Dr. Jennie Barron PhD
Agriculture, Water management, Ecosystem services, Agro-ecological landscape change and transformation in sub Sahara Africa, South Asia
Assoc. Prof. Giulia Vico
Nominated by
- Swedish Research Council
- AcademiaNet member since 19.10.2017
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
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 2017Associate Senior Lecturer (with docentship) in Plant Ecology, Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Since 2015Associate Professor (Docent in Biology with a specialization in Ecology), Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2012 – 2015Assistant Professor, Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2011 – 2012Research Scientist, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 2009 – 2011Postdoctoral Fellow, Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 2009Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 2004Environmental 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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