Bruna Grizzetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6569372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruna Grizzetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruna |
| FAMILY NAME | Grizzetti |
| SIGNATURE | GRIZZETTI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Joint Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5570-8581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nutrient retention in European lakes and rivers
Nutrient retention in lakes and rivers is an essential regulating ecosystem service that protects downstream water bodies from nutrient excess, reducing anthropic impacts on aquatic habitats. Quantifying nutrient retention in freshwaters is important for basin management, but difficult as retention depends, among other things, on the spatial and temporal scales of interest. This study aimed at assessing freshwater nutrient retention in contempora…
Effects of EU policy and climate change on future delivery of nutrients to European freshwater and seas
In Europe, excessive nutrient pollution in freshwater and marine ecosystems poses a significant threat to human uses of water resources and disrupts aquatic ecosystems, compromising essential ecosystem services. The effectiveness of existing EU policies aimed at mitigating nutrient pollution will be influenced by the combined impact of climate variability and change. It remains uncertain whether current policies will suffice to reduce nutrient po…
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate
Worldwide, Mediterranean cropping systems face the complex challenge of producing enough high-quality food while preserving the quantity and quality of scarce water for people and agriculture in the context of climate change. While good management of nitrogen (N) is paramount to achieving this objective, the efficient strategies developed for temperate systems are often not adapted to the specificities of Mediterranean systems. In this work, we c…
Rise and fall of vegetation annual primary production resilience to climate variability projected by a large ensemble of Earth System Models’ simulations
Climate change is affecting natural ecosystems and society. Anticipating its impacts on vegetation resilience is critical to estimate the ecosystems’ response to global changes and the reliability of the related ecosystem services, to support mitigation actions, and to define proper adaptation plans. Here, we compute the Annual Production Resilience Indicator from gross primary production (GPP) data simulated by a large ensemble of state-of-the-a…
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters
Intensive agriculture and densely populated areas represent major sources of nutrient pollution for European inland and coastal waters, altering the aquatic ecosystems and affecting their capacity to provide ecosystem services and support economic activities. Ambitious water policies are in place in the European Union (EU) for protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems under the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directi…
Hydromorphology of coastal zone and structure of watershed agro-food system are main determinants of coastal eutrophication
For a number of well-documented watersheds and their adjacent coastal zones, a simplified, but generic approach was developed to explore current nutrient deliveries to their corresponding marine system, characterized by their flushing rate/residence time and morphology. An indicator of eutrophication was defined derived from both the C:N:P:Si stoichiometry of the riverine nutrient delivery and the physical features of the receiving marine bay (B_…
Beneficial land use change
Society faces the double challenge of increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food, materials and bioenergy, while addressing negative impacts of current (and future) land use. In the discourse, land use change (LUC) has often been considered as negative, referring to impacts of deforestation and expansion of biomass plantations. However, strategic establishment of suitable perennial production systems in agricultural landsca…
An indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020
In the EU, the mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, abbreviated to MAES, is seen as a key action for the advancement of biodiversity objectives, and also to inform the development and implementation of related policies on water, climate, agriculture, forest, marine and regional planning. In this study, we present the development of an analytical framework which ensures that consistent approaches are used throughout the EU. It …
Ecosystem services for water policy
In this research we explored how the concepts and approaches of ecosystem services are currently used in water management in Europe, in the application of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) developed for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Five case studies have been considered, located in the River Basin Districts of the Po river (Italy), Scotland (United Kingdom), Scheldt river (Belgium), Danube river (Romania), Sado and Mira rivers and Ri…
Assessing water ecosystem services for water resource management
Ecosystem service concepts can offer a valuable approach for linking human and nature, and arguments for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Despite an increasing interest in the topic, the application of these concepts for water resource management has been hampered by the lack of practical definitions and methodologies. In this study we review and analyse the current literature and propose an approach for assessing and valui…
Lost water and nitrogen resources due to EU consumer food waste
The European Parliament recently called for urgent measures to halve food waste in the EU, where consumers are responsible for a major part of total waste along the food supply chain. Due to a lack of data on national food waste statistics, uncertainty in (consumer) waste quantities (and the resulting associated quantities of natural resources) is very high, but has never been previously assessed in studies for the EU. Here we quantify: (1) EU co…
The role of water nitrogen retention in integrated nutrient management
The removal of excessive nitrogen (nitrogen retention) is an important service that the aquatic ecosystem provides to humans. Assessing the removal of nitrogen (temporal and permanent) in large river basins is complex due to the dependency on climate, hydrological and physical characteristics, and ecosystem functioning. Measurements are generally limited in number and do not represent the full integration of all processes contributing to nitrogen…
Impacts of European livestock production
Livestock production systems currently occupy around 28% of the land surface of the European Union (equivalent to 65% of the agricultural land). In conjunction with other human activities, livestock production systems affect water, air and soil quality, global climate and biodiversity, altering the biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon. Here, we quantify the contribution of European livestock production to these major impacts. …
Mapping green infrastructure based on ecosystem services and ecological networks
Identifying, promoting and preserving a strategically planned green infrastructure (GI) network can provide ecological, economic and social benefits. It has also become a priority for the planning and decision-making process in sectors such as conservation, (land) resource efficiency, agriculture, forestry or urban development.\nIn this paper we propose a methodology that can be used to identify and map GI elements at landscape level based on the…
Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle
Scenario analysis for nutrient emission reduction in the European inland waters
Despite a large body of legislation, high nutrient loads are still emitted in European inland waters. In the\npresent study we evaluate a set of alternative scenarios aiming at reducing nutrient emissions from\nanthropogenic activities to all European Seas. In particular, we tested the full implementation of the\nEuropean Urban Waste Water Directive, Directive that controls emissions from point source. In addition,\nwe associated the full impleme…
Year Trends in Nitrogen Use Efficiency of World Cropping Systems
Nitrogen (N) is crucial for crop productivity. However nowadays more than\nhalf of the N added to cropland is lost to the environment, wasting the\nresource, producing threats to air, water, soil and biodiversity, and\ngenerating greenhouse gas emissions. Based on FAO data, we have\nreconstructed the trajectory followed, in the past 50 years, by 124\ncountries in terms of crop yield and total nitrogen inputs to cropland\n(manure, synthetic fertil…
The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century
Global nitrogen fixation contributes 413 Tg of reactive nitrogen (N r ) to terrestrial and marine ecosystems annually of which anthropogenic activities are responsible for half, 210 Tg N. The majority of the transformations of anthropogenic N r are on land (240 Tg N yr −1 ) within soils and vegetation where reduced N r contributes most of the input through the use of fertilizer nitrogen in agriculture. Leakages from the use of fertilizer N r cont…
The contribution of food waste to global and European nitrogen pollution
Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union
Mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and decision making is dependent on the availability of spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their services. In particular, the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 addresses the need to account for ecosystem services through biophysical mapping and valuation. This paper reviews current mapping methods, identifies current knowledge gaps and provides the elements for a me…
Assessing water ecosystem services for water resource management
Ecosystem service concepts can offer a valuable approach for linking human and nature, and arguments for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Despite an increasing interest in the topic, the application of these concepts for water resource management has been hampered by the lack of practical definitions and methodologies. In this study we review and analyse the current literature and propose an approach for assessing and valui…
Mapping green infrastructure based on ecosystem services and ecological networks
Identifying, promoting and preserving a strategically planned green infrastructure (GI) network can provide ecological, economic and social benefits. It has also become a priority for the planning and decision-making process in sectors such as conservation, (land) resource efficiency, agriculture, forestry or urban development.\nIn this paper we propose a methodology that can be used to identify and map GI elements at landscape level based on the…
Beneficial land use change
Society faces the double challenge of increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food, materials and bioenergy, while addressing negative impacts of current (and future) land use. In the discourse, land use change (LUC) has often been considered as negative, referring to impacts of deforestation and expansion of biomass plantations. However, strategic establishment of suitable perennial production systems in agricultural landsca…
Ecosystem services for water policy
In this research we explored how the concepts and approaches of ecosystem services are currently used in water management in Europe, in the application of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) developed for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Five case studies have been considered, located in the River Basin Districts of the Po river (Italy), Scotland (United Kingdom), Scheldt river (Belgium), Danube river (Romania), Sado and Mira rivers and Ri…
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters
Intensive agriculture and densely populated areas represent major sources of nutrient pollution for European inland and coastal waters, altering the aquatic ecosystems and affecting their capacity to provide ecosystem services and support economic activities. Ambitious water policies are in place in the European Union (EU) for protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems under the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directi…
The contribution of food waste to global and European nitrogen pollution
Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union
Mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and decision making is dependent on the availability of spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their services. In particular, the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 addresses the need to account for ecosystem services through biophysical mapping and valuation. This paper reviews current mapping methods, identifies current knowledge gaps and provides the elements for a me…
The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century
Global nitrogen fixation contributes 413 Tg of reactive nitrogen (N r ) to terrestrial and marine ecosystems annually of which anthropogenic activities are responsible for half, 210 Tg N. The majority of the transformations of anthropogenic N r are on land (240 Tg N yr −1 ) within soils and vegetation where reduced N r contributes most of the input through the use of fertilizer nitrogen in agriculture. Leakages from the use of fertilizer N r cont…
The contribution of food waste to global and European nitrogen pollution
Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle
Scenario analysis for nutrient emission reduction in the European inland waters
Despite a large body of legislation, high nutrient loads are still emitted in European inland waters. In the\npresent study we evaluate a set of alternative scenarios aiming at reducing nutrient emissions from\nanthropogenic activities to all European Seas. In particular, we tested the full implementation of the\nEuropean Urban Waste Water Directive, Directive that controls emissions from point source. In addition,\nwe associated the full impleme…
Year Trends in Nitrogen Use Efficiency of World Cropping Systems
Nitrogen (N) is crucial for crop productivity. However nowadays more than\nhalf of the N added to cropland is lost to the environment, wasting the\nresource, producing threats to air, water, soil and biodiversity, and\ngenerating greenhouse gas emissions. Based on FAO data, we have\nreconstructed the trajectory followed, in the past 50 years, by 124\ncountries in terms of crop yield and total nitrogen inputs to cropland\n(manure, synthetic fertil…
Lost water and nitrogen resources due to EU consumer food waste
The European Parliament recently called for urgent measures to halve food waste in the EU, where consumers are responsible for a major part of total waste along the food supply chain. Due to a lack of data on national food waste statistics, uncertainty in (consumer) waste quantities (and the resulting associated quantities of natural resources) is very high, but has never been previously assessed in studies for the EU. Here we quantify: (1) EU co…
The role of water nitrogen retention in integrated nutrient management
The removal of excessive nitrogen (nitrogen retention) is an important service that the aquatic ecosystem provides to humans. Assessing the removal of nitrogen (temporal and permanent) in large river basins is complex due to the dependency on climate, hydrological and physical characteristics, and ecosystem functioning. Measurements are generally limited in number and do not represent the full integration of all processes contributing to nitrogen…
Impacts of European livestock production
Livestock production systems currently occupy around 28% of the land surface of the European Union (equivalent to 65% of the agricultural land). In conjunction with other human activities, livestock production systems affect water, air and soil quality, global climate and biodiversity, altering the biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon. Here, we quantify the contribution of European livestock production to these major impacts. …
Mapping green infrastructure based on ecosystem services and ecological networks
Identifying, promoting and preserving a strategically planned green infrastructure (GI) network can provide ecological, economic and social benefits. It has also become a priority for the planning and decision-making process in sectors such as conservation, (land) resource efficiency, agriculture, forestry or urban development.\nIn this paper we propose a methodology that can be used to identify and map GI elements at landscape level based on the…
An indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020
In the EU, the mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, abbreviated to MAES, is seen as a key action for the advancement of biodiversity objectives, and also to inform the development and implementation of related policies on water, climate, agriculture, forest, marine and regional planning. In this study, we present the development of an analytical framework which ensures that consistent approaches are used throughout the EU. It …
Ecosystem services for water policy
In this research we explored how the concepts and approaches of ecosystem services are currently used in water management in Europe, in the application of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) developed for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Five case studies have been considered, located in the River Basin Districts of the Po river (Italy), Scotland (United Kingdom), Scheldt river (Belgium), Danube river (Romania), Sado and Mira rivers and Ri…
Assessing water ecosystem services for water resource management
Ecosystem service concepts can offer a valuable approach for linking human and nature, and arguments for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Despite an increasing interest in the topic, the application of these concepts for water resource management has been hampered by the lack of practical definitions and methodologies. In this study we review and analyse the current literature and propose an approach for assessing and valui…
Beneficial land use change
Society faces the double challenge of increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food, materials and bioenergy, while addressing negative impacts of current (and future) land use. In the discourse, land use change (LUC) has often been considered as negative, referring to impacts of deforestation and expansion of biomass plantations. However, strategic establishment of suitable perennial production systems in agricultural landsca…
Hydromorphology of coastal zone and structure of watershed agro-food system are main determinants of coastal eutrophication
For a number of well-documented watersheds and their adjacent coastal zones, a simplified, but generic approach was developed to explore current nutrient deliveries to their corresponding marine system, characterized by their flushing rate/residence time and morphology. An indicator of eutrophication was defined derived from both the C:N:P:Si stoichiometry of the riverine nutrient delivery and the physical features of the receiving marine bay (B_…
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate
Worldwide, Mediterranean cropping systems face the complex challenge of producing enough high-quality food while preserving the quantity and quality of scarce water for people and agriculture in the context of climate change. While good management of nitrogen (N) is paramount to achieving this objective, the efficient strategies developed for temperate systems are often not adapted to the specificities of Mediterranean systems. In this work, we c…
Rise and fall of vegetation annual primary production resilience to climate variability projected by a large ensemble of Earth System Models’ simulations
Climate change is affecting natural ecosystems and society. Anticipating its impacts on vegetation resilience is critical to estimate the ecosystems’ response to global changes and the reliability of the related ecosystem services, to support mitigation actions, and to define proper adaptation plans. Here, we compute the Annual Production Resilience Indicator from gross primary production (GPP) data simulated by a large ensemble of state-of-the-a…
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters
Intensive agriculture and densely populated areas represent major sources of nutrient pollution for European inland and coastal waters, altering the aquatic ecosystems and affecting their capacity to provide ecosystem services and support economic activities. Ambitious water policies are in place in the European Union (EU) for protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems under the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directi…
Nutrient retention in European lakes and rivers
Nutrient retention in lakes and rivers is an essential regulating ecosystem service that protects downstream water bodies from nutrient excess, reducing anthropic impacts on aquatic habitats. Quantifying nutrient retention in freshwaters is important for basin management, but difficult as retention depends, among other things, on the spatial and temporal scales of interest. This study aimed at assessing freshwater nutrient retention in contempora…
Effects of EU policy and climate change on future delivery of nutrients to European freshwater and seas
In Europe, excessive nutrient pollution in freshwater and marine ecosystems poses a significant threat to human uses of water resources and disrupts aquatic ecosystems, compromising essential ecosystem services. The effectiveness of existing EU policies aimed at mitigating nutrient pollution will be influenced by the combined impact of climate variability and change. It remains uncertain whether current policies will suffice to reduce nutrient po…
Environmental Science (18 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Ecosystem (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 works) · Water quality (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Biology (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works)