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Stefano Manzoni

Stefano Manzoni

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
20941
World Ranking
2137
National Ranking
47

Overview

Stefano Manzoni is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research work spans several subfields including soil science, ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics addressed in their research include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage, 2023, Nature
  • Dryland productivity under a changing climate, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models, 2021, New Phytologist

Stefano Manzoni frequently collaborates with several coauthors in their research projects. Notable coauthors include Gustaf Hugelius, Philippe Ciais, Arjun Chakrawal, Giulia Vico, and Anna Scaini.

Their work has been published repeatedly in key scientific venues including Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These publications reflect a consistent involvement in environmental and soil-related research communities.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils

    Stefano Manzoni;Philip Taylor;Andreas Richter;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis

    Stefano Manzoni;Joshua P. Schimel;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to moisture availability: An exploration of processes and models

    Fernando E. Moyano;Stefano Manzoni;Claire Chenu

  • Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Stefano Manzoni;Daryl L. Moorhead;Andreas Richter

  • Stoichiometric controls on carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing litter

    Stefano Manzoni;John A. Trofymow;Robert B. Jackson;Amilcare Porporato

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization: Theory and models across scales

    Stefano Manzoni;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

    Johannes Lehmann;Johannes Lehmann;Colleen M. Hansel;Christina Kaiser;Markus Kleber

  • The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

    Stefano Manzoni;Robert B. Jackson;John A. Trofymow;Amilcare Porporato

  • Global resorption efficiencies and concentrations of carbon and nutrients in leaves of terrestrial plants

    Leonardus Vergutz;Leonardus Vergutz;Stefano Manzoni;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato;Roberto Ferreira Novais

  • Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage

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  • Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil‐plant‐atmosphere‐climate system

    Gabriel G. Katul;Gabriel G. Katul;Ram Oren;Ram Oren;Stefano Manzoni;Chad Higgins

  • A stomatal optimization theory to describe the effects of atmospheric CO2 on leaf photosynthesis and transpiration

    Gabriel Katul;Stefano Manzoni;Sari Palmroth;Ram Oren

  • Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions : Status and challenges for research, engineering and management

    Josefin Thorslund;Jerker Jarsjo;Fernando Jaramillo;James W. Jawitz

  • A theoretical analysis of microbial eco-physiological and diffusion limitations to carbon cycling in drying soils

    Stefano Manzoni;Stefano Manzoni;S. M. Schaeffer;G. Katul;A. Porporato

  • Dryland productivity under a changing climate

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  • Optimizing stomatal conductance for maximum carbon gain under water stress: a meta-analysis across plant functional types and climates

    Stefano Manzoni;Giulia Vico;Gabriel Katul;Philip A. Fay

  • Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

    Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville;Justin Maxwell;Daniel Kneeshaw;Neil Pederson

  • Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety–efficiency trade‐off

    Stefano Manzoni;Giulia Vico;Gabriel Katul;Sari Palmroth;Sari Palmroth

  • Modelling water fluxes in plants: from tissues to biosphere.

    Maurizio Mencuccini;Stefano Manzoni;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics.

    Oskar Franklin;Oskar Franklin;Sandy P Harrison;Roderick C Dewar;Roderick C Dewar;Caroline Farrior

  • Search for heavy resonances decaying to a W or Z boson and a Higgs boson in the qq¯⁽´⁾bb¯ final state in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • A theoretical analysis of nonlinearities and feedbacks in soil carbon and nitrogen cycles

    Stefano Manzoni;Amilcare Porporato

Frequent Co-Authors

Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Giulia Vico
Giulia Vico Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Sari Palmroth
Sari Palmroth Duke University
Martin Weih
Martin Weih Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Danielle A. Way
Danielle A. Way University of Western Ontario
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Joshua P. Schimel
Joshua P. Schimel University of California, Santa Barbara

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