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42
Citations
11584
World Ranking
5436
National Ranking
99

Overview

Simona Castaldi is affiliated with the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable focus on Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics Simona Castaldi's work covers include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Organic Food and Agriculture.

Their frequent co-authors include Marta Antonelli, Riccardo Valentini, Andrea Magnani, Katarzyna Dembska, and Eleonora Grilli.

Simona Castaldi has published in multiple venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Forests
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Ecological Indicators
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Selected recent papers from Simona Castaldi's work include:

  • "The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017" (2020), published in NOAA Institutional Repository
  • "A multilevel carbon and water footprint dataset of food commodities" (2021), published in Scientific Data
  • "IoT Monitoring of Urban Tree Ecosystem Services: Possibilities and Challenges" (2020), published in Forests
  • "Critical range of soil organic carbon in southern Europe lands under desertification risk" (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Determining organic versus conventional food emissions to foster the transition to sustainable food systems and diets: Insights from a systematic review" (2022), published in Journal of Cleaner Production

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Biochar as a strategy to sequester carbon and increase yield in durum wheat

    F.P. Vaccari;S. Baronti;E. Lugato;L. Genesio

  • Impact of biochar application to a Mediterranean wheat crop on soil microbial activity and greenhouse gas fluxes

    S. Castaldi;M. Riondino;S. Baronti;F.R. Esposito

  • Effect of biochar addition on soil microbial community in a wheat crop

    F.A. Rutigliano;M. Romano;R. Marzaioli;I. Baglivo

  • A full greenhouse gases budget of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities

    R. Valentini;R. Valentini;A. Arneth;A. Bombelli;S. Castaldi

  • The impact of selective logging and clearcutting on forest structure, tree diversity and above-ground biomass of African tropical forests

    Roberto Cazzolla Gatti;Roberto Cazzolla Gatti;Simona Castaldi;Jeremy A. Lindsell;David A. Coomes

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from European agriculture - an analysis of variability and drivers of emissions from field experiments

    R. M. Rees;J. Augustin;G. Alberti;B. C. Ball

  • Responses of nitrous oxide, dinitrogen and carbon dioxide production and oxygen consumption to temperature in forest and agricultural light-textured soils determined by model experiment

    Simona Castaldi

  • Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000-2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • An outlook on the Sub-Saharan Africa carbon balance

    A. Bombelli;M. Henry;M. Henry;S. Castaldi;S. Adu-Bredu

  • Effect of cycloheximide on N2O and NO3(-) production in a forest and an agricultural soil.

    S. Castaldi;K. A. Smith

  • Fluxes of N2O and CH4 from soils of savannas and seasonally‐dry ecosystems

    Simona Castaldi;Antonella Ermice;Sandro Strumia

  • Inhibition of net nitrification activity in a Mediterranean woodland: possible role of chemicals produced by Arbutus unedo

    Simona Castaldi;Anna Carfora;Antonio Fiorentino;Angela Natale

  • The response of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes to forest change in Europe

    P. Gundersen;J. R. Christiansen;J. R. Christiansen;G. Alberti;N. Brüggemann;N. Brüggemann

  • Soil activities related to nitrogen cycle under three plant cover types in Mediterranean environment

    F.A. Rutigliano;S. Castaldi;R. D’Ascoli;S. Papa

  • Impact of fire on fungal abundance and microbial efficiency in C assimilation and mineralisation in a Mediterranean maquis soil

    F. A. Rutigliano;A. De Marco;R. D’Ascoli;S. Castaldi

  • A multilevel carbon and water footprint dataset of food commodities.

    Tashina Petersson;Luca Secondi;Andrea Magnani;Marta Antonelli

  • Factors influencing nitrification and denitrification variability in a natural and fire-disturbed Mediterranean shrubland

    Simona Castaldi;Danilo Aragosa

  • Soil-Atmosphere Methane Exchange in Undisturbed and Burned Mediterranean Shrubland of Southern Italy

    Simona Castaldi;Angelo Fierro

  • Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000--2012 (in open review in ACPD) doi: 10.5194/acp-2017-296

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Apostolos Voulgarakis Imperial College London
Giuseppe Etiope
Giuseppe Etiope National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Marielle Saunois
Marielle Saunois Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Paul B. Krummel
Paul B. Krummel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ray L. Langenfelds
Ray L. Langenfelds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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