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Stochastic dynamics of cholera epidemics

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Amos Maritan

We describe the predictions of an analytically tractable stochastic model for cholera epidemics following a single initial outbreak. The exact model relies on a set of assumptions that may restrict the generality of the approach and yet provides a realm of ...

American Physical Society2010

Comparative study of ecohydrological streamflow probability distributions

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Serena Ceola, Gianluca Botter

We run a comparative study of ecohydrological models of streamflow probability distributions (pdfs), p(Q), derived by Botter et al. (2007a, 2009), against field data gathered in different hydrological contexts. Streamflows measured in several catchments ac ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Hydrological drivers of wetland vegetation community distribution within Everglades National Park, Florida

Andrea Rinaldo

The influence of hydrological dynamics on vegetation distribution and the structuring of wetland environments is of growing interest as wetlands are modified by human action and the increasing threat from climate change. Hydrological properties have long b ...

Elsevier2010

Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis, Gianluca Botter

In this paper we extend recent theoretical results on the structure of the probability density function of streamflows forced by stochastic rainfall sequences. Our extension is aimed at incorporating an additional, independent source of variability assumed ...

2010

The importance of being coupled: Stable states and catastrophic shifts in tidal biomorphodynamics

Andrea Rinaldo

We describe and apply a point model of the joint evolution of tidal landforms and biota which incorporates the dynamics of intertidal vegetation; benthic microbial assemblages; erosional, depositional, and sediment exchange processes; wind-wave dynamics, a ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Inferring plant ecosystem organization from species occurrences

Andrea Rinaldo

In this paper, we present an approach capable of extracting insights on ecosystem organization from merely occurrence (presence/absence) data. We extrapolate to the collective behavior by encapsulating some simplifying assumptions within a given set of con ...

Elsevier2010

How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

Cara Christine Tobin, Andrea Rinaldo

2010

On Spatially Explicit Models of Cholera Epidemics

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Marino Gatto

We generalize a recently proposed model for cholera epidemics that accounts for local communities of susceptibles and infectives in a spatially explicit arrangement of nodes linked by networks having different topologies. The vehicle of infection (Vibrio c ...

2010

A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

It has been known for decades that the metabolic rate of animals scales with body mass with an exponent that is almost always 2/3, and often very close to 3/4. The 3/4 exponent emerges naturally from two models of resource distribution networks, radia ...

National Academy of Sciences2010

Daily streamflow analysis based on a two-scaled gamma pulse model

Andrea Rinaldo, Gianluca Botter

In this paper, we develop a simple analysis method to infer some properties of the watershed processes from daily streamflow data. The method is built on a simple streamflow model with a link to rainfall stochasticity, which characterizes the streamflow as ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Nonlinear storage-discharge relations and catchment streamflow regimes

Andrea Rinaldo, Gianluca Botter

Nonlinear storage-discharge relations may explain important hydrologic features frequently observed under a variety of environmental conditions. In this paper the catchment dynamic storage problem is addressed by incorporating nonlinear storage-discharge r ...

American Geophysical Union2009

River Networks as Ecological Corridors: a Complex Systems Perspective for Integrating Hydrologic, Geomorphological and Ecologic Dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

This paper synthesizes recent works at the interface of hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology under an integrated framework of analysis with an aim for a general theory. It addresses a wide range of related topics, including biodiversity of freshwater fish ...

American Geophysical Union2009

On neutral metacommunity patterns of river basins at different scales of aggregation

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

Neutral metacommunity models for spatial biodiversity patterns are implemented on river networks acting as ecological corridors at different resolution. Coarse-graining elevation fields (under the constraint of preserving the basin mean elevation) produce ...

American Geophysical Union2009

Predicting spacial similarity of freshwater fish biodiversity

Mihaela Marian, Andrea Rinaldo

A major issue in modern ecology is to understand how ecological complexity at broad scales is regulated by mechanisms operating at the organismic level. What specific underlying processes are essential for a macroecological pattern to emerge? Here, we anal ...

2009

Universal scaling of optimal current distributions in transportation networks

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

Transportation networks are inevitably selected with reference to their global cost which depends on the strengths and the distribution of the embedded currents. We prove that optimal current distributions for a uniformly injected d-dimensional network exh ...

2009

Inferences from catchment-scale tracer circulation experiments

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Gianluca Botter

In this paper the mechanisms determining the mobilization and transport of solutes driven by rainfall through runoff pathways at catchment scales are investigated through the analysis of tracer experiments. The hydro-chemical response of a small catchment ...

Elsevier2009

On the geographic range of freshwater ﬁsh in river basins

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

We study the observed geographic distribution of freshwater fish species in the Mississippi-Missouri river system, focusing on the size and spatial distribution of geographic ranges. We use a particular metric of geographic distribution known as environmen ...

American Geophysical Union2009

On the O'Brien-Jarrett-Marchi law

Andrea Rinaldo

The relationship between the total water volume entering a lagoon during a characteristic tidal cycle (i.e., the prism) and the size of its inlet is well established empirically since the classic work of O'Brien and Jarrett widely cited in the geomorphic a ...

Springer Milan2009

Coupled hydrologic and vegetation dynamics in wetland ecosystems

Andrea Rinaldo

2008

Sea Level Rise, Hydrologic Runoff and the Flooding of Venice

Andrea Rinaldo, Ludovico Nicotina, Gianluca Botter

American Geophysical Union2008

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