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Interazioni e trofodinamica della megafauna bentonica associata a due stati stabili alternativi dell'infralitorale superiore roccioso del Mediterrane…
2011
Trace metal contamination in a Mediterranean coastal pond (Acquatina, Apulia, Italy).
2010
Flora e fauna antartica di interesse biotecnologico: esperienze e future prospettive in Italia ed Argentina
2016
L’Antartide è un ambiente in cui sono presenti contemporaneamente estreme condizioni di temperatura, luce, umidità e vento. La biosfera locale presenta una notevole biodiversità ed una serie di fenomeni unici usati come soluzioni per poter vivere a queste condizioni. La componente più rappresentata è quella microbica e batterica in particolare; sono stati infatti recentemente descritti, da gruppi di ricerca dell’Università di Messina in collaborazione con l’Università di Palermo, batteri in grado di produrre delle molecole antibiotico-simili con spiccate proprietà batteriostatiche nei confronti di ceppi opportunisti particolarmente temibili in caso di infezioni in soggetti affetti da Fibros…
A new small mammal assemblage from the Pirro 12 “Terre Rosse” fissure filling (Gargano, Southeastern Italy).
2011
The Pirro 12 fissure filling has been discovered and sampled by a team of the University of Torino during the 2005 field survey in the Dell’Erba Quarry (Apricena, Foggia). The occurrence of a very small Deinogalerix and of a very simple Mikrotia supported, at a first glance, the very old position of Pirro 12 in the biochronological succession of endemic faunal settlements of Gargano (Villier, 2011). In this communication the preliminary result of taxonomic studies of the small mammal assemblage of the Pirro 12 filling is presented. The Gliridae is by far the most common family in this site. Two species of the endemic genus Stertomys have been identified: the small-sized Stertomys cf simplex…
New surprises from the Gargano Late Miocene small mammals, a neverending story.
2014
A possible bridge between Adria and Africa: New palaeobiogeographic and stratigraphic constraints on the Mesozoic palaeogeography of the Central Medi…
2010
Abstract Dinosaur records in central and southern Italy testify to the occurrence of a diverse dinosaur fauna on the Apennine and Apulian carbonate platforms at least from the Tithonian to the Santonian. Most of the palaeogeographic reconstructions show these domains as topographically isolated areas, separated by deep pelagic basins and far from emerged continental areas. Thus, they hardly justify the long-lasting occurrence of these terrestrial vertebrates. Recent studies on the Mesozoic Panormide Carbonate Platform (western Sicily) yielded important stratigraphical and palaeontological data, which provide evidence for a convincing explanation of this unresolved problem. The recent discov…
LESIVITA' POST-MORTALE DA FAUNA DOMESTICA E SELVATICA
2013
Lo stato della diversità biologica delle isole eolie
2008
Testing heterogeneity in faunal assemblages from archaeological sites. Tumbling and trampling experiments at the early-Middle Pleistocene site of Ges…
2010
Abstract The current paper reports an experimental case study to test the heterogeneity of faunal assemblages from the Early-Middle Pleistocene Layers V-5 and V-6 of the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Acheulian site (Israel). Tumbling and trampling experiments were initiated to gain qualitative insight into processes of bone modification and to assess the timing of the biostratonomic chronology, as it was assumed that both mechanisms were responsible for the formation of striations documented on the bone surfaces from the site. The tumbling experiments mimicked sediment movement in a calm lacustrine shoreline environment whereas the trampling experiments investigate the role of animal/hominin activit…
AN OVERVIEW ON THE SUBTERRANEAN FAUNA FROM CENTRAL ASIA
2019
Survey of the aquatic subterranean fauna from caves, springs, interstitial habitat, wells in deserts, artificial tunnels (Khanas) of five countries of the former URSS (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) located far east the Caspian Sea. The cave fauna present some originalities: - the rich fauna of foraminiferida in the wells of the Kara-Kum desert (Turkmenistan); - the cave fish Paracobitis starostini from the Provull gypsum Cave (Turkmenistan); - the presence of a rich stygobitic fauna in the wells of the Kyzyl-Kum desert (Uzbekistan); - the rich stygobitic fauna from the hyporheic of streams and wells around the tectonic Issyk-Kul Lake (Kyrgyzstan); - the e…