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A transmission model of the 2010 cholera epidemic in haiti

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Righetto, Melanie Blokesch, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

2011

Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

We present a novel conceptual framework and methodology for studying virtual water trade. We utilize complex network theory to analyze the structure of the global virtual water trade associated with the international food trade. In the global virtual water ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Metabolic principles of river basin organization

Andrea Rinaldo

The metabolism of a river basin is defined as the set of processes through which the basin maintains its structure and responds to its environment. Green (or biotic) metabolism is measured via transpiration and blue (or abiotic) metabolism through runoff. ...

2011

Evolution of dispersal in explicitly spatial metacommunities

Andrea Rinaldo

We apply an evolutionary game theoretic approach to the evolution of dispersal in explicitly spatial metacommunities, using a flexible parametric class of dispersal kernels, namely 2Dt kernels, and study the resulting evolutionary dynamics and outcomes. We ...

Elsevier2011

Dynamics of wetland vegetation under multiple stresses: a case study of changes in sawgrass trait, structure, and productivity under coupled plant-soil- microbe dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo

This paper quantifies wetland vegetation dynamics under drought, waterlogging, shading, and nutrient stresses within the coupled plant-soil-microbe system. A plant is characterized by three independent traits, namely leaf nitrogen (N) content, specific lea ...

2011

Catchment residence and travel time distributions: The master equation

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Gianluca Botter

The probability density functions (pdf's) of travel and residence times are key descriptors of the mechanisms through which catchments retain and release old and event water, transporting solutes to receiving water bodies. In this paper we analyze theoreti ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Prediction of the spatial evolution and effects of control measures for the unfolding Haiti cholera outbreak

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Righetto, Melanie Blokesch, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

Here we propose spatially explicit predictions of the residual progression of the current Haiti cholera outbreak accounting for the dynamics of susceptible and infected individuals within different local human communities, and for the redistribution among ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Prescription-induced jump distributions in multiplicative Poisson processes

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

Generalized Langevin equations (GLE) with multiplicative white Poisson noise pose the usual prescription dilemma leading to different evolution equations (master equations) for the probability distribution. Contrary to the case of multiplicative gaussian w ...

2011

Modelling human movement in cholera spreading along fluvial systems

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

We propose an important extension of a previously studied, spatially explicit and hydrology-driven, model of cholera spreading. Our reformulation concerns the role of different modelizations of human movement on the overall dynamics of the epidemics, which ...

2011

Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis, Lorenzo Mari, Amos Maritan

Natural ecosystems are characterized by striking diversity of form and functions and yet exhibit deep symmetries emerging across scales of space, time, and organizational complexity. Species-area relationships and species-abundance distributions are exampl ...

2011

Hydrologic controls and anthropogenic drivers of the zebra mussel invasion of the Mississippi-Missouri river system

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto

We propose a novel ecohydrological model for the invasion of inland waters by the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha and test it against field data gathered within the Mississippi-Missouri river system in North America. This biological invasion poses major ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Structure and Controls of the Global Virtual Water Trade Network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

Recurrent or ephemeral water shortages are a crucial global challenge, in particular because of their impacts on food production. The global character of this challenge is reflected in the trade among nations of virtual water, i.e. the amount of water used ...

2011

Potential impacts of precipitation change on large-scale patterns of tree diversity

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

Forests are globally important ecosystems host to outstanding biological diversity. Widespread efforts have addressed the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in these ecosystems. We show that a metacommunity model founded on basic ecological processe ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Spanning traceroutes over modular networks and general scaling degree distributions

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

We analyze the class of networks characterized by modular structure where a sequence of l Erdos-Renyi random networks of size N >> 1 with random average degrees is joined by links whose structure must remain immaterial. We find that traceroutes spanning th ...

American Physical Society2010

Transport in the hydrologic response: Travel time distributions, soil moisture dynamics, and the old water paradox

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Gianluca Botter

We propose a mathematical framework for the general definition and computation of travel time distributions defined by the closure of a catchment control volume, where the input flux is an arbitrary rainfall pattern and the output fluxes are green and blue ...

American Geophysical Union2010

On the tidal prism–channel area relations

Andrea Rinaldo

We verify the broad applicability of tidal prism cross-sectional area relationships, originally proposed to relate the total water volume entering a lagoon during a characteristic tidal cycle (the tidal prism) to the size of its inlet, to arbitrary shelter ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Natural streamflow regime alterations: Damming of the Piave river basin (Italy)

Andrea Rinaldo, Gianluca Botter

A novel approach is proposed to estimate the natural streamflow regime of a river and to assess the extent of the alterations induced by dam operation related to anthropogenic (e. g., agricultural, hydropower) water uses in engineered river basins. The met ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Stochastic modeling of soil salinity

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

A minimalist stochastic model of primary soil salinity is proposed, in which the rate of soil salinization is determined by the balance between dry and wet salt deposition and the intermittent leaching events caused by rainfall events. The long term probab ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Ecohydrology of Terrestrial Ecosystems

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo d'Odorico

Water controls the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems directly, as a resource for the biota, and indirectly, as a driver for abiotic processes on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, and belowground The biota, in turn, modulate several hydrological proc ...

American Institute of Biological Sciences2010

Stochastic modeling of nutrient losses in streams: Interactions of climatic, hydrologic, and biogeochemical controls

Andrea Rinaldo, Gianluca Botter

We present an analytical, stochastic approach for quantifying intra-annual fluctuations of in-stream nutrient losses induced by naturally variable hydrologic conditions. The relevance of the problem we address lies in the growing concern for the major envi ...

American Geophysical Union2010

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