carla Cesaraccio;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Pierpaolo Duce;Richard L. Snyder

  • Phenological stages of natural species and their use as climate indicators

    D. Spano;Carla Cesaraccio;Pierpaolo Duce;Richard L. Snyder

  • Evaluation of FARSITE simulator in Mediterranean maquis

    Bachisio Arca;Pierpaolo Duce;Maurizio Laconi;Grazia Pellizzaro

  • Multi-GCM projections of future drought and climate variability indicators for the Mediterranean region

    Martin Dubrovský;Michael Hayes;Pierpaolo Duce;Miroslav Trnka

  • Estimating sensible and latent heat flux densities from grapevine canopies using surface renewal.

    D Spano;R.L Snyder;P Duce

  • Using CERES-Wheat to simulate durum wheat production and phenology in Southern Sardinia, Italy

    Marco Dettori;Carla Cesaraccio;Andrea Motroni;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano

  • Assessing exposure of human and ecological values to wildfire in Sardinia, Italy

    Michele Salis;Michele Salis;Alan A. Ager;Bachisio Arca;Mark A. Finney

  • Seasonal variations of live moisture content and ignitability in shrubs of the Mediterranean Basin

    G. Pellizzaro;P. Duce;A. Ventura;P. Zara

  • Relationships between seasonal patterns of live fuel moisture and meteorological drought indices for Mediterranean shrubland species

    G. Pellizzaro;C. Cesaraccio;P. Duce;A. Ventura

  • Estimation of Water Stress in grapevines using proximal and remote sensing methods

    Alessandro Matese;Rita Baraldi;Andrea Berton;Carla Cesaraccio

  • An automated approach for wood-leaf separation from terrestrial LIDAR point clouds using the density based clustering algorithm DBSCAN

    Roberto Ferrara;Salvatore G.P. Virdis;Andrea Ventura;Tiziano Ghisu

  • Carbon footprint assessment on a mature vineyard

    Serena Marras;Serena Marras;Sara Masia;Pierpaolo Duce;Donatella Spano;Donatella Spano

  • Temperature data for phenological models.

    Richard L. Snyder;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Pierpaolo Duce;Carla Cesaraccio

  • Responses of the reflectance indices PRI and NDVI to experimental warming and drought in European shrublands along a north-south climatic gradient

    Pille Mänd;Lea Hallik;Lea Hallik;Josep Peñuelas;Tiit Nilson

  • Carbon and nitrogen balances for six shrublands across Europe

    Claus Beier;Bridget A. Emmett;Albert Tietema;Inger Kappel Schmidt

  • Modeling the effects of different fuel treatment mosaics on wildfire spread and behavior in a Mediterranean agro-pastoral area

    Michele Salis;Liliana Del Giudice;Bachisio Arca;Alan A. Ager

  • Predicting wildfire spread and behaviour in Mediterranean landscapes

    Michele Salis;Michele Salis;Bachisio Arca;Fermin Alcasena;Margarita Arianoutsou

  • A fuel dryness index for grassland fire-danger assessment

    Richard L. Snyder;Donatella Emma Ignazia Spano;Pierpaolo Duce;Dennis Baldocchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Donatella Spano
Donatella Spano University of Sassari
Richard L. Snyder
Richard L. Snyder University of California, Davis
Alan A. Ager
Alan A. Ager US Forest Service
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Mark A. Finney
Mark A. Finney US Forest Service
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam

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