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Ecohydrological Footprints : Quantitative Response of Ecosystems to Changes in their Hydrological Drivers

Ecohydrological footprints are defined as the response of ecosystem functions or services to changes in their hydrologic drivers. In this thesis, several diverse footprints are addressed: noise-driven effects on storage-discharge relations and catchment st ...

EPFL2011

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

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis

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

Biophysical controls on cluster dynamics and architectural differentiation of microbial biofilms in contrasting flow environments

Andrea Rinaldo, Tom Ian Battin, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Samir Suweis

Ecology, with a traditional focus on plants and animals, seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying structure and dynamics of communities. In microbial ecology, the focus is changing from planktonic communities to attached biofilms that dominate microbi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Latest experimental and theoretical advances in the production of negative ions in caesium-free plasmas

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Samir Suweis

This topical review gathers the last updates concerning caesium-free negative ion sources presented during the 63rd Course of the International school of Quantum Electronics of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and European collaborative works related to thes ...

2021

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

Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity

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

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

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use more water than they control because of their ability to import food and the virtual water requ ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

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

On species persistence-time distributions

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

We present new theoretical and empirical results on the probability distributions of species persistence times in natural ecosystems. Persistence times, defined as the timespans occurring between species' colonization and local extinction in a given geogra ...

Elsevier2012

Emergence of synchronised and amplified oscillations in neuromorphic networks with long-range interactions

Daniel Maria Busiello, Samir Suweis

Neuromorphic networks can be described in terms of coarse-grained variables, where emergent sus-tained behaviours spontaneously arise if stochasticity is properly taken into account. For example it has been recently found that a directed linear chain of co ...

ELSEVIER2021

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

We analyze about 200 naturally occurring networks with distinct dynamical origins to formally test whether the commonly assumed hypothesis of an underlying scale-free structure is generally viable. This has recently been questioned on the basis of statisti ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Stochastic modeling of soil salinity

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

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

Stochastic modeling of salt accumulation in the root zone due to capillary flux from brackish groundwater

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

[1] Groundwater can be a source of both water and salts in semiarid areas, and therefore, capillary pressure-induced upward water flow may cause root zone salinization. To identify which conditions result in hazardous salt concentrations in the root zone, ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Prescription-induced jump distributions in multiplicative Poisson processes

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

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

Resilience and reactivity of global food security

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

The escalating food demand by a growing and increasingly affluent global population is placing unprecedented pressure on the limited land and water resources of the planet, underpinning concerns over global food security and its sensitivity to shocks arisi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015