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Paolo d'Odorico

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Resilience and reactivity of global food security

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Paolo d'Odorico, Amos Maritan

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

Ecomorphodynamic conditions for the emergence of river anabranching patterns

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy, Paolo d'Odorico

The appearance of the regular vegetated ridge patterns observed in some ephemeral rivers of semi-arid regions (Nanson, Tooth, & Knigthon 2002) has previously been explained by hydraulic arguments (optimization of the bed load transport capacity, see Huang ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Paolo d'Odorico, Amos Maritan

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

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

Paolo d'Odorico

Many arid grasslands around the world are affected by woody plant encroachment and by the replacement of a relatively continuous grass cover with shrub patches bordered by bare soil. This shift in plant community composition is often abrupt in space and ti ...

John Wiley and Sons2012

Evaluating Ecohydrological Theories of Woody Root Distribution in the Kalahari

Paolo d'Odorico

The contribution of savannas to global carbon storage is poorly understood, in part due to lack of knowledge of the amount of belowground biomass. In these ecosystems, the coexistence of woody and herbaceous life forms is often explained on the basis of be ...

2012

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