Publications by Andrea Rinaldo

Epidemicity conditions in spatial models of infectious diseases

We review the work that has been conducted in the past years to understand when and why significant epidemics may arise even though a disease is not bound to become endemic in the long run i.e. subthreshold outbreaks. In particular, we describe the methods ...

2025

Preface to Ecohydrology of Inland and Coastal Waters in Honour of Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Andrea Rinaldo

2025

A stochastic theory of urban metabolism

Andrea Rinaldo, Gabriele Manoli

A current tenet in the science of cities is the emergence of power-law relations between population size and a variety of urban indicators, echoing allometric scaling in living organisms akin to Kleiber’s law. However fascinating, existing scaling theories ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

Sufficient reproduction numbers to prevent recurrent epidemics

Andrea Rinaldo, Cristiano Trevisin

Current practice in the design and evaluation of control measures in disease ecology and epidemiology, including vaccination, is largely based on reproduction numbers (RNs), which represent prognostic indices of long‐term disease transmission, both in naïv ...

Wiley2025

Evaluating nitrate removal and travel times in a bare deciduous forest soil through a column tracer experiment

Andrea Rinaldo, Manon Frutschi, Simiao Wang, Filippo Miele

In response to increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition, understanding the fate of nitrate within forest soils is crucial for predicting the ecological trajectories of soil microbial communities. This study leverages a controlled soil column experiment to ...

2025

Changes in the Flowing Drainage Network and Stream Chemistry During Rainfall Events for Two Pre-alpine Catchments

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Izabela Bujak-Ozga, Jana Freiin von Freyberg

Many headwater catchments contain non-perennial streams that flow only during wet conditions or in response to rainfall events. The onset and cessation of flow result in a dynamic stream network that periodically expands and contracts. The onset of flow ca ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2025

Epidemiological indices with multiple circulating pathogen strains

Andrea Rinaldo, Cristiano Trevisin

Epidemiological indicators (e.g. reproduction numbers and epidemicity indices) describe long- and short-term behaviour of ongoing epidemics. Their evolving values provide context for designing control measures because maintaining both indices below suitabl ...

2025

Statistical characterization of erosion and sediment transport mechanics in shallow tidal environments - Part 1: Erosion dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo

Reliable descriptions of erosion events are foundational to effective frameworks relevant to the fate of tidal landscape evolution. Besides the rhythmic, predictable action of tidal currents, erosion in shallow tidal environments is strongly influenced by ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2024

Emergent ecological patterns and modelling of gut microbiomes in health and in disease

Andrea Rinaldo

Recent advancements in next-generation sequencing have revolutionized our understanding of the human microbiome. Despite this progress, challenges persist in comprehending the microbiome's influence on disease, hindered by technical complexities in species ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2024

A Spatially Explicit Model of the Dynamics of Opisthorchis viverrini Spread

Andrea Rinaldo, Cristiano Trevisin

Opisthorchis viverrini is a water-based disease-causing parasite whose public health implications are relevant in Southeast Asia. Untreated or chronic infections often lead to severe hepatobiliary morbidity including cholangiocarcinoma, a lethal bile duct ...

2024