Publications

2026

Unlocking local knowledge production for global water systems analysis

W. Buytaert; S. A. Tilahun; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; B. D. Vishwakarma et al. 

2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-14743.

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Advancing distributed ecohydrological modeling of catchment-scale carbon and nutrient fluxes

T. Lian; Z. Zhang; S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti 

2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-5376.

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Topographic controls on water and carbon cycling: Insights from mechanistic modelling in synthetic landscapes

S. Bonetti; T. Lian 

2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-5402.

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A FAIR Protocol for Hybrid Models and Data in Hydrology

A. Koppa; S. Pham-Ba; F. Bauer; O. Bonte; O. M. Baez-Villanueva et al. 

2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-4891.

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Rethinking Soils in Land Surface Models

A. Verhoef; Y. Zeng; N. Agam; M. Best; S. Bonetti et al. 

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2026. DOI : 10.1175/bams-d-26-0003.1.

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2025

A hybrid framework for the spin-up and initialization of distributed coupled ecohydrological-biogeochemical models

T. Lian; Z. Zhang; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti 

2025

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The Effects of Rainfall Temporal Variability on Landscape Evolution

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2025. Vol. 130, num. 12. DOI : 10.1029/2025JF008307.

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Assessing Spatial Patterns of Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Catchments of Complex Topography

T. Lian; S. Fatichi; M. Stähli; S. Bonetti 

Water Resources Research. 2025. Vol. 61, num. 10. DOI : 10.1029/2025WR040260.

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Climate change impacts on Swiss cropland suitability

F. Bassani; M. Wakjira; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.

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Irrigation indirectly sustains rainfed crops in India and China through atmospheric recycling

A. Koppa; F. Bassani; V. Deman; D. Insua-Costa; J. Keune et al. 

2025. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-4645.

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Uncertainties in global climate and water models challenge future estimates of crop water use and sustainability

Q. Sun; F. Bassani; S. Bonetti 

2025. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9612.

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Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement

R. Reinecke; L. Stein; S. Gnann; C. M. A. Jafet; |. Berit Arheimer et al. 

WIREs: Water. 2025. Vol. 12, p. e70025. DOI : 10.1002/wat2.70025.

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Climate change impacts on Swiss cropland suitability

F. Bassani; M. Wakjira; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

25th Swiss Global Change Day, Bern, 2025-04-09.

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Controls of Ecohydrological Grassland Dynamics in Agrivoltaic Systems

A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; S. Fatichi 

EARTHS FUTURE. 2025. Vol. 13, num. 3. DOI : 10.1029/2024EF005183.

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Assessing spatial patterns of carbon and nutrient dynamics in catchments of complex topography

T. Lian; S. Fatichi; M. Stähli; S. Bonetti 

2025

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2024

Toward a metabolic theory of catchments: Scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; A. Rinaldo; S. Bonetti 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024. Vol. 121, num. 42. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2410736121.

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Hydro-pedotransfer functions: A roadmap for future development

T. K. D. Weber; L. Weihermüller; A. Nemes; M. Bechtold; A. Degré et al. 

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2024. Vol. 28, num. 14, p. 3391 – 3433. DOI : 10.5194/hess-28-3391-2024.

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Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

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Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, April 14–19, 2024.

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The angiogenic growth of cities

I. Capel-Timms; D. Levinson; B. Lahoorpoor; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli 

Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2024. Vol. 21, num. 213, p. 20230657. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2023.0657.

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2023

Manning’s Formula and the Strickler Scaling Derived from a Co-spectral Budget Model

G. G. Katul; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Manes; A. M. Porporato 

AGU Annual Meeeting 2023, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15, 2023.

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On the dependence of Water Use Efficiency on aridity.

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

AGU23, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15, 2023.

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Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, November 17-18, 2023.

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Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; S. Bonetti 

21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, November 17-18, 2023.

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Effects of small-scale soil structure features on hydrological, biogeochemical, and geomorphological processes

S. Bonetti 

Intrusion2023 – Workshop ‘numerIcal aNalysis, porous media and waTer ResoUrceS: a fruItful cOntamiNation’, Bari, Italy, July 3-5, 2023.

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Healthier diets, healthier planet? Quantifying the biodiversity pressure of fruit and vegetable consumption in South Africa, India, and the UK

A. Chapman; C. Dalin; S. Bonetti; R. Green; G. Hadida et al. 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2023.

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Modelling the coevolution of London’s population and railway system

I. Capel-Timms; D. Levinson; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2023.

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On the representation of small-scale soil biophysical features for large-scale applications

S. Bonetti; D. Or 

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Linking Soil Structure, Hydraulic Properties, and Organic Carbon Dynamics: A Holistic Framework to Study the Impact of Climate Change and Land Management

A. Jha; S. Bonetti; A. P. Smith; R. Souza; S. Calabrese 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2023. Vol. 128, num. 7. DOI : 10.1029/2023JG007389.

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A review of Water Use Efficiency across space and time

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly id EGU-12507, Vienna, Austria, and online, 23–28 April 2023.

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Global Mapping of Potential and Climatic Plant‐Available Soil Water

S. Gupta; P. Lehmann; S. Bickel; S. Bonetti; D. Or 

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 11. DOI : 10.1029/2022MS003277.

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Water use efficiency: A review of spatial and temporal variability

S. Fatichi; A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Pappas 

Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment; UK: Elsevier, 2023. p. 527 – 542.

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2022

Inception of Regular Valley Spacing in Fluvial Landscapes: A Linear Stability Analysis

S. K. Anand; S. Bonetti; C. Camporeale; A. Porporato 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2022. DOI : 10.1029/2022JF006716.

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Comment on “Groundwater Affects the Geomorphic and Hydrologic Properties of Coevolved Landscapes” by Litwin et al.

S. K. Anand; S. Bonetti; C. Camporeale; M. Hooshyar; A. Porporato 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2022. Vol. 127, num. 10. DOI : 10.1029/2022JF006669.

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On the Uncertainty Induced by Pedotransfer Functions in Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling

A. Paschalis; S. Bonetti; Y. Guo; S. Fatichi 

Water Resources Research. 2022. Vol. 58, num. 9. DOI : 10.1029/2021WR031871.

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Climate change impacts on water sustainability of South African crop production

S. Bonetti; E. H. Sutanudjaja; T. Mabhaudhi; R. Slotow; C. Dalin 

Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17, num. 8, p. 084017. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ac80cf.

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Global Soil Hydraulic Properties dataset based on legacy site observations and robust parameterization

S. Gupta; A. Papritz; P. Lehmann; T. Hengl; S. Bonetti et al. 

Scientific Data. 2022. Vol. 9, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-022-01481-5.

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Global Mapping of Soil Water Characteristics Parameters— Fusing Curated Data with Machine Learning and Environmental Covariates

S. Gupta; A. Papritz; P. Lehmann; T. Hengl; S. Bonetti et al. 

Remote Sensing. 2022. Vol. 14, num. 8, p. 1947. DOI : 10.3390/rs14081947.

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Limited role of soil texture in mediating natural vegetation response to rainfall anomalies

S. Gupta; S. Bonetti; P. Lehmann; D. Or 

Environmental Research Letters. 2022. Vol. 17, num. 3, p. 034012. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5206.

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2021

A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales

S. Bonetti; Z. Wei; D. Or 

Communications Earth & Environment. 2021. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 107. DOI : 10.1038/s43247-021-00180-0.

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SoilKsatDB: global database of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity measurements for geoscience applications

S. Gupta; T. Hengl; P. Lehmann; S. Bonetti; D. Or 

Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 1593 – 1612. DOI : 10.5194/essd-2020-149.

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Global Prediction of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Random Forest in a Covariate‐Based GeoTransfer Function (CoGTF) Framework

S. Gupta; P. Lehmann; S. Bonetti; A. Papritz; D. Or 

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. e2020MS002242. DOI : 10.1029/2020MS002242.

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2020

Global convergence of COVID-19 basic reproduction number and estimation from early-time SIR dynamics

G. G. Katul; A. Mrad; S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; A. J. Parolari 

PLOS ONE. 2020. Vol. 15, num. 9, p. e0239800. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0239800.

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Persistent decay of fresh xylem hydraulic conductivity varies with pressure gradient and marks plant responses to injury

S. Bonetti; D. Breitenstein; S. Fatichi; J. Domec; D. Or 

Plant, Cell & Environment. 2020. Vol. 44, num. 2, p. 371 – 386. DOI : 10.1111/pce.13893.

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From turbulence to landscapes: Logarithmic mean profiles in bounded complex systems

M. Hooshyar; S. Bonetti; A. Singh; E. Foufoula-Georgiou; A. Porporato 

Physical Review. 2020. Vol. E102, num. 3, p. 033107. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.033107.

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Channelization cascade in landscape evolution

S. Bonetti; M. Hooshyar; C. Camporeale; A. Porporato 

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2020. Vol. 117, num. 3, p. 1375 – 1382. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1911817117.

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A fast–slow model of banded vegetation pattern formation in drylands

P. Gandhi; S. Bonetti; S. Iams; A. Porporato; M. Silber 

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 2020. Vol. 410, p. 132534. DOI : 10.1016/j.physd.2020.132534.

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2019

Vegetation Pattern Formation in Drylands

P. Gandhi; S. Iams; S. Bonetti; M. Silber 

Dryland Ecohydrology; Springer, 2019.

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The effect of accelerated soil erosion on hillslope morphology

S. Bonetti; D. D. Richter; A. Porporato 

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2019. Vol. 44, num. 15, p. 3007 – 3019. DOI : 10.1002/esp.4694.

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2018

On the theory of drainage area for regular and non-regular points

S. Bonetti; A. D. Bragg; A. Porporato 

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2018. Vol. 474, num. 2211, p. 20170693. DOI : 10.1098/rspa.2017.0693.

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2017

On the dynamic smoothing of mountains

S. Bonetti; A. Porporato 

Geophysical Research Letters. 2017. Vol. 44, num. 11, p. 5531 – 5539. DOI : 10.1002/2017GL073095.

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Ecohydrological controls on plant diversity in tropical South America

S. Bonetti; X. Feng; A. Porporato 

Ecohydrology. 2017. Vol. 10, num. 6, p. e1853. DOI : 10.1002/eco.1853.

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Manning’s formula and Strickler’s scaling explained by a co-spectral budget model

S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; C. Manes; A. Porporato; G. G. Katul 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2017. Vol. 812, p. 1189 – 1212. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2016.863.

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Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system

G. Manoli; C-W. Huang; S. Bonetti; J-C. Domec; M. Marani et al. 

Advances in water Resources. 2017. Vol. 108, p. 216 – 230. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.004.

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2015

Modeling Soil–Plant Dynamics: Assessing Simulation Accuracy by Comparison with Spatially Distributed Crop Yield Measurements

G. Manoli; S. Bonetti; E. Scudiero; F. Morari; M. Putti et al. 

Vadose Zone Journal. 2015. Vol. 14, num. 12, p. 1 – 13. DOI : 10.2136/vzj2015.05.0069.

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The influence of water table depth and the free atmospheric state on convective rainfall predisposition

S. Bonetti; G. Manoli; J. Domec; M. Putti; M. Marani et al. 

Water Resources Research. 2015. Vol. 51, num. 4, p. 2283 – 2297. DOI : 10.1002/2014WR016431.

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2014

Tree root systems competing for soil moisture in a 3D soil–plant model

G. Manoli; S. Bonetti; J-C. Domec; M. Putti; G. Katul et al. 

Advances in water Resources. 2014. Vol. 66, p. 32 – 42. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.01.006.

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