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AUGUSTO ZANELLA

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali - TESAF

Address

VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Telephone

0498272755

E-mail

augusto.zanella@unipd.it

ZANELLA, Augusto
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-779X
Email: augusto.zanella@unipd.it; Cell.: 0033 783615957

EDUCATION
ITALY: Laurea in Forest Sciences, University of Padua
FRANCE: DEA and PhD in General Ecology, Paris-Sud University; Diploma of French Language and Civilization, Sorbonne University, Paris

POSITION
2016-2032 Qualified twice as a Full Professor by a Ministerial Commission
Since 2006 Associate Professor, Dep. TESAF, University of Padua
1994-2006 Researcher, Dep. TESAF, University of Padua
Since 1994 Erasmus and Contract professor at Sorbonne, Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne Paris Nord Universities, France
1987-1994 Contract researcher, University of Paris, France

PROJECTS
Space It Up (30 k€), Ecovinegoals (17k), BioMiti Agola (5 k€), ALBA (100 k€), BioMiti – Altitudine (3 k), Zero Carbon Emission (5 k€), Humusica (48 k€), Dinamus (878 k€), Humus forestali 2 (50 k€), Humus forestali (50 k€)

TEACHING
In Italy and France, 250 students/year

CONGRESS WEBINAR ORGANISER
2023 and 2024 Festival dello sviluppo sostenibile UNIPD. Webinar, “Scienza Società e Cambiamento climatico”
2021 and 2022 Webinar Humusica, dip. TESAF, “Soil Biodiversity and Management”
2003-2016 Annual Congress or Workshop of the Humus Group in Italy, Austria and France
2019 Field excursion organiser. Adapting Forest to Climate Change Symposium, Toulouse, France

RESPONSIBILITIES
2023-now Research Ethic Committee of the TESAF dep., University of Padua
2006-now Council of Ecology of the PhD School (LERH), University of Padua
2006-now IUFRO Officeholder, Wien, Austria
2015-2018 IUSS, Vice-chair of the Commission 4
2014-2018 Scientific Responsible of the Dep. TESAF and iEES-Paris collaboration
2003-now Leader of the Humus Group

AWARDS
Shaping a World-class University 2021
"Professeur Invité", University of Paris-Sud

PUBLICATIONS
Scopus Articles: 55; h index: 18
TerrHum App https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/terrhum/id1366575503?l=en&mt=8
Publications https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-779X

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Notices

Personal site: https://augustozanella.academia.edu

DAILY CONTACT: augusto.zanella@unipd.it
cell.: + ; Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp

Permanent collaboration with the following Institutions of the University of Paris:

- Université deParis-Saclay: Unité Mixte de Recherche d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR CNRS 8079, Département Ecophysiologie Vegetale, bâtiment 362, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, collaborazione con il prof. Stéphane Bazot, tél.: (33) 1 69 15 71 36 ; http://www.ese.u-psud.fr/;

- Université de Paris Sorbonne, Unité Mixte de Recherche de Biogéochimie et Ecologie des Milieux Continentaux, UMR 7618 Bioemco, 46, rue d'Ulm, F-75230 Paris CEDEX 5, collaborazione con il prof. Jean-Christophe Lata, tél.:(33) 1 44 32 39 97; http://www.biologie.ens.fr/bioemco/;

- Université de Sorbonne Paris-Nord, Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Santé, Médecine et Biologie Humaine, UFR SMBH Léonard-de-Vinci, 74, rue Marcel-Cachin, F-93017 Bobigny cedex ; Laboratoire de Biologie, collaborazione con il prof. Olivier Oudar, tél.: (33) 1 48 38 77 21; http://www.iut-bobigny.univ-paris13.fr/

Office hours

  • at Ufficio, prima stecca, scala centrale, terzo piano, in cima alle scale porta a destra, poi porta a destra, poi nel corridoio a destra fino alla porta 3077
    Tutti i giorni feriali, previo appuntamento con il prof. Zanella via e-mail: augusto.zanella@unipd.it o cell.: +33 783615957 Possibili scambi via internet con Zoom o Skype, basta mettersi d'accordo, anche in francese o in inglese

Teachings

Publications

Publications OPEN ACCESS (ultimi 5 anni)
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[1] A. Zanella, ‘The spiral of plants and soil in the cycle of life’, Italian Botanist, vol. 17, pp. 1–11, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.3897/italianbotanist.17.107071.
[2] F. Visentin, S. Remelli, A. Zanella, and C. Menta, ‘Windthrow Impact on Alpine Forest Humipedon: Soil Microarthropod Communities and Humus Dynamics Five Years after an Extreme Windstorm Event’, Land (Basel), vol. 13, no. 9, p. 1458, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.3390/land13091458.
[3] A. Zanella et al., ‘The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple’, IForest, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 252–268, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.3832/ifor4584-017.
[4] L. Mo et al., ‘Anthropogenic vs. natural habitats: Higher microbial biodiversity pays the trade-off of lower connectivity’, Microbiol Res, vol. 282, p. 127651, May 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2024.127651.
[5] A. Zanella et al., ‘Tackling climate change: The Albarella island example’, PLOS Climate, vol. 3, no. 6, p. e0000418, Jun. 2024, doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000418.
[6] L. Mo et al., ‘Correction: Mo et al. Land Use, Microorganisms, and Soil Organic Carbon: Putting the Pieces Together. Diversity 2022, 14, 638’, Diversity (Basel), vol. 15, no. 1, p. 9, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.3390/d15010009.
[7] G. Bugin et al., ‘Agriculture and Pollinating Insects, No Longer a Choice but a Need: EU Agriculture’s Dependence on Pollinators in the 2007–2019 Period’, Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 6, p. 3644, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.3390/su14063644.
[8] L. Mo et al., ‘Land Use, Microorganisms, and Soil Organic Carbon: Putting the Pieces Together’, Diversity (Basel), vol. 14, no. 8, p. 638, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.3390/d14080638.
[9] A. Zanella et al., ‘A Standardized Morpho-Functional Classification of the Planet’s Humipedons’, Soil Syst, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 59, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.3390/soilsystems6030059.
[10] A. Zanella, ‘Mafia (in English)’, Academia - Available at: https://www.academia.edu/44920247/Mafia_in_English_, 2021.
[11] A. Zanella, ‘Poker and cell-phones’, ResearchGate, pp. 1–7, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351436841_Poker_and_cell-phones
[12] A. Sofo, A. Zanella, and J. Ponge, ‘Soil quality and fertility in sustainable agriculture, with a contribution to the biological classification of agricultural soils’, Soil Use Manag, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1111/sum.12702.
[13] A. Zanella, ‘The cloven humanity - To italo calvino with gratitude (ResearchGate)’, ResearchGate, pp. 1–5, 2020, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12468.48003.
[14] A. M et al., ‘Organic Food “Yes”, Organic Food “No” A Discussion between Specialists with the Italian Parliament in the Fray’, Austin Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1–12, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.26420/austinanthropol.2020.1012.
[15] A. Zanella et al., ‘Combined forest and soil management after a catastrophic event’, J Mt Sci, vol. 17, no. 10, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s11629-019-5890-0.
[16] C. Bolzonella, M. Lucchetta, G. Teo, V. Boatto, and A. Zanella, ‘Is there a way to rate insecticides that is less detrimental to human and environmental health?’, Glob Ecol Conserv, vol. 20, p. e00699, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00699.
[17] A. Zanella et al., ‘TerrHum: An iOS application for classifying terrestrial humipedons and some considerations about soil classification’, Soil Science Society of America Journal, vol. 83, 2019, doi: 10.2136/sssaj2018.07.0

Research Area

Humus and soil
Classification of humus forms (World Reference Base) with the European Humus Group.
Soil functioning in the forest (soil biodiversity, litter biodegradation ...) and in the city (carbon and nitrogen cycles ...).

Carbon cycle, climate change and biodiversity
ALBA Project (Albarella Laboratory Biodiversity Environment).
How to progressively reduce the island's CO2 emissions
What is biodiversity, and what is its functional significance?

Trees, how to recognise and love them
Soil, the world belly
Humipedon's biodiversity


Internet sites:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mJbKCS0AAAAJ&hl=svhttps://www.linkedin.com/pub/augusto-zanella/42/332/104
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Augusto_Zanella
http://www.iufro.org/who-is-who/officeholder/Zanella/
https://unipd.academia.edu/AugustoZanella

Thesis proposals

Contact prof. Zanella at: augusto.zanella@unipd.it or cell.: 0033783615957

Topics:

Carbon cycle, with particular attention to the soil
Soil biology and ecology
Study of the forms of humus in terrestrial environments (non-hydromorphic soils of forest and non-forest environments) and semi-terrestrial environments (hydromorphic soils, hollows, edges of waterways, banks of ponds or lakes ...);

Study of trees, inventory of species in protected and / or urbanised or cultivated environments (nature reserves, parks, agricultural areas ...), trees' functioning/use in urban, agricultural, forest areas