Riccardo Valentini is full professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Tuscia, Italy.
His expertise concern the role of land use changes and forestry in the carbon cycle, biodiversity and bioenergy. He is also involved through IPCC and governmental bodies on policies about the global carbon cycle and the role of land use changes and forestry
He is coordinator of several EU projects aiming to understand and quantify the terrestrial carbon budget and greenhouse gases emissions. He is coordinator of the EU-Proiect CARBOAFRICA.
He is Doctor Honoris Causa Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, Belgium. He is a Nobel Price for Peace as member of the IPCC board.
He is Director of the Impacts Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change and Member of the Biogeoscience Committe of the European Research Council
2009: Chairman of the Global Terrestrial Observation System Programme, sponsored by FAO/UNESCO/UNEP/ICSU/WMO.
2010: Coordinator of the EU project CLIMAFRICA.
2010: Award of the Advanced Senior Grant of the European Research Coucil.
2010: Member of Aurelio Peccei Foundation – Club di Roma 2011 – Coordinator of the EU project GEOCARBON.

Recent publications

• Ciais, P., M. J. Schelhaas, S. Zaehle, S. L. Piao, A. Cescatti, J. Liski, S. Luyssaert, G. Le-Maire, E. D. Schulze, O. Bouriaud, A. Freibauer, R. Valentini and G. J. Nabuurs (2008). “Carbon accumulation in European forests.” Nature Geosci 1(7): 425-429.
• Dolman, A. J., A. Freibauer and R. Valentini (2008). The continental scale greenhouse gas balance of Europe. New York, Springer.
• Magnani, F., M. Mencuccini, M. Borghetti, P. Berbigier, F. Berninger, S. Delzon, A. Grelle, P. Hari, P. G. Jarvis, P. Kolari, A. S. Kowalski, H. Lankreijer, B. E. Law, A. Lindroth, D. Loustau, G. Manca, J. B. Moncrieff, M. Rayment, V. Tedeschi, R. Valentini and J. Grace (2007). “The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests.” Nature 447(7146): 849-851.
• Reichstein, M., D. Papale, R. Valentini, M. Aubinet, C. Bernhofer, A. Knohl, T. Laurila, A. Lindroth, E. J. Moors, K. Pilegaard and G. Seufert (2007). “Determinants of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance inferred from European eddy covariance flux sites.” Geophysical Research Letters 34(L0142).
• Ciais, P., M. Reichstein, N. Viovy, A. Granier, J. Ogee, V. Allard, M. Aubinet, N. Buchmann, C. Bernhofer, A. Carrara, F. Chevallier, N. D. Noblet, A. Friend, P. Friedlingstein, T. Grunwald, B. Heinesch, P. Keronen, A. Knohl, G. Krinner, D. Loustau, G. Manca, G. Matteucci, F. Miglietta, J. M. Ourcival, D. Papale, K. Pilegaard, S. Rambal, G. Seufert, J. F. Soussana, M. J. Sanz, E. D. Schulze, T. Vesala and R. Valentini (2005). “Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003.” Nature 437: 529-533.
• Janssens, I.A., Freibauer, A., Schlamadinger, B., Ceulemans, R., Ciais, P., Dolman, A.J., Heimann, M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Smith, P., Valentini, R. and Schulze, E.-D., 2005. The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems at country-scale an European case study. Biogeosciences, 2: 15-22.
• Schulze, E.-D., D. Mollicone, F. Achard, G. Matteucci, S. Federici, H. G. Eva and R. Valentini (2003). “Making deforestation pay under the Kyoto Protocol?” Science 299: 1669.
• Janssens, I. A., A. Freibauer, P. Ciais, P. Smith, G.-J. Nabuurs, G. Folberth, B. Schlamadinger, R. W. A. Hutjes, R. Ceulemans, E.-D. Schulze, R. Valentini and A. J. Dolman (2003). “Europe’s Terrestrial Biosphere Absorbs 7 to 12% of European Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions.” Science (300): 1538-1542.
• Dolman, A. J., E.-D. Schulze and R. Valentini (2003). “Analyzing carbon flux measurements.” Science 301: 916-917.
• Valentini, R., G. Matteucci, A. J. Dolman, E.-D. Schulze, C. Rebmann, E. J. Moors, A. Granier, P. Gross, N. O. Jensen, K. Pilegaard, A. Lindroth, A. Grelle, C. Bernhofer, T. Grünwald, M. Aubinet, R. Ceulemans, A. S. Kowalski, T. Vesala, Ü. Rannik, P. Berbigier, D. Loustau, J. Gu.mundsson, H. Thorgeirsson, A. Ibrom, K. Morgenstern, R. Clement, J. Moncrieff, L. Montagnani, S. Minerbi and P. G. Jarvis (2000). “Respiration as the main determinant of European forests carbon balance.” Nature 404: 861-865.