Professional summary
Dr Fabrizio Albanito is a senior soil health and carbon specialist with over fifteen years of experience on plant-soil biogeochemistry research focused on climate-change mitigation and sustainability projects in land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) scenarios.
Fabrizio is interested in assessing the extent to which greenhouse gas removal strategies and renewable energy developments contribute to the mitigation of GHG emissions across natural and semi-natural landscapes (forestry, peatland/wetland, grassland), and how agroecosystems can be transformed to be more sustainable and resilient to climate change.
His work encompasses multidisciplinary approaches and cross-sectoral analysis using biogeochemical process-based models (APSIM, RothC, ECOSSE), statistical modelling (Generalized Additive Mixed Models), participatory methods, and multi-criteria decision-methods (Analytic Hierarchical Process, Analytic Network Process, DEMATEL).
F. Albanito, et al. (2022). How modellers model: the overlooked social and human dimensions in model intercomparison studies. Environmental Science & Technology. 2022;56(18):13485-98. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02023
F. Albanito, et al. (2022). Quantifying the land-based opportunity carbon costs of onshore wind farms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132480.
K. Tesfaye, et al. (2021). Model Comparison and Quantification of Nitrous Oxide Emission and Mitigation Potential from Maize and Wheat Fields at a Global Scale. Science of the Total Environment, 782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146696.
M. Jones and F. Albanito (2020). Can biomass supply meet the demands of BECCS? Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15296.
J. Smith, et al. (2020). A systems model describing the impact of organic resource use on farming households in low to middle income countries. Agricultural Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102895.
Z. Shang, et al. (2019). Measurement of N2O emissions over the whole year is necessary for estimating reliable emission factors. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113864.
F. Albanito, et al. (2019). Mitigation potential and environmental impact of centralized versus distributed BECCS with domestic biomass production in Great Britain. Global Change Biology and Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12630
Q. Yue, et al. (2018). Re-assessing nitrous oxide emissions from croplands across Mainland China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 268, 70-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.09.003
A. Molotoks, et al. (2018). Global projections of future cropland expansion to 2050 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon storage. Global Change Biology, 24(12), 5895-5908. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14459
F. Albanito, et al. (2017). Direct Nitrous Oxide emissions from tropical and subtropical agricultural systems - a review and modelling of emission factors. Scientific Reports Nature, 7, 44235. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44235