Livia Vittori Antisari is Full Professor in the
Department of Agro-food Science and Technology at the University of
Bologna. Editor-in-chief of EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality.
She is co-author of about seventy scientific papers
concerning the following study areas: a) Fate of nitrogen
fertilizer in soil, with particular attention to the variations of
ammonium fixed into clays. The study was carried out with
fertilizer 15N enriched both in field and laboratory
experiments ; b) Environmental pollution by nitrogen using
15N compounds, a particular interest includes the study
of urease end nitrification activity in soil and the efficiency of
urease and nitrification inhibitors at lab and field experiments;
c) Environmental pollution by heavy metals in water-soil-plant
system using bio indicators as well as moss, higher plants. The
study led to the definition of a method to determine the ratio of
atmospheric deposition of pollutants on leaf surfaces and moss; d)
Water quality of municipal wastewater, different basins of rivers
(Reno rivers, Lamone rivers and network of artificial canals in Po
plain) and rainfall was analyzed; d) Studies related to the
behaviour and toxicity of engineered nanoparticle (e.g.
TiO2, Co, Ni, CeO2, Ag) sprayed into soil
with different physico-chemical and biochemical characteristics in
relation to soil microbial biomass (e.g. basal respiration,
metabolic quotient, C and N microbial biomass, DNA....) and
earthworms; e) Studies related to the pedogenesis of brown earths
from the coastal dune to the Apennines have been performed to
characterize chemically and biochemically the soil organic matter
along the profiles by means of different techniques (FTIR, TG-DGA,
stable isotope ratio) in relation to different soil forming factors
(e.g. vegetation cover, micro clime, topography....) . The
ecophysiological properties of soil microbial biomass were also
studied along the soil profiles.
