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Improving the theoretical underpinnings of process-based hydrologic models

In this Commentary, we argue that it is possible to improve the physical realism of hydrologic models by making better use of existing hydrologic theory. We address the following questions: (1) what are some key elements of current hydrologic theory; (2) h ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Fluvial network organization imprints on microbial co-occurrence networks

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Serena Ceola, Tom Ian Battin

Recent studies highlight linkages among the architecture of ecological networks, their persistence facing environmental disturbance, and the related patterns of biodiversity. A hitherto unresolved question is whether the structure of the landscape inhabite ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Hydrologic controls on basin- scale distribution of benthic invertebrates

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Serena Ceola, Tom Ian Battin

Streamflow variability is a major determinant of basin-scale distributions of benthic invertebrates. Here we present a novel procedure based on a probabilistic approach aiming at a spatially explicit quantitative assessment of benthic invertebrate abundanc ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Light and hydrologic variability as drivers of stream biofilm dynamics in a flume experiment

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Serena Ceola, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto, Gianluca Botter, Tom Ian Battin

We run a comparative study of the results of flume experiments and several dynamic models reproducing the effects of streamflow variability on biofilm (i.e. periphyton) temporal dynamics. During the experiment, two contrasting flow regimes, characterised b ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Hydrologic Variability Affects Invertebrate Grazing on Phototrophic Biofilms in Stream Microcosms

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Serena Ceola, Lorenzo Mari, Gianluca Botter, Tom Ian Battin

The temporal variability of streamflow is known to be a key feature structuring and controlling fluvial ecological communities and ecosystem processes. Although alterations of streamflow regime due to habitat fragmentation or other anthropogenic factors ar ...

Public Library of Science2013

Geomorphic signatures on brutsaert base flow recession analysis

Marc Parlange, Raphaël Mutzner, Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Nevena Tomasic, Serena Ceola, Ludovico Nicotina, Steven Vincent Weijs

This paper addresses the signatures of catchment geomorphology on base flow recession curves. Its relevance relates to the implied predictability of base flow features, which are central to catchment-scale transport processes and to ecohydrological functio ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Hydrologic Drivers and Controls of Stream Ecological Processes

Serena Ceola

The temporal variability of streamflows is a key feature structuring and controlling ecological communities and ecosystem processes. The magnitude, frequency and predictability of streamflows, and thus of velocity and near-bed shear stress fields, control ...

EPFL2012

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