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Assoc. Prof. Giulia Vico

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  • Swedish Research Council
  • AcademiaNet member since 19.10.2017
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Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • Engineering, manufacturing and construction


Field

Agriculture, Engineering and engineering trades



Area of specialisation

Ecohydrology, Plant ecophysiology



Research interests

  • Vegetation response to random, potentially damaging, weather conditions in managed and natural ecosystems, under current and future climates

  • Ecohydrological stochastic models



Interested in

  • Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship


Languages

English, Italian



Doctorate

  • 2009: Civil and Environmental Engineering Title: Hydrologic controls on vegetation: from leaf to landscape


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2015: Associate professor (docent) in ecology




Short CV/Education and training

  • Since 2017
    Associate Senior Lecturer (with docentship) in Plant Ecology, Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

  • Since 2015
    Associate Professor (Docent in Biology with a specialization in Ecology), Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2012 – 2015
    Assistant Professor, Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2011 – 2012
    Research Scientist, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

  • 2009 – 2011
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

  • 2009
    Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

  • 2004
    Environmental Engineering 5-year Laurea (equivalent to a Bachelor + Master), Magna Cum Laude, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Selected publications

  • Vico G, Dralle D, Feng X, Thompson SE, Manzoni S (2017) How competitive is drought deciduousness in tropical forests? A combined eco-hydrological and eco-evolutionary approach, Environmental Research Letters, 12, 065006

  • Dralle D, Karst N, Müller M, Vico G, Thompson S (2017) Stochastic modelling of inter-annual variation of hydrologic variables, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(14),7285-7249

  • Vico G., Manzoni S., Nkurunziza L., Murphy K., Weih M. (2016), Trade-offs between seed output and life span – A quantitative comparison of traits between annual and perennial congeneric species, New Phytologist, 209(1), 104-114

  • Vico G., Thompson S.E., Manzoni S., Molini A., Albertson J.D., Cortez J.A., Fay P.A, Feng X., Guswa A., Liu H., Wilson T.G., Porporato A (2015), Climatic, ecophysiological and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems, Ecohydrology, 8(4), 660-681

  • Vico G., and Porporato A. (2015), Ecohydrology of agroecosystems: Quantitative approaches towards sustainable irrigation, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 77, 298-318

  • Vico G., Hurry V., Weih M. (2014), Snowed in for survival: quantifying the risk of winter damage to overwintering crops in northern temperate latitudes, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 197, 65-75

  • Vico G., Porporato A. (2013), Probabilistic description of crop development and irrigation water requirements with stochastic rainfall, Water Resources Research, 49, 3, 1466-1482

  • Vico G., Manzoni S., Palmroth S., and G.G. Katul (2011), Effects of stomatal delays on the economics of leaf gas exchange under intermittent light, New Phytologist, 192, 3, 640-652

  • Vico G., and A. Porporato (2011), From rainfed agriculture to stress-avoidance irrigation I. A generalized irrigation scheme with stochastic soil moisture, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 2, 263-271

  • Vico G., and A. Porporato (2011), From rainfed agriculture to stress-avoidance irrigation II. Sustainability, crop yield, and profitability, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 2, 272-281



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