Leonardo Montagnani

Biographic Data

ID7994533
NAMELeonardo Montagnani
GIVEN NAMESLeonardo
FAMILY NAMEMontagnani
SIGNATUREMONTAGNANI L
AFFILIATIONSFree University of Bozen-Bolzano
ORCID0000-0003-2957-9071
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Soil health in a conflict-affected area: An open-source Google Earth Engine framework to map land degradation in Gaza

    Open AccessMichele Torresani, Omar Darissa et al.ARTICLEProgress in Physical Geography:…2026

    Armed conflict accelerates soil and vegetation degradation, but field assessments and monitoring are often only possible at a later stage and/or indirectly, for example, through remote sensing data. We used the Dynamic World v1, a land-cover open-source dataset derived from Sentinel-2 imagery, to quantify land-cover change in Gaza (Palestinian territories) between September 2023 and September 2025. After cloud/shadow masking and 10 m spatial esti…

  • Comparison of Ecosystem CO 2 Fluxes Between Restoration and Unassisted Succession in Mid‐Stage of Recovery After Coal Mining

    Open AccessAysan Badraghi, Jiří Kučera et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2025

    Forest plantation is a common method for restoring post‐mining sites, but in suitable conditions, forests can also develop spontaneously on unreclaimed sites. Despite this potential for natural forest recovery, no direct measurements have been conducted to compare carbon fluxes between reclaimed and spontaneously developing forests in post‐mining areas, particularly those degraded by coal mining. To address this, we measured the net ecosystem exc…

  • The influence of tree traits on urban ground surface shade cooling

    Open AccessAndrew Speak, Leonardo Montagnani et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

  • Stomatal response to decreased relative humidity constrains the acceleration of terrestrial evapotranspiration

    Open AccessMingzhong Xiao, Zhongbo Yu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is thermodynamically expected to increase with increasing atmospheric temperature; however, the actual constraints on the intensification of ET remain uncertain due to a lack of direct observations. Based on the FLUXNET2015 Dataset, we found that relative humidity (RH) is a more important driver of ET than temperature. While actual ET decrease at reduced RH, potential ET increases, consistently with the complem…

  • Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends

    Open AccessAnkur R Desai, Georg Wohlfahrt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Regional ecosystem productivity is highly sensitive to inter-annual climate variability, both within and outside the primary carbon uptake period. However, Earth system models lack sufficient spatial scales and ecosystem processes to resolve how these processes may change in a warming climate. Here, we show, how for the European Alps, mid-latitude Atlantic ocean winter circulation anomalies drive high-altitude summer forest and grassland producti…

  • Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity

    Open AccessSuhua Wei, Chuixiang Yi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Several lines of evidence suggest that the warming climate plays a vital role in driving certain types of extreme weather. The impact of warming and of extreme weather on forest carbon assimilation capacity is poorly known. Filling this knowledge gap is critical towards understanding the amount of carbon that forests can hold. Here, we used a perfect-deficit approach to identify forest canopy photosynthetic capacity (CPC) deficits and analyze how…

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Open AccessMartin Jung, Markus Reichstein et al.ARTICLENature2010

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Open AccessChuixiang Yi, Daniel Ricciuto et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2010

    Understanding the relationships between climate and carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems \nis critical to predict future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide because of the potential \naccelerating effects of positive climate–carbon cycle feedbacks. However, directly observed \nrelationships between climate and terrestrial CO2 exchange with the atmosphere across biomes \nand continents are lacking. Here we present data describing the relatio…