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Walter Bertoldi

Walter Bertoldi

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Overview

Walter Bertoldi is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a specific focus on several subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work centers on a variety of primary topics, notably:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geological formations and processes

Walter Bertoldi has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Improving river hydromorphological assessment through better integration of riparian vegetation: Scientific evidence and guidelines" (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Numerical Modeling of Instream Wood Transport, Deposition, and Accumulation in Braided Morphologies Under Unsteady Conditions: Sensitivity and High-Resolution Quantitative Model Validation" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Contrasting physical and chemical conditions of two rock glacier springs" (2021), published in Hydrological Processes
  • "The role of vegetation and large wood on the topographic characteristics of braided river systems" (2020), published in Geomorphology
  • "Morphometric properties of alternate bars and water discharge: a laboratory investigation" (2020), published in Earth Surface Dynamics

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • River Research and Applications
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Hydrological Processes

Walter Bertoldi collaborates regularly with several coauthors, the most frequent being:

  • Angela M. Gurnell
  • Guido Zolezzi
  • Geraldene Wharton
  • Francesco Comiti
  • Gianluca Vignoli

The body of work produced by Walter Bertoldi addresses complex environmental processes, particularly those related to hydrology, sediment transport, and landscape interactions. Their research contributes to understanding river systems, sediment dynamics, and watershed management through both experimental investigations and modeling approaches.

Best Publications

  • Changing river channels: the roles of hydrological processes, plants and pioneer fluvial landforms in humid temperate, mixed load, gravel bed rivers.

    Angela M. Gurnell;Walter Bertoldi;Walter Bertoldi;Dov Jean-François Corenblit

  • The topographic signature of vegetation development along a braided river: Results of a combined analysis of airborne lidar, color air photographs, and ground measurements

    W. Bertoldi;A. M. Gurnell;Nicholas Drake

  • Understanding reference processes: linkages between river flows, sediment dynamics and vegetated landforms along the Tagliamento River, Italy†

    Walter Bertoldi;Angela Gurnell;Angela Gurnell;Nicola Surian;Klement Tockner

  • Interactions between river flows and colonizing vegetation on a braided river: exploring spatial and temporal dynamics in riparian vegetation cover using satellite data

    W. Bertoldi;Nicholas Drake;A. M. Gurnell

  • Planform dynamics of braided streams

    Walter Bertoldi;Luca Zanoni;Marco Tubino

  • Ecosystem shifts in Alpine streams under glacier retreat and rock glacier thaw: A review

    Stefano Brighenti;Monica Tolotti;Maria Cristina Bruno;Geraldene Wharton

  • Assessment of morphological changes induced by flow and flood pulses in a gravel bed braided river: The Tagliamento River (Italy)

    W. Bertoldi;L. Zanoni;M. Tubino

  • Modeling vegetation controls on fluvial morphological trajectories

    Walter Bertoldi;Annunziato Siviglia;Stefano Tettamanti;Marco Toffolon

  • River bifurcations: Experimental observations on equilibrium configurations

    W. Bertoldi;M. Tubino

  • An assessment of the degree to which Landsat TM data can support the assessment of fluvial dynamics, as revealed by changes in vegetation extent and channel position, along a large river

    Alexander J. Henshaw;Angela M. Gurnell;Walter Bertoldi;Nicholas Drake

  • Wood recruitment and retention: The fate of eroded trees on a braided river explored using a combination of field and remotely-sensed data sources

    W. Bertoldi;A.M. Gurnell;M. Welber

  • Active width of gravel-bed braided rivers

    Peter Ashmore;Walter Bertoldi;J. Tobias Gardner

  • Vegetation turnover in a braided river: frequency and effectiveness of floods of different magnitude

    Nicola Surian;Matteo Barban;Luca Ziliani;Giovanni Monegato

  • Improving river hydromorphological assessment through better integration of riparian vegetation: Scientific evidence and guidelines

    Marta González del Tánago;Vanesa Martínez-Fernández;Francisca C. Aguiar;Walter Bertoldi

  • A method for estimating the mean bed load flux in braided rivers

    W. Bertoldi;P. Ashmore;M. Tubino

  • Multidecadal dynamics of alternate bars in the Alpine Rhine River

    Luca Adami;Walter Bertoldi;Guido Zolezzi

  • Physical modelling of the combined effect of vegetation and wood on river morphology

    W. Bertoldi;M. Welber;A.M. Gurnell;Luca Mao

  • Bed and bank evolution of bifurcating channels

    W. Bertoldi;M. Tubino

  • Morphological Analysis and Prediction of River Bifurcations

    Guido Zolezzi;Walter Bertoldi;Marco Tubino

  • Six decades of changes in the riparian corridor of a Mediterranean river: a synthetic analysis based on historical data sources

    V. Garófano-Gómez;F. Martínez-Capel;W. Bertoldi;A. Gurnell

  • Wood dispersal in braided streams: Results from physical modeling

    Matilde Welber;Walter Bertoldi;Marco Tubino

  • Interaction between migrating bars and bifurcations in gravel-bed rivers

    W. Bertoldi;L. Zanoni;S. Miori;Rodolfo Repetto

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela M. Gurnell
Angela M. Gurnell Queen Mary University of London
Francesco Comiti
Francesco Comiti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nicola Surian
Nicola Surian University of Padua
Luca Mao
Luca Mao University of Lincoln
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva University of Lausanne
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
James Brasington
James Brasington University of Canterbury
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen

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