- Spatial self-organization
- Biophysical interactions (flow-vegetation interactions)
- Freshwater ecology
- Limnology
Dr. Loreta Cornacchia
Linked news
Tuesday 14 July 2020
River plants counter both flooding and drought to protect biodiversity
'Water plants are a nuisance in streams, blocking the flow. You should remove them'. This notion has for many years determined how streams were managed to prevent flooding during high rainfall events. Research by NIOZ scientist Loreta Cornacchia,…
Monday 19 February 2018
Zelforganisatie onderwaterplanten houdt rivieren gezond
Onderwaterplanten spelen een essentiële rol om rivieren en waterlopen gezond te houden. Biologe Loreta Cornacchia van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) ondervond dat de waterplant sterrenkroos een regelmatig verspreid 'klonterig'…
NIOZ publications
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2020
Cornacchia, L.; Wharton, G.; Davies, G.; Grabowski, R.C.; Temmerman, S.; van der Wal, D.; Bouma, T.J.; van de Koppel, J. (2020). Self-organization of river vegetation leads to emergent buffering of river flows and water levels. Proc., Sect. B Biol. Sci. 287(1931): 20201147. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1147
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2019
Cornacchia, L.; Folkard, A.; Davies, G.; Grabowski, R.C.; van de Koppel, J.; van der Wal, D.; Wharton, G.; Puijalon, S.; Bouma, T.J. (2019). Plants face the flow in V formation: A study of plant patch alignment in streams. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64(3): 1087-1102. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11099Cornacchia, L.; Licci, S.; Nepf, H.; Folkard, A.; van der Wal, D.; van de Koppel, J.; Puijalon, S.; Bouma, T.J. (2019). Turbulence-mediated facilitation of resource uptake in patchy stream macrophytes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64(2): 714-727. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11070Cornacchia, L.; van der Wal, D.; van de Koppel, J.; Puijalon, S.; Wharton, G.; Bouma, T.J. (2019). Flow-divergence feedbacks control propagule retention by in-stream vegetation: the importance of spatial patterns for facilitation. Aquat. Sci. 81(1): 17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00027-018-0612-1
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2018
Cornacchia, L. (2018). Emergent properties of bio-physical self-organization in streams. PhD Thesis. NIOZ: [s.l.]. ISBN 978-94-034-0347-2. 197 pp. https://hdl.handle.net/11370/612799da-932a-451e-aebb-ad676e974095Cornacchia, L.; van de Koppel, J.; van der Wal, D.; Wharton, G.; Puijalon, S.; Bouma, T.J. (2018). Landscapes of facilitation: how self-organized patchiness of aquatic macrophytes promotes diversity in streams. Ecology 99(4): 832-847. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2177Taramelli, A.; Valentini, E.; Cornacchia, L.; Monbaliu, J.; Sabbe, K. (2018). Indications of dynamic effects on scaling relationships between channel sinuosity and vegetation patch size across a salt marsh platform. JGR: Earth Surface 123(10): 2714-2731. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017jf004540
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2016
Cornacchia, L.; Licci, S.; van de Koppel, J.; van der Wal, D.; Wharton, G.; Puijalon, S.; Bouma, T.J. (2016). Flow Velocity and Morphology of a Submerged Patch of the Aquatic Species Veronica anagallis-aquatica L., in: Rowinski, P. et al. Hydrodynamic and Mass Transport at Freshwater Aquatic Interfaces : 34th International School of Hydraulics. pp. 141-152
