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Science at Museo delle Scienze | Research Report 2010-2011 Science at Museo delle Scienze Research Report 2010-2011 Museo delle scienze

President Giuliano Castelli (Marco Andreatta since October 16th, 2011)

Director Michele Lanzinger

MdS Research Report 2010-2011

Managing editor Valeria Lencioni

Editorial committee Marco Avanzini, Costantino Bonomi, Marco Cantonati, Giampaolo Dalmeri, Valeria Lencioni, Paolo Pedrini, Francesco Rovero

Editorial assistant Nicola Angeli

Cover and layout design Roberto Nova

Printing Tipografia Esperia Srl - Lavis (TN)

978-88-531-0019-1 Science at Museo delle Scienze Research Report 2010-2011

5 Preface

Part 1

7 1. Introducing MdS as museum and research centre

11 2. The research programmes

12 Programme 1R Ecology and biodiversity of mountain ecosystems in relation to environmental and climate change

12 Programme 2R Documenting and conserving nature

13 Programme 3R Plant conservation: seedbanking and plant translocation

13 Programme 4R Tropical Biodiversity

14 Programme 5R Earth sciences

14 Programme 6R Alpine Prehistory

15 3. The research staff and activities

19 4. The scientific collections

23 5. The main results and projects

Part 2

57 Appendix 1: The staff of the scientific sections

85 Appendix 2: The staff of the science communicators

91 Appendix 3: Research projects, high education and teaching

105 Appendix 4: Publications

127 Appendix 5: Collaborations: the research national network

131 Appendix 6: Collaborations: the research international network Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

4 Preface

Fully developed as a natural history museum since the beginning of the 1900, the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, since May 2011 named Museo delle Scienze (MdS) over the past decade has developed a new cultural approach through innovative exhibitions and public programmes which prompted a wider interpretation of its strictly naturalistic institutional scope. Nowadays the 1R museum manages, besides the head centre in Trento, a whole network of centres for scientific dissemination, established during the last 70 years. In Trentino: Botanical Alpine Garden on Viotte di Monte Bondone, Museum on the Bronze Age at the Lago di Ledro, Arco Arboretum, Glaciology Museum “J. Payer”, Aeronautic Museum “G. Caproni” in Trento, Bosco Caproni at Arco, Lymnological Field Station at the Lago di Tovel and the Geology Museum of 2R Dolomites in Predazzo. Abroad: Ecological Monitoring Centre (Tanzania). The MdS has grown and evolved over time, and specifically in the last 4 years thirty new people were employed in the permanent staff. At present it comprises more than sixty employees of which seven curators heads of scientific sections (Botany, Limnology and Phychology, Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Vertebrate Zoology, Tropical Biodiversity, Prehistory and Geo- 3R logy) and five technicians involved in the research and conservation activities plus seven cultural mediators and a plethora of more than thirty “unstructu- red” collaborators (Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and visitor researchers). In the biennium 2010-2011 the MdS promoted and participated even with a role of coordinator to several research projects in 4R collaboration with local research institutes such as the Edmund Mach Founda- tion, the Kessler Foundation and the University of Trento in response to the Trento Province’s demands. In particular, within the projects ACE-SAP and OPENLOC, both financed on the 2008 grant of the Province, the cooperation with all these research centres have been strengthened. In the last two years also the national and international collaborations with other museums and 5R research institutes increased, also thanks to the activation of innovative large- scale research programmes in Asia and Africa in the fields of biodiversity and adaptation to climate change, sustainable development, environmental education. Quantitative indicators of such activities are reported in this document, with a focus on the main results obtained in 2010-2011 published in scientific journals. The implementation of MdS’s collections thanks to these researches 6R contributes to increase the relevance of such results (at present about 5 millions of specimens/items are preserved at the museum). Furthermore, the 450 m2 surface of permanent gallery devotes the major part of exhibits to the field of nature and biodiversity with special regards to the research activities of the MdS and other local institutes, providing the diffusion of scientific data to the public in form of easily accessible contents. The total renovation of the museum and its relocation in a new building will be in 2013. It will change its acronym into MUSE, and it will be the first museum in Italy that harmoniously blends nature, science and technology, including also basic contemporary ethical and social issues. This has been requiring a considerable strategic and managerial effort that involves all the MdS’s staff, being the major challenge for the next future. In conclusion, I am grateful to all the personnel who contributed with constant care, dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism to the performance of the MdS, included the administrative employers. A special mention to the Auto- nomous Province of Trento for its financial support to our research programmes and to all the sponsors who support our activities in the last two years.

Michele Lanzinger Director of the Museo delle Scienze

1 Introducing MdS as museum and research centre Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

Trento Science Museum (MdS) traces back its origin in the mid XIX century, while only in 1964 it was established with the current asset. Throughout this period it progressively evolved into a modern museum, dedicated to research, visitor interpretation and education. Research at MdS is articulated around two mainstream areas: a mul- 1R tidisciplinary investigation of nature and an interest for science interpretation, education and training, based on the interconnection between nature science and society.

Environmental research focuses mainly on the Alpine region, and aims at attaining both local and global relevance, trying to be effective, integrated and useful to the local community and research area but also strategically placed at European level in 2R key research networks, valuing international research cooperation and participation to consortia and competitive projects, delivering research products relevant at global level. Since 2008 however, research on mountain ecosystems of other parts of the world has begun, especially in biodiversity-rich mountain forests of eastern Africa.

Education research continuously develops new means to raise awareness of the al- 3R pine environment, promoting the sustainable use of its resources, necessary to grant an environmentally friendly development of the local society, highlighting local assets and natural heritage, promoting public understanding of science. This is a key role that will be further enhanced in view of the future opening of MUSE, the new science museum of Trentino. The role of this new museum will be to investigate and explain nature using scientific tools, addressing the challenges posed by the modern times 4R and promoting the value of science, innovation and sustainable development.

8 Introducing MdS as a museum and research centre

In particular, MdS research activities will include: ∙∙ investigate the alpine geodynamic system, its endogenous and exogenous processes, in order to clarify the active forces, its evolution, the biological component, the first human settlements and their evolution in relation to geogra- phy and climate; 1R ∙∙ promote biodiversity databases based on museum collections and field records as part of long standing monitoring and research activities; ∙∙ improve our understanding of local plant and animal life and ecosystem func- tioning both aquatic and terrestrial, focusing on indicator species and adaptive potential; 2R ∙∙ produce distribution maps of priority species and habitats that allow to develop interpretation and prediction models that take into account global change, in order to develop local management plans for forestry, agriculture, hunting and fishing; ∙∙ investigate global change through proxy data derived from limnology, analys- 3R ing sediments, karst, hypogeous water tables; ∙∙ enhance the research sector on the biogeography, taxonomy, ecology and conservation biology of outstanding biodiversity sites in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot; ∙∙ interconnect science with society to promote local assets and natural heritage on solid 4R scientific grounds; on a wider scope, educate and engage the general public into an open dialogue on nature, science and sustainable development;

9 Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

The research activities for 2010-2011 have been articulated into the Programmes described in the next chapter. However, since end of 2011, the MdS has begun to re-frame its over-arching research themes in search of a unified focus to which all the seven research sections contribute. Thus, since 2012 a new focus on document- 1R ing and valuing the landscape with all its biotic and abiotic dimensions, and with emphasis on biodiversity research and conservation is being framed. Under this theme, that engages all research sections of the Museum, the Programmes as currently framed will be discontinued in favor of maintaining the identity of the seven research sections.

2R Such unified research theme clearly encompasses the two main sectors of the museum research: biodiversity and landscape and aims to bring up their strategic value in the field of conservation planning from the landscape level down to ecosystems, communities and species level. This is because environmental research is called more and more to inform the public, including the administrators, on scientifically-sound ways to manage the environment sustainably. The Museum has an exceptional poten- 3R tial towards this goal, as it is among the primary institutions in Trento Province that can use its vast documentation knowledge on nature to address key issues of landscape and biodiversity planning and management.

10 2 The research Programmes Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

The research activities of MdS are grouped in six general Programmes (1R-6R) ac- counting each a variable number projects and involving each different Section of the museum. A brief description of these Programmes is given.

1R Programme 1R Ecology and biodiversity of mountain ecosystems in relation to environmental and climate change

2R In the framework of the Programme 1, research activities on the biodiversity of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems of mountain areas in Italy and abroad are carried out in collaboration with regional, national, and international outstanding research institutes. These investigations are mostly fundamental research, devoted to ecosystems and to organisms (from morphology to physiology, genetics and bioorganic chemistry), to their distribution (both in the individual habitats and global from a 3R biogeographic perspective), to their ecological preferences (including their eventual use as biological monitors), and to the community they belong to (structure, diversity, characteristic assemblages). The projects included in this Programme focus on specific environments, such as with reference to aquatic systems spring-habitats, spring-fed streams, rivers, lakes and high-mountain lakes, and with reference to terrestrial systems grasslands, woodlands, and glacier forelands. 4R Benthic cyanobacteria and diatoms, bryophytes, chironomid midges and other aquatic insects, and carabid beetles are the groups of organisms on which a highly developed expertise has been achieved as concerns their taxonomy, distribution, physiology, genetics. One of the main goals is the use of target species as indicators of environmental change caused by local and global impacts (warming, increasing 5R UV radiation, acidification, diversion of water for hydroelectric purposes, eutrophi- cation, habitat fragmentation, agriculture pressures, etc.). This Programme includes also bird population studies (reproductive biology and raptors overwintering, trends of local and migrating populations in Trentino) again in relation to climate change and land use. The results of these investigations are made available to Institutes and Agencies 6R in charge for the monitoring, control, management, protection of the territory of the Autonomous Province of Trento to foster a land-use planning oriented to the respect of organisms and natural systems in a perspective of sustainable development. This Programme also includes several bachelor and M.Sc. theses, doctoral and post- doctoral studies etc. that MdS runs in co-operation with Italian and foreign Universities. The topics investigated are manifold, because ecology is per se a multi-disciplinary and trans-ecosystemic study, in which, as a consequence, all biological Sections of the MdS are involved.

Programme 2R Documenting and conserving nature

The Programme 2 is dedicated to research on distribution, ecology and conservation of the flora and fauna of Trento Province, with marked applied implications. It aims to document and monitor biodiversity over time, through field data collection, analysis of both historical (from collections or project reports) and recent data-sets (collected during monitoring campaigns) and predictive modelling. The research elaborates the databases in support of sustainable land use planning, with particular relevance to Rete Natura 2000 and other protected areas. To this end the Programme collaborates with local parks and other relevant Government agencies (such as the Nature Con-

12 The research programmes

servation service of Trento Autonomous Province (PAT), Wildlife service of PAT, Trento municipality, Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta, Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Parco Naturale di Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino, and Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezi- one dell’Ambiente), which are all stakeholders using the Museum research results to orient land use planning. Programme 2 includes publication of results on scientific 1R journals, popular science magazine and technical reports. It supports the organization of conferences, public seminars, temporal exhibits, and school practical lessons. The Programme currently includes 15 projects and it overall involves the Geology and Vertebrate Zoology Sections, and to a less extent Invertebrate Zoology and Botany Sections. 2R

Programme 3R Plant conservation: seedbanking and plant translocation 3R The ex situ plant conservation and translocation Programme focuses on seed collection in the wild, their long term conservation, germination, propagation, plant rein- troduction and reinforcement. This action is particularly relevant for narrow endemics and threatened species. These activities are complementary to the expertise present in the other research centres present in Trentino, such as the plant distribu- 4R tion mapping project carried out at Rovereto museum, the genetic investigations Programme at FEM-environment, the in situ conservation and monitoring actions carried out by the protected areas. In an integrated vision all these actions put together will lay the foundations for an integrated strategy for plant conservation in Trentino, capable to deliver management plans and mitigation tools to mend negative impacts on flora and vegetations caused by human activities. These activities 5R are consistent with the key international conventions and agreements in this area such as art. 8 & 9 of the CBD; target 8 of the GSPC, target 2.5 of the EPCS, the Bern Convention, the Habitat Directive. MdS plant conservation unit plays a key role on a national level, providing the secretariat of the Italian network for seed conservation and is involved in international networks. 6R

Programme 4R Tropical Biodiversity

The research is generally aimed at determining the diversity, evolutionary patterns, ecological adaptations and at promoting the conservation of biodiversity-rich areas in Eastern Africa, especially the mountain rainforests of Tanzania, with a marked target on the vertebrates. This area is led by the Tropical Biodiversity Section that has been established in 2008. Museum researchers were however involved since before on zoological inventories and ecological research in Tanzania. The activities originated in 2004 a coordinated Programme integrating research and applied conservation with the latter component being especially developed in the Udzungwa Mountains, one of the most important sites in Africa for biodiversity conservation. Here Trento Museum established the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, a field station annexed to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park and dedicated to enhancing ecological monitoring and supporting local and international researchers. Scientific and applied research moves from inventories of vertebrates in poorly known forests, population and ecology studies on forest mammals especially primates and ungulates, diversity and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles. Conservation-relevant results are used to provide technical support to local stakeholders for enhancing protection of these sites.

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Programme 5R Earth sciences

Activity comprised in the Programme 5, Earth Sciences, concerns general geology 1R and palaeontology. Research involves stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment reconstruction. In the last 10 years the team has focused on vertebrate palaeontology, in particular palaeoichnology and palaeoecology of dinosaurs and other reptiles reach- ing an acknowledged international role in this field of research. The team has experience in palaeontological excavations and the geological mapping of the area. The group is part of the research group joined by the Italian Geological Survey and the 2R Trento Autonomous Province to review the Italian lithostratigraphical nomenclature (“Catalogue of the Italian Geological Formations”), and edit the new Geological Map of Italy (CARG Project). The Section coordinates all the palaeontological activities that are developed in the area by universities and research institutes. The Sec- tion has in his tasks the preservation and valorisation of natural beauties and aims to 3R guarantee the population the right use of the interesting sites. Team research is also working on palaeoclimate dynamics using Quaternary cave deposits (speleothemes) as proxy with high temporal resolution. Present day climate is analysed studying underground karsic systems focusing on hydrology and glaciers responses to climate change.

4R Programme 6R Alpine Prehistory

The Programme 6 “Alpine Prehistory” deals with topics about the society, the econ- 5R omy, and the culture of the populations of hunters and gatherers who lived in the alpine environment during Late Glacial and Ancient Holocene. This first alpine settlement is strictly connected with the events of the natural environment and the deep environmental changes of Pleistocene. The experimental approach turns into research projects on the area with stratigraphic excavation activities. The study of 6R the archaeological finds aims to the interpretation of the human strategies in the alpine ecosystem, between Late Glacial and the present environment. This allows the research on the strategies of the occupation of the Adige Valley and the centre Alpine area and the elaboration of mobility - nomadism and successively transhumance models, by paying attention to the economic and social activities. The research on the prehistoric art archaeological finds discovered in the Museum's archaeological sites are particularly important. The prehistoric research makes use of all the scientific disciplines that define the culture and environmental sets; for example: Geoarchaeology, the study of Quaternary through datation techniques, paleoclimatic researches, Pedology, Paleobotany and Archaeozoology.

14 3 The research staff and activities Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

The Museum research activities are organized in seven scientific sections:

Section name Head of Section Tropical Biodiversity Francesco Rovero 1R Botany Costantino Bonomi Limnology and Phycology Marco Cantonati Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Valeria Lencioni Vertebrate Zoology Paolo Pedrini Geology Marco Avanzini 2R Prehistory Giampaolo Dalmeri

Each working group (Section) is represented by a curator (with the role of coordinator), one technician and a variable number of research collaborators (Table 1; Appendix 1). A group of six science communicators are involved for 50% of their 3R time in outreach activities of the museum research (Appendix 2). Therefore they are included in the research staff.

Table 1 - Research staff in 2010-2011 (as full time equivalent).

Staff 2010 2011 4R Curators Head of Section 7 7 Research collaborators (post doc, PhD 18 22 students, research assistants, research fellows) Technicians 6 6 Science communicators 3 3 5R Total 34 38

Table 2 and Appendix 3 show data referred to teaching and research activity carried out in 2010-2011, with the list of projects classified on the basis of the funding type: 6R 10 by grants (of which 2 “Grandi Progetti” and 5 incoming post-doc funded by PAT), 12 by agreements and 34 institutional (= funded by the grant in aid from PAT).

Table 2 - Quantitative data on research and teaching activities (2010-2011).

Research and teaching activities (2010-2011) Number Research projects 56 Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 27 Seminars c/o universities and museums 4 Lectures 7 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 3 Ph.Ds 8 Masters and degrees 26 Other research grants 3 Trainings 30 Volunteers 19

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More than 150 publications have been produced in 2010-2011 by the MdS research staff (see Table 3 and Appendix 4).

Table 3 - Number of publications by MdS researchers (2010-2011). 1R Publications (2010-2011) Nr. Scientific papers on ISI journals 60 Scientific papers on non- ISI journals 51 Books or book chapters 27 2R Popular science papers 30 Oral communications (with published abstract) 53 Oral communications (without published abstract) 20 Posters (with published abstract) 29 Posters (without published abstract) 10 3R Congress participation 77

Among the outputs of the MdS research activities are the following scientific journals edited by the MdS: Preistoria Alpina (since 1963), Studi Trentini di Scienze Nat- urali (since 1926), Monografie del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (since 2004) and Quaderni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (since 2007). The scientific 4R committee is represented by curators of the MdS and Italian and foreign experts in the different disciplines. About 1.000 pages/year have been published on average over the last 5 years. In 2010-2011, 12 volumes were printed for a total of 2596 printed pages (Table 4). 5R Table 4 - Publications edited by MdS in 2010-2011.

Jounal, volume Title Print year N.pages Atti del XII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana Ittiologi Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 87 2010 288 Acque Dolci (AIIAD), San Michele 6R all’Adige, TN, 2008 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 88 miscellanea 2011 315 Atti XIX Congresso Gadio, Olbia Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 89 2011 191 2010 Preistoria Alpina 45 Miscellanea 2011 332 Il linguaggio degli animali nell’arte Monografia 5 2010 124 delle situle Quaderni MdS 4 Le faune dei prati (vol. 4/1) 2011 175 Natura alpina 3-4.2008 Miscellanea 2010 160 Natura alpina 1-2.2009 Miscellanea 2010 86 Natura alpina 1-2.2010 Miscellanea 2011 140 Natura alpina 3-4.2009 Miscellanea 2011 86 Libro ed. MdS Idea di Natura 2010 566 Atlante degli uccelli acquatici Libro ed. MdS 2011 133 svernanti in Trentino Total 2596

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Overall, the MdS collaborates with about 100 research institutions, museums, and scientific associations in Italy and abroad (Table 5, Appendixes 5, 6). Of these, 19 are supported by formal agreements (with financial support) and 3 by a Memoran- dum of Understanding; 40 of these institutions are partners of the MdS on the basis 1R of structured research programmes while with the remaining 38 institutions the collaboration is less structured and involves co-authorships and information exchange.

Table 5 - Number of collaborations of the research staff of MdS.

Collaborations (2010-2011) In Italy Abroad 2R Agreements (with financial support) 18 2 Memorandum of Understanding 3 (without financial support) Partnerships 10 26 Other collaborations (co-authorship, free 20 20 3R consultancies, etc.) Total 51 48

Funds for research activities amounted at 2,923,943 Euros in 2010 and 2,637,962 Euros in 2011 (Table 6). Overall, the research activities were financed mainly by the Grant-in- 4R aid from the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) through the Service of University and Scientific Research (about 90%) and through other PAT Services (Nature Conservation and Geological) with whom the MdS has a long-term background of providing research assistance. The amount of non-institutional funding was 28% in 2010 and 19% in 2011 (Figure 1). This difference reflects the fact that funding from PAT for two large collaborative projects (OPENLOC and ACE-SAP) and for two incoming post-docs (INTCLIM e 5R ECOGENFI) was granted all in 2010 even if also related to activities conducted in 2011.

Table 6 - Funding for research activities in Euros (2010-2011). 2010 2011 Fund type 6R Amount % Amount % Grant in aid by PAT 2.092.487,26 72% 2.128.000,00 81% PAT - other Services 109.472,50 61.908,00 PAT - large collaborative projects 508.116,00 28% 144.650,00 19% Other revenues 213.867,30 303.404,55 Total (Euros) 2.923.943,06 100% 2.637.962,55 100%

Fig. 1 - Funding for research activities in 2010- 100% 2011 as percentage of institutional (grant-in-aid 28% 19% 80% by PAT) (in blue) and other revenues (= self-fi- nancing) (in red). 60%

40% 72% 81% 20%

0% 2010 2011

Grant in aid by PAT other fundings

Financial data were compiled by the administration staff of MdS (Massimo Eder, Alberta Giovannini, Sabrina Candioli).

18 4 The scientific collections Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

The natural history and archaeological collections of the Museo delle Scienze (about 300 collections and 5 millions objects) are of great interest for their close relationship with the Trentino area. Besides the objects of local origin, there are many specimens coming from the rest of Italy and from foreign countries, obtained through 1R donations, travels, exchanges and research expeditions abroad. The oldest materials were collected more than two centuries ago and the collections increase every year through many new acquisitions. As vouchers of the natural and human diversity in time and space, the collections are precious research infrastractures, always available to the research community.

2R Sections N. collections Objects estimated Items/specimens

Tropical Biodiversity 1 4,250 4,250

Botany 44 150,000 370,000 3R Limnology and Phycology 12 8,000 10,000

Invertebrate Zoology 17 4,500 1,200,000

Vertebrate Zoology 19 11,000 13,000

4R Geology 8 16,700 42,000

Prehistory 196 95,000 3,300,000

Total 297 289,450 4,939,250

5R The MdS collections are constantly investigated and cared for conservation by the staff, in order to go in depth in their documentation and study, and to make them available to the research community as to the general public. At present more than half of the preserved heritage (56.7%) is fully catalogued with a specific software in accordance with the national standards. 6R In 2010-1011 MdS received several loan requests: 67 outgoing loans were ap- proved, 49 for research purposes and 18 for temporary exhibitions. The MdS collections specimens were described or used as material in 62 different publications written by the museum staff or by other researchers who borrowed MdS collections objects. Acquisition and documentation increased conspicuously with 13,900 new objects, 14,490 new catalogue cards digitized and 76,688 revised.

Collections 2010-2011: loans, publications, acquisitions and cataloguing (digitization). Collections 2010 2011

Research outgoing loans 33 16

Exhibitions outgoing loans 7 11

Publications about collections 28 34

New acquisitions (estimated specimens) 11,200 2,700

New catalogue cards 5,346 9,144

Catalogue card revised 19,159 57,529

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Tropical Biodiversity Since 1998 MTSN has conducted several research expeditions in the mountain rainforests of Tanzania, that have led to a collection of 4,250 specimens of amphibians and reptiles (and mammals to a much less extent). These include over 80 species that are new to science. The tropical african herpetology collection of MdS is now 1R recognized one of the most important with regards to the mountain forests of Tan- zania. Among the mammals, the collection includes Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, the giant elephant-shrew discovered by MdS researchers and described in 2008.

Botany Botany collections are made up by 2R the herbarium and the living collections of the museum’s two botanic gardens (Viotte Alpine Garden and Arco Arbotretum) and the seed bank. The Herbarium (TR) accounts for ap- prox. 150,000 specimens mainly col- 3R lected from the mid eighteen century to the mid nineteen century. The major component is naturally local from Trentino and Tirol but a significant part of the collections originate 4R from other parts of Italy, Europe and North Africa. Viotte alpine garden grows more than 1,200 alpine species from the major mountain chains of the world, with a special interest for endemic and threatened spe- 5R cies, Arco arboretum includes nearly 200 species of fine and tender trees of garden interest. The seeds bank focuses on threatened and endemic species of conservation interest originating from the Eastern Alps. 6R

Limnology and Phycology Phycological and limnological collections of the MdS include more than 5,000 items collected in the frame of the numerous research projects carried out by the Section. These are mostly samples of microscopic organisms such as diatoms, cyanobacteria, algae, zoobenthos and zooplankton collected mainly in the Alps, and namely in the Autonomous Province of Trento. Besides these recently started collections, the Section also curates four historical algae collections including exsiccata of marine and freshwater algae originating from different locations worldwide and collected mainly in the Nineteenth Century.

Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Invertebrate collections of the MdS include more than 1,2 million of specimens, aquatic and terrestrial. Historical collections (1850-1950 yr) include mainly terrestrial insects (about 175,000 specimens) and marine, freshwater and terrestrial mol- luscs. Most part of specimens (terrestrial and aquatic) are preserved in ethanol and were collected mainly in mountain regions in Italy but also abroad (Svalbard Islands, Pakistan-Karakorum, France-Pyrenees, etc.). A collection of more than 5,000 microscope slides of aquatic insects and crustaceans is also present.

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Vertebrate Zoology The Vertebrate Zoology collections of the MdS include all classes of this taxon, with a marked prevalence of birds and mammals. Overall there are more than 11.000 1R specimens, of which 4,000 collected between 1850 and 1950, while the rest come from recent donations, acquisitions and MdS own research. It is especially interesting the small mammal collection, that counts 6,000 specimens among insectivors and rodents. The material demonstrate the tight link of MdS with the local environment, and it overall includes whole animals prepared as skins or wet specimens, bird nests, eggs, prepared skeletons. 2R Geology Geological collections of the MdS are constituted of rocks, minerals and fossils collected from the main localities of the Trentino Alto Adige region and, in minor part, from Italian and foreign sites. The 16,700 specimens come from different sources, and became part of the museum heritage thanks to research activities, donations 3R or occasional findings by privates or collaborators of the museum. Specimens, collected in a temporal range of more then two centuries, well document the local territory and testify the geological research enterprise of the Trentino area.

Prehistory Archaeological collections of the MdS are referred to lithic materials, ceramics, bone and horn manufacts, art manufacts, wood, vegetal fibres, metal manufacts and fau- nas. MdS’s archaeological finds are more than 3 millions. They mostly belong to 40 provincial prehistoric sites, studied by the Museum from the 60’s. The precious paleolithic painted stones (almost 300) with zoomorphic, antropomorphic and schematic pictures, coming from Riparo Dalmeri (Trento) are exceptionally relevant.

22 5 The main results and projects Science at Museo delle Scienze: Research Report 2010-2011

Incredibly high number of threatened Red List diatom species in mountain mire pools Section of Limnology and Phycology 11RR The Limnology and Phycology Section and Red List taxa (including also species has a long research tradition on differ- of the categories “Threatened with ex- ent oligotrophic habitats such as springs, tinction”, “Severely endangered”, and high-mountain lakes, different types of “Endangered”). To preserve diatom bio- mountain streams. Other types of fresh- diversity, these mires must be sheltered 2R water environments, such as the large from uses other than recreational ones, peri-Alpine Lake Garda and mires, were and abrupt changes in hydrological re- studied more recently. gime and increases in nutrient input must Mires are very selective environments, be prevented. and the colonisation by specifically adapted organisms makes them very important We are grateful to: the Municipality of 3R environments both for nature conserva- Danta and to Dott. C. Lasen for promoting and tion and environmental education. They supporting this investigation in the frame of have, however, been threatened by differ- the Project LIFE04 NAT/IT/000177 (European ent types of impacts. Our objective was to Union 2004). study diatoms in stations representative of the main typologies in the Site of Com- Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Decet F. & 4R munity Importance IT3230060 “Danta Gabrieli J. 2011. Diatoms in very-shallow pools Mires”, also to produce data for a man- of the site of community importance Danta di agement plan in the frame of a Life Pro- Cadore Mires (south-eastern Alps), and the po- ject. Five shallow pools within different tential contribution of these habitats to diatom mountain mires were sampled in summer biodiversity conservation. Nova Hedwigia, 93: 2005, and characterized from the morpho- 475-507. 5R logical and physicochemical point of view. The sampled sites cover a rather wide pH (from acid to circumneutral) and conductivity (14÷107 µS cm-1) gradient. Nitrate and silica values were very low. Diatoms were found to dominate in terms of numbers of taxa, followed by desmids, cyano- 6R prokaryotes, and filamentous green algae. Altogether 86 diatom taxa, belonging to 35 genera, were found. As expected for acidic, low-mineralization waters the genera with the highest number of taxa were Eunotia and Pinnularia, followed by Ency- onema, and by Cymbopleura, Gompho- nema, and Nitzschia. The maximum taxa number (26) was found in a sediment sample taken in a site with special hydrochemical characteristics, and the minimum (11 taxa) in the sediment sample of the demo- lition materials dump mire. Diatom communities allowed to characterise the mire pools studied as oligotrophic, acidic environments often affected by desiccation. On the basis of the autecology and distribution of the most frequent and abundant taxa, pH and hydroperiod appeared to be the most relevant environmental de- terminants. A striking result, also in view LM and/or SEM micrographs of all the Red List taxa of eventual management consequences, of the most endangered categories found in the was the very high proportion (72%) of rare mires of Danta.

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A special issue on springs as neglected key habitats for biodiversity conservation Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R1R Springs, are seriously threatened by sity and habitat conservation aspects, so several direct and indirect impacts, the this volume is mainly devoted to these as- most important being their capture to ob- pects of crenobiology. We think that this tain drinking water etc. This pressure will is particularly appropriate as the editorial increase even more in the future due to initiative reached its final phase in 2010, climate change. In spite of anthropogenic the United Nations International Year of 2R pressures, springs are frequently the last Biodiversity. unpolluted, high quality freshwater envi- The core dataset that encouraged us ronments in densely populated areas, act- to propose a special issue was obtained ing as refugia for the most pollution-sen- during a large regional project, CRENO- sitive organisms. The potential outstand- DAT (“Biodiversity assessment and in- ing importance of these habitats for the tegrity evaluation of springs of Trentino 3R conservation of freshwater biodiversity is -Italian Alps- and long-term ecological slowly but increasingly being recognized. research”, 2004-2008). In an attempt to contribute to the spread This Special Issue contains 13 papers. of knowledge on crenobiology and to pro- Most papers deal with the biodiversity mote awareness of the relevance of these and community ecology of a variety of au- habitats for nature protection, the idea of totrophic and heterotrophic, macroscopic 4R grouping contributions on crenic biology and microscopic groups of organisms. and ecology in a special issue of an inter- Several evaluate the relative importance national journal arose. This soon became of morphological (from microhabitat to a viable project thanks to the interest with large scale), physical, and chemical factors which our proposal was welcomed by the in determining community composition Editorial Board of the Journal of Limnol- and structure. Some discuss the conser- 5R ogy. Most of the proposed contributions vation implications of the observed pat- for the Special Issue focused on biodiver- terns. One even applies palaeolimnologi- cal techniques to a crenic habitat, showing the effects of land use and management practices around the spring-head. Spatial and temporal changes (from seasonal to long-term) are also considered. 6R

We are grateful to the University and Sci- entific Research Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento for funding the CRENODAT Project. More than half the papers in this Spe- cial Issue are based on data obtained during this Project. We thank the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, the coordinating Institution of the CRENODAT Project, for the many ways it has supported crenobiological research, in particular of its Limnology and Phycology Sec- tion. Special thanks also go to the Referees for their efforts to ensure and improve the scientific quality and consistency of the manuscripts.

Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Eds.), 2011. Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1). 187 pp.

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Single springs under pristine conditions shelter unique chironomid assemblages Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology

11RR About 27,000 chironomids (Diptera M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Chironomidae) were collected in the eu- Editors), Springs: neglected key habitats crenal reach of 81 springs under pristine for biodiversity conservation. Journal of conditions in the Italian Prealps and Alps Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 106-121. (Trentino and Veneto, NE-Italy, 46°N, 10- 2R 11°E). More than 50 genera and 100 species/groups of species were identified, among which more than 50 taxa were new to Italian springs and one, Microp- sectra longicrista, was new to Italy. Three to 27 taxa were identified per spring, 3R and a high number (67%) of rare (= present in less than 10% of sites) taxa were found. Maximum richness and diversity occurred at intermediate altitudes (ca 900-2100 m a.s.l.) and in the rheocrene and rheo-helocrene types, whereas the 4R lowest in the mineral (sulphurous) spring. Most taxa were crenophilous, including lentic, rheobiontic and bryophilous taxa. Springs differed in species richness mainly according to different altitude, canopy cover, hydrological regime, pH, and granulometry as percentage of cob- 5R bles and stones. Pseudokiefferiella parva, Corynoneura sp. A, Metriocnemus eu- rynotus gr., Paratrichocladius skirwithen- sis and Tvetenia calvescens were the taxa better explained by such variables. Most taxa were found in a small proportion of 6R sites, and frequencies declined gradu- ally for more widely distributed species and a highly individual nature of springs was highlighted, within the same river basin, between springs and within a single spring. Our results suggest that pru- dent and conservative land management should assume that all springs sheltering such unique faunal assemblages need protection.

Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2011 - Diversity and distribution of Chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) in alpine and pre- alpine springs (Northern Italy). In: Cantonati

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A new method to identify important conservation areas applied to the alpine invertebrates Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R1R Invertebrates constitute a substantial usually small, fragmented, and nearing proportion of terrestrial and freshwater proximity of urbanized areas located in biodiversity and are critical to ecosys- the bottom of the valleys. tem functions. However, their inclusion in The relatively simple processes in- prioritization and conservation planning volved in species and potential habitat is underconsidered, in particular in the distribution produced with this research 2R Alps. can be conducted with a sustainable ef- We coordinated a project where we fort, making it an attractive tool when proposed a new methodological solu- time and funds are in short supply. tion and challenge for the identification of priority areas based on the integration of three approaches: invertebrate Gobbi, M., Riservato, E., Bragalanti, N., 3R multi-taxa based, expert-based, and & Lencioni, V. (in press) An expert-based ap- GIS-based. The Trentino Province (east- proach to invertebrate conservation: Identifi- ern Italian Alps), was investigate as case cation of priority areas in central-eastern Alps. study. Journal for Nature Conservation. The first methodological step was to select a panel of nineteen experts which 4R played a strategic role in the suggestion of 229 species, endangered or of man- datory conservation interest. The second step was to find objective criteria for species prioritisation. These criteria, crossed with the experts taxonomical and ecological knowledge resulted in a list of 5R 70 focal invertebrate species. The third step was to integrate with the GIS-based approach data layers from the habitat requirements of each of the seventy focal species to generate potential spatial- distributional maps. Potential distribution 6R maps gave information about the sites (priority areas) in which the highest number of focal species could concentrate, thus suggesting where to concentrate future monitoring efforts. Several priority areas resulted outside the protected ones. Alluvial forest and hop-hornbeam woods resulted to be the habitats with the highest number of focal species, and thus they represent the habitats of major conservation priority. Besides, they are

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Influences of global climate on the temporal dynamics of migratory birds Section of Vertebrate Zoology 11RR Understanding the dynamics of mi- index (NAO) using different modelling gratory bird populations in relation to cli- approaches (Generalized Linear Mixed mate is essential for the development of Models (GLMM). Results show highly adequate conservation strategies in the heterogeneous response between the face of global change. However, uncer- NAO and the species traits, indicating 2R tainty remains about the extent to which a complex response of species to cli- the climate and species biology affect mate. Interactions between the NAO the variation in the number of migrants. and species level-variables reveal how different species respond to environ- The research activity focused on the mental change and directly inform our role of global climate and species bio- ability to define conservation strategies 3R logical traits determining the dynamics for migratory birds. of migrant populations in the Italian Alps. The large data set was gathered for over The seasonal and yearly variation 30 species during more than 10 years of in the capture frequency of migratory activity by the vertebrate zoology section birds was also investigated with the use in the framework of “Progetto Alpi” ring- of generalized additive mixed models 4R ing project. (GAMM). This research was restricted to passerine birds ringed at six sites (four The species data were analysed in on alpine passes and two on valley bot- relation to the North Atlantic Oscillation toms) in the Italian Alps, and referred to nine post-nuptial migration seasons (2000-2008). 5R Pedrini P., Tenan S. & Spina F. (in press) - La migrazione postriproduttiva degli uccelli attraverso le Alpi italiane: fenologia ed adat- tamenti. Museo delle Scienze (Ed.).

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A macroecological approach to the study of the impacts of environmental change on alpine bird assemblages Section of Vertebrate Zoology 1R1R Environmental change affects both in species richness (1). Further analyses, natural ecosystems and civil societies. aimed answering questions related to Anthropogenic activities and the deg- population persistence under climate radation of natural habitats change the change are currently being conducted. population structures of various species These analyses have uniquely combined but also threaten essential ecosystem species trait and environmental data into 2R services. It is therefore vital to under- a single analytical framework. Preliminary stand the processes that have a negative results have shown how topographically impact on wildlife populations, if these complex areas would favour persistence are to be preserved in the future. Threats of alpine bird populations in future cli- caused environmental change are often mates, and, that species with a broad complex and multi-faceted, thus requir- ecological niche might stand a better 3R ing the integration of different methods chance against climate change. Finally, and tools into an appropriate research the section is tackling the complexity framework. of multiple threats faced by birds in the The research on Macroecology and Alpine region through an analysis that environmental change conducted during combines expert opinion and field data. 2010-2011 by the Vertebrate Zoology This latter piece of work has received the 4R on section builds on three key concepts: contribution of seventeen international species, space and time. This “three- experts in subject of alpine bird ecology. dimensional view” aims to integrate the spatial and temporal dimensions of eco- Girardello M., Tenan S., Pedrini P., 2010 - logical processes into statistical methods Predicting the potential impacts of future land- in order to i) quantify and ii) predict the cover changes on breeding bird communites in 5R impact of environmental change across the Italian Alps. European Bird Census Council many species. The ultimate goal of the 18th conference of the European Bird Census Macroecology research programme is Council, 22-26 March 2010, Caceres, Spain. to find practical solutions to current conservation challenges, applicable at local level and beyond. This research topic is carried out in co- 6R operation with Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, University of Turin, and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK) and three workshops have been held at the museum between 2010 and 2011. Up to date, the research conducted by section has focussed on predicting the changes in the spatial patterns of bird species richness in relation to future cli- matic and land-use changes. Results have revealed how areas at mid-altudinal ranges might experience high levels of losses

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Neidiomorpha, a new freshwater diatom genus Section of Limnology and Phycology

1R Since the beginning of the 1990s, able population of this species occurred in the Limnology and Phycology Section of a spring in the Fassa Valley, near Moena. the Museo delle Scienze is dealing with From the study of materials deposited in a very peculiar type of freshwater habi- the diatom collection of the Museum and tats: springs. These environments are from the analysis of published data eco- 22RR known to the wider public almost exclu- logical preferences and distribution of the sively because they are often exploited to new species could be reconstructed. The gain drinking water. On the contrary, it is CRENODAT springs in which Neidiomor- scarcely known that the frequently particu- pha binodiformis was found are moun- larly stable environmental conditions, and tain pool springs or small flowing-springs the waters, usually of very high quality, al- located at low to medium elevations with 3R low these habitats to host rare, Red List, low discharge and reduced current veloc- or even new-to-science species. The most ity and consequently sediment, debris, important spring study co-ordinated by and bryophytes are prominent substrata. the Limnology and Phycology Section has Water temperatures are low to medium been CRENODAT. This Project made pos- (6-9 °C). The lithology is almost always sible the discovery of a notable number of carbonate, and therefore pH values are 4R new taxa (genera, subgenera, species) of slightly alkaline (8.1), and conductivity val- different groups of organisms. One of the ues are medium (230-260 μS cm-1). most relevant taxonomic result has been the discovery of a diatom genus new to This work was financed by the University science, that has been named Neidio- and Scientific Research Department of the morpha Lange-Bertalot et Cantonati. The Autonomous Province of Trento to the Lim- 5R description was published in 2010 in the nology and Phycology Section of the Museo journal Botanical Studies. The main mor- Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (CRENODAT phological characters of the new genus Project: Biodiversity assessment and integ- distinguishing it from Neidium (in which rity evaluation of springs of Trentino - Ital- known Neidiomorpha taxa were included ian Alps - and longterm ecological research, so far) are peculiar longitudinal structures, 2004-2008). the areolation pattern, and raphe endings 6R besides overall valve outline, and chloro- Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H. & N. An- plasts number and arrangement. The spe- geli, 2010 - Neidiomorpha gen. nov. (Bacil- cies on which the description of the new lariophyta): A new freshwater diatom genus genus is based is Neidiomorpha binodi- separated from Neidium Pfitzer. Botanical formis Cantonati et Lange-Bertalot. A suit- Studies, 51: 195-202.

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Ecological stability vs variability: insights from long-term studies on springs Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R There has been a growing interest in were directional but not explained by long-term studies because they offer op- the environment, suggesting that inter- portunities for tracking and understand- nal, within springs, drivers may be more ing temporal changes in biodiversity. important than extrinsic forces. Overall, Without the temporal context provided these results provide a benchmark of di- 2R by long-term data, the inherent dynam- atom variability over time and in natural 2R ics of ecological systems cannot be conditions, delimiting the “limits of ac- quantified, putting at risk our decisions ceptable changes”. about biodiversity management. Since at least 16 years the Limnology and Phy- The long-term ecological research pro- cology Section of the Museo delle Scien- gramme on spring habitats benefited greatly ze is studying a set of springs examining from inclusion in the ACQUA-TEST_ PNAB 3R temporal changes of the environmental Project (2008-ongoing) funded by the Ad- factors and of the diatom communities. amello-Brenta Nature Park, in the CRENO- The working group showed that stabil- DAT Project (2004-2007) funded by the Au- ity is a multifaceted dimension, which tonomous Province of Trento, and in a pre- assumes different meanings according vious (2003-2004) Project on long-term eco- to the main underlying process. For logical research in selected springs funded 4R instance, an important source of vari- by the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park. ability was due to random fluctuation of the least abundant species, which oc- Spitale D. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Under- cur from year to year mainly by chance. standing the natural variability of diatom as- But while this effect was present in the semblages in springs of the Adamello-Brenta diatom communities of all springs, non- Nature Park (south-eastern Alps) on a tem- 5R stochastic mechanisms were differently poral scale. Fundamental and Applied Lim- represented. In two springs, changes nology 179 (2): 137-149.

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Black glaciers provide a suitable habitat for arthropod communities Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology

1R Glaciers are progressively suffering from an increase in supraglacial debris, transforming them into debris-covered glaciers, also referred to as ‘black glaciers’. It is known that the mantle of supraglacial 22RR rock debris is probably caused by rare, but important cryoclastics and landslide events triggered by climate change. In the Alps their distribution is less significant yet, on the other hand recent studies demonstrated a progressive col- 3R onization of their surface by herbaceous vegetation. The Invertebrate and Hydrobiology Section of the MdS coordinates, in co- debris covered glacier where they can operation with several research groups, find wet and cold microclimate which a pluriennal research project on the bio- provides a suitable habitat. Carabids coenoses (arthropods and plants) living and spiders are predators of several 4R on the debris covered glaciers, specifical- dipteran and homopteran coming on ly on the Miage Glacier (AO, Val d’Aosta) the glacier as aeroplancton. and on the Amola Glacier (TN, Trentino Considering the ongoing alpine cli- Alto-Adige). mate warming, and the consequent risk The only epigaeic arthropods taxa of summit traps triggered by the arthro- associated permanently with the debris pods uphill shift, the debris-covered gla- 5R covering the glacier surface, are car- cier could be considered a refuge area abid beetles and spiders. Specifically, for climate sensitive species, as cool- the carabids belonging to the genera living stenotherm species. Nebria and Oreonebria, and the spider Drassodex heeri which are arthropods Gobbi M., Isaia M. & De Bernardi F., 2011 typical of stony high-altitude habitats - Arthropod colonisation of a debris-covered 6R are able to extend their habitats to the glacier. The Holocene, 21: 343-349.

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Heat shock proteins confer thermotolerance in cold-stenothermal chironomids Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R To better understand the physiologi- which the HSR was investigated. cal capability of cold-stenothermal or- Finally, an unclear relationship be- ganisms to survive high-temperatures, tween hsp70 expression and survival was we analyzed the thermotolerance limits found, leading us to surmise that genes and the expression level of hsp70 genes other than hsp70 and other processes under temperature stress in the alpine apart from the biochemical processes 2R2R midge Pseudodiamesa branickii (Diptera might generate the high thermaltoler- Chironomidae). The resistance to heat ance of P. branickii larvae. These results exposure is generally associated with the and future high-throughput studies at synthesis of stress proteins, namely heat both the transcriptome and proteome shock proteins (HSPs). These are a fam- level will improve our ability to predict ily of highly conserved proteins that act the future geographic distribution of 3R as chaperones to stabilize other proteins, this species within the context of global refold partially unfolded proteins, and warming. detect proteins that are irreversibly dam- aged under stressful conditions. Bernabò P., Martinez Guitarte J.L., Rebec- A lethal temperature of 36°C and a chi L., Jousson O. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Ther- lethal temperature 50% of 32.2°C were motolerance and hsp70 heat shock response 4R found for the cold stenothermal larvae in the cold-stenothermal chironomid Pseudo- after short-term shocks. The constitu- diamesa branickii (NE Italy). Cell Stress and tive (hsc70) and inducible (hsp70) forms Chaperones, 16 (4): 403-410. were both analyzed by surveying the expression of the hsp70 gene family via semi-quantitative reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction analysis in 5R treated larvae. IV instar larvae of P. branickii showed a significant up-regulation of inducible hsp70 gene with increasing temperatures and an over-expression of both hsp70 and hsc70 by increasing the time of exposure. According to these re- 6R sults, we may conclude that P. branickii was able to activate hsp70 genes transcription (equal to heat shock response, HSR) in response to thermal stress, differently from that was shown in many cold-stenothermal Antarctic organisms in

Relative expression ratio (2-log scale) of the hsp70 (gray bars) and hsc70 (white bars) after 1, 2, and 4 h of shock and after 1 h of pre- exposition followed by 1 h at 4°C and by 1 h of shock (P +1h) at 26°C and 32°C. Asterisk, significant differences (p≤0.05) of the level of expression after short-term stress (1 h) relative to the level of control larvae; empty circle, significant differences (p≤0.05) of the level of expression after long-term stress (2 and 4 h) relative to level of larvae stressed for 1 h; number sign, significant differences (p≤0.05) of the level of expression after shock (1 h) with pre-exposition relative to the larvae stressed without pre-exposition (1 h).

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Habitat selection, freeze tolerance strategy and Heat Shock Response in cave-dwelling beetles Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R Temperature is arguably the most im- strategy adopted. portant abiotic variable, determining the The different in-cave distribution of limits to the distribution of species and the two beetle species might justify also exerting a strong influence on their suc- the responses observed in gene expres- cess within the occupied range. Typically, sion levels of two members of the fam- 22RR extreme fluctuations in temperature is not ily of heat shock proteins 70 kDa, hsc70 considered as one of the limiting factors and hsp70 analyzed by qPCR. In both influencing the life of troglobites, being species, hsc70 mRNA level was constant that the inside cave temperature is con- with increasing temperature, whereas a stant throughout the year. Cold hardiness significant increase in the inducible mem- has been well documented for many taxa, ber (hsp70) mRNA was observed, higher 3R but never before for cave dwelling spe- in N. pasai. These results demonstrated cies. We testified that adults of two steno- for the first time the occurrence of a heat thermal leptodirin species, Neobathyscia shock response in troglobite insects and pasai and Neobathyscia mancinii (Coleop- suggest the correlation between the in- tera, Cholevidae), may be defined respec- tensity of this response and the adapta- tively as ‘‘strongly freeze tolerant’’ and as tion to the cave environment. 4R ‘‘moderately freezing tolerant’’ according Overall, our studies give new insights to the mortality and cumulative propor- into possible responses to climate chang- tion of individual freezing curves, super- es in cave dwelling species. cooling points and lethal temperatures. Theseresults may justify the different in- Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Latella L., 2010 - cave habitat selection showed by the two Cold resistance in two species of cave-dwell- species (N. pasai is abundant close to the ing beetles (Coleoptera: Cholevidae). Journal 5R entrance where the temperature is varia- of Thermal Biology, 35: 354-359. ble whereas N. mancinii is confined to the Bernabò P., Lencioni V., Latella L., 2011 - internal part of the cave where the tem- Cold stenothermal cave-dwelling beetles do perature is constant throughout the year), have an HSP70 heat shock response at tran- and suggest hypotheses on the effects of scriptomic level. Journal of Thermal Biology, such habitat selection on freeze tolerance 36: 206-208. 6R a a AA AA

b b B Gene Species Temp p-valueB Relative Gene Expression St. Err.

HSP70 N. mancinii 25 ≤ 0.001 265.45 67.16

HSP70 N. mancinii 28 ≤ 0.001 174.67 31.90

HSP70 N. mancinii 29 ≤ 0.001 50.19 17.39

HSP70 N. pasai 25 ≤ 0.001 689.49 3.46

HSP70 N. pasai 28 ≤ 0.001 236.55 3.18

HSP70 N. pasai 29 ≤ 0.001 122.22 3.37

Fig. 3 a, b Lencioni et al. Fig. 3 a, b Lencioni et al.

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The effect of environmental, spatial and management factors on the ecology and conservation of birds in farmland and wetland Section of Vertebrate Zoology 1R The distribution and abundance of tion declines in Trentino. animal species is affected by many dif- In collaboration with APOT (Associazi- ferent factors. Abiotic features, habitat, one Produttori Ortofrutticoli Trentini), we interactions, isolation and accessibility investigated the effect of management of patches, crop and land management, of apple orchards on the avian commu- all can affect presence and abundance nity breeding in this intensively cultivated 2R2R of animal species. We investigated the landscape effect of different factors (environmen- A study on factors affecting abun- tal, spatial and management) on a set dance of Rallus aquaticus and Gallinula of conservation-priority bird species and chloropus in the regional wetland sys- derived conservation implications. We tem revealed effects of habitat, spatial mainly considered farmland and wet- and topographical factors. Conserving 3R land habitats, as the most threatened or restoring reedbeds and attenuating bird species in Trentino inhabit those isolation could represent the most ur- habitats, which undergo unsuitable dy- gent strategies for current conservation namics (intensification and abandon- of wetland avian species in Trentino. ment in farmland habitats, destruction and fragmentation in wetlands). Results Brambilla M. & Pedrini P., 2011. Intra-sea- 4R led to evaluate the effectiveness of sonal changes in local pattern of Corncrake measures within the Rural Development Crex crex occurrence require adaptive conser- Programme (PSR) for bird conservation, vation strategies in Alpine meadows. Bird Con- and to propose an improvement of the servation International, 21: 388-393. programme. Brambilla M., Rizzolli F. & Pedrini P. (in The evaluation of the Farmland Bird press). The effects of habitat and spatial fea- 5R Index (FBI) provided a general estimate tures of wetland fragments on the abundance of the status of farmland bird communi- of two rallid species with different degree of ties, and showed an unfavourable gen- habitat specialization. Bird Study. eral status. Ceresa F., Bogliani G., Pedrini P. & Bram- Specific studies described breeding billa M. (in press). The importance of key mar- ecology, population trend and possible ginal habitat features for birds in farmland: conservation strategies for Crex crex and an assessment of habitat preferences of Red- 6R Lanius collurio, two species of high con- backed Shrikes Lanius collurio in the Italian servation concern undergoing popula- Alps. Bird Study. Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Rossi F. & Brambilla M. (in press). Population trend and breeding den- sity of corncrake Crex crex (Aves: Rallidae) in the Alps: monitoring and conservation implications of a 15-years survey in Trentino, Italy. Ital- ian Journal of Zoology.

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Using high definition remote sensed data (LiDAR) for farmland bird models Section of Vertebrate Zoology 1R Since 1950, three general trends in (Light Detection And Ranging) which pro- land cover change have been observed vide useful information about the vertical in the Alps: the growth of urban areas, height of the vegetation. This new ap- taking over large extents of agricultural proach lead to better distribution maps, and natural lands; the abandonment of with a more realistic spatial pattern and an 22RR marginal agricultural areas due to the dis- easier interpretation when defining man- tance from the cities and lower produc- agement guidelines. The output of this re- tivity; and the intensification of agricultur- search supported the Rural Development al practices in the most favourable areas. Plan whit a single species distribution Even if in Trento Province the agricultural maps and a map of bird richness for 25 land is marginal in terms of extent, it is species. The habitat of conservation prior- 3R intensively exploited for the cultivation of ity species, such as the red-backed shrike high value crops such as grapes for lo- overlaps for about 70% with the highest cal wineries, apples and small fruits. In biodiversity areas. this context, grasslands and open areas are disappearing or modified due to the Tattoni C., Rizzoli F. & Pedrini P. (in press). changes in traditional farming practices Can LiDAR data improve bird habitat suit- 4R As a result, the wildlife and plant species ability models? Ecological Modelling. typical of open areas or extensively managed agriculture are declining.

The research activity of vertebrate zoology section focused on bird biodi- 5R versity of rural areas in general and in details for four conservation-priority bird species, typical of open areas and extensive agricultural ecosystems: the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio), the corncrake (Crex crex), the scops owl (Otus scops) and the green woodpecker 6R (Picus viridis). During the development of species distribution modelling it was also evaluated the advantage of using LiDAR data

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The Eastern Arc Mountains in Trento. Developing and designing the new tropical glasshouse of Muse. Section of Botany 1R The new Eastern Arc tropical green tropical plants collection with conservation house is the top living attraction of MUSE value. Since January 2011 the museum that will recreate the forests of the East- staff moved to Scotland and, through col- ern Arc, a biodiversity hotspot located in laboration agreements between botanical Tanzania and investigated by the Section gardens, practiced in world renewed tropi- of Tropical Biodiversity. A vibrant and en- cal glasshouses located at Eden Project 2R gaging display will capture the visitor in an (Cornwall, UK) and Royal Botanic Garden imaginative journey through the luxuriant Kew (London, UK). and colourful rainforest, listening unusual During summer 2011 the Section of sounds of birds and tree frogs, discover- Botany, in collaboration with the Section of ing elegant butterflies, mimetic chamele- Tropical Biodiversity, undertook an expedi- ons and trying new tastes. The itinerary will tion in Tanzania to further develop the inter- 3R3R start from the Kilombero valley with tropi- national relations and agreements between cal crops, underutilized landraces, home the Museum and local institutions such as vegetable gardens and local villages; the the University of Dar er Salaam (UDSM) and explorer will then climb uphill towards the the Tanzanian Tree Seed Agency (TTSA). pristine mountain rainforest or “msitu” in Several surveys have been carried out in the Swahili. Trees, shrubs, vines and flower- Eastern Arc forests with the herbarium and 4R ing herbs will be presented together with research staff of UDSM to develop together their ethnobotanical use. The display area a strategy for seed collection in the frame- will be thought-provoking, engaging the work of a Material Transfert Agreement visitor on sustainability issues, illustrating (MTA). The treatment and shipment of the international cooperation projects for for- collected material to the Trentino Seed Bank est conservation and poverty alleviation, and the Eastern Arc tropical glasshouse will stimulating the visitors to take active parts be carried out following the international 5R in supporting them. agreements of access and benefit sharing The Section of Botany has developed, (ABSA) through TTSA. in collaboration with the Royal Botanic The complex living biome under glass, Garden Edinburgh, a two year specialised the plant nursery and the quarantine facili- training programme in tropical botany and ties in Trento will start to engage the visi- horticulture with the aim to support the tors of the new Museum of Science from 6R new glasshouse staff in management of July 2013.

Seed of Cephalosphaera usambarensis, a tall Fruit of Telfairia pedata (mk- A local guide showing tree found only on few Tanzanian mountains and weme in Swahili), climbing how to collect safe drink- in Kenya with good quality timber belonging to vine originated in Tropical able water from the fleshy the nutmeg family (Myristicaceae). East Africa cultivated both petiole of Ensete ventri- for its edible flesh and for its cosum in the forest. seeds which are rich of oil. The oil is used for making soap and cadles and as a medicine for stomach trou- bles and rheumatism.

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Investigating alpine grasslands to evaluate their use in phytobalneotherapy. Section of Botany 1R since 1800, farmers, during the logistical aspects have been also evalu- haymaking season on certain areas of ated. The laboratory work investigated Trentino - Alto Adige used to sleep on the chemical and physical processes of the freshly cut grass, resting from the the fermentation after mowing. The data hard labor and the sore joints. This, soon, recorded, using specifically designed in- 2R became a treatment therapy against os- struments and techniques are: calories teoarthritis and more frequent rheumatic produced, concentration of methane and diseases attracting an increasing health carbon dioxide and production of vola- related tourism in the region. The cure has tile organic compound. The data showed remained empirical until the 1990 when that about 6 ha of the meadows belongs numerous studies has been carried out to an particularly biodiversity rich vegeta- 33RR with a scientific approach and were prov- tion association with many officinal and en to be effective by medical science. It medicinal species which produce a strong has been confirmed that 75-90 % of the fermentation process. The area has been treated patients improved their symptoms evaluated as suitable for the traditional and their general health, avoiding chemi- thermotherapy and its production could cal drugs, with a longer lasting effect than be used to treat about 200-250 patients. 4R the other conventional treatments. The Other vegetation associations could also regional legislation regulates the meth- be used to this end, after a specific 3 years odology and the requirements to certify management practice. About 4 ha were that the therapy has an actual beneficial not suitable because the vegetation did effect on the patients. The municipality not meet the requirement needed. of San Lorenzo in Banale commissioned The phytobalneotherapy is a sustain- 5R a study of the alpine grasslands in Loc. able practice with positive aspects that Prada to evaluate the potential use of range from the conservation of the tra- the freshly mowed grass for this therapy. ditional use and management of alpine The following study defined the vegeta- grasslands, to the conservation of the tion communities of the grasslands, their landscape and its biodiversity and the use productivity and their location using GIS. of more natural treatments of diseases Agronomical, management, land use and that affect many elderly people. 6R

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Effects of climate change on alpine plants Section of Botany

1R Alpine climates have undergone sig- vestigate the effects of climate change nificant change over the past century. on alpine flora. In the project CAPACE, In many parts of the Alps temperatures Dr. Andrea Mondoni is studying the ef- have risen by up to 2 °C between 1901 fects of warmer temperatures on seed and 2000. In this century, the warming germination and seedling survival of in the Alps is projected to continue be- the glacier foreland species. Here, us- 2R tween +2,9 °C and +5,3 °C by 2085. ing a novel approach, that considers the Alpine ecosystems are considered to altitudinal variation of temperature as a be particularly sensitive to the effects of surrogate for future climate scenarios, global warming, because they are char- seeds are exposed to different simulat- acterised by species adapted to low tem- ed seasonal temperatures in the labora- peratures. In response to climate warm- tory and in the wild. Dr Maurizia Gandini 3R3R ing in alpine habitats there are expected is leading the project CLIMBVEG, which and partially documented reductions of aims to contribute to assess the magni- the duration and dept of snow cover and tude and the extent of global warming rapid glacier retreat and these changes impact on alpine plant diversity taking are associated with changing distribu- into account changes of plant distribution, phenology and physiology of sev- tion (e.g. species extinction, migration) 4R eral plant species. and variations of plant responses to cli- Since the beginning of 2011, two matic factors over time. This research post-doc projects (2011-2014) funded will use standardized monitoring pro- by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento/ tocol developed under GLORIA project EU VII Framework Programme (FP7), (Global Observation Research Initiative through the programme “People” (Ma- in Alpine Environment), a worldwide 5R rie Curie Action - COFUND), aim to in- project started in 2001.

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The INQUIRE PROJECT - Science Education through IBSE Section of Botany

1R Education authorities are increasingly ropean countries. The course is run worried about the low level of student in- through 14 botanic gardens and natural terest in school science. Although much history museums - Trento Science Mu- of the concern focuses on attitudes to- seum is the Italian partner of the pro- wards chemistry and physics, plants are ject - including some of Europe’s most 2R the basis for all life on earth and botany inspirational cultural and learning insti- has almost disappeared from school sci- tutions. These centres act as catalysts, ence textbooks as well as from young training and supporting teachers and people’s minds (Link-Perez, Dollo, Weber, educators to develop their teaching pro- & Schussler, 2010, Uno 2009). Teachers ficiency. To bridge the gap between ed- 33RR play a crucial role in the development of ucation, research and practice, teachers, students’ interest in science (Osborne & botanic garden educators and science Dillon 2008). Although some science ed- education researchers are working to- ucators argue that pedagogical practices gether in learning communities to trans- based on Inquiry-Based Science Educa- form the simplistic and under-theorised tion (IBSE) methods are more effective model of IBSE into actual teaching and 4R than ‘traditional’ teaching approaches learning units and activities addressing (Rocard 2007), for various reasons, this the topics “biodiversity loss and climate type of teaching is not practised in most change”. The teachers and botanic gar- European classrooms. den educators participating in INQUIRE The INQUIRE project aims to sup- are supported in engaging in reflective port novel pedagogies by developing practice through undertaking their own 5R and delivering a one-year garden-based classroom-based practitioner research. IBSE teacher training course in 11 Eu- In Italy the project will deliver 4 main

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3R3R outputs: course that organised in August 2013 at -- Two annual training courses: “IBSE: the new Science Museum of Trento; like a scientist!” for teachers and edu- -- A course manual to support partici- cators who work with children (9 - 14 pants in developing educational activi- 4R years old). A pilot edition was held at ties with IBSE methodology, including Trento Science Museum in 2011. A sec- several examples of activities conduct- ond edition will run in 2012 at Botanic ed in the classroom or in botanic gar- Garden “Lorenzo Rota” in Bergamo. dens, parks and museums; -- A training course at national level for -- A train the trainers manual to support institution in charge of the training of different kind of institutions to develop 5R teachers and educators. It will be a 3-day new courses with the IBSE methodology.

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Research in Udzungwa contributes to a global camera trapping study on rainforest mammals Section of Tropical Biodiversity 1R Since 2009, the field station in theU d- deployment of 60 camera trap stations zungwa Mountains managed by Trento within an area of 120 km2 for 30 days at Museum is part of a pan-tropical network each site. Sampling yielded an unparal- of sites conducting standardized biodi- leled data-set, made of 51.000 camera versity monitoring. The network is called trap images that represented 105 species 2R TEAM (Tropical Ecology, Assessment and of terrestrial mammals, spanning the size Monitoring, http://www.teamnetwork. from a mouse to an elephant. Sites were org) and is an initiative of Conservation categorized according to the habitat frag- International in partnership with leading mentation of the landscape where they institutions including the Wildlife Conser- are inscribed, from continuous forests to vation Society, the Smithsonian Institution highly fragmented forests. The analysis 3R and the Missouri Botanical Garden. With examined the variation with the degree 17 sites currently active, and a planned of forest fragmentation of several aspects increase to 25 sites by 2015, TEAM’s mis- of species and community diversity (spe- sion is to generate real time data to moni- cies richness, species diversity, evenness, toring long-term trends in tropical biodi- dominance, functional diversity and com- versity, providing an early warning system munity structure). Results showed that 44RR on the status of tropical forests to effec- mammal communities from highly frag- tively guide conservation action. Adhering mented sites have lower species richness, to standardized protocols, each site of the species diversity, functional diversity and network monitors trends in (1) the com- higher dominance when compared with munity of terrestrial vertebrates (mainly sites in partially fragmented and continu- mammals) through camera-trapping, (2) ous forest. The study emphasizes the im- 5R carbon stock and vegetation diversity portance of standardized camera trapping through tree plots, and (3) several mete- approaches for obtaining baselines for orological parameters through automatic monitoring forest mammal communities weather stations. Here we report on one so as to adequately understand the effect of the first studies that presented a com- of global, regional and local threats and parison of results from a suite of sites on appropriately inform conservation actions. rainforest mammals. 6R Ahumada J., Faresin C., Gajapersad K., The study compared results from Hallam C., Hurtado J., Martin E., McWilliam camera-trapping sampling conducted A., Mugerwa B., O’Brien T., Rovero F., Sheil D., in the 7 sites across the three continents Spironello W., Winarni N., Andelman S. 2011. on earth holding rainforest (Africa, south- Community structure and diversity of tropical east Asia and South America) for which forest mammals: data from a global camera trap at least one year of data collection was network. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal conducted. Data collection entails the Society B: Biological Sciences 366: 2703-2711.

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The Udzungwa international summer school on tropical biodiversity

Section of Tropical Biodiversity 1R During the first two weeks of July ing introductory lessons on tropical bio- 2011, the first edition of a summer diversity and its evaluation, the course school titled “Tropical rainforest biodi- provided the practical and theoretical versity: field and GIS tools for assessing, skills on abundance estimation methods monitoring and mapping” was held in (line-transect, camera-trapping) and veg- the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania as etation sampling for habitat modeling 2R a collaboration between Trento Science using real-world data, in parallel with GIS Museum and the University of Trento training on storing, visualizing and ana- (Department of Environmental Engineer- lyzing environmental using open source ing), in partnership with Tanzania Na- software (QGIS and GRASS). tional Parks. The school was based at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, The first edition was attended by 20 3R the field station managed by Trento Sci- participants coming from Congo, Tan- ence Museum, and was designed to ad- zania, Italy, Netherland and UK. Besides dress one of its objectives: the provision 11 international students that contrib- of field-based, higher education to uni- uted with a registration fee, the school versity students and ecologists. offered free attendance to Tanzanian students and ecologists from the Ud- 4R4R Through a combination of field trips zungwa Mountains National Park and in the fascinating rainforests of the Ud- other parks in Tanzania. The participa- zungwa Mountains National Park, lessons tion of ecologists from Tanzania Na- and practical exercises on the computer, tional Parks was functional to contribute the course introduced the participants towards capacity building and standard- with key field and GIS tools for assessing ization of biodiversity monitoring in the forest biodiversity, especially rainforest country, using the extensive experience 5R mammals. The course aimed to integrate in Udzungwa as a model for replication state-of-the-art field techniques to as- in other parks. Following the successful sess key indicator species (primates and first edition, the school will be repeated forest ungulates) with GIS tools to map in 2012 with a view to establish a larger and model species distribution. Follow- and long-term training programme. 6R

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The discovery and conservation of a highly threatened snake Section of Tropical Biodiversity

1R During recent biological surveys ing decline. According to IUCN guide- in southern Tanzania, in collaboration lines (IUCN, 2010) therefore, it should with the Wildlife Conservation Society be listed as ‘critically endangered’ CR- (WCS), a remarkable new species of B1b(i,ii,iii). bush viper has been discovered. It re- Wildlife trade is now the second 2R sembles the Usambara bush viper (Ath- largest illegal trade in the world after eris ceratophora) but is considerably drugs, with the global trade, both legal larger, differs in scalation and has a ge- and illegal, estimated to be currently netic divergence of the mitochondrial around US$159 billion a year. Reptiles gene of 3.18% and an estimated diver- play a large part in this and unfortu- gence time of about 2.2 million years. nately the illegal trade - especially in 3R It has been named Matilda’s Horned wild-caught reptiles - is having a dev- Viper (Atheris matildae). astating effect on wild populations. So Matilda’s Horned Viper is known just much so that in many parts of Africa it from a remote montane forest fragment is the single biggest threat to the exist- in Tanzania’s South West. The site prob- ence of many species in the wild. The ably represents the remnant of a wider colourful, fascinating African bush vi- 44RR forested landscape, interspersed with pers of the genus Atheris are popular plateau grasslands and possibly natu- pet snakes in many countries, however, rally isolated from other forest blocks. their natural habitat is seriously threat- It is therefore probable that the viper is ened and the numbers of wild caught a highly range-restricted forest species. animals destined for the pet trade con- We have estimated an extent of occur- tinues to be unsustainable. 5R rence considerably smaller than 100 It is often the case that the first few km2 and a quality of habitat in continu- specimens of a newly discovered bush

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1R viper can be worth a high price and this scientifically-derived quota system and can have a very damaging impact on trade that focuses on captive breed- the population, In the case of Matilda’s ing rather than wild capture, the threat Horned Viper, a sudden rush to collect could be turned into a conservation op- as many specimens as possible could portunity. actually extirpate the species in the wild. Against this background, we have 2R To avoid the unsustainable collection initiated a small breeding programme of such a rare snake, we have agreed for the new viper in Tanzania. This is with the editor of the scientific journal intended not only as ‘insurance popu- Zootaxa - where the species descrip- lation’ to protect the new species from tion is published - to keep the locality overexploitation, but also to facilitate as vague as possible (only very general the conservation of its threatened habi- 3R information is given), with the possibility tat so that this unique animal can persist of more specific information provided in the wild. We are planning to make by the authors on request, for scientific available (gratis) the first few dozen off- purposes only. Such a practice should be spring from the captive population, in taken into consideration by taxonomists order to provide the market with cap- every time a new, rare species of poten- tive-bred specimens of the new spe- 4R4R tial commercial interest is described. cies. The aim is to avoid collection of In Tanzania, the endemics for which wild caught specimens, lower the price the nation is so renowned are seriously of the animal and encourage responsi- threatened by habitat loss, disease and ble captive breeding by keepers in the overexploitation for the wildlife trade. most highly demanding countries. The The latter is largely unmanaged, often ultimate goal is also to raise awareness 5R illegal and increasingly pervasive. Col- and support for an in situ community- lection from the wild is mostly unsus- based forest conservation programme, tainable and has reached a level where- including community support, educa- by it represents perhaps the biggest tion and forest management. Matilda’s threat to Tanzania’s amphibians and Horned Viper will, it is hoped, be a flag- reptiles. And yet with political will, a ship species for the initiative. 6R

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GEO3DMAP project Section of Geology

The GEO3DMAP project - 3D mod- fused in Trentino and neighboring regions. 1R eling of the Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbon- Main scientific goal of the project ate platform - is funded by the European is to study the network of extensional Community and the Provincia Autonoma paleo-faults that formed in connection di Trento in the frame of the 7th research with the Jurassic rifting and influenced framework programme - Marie Curie Ac- this huge platform during its growth. tions - COFUND - project “Trentino”. The project combines classical in-field 2R In the GEO3DMAP project modern geological observation and modern 3D digital modeling techniques are applied geologic modeling in the attempt of giv- to produce a three dimensional structural- ing, for the first time, a synthesis glimpse geological model of the Calcari Grigi plat- to the large-scale structural features that form, a carbonate sedimentary body, Early developed on the Trento Plateau in the Jurassic in age, whose rocks are widely dif- geological past. 3R

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Geological mapping and cartography 6R Section of Geology The Geology group is concerned in studies on the stratigraphy and past environments reconstructions. These are performed in collaboration with the Provincia Autonoma di Trento Geological Survey and will lead to the compiling of a new geological map of Italy (CARG project). In 2010-2012 research has focused on field work, laboratory analyses, computing and editing for the Geological Hazard Map of the Trento Province (scale 1:50.000).

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OPENLOC project Section of Geology

The OPENLOC project (Public policies and local development) is found- 1R ed by the Research Department of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, leaded by the Trento University, and conducted by the Museo delle Scienze in collaboration with the University of Bolo- gna, the University of Manchester, and 2R the Edmund Mach Foundation. The scope of the project is to define and measure the role that resources as natural patrimony and social capital can have in determining the economic com- petition of local systems. Understand 3R and quantify the fluxes of values and knowledge of a particular natural environment can support the local policies of rural and mountain communities. In this respect the contribution of the MUSE consists in the naturalistic 4R exploration of few key zones in which the natural and environmental patrimony is studied and documented. On these data, local communities action to stimulate innovative processes and plans may find quantitative support forms of sustainable development. 5R5R

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INTCLIM Project Section of Geology

The INTCLIM project aims to provide Community and the Provincia Autonoma 1R a number of well-characterised datasets di Trento in the frame of the 7th research from the climatically sensitive, Alpine re- framework programme - Marie Curie Ac- gion of Trentino to address the need for tions - COFUND - project “Trentino”. further data for the improvement of climate models. The project is specifically targeting Interglacial periods as these 2R warm periods in Earth history provide a comparison with modern, pre-industrial times which can be used to test climate models over long time-scales. The Tren- tino region provides the perfect location for the study because speleothem-hosting 3R caves have been identified at a variety of altitudes within the pure carbonate bed- rocks. Using this palaeo-temperature data, the idea of the INTCLIM project is to back- calculate the oxygen isotope signal of the speleothem-feeding waters. This temperature effect during oxygen isotope storage 4R in calcite is the largest obstacle currently hindering speleothem research and the elimination of which would allow the inclusion of the dataset in water-isotope ena- bled General Circulation Models and per- mit a better understanding of the climate 55RR system at the time of speleothem formation. INTCLIM is funded by the European

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Dolo P/T Project Section of Geology

The Dolo P/T Project (The Permian- of at least 50% of families both within the Triassic ecological crisis in the Dolomites: terrestrial and the marine ecosystems, 1R extinction and recovery dynamics in Ter- corresponding to an estimated loss of restrial Ecosytems) is funded by the Re- between 75% and 96% of all species. search Department of the Autonomous The general aim of the project is to Province of Bolzano. Its working group is understand the composition and spatio- composed of researchers from the Natur- temporal relationships of the Late Per- museum Südtirol/Museo di Scienze Nat- mian and Early-Middle Triassic terrestrial 2R urali dell’Alto Adige, Utrecth University ecosystems of the eastern Southern Alps. and National Natural History Museum The rate of extinction within the terres- ‘Naturalis’, and Museo delle Scienze. The trial realm and the time and mode of the Permian-Triassic (P-T) extinction event plant and animal biotic recovery are inves- occurred 251.4 ±0.3 million years ago tigated to understand if the Permian-Tri- and is considered the most severe extinc- assic ecological crisis documented in the 3R tion event of the Phanerozoic, with a loss Southern Alps mirrors the global pattern.

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Glaciological researches Section of Geology

1R The Museo delle Scienze collaborates formation campaign relative to glacial re- with the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, the treat has started by conducting evening University and the Comitato Glaciologico lectures open to the public and workshop Trentino managing the annual measures activities in schools. In particular, with the of maximum snow accumulation and abla- project “Ghiacciai di una volta” has ac- 2R tion on the glaciers of the province. The tuated an initiative of research involving research covered the following glaciers, society to photograph the Italian glaciers considered to be representative of the in the same location where the glacio- different groups of mountains of Trentino: logical took the same photograph in his- Ghiacciaio d’Agola, Ghiacciaio del Care- torical times. At the project joined all gla- ser, Ghiacciaio de La Mare, Ghiacciaio del ciological Italians groups. Afterwards, by 3R Mandrone, Ghiacciaio della Lobbia, Ghi- comparing photographic, considerations acciaio della Marmolada. quali - quantitatives about the melt of the From the analysis of the data, appears glacial will be do. It is also conducting a a situation of strongly negative mass bal- bibliographic collection of geomorpho- ance. This is due to low snowfall winter logical and glaciological itineraries; the and to summer season prolonged and material will be published with a mono- 4R with above average temperatures. An in- graph by the Società geologica italiana.

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Comunicating geoscience for blind and visual impairment Section of Geology

1R The project was co-funded by Fondazi- Ludens spin-off Fondazione Bruno Kesler) one CARITRO (Bank Foundation of Trento was created an open-air didatic pathway and Rovereto) and Museo delle Scienze that explain the geology of Trentino and di Trento. The project involved blind and severel educative activities were carried visually impaired people to geological sci- out on field and inside exposiotional area ences with the prupouse to reduce their of MUSE. Our project involved people 2R disability and make the naturalistic issue with ages ranging from 5 to 80 years, in- more accessible and actual. Through a cluding people who were borne blind and network of partnerships with organizations people who lost the sight in their infancy, working on the safeguard and research in in youth or in mature age. In these pro- the disability field (Istituto per la Ricerca, la ject, geology has been the vehicle to pull Formazione e la Riabilitazione and Unione down physical, psicological, environmen- 3R Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti), tal and cognitive barriers that follow the the design of natural pathways (Azienda acute visual impairment, with the aim to Forestale e Provincia Autonoma di Tren- reduce disability obstacles and to facilitate to) and technology instruments (Fabrica the integration into the cultural fabric.

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The Epigravettian site of Palù Echen (Folgaria Plateau) Section of Prehistory

1R The palaeoethnological and pal- tant finding in terms of anthropic struc- aeoenvironmental researches affected tures is the evidence of two concentra- the north-east edge of the Palù Echen tions of remains, named A and B. Sin- peat-bog on the Folgaria Plateau (mu- gular is the accumulation in B, located nicipality of Folgaria, province of Trento), around a porphyry rock sub-rounded, 2R and led to recognize an epigravettian site which suggests an overriding transfor- partially preserved. The preliminary study mation of raw materials. Previously inter- of PECH 1 has allowed the identification, preted as a store of stone materials, the on a total excavated area of 30 square B area contains flints of various nature meters, of two distinct and marked con- and consistency, from poor to high qual- centrations in flint artifacts that probably ity in terms of aptitude to flaking, some 3R correspond to two different working ar- of which destined to future exploitation. eas within the same episode of human This structure is compared with other occupation. The particular configuration dated to the late Upper Paleolithic and and preservation of the settlement will Mesolithic in various sites of Europe, in- enable a cross-disciplinary work through cluding Val Lastari and Palughetto. Oth- geoarchaeological investigations, tech- er correlations that mainly concern the 4R no-typological analysis of lithic artifacts, organization and spatial arrangement spatial distribution of the remains and of living space can be made with Sau- studies on the modality of procurement veterrian Mesolithic sites in the Alpine and exploitation of the lithic raw material. area, open air stations located at high The chronology of Echen 1 is based on a altitude, characterized by evidence of a radiocarbon date of 10.320 ± 60 14C Age simple spatial organization. Palù Echen 5R (BP), 12.209 ± 197 (cal BP), and on the testifies to the Paleolithic-Mesolithic cultural comparison of the lithic artifacts’ transition. features, related to the terminal phase of the Recent Epigravettian; this chrono-cul- Dalmeri G., Fiore I., Tagliacozzo A., 2011- tural stage is documented in the Eastern Palù Echen 1: fauna epigravettiana recente Italian Alps in open air sites such Pianca- dai settori 3 e 4. Nota Breve. Preistoria Al- 6R vallo, Andalo, Pian dei Laghetti, Laghetto pina, 45: 323-325. 6R delle Regole, Bus de la Lum, and in two Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2011- Siti epigravet- rockshelters, the nearest one Riparo La tiani degli Altipiani di Folgaria-Lavarone- Cogola at Carbonare di Folgaria, and Vezzena. Nota Breve. Preistoria Alpina, 45: Riparo Soman in Adige valley. An impor- 321-322.

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Monte Terlago rockshelter Section of Prehistory

1R The basin of Terlago, as well as the Monte Terlago rockshelter: stratigraphic section 1N-S surrounding mountainous area, is a very interesting area for the research on first prehistoric human occupation of the alpine environment during Lateglacial and Post-glacial. The areas closely adjacent 2R to the lakes of Terlago, Santo and Lamar are characterized by undulating morpho- logies and hills, bordered to the north- west by Paganella-Monte Gazza and to the south by Monte Bondone. Just the south side of Paganella near the localities 3R of Prada-Prà Boral and Monte Terlago, se- ems to offer the morphological situations likely to provide guidance for understanding the strategies and the prehistoric settlements dynamics related to the basin of Terlago, the high altitude mountainous 4R areas of Monte Gazza-Paganella, and the Late-Paleolithic sites of Andalo. In this context at an altitude of about 900 m, over Prada plain and just north of Dos di Camosciara, a rockshelter opens in a pebbly limestone wall. The excava- 5R tion allowed to identify a stratigraphic sequence of layers with distinct anthropic occupation historical (Late Antiquity) and stratigraphic excavation under this shelter, prehistorical (Iron Age, Middle Bronze conducted by multidisciplinary criteria, may Age-old Neolithic, Mesolithic); in this shel- provide an important contribution to the knowledge of the smelting activities (arche- ter, the archaeological evidence acquired, 6R indicate the presence of a multilayered ometallurgy) in the Bronze Age of central- 6R deposit characterized by a stratigraphical western Trentino, as well as increase the sequence of undamaged levels variously information about the Mesolithic and Neo- anthropized. lithic frequentations of the region. The set of evaluations based on scientific results obtained, can promote the be- Dalmeri G., Flor E., Neri S., 2011- Sondag- ginning of a series of interventions through gio con verifica stratigrafica a Riparo Monte an interdisciplinary research project with the Terlago (Monte Terlago- Terlago). Nota Breve. involvement of various institutions. An areal- Preistoria Alpina, 45: 327-329.

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The Epigravettian site of Laget (Val di Non) Section of Prehistory

1R The report of a new epigravettian site tation of mid-mountain territories of cen- at an altitude of 1.430 m a.s.l. on Predaia tral-eastern Trentino during Lateglacial Plateau, locality Laget/ Bus del Spin in and Postglacial period, with direct pal- Non Valley (municipality of Tres, province aeoenvironmental and palaeoeconomics of Trento), enriches the regional discov- implications. Finally, Laget site is of great 2R eries of these ancient periods. The first scientific relevance and is fully inserted in archaeological intervention in 2011 led the new interdisciplinary research proj- to confirm the importance of this site, ects of the Section of Prehistory. in terms of degree of preservation and ancient chronology. The archaeological Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kom- data collected in 2011-2012 suggest the patscher M., Bassetti M., Cusinato A. & Piazzi O., 3R presence of a living floor well preserved, 2004 - Dinamiche comportamentali degli ultimi rich in lithic artifacts, areal extended and cacciatori-raccoglitori in area alpina. Il caso di stu- thick several centimeters. The spatial dio del sito LR3 del Laghetto delle Regole (Castel- arrangement of lithic remains, where fondo, Trento). Preistoria Alpina 40: 5-26, Trento. ploughing has not compromised the original stratigraphy of the deposit, are 4R overall good. It’s important to note the presence of settlement structures preserved, like a well-circumscribed accumulation of flaking products with more than 1.000 findings and two hearths. These structural evidences confirm that 5R this is a site of medium-high altitude, articulated and differentiated in several specialized processing areas: from these preliminary data the site could be inter- preted as a single episode of occupation, within a seasonal system of mobil- 6R ity. Consequently, Laget’s potential for 6R research is not common in contemporary sites located at the same altitudes. The implementation of the project with field- work and laboratory studies will provide new elements for reconstructing the modality of human occupation and exploi-

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Riparo Dalmeri: Art and Rituality Section of Prehistory

1R In the last twenty years of prehistoric ochre are made on clasts taken from the na- research in the Alps, Dalmeri shelter rep- tive breccias (total 267). At the moment of resented a key site for understanding the discovery, the paintings on the stones were activities, behavioral dynamics and exploi- almost completely obscured by calcareous tation’s methods of the mountain territo- concretions. We can distinguish different ries by the Epigravettian human groups. types of figurative expressions, highlighted 2R The good preservation of faunal remains, by 11 categories including representations stone tools and living floors has resulted in or symbols anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, a partial but approximate reconstruction of schematic or signs, but also for the most palaeo-economy, settlement organization part, organized surfaces with intentional and site functionality. The site offers the traces of red pigment or with only residual unusual opportunity to study both art and color. It’s hard to find a logic in a deposition- 3R rituals expressed by a group of Late Paleo- al structure designed as “sacred” space, so lithic hunter-gatherers who frequented the privileged, highly articulated and complex, Pre-Alpine area. Great symbolic signifi- with potential factors of inter-connection of cance assumes the context of recovery of the different concentration areas of painted the paintings, placed outside an housing stones. It’s also problematic distinguish dif- structure and in the proximity of three ritual ferent periods of deposition or relocation 4R pits. The figurative elements are frequently of individual stones, even if the whole as- depicted with realism in a way indicative of semblage is related to the earliest phase of the distinct ability to decipher the character human occupation of the site (Phase I). of the animals. This innovative pictorial lan- guage is of considerable scientific interest Dalmeri G., Neri S., Bassetti M., Cusinato and is part of the broader issues of interpre- A., Kompatscher K. & Hrozny Kompatscher N., 5R tation of art produced by Paleolithic hunt- 2011 - Riparo Dalmeri: le pietre dipinte dell’area er-gatherers of Europe. Consequently, the rituale. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 67-117. Trento. interpretation of this site involves also the Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2011 - La pietra dipin- artistic and religious sphere and is there- ta RD 303 di Riparo Dalmeri. Preistoria Alpina, fore much more complex. The paintings in 45: 119-125. Trento. 6R6R

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Tropical biodiversity research group

Francesco Rovero Head of the Tropical Biodiversity Section 1R Born in Firenze in 1970, he is a zoologist and conservation biologist. He obtained a degree in Natural Sciences in 1995 at the University of Florence with eco-ethologi- cal research thesis, and a Ph.D. in Animal 2R Ecology in 2000 at the University of Wales (Bangor), UK. Since 1999 is conducting research and environmental cooperation activities in eastern Africa. Since 2003 he is affiliated to MdS, and conducted during 2004-2007 a post-doctoral research 3R project funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento on ecology and conservation of primates and forest ungulates in the Ud- zungwa Mountains, Tanzania, where he has been working since 2002. In 2008 he became the Curator of the newly-

Biolo g y ar e a established Tropical Biodiversity Section within MdS. His main research 4R interests are on threatened populations of forest mammals in Tanzania; research aims include abundance estimation, habitat use and modeling, and conservation status assessment. Besides pure and applied research, he developed a keen interest in ecological monitoring, technical support to protected areas, habitat connectivity analysis, development of commu- 5R nity conservation plans. This led to the establishment of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (www.udzungwacentre.org) that he directs since 2006. It is a field station annexed to the Udzungwa Mountains Na- tional Park that facilitates researchers and provides technical support to the park, also serving as a bridge between park management and community’s environmental attitudes. The station became the first site in Africa 6R of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) network, managed by Conservation International. He wrote over 50 scientific and public science papers, and book chapters.

FABIO PUPIN Research fellow Born in Asiago (VI) in 1978, since 2009 he collaborates with MdS where he contributes to the various projects on East Africa herpetofauna. In particular, he has been involved in a research program on the herpetofauna of the Albertine Rift and he is implementing the contents of the website Tanzaniaherps. org. Before joining the Tropical Biodiversity Section he collaborated with the Animal Bi- ology Section of the University of Pavia (Italy) on various researches on ecology, behaviour and morphology of amphibians and reptiles. In the same University he achieved his bachelor and Ph.D. degrees.

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Silvia Ricci Research fellow Born in Firenze in 1970, she is a zoologist and a public science writer. She got a degree in Natural Sciences in 1995 at the University of 1R Florence and a Ph.D. with a research thesis on population dynamics and trophic ecology of desert rodents in 2003 at the University of Sydney, Australia. Since 2004 she has been working for different publishing houses, writ- ing books and articles of scientific popular- 2R ization. Since 2006 she worked as scientific consultant, environmental educator, tutor of formative courses and translator. From 2008-2009 she collaborated with Trento Museum studying the new species of elephant-shrew. Her research interests include population dynamics and trophic ecology of small mammals, habitat use and fauna surveys. Since 2010, 3R she has been also managing Associazione Mazingira, an organization established within the Trento Museum itself to conduct community-based projects in the area of the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania.

4R Emanuel H. Martin Research fellow Born in Rombo in 1977, he is a Tanzanian zoologist with a degree in wildlife management obtained at the Sokoine University of 5R Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania (2002), and Mas- ter in Management of Protected Areas ob- Biolo g y ar e a tained at the University of Klagenfurt, Aus- tria (2009). During 2003 - 2007, he worked as a Conservation Officer at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Botswana, gaining wide 6R experience in the field of biodiversity monitoring and protected area management. He was also extensively involved with training park personnel on monitoring capacity. In 2009 he was recruited as full-time research collaborator by Trento Museum to cover the position of Site Manag- er of the newly established TEAM project (Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring), managed by Conservation International, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and coordinated in the Udzungwa Mountains by Trento Museum. Since February 2012 he has enrolled into a PhD program with SUA whereby his studies is focusing on the ecology of forest mammal community.

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CLAUDIA BARELLI Research fellow Born in Viareggio (LU) in 1972, she is a zoologist and primatologist. She holds a master’s degree (1999) in Natural Sciences 1R at the Florence University on topical ethol- ogy and a Ph.D. (2007) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Leipzig University, Germany on primate reproductive strategies. In 2008 she became an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral 2R fellow at the German Primate Center (DPZ), Goettingen, Germany. Her main research interests focused on sexual selection, reproductive strategies, vocal communication and endocrinology in primates, and in particular, in a wild gibbon population of the Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Since 3R 2010 she is a post-doctoral fellow within the program of Marie Curie Action- Incoming - COFUND by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento at the Trento Mu- seum conducting a multidisciplinary research on the ecology and conservation of an endangered and endemic primate species of the Udzungwa Mountains NP, Tanzania. Over 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals and internation-

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Michele Menegon Tecnical assistant 5R Born in Montebelluna (VI) in 1969, since 1998 he is affiliated to MdS where he contributes to the establishment of the Trop- ical Biodiversity Section. Since 1998 he has also been conducting research and environmental cooperation in East Africa. In 2009 he started a Ph.D. at the Tropical Ecology of the 6R University of Manchester. The research is focused on global diversification patterns, species phylogenetic relationships and radiation and speciations patterns of Amphibians and Reptiles that represent the model groups. Various techniques are involved: field research, taxonomy, morphological and molecular systematic and biogeography analysis based both on traditional descriptive methods and on molecular analysis. Combined ecological niche modeling and molecular phylogeography in order to reveal the evolutionary history of niche differentiation and to evaluate the risk extinction under different scenarios of climate change and/or continued habitat loss recently became part of the adopted techniques. Multi-taxon mapping of evolutionary information is also used in order to define optimal conservation areas for threatened species of montane Amphibians and Rep- tiles. He set up the website Tanzaniaherps.org on the montane herpetofauna of Tanzanian mountains in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam and Wildlife Conservation Society. He published over 40 scientific and public science papers, books and book chapters.

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Ahumada J., Faresin C., Gajapersad K., Hallam C., Hurtado J., Martin E., McWilliam A., Mugerwa B., O’Brien T., Rovero F., Sheil D., Spironello W., Winarni N. & 1R Andelman S., 2011 - Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366: 2703-2711. [IF 2011= 6.401] Barelli C., Reichard U.H. & Mundry R., 2011 - Is grooming used as a commodity in wild whitehanded gibbons, Hylobates lar? Animal Behaviour, 82: 801-809. [IF 2011= 3.591] DeFries R., Rovero F., Wright P., Ahumada J., Andelman S., Brandon K., Dempewolf 2R J., Hansen A., Hewson J. & Liu J., 2010 - From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8: 153- 160. [IF 2010= 8.820] Hoffmann A., Decher J., Rovero F., Schaer J., Voigt C. & Wibbelt G., 2010 - Field Meth- ods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals. In: Eymann J., Degreef J., Häuser C., Monje J.C., Samyn Y., VandenSpiegel D. (eds.), Manual on Field Recording 3R Techniques and Protocols for all Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Abc Taxa, 8 (Part 2): 482-529. Marshall A.R., Jorgensbye H.I.O., Rovero F., Platts P.J., White P.C.L. & Lovett J.C., 2010 - The Species- Area Relationship and Confounding Variables in a Threat- ened Monkey Community. American Journal of Primatology, 72: 325-336. [IF 2010= 1.98] 4R Menegon M., Davenport T.R.B. & Howell K.M., 2011 - Description of a new and critically endangered species of Atheris (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, with an overview of the country’s tree viper fauna. Zoo- taxa, 3120: 43-54. [IF 2011= 0.927] Menegon M., Gower D. & Loader S.P., 2011 - A remarkable new species of Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) with massive, boldly coloured limb glands. Zootaxa, 3120: 43-54. [IF 2011= 0.927] 5R Rovero F., Tobler M. & Sanderson J., 2010 - Camera-trapping for inventorying terres-

trial vertebrates. In: Eymann J., Degreef J., Häuser C., Monje J.C., Samyn Y. & Biolo g y ar e a VandenSpiegel D. (eds.), Manual on Field Recording Techniques and Protocols for all Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Abc Taxa, 8 (Part 1): 100- 128. Tolley K.A., Tilbury C.R., Measey G.J., Menegon M., Branch W.R. & Matthee C.A., 6R 2011 - Ancient forest fragmentation or recent radiation? Testing refugial speciation models in chameleons within an African biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography, 38: 1748-1760. [IF 2011= 4.544] Van Bocxlaer I., Loader S.P., Roelants K., Biju S.D., Menegon M. & Bossuyt F., 2010 - Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads. Science, 327: 679-682. [IF 2010= 31.364]

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Botany research group

Costantino Bonomi Head of the Botany Section 1R Born in Trento in 1971. M.Sc. in Biology (Padua, 1997) M.Phil. in Botanical Diversity (Reading and Birmingham, 2000). Keeper of the herbarium, curator of the museum’s two botanic gardens. His main research interests are plant conservation 2R biology and seed ecology. Since 2001 he is in charge of the museum’s plant conservation projects, and botanic garden management. He promoted and developed Trentino Seed Bank, now a member of Ensconet, the European Native Seed Conservation Network, funded by the EU under 3R FP6 research infrestructures. He contributed to Plant Science Gardens and Inquire, two European education projects funded by the EU under FP6 & FP 7. Science and Society. He provides the secretariat for RIBES, the Italian network of seed banks. He is the Italian delegate in the European Consortium of Botanic Gardens.

4RBiolo g y ar e a Gilberto Parolo Research fellow Born in Sondrio in 1975. M.Sc. in Natural Sci- ences (Pavia, 1999) Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (Pa- via, 2004), research fellow at Pavia University 5R 2004-09. His main research interest lies in plant population biology of rare and threatened species, plant taxonomy (Festuca), conservation biology, ecology of extreme mountain ecosystem in relation to global change, effects on flora and vegetation in the Alps and in the Ap- 6R pennines, vegetation ecology. More than 50 papers published on peer reviewed journals (Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Con- servation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecological Modelling, Plant Biosystems). He contributed to the Eurpean projects GLORIA in FP5; ENSCONET in FP6, and various other projects promoted locally by Region Lombardy, and the Provinces of Sondrio and Trento (ACE-SAP, OPENLOC).

Renzo Vicentini Research assistant Born in Rovereto in 1984, since 2009 he collaborated with the Museum of Science where he contributed to various conservation projects such as ESCONET in FP6 and ACE-SAP as well as the study of the biology of alpine endemisms. He surveyed biodiversity rich alpine grasslands and tested their biomass production to evaluate their use in the traditional therapy of phytobalneotherapy. He collaborates with the seed collection and curation of threatened species in Italy, Spain and Tanzania. Since 2011 he is actively

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training in tropical botany and horticulture in the UK in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He is also involved in the design and development of the new Tropical Glasshouse of MUSE, the tropical nursery and quarantine facilities. Before joining the Museum of Science he collaborated with Rovereto Civic Museum on the collection and digitalization of the distribution data of the flora of the provinces of Verona and Trento. 1R

Andrea Mondoni Research fellow Born in Pavia in 1978. M.Sc. in Natural Sci- ences (Pavia, 2003), Ph.D. in Plant Ecology 2R (Pavia, 2007). Post-doc (Marie Curie Action) at the Trento Museum of Science. His main research interest is germination ecology and seed bank management. He investigated in detail dormancy and germination of woodland 3R herbaceous temperate species and has a keen interest in seed longevity of alpine species. He currently carries out studies on the effects of climate change on plant regeneration. He contributed to the Eurpean project ENSCONET in FP6 and to the local project ACE-SAP. 4R

SERENA DORIGOTTI Research Assistant Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1975, she graduated in Natural Sciences at the University of Padua 5R in July 2005 with a dissertation on a palyno- logic analysis of an Alpine environment. Since 2006 she worked at the Educational Depart- Biolo g y ar e a ment of the Museum of Sciences as senior educator in Botany. She performed educational activities mainly in the museum two 6R botanic gardens, the Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden and at the Arco Arboretum. In 2011 she joined the Inquire Project, developing and evaluating a training course for teachers and educators on IBSE methodology. She is skilled and experienced expert in the creation and management of workshops based on the IBSE technique.

Maurizia Gandini Research Fellow Born in Broni (PV) in 1977, M.Sc. in Natural Sci- ences (Pavia, 2004), Ph.D. in Dendroecology (Pavia, 2007). Post-doc (Marie Curie Action) at Trento Museum of Science. Her main research interest is climate change in relation to alpine plant ecology, with a particular focus on Glob- al Warming impact on biodiversity and spatio- temporal patterns of species living in high- altitude environments. She is also involved in statistical elaboration of ecological dataset and ecological modelling. She currently contributes to worldwide project GLORIA and to European project LTER.

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Bonomi C., Mondoni A., Bolognesi M., Bortoluzzi E., 2010 - Maturity, Germination and Longevity studies in a narrow endemic columbine in the Italian Alps (Aquilegia 1R thalictrifolia Scott et Kotschy). In Pendelton R., Meyer S., Schultz B., Seed Ecol- ogy 3 Conference Proceedings: 16-17.

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Limnology & phycology research group

Marco Cantonati Head of the Limnology and Phycology Section 1R Born in Neuburg Donau (Germany) in 1967, he holds a University teaching Habilitation (Venia docendi) in Limnology (Phycology) (2011) and a PhD in freshwater ecology (1998) from the University of Innsbruck, a MSc in Natural Sciences (1992) and MSc in 2R Biology (1990) from the University of Pavia. Alumnus at the Ghislieri College (Pavia), and Garbini Prize for limnology. MC dealt with an unusually broad spectrum of aquatic biota and habitats, with internationally-rec- 3R ognized expertise in spring-habitat ecology and conservation, and in the ecology and taxonomy of freshwater benthic algae (particularly diatoms, cyanobacteria, red algae). He discovered several diatom taxa (genera and species) new to science. Teaching in international courses (Visiting Professorships, summer schools etc.) (5), PhD theses (Supervisor 5, Opponent 5, Reviewer 2, Sub- 4R stantial contrib. to 3), Post-Docs mentoring (1), Visiting PhD students (1), MSc Theses (14), Bachelors (8). Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Limnology, and Guest Ed. of Freshwater Science, J. Limnol., and Hydrobio- logia. Author of 243 scientific contributions, of these: Research Articles on ISI International Journals with IF (45); Special Issues, Monographic Volumes, Books or Chapters (34). Organization of International Congresses and Special 5R Sessions (8), Session Chairing (10), Invited talks (16) & talks (32 international +

15 national). R&D Funding acquisition: Scientific coordinator or WP coordina- Biolo g y ar e a tor of 15 Projects.

Daniel Spitale 6R Research fellow Born in Lennep - Remscheid (Germany) in 1976, he is a Research Fellow of the MUSE Limnology and Phycology Section. M.Sc. in Biology (2003) at the University of Padua (Italy); Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of Parma (2007). He initially dealt with lake phytoplankton (SALTO Project), and then with the ecology of bryophytes and vascu- lar plants in spring habitats (CRENODAT Project). In the last years he started investigating the physiological adaptations of the red alga Bangia atropurpurea in Lake Garda (ACE-SAP Project). His most relevant skills are related to bryology (with special reference to distribution and ecology in aquatic environments), and to the statistical analysis of ecological data. He is an author and referee for several International journals in the ecological disciplines.

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Nicola Angeli Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1975, he is the Technical Assistant of the Limnology and Phycology 1R Section of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE). M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (2000) at the Uni- versity of Padua (Italy), and Ph.D. in Ecology (2006) at the University of Parma. Since 2000 he collaborates with the Limnology and Phy- cology Section of the MTSN. In particular 2R he deals and dealt with high-mountain lakes and springs, lake inventories, biological databases, paleolimnology, and diatoms in the frame of several research projects (SALTO/ BEST OLOAMBIENT, CRENODAT, ACQUA-TEST PNAB, ACE-SAP, CESS- 3R PA, EBERs). Moreover, since 2005 he has been appointed to be in technical charge for the MUSE scanning electron microscope (Zeiss EVO40 XVP). Since 2009 he is also in charge for the Hydrochemistry Lab and for the Collections of the Limnology and Phycology Section. He has been recently involved in the content-development project team for the new Science Museum (MUSE).

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Angeli N., Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2010 - A comparison between diatom assemblages in two groups of carbonate, low-altitude springs with differ- 5R ent levels of anthropogenic disturbances. Fottea, 10: 115-128. [IF 2011= 1,327] Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2011 - Diatom monitors of close-to-pristine, very- low alkalinity habitats: three new Eunotia species from springs in Nature Parks of the south-eastern Alps. Journal of Limnology, 70: 209-221. [IF 2011= 1.207] Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H. & Angeli N., 2010 - Neidiomorpha gen. nov. (Bacil- lariophyta): A new freshwater diatom genus separated from Neidium Pfitzer. 6R Botanical Studies, 51: 195-202. [IF 2011= 1.103] Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Decet F. & Gabrieli J., 2011 - Diatoms in very-shallow pools of the site of community importance Danta di Cadore Mires (south-eastern Alps), and the potential contribution of these habitats to diatom biodiversity conservation. Nova Hedwigia, 93: 475-507. [IF 2011= 0.615]. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Scalfi A. & AngeliN ., 2010 - Cymbella tridentina sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a crenophilous diatom from carbonate springs of the Alps. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29: 775-788. [IF 2011= 2.800] Filippi M.L., Piliposian G., Marziali L., Angeli N., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Is it possible to study palaeoenvironmental changes in Alpine spring habitats? A few examples from the south-eastern Alps (NE Italy). In: M. Cantonati, R. Gerecke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 155-167. [IF 2011= 1.207] Gerecke R., Cantonati M., Spitale D., Stur E. & Wiedenbrug S., 2011 - The challenges of long-term ecological research in springs in the northern and southern Alps: indicator groups, habitat diversity, and medium term change. In: M. Cantonati, R. Ge- recke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 168-187. [IF 2011= 1.207] Spitale D. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Understanding the natural variability of diatom assemblages in springs of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park (south-eastern Alps) on a temporal scale. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 179/2: 137-149. [IF 2011= 1.207]

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Spitale D. & Petraglia A., 2010 - Palustriella falcata (Brid.) Hedenäs (Amblystegiaceae, Bryopsida) with pluristratose lamina: morphological variability of specimens within and among springs of the Italian Alps. Plant Systematic and Evolution, 286: 59-68. [IF 2011= 1.335] Spitale D., Scalfi A.,L ange-Bertalot H. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Using different epilithic- diatom assemblage metrics for an ecological characterization of the shores of 1R Lake Garda. Journal of Limnology, 70: 197-208 [IF 2011= 1.207]

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Invertebrate zoology and hydrobiology research group

1R Valeria Lencioni Head of the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section Born in Salò (BS) in 1970, obtained a degree in Biological Sciences in 1996 at the University of Milan with a thesis on plancton communities from alpine lakes, and a Ph.D. in Natural 2R Sciences in 2000 at the University of Innsbruck (A) on taxonomy and ecology of invertebrates in alpine springs and streams. Her present research refers mainly to autoecology of stream macroinvertebrates (mainly Diptera Chiron- 3R omidae) and to adaptive potential of target species of aquatic insects in relation to environmental stressors (e.g. temperature variations, presence of pollutants) from a physiological and molecular point of view. She is also involved in projects on invertebrate biodiversity 4RBiolo g y ar e a monitoring in protected areas in collaboration with local stakeholders within the Natura 2000 Networking Programme. Since 2005 she is member of the ministe- rial working team engaged for the elaboration of the national quality index for lakes within to the WFD 60/2000. She is author of more than 100 scientific papers, including book chapter, and attended about 70 congresses/workshops with more than 30 posters and 70 oral presentations. She collaborates with the MdS 5R since 1996, as referent person for the MdS’s collections and scientific publishing since 2003 and as head of the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section from January 2009.

Mauro Gobbi 6R Research assistant Born in Milan in 1979, he is an entomologist and ecologist with a strong focus in ecology and conservation biology of terrestrial ecosystems. His research interests include the impact of global change on alpine arthropod species assemblages (mainly carabid beetles and spiders). He is involved in several research projects aimed to test the effects of climate and land use changes on entomologi- cal biodiversity of different alpine habitats. His stronger expertise is on insect and spider species assemblages living at high elevations, specifically along the glacier forelands and in the periglacial areas. His scientific activity is testified by international collaborations and by publications on ISI-ranked journals. He won two research fellows (2001 and 2003), a prize for the best Msc thesis (2004) and in 2009 he received, on the base of his results obtained on the ecological entomology, the award for the best Italian young entomologist; the award was conferred by the Italian Academy of Entomology. He is a research entomologist at the MdS since 2007.

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Luigi Caputi Research assistant Born in Naples in 1975, he is graduated in Bio- logical Sciences at the University ‘Federico II’ of Naples. His thesis project was on the neu- 1R rophysiology of cephalopods (Loligo vulgaris, Octopus vulgaris). He received a Ph.D. in Life Science of the Open University (London) do- ing work on speciation and population genetics in Ciona intestinalis at the Zoological Sta- 2R tion ‘A. Dohrn ‘of Naples. His scientific knowledge concernes methods of cloning and DNA sequencing, sequence analysis, construction of phylogenetic trees by the methods of maximum likelihood and bayesian analysis, via SNP genotyping and gene expression analysis. In 2009-2010 he was involved in MdS’s projects on adaptive biology of 3R aquatic insects, specifically in gene expression analyses and genebank creation.

Paola Bernabò Research assistant Born in Trento in 1982, she is graduated at 4R the University of Padua in Evolutionary Biol- ogy in 2006. In 2009 obtained the Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia in collaboration with the Section of Inverte- 5R brate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MdS with a thesis titled “Global climate changes

and adaptive strategies in two mountain’s Biolo g y ar e a chironomids: Pseudodiamesa branickii and Diamesa cinerella”. Since 2008 is focusing on the effects of environmental stressors such as 6R temperature variations and presence of pollutants in insects (Diptera and Co- leoptera) at molecular level (gene expression analyses) within several MdS’s projects, in collaboration with the Centre of Integrative Biology (CiBio) of the University of Trento. She is co-author of six scientific papers in international journals.

Valentina Grazioli Ph.D. student Born in Genoa in 1981, she was graduated at the University of Genoa in Sciences of Natu- ral Systems (2006). From 2005 to 2007 she collaborated with ARPAL (Regional Agency Environment Protection-Liguria, Italy) and with different parks, to study macroben- thic communities in Apennine streams and springs. From 2007 to 2010 carried out her Ph.D. in Naturalistic and Environmental Sci- ences at the University of Milan, in collaboration with the University Bicocca (Milan) and,

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since 2009, with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MdS. At MdS she she is involved in studies on toxic resistance in Chironomus riparius (Diptera Chironomidae) from an ecotossicological (toxicity tests) and genetic (gene expression analysis) point of view. 1R ELISA RISERVATO Research assistant Born in Novara in 1977, she achieved a bachelor and a Ph.D. degree in University of 2R Pavia (Italy) on dragonflies ecology and conservation. As expert odonatologist, she co-authored, among other publications, the only two existing atlas of Italy (Atlante del Piemonte e Val d’Aosta, Atlante della Provin- cia di Novara), and she deeply collaborates 3R with IUCN on European and Mediterranean basin dragonflies red list assessing. In 2009 she cofounded Odonata.it -the Italian society of dragonfly study and conservation of which she is the current president. In 2009-2010 she collaborated with MdS 4RBiolo g y ar e a within projects on conservation and documentation of invertebrate biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites and on the distribution of Aedes albopictus (tiger mosquito) in the Trento city.

Alessandra Franceschini 5R Technical assistant Born in Venice in 1967, she obtained a degree in Biological Science at the University of Padua in hydrobiology and macroinvertebrates. Since 1993 she collaborates with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydro- 6R biology of the MdS within projects on riparian zones of rivers, mountain streams and alpine lakes. She focused on riparian fauna (mainly Coleoptera Carbidae) and aquatic insects (mainly Plecoptera). She was teacher for the IBE quality index application (“Meto- di biologici pratici per il mappaggio di qual- ità dei corsi d’acqua: analisi comunità macroinvertebrati”) and co-author of the IFF index “Applicazione dell’Indice di Funzionalità Fluviale”. In 2008 she was technician at the Environmental Agency of Trento in the chemical laboratory. Since 2009 she is the technical assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MdS.

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Luca Toldo Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1985, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Padua in 2011 with a thesis regarding 1R the Diptera Chironomid fauna in mountain springs of Trentino (Italy). From 2009 to 2010 he worked as volunteer of Civil Servi- ce at the MdS within a project on management and conservation of the invertebrate 2R collections and one on invertebrate fauna of springs. In 2011 he was involved as technical assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MdS in the monitoring of the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in the territory of the municipality of Trento. 3R

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Bernabò P., Lencioni V., Latella L., 2011 - Cold stenothermal cave-dwelling beetles do have an HSP70 heat shock response at transcriptomic level. Journal of Thermal 4R Biology, 36: 206-208. [IF 2011= 1.373] Bernabò P., Martinez Guitarte J.L., Rebecchi L., Jousson O. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Ther- motolerance and hsp70 heat shock response in the cold-stenothermal chironomid Pseudodiamesa branickii (NE Italy). Cell Stress and Chaperones, 16 (4): 403-410. [IF2011= 3.013] Filippi M.L., Piliposyan G., Marziali L., Angeli N., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Is 5R it possible to study palaeoenvironmental changes in Alpine spring habitats? A few examples from the south-eastern Alps (NE Italy). In: Cantonati M., Gerecke

R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Editors), Springs: neglected key habitats for bio- Biolo g y ar e a diversity conservation, Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 155-167. [IF2011= 1.207] Gobbi M., Caccianiga M., Cerabolini B., Luzzaro A., De Bernardi F. & Pierce S., 2010 - Plant adaptive responses during primary succession are associated with functional 6R adaptations in ground beetles on deglaciated terrain. Community Ecology, 11 (2): 223-231. [IF 2010= 0.974] Gobbi M., Isaia M. & De Bernardi F., 2011 - Arthropod colonisation of a debris-covered glacier. The Holocene, 21 (2): 343-349. [IF= 2.595] Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Latella L., 2010 - Cold resistance in two species of cave-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera: Cholevidae). Journal of Thermal Biology, 35: 354-359. [IF 2010= 1.273] Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2011 - Diversity and distribution of Chirono- mids (Diptera, Chironomidae) in alpine and pre-alpine springs (Northern Italy). In: Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Editors), Springs: neglected key habitats for biodiversity conservation, Journal of Limnology 70 (Suppl. 1): 106-121. [IF2011= 1.207] Melis C., Olsen C.B., Hyllvang M., Gobbi M., Stokke B.G., Roskaft E., 2010. Effect of traffic intensity on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in central Sweden. Journal of Insect Conservation, 14 (2): 159-168. [IF 2010= 1.769] Polidori C., Gobbi M., Chatenaud L., Santoro D., Montani O. & Andrietti F., 2010 - Diet preference of the beetle-hunting wasp, Cerceris rubida (Hymenoptera: Crabro- nidae): is there a bias towards specific prey taxa? Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 99: 544-558. [IF= 2.166] Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lods Crozet B., Free G., Lencioni V. & Marziali L., 2011- A comparison of different biotic indices based on benthic macro-invertebrates in lakes. Journal of Limnology, 70 (1): 109-122. [IF2011= 1.207]

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Vertebrate zoology research group

Paolo Pedrini 1R Head of the Vertebrate Zoology Section Born in Trento in 1958, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences, with a post-degree specialization in “Nature conservation and land planning and development” (University of Pavia) and “Vertebrate man- 2R agement” (University of Pavia). From 1983 to 1995 he has been working as consultant for several institution within the Au- tonomous Province of Trento (PAT) and for several National universities and research 3R institutions; he has also been teaching in high schools. From 1995 is curator of the Vertebrate Zoology Section at the MdS, he has also been the curator of the Environ- mental education Section of the same museum until 2001. He has been the supervisor of several degree theses and 4RBiolo g y ar e a the author of over a hundred of scientific publication, mainly focusing on bird ecology, distribution and conservation. He attended and coordinated national and international research projects on birds (among which the projects “BIODIVERSITÀ”; RETE NATURA 2000; PROGETTO ALPI) on distribution, population trend and reproduction and ecology of alpine birds; he has been the coordinator of the action plan on threatened species con- 5R servation, of the atlas of local species distribution as well as of the red-list species assessment (Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals).

Franco Rizzolli Research assistant 6R Born in Trento in 1968, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the Padova University with a dissertation on Hydrobi- ology. He works as researcher in ornithology, with a special focus on monitoring activities and databases management aimed to data analysis. He collaborates with the Vertebrate Zoology Section on researches on bird migration, nesting ecology and faunal censuses. He work on management and implementation of GIS databases; he is author of several scientific publications published both on national and international journals, especially on sub- jects dealing with raptors breeding ecology, bird migration and wintering water birds. He collaborated to the realization of technical documents on land planning and nature management for the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT).

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Davide Dalpiaz Research assistant Born in Bolzano in 1971, he graduated in biology in Bologna University with a degree thesis about ichtyofauna. In the same University 1R he achieved in 2002 a Ph.D. degree in animal biology, working on Common toad and other Anurans. He took part to the compilation of fish censuses and management plans of Emil- ia-Romagna Region and Autonomous Prov- ince of Trento, and worked in LIFE projects as 2R fish expert. Since 2003 he collaborates with Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, where he deals with didactics, divulgation and research. He coordinates the communication projects “Learn to know the brown bear” and “Forests”, in collaboration with the Forest and Wildlife Service of the 3R Autonomous Province of Trento.

Clara Tattoni Research assistant Born in Milan in 1976, she holds a master’s 4R degree in Environmetal Science at the Uni- versity of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and a Ph.D. in “Analysis, protection and management of biodiversity” from the University of Insubria, Italy. She received various research grants to study in Italy and abroad (Erasmus, Fra- 5R telli Confalonieri, Parco naturale Adamello

Brenta, DiCA) . Since 2006 she has been Biolo g y ar e a working with the Laboratory of Forest Ecol- ogy at the University of Trento (Italy) in research and teaching activities. Her research area is applying GIS to wildlife and ecology studies, with a special interest 6R for bird migration and conservation. With the MdS she is currently working with the avian data base in modeling habitat for species ranked as priority by the european community in the framework of the Natura 2000 network. She is author of 4 ISI-ranked publications from 2005 to 2009.

Mattia Brambilla Research fellow Born in Cantù (Co) in 1980 he graduated in Natural Sciences at University of Milan in April 2003, and continued at Milan with his Ph.D. (discussed Jan. 2007). His main interests are bird ecology and conservation, evolution and phylogeography. He is involved in research projects on farmland habitats, with particular reference to breeding birds; he has contributed to the Monitoring plan of terrestrial Vertebrates in Trentino and to the analysis of effects of Rural Development Plan on biodiversity; now he works mainly on

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ecology and conservation of corncrake and other rallids, red-backed shrike and other passerines of open habitats. He has been working also in other institutions on projects including regional ecological network in Lombardy, ecological network among Natura 2000 sites in Varese province, Monitoring 1R plan for terrestrial Vertebrates of Community interest in Lombardy, conservation and management of areas and species of Community interest. He has contributed to the “Assessment of conservation status of Italian avifauna” (LIPU - MATTM, 2008-2009). He has published 15 articles in ISI-ranked journals (2004-2011).

2R Marco Girardello Research fellow Born in Treviso in 1977, he obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Abeerdeen (UK) and a Ph.D. degree in Biol- 3R ogy from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). During his Ph.D. he carried out a resarch project on the application of ma- chine-learning methods to species distribution modelling. His main research interests 4RBiolo g y ar e a are concered with understanding the deter- minants of species distributions at the large scale, and predicting how these distributions change through time. He has worked on several collaborative projects with various research institutes, both in Italy and Europe. His main contribution to these projects has been the ap- 5R plication spatio-temporal modelling techniques to study the dynamics of plant and animal populations. He authour of several pubblications on Inter- national peer-reviewed journals. From June 2009 he works as Quantitative Ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK). He has been collaborating with the Vertebtrate Zoology Section at the MdS since 2009. His work has focussed on developing predictive models for breeding birds in 6R the province of Trento to assess the potential impacts of land cover changes in the breeding birds.

Simone Tenan Ph.D. student Born in Rovigo in 1974, M.Sc. (Hons) in Nat- ural Science at the University of Padua (Italy) with a dissertation focussed on ecology of bird migration across the Mediterranean Sea. Since 1995, he has been participating in different projects on bird migration and breeding birds, as collaborator of the Italian Ringing Scheme of the Institute for Environ- mental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He has been collaborating with the Vertabrate Zoology Section of the MdS since 2008, on the data analyses related to the “Progetto Alpi”, on the post-nuptial bird migration. Ph.D. student at the University of Pavia (Italy) since November 2009, with a Ph.D. fellowship from the MdS, his dissertation is focussed on modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of bird migration across the Italian Alps.

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Maria Chiara Deflorian Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1976, she obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Pavia with a dissertation on the Ecology of the Eu- 1R ropean Badger (Meles meles). Since 2000 she collaborates with the MdS, where she mainly deals with the digitalization and data management of the scientific collections. In 2004 she attended a Master in scientific museology at the University of Padova and in 2007 she at- 2R tended a course CNRS (in France) on scientific collection management. She collaborates to the research activities of the Vertebrate Zool- ogy Section and since 2003 collaborates to the realization of the distribution atlas of mammals of the Trento province. She is a skilled and experienced expert on 3R the identification of mammals’ presence indexes, on which topic she works as consultant, especially as far as big carnivores are concerned. She has been working as operator on the environmental education and she collaborated in the realization of temporary exhibitions. Moreover she has been teaching in secondary and high schools and she has collaborated to a research project on Alpine ibex in the Parco Naturale di Paneveggio - Pale di S. Martino. 4R

Karol Tabarelli De Fatis Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1981, he is currently studying for a degree in Natural Sciences at Pa- 5R dova University specializing in Natural Re-

sources Conservation. He has conducted Biolo g y ar e a research and training activities since 1997 within the vertebrate zoology Section of the Natural Sciences Museum of Trento, Italy. He 6R collaborated to several wildlife monitoring projects, mostly with birds, and he is actively involved in the education Section of the Mu- seum pertaining to zoology topics. He has been recognized by the Province of Trento as a professional taxidermist and he is also a member of the Consiglio diret- tivo della Società di Scienze naturali del Trentino..

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Bertocchi A., Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Torboli, C., Zanatello M., Tattoni C. & Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2011 - Risultati dei censimenti degli Uccelli acquatici svernanti in Pro- vincia di Trento (2000-09) / Results from the International Waterbird Census in Trento Province (2000-09). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 89-157. Bettega C., del Mar Delgado M., Campioni L., Pedrini P. & Penteriani V., 2011 - The quality of chicks and breeding output do not differ between first and replacement clutches in the Eagle Owl Bubo bubo. Ornis Fennica, 88: 217-225. [IF 2011= 0.794] Brambilla M. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Intra-seasonal changes in local pattern of Corncrake Crex crex occurrence require adaptive conservation strategies in Alpine mead-

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ows. Bird Conservation International, 21: 388-393. [IF 2011= 1.25] Brambilla M., Bassi E., Ceci C. & Rubolini D., 2010 - Environmental factors affecting patterns of distribution and co-occurrence of two competing raptor species. Ibis, 152: 310-322. [IF 2011= 2.43] Brambilla M., Casale F., Bergero V., Bogliani G., Crovetto G.M., Falco R., Roati M. & 1R Negri I., 2010 - Glorious past, uncertain present, bad future? Assessing effects of land-use changes on habitat suitability for a threatened farmland bird species. Biological Conservation, 143: 2770-2778. [5-Year IF= 4.529] Brambilla M., Gustin M. & Celada C., 2011 - Defining Favourable Reference Value for bird populations in Italy: setting long-term conservation target for priority species. Bird Conservation International, 21: 107-118. [IF 2011= 1.25] 2R Brambilla M., Vitulano S., Ferri A., Spina F., Fabbri E. & Randi E., 2010 - What are we dealing with? An explicit test reveals different levels of taxonomical diagnosability in the Sylvia cantillans species complex. Journal of Ornithology, 151: 309-315. [IF 2011= 1.636] Preatoni D.G., Tattoni C., Bisi F., Masseroni E., D’Acunto D., Lunardi S., Grimod I., Martinoli A. & Tosi G., 2011 - Open source evaluation of kilometric indexes of 3R abundance. Ecological Informatics, 7: 35-40. [IF 2011= 2.533] Tattoni C., Ciolli M. & Ferretti F., 2011 - The Fate of Priority Areas for Conservation in Protected Areas: A Fine-Scale Markov Chain Approach. Environmental Man- agement, 47: 263-278. [5-Year IF= 3,245]

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Geology research group

Marco Avanzini Head of the Geology Section 1R Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1963. Curator of the geology and palaeontology department. His research focus on stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment reconstruction of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Southern 2R Alps and Southern Europe. Has experience in palaeontological excavations and the geological mapping of the alpine area. Is author of more than 300 publications in national and international journals concerning the study of tetrapod foot- 3R prints, geology and stratigraphy of the Mesozoic of the Southern Alps.

MASSIMO BERNARDI Research assistant 4R Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1984. Graduat- ed in Natural Sciences at the University of Padova (2006), he gained a Master of Science in Paleobiology at the Uni- versity of Bristol (UK, 2009) where he is now a PhD student. In the last years he 5R has been working at the University of Padova, and collaborating with Parco Adamello-Brenta and Bletterbach ge- oparks. As member of the Geology Sec- tion of the Museo delle Scienze he is Eart h science ar e a involved in research and outreach activi- 6R ties concerning both vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology.

Rossana Todesco Research assistant Born in Bassano del Grappa (Vi), in 1983. Graduated in Geology at the University of Modena (2009). Since 2004 she collaborates with the Geology section of the Museo delle Scienze where she is involved in several ichnological and pal- aeoecogical studies of the Alpine region. Now a days she works on geolocical science comunication expecially dedicate to people with sensory disabilities.

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Riccardo Tomasoni Research fellow Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1972. From 1999 he is a member of the Geology and Paleontol- 1R ogy section of the Museo delle Scienze. He took part to several ichnological and paleo- ecological research activities on vertebrate tracks discovered in the Permian and Trias- sic deposits of the Southalpine region. From 1999 he participate to the 1:50.000-scale 2R geological mapping project of Italy, as a compiler designated by the geological Sur- vey of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento.

Fabio Massimo Petti 3R Research fellow Born in Roma, in 1972. Holding a PhD in Paleontology, from 2007 he cooperates with h science ar e a Eart the Geology and Paleontology section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 4R benefiting of a post-doc grant funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento. The topic of the post-doc project is the study of dinosaur footprints as constraints in the palaeogeo- graphical and palaeoecological reconstructions of the Central Mediterranean area dur- 5R ing the Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous inter- val. From 2007 he is assistant editor of the Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, the Italian journal devoted to Paleontology.

6R Michele Zandonati Research fellow Born in Trento, in 1969. Regional guide of the special list of the Alpine Guides. He is the operative responsible of the Alpine Rescue team of Rovereto (TN). From 2004 he works in the Geology section of the Museo Triden- tino di Scienze Naturali mainly cooperating with research activities on hydrogeology and karstification. He has a well-established experience in speleological explorations and is specialized in database creation, GIS systems and high-resolution monitoring instruments.

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Andrea Borsato Research fellow Born in Trento, in 1965. Conjoint Senior Lec- turer at the University of Newcastle (Aus- tralia), School of Environmental and Life Sci- 1R ences, Environmental and Climate Change Research Group, field trip tutor at the l’University of Newcastle (Australia) School of Environmental and Life Sciences and Skilled user at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France). His studies mainly 2R deals with Quaternary geology, hydrogeology and geochemistry. In the last fifteen years he contributed to the improvement of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironment reconstruction performed by means of speleothems and continental carbon- ates through radiometric dating, isotopic analyses, geochemical studies of 3R trace elements and microstratigraphy.

Renza Miorandi Research fellow Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1975. She has a de- 4R gree in Letters and Philosophy from the Tren- to University with a thesis on cultural geogra- phy concerning the Monte Pasubio springs. Skilled speleologist (in activity since 1991) and speleology instructor of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) since January 2007. Since 2001 5R she cooperates with the Geology section of the Museo delle Scienze being involved in several paleoclimatic studies with monthly sampling in hypogean environments and Eart h science ar e a their digital elaboration. From 2005 to 2009 6R she participates to the triennial research program on the paleoclimatic reconstruction from speleothems, coordinated by the University of Heidelberg “DAPHNE - DFG-Forschergruppe dated speleothems archives of the pe- leoenvironment”.

Isabella Salvador Research fellow Born in Camposanpiero (Pd), in 1982. Gradu- ated in Architectural Engineering at the Uni- versity of Trento, from 2007 she collaborated with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department on Apsat project (Ambiente e paesaggio dei siti d’altura alpini) studying traditional building evolution in mountain areas in relation to socio-economic and environmental changes. In 2011 she earned a PhD in Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Struc- tural Systems from University of Trento. From the same year she cooperates with the Geol- ogy section of the Museo delle Scienze di Trento as part of the Openloc project,

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where she studies land use changes in upland areas and their interrelation with the traditional architecture, physical resources and environmental dynamics.

1R Marco Franceschi Post doc Born in Trento, in 1979. PhD in Earth Sci- ences at the University of Padova in 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he held a 2-year post- doc position at the Dept. of Geosciences 2R of the University of Padova, working on the 3D modeling of the Triassic Latemar carbonate platform. He’s currently hosted by the Museo delle Scienze as post-doc researcher, P.I. of the GEO3DMAP project (3D modeling 3R of the Early Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbonate platform). His areas of expertise are stratigraphy of the Southern Alps and Apennines, cyclostratigraphy, terrestrial laser scanning, h science ar e a Eart remote sensing and 3D geological modeling. His current research interests focus on 3D modeling of ancient carbonate platforms, study of active laser 4R sensors as tool for recognition of rock properties and application of terrestrial laser scanning to cyclostratigraphy.

Vanessa Johnston Post doc 5R Born in Bedford (Uk), in 1983. Graduated with a Master’s degree in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Bristol (UK, 2005) and then went on to gain a PhD focusing on cosmogenic isotopes in karst 6R settings from University College Dublin (Ire- land, 2010). Vanessa is currently studying past climate changes using speleothems from Trentino, focusing on warm periods known as interglacials as part of the project INTCLIM.

Paolo Ferretti Technical assistant Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1972. Since 2001 is member of the Geology Section of the Mu- seo delle Scienze, where he firstly joined several research activities regarding hydrogeology and quaternary geology. Afterwards he addressed his activity towards mineralogy and petrography with important discoveries in the Alpine region.

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Avanzini M., Bernardi M., & Nicosia U., 2011 - The Permo-Triassic tetrapod faunal diversity in the Italian Southern Alps. In: Ahmad Dar I. & Ahmad Dar M. (Eds.), Earth and Environmental Sciences, InTech: 591-608. (ISBN 978-953-307-468-9) 1R Avanzini M., Bernardi M. & Petti F.M., 2011 - Boot tracks in a First World War fort (Valmorbiawerk, Trento, Italy). Ichnos, 18(2), 72-78. [IF 2011= 0.688] Avanzini M., Piñuela L. & García-Ramos J.C., 2011 - Late Jurassic footprints reveal walking kinematics of theropod dinosaurs. Lethaia, 45: 238-252. [IF 2011= 2.011]. Bernardi M. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Early reptiles locomotor behaviour: insights from an unusual Erpetopus-like trackway. Journal of Paleontology, 85(5): 925-929. 2R [IF 2011= 1.148] Bernardi M. & Minelli A., 2011 - Il concetto di specie e la paleontologia: una rassegna introduttiva. Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, 13: 1-26. Bernardi M., Petti F.M. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Palaeoenvironmental implications of Asteriacites lumbricalis in the Coste dell’Anglone sinemurian dinosaur ichnosite (NE Italy). Palaeontologia Electronica, 13(3), 17A. [IF = 0.880] 3R Bernardi M., Boschele S., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Bichordites monastiriensis from the Oligocene NE Italy. Acta Paleontologia Polonica, 55(3): 479-486. [IF 2010= 1.949] Johnston V.E, McDermott F. & Tămaş T., 2010 - A radiocarbon dated bat guano deposit from N.W. Romania: implications forthe timing of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, 4R Palaeoecology, 291, 2010: 217-227. [IF 2010= 2.390] Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Todesco R., & Avanzini M., 2011 - Dinosaur footprints as ultimate evidence for terrestrial environments in the late Sinemurian Trento carbonate platform. Palaios, 26: 601-606. [IF 2011= 1.804] Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Ferretti P., Tomasoni R. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Dinosaur tracks in a marginal marine envinronment (Early Jurassic, Trento Platform, NE Italy): ichnology and palaeogeographic implications. Italian Journal of Geosciences, 5R 130: 27-41. [IF 2011= 0.741] Petti F.M., D’Orazi Porchetti S., Sacchi E. & Nicosia U., 2010 - A new purported ankylosaur trackway in the Lower Cretaceous (lower Aptian) shallow-marine carbonate deposits of Puglia, southern Italy. Cretaceous Research, 1: 546-552.

[IF 2010= 1.576] Eart h science ar e a Zarcone G., Petti F.M., Cillari A., Di Stefano P., Guzzetta D. & Nicosia U., 2010 - A 6R possible bridge between Adria and Africa: New palaeobiogeographic and stratigraphic constraints on the Mesozoic palaeogeography of the Central Mediterranean area. Earth Science Review, 3: 154-162. [IF 2010= 6.594]

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Prehistory research group

Giampaolo Dalmeri 1R Head of the Prehistory Section Born in Pergine (Trent) in 1952. In 1977 he obtained his degree in Geology at the Uni- versity of Ferrara with a degree in Human Paleontology. He works for about 35 years of prehistoric antiquity. Conducts research 2R projects sponsored by the Museum relat- ing the oldest alpine human population, especially in Trentino. Currently directs the research and palaeoenvironmental paletno- logiche to Shelter Dalmeri Grigno in wet- 3R lands Palù Echen in Folgaria and Malga Palù (Plateau Vezzene, Levico-Spa), a Laget (Predaia-Val di Non) and in the shelter of Monteterlago (Terlago). In the years ‘80-

h science ar e a Eart ’90 he collaborated on numerous research projects on the Mesolithic in Trentino, in the valley and at high altitude , 4R and others with the Archaeological Superintendence of Trento for excavations on different histories in Val d’Adige and Trentino West. He discovered the shelter in 1990 he was named, and research and interdisciplinary that followed under his direction have shown exceptional employment-related human aspects, such as residential mobility, ways of life and hunting, art and rituals of the ancient hunter-gatherers of the late Upper Paleolithic. 5R Since 1997, he coordinated more than 30 theses (undergraduate and PhD) in Science Prehistoric Archaeological and Cultural Heritage to address. Has participated in 40 conferences / whorkshop national and internationally, in person or as a co-author, 20 posters and 30 oral communications. He is co-author of about 100 works in scientific journals. He has published over 6R 250 scientific articles, popular science and book chapters. He is Associate Ordinary of ‘Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History”, based in Flor- ence (IIPP).

Elisabetta Flor Research assistant Born in Cles (Tn) February 28, 1982, received his Master Degree in Prehistoric Sciences at University of Ferrara March 20th, 2009 with an elaborate analysis of the lithic technology of the levels of the shelter sauveterriani Ro- magnano LOC III (Tn). On 21 March 2005, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage, Archaeological and at the Universi- ty of Trento, with an elaborate analysis of the lithic technology levels sauveterrinai shelter Pradestel (Tn). Since 2006 he collaborates occasionally with the Tridentine Museum of Natural Science as a technical consultant / scientific materials for inventory and computerization of the collections in storage proto at the Laboratory of

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Prehistory Museum of Natural Sciences of Trento. Participate in the research project valence provincial OPENLOC “Social capital and environmental capital. It is part of Project Muse Team regarding the exposure of prehistory.

Stefano Neri 1R Technical assistant Born in Trento, April 23, 1980, has worked since 2005 at the MTSN first as educators, then from 2007 as the Technical Section of Prehistory. He received the 2004-2005 Aca- 2R demic Year Degree in Cultural Heritage, Ar- chaeological and at the University of Trento, Faculty of Humanities, with thesis on “Re- cords and GIS analysis of the archaeological record of attendance the last hunter-gatherers in Trentino. In the ‘technical-scientific 3R field of the Section is responsible for op- erational and logistics to the archaeological excavations. Cooperates with the preparation of excavation data, as well as cataloging and archive of artifacts. It is part of Project Team Muse and collaborates with the Educational Services for the Project Team is part of the Muses 4R and collaborates with the Educational Services for the design and delivery of educational activities for schools and organized groups, according to the offer of the Museum or on projects educational with institutions or institutions outside the school in Prehistory. He collaborates in the activity of the scientific journal publishing “ Alpine Prehistory “. 5R

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Angelucci D. E., Anesin D., Bassetti M., Bernardo A., Neri S. & Dalmeri G., 2011 - La Eart h science ar e a successione esterna del Riparo Dalmeri (Trento, Italia). Prime informazioni geo- 6R archeologiche. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 127-146. Belli R., Dalmeri G., Frongia A., Gialanella S., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & Toniutti L., 2011 - Palaeolithic Paintings at Riparo Dalmeri, a Northern Italian Rock Shel- ter: Materials, Technologies, Techniques. Proceedings of the 37th International Symposyum on Archaeometry 12-16 May, Siena 2008: 187-192. Carra M. L., Marinval P. & Dalmeri G., 2011 - I bulbi di avena altissima (Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum) da Riparo Dalmeri (TN): offerta votiva o cibo quotidiano? Preistoria Alpina, 45: 147-157. Cristiani E. & Dalmeri G., 2011 - Functional analysis of the decorated ground stone tool from Terlago (TN). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 185-191. Dalmeri G., Flor E. & Neri S., 2010 - The Mesolithic series of Pradestel Rockshelter (North-East Italy, Trento) in the Framework of the Atesin Mesolithic. Under- standing the Past. Papers offered to Stefan K. Kozlowski. Center for Research on the Antiquity of Southeastern Europe. University of Warsaw: 97-105. Dalmeri G., Neri S., Bassetti M., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K. & Hrozny Kompatscher N., 2011 - Riparo Dalmeri: le pietre dipinte dell’area rituale. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 67-117. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2011 - La pietra dipinta RD 303 di Riparo Dalmeri. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 119-125. Flor E., Fontana F. & Peresani M., 2011 - Contribution to the study of Sauveterrian technical systems. Technological analysis of the lithic industry from layers AF- AC1 of Romagnano Loc III rockshelter (Trento). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 193-219.

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Flor E. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Nuovi ritrovamenti mesolitici nel gruppo del Pasubio (Trentino meridionale). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 221-228. Gialanella S., Belli R., Dalmeri G., Lonardelli I., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & Toniutti L., 2011 - Artificial or natural origin of Hematite-based red pigments in archaeological contexts: the case of Riparo Dalmeri (Trento-Italy). Archaeometry, 53: 1R 1-13 [IF= 1.581].

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Science Communicators Group

Christian Casarotto 1R Geologist Born in Busto Arsizio (Va) in 1975. Since 2003 he is member of the Geology and Educational Section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali of Trento. He firstly took part to educational activities; afterwards he addressed his ac- 2R tivity towards monitoring of alpine glacial also as part of Comitato Glaciologico Trentino. He is involved in territorial studies of sustainable development through the valorisation of natural heritage. Since 2009 he is geomorphologist 3R and Science communicator of the Museo delle Scienze. He join his research activities with the popularization of study results in several meeting and public communication.

CLAUDIA LAURO 4R Geologist Born in Trento, in 1970, she collaborated with the Museo delle Scienze since 1993. She firstly carried out educational and research activities for the Educational, Geol- ogy and Prehistory Sections. She was also 5R charged with technical assignments: geological-geomorphological surveys, applied geology and hydrogeology tasks for private and public offices. For the museum she has dealt with science communication since 2001, 6R planning temporary and permanent exhibitions, natural paths and cultural events. Since 2009 she is member of the communication science team and curator of the exhibition galleries dedicated to Earth Sciences of the new Muse project.

Osvaldo Negra Zoologist Born in Bolzano, in 1966, he achieved a master degree in Biology at Parma Univer- sity in 1991 (with a thesis “Ecophysiology of the autumn migration of the Sedge Warbler in a site on the Italian mainland”). In 1994 he gained a PhD in Animal Biology at Pisa University (with a thesis “ Stable and tran- sient components of a bird community of the Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany”). In 1997, he won a contest for “technician of zoology” at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento (MTSN), where he carried out research and science dissemination for many years and curated several temporary exhibitions about natural sciences. Since 2008 he works at MdS as Cultural Mediator for Biodiversity and curator of the new science museum developed in Trento.

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Alessandra Pallaveri Zoologist Born in Trento, in 1971, she obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the Univer- sity of Parma with a dissertation in animal 1R behavior. Since 1998 she collaborates with the Museum. She dealt with research and science communication for the Vertebrate Zoology Section and was a facilitator for the Education Department. She took part to many projects of temporary exhibitions, 2R discovery rooms for children, visitor cent- ers and guided paths. In 2008-2009 she worked on the renovation of the permanent exhibition of the Museum. Since 2009 she is a Science communicator of the Museo delle Scienze and is part of the project team of the new Muse for 3R the biodiversity area.

Francesco Rigobello Botanist Born in Vicenza, in 1961. Francesco Rigo- 4R bello graduated in Natural Science with an experimental thesis on phytosociology in 1993. From that year he is collaborating with the Botany Section of the Museum of Science of Trento. From 2009 he is one of Science Communicators of the museum. 5R He manages the museum’s satellite visitor centre of Tremalzo and he is involved in the project management and set up of exhibitions, educational programs and botanical gardens piloting. He projects and lead re- 6R fresher courses for science teachers. He authored more than 50 scientific and divulgative papers.

Massimiliano Tardio Limnologist Born in Cles (TN) in 1973, he is MUSE Cul- tural Mediator for projects on the territory. M.Sc. in Biology (2001) at the University of Bologna (Italy) with a thesis on mesocosm- studies on the phytoplankton of Lake Tovel; Ph.D. in Evolutionistic Biology at the Univer- sity of Pisa (2007) specializing on dinoflag- ellates, in particular on their use as biological monitors in hyperdiluted high-mountain lakes and as a proxy (dinocysts) in paleolimnology. At present he is mainly dealing with cultural mediation and environmental interpretation (he is coordinator and supervisor of the activities at the Tovel Lim- nological Station of the MUSE).

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88 Contacts

Name Section E-mail address Telephone Angeli Nicola Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270342 Avanzini Marco Geology [email protected] +39 0461270312 Barelli Claudia Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270319 1R Invertebrate Zoology and Bernabò Paola [email protected] +39 0461270371 Hydrobiology Bernardi Massimo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Bonomi Costantino Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Borsato Andrea Geology [email protected] +39 0461270325 2R Brambilla Mattia Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270310 Cantonati Marco Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270342 Invertebrate Zoology and Caputi Luigi [email protected] +39 0461270371 Hydrobiology Casarotto Christian Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270345 3R Dalmeri Giampaolo Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Dalpiaz Davide Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270377 Deflorian Maria Chiara Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Dorigotti Serena Botany [email protected] +39 0461270313 4R Ferretti Paolo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Flor Elisabetta Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Franceschi Marco Geology [email protected] +39 0461270329 Invertebrate Zoology and Franceschini Alessandra [email protected] +39 0461270372 Hydrobiology 5R Gandini Maurizia Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Girardello Marco Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Invertebrate Zoology and Gobbi Mauro [email protected] +39 0461270372 Hydrobiology Invertebrate Zoology and Grazioli Valentina [email protected] +39 0461270371 6R Hydrobiology Johnston Vanessa Geology [email protected] +39 0461270325 Lauro Claudia Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270365 Invertebrate Zoology and Lencioni Valeria [email protected] +39 0461270371 Hydrobiology Martin Emanuel H. Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +255 785274469 Menegon Michele Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270374 Miorandi Renza Geology [email protected] +39 0461270345 Mondoni Andrea Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Negra Osvaldo Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270383 Neri Stefano Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Pallaveri Alessandra Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270365 Parolo Gilberto Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Pedrini Paolo Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270310 Petti Fabio Massimo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344

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Name Section E-mail address Telephone Pupin Fabio Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270354 Ricci Silvia Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270319 1R Rigobello Francesco Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270354 Invertebrate Zoology and Riservato Elisa [email protected] +39 0461270372 Hydrobiology Rizzolli Franco Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Rovero Francesco Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270374 2R Salvador Isabella Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Spitale Daniel Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270342 Tabarelli De Karol Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Fatis Tardio Massimiliano Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270339 3R Tattoni Clara Vertebrate Zoology clara.tattoni@ mtsn.tn.it +39 0461270340 Tenan Simone Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270310 Todesco Rossana Geology [email protected] +39 0461270345 Invertebrate Zoology and Toldo Luca [email protected] +39 0461270372 Hydrobiology 4R Tomasoni Riccardo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270332 Vicentini Renzo Botany [email protected] +39 0461270313 Zandonati Michele Geology [email protected] +39 0461270345

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Research and teaching activities (2010-2011) Nr. Research projects 56 Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 27 1R Seminars c/o universities and museums 4 Lectures 7 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 3 Ph.Ds 8 Masters and degrees 26 2R Other research grants 3 Trainings 30 Volunteers 19

3R Research projects: Grant projects 1. ACE-SAP - “Alpine ecosystems in a Changing Environment: Biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potential”. Project funded by Autonomous Province of Trento Servizio Univer- sità e Ricerca (2008-2012), “Bando grande progetto”. 4R 2. CAPACE - Capacità di adattamento delle piante alpine ai cambiamenti climatici. Post- doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie Curies Actions (2011-2014), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 3. CLIMBIVEG - Effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sulla biodiversità vegetale in ambienti d’alta quota. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the 5R European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie Curies Actions (2011-2014), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 4. Determining the evolutionary history and ecology of the newly described giant elephant-shrew, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Funded by the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration 6R and by the Mohamed Bin Zayed’s Species Conservation Fund (2010-2011). 5. Dolo P/T Project (The Permian-Triassic ecological crisis in the Dolomites: extinction and recovery dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosytems). Project funded by the Research Depart- ment of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (2011-2014). 6. ECOGENPHI - Effetti della frammentazione dell’habitat e del disturbo antropico su popolazioni di primati in un hotspot di biodiversità in Tanzania: integrazione di approcci ecologici, genetici e fisiologici. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie Curies Actions (2010-2013), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 7. GEO3DMAP- Modellazione tridimensionale della piattaforma giurassica dei Calcari Gri- gi / 3D modeling of the Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbonate platform. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie Curies Actions (2011-2013), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 8. INQUIRE - Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future. Funded by the Euro- pean Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) (2010-2013). 9. INTCLIM Reconstructing Interglacial climate with Trentino speleothems using stable and ‘clumped’ isotopes. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie Curies Actions (2010-2012), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 10. OPENLOC - Politiche pubbliche e sviluppo locale: politiche per l’innovazione e ricadute

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locali di dinamiche globali / Public policies and local development: innovation policy and its effects on locally embedded global dynamics. Project funded by Autonomous Province of Trento, Servizio Università e Ricerca (2008-2012), “Ban- do grande progetto”. 1R Projects by agreements 1. ACQUA-TEST_PNAB - Habitat acquatici del Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta: testimoni del cambiamento climatico e ambientale / Aquatic Habitats of the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park sentinels of climate and environmental change. Project co-funded by the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park and by MdS. (Long-term ecological research since 2008). 2R 2. EBERs: Exploring the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna springs. Project funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region; Geological, Sismic and Soils Service (2011-2013). 3. Geological guide - Foglio Appiano Project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (2010-2012). 3R 4. Geological Hazard Map of the Trento Province (scale 1:50.000). Project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (2010-2012). 5. Geological mapping and cartography - Foglio CARG Mezzolombardo and Bago- lino. Project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (2010-2012). 6. Glaciological researches on Agola Glacier, Careser Glacier, La Mare Glacier, Man- drone Glacier, Lobbia Glacier, Marmolada Glacier. In collaboration with the Au- 4R tonomous Province of Trento, the University of Trento and the Comitato Glacio- logico Trentino (2010-2012). 7. Haybathing - Assessing the therapeutical potential of the grasslands of the Prada area, S. Lorenzo in Banale, southern Brenta Dolomites. Project supported by S. Lorenzo in Banale town council (2010). 5R 8. L’avifauna degli ambienti rurali del Trentino Project supported by PSR-PAT (Piano Sviluppo Rurale - Autonomous Province of Trento) (2010-2011). 9. Misure di conservazione e priorità a favore dell’erpetofauna degli ambienti agricoli di fondovalle. Project supported by PSR-PAT (Piano Sviluppo Rurale - Au- tonomous Province of Trento) (2010-2011). 6R 10. Ricerca applicata alla gestione della fauna vertebrata del Trentino. Project supported by the Autonomous Province of Trento (2010-2011). 11. Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) network. Long-term standardized biodiversity monitoring in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Fund- ed by Conservation International (2010-2011). 12. Vertebrate monitoring plan in the Nature 2000 Network, Plan validation. Funded by Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale Autonomous Province of Trento. In collaboration with the University of Pavia (2008-2009).

Institutional projects 1. Approfondimento delle conoscenze sull’ecologia e la tassonomia dei Ditteri Chi- ronomidi nelle acque interne italiane / Implementation of knowledge on Chior- nomid communities. PhD grant from the Univeristy of Milan, (2010-2011). 2. Azioni propedeutiche alla redazione di un piano gestionale degli invertebrati nella Rete Natura 2000 /Studies supporting a new managing planning of invertebrates within Natura 2000 Network. Project co-financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento (Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambien- tale) (2009-2010). 3. Bear project in Trentino. In collaboration with Servizio Foreste e fauna Autono-

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mous Province of Trento (since 2006). 4. Biocenosi di piante e artropodi sui rock glacier / Biocenosis of palnts and arthropods on rock glaciers. Project supported by MdS (2010-2011). 5. Biodivesità e cambiamenti ambientali. Project supported by Autonomous Prov- 1R ince of Trento (2010-2011). 6. Campagna di scavo archeologico a Palù Echen I. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) and by Medio Credito / Cassa Centrale Banca / Cassa Rurale Folgaria (2010-2011). 7. Campagna di scavo archeologico nel sottoroccia di Monte Terlago (Bus de la 2R Vecia). Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 8. Cartografia e modellistica GIS. Project supported by Autonomous Province of Trento (2010-2011). 9. Censimento della biodiversità algale e della fauna invertebrata terrestre e ac- quatica della Val di Tovel. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010- 3R 2011). 10. Censimento della fauna del suolo nel Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, TN / Monito- ring of soil fauna in the Stelvio National Park. Project funded by Stelvio National Park-Trentino sector (2009-2011). 11. Conservazione della biodiversità in Himalaya e Karakorum / Conservation of Bio- diversity in Himalaya e Karakorum. Project supported by EvK2-CNR (2008) and 4R by MdS (2009-2012). 12. Eastern Arc, the new tropical greenhouse of MUSE. Project supported by MdS (strategic project) (2010-2011). 13. Impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sulle comunità di Coleotteri Carabidi alpini / Impact of climate changes on alpine Carabid communities. Project co-funded by 5R the University of Rende (CS, Italy) (2009-2011). 14. Implementazione e organizzazione della banca dati della fauna vertebrata del Trentino. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 15. Landscape redevelopment and plant data verification on the collections of Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010- 6R 2011). 16. Management of Botanical Collections - making them accessible on line to a wider audience. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 17. Management of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre: biodiversity monitoring and local capacity building. Funded by MdS and various other donors (2010-2011). 18. MIRAGE (Mediterranean Intermittent River Management). Project funded by the Institute of Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries di Berlino (IGB) (2011). 19. Modellazione tridimensionale del sottoroccia e delle strutture antropiche del Ri- paro Dalmeri. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 20. Monitoraggio della zanzara tigre (Aedes albopictus) nella città di Trento / Mo- nitoring of tiger mosquitos (Aedes albopictus) in the Trento Municipality (Italy). Project funded by the Trento Municipality (2010-2012). 21. NATEC - Caratterizzazione ecologica e tassonomica di taxa (specie, generi) di alghe e cianoprocarioti nuovi per la scienza o comunque di particolare interesse scientifico. (New And interesting Taxa: Ecological and Taxonomical Characteriza- tion - NATEC). Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 22. Ornithological data base, Ornitho.it. Funded by MdS, in collaboration with LIPU, EBN Italia, CISO and ISPRA (since 2010). 23. Progetto ALPI, multiannual investigation aimed to the study of post-breeding

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migration. In collaboration with Schwezerische Vogelwarte Sempach (CH), EURING, ISPRA - Centro Nazionale di Inanellamento, Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Centre of Ecology and Hidrology, Oxford (UK); funded by MdS (since 1997). 24. Prospezioni archeologiche nei territori del Monte Pasubio (Val Zuccaria). Suppor- 1R ted by Openloc Project (2011). 25. Restauro conservativo e studio dei reperti faunistici relativi alle tre fosse rituali del Riparo Dalmeri. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 26. Ricerche ecologiche a lungo termine su ambienti acquatici di alta quota / Long- term ecological researches on high mountain ecosystems. Project supported by 2R the Autonomous Province of Trento (since 2007). 27. Riparo Gaban (Trento). Verifiche con accertamenti stratigrafici del sottoroccia. Project supported by MdS and University of Trento (2011). 28. Sondaggio stratigrafico areale sito epigravettiano Laget / Bus del Spin (Predaia). Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 3R 29. Sondaggio stratigrafico-areale nella zona umida di Malga Palù (Passo Vezzena - Levico Terme). Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2011). 30. Studio del macrozoobenthos lacustre / Study of lake macroinvertebrates. Proj- ect funded by the Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente, Trento (APPA) (2010-2011). 4R 31. Studio delle pietre dipinte del Riparo Dalmeri: stili e tipologie pittoriche. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 32. Studio delle relazioni tra migratori e cambiamenti climatici. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 33. The herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot: under standing evolutionary history to identify extinction risk and key areas for conservation, 5R in collaboration with University of Manchester Metropolitan. Partly funded by Wildlife Conservation Society (2009-2012). 34. Trentino Seedbank - Seedbanking Trentino Endangered species. Project supported by MdS (institutional project) (2010-2011). 6R Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 1. Avanzini M., Ferretti P., Bernardi M., Tomasoni R., Todesco R., 2011 - Tra gusto e preistoria: escursione naturalistica alla scoperta dei paesaggi, ambienti e vita di un passato lontano in Vallarsa Alta Vallarsa. 31 July 2011, 10 hours. 2. Bonomi C., Battistotti M., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2011/2012 - Corso di formazione per insegnanti e operatori museali: IBSE: come uno scienziato. 60 hours. 3. Cantonati M., 2011 - Corso pratico. WS 2011/2012 LV 717040 Student Project - Algae sampling in streams according to European standards / Hydrobotanische Projektstudie Botany Institute, Practical Project: PJ 1 [part of a student Project, jointly directed with Prof. Eugen Rott], University of Innsbruck, 25 hours. 4. Casarotto C., 2011 - AINEVA, Osservatore Nivologico, modulo 2°. Passo Rolle (TN), 17-21 January 2011. 40 hours. 5. Casarotto C., 2011 - Comunicare il clima. EURAC Bolzano, 26 October 2011, 4 hours. 6. Casarotto C., 2011 - Formazione ed evoluzione del manto nevoso. Corpo Nazio- nale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico. Lavis, 10 March 2011, 3 hours. 7. Casarotto C., 2011 - Geologia e ghiacciai del Trentino. Collegio Nazionale delle Guide Alpine, Cogolo di Peio, 28 September 2011, 6 hours.

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8. Casarotto C., 2011 - Ghiacciai e l’andare in alta montagna. Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini, Scuola d’Alpinismo G. Graffer. Trento, 25 May 2011, 3 hours. 9. Casarotto C., 2011 - Ghiacciai. Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini, Scuola d’Alpini- smo e Scialpinismo G. Graffer. Trento, 7 September 2011, 2 hours. 1R 10. Casarotto C., 2011 - Nuove sfide per la glaciologia nel 2020 sulle Alpi. Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy, 7 September 2011. 60 hours. 11. Casarotto C., 2011 - Trentinoclima 2011 - Nuove sfide per la glaciologia nel 2020 sulle Alpi. Canazei (TN), 11 September 2011, 6 hours. 12. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2011 - Conferenza su arte e spiritualità di Riparo Dalmeri. 2R Dipartimento di Archeologia University of Padova, Scuola di Dottorato in Studio e Conservazione dei Beni Archeologici e Architettonici, Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici. Padova, 28 March 2011, 2 hours. 13. Ferretti P., 2011 - Formazione operatori didattici Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta. Valle di Tovel, 4 July 2011, 7 hours. 3R 14. Ferretti P., 2011 - Guida all’escursione presso le Miniere di Erdemolo e Tingherla per corso di mineralogia applicata Università di Modena, 25 May 2011, 5 hours. 15. Ferretti P., 2011 - Guida all’escursione presso le Miniere di Vetriolo e Cinquevalli per corso di giacimentologia. Università di Padova, 04 November 2011, 8 hours. 16. Franceschini A., 2011 - Corsi d’acqua in Trentino. Corso per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Candriai (TN), 11 April 2011, 2 hours. 4R 17. Franceschini A., 2011 - Lezioni teorico-pratiche di aggiornamento per Operatori Didattici sul tema della zanzara tigre in occasione di “Secondo Me 4” (11 August 2011; 12 September 2011) e “L’angolo del racconto”. 30 September 2011. 5 hours. 18. Gobbi M. & Franceschini A., 2010 - Corso di formazione per Accompagnatori di 5R Territorio del Trentino, interventi vari. Candriai (TN), May 2010, 3 hours. 19. Gobbi M. 2011 - Gli Insetti. Corso di formazione per Accompagnatori di Territorio del Trentino, Candriai (TN), 11 April 2011, 2 hours. 20. Pedrini P., 2011 - Corso di Formazione per rilevatori Ornitho, Uccelli acquatici svernanti, studio delle migrazioni e rapaci diurni. Indirizzato ai rilevatori volontari 6R della Sezione, al personale interno, agli studenti coinvolti, 15 hours. 21. Rovero F., 2011 - Sostenibilità ambientale e cooperazione internazionale. Centro per la Formazione alla Solidarietà Internazionale, Trento, 11 May 2011, 3 hours. 22. Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2011 - La forza della collaborazione nel mondo animale. Serata divulgativa organizzata dal Rotary Club Trento Nord. Trento, 22 February 2011, 1 hour. 23. Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2010 - Biologia e gestione degli Ungulati alpini. Corso per Accompagnatori di Territorio del Collegio Guide Alpine del Trentino. Candriai (TN), May 2010, 2 hours. 24. Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2011 - Biologia ed Etologia degli Ungulati alpini. Corso per Accompagnatori di Territorio del Collegio Guide Alpine del Trentino. Candriai (TN), May 2011, 2 hours. 25. Tattoni C., 2010 - Modelli matematici per l’analisi delle relazioni fauna-ambiente. Ufficio Studi Faunistici della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, De- cember 2010, 16 hours (due giornate). 26. Todesco R., 2011 - Come si studiano le tracce fossili. L’esempio Bletterbach. Cor- so di formazione per le guide del geopark Bletterbach. Museo delle Scienze, 2 April 2011, 4 hours. 27. Todesco R., 2011 - Le tracce fossili: cosa sono e come si studiano. Formazione per le guide del Naturmuseum di Bolzano, Museo delle Scienze, 8 June 2011, 4 hours.

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Seminars c/o universities and museums 1. Avanzini M., 2010 - Sulle tracce dei dinosauri in Italia: origine, provenienza e vin- coli paleogeografici. I seminari di scienze della Terra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 22 April 2010. 3 hours. 2. Bonomi C., Battistotti M., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2011 - Primo caso di studio: 1R sviluppo di una vallata alpina. 22 October 2011, 3 hours. 3. Bonomi C., Battistotti M., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2011 - Revisione del secondo caso di studio: Piante a rischio. 26 November 2011, 3 hours. 4. Bonomi C., Battistotti M., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2011 - Secondo caso di studio: Piante a rischio. 5 November 2011, 3 hours. 2R

Lectures 1. Cantonati M., 2010 - ACE-SAP results. Invited lecture (Visiting Professor) at the Faculty of Science of the Palacký University (Depts of Botany and of Ecology & Environmental Sciences), Olomouc, Czech Republic. 24 March 2010, 2 hours. 3R 2. Cantonati, M., 2010 - Use of benthic organisms from multiple taxonomic groups for the conservation-oriented classification of spring habitats: Neglected and threatened key habitats for biodiversity conservation. Invited lecture at the Fac- ulty of Science of the Palacký University (Depts of Botany and of Ecology & Envi- ronmental Sciences), Olomouc, Czech Republic. 24 March 2010, 5 hours. 4R 3. Cantonati M., 2011 - Multidisciplinary research in limnology /freshwater ecology. Invited lecture at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. 02 February 2011, 3 hours. 4. Parolo G., 2010 - Biologia ed ecologia di popolazioni vegetali. Lezione al corso di Botanica ambientale, modulo di Ecologia Vegetale, University of Pavia. 26 January 2010 and 10 February 2010, 3 hours. 5R 5. Rovero F., 2011 - I primati dei Monti Udzungwa, hotspot di biodiversità: diversità, ecologia e conservazione. Lezione a Scuola di Paleo-antropologia, University of Perugia, 18 February 2011, 2 hours. 6. Rovero F., 2011 - Use and applications of camera-trapping. Summer school: Ad- vances in species distribution modeling in ecological studies and conservation. 6R University of Pavia and Parco del Gran Paradiso 17 September 2011, 4 hours. 7. Todesco R., 2011 - Paleoicnologia. Corso I anno laurea triennale. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Modena, 5 May 2011, 3 hours.

In-house workshops and congresses organizations 1. 1° Meeting of the National Advisory Groups of the project Inquire. Trento 30 May 2011. 2. Bioweek, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 19-22 May 2010. 3. Fourth TEAM network meeting, Dar es Salaam e Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, 04-09 April 2011.

Ph.Ds 1. Bernabò Paola, 2007/2010 - Strategie adattative in chironomidi d’alta quota (Diptera, Chironomidae) e cambiamenti climatici, Dottorato di ricerca in Biologia Evoluzionistica e dell’Ambiente Ciclo XXII, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Tutors: L. Rebecchi V. Lencioni. 146 p.p. 2. Contessi M., 2011/2013 - Studio paleontologico dei giacimenti a vertebrati fossili

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del bacino di Tataouine (Tunisia meridionale). Università Di Bologna, Dipartimen- to di Scienze della Terra e Geologico-Ambientali, Dottorato In Scienze della Terra XXV ciclo - Anno I. Co-tutor: M. Avanzini. In prep. 3. Duches Rossella, 2009/2011 - Pratiche venatorie e dinamiche comportamentali 1R dei gruppi tardoglaciali dell’Italia nord-orientale: analisi tecnologica, economica e funzionale delle armature litiche. Dottorato di Ricerca in “Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Archeologica e i Beni Culturali”. Curriculum: Quaternario, Preistoria e Pro- tostoria, XXIV CICLO. Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Tutors: M. Perasani, G. Dalmeri. 338 pp. 4. Grazioli Valentina, 2008/2010 - Approfondimento delle conoscenze sull’ecologia 2R e la tassonomia dei Ditteri Chironomidi nelle acque interne Italiane. Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Naturalistiche e Ambientali Ciclo XXIII, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: B. Rossaro, V. Lencioni. 152 pp. 5. Menegon Michele, 2009/2012 - The herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot: understanding evolutionary history to identify extinction risk and key areas for conservation. University of Manchester. Director of Study: S. 3R Marsden, External supervisors: T. Davenport, S. Loader. 6. Mogna Marcella 2009/2011 - Spring ecosystems in the Alta Valle Pesio e Tanaro Nature Park and nearby valleys. University of Eastern Piedmont, Dept. of Envi- ronmental and Life Sciences. Dottorato Di Ricerca In Scienze Ambientali (Acque Interne). XXXIV ciclo, Supervisors: G. Berta, F. Andreucci & M. Cantonati. In prep. 4R 7. Taxböck Lukas 2010/2012 - Diatoms in Swiss springs (biodiversity, seasonality, population dynamics). Supervisors: M. Cantonati, P. Linder. Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich (Switzerland). In prep. 8. Tenan Simone 2009/2013 - Modellizzazione delle dinamiche spaziotemporali della migrazione degli uccelli attraverso le Alpi italiane. University of Pavia. Supervi- sors: G. Bogliani, P. Pedrini, M. Girardello, A. Provenzale. In prep. 5R

Masters and degrees 1. Bernardo A., 2009/2010 - Processi di formazione delle unità esterne del Riparo Dalmeri (Grigno, Valsugana, TN). Tesi di laurea triennale in Scienze dei Beni Cul- turali, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, pp. 6R 130. 2. Bonomi Jurij, 2010/2011 - Fitocenosi e artropodecnosi di due Rock Glacier Alpini. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Laurea triennale, Università degli Studi di Mila- no. Tutors: M. Cacciniga, M. Gobbi. 63 pp. Laurea in data 19 luglio 2011. 3. Bortolotti Sabrina, 2010/2011 - Macroinvertebrati lacustri: verso un nuovo indice di stato ecologico. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Naturali, Università di Padova. Tutors: M. Guidolin, V. Lencioni. 4. Boscaini Alberto 2010/2011, Affidabilità degli alberi filogenetici ed affidabilità del fossil record: un caso di studio. Tesi di laurea in Scienze Naturali Università di Padova, Tutors: A. Minelli, M. Bernardi. 5. Bussolati Silvia, 2010/2011 - Biocenosi di piante e artropodi sui rock glacier: bio- diversità e aspetti funzionali. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Naturali, Uni- versità degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: M. Caccianiga, M. Gobbi. In prep. 6. Cauzzi Paolo, 2010/2011 - Recalcitranza e germinazione nei semi tropicali: un caso di studio di alcune specie della Repubblica Dominicana. Tesi di Laurea Magi- strale in Scienze della Natura, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambien- te, Università degli Studi di Pavia. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni, T. Ulian. 7. Ceresa Francesco, 2009/2010 - Analisi delle preferenze ambientali di una specie minacciata: confronto tra metodi quantitativi. Tesi di Laurea specialistica in Scien- ze Naturali, Università di Pavia. Tutors: P. Pedrini, M. Brambilla, 39 pp.

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8. Chelodi Sonia, 2010 - Ricostruzione di un ecosistema continentale del Permiano superiore (Bletterbach, BZ). Tesi di Laurea in Scienze della Natura, Università di Bologna. Since 01.12.2010. 9. Fambri Letizia, 2011/2012- Studio demografico di Callienthemum kernerianum (Ranunculaceae) sul Monte Baldo (NE-Italia). Tesi di laurea in Scienze Naturali, 1R Università di Ferrara. Tutors: R. Gerdol, G. Parolo, C. Bonomi. 10. Ferretti Daniela 2009/2010 - Analisi dei dati della migrazione notturna al valico Bocca di Caset. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Laurea triennale Università di Bologna. 20 August - 31 October 2010. 11. Fontanari Arianna, 2010/2011 - Monitoraggio della zanzara tigre (Aedes albopictus) nel Comune di Trento. Tesi di Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie per 2R l’Ambiente, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Padova. Tutors: G. Fusco, V. Lencioni, A. Franceschini. 37 pp. 12. Gozzini Matteo, 2011/2012 - Studio delle cenosi araneiche del settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Naturali, laurea specialistica, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: B. Rossaro, M. Gobbi. In prep. 3R 13. Imperiale Giada, 2010/2011- L’erpetofauna della piana dell’Adige: metodi di censimento e proposte gestionali. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Biologiche, Facoltà di Scienze MM. FF. NN., Università degli Studi di Padova. Tutors: M. Menegon, F. Pupin. 25 pp. 14. Lampo Chiara, 2009/2010 - Odonatofauna in aree protette del Trentino. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze della Natura, Università di Padova. Tutors: A. Mi- 4R nelli, V. Lencioni, E. Riservato. 99 pp. 15. Losapio Gianalberto, 2010/2011 - Fitocenosi e artropodocenosi su debris-covered glacier e rock glaciers alpini. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Naturali, laurea triennale, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: M. Cacciniga, M. Gobbi. 73 pp. 16. Marisa Ilaria, 2009/2010 - Studio delle cenosi di Coleotteri Stafilinidi del Settore 5R trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Tesi di Laurea triennale in Scienze Na- turali, Università di Modena e Reggio-Emilia. Tutors: I. Ansaloni, M. Gobbi. 37 pp. 17. Oliviero Gabriele, 2010/2011 - Studio archeometrico di reperti ossei dal sito di Riparo Dalmeri. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze dei Beni Culturali percorso Archeolo- gico, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia,U niversità degli Studi di Trento. Tutors: S. Gialanella, G. Dalmeri. 6R 18. Parmesani Mattia, 2009/2010 - Valutazione della qualità ambientale, tramite l’uti- lizzo delle diatomee come bioindicatori, di tratti di riva del Lago di Garda alla fine degli anni Settanta e confronto con la situazione attuale. Tesi di Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente, Università di Padova. Tutors: V. Matozzo, M. Cantonati. 31 pp. 19. Santini Chiara, 2011/2012 - Localizzazione spaziale delle strutture riproduttive dell’alga rossa Bangia atropurpurea prelevata dal litorale roccioso del Lago di Garda. Tesi di Laurea triennale in Scienze Naturali, Università di Genova. Tutors: S. Salvidio, M. Cantonati, in prep. 20. Segnana Michela, 2009/2010 - Diatomee bentoniche in laghi d’alta quota e sorgenti con acque a bassa alcalinità del Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta (Trentino), con particolare attenzione alla distribuzione con la profondità nel Lago Nero di Cornisello [Benthic diatom assemlbages in low alkalinity high-mountain freshwater environments of th Adamello-Brenta Nature Park (Trentino), with special reference to the depth distribution in Lake Nero di Cornisello]. Tesi di Laurea Spe- cialistica in Scienze della Natura, Università di Padova. Tutors: R. Trevisan, M. Cantonati. 83 pp. 21. Soardi Erica, 2010/2011 - Disponibilità di piante selvatiche da frutto per gli uccelli migratori in provincia di Trento. Tesi di laurea specialistica in Ingegneria Am- bientale, (DICA) Università di Trento. Tutors: Marco Ciolli, Clara Tattoni.

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22. Sossai Esther, 2010/2011. Effetto del riscaldamento climatico sulla germinazione primaverile delle piante alpine di ambienti periglaciali. Tesi di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura, Università degli Studi di Pavia/Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni. 1R 23. Steffanini Chiara, 2010/2011 - Didattica della Botanica al Museo delle Scienze di Trento: il laboratorio “I Dinosauri Vegetali” in modalità IBSE. Tesi di Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Tutors: G. Bosi, C. Bono- mi, M. Galetto; pag. 119. 24. Toldo Luca, 2010/2011 - Studio della fauna a Chironomidi (Diptera: Chironomi- dae) di 18 sorgenti nelle Valli del Leno e di Ledro (Trentino). Tesi di Laurea spe- 2R cialistica in Scienze della Natura, laurea specialistica, Università di Padova. Tutors: prof. L. Guidolin, V. Lencioni. 75 pp. 25. Trentini Ilaria, 2010/2011 - Approccio multidisciplinare per la documentazione di un sito archeologico: il caso di Riparo Dalmeri. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Ge- stione e Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento. pp. 184. Relatori: S. Gialanella, F. Remondino; correlatori: D. 3R E. Angelucci e G. Dalmeri. 26. Zubani Lino, 2010/2011 - Studio dell’asimmetria fluttuante in Aquilegia thalictrifolia specie stenoendemica delle Alpi Orientali. Tesi di Laurea triennale in Scienze e tecnologie per la Natura, Università di Pavia. Tutors: G. Rossi, G. Parolo, T. Abeli.

4R Other research grants 1. Ceconi Claudio. Attività di ricerca e specializzazione professionale “Censimento e strumenti di tutela degli alberi monumentali nel comune di Trento e territori limitrofi”, Funded by Trento City Council. Tutors: R. Leonardelli, C. Bonomi. 01 May 2010 - 31 December 2010. 5R 2. Corezzola Serena. Attività di ricerca e specializzazione professionale “Censimento e strumenti di tutela degli alberi monumentali nel comune di Trento e territori limitrofi”, Funded by Trento City Council. Tutors: R. Leonardelli, C. Bonomi. 01 January 2010 - 30 April 2010. 3. Dal Prà Stefania. Attività di ricerca e specializzazione professionale “Parco Monte Bondone una cultura per l’uso sociale, scientifico, ricreativo, turistico e sportivo”, 6R Funded by Trento City Council. Tutors: R. Leonardelli, C. Bonomi. 01 January 2010 - 31 December 2010.

Trainings 1. Ambrosi Chiara, Scuola Tridentum, Trento, at the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sec- tions. 06-17 December 2010. Tutors: P. Pedrini & V. Lencioni. 2. Andermarcher Federico, University of Bologna, at the Vertebrate Zoology Sec- tion, “Studio delle collezioni ornitologiche e partecipazione all’attività di inanellamento”. Tirocinio corso di laurea triennale in Scienze Naturali. July - November 2010. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 3. Andreatta Stefano, University of Ferrara at the Geology Section. “Ablazione del Ghiacciaio Occidentale di Presena nelle zone provviste e sprovviste di teli geotes- sili”. Tirocinio corso di Laurea in Scienze Naturali. 04 July - 05 September 2011. Tutor: C. Casarotto. 4. Andreis Federico, Istituto Professionale Agricoltura e Ambiente. At the Geology Section, “Nivologia e ghiacciai del Trentino”. 21-26 March 2011. Tutor: C. Casa- rotto. 5. Baitella Silvia, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the Vertebrate Zoology Section, “Inanellamento Bocca del Caset”. 23-August -24 September 2011, 18-22 October 2011. Tutor: P. Pedrini.

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6. Biasiolli Nicola, at the Botany Section. “Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botanico delle Viotte”. 16-28 August 2010. Tutor: C. Bonomi. 7. Bridi Federico, Liceo Scientifico “Da Vinci”, at the Botany Section, “Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botanico delle Viotte”. 27 June - 08 July 2010. Tutors: Bonomi C. & E. Coser. 1R 8. Bulgan Andre, Mongolian State University of Agriculture, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, at the Botany Section, “Seedbank”. 10 January 2010 - 30 March 2010. Tutor: C. Bonomi. 9. Comper Tommaso, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the Geology Sec- tion. 25-29 October 2010. Tutor: C. Casarotto. 2R 10. Dallagiovanna Matteo, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the Botany Section. 18-22 October 2010. Tutor C. Bonomi. 11. Dallapè Federico, at the Botany Section “Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botani- co delle Viotte”. 05-16 July 2010. Tutors: C. Bonomi & E. Coser. 12. Dellai Alice, Ist. Ivo de Carneri, Civezzano, at the Limnology and Phycology Sec- 3R tion and Invertebrate Zoology Section. 01 - 26 February 2010. Tutors: N. Angeli, A. Franceschini & M. Gobbi. 13. Demattè Michele, Istituto Professionale Agricoltura e Ambiente, at the Geology Section “Nivologia e ghiacciai del Trentino”. 28 March - 01 April 2011. Tutor: C. Casarotto. 4R 14. Ercolani Alberto, Ist. Ivo de Carneri, Civezzano, at the Limnology and Phycol- ogy Section and Invertebrate Zoology Section. 01 - 28 February 2011. Tutors: N.Angeli, A.Franceschini & M. Gobbi. 15. Facchinelli Consuelo, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the Vertebrate Zoology Section, “Inanellamento Bocca del Caset”. 18-22 Ottobre 2010. Tutors: P. Pedrini. 5R 16. Failo Manuel, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, a the Vertebrate Zoology Section. 22 - 25March 2010. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 17. Fedrizzi Roberto, Istituto Tecnico Pilati Cles, at the Limnology and Phycology Section and Invertebrate Zoology Section. 13 June - 08 July 2011. Tutors: N. Angeli & A. Franceschini. 6R 18. Filippi Martina, Liceo Classico Prati, Trento, 07 - 19 June 2010. Tutor: V. Lencioni. 19. Giosele Cristina 2010/2011, University of Venice, at the Vertebrate Zoology Sec- tion, “Stazione di inanellamento Bocca di Caset”. Tirocinio corso di Laurea in Scienze Ambientali. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 20. Lazari Alberto, Liceo Classico Prati, at the Limnology & Phycology Section. 05 July - 16 July 2010. Tutor: N. Angeli. 21. Legrand Elisa, 2010/2011 - Les pierres peintes aux figures animales de l’Abri Dalmeri (Grigno, Province de Trento) et l’art du Paléolithique supérieur terminal dans les Préalpes orientales italiennes. Premiére approche: problématique, mé- thode et contexte. Tesi di Laurea inedita: Mémoire présenté en vue de l’obten- tion du Master II Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France. A186. Tutors: M. Michel Barbaza, G. Dalmeri. 22. Lorenzini Sabrina, Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botanico delle Viotte. 02-14 August 2010. Tutor: C. Bonomi. 23. Lotti Filippo, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the the Geology Sec- tion. 08-12 November 2010. Tutor: C. Casarotto. 24. Moran Luca Matteo, USA, at the Viotte Botanic Garden. 27 June-08 July. Tutor: E. Coser. 25. Osti Sara, Liceo Scientifico D“ a Vinci”, Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botanico

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delle Viotte. 14-30 June 2010. Tutor: C. Bonomi & E. Coser. 26. Tomasi Margherita, Liceo Rosmini, Trento, at the Limnology & Phycology Section. 19 - 30 July 2010. Tutor: N. Angeli. 27. Trentin Arianna, Scuola Tridentum, Trento, at the Invertebrate Zoology Section. 1R 18-29 April 2011. Tutor: A. Franceschini. 28. Virtanen Laura, 2010 - Visiting Ph.D. student; University of Helsinki (Finland). Main topics: Taxonomy and ecology of diatoms in low alkalinity waters. Achnanthidium minutissimum (Bacillariophyta) teratological forms as indicators of heavy metal enrichment / pollution in different freshwater environments. (September-October 2011 ). Tutor: Janne Soininen. Internal tutor at the Science Museum: M. Canto- 2R nati. 29. Zambaldi Giorgia, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, at the Vertebrate Zoology Section “Inanellamento Bocca del Caset”. 22 August - 04 September. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 30. Zanin Caterina, Seedbank e gestione Giardino Botanico delle Viotte. 02-20 Au- 3R gust 2010. Tutor: C. Bonomi.

Volunteers 1. Angelini Lisa - Antiche varietà e piante uniche, una diversità da proteggere. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 4R 2. Bolognesi Maddalena - Progetto +6 Servizio civile: Diversità vegetale: la conservazione di alcune specie endemiche trentine. 14 September 2009 - 13 March 2010. 3. Bortoluzzi Elena - Progetto +6 Servizio civile: Conservazione e biodiversità vegetale di alcune specie endemiche trentine. 14 September 2009 - 13 March 2010. 5R 4. Cappelletti Giorgia - Uomo, risorse, territorio: lo sfruttamento delle risorse geologiche in Trentino dalla preistoria all’età moderna. 01 December 2010 - 30 November 2011. 5. Casagrande Lara - Uomo e Territorio: lo sfruttamento delle risorse geologiche in Trentino dalla preistoria all’età moderna. 01 December 2010 - 30 November 6R 2011. 6. Conci Francesca - Uomo e Territorio: lo sfruttamento delle risorse geologiche in Trentino dalla preistoria all’età moderna. 01 December 2010 - 30 November 2011. 7. Fontanari Martina - Inventario e gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 8. Iemma Aaron - Biodiversità in rete: banche dati biologiche al servizio della conservazione dell’ambiente. 03 November 2011 - 01 November 2012. 9. Menegoz Giuseppe - Antiche varietà e piante uniche, una diversità da proteggere. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 10. Micheli Silvia - Progetto +6 Servizio civile: Catalogazione e studio degli exsiccata storici conservati negli erbari del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali e arricchi- mento del patrimonio botanico. 01 April 2010 - 30 September 2010. 11. Pederzolli Moira - Uomo, risorse, territorio: lo sfruttamento delle risorse geologiche in Trentino dalla preistoria all’età moderna. 01 December 2010 - 30 Novem- ber 2011 . 12. Plank Rachele - Progetto di Servizio Civile: Inventario e Gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 13. Plank Rachele - Progetto +6 Servizio civile Inventario e gestione delle collezioni

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naturalistiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. 01 October 2010 - 31 March 2011. 14. Sansoni Lorenzo - Progetto di Servizio Civile: Uomo, risorse, territorio: lo sfruttamento delle risorse geologiche in Trentino dalla preistoria all’età moderna. 27 June -26 August 2011. 1R 15. Todesco Rossana - Progetto di Servizio Civile: Le collezioni geologiche: catalogazione, inventariazione, valorizzazione. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 16. Todesco Rossana - Progetto +6 Servizio civile. La didattica nelle Scienze della Terra. 01 October 2010 - 31 March 2011. 17. Toldo Luca - Inventario e Gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tri- 2R dentino di Scienze Naturali. Progetto di Servizio Civile. 28 September 2009 - 27 September 2010. 18. Toldo Luca - Progetto +6 Servizio civile “Monitoraggio inquinamento delle acque di sorgente tramite l’analisi di bioindicatori nelle zone della Vallarsa e della Val di Ledro”. 01 October 2010 - 31 March 2011. 3R 19. Wiesinger Helen Catherine - Progetto di Servizio Civile: Biodiversità in rete: banche dati biologiche al servizio della conservazione dell’ambiente. 03 November 2011 - 01 November 2012.

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Publications (2010-2011) Nr. Scientific papers on ISI journals 60 Scientific papers on non- ISI journals 51 1R Books or book chapters 27 Popular science papers 30 Oral communications (with published abstract) 53 Oral communications (without published abstract) 20 Posters (with published abstract) 29 2R Posters (without published abstract) 10 Congress attendances 77

Scientific papers on ISI journals 3R 1. Ahumada J., Faresin C., Gajapersad K., Hallam C., Hurtado J., Martin E., McWilliam A., Mugerwa B., O’Brien T., Rovero F., Sheil D., Spironello W., Winarni N. & Andelman S., 2011 - Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366: 2703-2711. 2. Angeli N., Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2010 - A comparison between 4R diatom assemblages in two groups of carbonate, low-altitude springs with different levels of anthropogenic disturbances. Fottea, 10: 115-128. 3. Avanzini M., Bernardi M. & Petti F.M., 2011 - Boot tracks in a First World War fort (Valmorbiawerk, Trento, Italy). Ichnos, 18(2): 72-78. 4. Avanzini M., Piñuela L. & Garcia-Ramos J., 2011 - Late Jurassic footprints reveal walking 5R kinematics of theropod dinosaurs. Lethaia:1-15. 5. Avanzini M., Piñuela L. & Garcia-Ramos J.C., 2010 - First report of a late Jurassic lizard- like footprint (Asturias, Spain). Journal of iberian geology, 36(2): 175-180. 6. Barelli C., Reichard U.H. & Mundry R., 2011 - Is grooming used as a commodity in wild white-handed gibbons, Hylobates lar? Animal Behaviour, 82: 801-809. 6R 7. Bernabò P., Lencioni V. & Latella L., 2011 - Cold stenothermal cave-dwelling beetles do have an HSP70 heat shock response at transcriptomic level. Journal of Thermal Biology, 36: 206-208. 8. Bernabò P., Martinez Guitarte J.L., Rebecchi L., Jousson O. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Thermotolerance and hsp70 heat shock response in the cold-stenothermal chironomid Pseudodiamesa branickii (NE Italy). Cell Stress and Chaperones, 16: 401-413. 9. Bernardi M., & Avanzini M., 2011 - Early reptiles locomotor behaviour: insights from an unusual Erpetopus-like trackway. Journal of Paleontology 85(5): 925-929. 10. Bernardi M., Boschele S., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Echinoid burrow Bichordites monastiriensis from the Oligocene of NE Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55 (3): 479-486. 11. Bernardi M., Petti F. M., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Palaeoenvironmental implications of Asteriacites lumbricalis in the Coste dell’Anglone sinemurian dinosaur ichnosite (NE Italy), Palaeontologia electronica, 13, 3, 17A: 1-8. 12. Bettega C., del Mar Delgado M., Campioni L., Pedrini P. & Penteriani V., 2011 - The quality of chicks and breeding output do not differ between first and replacement clutches in the Eagle Owl Bubo bubo. Ornis Fennica, 88: 217-225. 13. Bonomi C., Mondoni A., Bolognesi M. & Bortoluzzi E., 2010 - Maturity, Germination and Longevity studies in a narrow endemic columbine in the Italian Alps (Aquilegia thalictrifolia Scott et Kotschy). In Pendelton R., Meyer S., Schultz B., Seed Ecology 3 Conference Proceedings: 16-17.

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14. Brambilla M. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Intra-seasonal changes in local pattern of Corncrake Crex crex occurrence require adaptive conservation strategies in Alpine meadows. Bird Conservation International, 21: 388-393. 15. Brambilla M., Bassi E., Ceci C. & Rubolini D., 2010 - Environmental factors affecting patterns of distribution and co-occurrence of two competing raptor species. Ibis, 152: 1R 310-322. 16. Brambilla M., Casale F., Bergero V., Bogliani G., Crovetto G.M., Falco R., Roati M. & Negri I., 2010 - Glorious past, uncertain present, bad future? Assessing effects of land- use changes on habitat suitability for a threatened farmland bird species. Biological Conservation, 143: 2770-2778. 2R 17. Brambilla M., Gustin M. & Celada C., 2011 - Defining Favourable Reference Value for bird populations in Italy: setting long-term conservation target for priority species. Bird Conservation International, 21: 107-118. 18. Brambilla M., Vitulano S., Ferri A., Spina F., Fabbri E. & Randi E. 2010. What are we dealing with? An explicit test reveals different levels of taxonomical diagnosability in the Sylvia cantillans species complex. Journal of Ornithology, 151: 309-315. 3R 19. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2010 - Diatom biodiversity of springs in the Berchtesgaden National Park (northern Alps, Germany), with the ecological and morphological characterization of two species new to science. Diatom Research, 25: 251-280.

20. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2011 - Diatom monitors of close-to-pristine, very-low 4R alkalinity habitats: three new Eunotia species from springs in Nature Parks of the south- eastern Alps. Journal of Limnology, 70: 209-221. 21. Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J., 2011 - Introduction to the Special Issue. Acknowledgements. In: M. Cantonati, R. Gerecke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 1-2. 5R 22. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H. & Angeli N., 2010 - Neidiomorpha gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta): A new freshwater diatom genus separated from Neidium Pfitzer. Botanical Studies, 51: 195-202. 23. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Decet F. & Gabrieli J., 2011 - Diatoms in very-shallow pools of the site of community importance Danta di Cadore Mires (south-eastern Alps), and the potential contribution of these habitats to diatom biodiversity conservation. 6R Nova Hedwigia, 93: 475-507. 24. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Scalfi A. & Angeli N., 2010 - Cymbella tridentina sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a crenophilous diatom from carbonate springs of the Alps. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29: 775-788. 25. Chamberlain D., Arlettaz R., Caprio E., Maggini R., Pedrini P., Rolando A. & Zbinden N., 2011 - The altitudinal frontier in avian climate impact research. Ibis. In press. 26. DeFries R., Rovero F., Wright P., Ahumada J., Andelman S., Brandon K., Dempewolf J., Hansen A., Hewson J. & Liu J., 2010 - From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8: 153-160. 27. Filippi M.L., Piliposian G., Marziali L., Angeli N., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Is it possible to study palaeoenvironmental changes in Alpine spring habitats? A few examples from the south-eastern Alps (NE Italy). In: M. Cantonati, R. Gerecke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology 70, (Suppl. 1): 155-167. 28. Fohlmeister J., Schröder-Ritzrau A., Spötl C., Frisia S., Miorandi R., Kromer B. & Mangini A., 2010 - The influences of hydrology on the radiogenic and stable carbon isotope composition of cave drip water, Grotta di Ernesto (Italy). Radiocarbon, 52 (4): 1529-1544. 29. Frisia S., Fairchild I.J., Fohlmeister J., Miorandi R., Spötl C. & Borsato A., 2011 - Carbon

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dioxide and carbon isotopes mass balance modelling in dynamic cave systems and implications for stalagmite capture of seasonal climate proxies. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 75: 380-400. 30. Gerecke R., Cantonati M., Spitale D., Stur E. & Wiedenbrug S., 2011 - The 1R challenges of long-term ecological research in springs in the northern and southern Alps: indicator groups, habitat diversity, and medium term change. In: M. Cantonati, R. Gerecke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology 70, (Suppl. 1): 168- 187. 31. Gialanella S., Belli R., Dalmeri G., Lonardelli I., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & 2R Toniutti L., 2011 - Artificial or natural origin of Hematite-based red pigments in archaeological contexts: the case of Riparo Dalmeri (Trento-Italy). Archaeometry, 53: 1-13. 32. Gobbi M., Caccianiga M., Cerabolini B., Luzzaro A., De Bernardi F. & Pierce S., 2010 - Plant adaptive responses during primary succession are associated with functional adaptations in ground beetles on deglaciated terrain. Community 3R Ecology, 11 (2): 223-231. 33. Gobbi M., Isaia M. & De Bernardi F., 2011 - Arthropod colonisation of a debris- covered glacier. The Holocene, 21 (2): 343-349. 34. Gower J.D., Papadopoulou A., Doherty-Bone T., Pupin F., San Mauro D., Loader P.S. & Wilkinson M., 2011 - The systematics of Boulengerula fischeri (Amphibia: 4R Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa, 2767: 14-24. 35. Lencioni V., Bernabò P. & Latella L., 2010 - Cold resistance in two species of cave- dwelling beetles (Coleoptera: Cholevidae). Journal of Thermal Biology, 35: 354- 359.

5R 36. Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2011 - Diversity and distribution of Chironomids [Diptera, Chironomidae] in alpine and pre-alpine springs [Northern Italy]. In: Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. [Guest Editors], Springs: neglected key habitats for biodiversity conservation, Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl. 1): 106-121. 37. Loader S.P., Wilkinson M., Cotton J., Müller H., Menegon M., Howell K.M. & Gower 6R DJ., 2011 - Molecular phylogenetics of Boulengerula (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) and implications for taxonomy, biogeography and conservation. Herpetological Journal: 21: 5-16. 38. Loader SP, Gower DJ, Ngalason W & Menegon M., 2010 - Three new species of Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) highlight local endemism and conservation plight of Africa’s Eastern Arc forests. Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, 160: 496-514. 39. Loader SP., Müller H., Gower DJ. & Menegon M., 2010 - Two new species of Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) from the Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 2694: 26-42. 40. Marshall A.R., Jørgensbye H.I.O., Rovero F., Platts P.J., White P.C.L. & Lovett J.C., 2010 - The Species-Area Relationship and Confounding Variables in a Threatened Monkey Community. American Journal of Primatology, 72: 325-336. 41. Melis C., Olsen C.B., Hyllvang M., Gobbi M., Stokke B.G. & Roskaft E., 2010 - Effect of traffic intensity on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in central Sweden. Journal of Insect Conservation,14(2): 159-168. 42. Menegon M., Davenport T. R. B. & Howell K.M, 2011 - Description of a new and critically endangered species of Atheris (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, with an overview of the country’s tree viper fauna. Zootaxa, 3120: 43-54. 43. Menegon M., Gower J.D. & Loader P.L., 2011 - A remarkable new species of

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Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) with massive, boldly coloured limb glands. Zootaxa, 3095: 15-26. 44. Miorandi R., Borsato A., Frisia S., Fairchild I.J. & Richter D.K., 2010 - Epikarst hydrology and implications for stalagmite capture of climate changes at Grotta di Ernesto (N.E. Italy): results from long-term monitoring. Hydrological Processes, 24: 3101-3114. 1R 45. Nascimbene J., Spitale D., Thüs H. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Congruencies between photoautotrophic groups in springs of the Italian Alps: implications for conservation strategies. In: M. Cantonati, R. Gerecke, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. Journal of Limnology, 70 (Suppl.1): 3-8. 46. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Ferretti P., Tomasoni R. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Dinosaur tracks in a marginal marine envinronment (Early Jurassic, Trento Platform, NE Italy): ichnology and 2R palaeogeographic implications. Italian Journal of Geosciences ,130: 27-41. 47. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Todesco R., & Avanzini M., 2011 - Dinosaur footprints as ultimate evidence for terrestrial environments in the late Sinemurian Trento carbonate platform. Palaios, 26: 601-606. 48. Polidori C., Gobbi M., Chatenaud L., Santoro D., Montani O. & Andrietti F., 2010 - Diet 3R preference of the beetle-hunting wasp, Cerceris rubida (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae): is there a bias towards specific prey taxa? Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 99: 544- 558. 49. Preatoni D.G., Tattoni C., Bisi F., Masseroni E., D’Acunto D., Lunardi S., Grimod I., Martinoli A. & Tosi G., 2011 - Open source evaluation of kilometric indexes of abundance. Ecological Informatics, 7: 35-40. 4R 50. Remondino F., Rizzi A., Girardi S., Petti F.M. & Avanzini M., 2010 - 3D Ichnology - Recovering digital 3D models of dinosaur footprints. Photogrammetric record, 25 (131): 266-282. 51. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lods Crozet B., Free G., Lencioni V. & Marziali L., 2011 - A comparison of different biotic indices based on benthic macro-invertebrates in lakes. 5R Journal of Limnology, 70 (1): 109-122. 52. Spitale D. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Understanding the natural variability of diatom assemblages in springs of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park (south-eastern Alps) on a temporal scale. Fundamental and Applied Limnology,179/2: 137-149. 53. Spitale D. & Petraglia A., 2010 - Palustriella falcata (Brid.) Hedenäs (Amblystegiaceae, 6R Bryopsida) with pluristratose lamina: morphological variability of specimens within and among springs of the Italian Alps. Plant Systematic and Evolution, 286: 59-68. 54. Spitale D., 2010 - New national and regional bryophyte records, 22. Sciuro-hypnum tromsoeense. Journal of Bryology, 32: 140-149. 55. Spitale D., Scalfi A., Lange-Bertalot H. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Using different epilithic- diatom assemblage metrics for an ecological characterization of the shores of Lake Garda. Journal of Limnology, 70: 197-208. 56. Tattoni C., Ciolli M. & Ferretti F., 2011 - The Fate of Priority Areas for Conservation in Protected Areas: A Fine-Scale Markov Chain Approach. Environmental Management, 47: 263-278. 57. Tolley K.A., Tilbury C.R., Measey G.J., Menegon M., Branch W.R., Matthee C.A., 2011 - Ancient forest fragmentation or recent radiation? Testing refugial speciation models in chameleons within an African biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography, 38: 1748- 1760. 58. Tomaselli M., Spitale D. & Petraglia A., 2011 - Phytosociological and ecological study of the springs in the Trento Province (Eastern Alps, Northern Italy). Journal of Limnology, 70: 23-53. 59. Trentin L. & Rovero F., 2011 - Results of an inventory of bats in the Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History, 100: 45-57.

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60. Van Bocxlaer I., Loader S.P., Roelants K., Biju S.D., Menegon M. & F. Bossuyt, 2010 - Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads. Science, 327: 679-682.

1R Scientific papers on non- ISI journals 1. AA.VV., 2011 - Rapporto Orso bruno, PAT 2010. 2. Angeli N., Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., In press - Studio ecologico e floristico delle diatomee di sorgenti carbonatiche del bacino del Fiume Adige influenzate da disturbi antropici. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona.. 2R 3. Angelucci D. E., Anesin D., Bassetti M., Bernardo A., Neri S. & Dalmeri G., 2011 - La successione esterna del Riparo Dalmeri (Trento, Italia). Prime informazioni geoarcheologiche. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 127-146. 4. Avanzini M., Bernardi M. & Petti F.M., 2010 - Crocodyle-like footprints from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of the italian southern Alps. New Mexico museum of natural history and 3R science bulletin, 51: 61-64. 5. Avanzini M. & Flor E., 2011 - Nuovi ritrovamenti mesolitici nel gruppo del Pasubio (Trentino meridionale), Preistoria Alpina, 45: 221-228. 6. Avanzini M., Piñuela L. & Garcia-Ramos J.C., 2010 - Preservational morphotypes of Crocodylopodus from the late Jurassic of Asturias (Spain) New Mexico museum of natural history and science bulletin, 51: 239-244. 4R 7. Avanzini M., Piñuela L. & Garcia-Ramos J.C., 2010 - The Crocodile track Hatcherichnus, from the upper Jurassic of Asturias (Spain). New Mexico museum of natural history and science bulletin, 51: 89-92. 8. Belli R., Dalmeri G., Frongia A., Gialanella S., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & Toniutti L., 2011 - Palaeolithic Paintings at Riparo Dalmeri, a Northern Italian Rock Shelter: 5R Materials, Technologies, Techniques. Proceedings of the 37th International Symposyum on Archaeometry, 12-16 May, Siena 2008 (Isabella Turbanti-Memmi Editor). ISA 2008, Springer: 187-192. 9. Bernardi M. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Asteriacites lumbricalis from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Vallarsa (Southern Trentino, NE Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 187-190. 6R 10. Bernardi M. & Minelli A., 2011 - Il concetto di specie e la paleontologia: una rassegna introduttiva. Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, 13: 1-26. 11. Bernardi M., Avanzini M. & Bizzarini F., 2011 - Vertebrate fauna from the San Cassiano Formation (early Carnian) of the Dolomites region. Geo. Alp, 8: 122-127. 12. Bernardi M., Boschele S., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Bichordites monastiriensis: traccia di escavazione di chinidi dai sedimenti oligocenici della Valsugana. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 311-314. 13. Bernardi M., Petti F. M & Avanzini M., 2010 - A webber Archosaur footprint from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of the Italian Southern Alps. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 5: 65-68. 14. Bernardi M., Petti F. M., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Asteriacites lumbricalis von Schlotheim, 1820 from the Coste dell’Anglone Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) dinosaur ichnosite (Valle del Sarca, Trentino, NE Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 49 (2): 119-122. 15. Bertocchi A., Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Rossi F. & Torboli C., 2010 - Il Censimento degli Uccelli acquatici svernanti in Trentino (2000-2009). Alula, XVI (1-2): 66-68. 16. Bertocchi A., Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Torboli C., Zenatello M., Tattoni C. & Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2011 - Risultati dei censimenti degli Uccelli acquatici svernanti in provincia di Trento (2000-09). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 29-97.

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17. Bertocchi A., Rizzolli F., Pedrini P. & Torboli C., 2010 - La moretta Aythya fuligula in Trentino: evoluzione di una popolazione dai primi casi di svernamento all’insediamento come nidificante. Alula, XVI (1-2): 498-500. 18. Boggero A., Zaupa S., Rossaro B., Lencioni V. & Gherardi F., 2011 - Guida tecnica alla programmazione del campionamento e alla scelta della strumentazione idonea per lo 1R studio della fauna macroinvertebrata lacustre. Report CNR-ISE, 02.11: 63 pp. 19. Bonomi C. & Coser E., 2010 - Delectus Seminum 37 (2010) quae Hortus Botanicus Alpinus ‘Viotte’ Musei Tridentini Scientiarum Naturalium pro mutua commutatione offert Semina Anno 2009 in Horto Botanico Collecta. 20. Boschele S., Gatto, R., Bernardi M. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Fossili cenozoici della Valsugana: catalogo della collezione Boschele, parte 1. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 219- 2R 310. 21. Carra M. L., Marinval P. & Dalmeri G., 2011 - I bulbi di avena altissima (Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum) da Riparo Dalmeri (TN): offerta votiva o cibo quotidiano? Preistoria Alpina, 45: 147-157. 22. Casarotto C., 2010 - Ghiacciai in Trentino. Ricerca e stato di salute, Atti Acc. Rov. Agiati, 3R a. 260, ser. VIII, vol. X, B. 23. Cristiani E., Dalmeri G., 2011 - Functional analysis of the decorated ground stone tool from Terlago (TN). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 185-191. 24. Dalmeri G., Fiore I. & Tagliacozzo A., 2011 - Palù Echen 1: fauna epigravettiana recente dai settori 3 e 4. Nota Breve. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 323-325. 4R 25. Dalmeri G., Flor E. & Neri S., 2010 - The Mesolithic series of Pradestel Rockshelter (North-East Italy, Trento) in the Framework of the Atesin Mesolithic. Understanding the Past. Papers offered to Stefan K. Kozlowski. Center for Research on the Antiquity of Southeastern Europe. University of Warsaw, Poland: 97-105. 26. Dalmeri G., Flor E. & Neri S., 2011 - Sondaggio con verifica stratigrafica a Riparo Monte 5R Terlago (Monte Terlago- Terlago). Nota Breve. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 327-329. 27. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2011 - La pietra dipinta RD 303 di Riparo Dalmeri. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 119-125. 28. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2011 - Siti epigravettiani degli Altipiani di Folgaria-Lavarone- Vezzena. Nota Breve. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 321-322. 6R 29. Dalmeri G., Neri S., Bassetti M., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K. & Hrozny Kompatscher N., 2011 - Riparo Dalmeri: le pietre dipinte dell’area rituale. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 67-117. 30. Deflorian M.C. & Pedrini P., 2010 - Le collezioni ornitologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Alula, XVI (1-2): 661-663. 31. Deflorian M.C., Ferretti P. & Todesco R., 2010 - Il Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Le collezioni mineralogiche e minerarie. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4: 242-255. 32. Deflorian M.C., Menegon M. & Pedrini P., 2010 - Le collezioni erpetologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. In: Mazzotti (ed.), Le collezioni erpetologiche dei Musei italiani. Museologia scientifica Memorie, 5: 78-84. 33. Ferretti P., 2011 - Storia e geologia della “miniera d’oro” di Val Gerlano presso Speccheri (Vallarsa, Trentino-Alto Adige). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 191-202. 34. Flor E. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Nuovi ritrovamenti mesolitici nel gruppo del Pasubio (Trentino meridionale). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 221-228. 35. Flor E., Fontana F. & Perasani M., 2011 - Contribution to the study of Sauveterrian technical systems. Technological analysis of the lithic industry from layers AF-AC1 of Romagnano Loc III rockshelter (Trento). Preistoria Alpina, 45: 193-219. 36. Fornasari L., Londi G. Buvoli L., Tellini Florenzano G., La Gioia G., Pedrini P., Brichetti P. & De Carli E., 2010 - Distribuzione geografica e ambientale degli Uccelli comuni nidificanti in Italia, 2000-04 (dati del Progetto MITO). Avocetta, 35: 5-224.

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37. Gobbi M., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Le cenosi di coleotteri carabidi nei siti forestali del settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. In: Bottarin R., Schirpke U. & Tappeiner U. (Eds), Analisi spazio-temporali: dinamiche e processi a confronto. Vol. 2. Atti XIX Congresso S.It.E. “Dalle vette alpine alle profondità marine”, Bolzano, 15-18 settembre 2009. EURAC Research Ed.: 21-28. 1R 38. Lampo C., Riservato E. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Contributo alla conoscenza dell’odonatofauna della Val di Ledro (Trentino). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 89: 29-34. 39. Latella L., 2010 - Redescription of Eocatops ambiguus, Peyerimhoff, 1924 (Coleoptera; Cholevidae; Catopinae; Eucatopinae) from Lybia Ridescrizione di Eocatops ambiguus, Perymhoff, 1924 (Coleoptera; Cholevidae; Catopinae; Eucatopinae) della Libia. Bollettino 2R del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Botanica Zoologia, 34: 87-92. 40. Lencioni V. & Rossaro B., 2010 - Chironomid assemblages in different alpine stream types. In: Ferrington L.C. Jr. (ed.), Proceedings of the XV International Symposium on Chironomidae (2003), The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA): 95- 102. 3R 41. Lockley M.G., Milan J., Lucas, S. & Avanzini M., 2010 - The fossil record of crocodylian tracks and traces: an overview. New Mexico museum of natural history and science bulletin, 51: 1-14. 42. Marziali L., Casalegno C., Lencioni V. & Rossaro B., 2010 - Definition and assignment of indicator weights to different chironomid species. In: Ferrington L.C. Jr. (ed.), Proceedings of the XV International Symposium on Chironomidae (2003), The University 4R of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA): 103-108. 43. Pedrini P., Sottovia L. & Brambilla M., 2010 - Proposta di Piano per il monitoraggio delle specie ornitiche di interesse comunitario e locale in Trentino. Alula, XVI (1-2): 525-530. 44. Petti F.M., Sarti C., Bernardi M., Deflorian M.C., Ferretti P., Todesco R. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Le ammoniti del Giurassico Superiore di Cima Campo (Trentino Alto-Adige) nelle 5R collezioni paleontologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 159-186. 45. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Marziali L. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators in lakes. In: Bottarin R., Schirpke U. & Tappeiner U. (Eds), Analisi spaziotemporali: dinamiche e processi a confronto. Vol. 2. Atti XIX Congresso S.It.E. “Dalle vette alpine alle profondità marine”, Bolzano, 15-18 September 2009. EURAC Research 6R Ed.: 107-114. 46. Rossaro B., Marziali L., Lencioni V. & Boggero A., 2011 - Response of benthic macroinvertebrates to environmental factors in Italian lakes. In: Wang X. & Liu W. (eds), Contemporary Chironomid Studies. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Chironomidae (06-09 July 2009), Nankai University Press, Nankai, China: 357-372. 47. Rossi G. & Mondoni A., 2010 - La conservazione delle piante nelle banche del germoplasma. Protecta, 11: 42-44. 48. Rovero F. & De Fries R., 2010 - Towards the definition of a “Zone of Interaction” of protected areas to quantify and monitor the human impact on biodiversity. Atti del XIX convegno della Società Italiana di Ecologia (S.It.E.), Bolzano: 189-196. 49. Speranza G., Segatta M., Volcan G., Tabarelli de Fatis K. & Pedrini P., 2011 - La migrazione prenuziale dei rapaci diurni in Trentino. Info Migrans, 27:5-6. 50. Tattoni, C. & Bertocchi, A., 2011 - FOSS per la ricerca e soccorso, l’esperienza della Scuola provinciale cani da ricerca e catastrofe onlus Trento Geomatics Workbooks, 10: 161-170. 51. Todesco R. & Bernardi M., 2011 - Una nuova icnoassociazione nel Triassico medio (Anisico) del Trentino meridionale (Val Gerlano, Vallarsa). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88: 203-218.

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Books or book chapters 1. Avanzini M., 2010 - Le orme di Terapodi dei Monti Pisani (Tetrapod tracks from Monti Pisani) in. Monechi S. Rook L. (eds.), Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli studi di Firenze vol III, le collezioni paleontologiche: 181-183. 2. Avanzini M. & Bargossi G., 2010 - Studi Precedenti. Trento - Carta geologica d’Italia alla 1R scala 1:50.000 Note illustrative della Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000: 15-25. 3. Avanzini M., Bargossi G., Borsato, A. & Selli L. (eds), 2010 - Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000; Note illustrative della Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000; 060: 244. Roma. 4. Avanzini M., Bernardi M. & Nicosia U., 2011 - The Permo-Triassic tetrapod faunal 2R diversity in the Italian Southern Alps. In: Ahmad Dar I. & Ahmad Dar M. (Eds.), Earth and Environmental Sciences, InTech: 591-608. 5. Avanzini M., Bernardi M., Melchiori L. & Petti F.M., 2010 - Le orme dei dinosauri del Castello di San Gottardo a Mezzocorona: con cenni alla storia del castello. Comune di Mezzocorona ed. 140 p. 3R 6. Avanzini M., Breda A. & Kustatscher E., 2010 - Day 1 : the Permo-Triassic succession at Bletterbach gorge. International Triassic field workshop, 7., Dolomiti, 2010 oth. Dolomites: 20-59. 7. Avanzini M. & Kustatscher E., 2011 - Die Bletterbachschlucht - Geschichten in Stein. Aldino (BZ) : Geoparc Bletterbach. 72 pp. 8. Avanzini M. & Kustatscher E., 2011 - La gola del Bletterbach : storie nella roccia. Aldino 4R (BZ) : Geoparc Bletterbach. 72 pp. 9. Avanzini M. & Kustatscher E., 2011 - The Bletterbach Gorge - History in the Rocks. Aldino (BZ) : Geoparc Bletterbach. 72 pp. 10. Avanzini M. & Pasquali T., 2010 - Un’ascia in pietra levigata neolitica in località Maso Strada di Caldonazzo. In: Pasquali T. (ed.), Castellieri preistorici del Trentino. Saggi / 5R [Publistampa] P. 307-311. 11. Avanzini M. & Tomasoni R., 2010 - Stratigrafia. Trento -Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 Note illustrative della Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000: ill., c. topogr.: 27-115. 12. Avanzini M. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Miscellanea. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 88. 314 6R pp. 13. Avanzini, M. Groaz, O. & Viganò A., 2010 - Sismicità. Trento - Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 Note illustrative della Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000: p. 205-208. 14. Avesani D. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Ditteri (Capitolo 4). In: Gobbi M. & Latella L., 2011 - La fauna dei prati - 1: tassonomia, ecologia e metodi di studio dei principali gruppi di invertebrati terrestri italiani. Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze, 4/1: 37-167. 15. Caldonazzi M. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Storia geologica del Trentino. Società degli alpinisti tridentini, Sezione Universitaria della Società degli alpinisti tridentini 191 pp. 16. Cantonati, M., Bertuzzi E., & Scalfi A., 2010. CRENODAT (Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of Trentino -Italian Alps- and long-term ecological research): project design and preliminary results. Pages:121-132 in E. Beheim, G. S. Rajwar, M. Haigh and J. Krecek (editors). Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems (Proceedings of the Headwater ’05 Conference, Bergen, Norway, June 2005). Springer Publishers, Netherlands. 17. Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Eds.), 2011 - Springs: Neglected Key Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation. J. Limnol. 70 (Suppl. 1). 187 pp. 18. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2011 - Le grandi vie delle civiltà. Catalogo della Mostra, a cura di Marzatico F., Gebhard R., Gleirscher P. Schede di Catalogo-Sezione 2 Materie in viaggio: 418-419; Sezione 5 Comunicare con segni e immagini: 568-572. Provincia Autonoma di

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Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio Monumenti e Collezioni Provinciali. Printer, Trento 01 July-13 November 2011. 19. Gianolla P., Avanzini M., Breda A., Kustatscher E., Preto N., Roghi G. (eds.), 2010 - 7th International Triassic field workshop pan-european correlation of the Triassic: field trip 1R to the world heritage site of the tethyan Triassic: 05-10 September 2010, Dolomites, Southern Alps, Italy, Guide book. 20. Gobbi M. & Latella L. (a cura di), 2011 - La fauna dei prati - 1: tassonomia, ecologia e metodi di studio dei principali gruppi di invertebrati terrestri italiani. Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze, 4/1, Trento, 176 pp. 21. Menegon M., 2011 - Sulla necessità di un’integrazione reale tra informazione scientifica, 2R gestione del territorio e conservazione. In: Cresti I & Touadi Jean-Lèonard (Eds.), Il continente verde, Bruno Mondadori ed.: 162-173,. 22. Negra O., 2011 - Miscellanea Natura alpina 1-2.2010. 23. Negra O., 2011 - Miscellanea Natura alpina 3-4.2010. 3R 24. Occhipinti et al., 2011 - Atti XIX Congresso Gadio, Olbia, May 2010 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 89. 25. Pedrini et al., 2011 - Atlante degli uccelli acquatici svernanti in Trentino Libro ed. MdS. 26. Rovero F., 2011 - La conservazione dei parchi di foresta in Africa sub-sahariana. Il progetto di cooperazione ambientale del Museo di Scienze Naturali di Trento in Tanzania. In: Cresti I & Touadi Jean-Lèonard (Eds.), Il continente verde, Bruno Mondadori ed.: 341- 4R 358. 27. Selli L., Piccin, G. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Assetto strutturale. Trento - Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000. Note illustrative della Carta geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000: 177-203.

5R Popular science papers 1. Avanzini M., 2010 - Storie di terre che dovevano essere mare. Piccole Dolomiti. Meridiani Montagne: 40-41. 2. Avanzini M., 2011 - A spasso nel tempo: le orme fossili lasciate dagli ominidi e dagli uomini che ci hanno preceduto rivelano ciò che gli studi sui resti scheletrici spesso non 6R riescono a raccontare. Darwin. Roma: Editoriale Darwin, 43: 16-21. 3. Avanzini M., 2011 - Dolomiti: le forme del tempo. Come in un gigantesco calendario pietrificato queste montagne consentono di leggere la storia della terra e l’antica geografia di isole emergenti dal mare. Darwin, 45: 14-19. 4. Avanzini M., 2011 - Il ponte di Speccheri tra fossili e storia. Vallarsa notizie, 48: 26-27. 5. Avanzini M., 2011 - Paesaggi, geositi, valutazioni: la sfida di strutturare l’inafferrabile. In: Dolomiti: paesaggi in rete. Per una vivibilità attiva delle Dolomiti (a cura di Gabriella De Fino e Ugo Morelli). Trento, TSM: 67-71. 6. Avanzini M. & Curzel E., 2010 - I dinosauri del Pasubio. Uomo città territorio, A.35, (418):31. 7. Avanzini M. & Curzel E., 2010 - Pasubio: storie di uomini e rocce - una scoperta importante a margine del 116° Congresso SAT. Bollettino SAT, Trento. A.73 (4): 32-34. 8. Avanzini M. & Curzel E., 2010 - Prima delle montagne: dinosauri e rettili fossili in Vallarsa. Vallarsa notizie, (47): 28-29. 9. Avanzini M. & Rosà V., 2011 - Cacciatori preistorici in Val del Parol (Monte Baldo). Giurisdizione di Penede, 36: 119-123. 10. Avanzini M. & Zambotto P., 2010 - La Kriegsgeologie e i geologi in prima linea. Strenna Trentina: 219-222. 11. Bernardi M., 2011 - L’evoluzione oltre lo specchio. Darwin, 41: 66-67.

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12. Bernardi M., 2011 - Recensione del libro “Strane creature” di Tracy Chevalier. Natura Alpina, 60 (3/4): 136-137. 13. Cantonati M., 2010 - Sorgenti... di specie. Natura Alpina, (1/2) 2009: 23-32. 14. Curzel E. & Avanzini M., 2010 - Impronte “digitali”: dall’orma al suo autore. Newton oggi, A.14 (9): 94-97. 1R 15. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2010 - Monte Tegazzo, Alberè di Tenna. In “I Castellieri Preistorici del Trentino” (a cura di T. Pasquali), Associazione Castelli del Trentino. Publistampa Edizioni, Pergine (Trento). 16. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2011 - Tra stambecchi, cervi e spiriti della montagna. Il mistero delle pietre dipinte di Riparo Dalmeri. Natura Alpina, 60 (3/4).2009: 25-38. 2R 17. Ferretti P., 2010 - Cristalli giganti di granitica origine. Le pegmatiti e la loro presenza in Trentino Natura alpina, 59 (2008): 19-36. 18. Ferretti P., 2010 - L’oro in Vallarsa, leggenda o realtà? Vallarsa notizie, 47: 30-31. 19. Ferretti P., 2011 - Basilio Arlanch detto “il Polenta” e un suo illustre discendente. Vallarsa notizie, 48: 28-29. 3R 20. Ferretti P., 2011 - Otto minerali “DOC” in regione: le specie minerali con “località tipo” in Trentino-Alto Adige. Natura alpina, 60.2009: 73-88. 21. Ferretti P.& Rosà V., 2011 - Un nuovo ritrovamento di ascia neolitica in pietra verde in località La Gort nel comune di Nago-Torbole. La giurisdizione di Pénede, 37: 113-120. 22. Flor E., 2011 - Appunti sull’Archeologia della Vallarsa. Vallarsa Notizie, anno XIV (49): 4R 26-27. 23. Flor E., 2011 - Pasubio Preistorico. Voce Comune. Notiziario di Trambileno, anno XVI (48): 9-10. 24. Gobbi M. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Alieni a sei zampe - Insetti “esotici” in Trentino. Natura Alpina, 1/2. 2009: 15-22. 5R 25. Gobbi M., 2011 - La fauna entomologica per lo studio e la gestione dei prati montani. Dendronatura, 32(1): 53-59. 26. Lencioni V. & Riservato E., 2010 - Combattere le zanzare: il contributo del museo. E-News - Museo Tridentino di Scienze naturali, la rete dei musei della scienza in Trentino, Italia, 17. http://www.mtsn.tn.it/newsletter/e-news_continualeggere.asp?id=79. 6R 27. Lencioni V., 2011 - Insetti: quale mi ha punto? E-News - Museo delle Scienze, la rete dei musei della scienza in Trentino, Italia, 42. http://www.mtsn.tn.it/newsletter/e-news_ continualeggere.asp?id=140. 28. Petti F.M. & Avanzini M., 2011 - A lezione di geografia dai dinosauri italiani. Darwin, (41): 30-37. 29. Todesco R., 2010 - “Zeoliti minerali da collezione con una marcia in più…” Natura Alpina, 1/2 2009. 30. Zandonati M., 2010 - “GPS e coordinate: proviamo a fare chiarezza” Notiziario Associazione Italiana Canyoning, 25.

Oral communications (with published abstract) 1. Avanzini M., 2010 - Geositi: paesaggi e valutazioni, “Dolomiti paesaggi in rete” STEP, Trento, 03 December 2010. 2. Avanzini M., 2010 - La ricerca scientifica nel Geopark Adamello Brenta. Il patrimonio geologico e la ricerca scientifica: buone pratiche a confronto nei Geoparchi e nelle Aree Protette. 10 Convegno Geoparchi SIGEA, GEOFLUID 2010, Piacenza, 09 October 2010. 3. Avanzini M., 2010 - The role of the Dolomites in the development of the geology and palaeontology. 7th International Triassic Field Workshop (Pan-European Correlation of

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the Triassic) Dolomites Field trip to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Tethyan Triassic. 4. Avanzini M., Bernardi M. & Petti F.M., 2011 - Soldier traks in a First World Wast (Valmorbiawerk, Trentino-Alto Adige). Geoitalia 2011, Epitome 4: 296-297. 1R 5. Avanzini M., Grassi C. & Masè V., 2011 - The Adamello Brenta Geopark. Geoitalia 2011, Epitome 4: 129. 6. Belli R., Frisia S., Borsato A., Drysdale R., Maas R. & Hellstrom J., 2011 - Evidence for complex early Holocene climate variability in the northern Mediterranean region from stalagmite SV1, Savi Cave (NE Italy). AGU Fall Meeting 2011. San Francisco, CA, USA, 05-09 December 2011. 2R 7. Bonomi C., 2011 - Inquire: a European project to promote inquiry based science education (IBSE) for plant conservation. Oral contribution to the 6th Planta Europa Conference “Actions for wild plants” Kraków, Poland, 23-27 May 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 24. 8. Bonomi C., Battistotti M. & Dorigotti S., 2011 - “INQUIRE: un progetto europeo per promuove la metodologia IBSE (Inquiry Based Science Education) in scuole, musei, 3R parchi naturali e orti botanici. Comunicazione orale presentata al XXI Congresso ANMS - La ricerca nei musei scientifici Padova 09-11 November 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 48. 9. Brambilla M., Negri I., Bergero V. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Mid-season habitat shifts in farmland birds: implications for research and conservation. Abstract book, VIII EOU Congress, Riga (LV), 27-30 August 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 70. 4R 10. Brambilla M., Negri I., Bergero V. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Variazioni intra-stagionali nelle preferenze ambientali e nella distribuzione delle specie ornitiche di ambienti agricoli e implicazioni per la conservazione. Atti del XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011. 11. Brandmayr P., Gobbi M. & Pizzolotto R., 2011 - Effetti del cambiamento climatico sul “paesaggio faunistico” alpino delle Dolomiti. XXXVIII Congresso della Società Italiana 5R di Biogeografia, I cambiamenti spaziali e temporali nella biodiversità: valutazioni e testimonianze dei biogeografi italiani. Roma, 15-17 December 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 10. 12. Cantonati M. & Spitale D., 2010 - Gli habitat sorgivi delle Alpi come hotspot di biodiversità: una prospettiva museologica. In: 20. Congresso dell’Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici, 17-19 November 2010, Ferrara, Italy, Abstracts and Program Book: 87. 6R 13. Cantonati M. & Spitale D., 2011 - The contribution of benthic cyanobacteria and algae to the definition of spring types as a prerequisite for the development of ecological- integrity and environmental-quality assessment procedures for spring habitats. 10th International Conference of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society. Siena (Italy). 13-15 June. Program & Abstracts (S. Loiselle & M. Munawar Eds.) S3.04: 36. 14. Cantonati M., 2011 - Water crisis: Spring habitats as hotspots of freshwater biodiversity, and their potential role for its conservation. North American Benthological Society (NABS), 2011 Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 22-26 May 2011. 15. Cantonati M., Kociolek J.P. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2010 - Diatoms in benthic oligotrophic habitats: Towards combining perspectives from Europe and North America. Central European Diatom Meeting, CEDIATOM4, Island of Reichenau - Lake Constance, Germany, 12-14 March 2010. Book of Abstracts: 12-13. 16. Cantonati M., Rott E., Spitale D., Bertuzzi E., Angeli N. & Komárek J., 2010 - Cyanoprokaryotes and algae forming macroscopic structures in springs of the Alps, and their contribution to the re-definition of spring types. In: 18th Symposium of the International Association for Cyanophyte Research, 15th-20th August 2010, České Budějovice, Czech republic, Book of Abstracts: 13. 17. Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Nascimbene J., 2010 - Biodiversità delle “piante inferiori”: stato delle conoscenze e prospettive. Bioweek 2010. Biodiversità. L’insostituibile valore della diversità in natura. Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (TN). 19-22 May 2010. Book of Abstracts: 20.

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18. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Guella G. & La Rocca N., 2010 - Adaptive traits of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in relation to water-level-fluctuations-related stressors in the phytobenthos of the large, peri-Alpine Lake Garda. ACE-SAP 3rd Annual General Meeting, Mt. Zugna (TN), 19-20 May 2010. Book of Abstracts: 19-22. 19. Cantonati M., Taxböck L., Mogna M. & Spitale D., 2011 - A first comparison among the 1R diatom communities in spring habitats of carbonate mountain ranges of the Alps. 5th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM5), Szczecin, Poland, 24-27 March 2011 - Book of Abstracts (M. Bąk, A. Witkowski, M. Wroniecki, T. Radziejewska, D. Krawczyk, A. Kierzek Eds.): 70-71. ISBN 978-83-7241—823-4. 20. Cantonati M., Wojtal A., Falasco E., Gabrieli J. & Angeli N., 2011 - Achnanthidium minutissimum (Bacillariophyta) teratological forms as indicators of heavy metal (Cu) 2R enrichment / pollution in different freshwater environments. 5th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM5), Szczecin, Poland, 24-27/03/2011 - Book of Abstracts (M. Bąk, A. Witkowski, M. Wroniecki, T. Radziejewska, D. Krawczyk, A. Kierzek Eds.): 19-20. ISBN 978-83-7241—823-4. 21. Casarotto C., 2010 - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto. Convegno scientifico “Cambiamenti climatici e montagna: quale futuro dopo Copenaghen”. 3R Relazione scientifica “Lo stato dei ghiacciai in Trentino” 04 May 2010. 22. Casarotto C., 2010 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Convegno “Dalle Ande alle Alpi: genti di montagna in difesa dell’acqua” 22 July 2010. 23. Deflorian M.C. & Pedrini P., 2010 - Le collezioni microteriologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali e il loro contributo alla descrizione della biodiversità locale. XX 4R Congresso ANMS, Ferrara, November 2010. Book of Abstracts: 63. 24. Ferretti P., 2011 - Aspetti geologici e geomorfologici della Val di Non. In: Atti del I Convegno Internazionale “Le antiche stufe ad olle di Sfruz - Val di Non, Trentino. Produzione, storia, materie prime e tecniche: rapporti con altri centri”, Sfruz 05-07 September 2008, pp. 17-31. 5R 25. Ferretti P., Casagrande L., Conci F. & Zandonati M., 2011 - Proposal for a georeferenced database of mining and mineralogical sites in the Trento Province. Epitome 2011 - Geoitalia 2011, pag. 265. 26. Frisia S., Martin-Garcia R., Woodhead J., Borsato A., & Zobec J., 2011 - Deposition and alteration - key to the interpretation of speleothem proxies. Climate Change - The Karst Record (KR6), Birmingham 26-29th June 2011: 54. 6R 27. Gobbi M., Riservato E., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Dalle collezioni museali alla prima lista di specie prioritarie di invertebrati per il Trentino. XX Congresso ANMS “I musei delle scienze e la biodiversità - In ricordo di Sandro Ruffo”. Riassunto in: Mazzotti S. (a cura di), XX Congresso ANMS 2010. Programma e Riassunti. Ferrara, 17-19 November 2010. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, volume speciale: 89. 28. Gobbi M., Tomasi G. & Lencioni V., 2011 - La collezione di Stefano de Bertolini al Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. XXIII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia, Genova, 13-16 June 2011 - Atti: 371. 29. Hartland A., Fairchild I.J., Lead J.R., Borsato A., Baker A., Frisia S. & Baalousha M., 2011 - From soil to cave: NOM-facilitated transport of trace metals in speleothem-forming groundwaters. Climate Change - The Karst Record (KR6), Birmingham 26-29th June 2011: 61. 30. Latella L., Lencioni V. Bon M. & Mizzan L., 2011 - Tempi e modi di penetrazione e dispersione delle specie aliene in Veneto e Trentino. 38° Congresso della Società Italiana di Biogeografia, I cambiamenti spaziali e temporali nella biodiversità: valutazioni e testimonianze dei biogeografi italiani. Roma, 14-16 December 2011: 37. 31. Lencioni V. & Gobbi M., 2010 - Documentazione e conservazione della biodiversità “glaciale”: studi e collezioni entomologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. XX Congresso ANMS “I musei delle scienze e la biodiversità - In ricordo di Sandro Ruffo”.

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Riassunto in: Mazzotti S. (a cura di), XX Congresso ANMS 2010. Programma e Riassunti. Ferrara, 17-19 November 2010. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, volume speciale: 65. 32. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Caputi L., Franceschini A., Grazioli V., Guella G., Jousson O., 1R Sandron T. & Sterni A., 2010 - The adaptive potential of natural populations of two aquatic insect species in relation to temperature variations and pollutants. ACE-SAP 3rd Annual General Meeting. Rifugio Monte Zugna, Rovereto, 19-20 May 2010. Abstract and Program book: 13-14. 33. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Grazioli V., Guella G. & Jousson O., 2011 - The adaptive potential of natural populations of two aquatic insect species in relation to temperature variations 2R and pollutants. ACE-SAP Annual General Meeting. SperimentArea, Bosco della Città Rovereto, 05 September 2011. Abstract and Program book: 16. 34. Mondoni A. & Rossi G., 2011 - Orti botanici, cambiamenti climatici e ricerca sulla longevità dei semi conservati ex situ. comunicazione orale al 106° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana onlus. Genova 21-24 September 2011 - Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 73(2011): 38. 3R 35. Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G. & Vegini E., 2010 - Climate change in alpine ecosystems: will seed banking be an effective strategy to halt biodiversity loss?. SEED ECOLOGY 3 - The 3rd international meeting on seeds and the environment, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 17-24 June 2010.Extended Abstract - Book of Abstracts: 118 - 119. 36. Parolo G., 2010 - Reintroduzione di Leucojum aestivum (Amaryllidaceae) in Pianura 4R Padana: un approccio “cost-effective” Workshop nazionale: la Reintroduzione Delle Piante, problematiche e prospettive. Milano, Palazzo della Regione, 26 November 2010. Book of Abstracts, 11. 37. Parolo G., Abeli T., Bonomi C. & Rossi G., 2010 - Using population biology to develop cost-effective translocations of Leucojum aestivum (Amaryllidaceae) in the valley of the river Po (NW Italy). 24th International Congress of Conservation Biology - Edmonton, 5R Canada, 02-07 July 2010. Book of Abstracts, 185. 38. Pedrini P., 2011 - The role of raptors as indicators of environmental changes in the Alpine region. Abstract book, VIII EOU Congress, Riga (LV), 27-30 agosto 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 298. 39. Petti F.M., Sarti C., Bernardi M., Deflorian M.C., Ferretti P., Todesco R. & Avanzini M., 6R 2011 - Upper Jurassic ammonites from the First World War fort Lusern (Trentino-Alto Adige): the Lakom collection. Geoitalia 2011, Epitome 4: 297. 40. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lods Crozet B., Free G., Lencioni V. & Marziali L., 2011 - Benthic quality index in European lakes. 18th International Symposium on Chironomidae, Trondheim, Norway, 4-6 July 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 42. 41. Rossi G., Bonomi C., Müller J., Mondoni A., Parolo G., Linington S. & Eastwood R., 2010 - Seed conservation of alpine plants as a mitigation tool against the impacts of climate change. International congress “Global Change and the World’s Mountains”, Perth, Scotland, UK, 26-30 September 2010 Book of Abstracts: 27. 42. Rovero F. & Menegon M., 2011 - Trento Science Museum in Tanzania: biological surveys, research and conservation in the rainforests of the Eastern Arc Mountains. In: 20. Congresso della Associazione Nazionale dei Musei Scientifici, 17-19 November 2011, Ferrara, Italy, Book of Abstracts: 47. 43. Rovero F., 2010 - Studiare mammiferi elusivi nelle foreste della Tanzania tramite phototrapping. Convegno settimana dei mammiferi, Milano, November 2010. 44. Rovero F. & Menegon M., 2010 - Il ruolo del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali nella documentazione, gestione collezione e dati, monitoraggio e conservazione della biodiversità delle foreste montane dell’Eastern Arc della Tanzania. Congresso ANMS, Ferrara, November 2010. Museologia scientifica e naturalistica, volume speciale 2010, Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara: 47. 45. Frisia S., Fairchild I. J., Borsato A., Fohlmeister J., Miorandi R. & Spötl C., 2010 - “Carbon

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mass balance modelling and carbon isotopes exchange processes in dynamic caves” Daphne Workshop, Innsbruck 30 June - 02 July 2010. 46. Pedrini P., Brambilla M., Rizzolli F., Tattoni C. & Fin V., 2011 - Il Re di quaglie Crex crex in Trentino e il PSR provinciale: dalla ricerca ornitologica alla definizione di misure agroambientali per la tutela di una specie minacciata. XVI Convegno Italiano di 1R Ornitologia, Cervia 21-25 September, 2011. 47. Salvador I. & Vitti A., 2011 - Survey, representation and analysis of a war I complex system of surface and underground fortifications in the Gresta Valley, Italy” in ISPRS Workshop - 3D-ARCH 2011, 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, Trento. 48. Tattoni C. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Il ruolo dei dati LiDAR nell’elaborazione dei modelli di 2R idoneità ambientale per l’avifauna. Atti del XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011. 49. Tattoni C., Rizzolli F., & Pedrini P., 2011 - Can LiDAR data improve bird-habitat models? VII European Conference on Ecological Modelling, Riva del Garda (TN), 30 May - 02 June 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 99. 3R 50. Tenan S., Girardello M., Pedrini P., Bogliani G. & Spina F., 2010 - Short term influences of global climate on the temporal dynamics of migratory birds in the Italian Alps. 2nd Conference Bird Migration and Global Change. Algeciras, Spain, 17-20 March 2010. 27. 51. Todesco R., Casarotto C., Ferretti P., Ceccato F., De Nicola M. & Caccaro A., 2011 - The rediscovered geology. Communication geosciences for visual and hearing impairment through educational path of Museo delle Scienze of Trento. Geoitalia 19-23 September 4R 2011, Torino Italy, Epitome Volume 4, 2011: 287. 52. Todesco R., Ferretti A. & Schönlaub HP., 2011 - Life in colour. The Silurian of the Valentintörl section (Carnic Alps, Austria) In: 8th. Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra, 19-23 September 2011, Torino. Epitome Volume 4, 2011. 53. Wynn P.M., Fairchild I.J., Loader N.J. Baker A., Frisia S., Borsato A. & Spotl C., 2011 - 5R Interrogating speleothems and trees as archives of sulphur deposition. Climate Change - The Karst Record (KR6), Birmingham, 26-29th June 2011: 143.

Oral communications (without published abstract) 1. Avanzini M., 2011 - Storia della ricerca geologica nelle Dolomiti. Convegno “Dolomiti: 6R dalla storia geologica alla storia umana”, Fiera di Primiero. 09 September 2011. 2. Avanzini M., Goio I. & Gios G., 2011 - Capitale sociale e capitale ambientale: il contributo del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali allo sviluppo di politiche economiche rispettose dell’ambiente naturale. Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei - Convegno i musei naturalistici degli enti locali: realtà e strategie. Roma, 04 May 2011. 3. Barelli C. & Heistermann M., 2011 - Fecal Androgens in wild white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) males. In: 19. Congresso della Associazione Primatologica Italiana, Bussolengo, Italy, 10-13 April 2011. 4. Bernardi M., 2011 - “Congresso sulle classificazioni”, Università di Padova, Centro di Ricerca in Storia e Filosofia delle Scienze, 13-15 October 2011 - Sessione “Classificazioni nelle scienze naturali” seminario dal titolo “Using quantitative tools in carving out species taxa for classification purposes”. 5. Bonomi C., 2010 - Seed conservation of alpine plants as a mitigation tool against the impacts of climate change. International congress “Global Change and the World’s Mountains”, Perth, Scotland, UK, 26-30 September 2010. 6. Bonomi C., 2011 - The Inquire project: Inquiry based education in European Botanic Gardens. Oral contribution to the International Conference of Botanic Gardens: Back to the Eden - the Challenges for Contemporary Gardens. Ustroń-Mikołów, Slesia, Polonia. 22-23 May 2011.

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7. Casagrande L., 2011 - Verso il database georeferenziato dei siti mineralogici e minerari in Trentino. Convegno “Dolomiti: dalla storia geologica alla storia umana”, Fiera di Primiero 09 September 2011. 8. Dorigotti S. & Bonomi C., 2011 - Giardini botanici e “Inquiry based science education” 1R il progetto europeo INQUIRE. Comunicazione orale presentata alla Riunione Annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici e giardini storici della Società Botanica Italiana, Parma, 16 April 2011. 9. Ferretti P., 2011 - Risorse minerarie e tesori mineralogici nelle valli di Fiemme e di Fassa. Convegno “Dolomiti: dalla storia geologica alla storia umana”, Fiera di Primiero, 09 September 2011. 2R 10. Flor E.,Fontana F. & M. Peresani, 2010 - An evolutionary perspective on Mesolithic lithic technology from Romagnano Loc III rockshelter in the Italian Alps. 8th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Santander, Spain, 13-17 September 2010. 11. Girardello M., Tenan S. & Pedrini P. 2010 - Predicting the potential impacts of future land-cover changes on breeding communities in the Italian Alps. 18th Conference of the 3R European Bird Census Council. Caceres Spain, 22-26 March 2010. 12. Gobbi M., 2010 - Life on the edge: effects of climate warming on alpine arthropods. Workshop: Finse Research Workshop 2010, Norway, 26-27 April 2010. 13. Gobbi M., 2011 - Insetti, ragni e global warming: gli ambienti d’alta quota come trappola, chance e rifugio. Climaticamente Trentino 2011,Fondazione Bruno Kessler FBK, Trento, 09 September 2011. 4R 14. Lencioni V. & Gobbi M., 2010 - Diversità e distribuzione degli insetti in Trentino: stime e stato dell’arte. Bioweek 2010, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 21 May 2010. Program book: 20. 15. Lencioni V., 2010 - La Banca dati della Fauna Invertebrata del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Workshop: Banche dati sulla biodiversità nella provincia di Trento, stato 5R dell’arte e nuove proposte (GEO-BIO), Trento, 11 February 2010. 16. Martinelli L., 2011 - “Bio-objects in policy rooms: how should the social sciences and humanities contribute?”. COST Action IS1001: Bio-objects and their Boundaries: Governing Matters at the Intersection of Society, Politics and Science. Public Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 27 September 2011. 6R 17. Martinelli L., 2011 - Technical visions and emotional perceptions on Biotechnology. VIII Congreso Internacional de Biotecnología Vegetal, BioVeg 2011, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, 02-04 May 2011. 18. Perna F., D’Alessandro M., Rodari P., Caliari S. & Martinelli L., 2011 - La complessità delle questioni ambientali nelle conoscenze e nell’immaginario del pubblico. X Convegno Nazionale sulla Comunicazione della Scienza, Trieste, 23-25 November 2011. 19. Soardi E., Tattoni C., & Ciolli M., 2011 - Disponibilità di piante selvatiche da frutto per gli uccelli migratori in provincia di Trento. XII Meeting degli utenti italiani GRASS e GFOSS. Trento 09 -11 February 2011. 20. Spina F., Saino N., Rubolini D., Tenan S., Serra L. & Morganti M., 2010 - Decision making in relation to different strategies of migration. 25th International Ornithological Congress, Campos do Jordao SP, Brasile, 22-28 August 2010.

Posters (with published abstract) 1. Abeli T., Parolo G., Bonomi C., Zubani L., Varotto C. & Lega M., 2010 - Absence of differences in fluctuating asymmetry (FA) between small populations of the narrow endemic Aquilegia thalictrifolia (South-Eastern Alps, Italy). 24th International Congress of Conservation Biology - Edmonton, Canada, 02-07 July 2010. Book of Abstracts: 1. 2. Belli R., Frisia S., Drysdale R., Borsato A. & Maas R., 2011 - A multi-proxy record of local ecosystem dynamics and soil development during the Late-Glacial to Holocene transition from a Grotta Savi (Italy) stalagmite. Climate Change - The Karst Record (KR6),

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Birmingham 26-29th June 2011: 20. 3. Bernabò P., Jousson O., Lencioni V. & Latella L., 2010 - Heat Shock Response in the leptodirins Neobathyscia mancinii and Neobathyscia pasai. XX International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Postojna (Slovenia) 29 August - 03 September 2010. Abstract book: 116. 1R 4. Bernabò P., Viero G., Jousson O. & Lencioni V., 2011 - Global warming and cold stenothermal organisms: the HSP70 Heat Shock Response of Diamesa cinerella (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Alpine streams. 7th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS7), “Freshwater ecosystems - Challenges between conservation and management under global change”, Girona (Spagna), 26 June - 01 July 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 26. 5. Bernardi M., Avanzini M. & Bizzarini F., 2011 - Vertebrate fauna from the San Cassiano 2R Formation (early Carnian) of the Dolomites region. Workshop on Cassian Beds 2011, Abstract volume, p. 10. 6. Bonomi C., Battistotti M., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2011 - The INQUIRE project: science education in European Botanic Gardens using IBSE. Poster presentato al 106° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana onlus, Genova, 21-24 September 2011 - Boll. Mus. Ist. 3R Biol. Univ. Genova, 73: 168. 7. Bonomi C., Mondoni A., Bolognesi M. & Bortoluzzi E., 2010 - Maturity, Germination and Longevity studies in a narrow endemic columbine in the Italian Alps (Aquilegia thalictrifolia Scott et Kotschy). SEED ECOLOGY 3 - The 3rd international meeting on seeds and the environment, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 17-24 June 2010. extended abstract - Book of Abstracts: 16-17. 4R 8. Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Scalfi A. 2010. Adaptive traits of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in relation to water-level-fluctuations-related stressors in the phytobenthos of the large, peri-Alpine Lake Garda. 13. Scientific Meeting of the Phycology Section of the German Botanical Society, Island Reichenau, Lake Constance (Germany). 14-17 March 2010 http://www.bgbm.org/diatoms/2010.htm. 5R 9. Casarotto C., 2011 - “Let’s discover now!”, Geoitalia, Torino Italy 19-23 September 2011, Epitome Volume 4, 2011: 289. 10. Ceresa F., Bogliani G., Pedrini P. & Brambilla M., 2011 - Importanza di elementi marginali del paesaggio rurale nelle preferenze ambientali dell’Averla piccola Lanius collurio in un contesto alpino. Atti del XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011. 6R 11. Ciolli M., Tattoni C. & Ferretti F., 2011 - Forest coverage changes in protected areas: a fine scale Markov Chain approach. 7th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, Riva del Garda (Trento, Italy), 30 May - 02 June 2011. Book of Abstracts: 111. 12. D’Orazi Porchetti S., Manni R., Petti F.M. & Sottili G., 2011 - A salamandrid from the Middle Pleistocene of Northern Latium (Fosso Di San Martino, Rome, Italy). Geoitalia 2011, VIII Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra. Torino, 19-23 September 2011 - Epitome, 4: 302-303. 13. Ferretti P., Avanzini M., Bernardi M., Petti F.M. & Maganzini N., 2011 - An “home-made” geological trail: the experience of the Liceo Galilei (Trento) school garden. Geoitalia 2011, Epitome 4: 289. 14. Gandini M., Abeli T., Gentili R., Mondoni A., Cristofanelli P., Bonomi C. & Rossi G., 2011 - Effect of the extreme summer heat waves on isolated populations of two orophitic plants in the N-Apennines (Italy). poster presented to the 12th International congress of the European Ecological Federation, Avila, Spain, 25-29 September 2011: 443. 15. Gobbi M., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Effects of grassland fragmentation and management on functional traits of ground beetle assemblages. 2nd International GMBA- DIVERSITAS conference “Functional significance of mountain biodiversity“ in Chandolin (Valais), Switzerland, 26-30th July 2010. Book of Abstracts: 48. 16. Gobbi M., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2010 - Le cenosi di coleotteri carabidi nei siti forestali del Settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Atti del XIX Congresso

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Nazionale della Società Italiana di Ecologia, Bolzano, 15-18 September 2009, Book of Abstracts: 138. 17. Gobbi M., Caccianiga M., Compostella C., Bonomo J., Bussolati S., Seppi R. & Lencioni V., 2011 - I rock glacier come “warm stage refugia”: un modello di studio applicato alle 1R artropodocenosi alpine. XXIII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia, Genova 13- 16 June 2011 - Atti: 62. 18. Johnston V.E., Borsato A. & Spötl C., 2011 - Interglacial speleothems from Trentino, Italy: Preliminary dating and stable isotope results. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 03-08th April 2011. Geophysical Research Abstracts: 13. 19. Latella L., Verdari N. & Gobbi M., 2010 - Distribution and frequency of cave-dwelling 2R terrestrial arthropods in two spatially closed karst areas of the eastern Italian Prealps. 20th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Postojna, Slovenia, 29 Aug - 03 September 2010, Abstract Book: 42. 20. Lencioni V. & Lanzinger M., 2011 - Il Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali: realtà e strategie di un museo naturalistico provinciale nel settore della ricerca scientifica. 3R Convegno nazionale: “I musei naturalistici degli enti locali: realtà e strategie. In ricordo di Sandro Ruffo”. Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, 04 May 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 37-38. 21. Lencioni V., Marziali L., & Rossaro B., 2010 - A diversity-based model for chironomids in alpine and pre-alpine springs in relation to environmental factors. ASLO-NABS International joint Meeting, Santa Fe (New Mexico), 06-11 June 2010. Book of Abstracts: 138. 4R 22. Pedrini P., Tattoni C., Rizzolli F. & Brambilla M., 2011 - Ricchezza potenziale di specie nelle aree agricole del Trentino. Atti del XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011. In press. 23. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Avanzini M. & Ashley-Ross M.A., 2011 - Transition between terrestrial-submerged walking and swimming revealed by Lower Permian amphibian trackways. The Palaeontological Association 55th Annual Meeting, Book of Abstracts: 72. 5R 24. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Todesco R. & Avanzini M., 2011 - Vertebrate palaeontology and palaeoenvironment of the lower Rotzo formation (Early Jurassic, Trento carbonate platform, NE Italy). Giornate di Paleontologia SPI 2011, Abstract Volume. 25. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lencioni V. & Marziali L., 2011 - Additional notes about the revision of the genus Orthocladius s. str. Van der Wulp, 1874. 18th International Symposium on 6R Chironomidae, Trondheim, Norway, 04-06 July 2011 - Book of Abstracts: 41. 26. Spitale D. & M. Cantonati 2010 - Diversità e distribuzione delle briofite di sorgenti del Trentino. In: 20. Congresso dell’Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici, Ferrara, Italy 17-19 November 2010, Program and Abstracts Book: 97. 27. Spitale D., Cantonati M., Scalfi A.,L ange-Bertalot H., Battistotti M. & Parmesani M., 2011 - Epilithic and epiphytic diatoms of the shores of the largest Italian lake investigated in the frame of a Project on the adaptive biology of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea (ACE- SAP Project, A2.WP2). 5th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM5), Szczecin, Poland, 24-27 March 2011 - Book of Abstracts (M. Bąk, A. Witkowski, M. Wroniecki, T. Radziejewska, D. Krawczyk, A. Kierzek Eds.): 102-103. ISBN 978-83-7241—823-4. 28. Spitale D., Guella G., La Rocca N., Angeli N., Moro I., Sciuto K., Scalfi A. & Cantonati M., 2011 - Coping with desiccation and high irradiance in the eulittoral of a large lake: Adaptive biology of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea (ACE-SAP Project, A2.WP2). 10th International Conference of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society. Siena (Italy). 13-15June 2011. Program & Abstracts book (S. Loiselle & M. Munawar Eds.) P.08: 76. 29. Tenan S., Girardello M., Spina F. & Pedrini P., 2011 - Modellizzazione di trend non lineari: il caso dei migratori in transito sulle Alpi italiane. Atti del XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011.

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Posters (without published abstract) 1. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Battistotti M.& Galetto M., 2011 - IBSE: Think like a scientist! poster presented to the Inquire 1st partners meeting - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place , Ardingly, England, UK. 2. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Battistotti M. & Galetto M., 2011 - IBSE: Think like a scientist: 1R planned outcomes and evaluation. Poster presented to the Inquire ‘train the trainers’ course. Innsbruck University Centre, Obergurgl Austria, 23-25 June 2011. 3. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2011 - Education at Trento Botanic Gardens. poster presented to the Inquire kick off meeting - national Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium 20-21 January 2011. 2R 4. Borsato A., Johnston V.E., Miorandi R., Frisia S. & Corradini F., 2011 - Dripwater hydrochemistry from alpine caves: altitudinal and seasonal variability and implications for speleothem studies. In: Karst Record 6, Birmingham, UK, 26-29th June 2011. 5. Borsato A., Miorandi R., S. Frisia, I. J. Fairchild & D. K. Richter “Long-term drip-rate and hydrochemical study at Grotta di Ernesto (Northern Italy) and their implications for stalagmite capture of climate changes” Daphne Workshop, Innsbruck, 30 June - 02 July 3R 2010. 6. Ferretti A., Cavalazzi B., Barbieri R. & Todesco R., 2010 - “The colour of the Silurian: just biopaintings?” in section 26: time-specific facies: the colour and texture of biotic events - IPC3-2010, Londra. 7. Filippi R., Ahn Y., Brecher H., Thompson L. G., Mark B., Burns P., Gabrielli P., Kyung-In 4R Huh & Lanzinger M., 2010 - “Recent ice area and volume changes of the Kilimanjaro Ice Cap using automatic DEM extraction” Columbus, OH, IGS workshop 2010. 8. Johnston V.E., Borsato A., Spötl C. & Hellstrom J.C., 2011 - Early Termination II inception recorded in Trentino speleothems. In: Karst Record 6, Birmingham, UK, 26-29th June 2011. 5R 9. Marisa I., Gobbi M., Lencioni V. & Zanetti A., 2011 - Staphylinids richness and traits in different habitat typologies of Stelvio National park (Trentino - Italy). 26th Meeting Staphylinidae, Verona, 02-04 June 2011. 10. Probert R., Carasso V., Hay F.R., Mondoni A., Mucciarelli M. & Vandelook F., 2010 - Does slow germination have to mean the presence of dormancy? SEED ECOLOGY 3 - The 3rd international meeting on seeds and the environment, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 17-24 6R June 2010.

Congress attendances 1. “Congresso sulle classificazioni”, Università di Padova, Centro di Ricerca in Storia e Filosofia delle Scienze, 13-15 October 2011. 2. “Dolomiti paesaggi in rete” STEP, Trento, 03 December 2010. 3. “Etnoarcheologia dei paesaggi montani” Summer School di APSAT (Ambiente e Paesaggi dei Siti d’Altura del Trentino) S.Michele all’Adige (TN), 08 July 2010. 4. 10th International Conference of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society. Siena (Italy). 13-15 June 2011. 5. 11th International Ichnofabric Workshop - Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, 01st-05th July 2011. 6. 18th Symposium of the International Association for Cyanophyte Research - České Budějovice, Czech republic, Book of Abstracts: 13. 15th-20th August 2010 7. Bioweek 2010, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 19-22 May 2010. 8. 24th International Congress of Conservation Biology - Edmonton, Canada, 02-07 July 2010.

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9. 26th Meeting internazionale sui Coleotteri Staphylinidae, Verona, 02-04 June 2011. 10. 55th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Plymouth, UK, 17-20 December 2011. 11. 5th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM5), Szczecin, Poland, 24-27 March 1R 2011. 12. 7th International Triassic Field Workshop (Pan-European Correlation of the Triassic) Dolomites Field trip to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Tethyan Triassic - IPC3- 2010, Londra, 2010 13. 7th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS7), “Freshwater ecosystems- 2R Challenges between conservation and management under global change”, Girona (Spagna), 26 June - 01 July 2011. 14. ACE_SAP Annual Project Meeting. Sperimentarea, Rovereto, 05 September 2011. 15. ACE-SAP 3rd Annual General Meeting, Mt. Zugna (TN), 19-20 May 2010. 16. ANMS, 20° Congresso: I musei delle scienze e la biodiversità. In ricordo di Sandro Ruffo. 3R Ferrara, 17-19 November 2010. 17. ASLO-NABS International joint Meeting, Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA), 06-11 June 2010. 18. Botanic Gardens and biodiversity at the 200 anniversary Ljubljana Botanic Gardens, Lubiana, Slovenia, 13-16 May 2010.

4R 19. Central European Diatom Meeting, CEDIATOM4, Island of Reichenau - Lake Constance, Germany, 12-14 March 2010. 20. Climaticamente Trentino 2011, 06-09 September 2011. 21. Meeting annuale Commissione Italiana Ornitologica. Segnalazione 2010, Aggiornamento, Validazioni, Metodi e Check lisk, ISPRA Bologna, 15 April 2011. 5R 22. Congresso “Conservazione ex situ con illustrazione di esperienze di reintroduzione”, Banca del Germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico “Selva di Gallignano”, Università politecnica delle Marche, Gallignano, Ancona, 23 April 2010. 23. Congresso dell’Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici, Ferrara (Italy) 17-19 November 2010.

6R 24. Convegno “Cartografia e geografia” IASMA, San Michele all’Adige (TN). 02 December 2010. 25. Convegno “Dalle Ande alle Alpi: genti di montagna in difesa dell’acqua”, 22 July 2010. 26. Convegno “Dolomiti: dalla storia geologica alla storia umana”, Fiera di Primiero 09 September 2011. 27. Convegno “Gestione integrata della Natura 2000, i contributi dei progetti LIFE+ al tutela della Biodiversità” Univ. di Mantova - Bosco della Fontana, 18 May 2011. 28. Convegno “Ghiacciai, quale futuro”, Roma, 15 October 2010. 29. Convegno “I musei naturalistici degli enti locali: realtà e strategie”. - Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, Roma, 04 May 2011. 30. Convegno “Parco Lagorai. Vale la pena pensarci?” Borgo Valsugana, 26-27 November 2010. 31. Convegno Comitato Glaciologico Trentino della SAT. Conferenza “metodo di costruzione del Report annuale attività glaciologica: analisi e risultati. Dati generali su Gruppo del Brenta e Val di Sole”. Trento. 04 December 2010. 32. Convegno scientifico “Cambiamenti climatici e montagna: quale futuro dopo Copenaghen”. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto, 04 May 2010. 33. Convegno Settimana dei mammiferi, Milano, November 2010. 34. Introduction to capture-recapture models applied to animal populations conservation

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CSIC-IMEDEA, Esporles, Spagna. 35. Daphne Workshop, Innsbruck, 30 June - 02 July 2010. 36. Finse Research Workshop 2010, Norway, 26-27 April 2010. 37. First annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium, Lubiana, 15 May 1R 2010. 38. First annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium, Silesian Botanical Garden, Katowice, Poland, 21 May 2011 39. Functional significance of mountain biodiversity, 2nd International GMBA-DIVERSITAS Conference Chandolin (Valais), Switzerland, 26-30th July 2010. 2R 40. Geoitalia 2011, Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra, Torino, 19-23 September 2011. 41. Global Change and the World’s Mountains, Perth, Scotland, UK, 26-30 September 2010. 42. IGS workshop 2010, Columbus, OH, 2010. 43. Il patrimonio geologico e la ricerca scientifica: buone pratiche a confronto nei Geoparchi e nelle Aree Protette. 10 Convegno Geoparchi SIGEA, GEOFLUID 2010, Piacenza, 09 3R October 2010. 44. Incontro annuale del Gruppo Orti Botanici e Giardini storici - SBI - University of Genova Centro Universitario di Servizi Giardini Botanici Hanbury, La Mortola di Ventimiglia, 28 May 2010. 45. Incontro PAT ed Enti locali a Levico Terme su Salamandra atra aurorae, priorità di 4R conservazione della popolazione trentina e nell’Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, February 2011. 46. Inquire 2nd partners meeting - Botanika Rhododensdron Park, Universitaet Bremen, Schulbioloziecentrum Hanover, Brema and Hannover, Germany, 24-28 September 2011. 47. Interpretazione Ambientale negli Orti Botanici e Nelle Aree Protette d’Italia. Villa 5R Carlotta, Tremezzo, Como, 07-08-09 November 2011. 48. IPC3-2010, Londra, 2010. 49. Management Board meeting Innsbruck, 27-30 November 2011. 50. Management Board meeting London, 02-03 September 2011. 6R 51. Meeting “Green Paper, Towards a Common Strategic Frame Work for EU Research and Innovation Funding”, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, 18 April 2011. 52. Meeting Farmland Bird Index - MITO, Torrile LIPU, Incontro annuale di programmazione e aggiornamento sui metodi e analisi della Banca dati MiTO Nazionale. 11-12 March 2011. 53. Meeting ORNITHO Incontro di programmazione e di aggiornamento sulla Banca dati Ornitho.it, Atlante nidificanti e svernanti 2011 - Bologna Ozzano dell’Emilia ISPRA, 03 April 2011; 24 September 2011. 54. North American Benthological Society (NABS), 2011 Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 22-26 May 2011. 55. Ornitho.it - Meeting Nazionale Roma, 17 November 2010. 56. Plenary session - Bioindication - Chairs: Marco Cantonati, Luc Ector. 5th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM5), Szczecin, Poland, 24-27 March 2011. (4 hours). 57. Progetto ALPI, Meeting annuale, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 14 June 2010. 58. Riunione Annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici e giardini storici della Società Botanica Italiana. Parma, 16 April 2011. 59. Scientific Meeting oft he Section Phycology of the German Botanical Society (DBG) e.V., Island of Reichenau - Lake Constance, Germany, 14-17 March 2010.

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60. Second annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium, Palermo, 03 December 2010. 61. Second annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens consortium, National Botanic Gardens of Belgium, Meise, Belgium, 21 May 2011. 1R 62. Seed Ecology 3 - The 3rd international meeting on seeds and the environment, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 17-24 June 2010. 63. Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland. February 2011. 64. Symposium Impact of envitomental change on birds in alpine enviroments. VIII EOU 2R Congress, Riga (LV), 27-30 August 2011. 65. Bayesian Capture-Recapture Workshop; University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, University of Reading, Reading, UK, Practical Bayesian Data Analysis. February 2011. 66. VII assemblea annuale di RIBES - Rete Italiana Banche del Germoplasma per la conservazione ex situ della flora italiana spontanea. Giardino botanico Michele Tenore, 3R Parco nazionale della Majella, Lama dei Peligni (CH), 09 April 2011. 67. VII European Conference on Ecological Modelling, Riva del Garda (TN), 30 May - 02 June 2011. 68. VIII EOU Congress, Riga (LV), 27-30 August 2011. 69. Workshop “Clima”, in occasione del Trento Film Festival, Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e 4R Rovereto, 04 May 2010. 70. Workshop Annuale Progetto ALPI, ISPRA. Bologna, 13 June 2011. 71. Workshop nazionale: la Reintroduzione delle Piante, problematiche e prospettive. Milano, Palazzo della Regione, 26 November 2010. 72. Workshop on Cassian Beds, Bolzano, 28-29 July 2011. 5R 73. Workshop PAT/MTSN inerente il “Progetto LIFE+ “Rete ecologica Trentino”, Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale PAT, Trento 6 May 2011. 74. Workshop “GNewArchaeology-Free/Libre Software, Open Data and Open Knowledge in Archaeology”. Ferrara 13-14 October 2011. 6R 75. XI Giornate di Paleontologia della Società Paleontologica Italiana, Serpiano (TI-CH), 02- 04 June 2011. 76. XVI Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Cervia (RA), 22-25 September 2011. 77. XXIII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia, Genova, 13-16 June 2011.

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Brugherio Bolzano Varese Verona 1 1 2 Italy 1 Milano Trento Verbania 4 19 1 Belluno 51 1 Alessandria Padova 1R 1 1 Brescia Torino 2 Ferrara 1 Pavia 1 1 Parma Bologna 2R 1 4 Pisa Bari 1 1 Firenze 1 Roma Lecce 3R 2 1 Cosenza L’Aquila 1 1 Catania 1 4R

National Collaborations (2010-2011) In Italy Agreements (with financial support) 18 5R Memorandum of Understanding (without financial support) 3 Partnerships 10 Other collaborations (co-authorship, free consultancies, etc.) 20 Total 51 6R

Agreements 1. Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente, Trento 2. Comune di Trento, Trento 3. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Lab. Optical Metrology - 3DOM, Trento 4. Museo Pigorini, Laboratorio Archeozoologia, Roma 5. Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta, Ufficio Tecnico Ambientale, Strembo, Trento 6. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Cogolo, Trento 7. PAT, Dip. Agricoltura, Servizio Vigilanza e Agricoltura, Trento 8. PAT, Dip. Foreste e Montagna, Trento 9. PAT, Servizio Conservazione della natura e valorizzazione ambientale, Trento 10. Soprintendenza Beni culturali Regione Puglia, Bari 11. Università di Firenze, Dip. Genetica, Firenze 12. Università di Pavia, Dip. di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Pavia 13. Università di Trento, Centro Interdipartimentale per la Biologia Integrata (CIBIO), Bioor- ganic Chemistry Lab and Lab of Microbial Genomics, Trento

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14. Università di Torino, Dip. Anatomia, Torino 15. Università del Salento CEDAD, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Centro di Datazione e Diagnostica, Lecce 16. Università della Calabria, Dip. di Ecologia, Rende, Cosenza 1R 17. Università di Ferrara, Dip. Biologia ed Evoluzione, Ferrara 18. Università di Roma la Sapienza, Dip. Antropologia, Roma

Memorandum of Understanding 2R 1. Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi - CNR, Sezione di Idrobiologia, Verbania, Pallanza 2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. di Protezione dei Sistemi Agroalimentare e Urbano e Valorizzazione delle Biodiversità (Dipsa), Milano 3. Università degli Studi di Milano, Facoltà di agraria, Sede di Edolo, Brescia 3R Partnerships 1. Distretto del Porfido e delle Pietre trentine, Trento 2. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology Dept., Trento 3. Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Centro Italiano di 4R Inanellamento, Ozzano dell’Emilia, Bologna 4. Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, Bolzano 5. Università Bicocca, Dip. di Scienze dell’ambiente e del territorio, Milano, 6. Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. Scienze della Terra, Milano 7. Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Economia, Bologna 5R 8. Università di Padova, Dip. di Biologia, Laboratorio di Algologia, Padova 9. Università di Trento, Facoltà di Economia, Trento 10. Università Ferrara, Dip. Scienze della Terra, Ferrara 6R Other collaborations 1. CORA Ricerche Archeologiche Snc, Trento 2. Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Seveso, Milano 3. Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, CNR-IRSA, Brugherio, Milano 4. Museo Civico di Rovereto, Sezione di Botanica, Rovereto, Trento 5. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona 6. PAT, Soprintendenza dei Beni Archivistici, Librari e Archeologici, Trento 7. Regione Emilia-Romagna, Direzione Generale Ambiente e Difesa del Suolo e della Costa, Servizio Geologico, Sismico e dei Suoli, Bologna 8. Servizio Geologico P.A.T., Dip. Protezione Civile PAT, Trento 9. Studio di Architettura K.N. Kompatscher, Bolzano 10. Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Dip. di Biologia Strutturale e Funzionale, Varese 11. Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. di Biologia, Milano 12. Università degli Studi di Trento, Dip. di Filosofia, Storia e Beni Culturali, Trento 13. Università degli Studi di Trento, Dip. di Ingegneria dei Materiali, Trento

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14. Università degli Studi di Trento, Lab. B. Bagolini, Trento 15. Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dip. di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Alessandria 16. Università dell’Aquila, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, L’Aquila 1R 17. Università di Bologna, Dip. di Scienze della Terra, Bologna 18. Università di Parma, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, Parma 19. Università di Torino, Dip. di Biologia Animale, Laboratorio di Ecologia, Torino 20. Università di Venezia & IDPA-CNR, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, Belluno

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Finland Norge 2 2 Germany 6 1R USA UK 3 9 France 2 Russia 2R 1 Poland Portougal 1 2 Bulgaria Spain 1 3R 4 Switzerland Czech Republic 2 3 Austria Pakistan 4 2 4R World Tanzania 48 3 Australia 1 5R

International Collaborations (2010-2011) Abroad

Agreements (with financial support) 2 6R Partnerships 26

Other collaborations (co-authorship, free consultancies, etc.) 20

Total 48

Agreements 1. Foundation Conservation International, Washington DC, USA 2. Wildlife Conservation Society, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Partnerships 1. Bordeaux Botanic Garden, Bordeaux, France 2. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK 3. Botanika GmbH, Rhododendron Park, Bremen, Germany 4. ETH Zurigo, Zurigo, Svizzera 5. German Primate Center (DPZ), Reproductive Biology Unit, Gene Bank of Primates and Primate Genetics Laboratory, Goettingen, Germany

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6. King´s College London, Dept. of Education & Professional Studies, London, UK 7. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Botanic Garden, Moscow, Russia 8. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Education Dept., Meise, Belgium 9. Royal Botanic Garden, Education Dept., Madrid, Spain 1R 10. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Education Dept., Richmond, UK 11. School Biology Centre, Hanover, Germany 12. Smithsonian Institution National History Museum Washington, Washington, USA

13. Tanzania National Parks, Tanzania 2R 14. Univerisity Bristol, Earth science Dept., Bristol, UK 15. University Innsbruck, Geology Dept., Innsbruck, Austria 16. University of Alcala, Real Jardín Botánico Juan Carlos I, Alcala de Hernares, Spain 17. University of Bremen, Instiutute of Biology Education, Bremen, Germany 3R 18. University of California, Berkley, USA 19. University of Coimbra, Botanic Garden, Coimbra, Portugal 20. University of Dar es Salaam, Dept. of Zoology and Dept. of Botany, Tanzania 21. University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany, Botanic Garden, Green school, Innsbruck, Austria 4R 22. University of Lisbon, Botanic Garden, Lisbon, Portugal 23. University of Manchester, Manchester Institute of Science Innovation Research of Innova- tion Businnes School, Manchester, UK 24. University of Oslo, Natural History Museum Botanic Garden, Dept. of Exhibitions and public services, Oslo, Norway 5R 25. University of Plimouth, School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, Plimouth, UK 26. University of Sofia, Botanic Gardens Dept., Sofia, Bulgaria 6R Other collaborations 1. Centre For Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford, UK 2. Karakorum International Univerity, Gilgit, Pakistan 3. National Museum & Galleries, Biodiversity, Cardiff, UK 4. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Algology Dept., Krakow, Polonia 5. The Natural History Museum, Botany Dept., Diatom Lab, London, UK 6. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Group of Biology and Environmetal Toxicology, Madrid, Spagna 7. Universitè de Toulouse le Mirail, CNRS Laboratoire Traces, Tolosa, Francia 8. University of Brno, Dept. of Botany and Zoology, Brno, Czech Republic 9. University of Frankfurt, Botany Institute, Germany 10. University of Girona, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Girona, Spain 11. University of Helsinki, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Aquatic Community Ecology Group, Helsinki, Finland 12. University of Innsbruck, Ecology Institute, Innsbruck, Austria 13. University of Innsbruck, Botany Institute, Hydrobotany, Innsbruck, Austria

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14. University of Newcastle, Earth Science Dept., Newcastle, Australia 15. University of Olomouc, Dept. of Botany, Phycology, Olomouc, Czech Republic 16. University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejowice, Czech Republic 1R 17. Univerity of Science and Tecnology, Dept. of Biology, Trondeheim, Norway 18. University of Tübingen, Germany 19. University of Zürich, Institute of Botany, Phycology, Switzerland 20. WWF - Pakistan, NLI Colony, Shahrh-e-Quaid-i-Azam, Jutial, Gilgit, Pakistan 2R

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