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  1. Multivariate Strategy for Understanding Soil Features from Rare-Earth Element Profiles: A Focus on Data Normalization

    Article • ACS Measurement Science Au, March 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  2. Challenges in developing reliable phosphorus predictive models: Unpredictable release under soil redox changes

    Article • Heliyon, December 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  3. Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-life options. One step beyond

    Article • Heliyon, December 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  4. Spatial distribution of soil rare earth elements in Sicily (Italy)

    Article • Geoderma Regional, September 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  5. Plant diversity in old-growth woods: the case of the forest edges of the Favorita Park in Palermo (north-western Sicily, Italy)

    Article • Plant Sociology, May 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  6. Cactus pear pruning residue in agriculture: Unveiling soil-specific responses to enhance water retention

    Article • Environmental Technology & Innovation, May 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  7. From grapes to getaways: Unraveling the residential tourism impact on land use change and soil erosion processes in Menfi district

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  8. War is undermining soil health and availability more than urbanisation

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  9. Next‐generation methods for early disease detection in crops

    Article • Pest Management Science, September 2023, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  10. Phosphorus recovery from agricultural waste via cactus pear biomass

    Article • Heliyon, September 2023, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  11. The unseen world beneath our feet: Heliyon soil science. Exploring the cutting-edge techniques and ambitious goals of modern soil science

    Article • Heliyon, August 2023, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  12. Withdrawal: Next‐generation methods for early disease detection in crops. A review

    Article • Pest Management Science, July 2023, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  13. The crucial interactions between climate and soil

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2023, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  14. Recycling Phosphorus from Agricultural Streams: Grey and Green Solutions

    Article • Agronomy, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  15. Relief and calcium from gypsum as key factors for net inorganic carbon accumulation in soils of a semiarid Mediterranean environment

    Article • Geoderma, September 2021, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  16. An Early Beginning of Citizen Science: Adolescents Experiencing Urban Energy Usages and Air Pollution

    Article • Adolescents, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  17. Plastic end-of-life alternatives, with a focus on the agricultural sector

    Article • Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, June 2021, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  18. Soil is the best testifier of the diachronous dawn of the Anthropocene

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, January 2021, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  19. Outlook from the soil perspective of urban expansion and food security

    Article • Heliyon, January 2021, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  20. Strawberry fields forever: That is, how many grams of plastics are used to grow a strawberry?

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, December 2020, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  21. The cork oak in the Mountains of Palermo (Italy): ecological insights from the south-eastern edge of its distribution range

    Article • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, August 2020, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  22. Disambiguating the soils of Mars

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, July 2020, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  23. Connecting Existing Cemeteries Saving Good Soils (for Livings)

    Article • Sustainability, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  24. Unnamed Soils, Lost Opportunities

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  25. A rapid method of screening ceramic artefacts to reject unlikely hypotheses of provenance

    Article • Geoarchaeology, June 2019, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  26. SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS UNDER RECOMMENDED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN DIFFERENT SOILS OF SEMI‐ARID VINEYARDS

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, May 2019, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  27. Soil REE patterns as tracers of the emplacement of metal-rich anthropogenic materials. A case study in Moa (Cuba)

    Article • Journal of Soils and Sediments, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  28. Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-life options

    Article • Heliyon, December 2018, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  29. The contamination legacy of a decommissioned iron smelter in the Italian Alps

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, March 2018, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  30. Peri-urban areas can be studied using carbon stocks (soil and concrete) and the soil sealing

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2018, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Dr Francesco Malucelli

  31. OBSOLETE: Anthropogenic soils as the marker

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  32. Vegetation, soils, and humus forms of Sardinian holm oak forests and approximated cross-harmonization of vegetation types, WRB Soil Groups and humus forms in selected Mediterranean ecosystems

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, July 2017, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  33. Consequence of litter removal on pedogenesis: A case study in Bachs and Irchel (Switzerland)

    Article • Geoderma, June 2016, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  34. The impractical supremacy of local identity on the worthless soils of Mappano

    Article • City Territory and Architecture, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  35. The role of pedogenic overprinting in the obliteration of parent material in some polygenetic landscapes of Sicily (Italy)

    Article • Geoderma Regional, March 2016, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Sabine Petit

  36. Describing urban soils through a faceted system ensures more informed decision-making

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2016, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  37. Should the Anthropocene be taken as synonymous with the Holocene?

    Article • Science, July 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  38. Carbon stocks in a 50‑year‑oldEucalyptus camaldulensisstand in Sicily, Italy

    Article • Southern Forests a Journal of Forest Science, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  39. Lesson learnt from bricks used in Ancient Roman architecture

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2015, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Sabine Petit

  40. Is the Anthropocene really worthy of a formal geologic definition?

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  41. Mountain dairy wastewater treatment with the use of a ‘irregularly shaped’ constructed wetland (Aosta Valley, Italy)

    Article • Ecological Engineering, December 2014, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  42. Carbon Stocks in Peri-Urban Areas: A Case Study of Remote Sensing Capabilities

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Dr Francesco Malucelli

  43. Advanced methods of plant disease detection. A review

    Article • Agronomy for Sustainable Development, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paolo Ruisi, Riccardo SCALENGHE

  44. Urban expansion can reduce food security

    Article • Land Use Policy, July 2014, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Dr Francesco Malucelli

  45. Proposal of aCitrustranslational genomic approach for early and infield detection of Flavescence dorée in Vitis

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  46. Release of phosphorus under reducing and simulated open drainage conditions from overfertilised soils

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2014, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  47. The impact of warfare on the soil environment

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2013, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  48. DRIFTS Sensor: Soil Carbon Validation at Large Scale (Pantelleria, Italy)

    Article • Sensors, April 2013, MDPI AG

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  49. Anthropogenic carbon stocks analysis in sparsely urbanized areas using remote sensing: A case study

    Article • April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Malucelli, Riccardo SCALENGHE

  50. Pedogenic carbonates and carbon pools in gypsiferous soils of a semiarid Mediterranean environment in south Italy

    Article • Geoderma, January 2013, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  51. Are agricultural soils under a continental temperate climate susceptible to episodic reducing conditions and increased leaching of phosphorus?

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, April 2012, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  52. The scent of Mare Nostrum : medicinal and aromatic plants in Mediterranean soils

    Article • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, March 2012, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Dr Alessandra Carrubba

  53. Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene

    Article • The Holocene, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  54. Influence of 150 Years of Land Use on Anthropogenic and Natural Carbon Stocks in Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy)

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Dr Francesco Malucelli

  55. Do soils exist outside Earth?

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, December 2010, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  56. Water need of Energy Crops – one of the environmental problems of Poland

    Article • March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  57. A view of extraterrestrial soils

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, December 2009, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  58. An anthropic soil transformation fingerprinted by REY patterns

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2009, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  59. The anthropogenic sealing of soils in urban areas

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, March 2009, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  60. The First Forty Years of a Technosol

    Article • Pedosphere, February 2009, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  61. Cactus Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica L. (Mill.))

    Article • January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  62. Aspects of phosphorus transfer from soils in Europe

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, August 2008, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  63. Soil Heavy Metals Patterns in the Torino Olympic Winter Games Venue (E.U.)

    Article • Soil and Sediment Contamination An International Journal, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  64. Phosphorus loss in overfertilized soils: The selective P partitioning and redistribution between particle size separates

    Article • European Journal of Agronomy, July 2007, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  65. Variation of soil carbon stocks during the renaturation of old fields: the case study of the Pantelleria Island, Italy

    Article • Forest - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale, March 2007, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  66. Changes in the seasonal snow cover of alpine regions and its effect on soil processes: A review

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2007, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  67. Some effects of a buried electricity transmission cable on bulk soil

    Article • Bioelectromagnetics, January 2007, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  68. Simulating soil freeze/thaw cycles typical of winter alpine conditions: Implications for N and P availability

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, January 2007, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  69. Appendix: Naming soils and soil horizons

    Article • October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  70. Labile nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus pools and nitrogen mineralization and immobilization rates at low temperatures in seasonally snow-covered soils

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  71. Soils: Basic Concepts and Future Challenges

    Article • January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  72. A new simple approach to evaluate pedogenic clay transformation in a Vertic Calcisol

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, January 2006, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE, Sabine Petit

  73. Segregated Ice and Liquefaction Effects on Compaction of Fragipans

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2004, Soil Science Society of America

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  74. Pedogenesis in disturbed alpine soils (NW Italy)

    Article • Geoderma, October 2002, Elsevier

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  75. The effect of reducing conditions on the solubility of phosphorus in a diverse range of European agricultural soils

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, September 2002, Wiley

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  76. MODELING SOIL DEVELOPMENT IN A POST-INCISIVE CHRONOSEQUENCE

    Article • Soil Science, June 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  77. PHYTOREMEDIATION BY CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS: ASSESSMENT OF BIOPEDOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE-EFFICIENT FARMING WITH LIVESTOCK

    Article • Acta Horticulturae, July 1998, International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  78. Phosphorus status in some natural desert truffle stands

    Article • Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  79. European soils overfertilized with phosphorus: Part 1. Basic properties

    Article • Fertilizer Research, January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo SCALENGHE

  80. Soil formation on Earth and beyond: the role of additional soil-forming factors

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Riccardo SCALENGHE