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Riccardo Valentini

Riccardo Valentini

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Ecology and Evolution
Italy
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
94
Citations
67325
World Ranking
367
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Riccardo Valentini is affiliated with Tuscia University in Italy and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research covers various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their research topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Valentini has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Forests
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Preprints.org

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration," 2020, National Science Review
  • "A multilevel carbon and water footprint dataset of food commodities," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "IoT Monitoring of Urban Tree Ecosystem Services: Possibilities and Challenges," 2020, Forests
  • "A Proposal for a Forest Digital Twin Framework and Its Perspectives," 2022, Forests
  • "Forecasting COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations under Different Levels of Social Distancing in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy: Results from an Extended SEIR Compartmental Model," 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent collaborators in the academic network of Valentini include Issam Boukhris, Monia Santini, Simona Castaldi, Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, and Saïd Lahssini.

In addition to articles, Valentini has contributed to book publications with Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure, 2021
  • Smart and Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Challenges and Solutions, 2023

Riccardo Valentini was recognized with the award of Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

    Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: the EUROFLUX methodology

    Marc Aubinet;Achim Grelle;Andreas Ibrom;Üllar Rannik

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

  • Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation

    Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;Marc Aubinet;Eleonora Canfora

  • Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

    I R Noble;Michael J Apps;Richard A Houghton;Daniel Lashof

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

  • Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types

    John A. Gamon;Christopher B. Field;Michael L. Goulden;Kevin L. Griffin

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Annual variation in soil respiration and its components in a coppice oak forest in Central Italy

    Ana Rey;Emiliano Pegoraro;Vanessa Tedeschi;Ilaria De Parri

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Modeling temporal and large‐scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices

    Markus Reichstein;Ana Rey;Annette Freibauer;John Tenhunen

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Simona Castaldi
Simona Castaldi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
John Tenhunen
John Tenhunen University of Bayreuth
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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