**About the Editors**

#### **Chiara Piccini**

Chiara Piccini has been a geologist and senior technologist at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA) in Rome, Italy, since 1998. Her main research topics include the spatialization of experimental data using geostatistics, digital soil mapping techniques and satellite imagery; application of crop simulation models for soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics; soil quality and environmental concerns; monitoring of nutrients leaching from soil; nitrate contamination; statistical data processing; monitoring of soil chemical features; soil chemical, physical and hydrological characterization; soil chemical fertility; soil water dynamics; irrigation water quality and irrigation with non-optimal water quality.

#### **Rosa Francaviglia**

Rosa Francaviglia, with expertise in agronomy, was a senior researcher at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA) in Rome, Italy, from 1981 (now retired). Her main research topics include the effect of climate change on agriculture; carbon sink and agricultural soils; soil organic carbon simulation models; soil fertility; conservation agriculture; crop diversification; agro-environmental evaluations; soil quality indicators; good agro-environmental conditions (GAEC) under the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
