Publications

2024

Toward a metabolic theory of catchments: Scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; A. Rinaldo; S. Bonetti 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024. Vol. 121, num. 42. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2410736121.

Dryland self-expansion enabled by land-atmosphere feedbacks

A. Koppa; J. Keune; D. L. Schumacher; K. Michaelides; M. Singer et al. 

SCIENCE. 2024. Vol. 385, num. 6712, p. 967 – 972. DOI : 10.1126/science.adn6833.

Drivers and mechanisms of heatwaves in South West India

G. Dalal; T. Pathania; A. Koppa; V. Hari 

Climate Dynamics. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s00382-024-07242-x.

Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, April 14–19, 2024.

The angiogenic growth of cities

I. Capel-Timms; D. Levinson; B. Lahoorpoor; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli 

Journal Of The Royal Society Interface. 2024. Vol. 21, num. 213, p. 20230657. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2023.0657.

From roots to canopy: Unraveling the influence of species diversity on tree water relations under warmer and drier climates

E. I. Mas / C. Grossiord; F. Valladares (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flow and Hydrochemistry in Drainage Networks

I. Bujak-Ozga / A. Rinaldo; I. van Meerveld (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

2023

Manning’s Formula and the Strickler Scaling Derived from a Co-spectral Budget Model

G. G. Katul; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Manes; A. M. Porporato 

AGU Annual Meeeting 2023, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15, 2023.

On the dependence of Water Use Efficiency on aridity.

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

AGU23, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15, 2023.

Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; S. Bonetti 

21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, November 17-18, 2023.

Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, November 17-18, 2023.

Physical and numerical model study of the Trient Torrent from the gorges to the Rhone River

M. Gaiffe 

2023.

Quantifying uncertainty in agricultural water sustainability indicators for soybean and wheat crops

R. Depalle 

2023.

Effects of small-scale soil structure features on hydrological, biogeochemical, and geomorphological processes

S. Bonetti 

Intrusion2023 – Workshop ‘numerIcal aNalysis, porous media and waTer ResoUrceS: a fruItful cOntamiNation’, Bari, Italy, July 3-5, 2023.

Healthier diets, healthier planet? Quantifying the biodiversity pressure of fruit and vegetable consumption in South Africa, India, and the UK

A. Chapman; C. Dalin; S. Bonetti; R. Green; G. Hadida et al. 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2023.

Modelling the coevolution of London’s population and railway system

I. Capel-Timms; D. Levinson; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2023.

On the representation of small-scale soil biophysical features for large-scale applications

S. Bonetti; D. Or 

Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations

F. Miele; P. Benettin; S. Wang; I. Retti; M. Asadollahi et al. 

Water Resources Research. 2023. Vol. 59, num. 3, p. 1 – 23. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR032328.

Global Mapping of Potential and Climatic Plant‐Available Soil Water

S. Gupta; P. Lehmann; S. Bickel; S. Bonetti; D. Or 

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 11. DOI : 10.1029/2022MS003277.

Clogging of riverbed substrates by fine sediment

R. M. Dubuis / C. Ancey; G. De Cesare (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Linking Soil Structure, Hydraulic Properties, and Organic Carbon Dynamics: A Holistic Framework to Study the Impact of Climate Change and Land Management

A. Jha; S. Bonetti; A. P. Smith; R. Souza; S. Calabrese 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2023. Vol. 128, num. 7. DOI : 10.1029/2023JG007389.

Water use efficiency: A review of spatial and temporal variability

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment; UK: Elsevier, 2023. p. 527 – 542.

A review of Water Use Efficiency across space and time

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly id EGU-12507, Vienna, Austria, and online, 23–28 April 2023.

2022

Inception of Regular Valley Spacing in Fluvial Landscapes: A Linear Stability Analysis

S. K. Anand; S. Bonetti; C. Camporeale; A. Porporato 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2022. DOI : 10.1029/2022JF006716.

Comment on “Groundwater Affects the Geomorphic and Hydrologic Properties of Coevolved Landscapes” by Litwin et al.

S. K. Anand; S. Bonetti; C. Camporeale; M. Hooshyar; A. Porporato 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2022. Vol. 127, num. 10. DOI : 10.1029/2022JF006669.

On the Uncertainty Induced by Pedotransfer Functions in Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling

A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; Y. Guo; S. Fatichi 

Water Resources Research. 2022. Vol. 58, num. 9. DOI : 10.1029/2021WR031871.

Global Soil Hydraulic Properties dataset based on legacy site observations and robust parameterization

S. Gupta; A. Papritz; P. Lehmann; T. Hengl; S. Bonetti et al. 

Scientific Data. 2022. Vol. 9, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-022-01481-5.

Climate change impacts on water sustainability of South African crop production

S. Bonetti; E. H. Sutanudjaja; T. Mabhaudhi; R. Slotow; C. Dalin 

Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17, num. 8, p. 084017. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ac80cf.

Global Mapping of Soil Water Characteristics Parameters— Fusing Curated Data with Machine Learning and Environmental Covariates

S. Gupta; A. Papritz; P. Lehmann; T. Hengl; S. Bonetti et al. 

Remote Sensing. 2022. Vol. 14, num. 8, p. 1947. DOI : 10.3390/rs14081947.

Limited role of soil texture in mediating natural vegetation response to rainfall anomalies

S. Gupta; S. Bonetti; P. Lehmann; D. Or 

Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17, num. 3, p. 034012. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5206.

2021

A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales

S. Bonetti; Z. Wei; D. Or 

Communications Earth & Environment. 2021. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 107. DOI : 10.1038/s43247-021-00180-0.

SoilKsatDB: global database of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity measurements for geoscience applications

S. Gupta; T. Hengl; P. Lehmann; S. Bonetti; D. Or 

Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 1593 – 1612. DOI : 10.5194/essd-2020-149.

Global Prediction of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Random Forest in a Covariate‐Based GeoTransfer Function (CoGTF) Framework

S. Gupta; P. Lehmann; S. Bonetti; A. Papritz; D. Or 

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. e2020MS002242. DOI : 10.1029/2020MS002242.

2020

Global convergence of COVID-19 basic reproduction number and estimation from early-time SIR dynamics

G. G. Katul; A. Mrad; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; A. J. Parolari 

PLOS ONE. 2020. Vol. 15, num. 9, p. e0239800. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0239800.

Persistent decay of fresh xylem hydraulic conductivity varies with pressure gradient and marks plant responses to injury

S. Bonetti; D. Breitenstein; S. Fatichi; J. Domec; D. Or 

Plant, Cell & Environment. 2020. Vol. 44, num. 2, p. 371 – 386. DOI : 10.1111/pce.13893.

From turbulence to landscapes: Logarithmic mean profiles in bounded complex systems

M. Hooshyar; S. Bonetti; A. Singh; E. Foufoula-Georgiou; A. Porporato 

Physical Review. 2020. Vol. E102, num. 3, p. 033107. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.033107.

Channelization cascade in landscape evolution

S. Bonetti; M. Hooshyar; C. Camporeale; A. Porporato 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020. Vol. 117, num. 3, p. 1375 – 1382. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1911817117.

A fast–slow model of banded vegetation pattern formation in drylands

P. Gandhi; S. Bonetti; S. Iams; A. Porporato; M. Silber 

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 2020. Vol. 410, p. 132534. DOI : 10.1016/j.physd.2020.132534.

2019

Vegetation Pattern Formation in Drylands

P. Gandhi; S. Iams; S. Bonetti; M. Silber 

Dryland Ecohydrology; Springer, 2019.

The effect of accelerated soil erosion on hillslope morphology

S. Bonetti; D. D. Richter; A. Porporato 

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2019. Vol. 44, num. 15, p. 3007 – 3019. DOI : 10.1002/esp.4694.

2018

On the theory of drainage area for regular and non-regular points

S. Bonetti; A. D. Bragg; A. Porporato 

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2018. Vol. 474, num. 2211, p. 20170693. DOI : 10.1098/rspa.2017.0693.

2017

On the dynamic smoothing of mountains

S. Bonetti; A. Porporato 

Geophysical Research Letters. 2017. Vol. 44, num. 11, p. 5531 – 5539. DOI : 10.1002/2017GL073095.

Ecohydrological controls on plant diversity in tropical South America

S. Bonetti; X. Feng; A. Porporato 

Ecohydrology. 2017. Vol. 10, num. 6, p. e1853. DOI : 10.1002/eco.1853.

Manning’s formula and Strickler’s scaling explained by a co-spectral budget model

S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Manes; A. Porporato; G. G. Katul 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2017. Vol. 812, p. 1189 – 1212. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2016.863.

Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system

G. Manoli; C-W. Huang; S. Bonetti; J-C. Domec; M. Marani et al. 

Advances in Water Resources. 2017. Vol. 108, p. 216 – 230. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.004.

2016

Modulation, Coding, and Receiver Design for Gigabit mmWave Communication

N. A. Preyss / A. P. Burg (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

2015

Modeling Soil–Plant Dynamics: Assessing Simulation Accuracy by Comparison with Spatially Distributed Crop Yield Measurements

G. Manoli; S. Bonetti; E. Scudiero; F. Morari; M. Putti et al. 

Vadose Zone Journal. 2015. Vol. 14, num. 12, p. 1 – 13. DOI : 10.2136/vzj2015.05.0069.

The influence of water table depth and the free atmospheric state on convective rainfall predisposition

S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; J. Domec; M. Putti; M. Marani et al. 

Water Resources Research. 2015. Vol. 51, num. 4, p. 2283 – 2297. DOI : 10.1002/2014WR016431.

2014

Tree root systems competing for soil moisture in a 3D soil–plant model

G. Manoli; S. Bonetti; J-C. Domec; M. Putti; G. Katul et al. 

Advances in Water Resources. 2014. Vol. 66, p. 32 – 42. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.01.006.

Ultra-Low-Temperature Silicon and Germanium-on-Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes : Modeling, Design, and Characterization

M. Aminian / E. Charbon (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.