Nicola Colombo

Biographic Data

ID6351081
NAMENicola Colombo
GIVEN NAMESNicola
FAMILY NAMEColombo
SIGNATURECOLOMBO N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Turin
ORCID0000-0003-2244-3147
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Permafrost thaw affects the chemistry of mountain ponds

    Open AccessNicola Colombo, Michael Pettauer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Permafrost is warming and thawing due to climate change. Among the related effects, water quality modification has gained increasing attention globally. Nevertheless, the impacts of diffuse permafrost thaw on water chemistry in high-mountain areas remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigated the seasonal and interannual variability of water chemistry of two close-by ponds located in high-elevation catchments (European Alps, NW Italy) with and…

  • Global evidence that cold rocky landforms support icy springs in warming mountains

    Open AccessStefano Brighenti, Constance I Millar et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Climate change is reducing the extent of cold aquatic habitats and their unique biodiversity in mountain areas. However, a variety of cold rocky landforms (CRLs) are thermally buffered and feed cold springs (<2 °C) that may represent climate refugia for cold-adapted organisms. These landforms, hitherto overlooked by freshwater research, include rock glaciers, debris-covered glaciers, talus slopes, protalus ramparts, and young moraines. Here, we i…

  • Unprecedented snow-drought conditions in the Italian Alps during the early 2020s

    Open AccessNicola Colombo, Nicolas Guyennon et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Snow represents a fundamental water resource for mountain and lowland areas. Changes in the frequency and magnitude of snow droughts can significantly impact societies and ecosystems that rely on snowmelt to satisfy their water demands. Here we documented and quantified the snow drought that affected the Italian Alps during the early 2020s. We used 15 long-term snow-depth series (period 1930–2023, elevation range: 864–2200 m a.s.l.) to simulate t…

  • Geomorphology and geosystem services of the Indren-Cimalegna area (Monte Rosa massif – Western Italian Alps)

    Open AccessFederico Tognetto, Luigi Perotti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2021

    New strategies for preservation of geodiversity and geosystem services need to be developed for mountain areas that are vulnerable to climate change and human activities. Detailed geomorphological surveys and geosystem services analyses have been carried out in the Indren-Cimalegna area, southern slope of Monte Rosa (Western Italian Alps). From remote sensing analysis and field inventories, a geomorphological map (1:5000) was created, with a new …

  • Soil types of Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)

    Open AccessM E D’Amico, Michele D’Amico et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2020

    The first soil map of the whole Aosta Valley Region was produced at the 1:100,000 scale. We used 691 soil profiles, attributed to 16 Cartographic (soil) Units, spatialized using a Maximum Likelihood Estimation model available in ArcGIS software. Six maps were used as base layers, representing the most important soil-forming factors: parent material, vegetation/land use, mean annual precipitation, elevation, absolute aspect and slope angle. The Ma…

  • Geomorphology of the Hohsand basin (Western Italian Alps)

    Open AccessNicola Colombo, Luca Paro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2016

    The 1:10,000 scale geomorphological map of the Hohsand basin (Piemonte Region, Italy) encompasses an area of 18 km 2 (elevation range: 2300 ÷ 3374 m a.s.l.) where deposits and landforms linked to different processes (glacial, periglacial, gravitational, weathering and surface water) have been distinguished. This basin hosts one of the largest glacial areas of the Western Italian Alps in which it is possible to observe and study the relationships …