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ANDREA PITACCO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Agronomia Animali Alimenti Risorse Naturali e Ambiente - DAFNAE

Address

VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Telephone

0498272848

E-mail

andrea.pitacco@unipd.it

Andrea Pitacco, graduated in Agricultural Science and Technology with full marks and honors, began his career in 1983 as a technician at the Institute of Arboriculture of the University of Padua. University researcher since 1994, in 2002 he became associate professor and in 2018 full professor, in the Scientific Sector AGR/03 (General arboriculture and tree crops), a role he currently holds at the Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment of the University of Padua.

During his activity he has been involved in various research topics, in the context of projects financed by the National Research Council, by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, by the Ministry of the Environment, the Veneto Region, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, the Ager-Agri-food and Research Foundation and the European Union.

His research activity has always been characterized by a remarkable interdisciplinarity, often transcending the area of ​​woody crop cultivation. He anticipated many issues that have become very topical over time, such as plant ecophysiology, the study of the relationships between agricultural crops and the environment - today crucial for interpreting the impacts of climate change and managing its mitigation -, micrometeorology applied to tree systems, the development of sustainable cultivation techniques, the study of the carbon sequestration capacity of agricultural crops and in particular of orchards and vineyards, the enhancement of the ecosystem services of crops. Currently, his research activity is focused on the study of Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions, with particular regard to the theoretical and experimental characterization of turbulent transport processes in discontinuous plant canopies.

He has often faced methodological problems, contributing to the development of innovative experimental techniques that have become widespread today. In particular, he contributed to the development of micrometeorological techniques applied to the study of the energy, water and carbon balance of agricultural crops and natural surfaces in general. He actively participated in the activity of the working group on "Instrumental and Methodical Problems of Land Surface Measurements" of the European Geophysical Society, which coordinated the international EBEX-2000 surface energy balance measurement campaign. These activities culminated in his active participation in the European Strategic Research Infrastructure dedicated to monitoring the greenhouse gas balance on agricultural and forest surfaces ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System), in which Italy participates including the observatory on a vineyard he set up and is currently managing. In collaboration with highly qualified groups, he has participated in numerous international measurement campaigns: IX Italian Expedition in Antardide (1993), MAP-Riviera (Switzerland, 1999), EBEX-2000 (California, 2000), WATERUSE (Portugal and Puglia, 2000-03), NamTEX (Namibia, 2020).

Notices

Office hours

  • Monday from 14:00 to 15:00
    at Conegliano, Ex "Casa del Preside"
    E' sempre consigliato stabilire l'apuntamento via email.

  • Wednesday from 14:00 to 16:00
    at Agripolis, II Stecca, II piano, Ufficio 2011
    E' sempre consigliato stabilire l'apuntamento via email.

Teachings

Publications

10 most recent papers [IF, citations 30/4/22]:

1. Lembrechts, J.J., ..., Pitacco A. et al. 2022. Global maps of soil temperature. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 28, 3110-3144. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060 [9.610, 4]

2. Hilland R.V.J., Bernhofer C., Bohmann M., Christen A., Katurji M., Maggs-Kölling G., Krauβ M., Larsen J.A., Marais E., Pitacco A., Schumacher B., Spirig R., Vendrame N., Vogt R., 2021. The Namib Turbulence Experiment: Investigating surface-atmosphere heat transfer in three dimensions. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 103, E741-E760., doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0269.1 [6.380, 1].

3. Fu Z., Ciais P., Makowski D., Bastos A., Stoy P.C., Ibrom A., Knohl A., Migliavacca M., Cuntz M., Šigut L., Peichl M., Loustau D., El-Madany T.S., Buchmann N., Gharun M., Janssens I., Markwitz C., Grünwald T., Rebmann C., Mölder M., Varlagin A., Mammarella I., Kolari P., Bernhofer C., Heliasz M., Vincke C., Pitacco A., Cremonese E., Foltýnová L., Wigneron J.-P., 2022. Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 28, 2111-2123, doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16050 [9.610, 0]

4. Petit, G., Bleve, G., Gallo, A., Mita, G., Montanaro, G., Nuzzo, V., Zambonini, D., Pitacco, A., 2021. Susceptibility to Xylella fastidiosa and functional xylem anatomy in Olea europaea: revisiting a tale of plant–pathogen interaction. AOB PLANTS 13, plab027, doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab027 [3.276, 1]

5. Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Bastos, A., Stoy, P.C., Yang, H., Green, J.K., Wang, B., Yu, K., Huang, Y., Knohl, A., Šigut, L., Gharun, M., Cuntz, M., Arriga, N., Roland, M., Peichl, M., Migliavacca, M., Cremonese, E., Varlagin, A., Brümmer, C., Motte, L.G.d.l., Fares, S., Buchmann, N., El-Madany, T.S., Pitacco, A., Vendrame, N., Li, Z., Vincke, C., Magliulo, E., Koebsch, F., 2020. Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 375, 20190747, doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0747 [7.828, 20]

6. Graf, A., ... Pitacco A. et al. 2020. Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 375, 20190524, doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0524 [7.828, 22]

7. Lechthaler, S., Kiorapostolou, N., Pitacco, A., Anfodillo, T., Petit, G., 2020. The total path length hydraulic resistance according to known anatomical patterns: What is the shape of the root-to-leaf tension gradient along the plant longitudinal axis? JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 502, 110369 doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110369 [2.691, 9]

8. Vendrame, N., Tezza, L., Pitacco, A., 2020. Comparison of sensible heat fluxes by large aperture scintillometry and eddy covariance over two contrasting−climate vineyards. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY 288-289, 108002. doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108002 [5.734, 3]

9. Meggio, F., Pitacco, A., 2019. Partitioning of seasonal above‐ground biomass of four vineyard-grown varieties: Development of a modelling framework to infer temperature-rate response functions. Scientia Horticulturae 258, 108796 doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108796 [3.463, 0]

10. Vendrame, N., Tezza, L., Pitacco, A., 2019. Scaling-up of evapotranspiration measurements: the promising role of scintillometry. IOP CONFERENCE SERIES: EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 275, 012018 doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/275/1/012018 [0.410, 0]