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The research acTiviTies aT The MUseO TriDeNTiNO Di scieNZe NaTUraLi Report 2008-2009 Report The research activities AT THE MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI Report 2008-2009 Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali

President Giuliano Castelli

Director Michele Lanzinger

MTSN Research Report 2008-2009

Managing editor Valeria Lencioni

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

Editorial assistant Maria Chiara Deflorian

Cover and layout design Roberto Nova

Printing Tipografia Esperia Srl - Lavis (TN)

ISBN 978-88-531-0011-5 The research activities AT THE MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI Report 2008-2009

5 Preface

Part 1

7 1. The research of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali

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

21 4. The scientific collections

25 5. The main results and projects

Part 2

57 Appendix 1: The research staff

85 Appendix 2: Research projects, high education and teaching

95 Appendix 3: Publications

113 Appendix 4: Collaborations: the research national network

117 Appendix 5: Collaborations: the research international network

Preface

Fully developed as natural history museum since the beginning of the 1900, the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (MTSN) over the past decade has developed a new cultural approach through innovative exhibitions and public programs which prompted a wider interpretation of its strictly naturalistic institutional scope. Nowadays the museum manages, besides the head centre 1R in Trento, a whole network of centers for scientific dissemination, established during the last 70 years: Botanical Alpine Garden on Viotte di Monte Bon- done, 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, Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (Tanzania) and Lymnological Field Station at the Lago di Tovel. 2R The MTSN has grown and evolved over time, and specifically in 2008-2009 thirty new people were employed in the permanent staff. Since 2009 it com- prises more than sixty employees of which seven curators heads of scientific sections (Botany, Limnology and Phychology, Invertebrate Zoology and Hyd- robiology, Vertebrate Zoology, Tropical Biodiversity, Prehistory and Geology) and five technicians involved in the research and conservation activities plus 3R seven cultural mediators and a plethora of more than thirty “unstructured” collaborators (Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and visitor researchers). In the biennium 2008-2009 the MTSN promoted and participated even with a role of coordinator to several research projects in collaboration with local research institutes such as the Edmund Mach Foun- 4R dation, the Kessler Foundation, the University of Trento and the Centre of Integrative Biology 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 centers have been strengthened. In the last two years also the national and international collaborations with other museums and research institutes increased, also 5R 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 2008-2009 published in scientific journals. The implementation of MTSN’s collections thanks to these researches contributes to increase 6R the relevance of such results (at present about 5 millions of specimens/items are preserved at the museum). Furthermore, in these last two years, the 450 m2 surface of permanent gallery have been renovated, devoting the major part of exhibits to the field of nature and biodiversity with special regards to the research activities of the MTSN 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 (ex- Michelin area) will be in 2012. It will change its name into Museo delle Sci- enze (Science Museum, 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 MTSN’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 MTSN, included the administrative employers. A special mention to the Auton- omous 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 Tridentino di Scienze Naturali

The research of THE Museo Tridentino 1 di Scienze Naturali

The research of the MTSN

The Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (Trento Natural Science Museum, MTSN) traces back its origin in the mid XIX century. Since then it has evolved into a modern museum, addressing research, visitor interpretation and education. Research at MTSN is articulated into two mainstream ar- 1R eas: a multidisciplinary investigation of nature and an interest for science interpretation, education and training, based on the interconnection between nature science and society.

Environmental research focuses on the Alpine region, and aims at attaining both local and global relevance, trying to be effective, integrated and useful 2R to the local community and research area but also strategically placed at Euro- pean level in key research networks, valuing international research cooperation and participation to consortia and competitive projects, delivering research products relevant at global level.

Education research continuously develops new means to raise awareness of 3R the alpine environment, promoting the sustainable use of its resources, nec- essary 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 the new science museum of Trentino, Museo delle Scienze (Science 4R Museum, MUSE).

In this context the role of new museum will be to investigate and explain the environment with the scientific method, addressing the challenges posed by the modern times and promoting the value of science, innovation and sustainable development. 5R

The present and future research activities of the MTSN includes:

 investigate the alpine geodynamic system, its endogenous and exog- enous processes, in order to clarify the active forces, its evolution, the biological component, the first human settlements and their evolution in 6R relation to geography and climate;  promote a biodiversity database built 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 functioning both aquatic and terrestrial, focusing on indicator species and adaptive potential;  produce distribution maps of priority species and habitats, 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, analysing sediments, karst, hypogeous water tables;  interconnect science with society to promote local assets and natural heritage on solid scientific grounds; on a wider scope educate and inspire the general public in an open discussion on nature science and sustainable development;  actively engage with European museums in a benchmarking analysis to better define the research mission of the new museum (MUSE).

2 The research Programmes The Research Activities at MTSN: Report 2008-2009

The research activities of MTSN are grouped in six general Programmes (1R-6R) accounting 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 even- tual 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 Cyanobacteria, 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 UV ra- 5R diation, acidification, diversion of water for hydroelectric purposes, eutrophication, 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 postdoctoral studies etc. that MTSN 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 MTSN 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, e 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 reintroduction 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 4R distribution 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 5R activities 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. MTSN 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 as detailed at point 5. 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 reaching 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 2R the Trento Autonomous Province to review the Italian lithostratigraphical nomencla- ture (“Catalogue of the Italian Geological Formations”), and edit the new Geologi- cal Map of Italy (CARG Project). The Section coordinates all the palaeontological activities that are developed in the area by universities and research institutes. The Section has in his tasks the preservation and valorisation of natural beauties and 3R aims to 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 5R economy, 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 the archaeological finds aims to the interpretation of the human strategies in the 6R 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 Qua- ternary through datation techniques, paleoclimatic researches, Pedology, Paleo- botany and Archaeozoology.

14 3 The research staff and activities The Research Activities at MTSN: Report 2008-2009

Seven scientific Sections are involved in research activities.

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 2R Geology Marco Avanzini Prehistory Giampaolo Dalmeri

Each working group (Section) is represented by a curator (with the role of coordi- 3R nator), one technician and a variable number of researchers, grant positions, and students (master, Ph.D.) (Table 1; Appendix 1).

Table 1 - Research staff in 2008-2009 (as full time equivalent). Research staff (2008-2009) fte

4R Curators - chief-researchers, Section coordinators 7 Researchers 16 Technicians 10 Scientific communicators 7 5R Post docs 3 Ph.Ds 13 Total 56

In Table 2 and Appendix 2 data referred to teaching and research activity carried 6R out in 2008-2009 are given.

Table 2 - Quantitative data on research and teaching activities (2008-2009).

Research and teaching activities (2008-2009) Nr.

Research projects 59 Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 29 Seminars c/o universities and museums 7 Lectures 36 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 8 Post-doc grants 3 Ph.Ds 13 Masters and degrees 19 Other research grants 2 Trainings 9 Volunteers 13

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In 2008-2009 more than 200 publications have been produced by the MTSN research staff as author/co-author (see Table 3 and Appendix 3).

Table 3 - Number of publications by MTSN researchers (2008-2009).

Publications (2008-2009) Nr. 1R

Scientific papers on peer-reviewed journals (with IF or ISI) 44 Scientific papers on peer-reviewed but not ISI journals 67 Scientific papers on un-reviewed journals 4 2R Books or book chapters 28 Popular Science papers 28 Oral communications (with published abstract) 39 Oral communications (without published abstract) 22 3R Posters (with published abstract) 20 Posters (without published abstract) 11 Congress attendances 64

Among the outputs of the MTSN research activities the scientific journals edited by 4R the MTSN: Preistoria Alpina (since 1963), Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali (since 1926), Monografie del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (since 2004) and Quad- erni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (since 2007). The scientific committee is represented by curators of the MTSN and Italian and foreign experts in the different disciplines. As a mean in the last 5 years, about 1000 pages/year have been published. In 2008- 5R 2009, 11 volumes were printed for a total of 2327 printed pages (Table 4).

Table 4 - Publications edited by MTSN in 2008-2009.

Journal, volume Title Print year N. pages 6R Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 83 Italian Ichnology 2008 347 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 84 Miscellanea 2009 160 Suoli degli ambienti Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 85 2009 169 alpini Atti Congresso Gadio Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 86 2009 175 2008 Preistoria Alpina, suppl., 42 Abitare il Neolitico 2008 480 Preistoria Alpina, 43 Miscellanea 2008 315 Atti Convegno Preistoria Alpina, 44 Obermaier 2009 270 +miscellanea Quaderni del Museo Tridentino La fauna del suolo 2008 191 di Scienze Naturali, 3 Natura Alpina, 3-4.2007 2008 108 Natura Alpina, 1.2008 2009 58 Natura Alpina, 2-3.2009 2009 54 Total 2327

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Overall, the MTSN collaborates with about 200 research institutes, museums, scientific associations etc., in Italy and abroad (Table 5, Appendix 4).

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

1R Collaborations 2008 - 2009 in Italy Abroad

Universities 21 35 Research Institutes 12 19 Museums 4 10 2R Private and public institutions/associations 38 30 Total 75 94

3R Funds for research activities amount at 2,446,195 Euros in 2008 and at 2,733,382 Euros in 2009. The research activities were financed mainly by the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) as reported in Tables 6 and 7.

4R Table 6 - Funds for research activities (2008-2009).

Funds for research activities (2008-2009) 2008 2009

Grant-in-aid by PAT - Research and University 1,600,000.00 1,900,000.00 5R Service PAT - Grant projects 237,537.00 232,507.00

Other revenues 608,658.00 600,875.00

6R Total 2,446,195.00 2,733,382.00

Table 7 - MTSN research funds: Trend in the last 5-years.

% Other revenues/ Year Grant-in-aid by PAT Other revenues Grant-in-aid by PAT

2005 820,000.00 1,254,017.47 60.5%

2006 820,000.00 936,022.19 53.3%

2007 820,000.00 858,484.56 51.1%

2008 1,600,000.00 846,194.69 34.6%

2009 1,900,000.00 833,382.00 30.5%

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The figure shows the repartition of the research projects in three categories depending on the source of revenue: -- institutional projects : supported by the Grant-in-aid -- grant based projects: financed by PAT or other institutions through grant competitions 1R -- on agreement projects: financed within an agreement subscribed with other institutions for research consultancies or services.

40 2R 30 16 9 20 10 12 10 N. projects N.

N . projects 11 13 0 2008 2009 3R

InstitutionalIns-tu-onal GrantGrant AgreementAgreement Number of research projects (2008-2009).

4R In 2009 the number of projects (and the total amount of funds) on agreements heavily decreased (from 16 to 9) whereas those on grants and institutional slightly increased. This is mainly due to the end of several projects funded on agreements and the involvement of the research staff in activities regarding the realization of the new Science Museum (MUSE). All these data were performed by the administration staff (Massimo Eder, Alberta 5R Giovannini, Sabrina Candioli).

4 The scientific collections The Research Activities at MTSN: Report 2008-2009

The natural history and archaeological collections of the Museo Tridentino di Scien- ze Naturali (about 300 collections and more than 4,5 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 for- 1R eign countries, obtained through 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 3,800 3,800

Botany 44 150,000 370,000

3R Limnology and Phycology 12 7,000 8,500 Invertebrate Zoology 17 4,500 1,200,000

Vertebrate Zoology 18 10,700 12,000

Geology 8 17,000 42,000 4R Prehistory 200 95,000 3,250,000

Total 300 288,000 4,886,100

5R The MTSN collections are constantly investigated and cared for 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 (53.2%) is fully catalogued with a specific software in accord- ance with the national standards. This also thanks to 13 volunteers of Civil Service 6R involved in sixprojects (see Appendix 2). In 2008-2009 MTSN received several loan requests: 54 outgoing loans were approved, 44 for research purposes and 10 for temporary exhibitions. The MTSN collections specimens were described or used as material in 38 different publications written by the museum staff or by other researchers who borrowed MTSN collections objects. Acquisition and documentation increased conspicuously with 50,330 new specimens, 16,291 new catalogue cards digitized and 78,480 revised.

Collections 2008-2009: loans, publications, acquisitions and cataloguing (digitization). Collections 2008 2009

Research outgoing loans 22 22

Exhibitions outgoing loans 4 6

Publications about collections 15 23

New acquisitions (specimens) 22,530 27,800

New catalogue cards 7,751 8,540

Catalogue card revised 59,993 18,487

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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 3,800 specimens of amphibians and reptiles (and mammals to a much less extent). These include over 40 species that are new to science. The herpetological collection of MTSN is 1R now recognized one of the most important with regards to the mountain forests of Tanzania. Among the mammals, the collection includes Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, the giant elephant-shrew discovered by MTSN researchers and described in 2008.

Botany 2R Botany collections are made up by 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 approx. 150,000 specimens mainly collected 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 origi- 3R nate 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 species, 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 4R the Eastern Alps.

Limnology and phycology Phycological and limnological collections of the MTSN 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, 5R 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 two historical algae collections including exsic- cata of marine and freshwater algae originating from different locations worldwide and collected mainly in the Nineteenth Century. 6R

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Invertebrate zoology and hydrobiology Invertebrate collections of the MTSN include more than 1.4 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- 1R 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 micro- scope slides of aquatic insects and crustaceans is also present.

5R Vertebrate zoology The Vertebrate Zoology collections of MTSN include all classes of this taxon, with a marked prevalence of birds and mammals. Overall there are more than 10,000 specimens, of which 4,000 collected between 1850 and 1950, while the rest are from recent donations, acquisitions and MTSN own research. It is especially interesting the small mammal collection, that counts 6,000 among insectivors and rodents. 6R The material demonstrates the tight link of MTSN with the local environment, and it overall includes whole animals prepared as skins or wet specimens, bird nests, eggs, prepared skeletons.

Geology Geological collections of the MTSN are constituted of rocks, minerals and fossils collected form the main localities of the Trentino Alto Adige region and, in mi- nor part, from Italian and foreign sites. The 17,000 specimens come from different sources, and became part of the museum heritage thanks to research activities, donations or occasional findings by privates or collaborators of the museum. Speci- mens, 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 MTSN’s archaeological collections are referred to lithic materials, ceramics, bone and horn manufacts, art manufacts, wood, vegetal fibres, metal manufacts and fau- nas. MTSN’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.

24 THE Main results 5 and projectS The Research Activities at MTSN: Report 2008-2009

Can a species aid another species when the situation becomes hard? An answer from a field experiment using bryophytes Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R1R Classical ecological theory states that two species should have different niches to coexist, otherwise one outcompetes the other. In the past decade, however, the role of negative interactions (competition) has 2R been resized on the basis of increased evidence of positive interactions (facilitation). Current theory predicts that the balance between competition and facilitation changes along a gradient of stress, so that facilita- 3R tion predominates in environmentally stressful conditions, while competition prevails in more favourable conditions. The mechanisms by which these species interactions occur can be different. For bryophytes, one of the main mechanism involves water avail- 4R ability. Bryophytes are like sponges, gaining and retaining water through small chambers and capillary spaces. In this experiment we evaluated the conditions in which a bryophyte species facilitates or competes in relation to the level of stress and to the duration 5R of this stress. Simulating drought events of different intensity and duration, we noted that the species interactions changed but not according to the current theory. The shift between competition and facilitation and 6R viceversa, can change with time also within a seasonal scale, probably following the climate fluctuation. Even though the experiment was not conclusive, with this study we identified the spatial and temporal context within which the processes operate, increasing our understanding of the causes of spatial and temporal variability.

This work was funded by the University and Scientific Research Section of the Autonomous Province of Trento to the Limnology and Phycol- ogy Section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (CRENODAT Project: Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of Trentino - Italian Alps - and long-term ecological research, 2004-2008).

Spitale D., 2009 - Switch between competition and facilitation within a seasonal scale at colony level in bryophytes. Oecologia 160/3: 471-482.

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A comparison between diatom assemblages in two groups of carbonate, low-altitude springs with different levels of anthropogenic disturbances

Section of Limnology and Phycology 11RR

Since several decades diatoms are while the average species richness was increasingly used for the assessment of slightly higher in nature-near springs the trophic status of different freshwater (CRENODAT); higher percentages of ecosystems. However, spring habitats endangered or rare taxa (Red List) were have been only marginally considered found only in the nature-near springs. 2R concerning this topic. The main impacts affecting the The purpose of this research was to CESSPA springs were found to be both compare the diatom assemblages of anthropogenic disturbances, such us wa- two groups of carbonate, low-altitude ter abstraction and spring-bed modifica- springs, affected by different levels of tion, and higher nitrate values. 3R anthropogenic disturbances. Two datasets were considered: This work was funded by the the Autorità di the first (CESSPA) includes carbonate Bacino del Fiume Adige and Museo di Storia springs located within the River Adige Naturale di Verona to the Limnology and Phy- catchment while the second (CRENO- cology Section of the Museo Tridentino di Sci- DAT, selected springs) includes springs enze Naturali (CESSPA Project, Censimento e 4R located not exclusively within the same studio di sorgenti e pozzi del Bacino dell’Adige basin, and very similar to the previous = Inventory and investigation of springs and ones, as regards lithological substratum, wells in the River Adige basin, 2007-2009) and altitude range, shading. by the University and Scientific Research Sec- Environmental quality indices, to- tion of the Autonomous Province of Trento gether with statistical analysis, were used (CRENODAT Project). 5R to assess differences between the diatom assemblages in the two datasets. In- Angeli N., Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Lange- dices revealed higher trophic and sapro- Bertalot H., 2010 - A comparison between bity levels for the CESSPA springs than diatom assemblages in two groups of car- for the other group (CRENODAT). bonate, low-altitude springs with different 6R Values of the Shannon-Wiener diver- levels of anthropogenic disturbances. Fot- sity index were similar for the two groups tea, 10: 115-128.

Torricelle captured spring (CESSPA) and Brenta Alta close-to-pristine spring (CRENODAT).

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Bangia atropurpurea, an invasive red alga in Lake Garda. Jack of all trades, master of some? Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R1R Bangia atropurpurea is widely distrib- bient, ambient minus UVA, and ambient uted in freshwater habitats (rivers and minus UVA and UVB). Within these main lakes in North America, Europe, and Asia). treatments, we will study the response In Lake Garda, B. atropurpurea oc- of B. atropurpurea with ecological, mor- curs mainly on rocky substrata in the phological, metabolomic, and genetic 2R central-northern part, and only sporadi- approaches. Candidate genes will be cally in the southern part. B. atropurpu- selected on the basis of literature and rea typically occurs in the upper and mid preliminary ecological, morphological, eulittoral zones. Here it experiences, ultrastructural, and bioorganic analyses. both diurnally and seasonally, extreme The expression of the selected genes at environmental fluctuations, resulting in the different experimental conditions will 3R desiccation, freezing, osmotic and radi- be assessed by RT-PCR and/or real time ation stress. Since L. Garda experiences PCR. Stress induced by desiccation and relatively ample seasonal water-level by different radiation types will be evalu- fluctuations, Bangia is supposed to be ated by morphological and ultrastruc- adapted to a very stressful habitat. Un- tural analysis, paying special attention to 4R derstanding the mechanisms of resist- cellular membranes organization and to ance to UV exposition and desiccation the stress-protection compounds. of B. atropurpurea is the main aim of our study within the ACE-SAP Project. This work (ACE-SAP.A2.WP2) was funded by To shed some light on the mecha- the University and Scientific Research Section nisms conferring its ability to colonize of the Autonomous Province of Trento (ACE- 5R such a stressful habitat, currently we are SAP Project - Alpine ecosystems in a chang- carrying out a field experiment in which ing environment: biodiversity sensitivity and artificial substrata colonized by B. atro- adaptive potential, 2008-2011). Collabora- purpurea are translocated to obtain two tions (ACE-SAP.A2.WP2): University of Trento main treatments, moisture level (hydrat- (Bioorganic chemistry Lab, CIBIO), University ed and exposed to air) and radiation (am- of Padua (Phycology Lab). 6R

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International diatomists met at the Museum in Trento in 2008 Section of Limnology and Phycology

Diatoms are unicellular microalgae. by the Limnology and Phycology Section 11RR Their cell is enclosed within a silica frus- and took place in the Museo Tridentino tule formed by two valves with complex Scienze Naturali (Trento, Italy) from the ultrastructure. They are very biodiverse 12th to the 15th of June 2008. It was at- (estimates of worldwide species richness tended by about hundred delegates range from 200.000 to 2.000.000), and, from 21 countries (in decreasing order by being dominant also in the phytoplank- number of registered participants): Ger- 2R ton of the oceans, they contribute to glo- many, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Rus- bal primary production with a proportion sia, Spain, Hungary, Poland, United King- as large as 20%. They can be found eve- dom, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, rywhere there is a little bit of moisture, Croatia, Belgium, Israel, Sweden, Serbia, and in aquatic habitats. Most of them Macedonia, Canda. Bosna, Netherlands). 3R have very precise preferences as con- There have been 71 contributions (21 cerns ecological factors of paramount talks + 50 posters). relevance in environmental quality as- sessments, such as pH, mineralization, The Congress was held under the Patronage of nutrients’ levels etc. the Autonomous Province of Trento. Sponsors: The amorphous-silica frustules al- University and Scientific Research Service of 4R low species identification, and are usu- the Autonomous Province of Trento, Trentino ally preserved in sediments, thus being S.p.A. and APT Trento (Trentino and Trento a precious tool for paleoenvironmental Marketing Companies respectively), Centro reconstructions. All this characteristics Duplicazioni PAT (Printing Center of Autono- have fostered the use of diatoms in a mous Province of Trento), Foradori (wine tast- wide array of disciplines: environmental ing at the end of the excursion), Koeltz Scien- 5R biology (as monitors), geology, paleolim- tific Books (book exhibition), Italian Ministry of nology, archeology, phorensics, nanote- the Environment and Territory Protection Friuli chnologies etc. This relevance in many Museum of Natural History (Italian Habitats). branches explains why there are, worldwide, numerous researchers specialized Cantonati M., Scalfi A. & Bertuzzi E. (eds), 6R on this group, some specialized journals 2008 - Abstract Book of the 2nd Central (Diatom Research etc.) and even a “Dia- European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2). tom Institute” in Japan. Trento, Italy, 12-15 June 2008, 98 pp. Diatom mounts are excellent col- Cantonati M. (Ed.), 2009 - Papers presented lection objects, and therefore dia- at the 2nd Central European Diatom Meet- tomists are present in many natural ing, and submitted for publication on History Museums. The 2nd Central Eu- Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali. In: Studi ropean Diatom Meeting was organized Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 84: 103-160.

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Adaptation capacity to variable temperatures in aquatic insects: the case study of non-biting midges from cold streams Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R1R Diptera Chironomidae (non biting oxy-regulatory behaviour were common midges) represent up to 100% of the in the less cold stenothermal species. fauna of cold alpine streams. Because These differences are explained by they survive stress conditions such as ex- different autoecology of the investigated tremely low temperature (annual mean species. These results provide information 2R of 4°C), these animals represent a good on biochemical strategies of alpine midg- organism model to analyze the effects of es to face cold temperatures under natu- temperature and oxygen saturation on ral conditions and new insights into their survival, basal respiration rate and the possible response to global warming. synthesis of chaperons as Heat shock 3R proteins 70 kDa. This work was carried out within the projects: Data on fourth instar larvae of ten spe- “Ambienti estremi: cambiamenti climatici e cies of cold-stenothermal chironomids strategie adattative in invertebrati acquatici di (Pseudodiamesa branickii, Diamesa latitar- alta quota”, funded by Fondazione Cassa di sis, Diamesa laticauda, Diamesa cinerella, Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto (2006-2008); Diamesa insignipes, Diamesa zernyi, Di- “ACE-SAP” (Ecosistemi alpini e cambiamento 4R amesa vaillanti, Orthocladius (Orthocladi- ambientale: sensibilità e potenziale adattativo us) frigidus, Orthocladius (Euorthocladius) della biodiversità), funded by the University thienemanni and Paratriclochladius niva- and Scientific Research Section of the Autono- lis) from glacier-fed streams in the Noce mous Province of Trento (2008-2011). Bianco basin (Trentino, N.E. Italy, 1300- 2600 m a.s.l.) are available. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Vanin S., Di Muro P. & 5R Overall, lower levels of Hsp70 (as sum Beltramini M., 2008 - Respiration rate and of constitutive and inducible detected by oxy-regulatory capacity in cold stenother- western blotting) and an oxy-conformer mal chironomids. Journal of Insect Physiol- behaviour (i.e. higher critical pressure ogy, 54/9: 1337-1342. and initial decrease; lower regulation Lencioni V., Boschini D. & Rebecchi L., 2009 6R value, respiration rate at 25% oxygen - Expression of the 70 kDa Heat shock saturation and slope ratio in piecewise protein family in Alpine freshwater chi- linear regression) were observed in the ronomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) under most cold stenothermal species whereas natural conditions. Journal of Limnology, lower amounts of stress proteins and an 68/2: 251-256.

Diamesa insignipes

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High species richness means quality of life: it is not always true Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology

11RR Societies and Sections of environment protection refer to biodiversity as number of species: “high species richness is quality of life”. Our study, performed using ground beetles (Carabidae) as study model 2R due to their well known sensibility to habitat changes, introduces a non-taxonomic method to classify habitats with different level of stability. If we assume forests as habitats with low human in- 3R terference and high natural quality, our data show that these habitats have the lowest ground dwelling beetle species richness, in opposition to the rural habitats, which are richer in species. For this reason, species richness, as similar- 4R ity of species composition, may not be results obtained by our research sug- good descriptors of habitat quality, un- gest that the analysis of ground beetle less we use a low number of species as assemblages could be of help in land- descriptor of good habitat quality. scape ecology studies to determine On the contrary, functional traits habitat stability. (dispersal capacity, diet and body Lower number of species, but high- 5R length) of species assemblages result er frequency of predator, wingless and good indicators of habitat quality. The large species, as we found in forest habitats, are connected to stability and, therefore, environmental quality. We also show that the main problem 6R of the agroecosystems is not the loss of biodiversity as species richness, but the loss of biodiversity functions. Patches with predator species could be considered sink of diet specialists of pest insects, patches with lager body species may favour the presence of mammals and bird, as these vertebrates prefer to prey few specimens with high biomass than many specimens with low biomass. During the last century, wingless, large bodied and diet specialists’ ground beetle populations quickly declined in Europe, mainly in lowlands (and the bottom of the alpine valley) that were rapidly changing.

Gobbi M. & Fontaneto D., 2008 - Biodiversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in different habitats of the Italian Po lowland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environ- ment, 127/3-4: 273-276.

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Life at the edge: from the Alps to the Arctic (Svalbard, Norway) and Karakorum (Pakistan) Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R1R At high latitudes and altitudes, ice ing), (c) ecological (extension of develop- formation is a major variable affecting ment to several years by quiescence or survival of freshwater fauna and hence diapause and reduction of the number of the abundance and composition of inver- generations per year), (d) physiological tebrate communities. Freezing, but also and biochemical (freezing tolerance and 2R desiccation and anoxia, are lethal threats freezing avoidance) adaptations. to all life stages of aquatic insects, from More than 100 thousands of speci- the eggs to the adults. Since 1996 the mens were collected and several special- Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hy- ized involved in identifying them to spe- drobiology is carrying out ecological re- cies. About ten new species have been 3R searches on fauna living “at the edge”, in identified and others are suspected to be cold freshwater in the Italian Alps, in the present in the collected material, high- Artic (Svalbard Islands) since 1997 and, lighting the value of such environments since 2008, in Karakorum (Pakistan). as biodiversity hotspot still little known. In these regions, the growing season Collaborations with the KIU (Karako- is reduced to a few weeks, and insects rum International University), the Museo 4R have developed a complex of strategies Civico di Storia Naturale of Verona and to survive at their physiological tempera- the Bicocca University of Milan have been ture minimum, comprising (a) morpho- activated in 2008. logical (melanism, reduction in size, hairi- ness/pubescence, brachyptery and ap- The research expeditions to Svalbard were tery), (b) behavioural (basking in the sun, supported in 1997 by VI FP (Arctic and Alpine 5R changes in feeding and mating habit, Stream Ecosystem Research ENV-CT95-0164) parthenogenesis, polyploidy, ovovivipar- and in 2003 by MTSN, those to Karakorum in ity, habitat selection, and cocoon build- 2008 by EV-K2-CNR Comittee.

Karakorum (Pakistan), June and October 2008.

Svalbard Islands (Ny-Ålesund), August 1997 and 2003.

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Biodiversity and Enviromental Change Section of Vertebrate Zoology

Recent changes to the natural world Ecology and Hydrology (UK). The base- 11RR provide strong evidence for the power- line data were derived from the Italian ful effects of environmental changes on Breeding Bird Survey (MITO). The study biodiversity. involved the use of a series of advanced Shifts in the abundance and distribu- modelling techniques to predict chang- tion can lead to marked changes in the es the distribution of 57 of species of composition of ecological communities, birds in relation to three future land 2R with implications for the structure and cover scenarios. function of ecosystems, and for the serv- The main results indicate that future ices that they provide. land cover changes could cause a de- The research programme on Biodi- crease in the distribution of 46 of spe- versity and Environmental Change of cies by the year 2080, and, that provincial the Vertebrate Zoology Section at the areas located at mid-altitudes will expe- 3R Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali is rience the highest loss in species diver- driven by three unifying question: 1) how sity. Researchers are currently examining does climate drive biodiversity in moun- the relationship between the probability tain environments? 2) how might current of species extinction relation to a series and future environmental changes affect biological traits. This trait-based analy- 4R alpine biodiversity? 3) how can alpine sis will shed more light on the biological biodiversity be conserved considered characteristics that predispose a species present and future challenges? to extinction. During the year 2009 the Vertebrate The Vertebrate Zoology Section ul- Zoology Section conducted a study timately aims to use the results of this on the impacts of future land cover resarch to inform local conservation 5R land cover changes on the distribution decisions and the development of ac- breeding birds in the province of Tren- tion plans to conserve highly sensitive to, in collaboration with the Centre for species.

A2 scenario 2020 A2 scenario 2050 6R

Present

B2 scenario 2020 B2 scenario 2050

Result of model predictions: an example of consensus forecasts for water pipit Anthus spinoletta (28% reduction in range).

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Modelling spatio-temporal dynamics of bird migration across the Italian Alps Section of Vertebrate Zoology 1R1R This project is focussed on quanti- to over 170 species, were gathered. fying the spatio-temporal dynamics of By using a series of robust model- migratory birds in the Italian Alps, us- ling techniques, ranging from statistical ing a series of advanced analytical ap- to machine learning, the project deals proaches. Expected results will provide with the following specific objectives: 1) 2R a deeper understanding of the environ- to explore the importance both species mental and biological drivers of abun- and site components of the variation in dance in migrating birds and the role of species abundance and fuelling rates, 2) migrants as indicators of environmental to understand how global environmen- change. The project is highly relevant tal processes affect species abundance for understanding future threats to mi- and stopover behaviour, 3) to test the 3R gratory species at the large scale. importance of migrants as indicators of environmental change, within a predic- It makes use of the data generated tive modelling framework. by the “Progetto Alpi”network, coordinated by the Italian Ringing Scheme The work will be undertaken within three- and the Vertebrate Zoology Section of year Ph.D. project, jointly supervised by the 4R the Natural Science Museum of Trento. University of Pavia (Giuseppe Bogliano), The “Progetto Alpi”, started up in Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Oxford, 1997, is already active with more than 30 UK), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and ringing stations where data on post-nup- Climate-Italian National Research Council, tial bird migration are collected. Up to and the Institute for Environmental Protec- 5R now more than 300’000 records, referred tion and Research.

4 2 7 3 Col de Bretolet 24 12 26 9 6 1 21 16 27 20 14 25 23 17 15 10 8 5 29 2218-19 31 13 11 35 28 36 32 34 RingingStazioni Stationsaderenti of al the Progetto Progetto Alpi Alpi nel for periodo the period 1997 1997-2008-2008 1. La Tesa - UD 20. Colle Gallo - BG 2. Sella Carnizza - UD 21. La Passata - BG 37 3. Portis - UD 22. Capannelle - BG 4. Casera Doana - BL 23. Roccolo Zois - BG 5. Ciano Val di Buratto - TV 24. Cascina Lodoletta - CO 6. Passo del Brocon - TN 25. Costa Perla - LC 33 30 7. Lago di Caldaro - BZ 26. Bolle di Magadino - CH 8. Passo del Mesole - VI 27. Isolino - VB 9. Foci dell’Avisio - TN 28. Palude San Genuario - VC 10. Malga Derocon - VR 29. Lago di Candia - TO 11. Vajo Galina - VR 30. Carnino - CN 12. San Mauro - TN 31. La Vedetta - TO 13. Cà de la Pela - VR 32. Colle del Lys - TO 14. Bocca di Caset – TN 33. Colle dell’Ortiga - CN 15. Passo di Spino – BS 34. Colle Vaccera - TO 16. Passo della Berga, Maniva - BS 35. Pracatinat - TO 17. Palazzina - BS 36. Balboutet - TO 18. Roccolo Campiani - BS 37. Prati del Vallone - CN 19. Campiani Pedrina - BS

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The discovery of a diatom genus new to science in a spring of the Fumo Valley (Adamello-Brenta Natural Park) Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R The Limnology and Phycology Sec- Lange-Bertalot discovered in a spring in tion of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze the Fumo Valley (that now thus is the so- Naturali is dealing, since the beginning called locus typicus of the new species). of the 1990s with a very peculiar type of From the study of materials deposited freshwater habitats: springs. These envi- in the diatom collection of the Museum ronments are known to the wider public and from the analysis of published data 22RR almost exclusively because they are often ecological preferences and distribution exploited to gain drinking water. On the of the new species could be reconstruct- contrary, it is scarcely known that the fre- ed. It lives, on the Alps and in northern quently particularly stable environmental Europe, on aquatic and semi-aquatic conditions, and the waters, usually of plants in mires, springs, and lake shores very high quality, allow these habitats to affected by seasonal water-level fluctua- 3R host rare, Red List, or even new-to-sci- tions and with acidic waters due to the ence species. The most important spring presence of organic acids (dystrophic en- study co-ordinated by the Limnology and vironments). On a sub-Antarctic Island, Phycology Section has been CRENODAT another species that can be assigned (details below). to this genus was recently discovered 4R This Project made possible the dis- (Microfissurata australis Van de Vijver et covery of a notable number of new taxa Lange-Bertalot). (genera, subgenera, species) of different groups of organisms. The most relevant This work was financed by the University and taxonomic result has been the discovery Scientific Research Section of the Autono- of a diatom genus new to science, that mous Province of Trento to the Limnology and 5R has been named Microfissurata Lange- Phycology Section of the Museo Tridentino Bertalot, Cantonati et Van de Vijver. The di Scienze Naturali (CRENODAT Project: Bio- description was published in 2009 in the diversity assessment and integrity evaluation renowned phycological journal J. Phycol. of springs of Trentino - Italian Alps - and long- The main morphological character of the term ecological research, 2004-2008). new genus is that the so-called “striae”, 6R that in most diatoms are formed by rows Cantonati M., Van de Vijver & Lange-Bertalot of perforations (areolae), are simple slits H., 2009 - Microfissurata gen. nov. (Bacil- (microfissures). The species on which the lariophyta), a new diatom genus from dys- description of the new genus is based trophic and intermittently-wet terrestrial is Microfissurata paludosa Cantonati et habitats. Journal of Phycology, 45: 732-741.

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Bryophyte and vascular plant diversity in springs: understanding the role of the environment to improve our conservation efforts Section of Limnology and Phycology 1R More than one hundred springs of the Province of Trento have been exten- sively studied during a recent research project (CRENODAT). Even though people know springs mainly as a source 2R2R of drinking water, they are in fact also important habitats which host a high number of specialized and sometimes rare species. Understanding the main factors controlling the species diversity is therefore a crucial step to plan effi- 3R cient conservation strategies. With this objective, we developed and tested a model able to predict the number of species of bryophytes and vascular plants in springs. It was demon- 4R strated that the effects of canopy and lithology on bryophyte and vascular plant This work was financed by the University and richness are different: for bryophytes Scientific Research Section of the Autono- the increased richness with altitude is mous Province of Trento to the Limnology and more related to lithology, whereas vas- Phycology Section of the Museo Tridentino cular plant richness increased because di Scienze Naturali (CRENODAT Project: Bio- 5R of the reduction of canopy cover. In ad- diversity assessment and integrity evaluation dition, the model explained how the of springs of Trentino - Italian Alps - and long- spring area is related to discharge, and term ecological research, 2004-2008). how, in turn, they influence the species diversity. The variables area and Spitale D., Petraglia A. & Tomaselli M., 2009- discharge are particularly relevant for Structural equation modelling detects un- 6R spring conservation, because, as the de- expected differences between bryophyte mand for potable water increases, the and vascular plant richness along multiple spring area decreases, determining the environmental gradients. Journal of Bioge- loss of species diversity. ography, 36: 745-755.

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Exceptional hot spot of longhorned beetle’s diversity along the Val Genova (Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta) Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R The longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae) can be considered one of the most richness families in the animal kind with about 35,000 described species. In Europe 22RR the species richness amount to a total of 677 species. Cerambicids are strictly phy- tophagous occurring herba- ceous, shrubby and arboreal 3R vegetation. From the ecological point of view, longhorned beetles might potentially be excellent indicator species of the health of the wood saproxylic coenoses because data and recent field survey, covering 4R of their habitat specificities. For the Ital- a total of sixty year (1947-2007) of bio- ian peninsula are known 274 species be- diversity monitoring, we have studied longing to 119 genera representing one the longhorned beetle fauna of the of the nations with the highest species Val Genova (Parco Naturale Adamello- richness in Europe. Brenta). During the period 1947-2007 On the base of historical literature a total of 88 species of longhorned 5R beetles has been observed. This value represents the 60% of the Trentino Alto-Adige Province cerambicids richness, the 32% of the Italian cerambicids fauna and the 13% of the European ce- 6R rambicids richness. The species richness results nega- tively correlated to the elevation above 1700 m a.s.l.. A not-significant changing in species richness found between 800 and 1700 m is probably due to a high heterogeneity in the human managed habitat patches (mixed wood, pastures and meadows). In 2007 has been observed a new species never found along the valley (Phytoecia cylindrica). The un-expected cerambicids richness underline the importance of the Val Genova as high quality valley from the ecological point of view. Many species, at the adult stages, have an important role as pollinators and mainly the larvae, but also the adult, are an abundant component in the diet of forest birds like the woodpeckers.

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Aquatic insects as indicators of freshwater habitat quality: a new protocol to define the ecological status of the Italian lakes Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology 1R The MTSN research activity on lakes techniques and sampling analyses. The includes the developing and testing of research is undergoing within a nation- ecological indicators and functional rela- al network involving all Environmental tionships between chemical and biologi- Agencies, CNRs and several universities. cal quality of surface waters, for Water The final outcome will be a new multi- 2R2R Framework Directive (WFD) compliant metric index incorporating pollution tol- assessment and classification of aquatic erance, diversity and ecological function- ecosystem health. At European level ing of the invertebrate community. there is currently lack of experience in using biological elements for assessment The MTSN database on lowland lakes refer of the ecological status of lakes and for mainly to LESMA project (The assessment 3R management purposes. of the ecological status of lakes by macroin- This is special true for macroinverte- vertebrates in Trentino), funded by “Euro- brates, which are required to be includ- pean Commission-Joint Research Centre, ed in the ecological assessment by the Institute for Environment and Sustainabil- European Water Framework Directive. ity” (JRC), Ispra (VA) (2005). 4R Macroinvertebrates have a great potential as biological indicators due to their Bazzanti M., Boggero A., Lencioni V., Mast- ubiquity, low mobility, because they in- rantuono L., Rossaro B. & Solimini A., 2007 tegrate the effect of multiple stressors - Protocollo di campionamento e analisi dei on the aquatic system, and are relatively macroinvertebrati negli ambienti lacustri. easy to sample and to identify. However, APAT-MATTM, pp. 19 (+ updating 2009). 5R their use in monitoring programmes is Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2007- currently hampered by a lack of under- Assessment of the ecological status of standing of how they respond to envi- lakes by macroinvertebrates: a case study. ronmental pressures. Within this context, Atti del XVI Congresso della Società Ital- several experts and Italian research insti- iana di Ecologia “Cambiamenti Globali, tutes have been involved by the National Diversità Ecologica e Sostenibilità”, 2006, 6R Environmental Agency and the Environ- http://www.ecologia.it/congressi/XVI/arti- ment Ministry to develop a quality index cles/, paper n. 125, 6 pp. based on macroinvertebrates for Italian Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Boggero A. & Mar- lakes. Several papers on peer-reviewed ziali L., 2009 - A new benthic quality index journals and a new protocol to Environ- for Italian lakes: how to face with different mental Agencies were published in the lake types? Verhandlugen der Internation- last 5 years (the protocol was published ale Vereinigung für Theoretische und An- in 2009). This protocol includes sampling gewandte Limnologie, 30/5: 790-793.

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Cartography and GIS modelling Section of Vertebrate Zoology

Natura 2000 is an ecological network information for wildlife management, in 1R of protected areas in the territory of the the framework of the agreements be- European Union designed to protect tween the MTSN and the Natura 2000 the habitats and the species ranked as office of the Trento province. priority across Europe. The natural sites MTSN has a database of field surveys belonging to the Natura 2000 network recording bird occurrences from over are especially important for biodiversity a decade, which provides the source 22RR conservation because thy host the most for the analysis regarding the current seriously threatened species. status, distribution and environmental The group of cartography and GIS preferences of many species. (Geographic Information Systems) mod- Environmental modelling assess- elling deals with applied research to land ments are a useful tool to identify the 3R management. Statistical analysis coupled suitable places for a given species in a with digital cartography can give useful geographical area. Data collected in the field and a set variables describing the environment where the species occurs (such as morphology, land-cover, vegetation) are the inputs for modeling. 4R The statistical analysis can quantify the relationship between the presence of the species and the environmental features while the GIS can apply the result to the whole study area thus creating habitat suitability maps. 5R The occurrence of many species can Habitat Suitability be recorded in sample areas and not in 0) null 1) low the whole province for time and cost 2) average 3) elevate constraints, while a habitat suitability map covers the whole province. For this 6R reasons those maps are being often used in planning, when a global view Red-backed shrike is required to define conservation measures and to address optional surveys in certain cases. The research is currently focused on priority species from the Annex I of the European directive 79/409/CEE, models and maps have already been evaluated for the Red-backed Shrike (Lan- ius collurio), the corncrake (Crex crex) and the Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) and the work is in progress for other species. Habitat suitability maps can support decision making at the scale of the Province as well as in the process of as- sessments such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).

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Monitoring plan for terrestrial Vertebrates in the Natura 2000 Network in Trentino Section of Vertebrate Zoology 1R Within the framework of the Euro- already existing, putting them into a pean strategies for biodiversity conser- common perspective targeted at sites, vation, EC directives request monitor- species and habitats of Community ing the conservation status of habitats interest; the plan also indicates sub- and species of Community interest. jects and partners potentially involved 2R2R Monitoring should define the conser- in the monitoring, acknowledges and vation status of habitats and species of promotes local knowledge, includes Community interest and the respective information coming from previous re- trends at different levels, indicating the searches and projects. effectiveness of directives for nature The plan has been prepared as to conservation. allow without additional costs the col- 3R We developed a proposal for a lection of data on species of local inter- monitoring plan aiming at 1) monitor- est while monitoring species of Com- ing species of Community interest in munity interest. Trentino, within and outside the Natura The proposal starts with the state of 2000 Network; 2) monitoring health of the art of knowledge of about target 4R habitats in the Network, throughout species, demographic trends, popula- the information collected on terrestrial tion estimates and species relationships vertebrates, which are often good indi- with different ecological contexts. Data cators of ecosystem status. collected since 80s have been cata- The monitoring plan has been de- logued, archived and, whenever pos- veloped as to apply to different spa- sible, georeferenced. 5R tial scales, in order to consider such a The second step involves a field-val- large number of species and habitats, idation of the monitoring plan, which with different habits and requirements is currently being carried out to check in terms of habitats, elevation, climate, methods, techniques, field efforts and sensitivity to human activities, etc. network of partners. The third phase This plan integrates in the same implies the full field implementation 6R framework the monitoring systems of the plan, to define distribution and trend of target species and to evaluate habitat quality by means of selected indicator species. Species have been subdivided according to their taxonomical group, as to account for the large heterogeneity in habits, movements, biology and ecology of target groups/species. The following groups were considered: Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, Chirop- ters, Lagomorphs, Rodents, Artiodac- tyls and Carnivores. The plan is divided into sections con- sidering the above mentioned groups; each section includes a specific introduction, the state of the art of knowledge, a description of criteria used for The Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposi- species selection, and a description of deros). (Photo by Karol Tabarelli de Fatis). methods proposed for monitoring.

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Trento Alpine Garden represents Italy in the European Consortium of Botanic Gardens Section of Botany 1R In 2009 Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden tain strategic goals for plant conserva- was appointed by the Italian network tion at global level. of Botanic Gardens (part of the Italian The current consortium activities Botanical Society) as its national repres- include: the management of a glo- entative in the European Consortium of bal database of plant collections in Botanic Gardens. botanic gardens called plant search, 2R The consortium was established in (www.bgci.org/plant_search.php); the 1990 as the European branch of BGCI development and regulation of a seed (Botanic Gardens Conservation Interna- exchange scheme compliant with the tional), an NGO that connects all Botan- CBD, called IPEN (International Plant ic Gardens worldwide; it meets twice a Exchange Network); the maintenance 3R year bringing together representatives of a check-list of European Invasive 3R of the national networks of all European plants complemented by recommen- countries. The role of the consortium is dations for their control. twofold: first of all it collects informa- In 2009 the consortium met in Finland tion on the activities carried out by each at the Finnish Natural History Museum Botanic Garden for plant conservation and in Portugal at the botanic garden of 4R and the associated scientific research, the Azores. producing regular reports and mono- The consortium welcomed the new graphs on relevant topics; secondly it Italian representative wishing a fruitful col- issues guidelines and recommendations laboration and a closer connection with agreed at European level in order to at- the Italian community of Botanic Gardens. 5R

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Native seed science meets in Trento Section of Botany

1R Trento Natural Science Museum newly developed tool: an electronic data played host to the final meeting of EN- collecting sheet for pocket PCs (PDAs). SCONET - The European Native Seed This original piece of software was de- Conservation Network, an FP6 coor- veloped by the local high school for IT dination action project operating in technicians (ITI Marconi, Rovereto) and the EU research infrastructures frame- allows to record electronically, directly in 2R work. From the 24th of June to the 2nd the field, all the relevant site information. of July 2009, eighty delegates from 26 This data can then be downloaded Institutions belonging to 17 EU mem- directly to a database saving time and ber states met in Trento, Campitello di potential operator errors such as typing Fassa and Riva del Garda. The meeting mistakes that can be often made when 3R3R released two key documents: the Seed copying large amount of information Collecting Manual for Wild Species and to a database. Data such as date and the Curation Protocols and Recommen- GPS co-ordinates are directly provided dations, that were produced by a 5 year by the PDA, the operator only needs to joint network confrontation and cooper- confirm the information is correct. Many ation effort. Trento Museum gave a key drop down menus are employed to pro- 4R contribution in the curation document vide all the required choices, minimising editing the sections dedicated to dry- typing errors. ing, moisture monitoring and packag- ing. Trento museum and Pisa university ENSCONET was funded by the EU under the jointly prepared the Italian versions of 6th Framework programme for research, tech- the two manuals. nological development and demonstration. 5R A parallel practical workshop on seed collecting took place from the 28th of June to the 4th of July in the Dolo- mites and around Lake Garda. This two meetings gave the ideal opportunity to 6R present to a wider European audience a

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Rescuing landraces and Neglected and Underutilised Crops Section of Botany

Crop Wild Relatives, landraces and associations and all relevant stakehold- 1R Neglected and Underutilised Crops ers operating on the land. In this area of (NUCs) lie at the edges of two scientific agrobiodiversity conservation it is partic- communities: crop breeders and plant ularly important to gather all the farmer conservationists. They very often fall into knowledge connected to the traditional the cracks of the conservation action and practice that is at risk to be lost forever are woefully neglected by both commu- together with the landrace. The museum 2R nities. Yet they are an essential compo- will then store this information together nent of agrobiodiversity and are includ- with an adequate sample of the landrace ed in the scope of the FAO International granting its long term conservation in the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for genebank for many hundreds of years. Food and Agriculture, the EU rural devel- The genebank will be at the service 33RR opment plan and the UN Global Strategy of the local community being ready to for Plant Conservation. Trento Museum supply the material and the connected aims to fill this gap in Trentino promot- knowledge to the local farmers and am- ing a rescue operation for seed bearing ateur wishing to restore a agricultural landraces and NUCs starting from late traditional practice greatly enhancing 2009 within the scope of the museum agrobiodiversity. This project is greatly 4R genebank activities. benefiting from the support of volun- In this context it is important to seek a teers from the national scheme of com- direct connection with farmers, farmers’ munity service.

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Cracking dormancy in one of the most famous alpine endemics Section of Botany

1R The germination lab of Trento to migrate very swiftly, but Kerner’s but- genebank has been recently engaged in tercup seems incapable to do so pro- the investigation of the reproductive bi- ducing few diaspore not very mobile. ology of one of the most interesting and Trento genebank has been investigating celebrated endemic species of the whole this species for two years, studying its alpine chain: Mt. Baldo white buttercup, population structure, its pollination ca- 2R Callianthemum kernerianum, that is also pability, its fruit set and seeds set, and the cover species of Flora Alpina. analysing in detail its complex dorman- This species attracted the lab re- cy. Two yeas of more than 100 parallel search interest for many reasons. It is germination trials in more that 10 main distributed only on the three summits of germination cycles and relative controls 3R3R Monte Baldo, an isolated massif in the so far failed to disclose the germination southern part of the Alps, its reproduc- requirements of this species. However tive capacity is very low, on average only a set of promising hints is now leading 10% of its flowers are fertilised and its the way to finally crack one of the most diaspores have a very low mobility and complex dormancy encountered in a lo- very complicated germination require- cal alpine species. 4R ments. All this things together contrib- A sequential warm/cold/warm strati- ute to create a worrying scenario that fication and dark requirement seems to put this species at high risk of extinc- do the trick. The lab is currently verify- tion. In the context of global change, in ing this hypothesis. Stay tuned for more order to survive plants need to be able news in the future.

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Landscape design architects meet at Viotte Alpine Garden Section of Botany

Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden was place in July 2009. Twenty freshly gradu- 1R founded more than 70 years ago, in 1938 ated architects were lead by 5 supervisors and extends for more than 10 hectares. of international reputation, among the A large area in its inner portion was others the Swiss landscape designer Pao- forested with a thick implant of Norway lo Burghi and the Spanish Imma Jansana. spruce, generating a biodiversity poor, The workshop produced two sce- artificial and trivial vegetation that narios of possible garden development, 2R badly matched with the mission of the a first one emphasising a re-connection garden to showcase high diversity and with the local landscape, opening long natural vegetation. range view points inside and outside the A re-development of the area was garden, canopy walks and buried trails, therefore urgently needed. water gardens, and a second one devel- 33RR Two years ago a whole lot of 2 hec- oping patches of diversity within the gar- tares of these plantation was cleared den, finding places for wooded gardens, leaving a consistent portion of the gar- vegetable gardens, new rock gardens, den to be re-designed and landscaped flower beds. anew. In order to facilitate this new de- These inspirational ideas will need to velopment, the garden sought a strategic be implemented and developed in fu- 4R alliance with landscape architects promot- ture years for the benefit of the botanic ing an international workshop that took garden and plant diversity.

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Camera-trapping to estimate density of forest ungulates Section of Tropical Biodiversity

1R A significant result of re- 35 search conducted on mam-

mals using camera-traps 30 (the same tool that allowed

the discovery of the giant 25 elephant-shrew) was pub- ) -1 2R lished in 2009 in the pres- 20 tigious Journal of Applied

Ecology (Rovero & Mar- 15 shall, 46: 1011-1017). (100Traprateday

Remotely-set, automatic 10 cameras capturing images 3R of passing animals have 5 become one of the most

widely used tools in wildlife 0 research, especially for stud- 0 5 10 15 -2 ying elusive mammals. The Density (km ) 4R4R basic information obtained from camera at fixed intervals along six line-transects traps is the number of images per sam- used to count animals in the rain forest, pling time, or “capture rate”. the authors found that photographic This metric has been commonly used rate relates linearly to density derived as a proxy of animal abundance, as in- from visual censuses, according to a tuitively the rate of photographs will in- highly significant regression model. 5R crease with increasing density of animals. The study shows that if calibration is As for any index, however, proving properly performed, the camera trap- its validity requires calibration to densi- ping index is a valid proxy for animal ties obtained using alternative methods. density. Despite the enormous advance in As such, camera trapping can be de- camera trapping technology and analyt- veloped as a much cost-effective tool to 6R ical frameworks, there remained a con- infer the abundance of elusive mammal sistent lack of data, and much debate populations, and to enhance wildlife in the literature, over the usefulness of monitoring programmes especially in such an index. By setting camera traps remote areas.

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“Say hello, sengi”: the amazing discovery of a new mammal from the remote forests of Tanzania Section of Tropical Biodiversity 1R Elephant-shrews, or sengis, are a and camera trapping. We then inte- small group of African mammals be- grated these data with historical habitat longing to the ancient lineage of the change analysis, and could assess the Afrotheria, grouping elephants, hy- new sengi as IUCN Vulnerable (IUCN raxes, sea cows and other little-known 2009), with the low population number animals. The grey-faced sengi, Rhyn- and vulnerability to forest loss and to 2R chocyon udzungwensis, was described stochastic events as the main threats. in 2008 as the forth species of the ge- The new sengi soon raised several nus that groups “giant” sengi, with the fascinating research questions for fur- other three species being described be- ther work, first of all the evolutionary fore 1871. The new species is endemic history of this species. These questions 3R to only two montane forests in the Ud- prompted some of us to enrol in addi- zungwa Mountains of southcentral Tan- tional research that begun in the fall of zania, and such restricted distribution 2008 thanks to a grant from the Nation- underlines its late appearance to the al Geographic Society and co-funding scientists’ eyes. The first evidence of from Italy’s Museo Tridentino di Sci- this new species was collected using au- enze Naturali. With colleague Silva Ricci 44RR tomatic camera-traps set by Francesco (Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali), Rovero in 2005 in the course of surveys Galen Rathbun (California Academy of conducted for his research on forest Sciences) and Cristiano Vernesi (Fon- mammals. These first photos prompted dazione Edmund Mach), this research Francesco to form a team that described involved 2 main components: (a) a ge- the species in 2008 (Rovero et al. 2008, netic analysis of the new species and its 5R Journal of Zoology, 274: 126-133). relatedness with R. cirnei, and (b) a re- The description of R. udzungwensis finement of the distribution and habitat followed the current taxonomy, which preferences. The research is currently is mainly based on the peculiar pelage at the final stages of data analysis. We pattern and unique distribution. Inter- hope this research will shed more light 6R estingly moreover, morphometric re- in the evolutionary history and ecology vealed that the size of this species was of this fascinating and recently found particularly giant, i.e. the body mass up creature. The knowledge will also help to 50% larger than other sengi. For the addressing conservation concerns; to- description we also presented available wards this end, it remains critical to as- information on the distribution and rela- sess population abundance: a next step tive abundance, based on survey walks planned for the coming years.

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The herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot: understanding evolutionary history to identify extinction risk and key areas for conservation

1R Section of Tropical Biodiversity

The Southern Highlands and Eastern tane herpetofauna. These data may also Arc Mountains of Tanzania are part of the allow predictions to be made regarding larger Eastern Afromontane biodiversity the responses of species to environmen- 2R hotspot, remarkable for its high species tal change and enable the mapping of richness and levels of endemism. multi-taxon evolutionary information Diversity and distribution within the into reserve design algorithms and more forest-associated amphibians and rep- in general to determine the evolutionary, tiles of the Eastern Arc mountains of ecological and biogeographical factors Kenya and Tanzania, have revealed a that influence the distribution and abun- 3R complex picture reflecting recent cli- dance of the herpetofauna of the mon- matic fluctuations and of the long-term tane forest of Tanzania and to use these persistence of rainforests. data to predict future responses of key The latter has probably been critical species to environmental change. in structuring present biodiversity across Combined ecological niche model- the region. ling and molecular phylogeography of 4R4R This is demonstrated by the preva- key taxa will be used to reveal the evo- lence of deeply divergent endemic lutionary history of niche differentiation monophyletic taxa. Combining both and to evaluate the risk extinction under large scale and finer detailed phyloge- different scenarios of climate change netic surveys may provide great insight and/or continued habitat loss. 5R into these biologically rich tropical rainforests and permit an evaluation of eco- In collaboration with Dr. Stuart Marsden, Uni- logical and biogeographical factors that versity of Manchester, Dr. Simon Loader, Uni- influence the occurrence, distribution versity of Basel, Dr. Tim Davenport, Wildlife and abundance of the Tanzanian mon- Conservation Society.

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Species richness and endemism assessment in the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot Section of Tropical Biodiversity 1R Obtaining accurate estimates for systematic methods is currently analyz- species diversity in tropical rainforest ing the data collected. We have identi- habitats has proven to be difficult, and fied a number of evolutionary significant this has hindered prioritising conserva- units, revealing a number of new distri- tion in these areas. bution records (approx. 300) and an un- Poor coverage in sampling and lim- precedented number of un-described 2R ited morphological estimates of species endemic amphibian and reptile species differences undoubtedly under-esti- (approximately 70- nearly doubling the mate species richness. Because of this number of amphibian species). “taxonomic” hiatus, our understand- These results put into question cur- ing of diversity patterns in some of the rent species estimates and point to a 3R biologically richest parts of the globe need for a re-evaluation of biodiversity is incomplete. One such area, the East- estimates in this area. The biodiversity ern Arc Mountains and the southern data will also be made available to end highlands of Tanzania- part of the East- users through a web-based interactive ern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot taxonomic portal that has been set up - remains poorly understood. Current (www.tanzaniaherps.org). To build long-term 44RR species estimates of many groups are benefits this program will are involving mainly based on survey and taxonomic and training Tanzanian students to utilise work completed over 50 years ago. Re- spatial planning tools in conservation liable biodiversity estimates are neces- work. This will ensure a long-term intel- sary if conservation policy is to be for- lectual legacy in conservation science in mulated on such measures. Over the Tanzania. The EAM is a recognized glo- 5R last 12 years we’ve been conducting bal biodiversity hotspot and given the field research in the area on amphibians priority of this area for conservation, the and reptiles. Through a number of pro- interpretation and dissemination of this grams our group has aimed to better data is both important and urgent. evaluate species diversity, particularly 6R in the more poorly known areas of the In collaboration with Dr. Simon Loader, Uni- Tanzanian mountains. Our group using versity of Basel, Dr. Cristiano Vernesi e Elena traditional morphological and molecular Pecchioli, FEM.

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Geological exploration of the territory Section of Geology

1R The Geology group is concerned in studies on the stratigraphy and past environments reconstructions. These are performed in collaboration with the Ital- ian Geological Survey and the Provincia Autonoma di Trento and will lead to the 2R compiling of a new geological map of It- aly (CARG project). In 2009 research has focused on laboratory analyses, comput- ing and editing for the Trento geological sheet (scale 1:50.000). Applied research has focused on 3R the candidature of the Adamello Brenta lo-Brenta Geopark has assigned to the Natural Park to the European Geoparks MTSN all the tasks linked with the pres- Network, for which the group covered ervation, the valorization and the out- the role of scientific consultant. Once reach activities to the geodiversity for approved, the newly instituted Adamel- the quadrennium 2008-2012. 4R

New mineralogical discoveries in the Cima d’Asta massif Section of Geology 5R5R Form the end of the XIX century the ery of pegmatitic rocks (that were only Cima d’Asta granitic massif has been the marginally cited by Trener, 1957a and focus of numerous geological and petro- D’Amico, 1974). Those are NYF pegma- graphic researches. Studies on its pecu- tites hosting cavities were large ortho- liar mineralogy have however been quite clase, quartz, albite and prehnite crystals 6R rare, being represented only by notes have been found. on hyaline quartz and pyrite findings This discovery has been documented near the Cima d’Asta peak (e.g., Gasser, on the Rivista Mineralogica Italiana jour- 1913; Andreatta, 1932; Exel, 1987) and nal N.4/2008. Description of microminer- those on the presence of fluorite on the al findings, among those are few species northern side on the massif (e.g., Gasser, (e.g., bavenite) previously unknown in 1913). the Trentino region, is still undergoing in New research conducted by Marco collaboration with the Structural Chemis- Masetto (GMT) e Paolo Ferretti (MTSN) try Section of the Milano University. This on the eastern and western sides of the study will lead to a new specialized pu- massif since 2000 lead to the discov- blication.

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Glaciological researches Section of Geology

In the Trentino region, glaciological • Ghiacciaio de La Mare; 1R surveys are assigned to MTSN in collab- • Ghiacciaio del Mandrone; oration with the Provincia Autonoma di • Ghiacciaio della Lobbia; Trento, the Trentino Glaciological Com- • Ghiacciaio della Marmolada. mette and the University of Trento. As part of the experimental project In 2009 measures of snow accumu- for the mitigation of the anthropic impact lation and ablation have been record- on the Presena glacier two automatic me- 2R ed and new ablatometric stakes have teorological stations have been installed. been positioned. Research has been A web cam has been placed on the Pas- performed in several glaciers that have so Presena; this will record 4 photos of been considered representative for the the Lobbia and Adammello-Mandrone different mountain groups of the region: glaciers per day. Qualitative data will be • Ghiacciaio dell’Agola; elaborated in glacial dynamics and geo- 3R • Ghiacciaio del Careser; morphological evolution studies.

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Assembly of digital camera, Passo Presenta (Trentino - Italy). The digital camera takes 3-4 pictures daily to supervise the decrease of Lobbia and Mandrone glaciers during the summer and to quantify the snow cover during the winter.

Glacier La Mare, 31 August 2009.

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DINOGEO Project Section of Geology

1R The Geology Section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali has suc- cessfully carried out a number of researches concerning the study of dinosaur and other reptile tracks. DINOGEO project has the main goal of improving 2R our knowledge of Southern Alps and central and Southern Apennines Meso- zoic paleogeography by means of dinosaur tracks analysis. Research involved the test of new digital methodologies (3D modeling by means of high reso- 3R lution digital photogrammetry and/or laser scanner) applied to the study of trace fossils. These new methods were Photogrammetry derived 3D models, digitally reconstructed using dif- tested in some ichnosites of the South- ferent convergent images, and here shown in colour-code mode (Coste ern Alps. Coste dell’Anglone (Trentino), dell’Anglone tracksite, Dro, Trentino Alto-Adige). 4R Monte Finonchio (Trentino), Mezzoco- rona (Trentino), Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e Zone (Lombardia). The 3D modelling, obtained with the cooperation of the 3D Optical Metrology Group of the Fondazi- one Bruno Kessler (Trento), revealed as 5R5R crucial in the analyses of dinosaur tracks morphology and morphometry allowing more confident taxonomical attributions of the studied specimens. The Coste dell’Anglone tracksite has been studied with particular effort. This 6R site rock surfaces were scanned, 3D modeled and mapped and all individual tracks were documented, measured and georeferentiated using GPS Systems in cooperation with Geological Survey of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento. The obtained ichnological analysis suggested that all the tracks were produced by indi- viduals with the same functional anatomy of the hind foot, and are well compara- ble to specimens discovered in North America and northern Europe. Cerato- saurian dinosaurs, such as Dilophosaurus have been found to be the best candidate trackmakers. As a consequence, a new palaeogeographical interpretation of the southern alpine region has been proposed in particular in relation with a possible connection between the southern Alps sector and southern margin of the Laurasia mainland (North America and Europe) during the Early Jurassic. Coste dell’Anglone ichnosite: map of the dinosaur-trampled surface.

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Fleeting traces of past life: ichnology of the invertebrates Section of Geology

Palaeontological exploration of stars. The study suggested that during 1R the dinosaurian tracksite of the Coste the lower Jurassic this geographical sec- dell’Anglone, Valle del Sarca, lead to tor was occupied by marginal-marine, the first report of the presence of the low depth embayments with clear wa- trace fossil Asteriacites lumbricalis in ters. This discovery contributes to the the Early Jurassic rocks of our region. endeavor of reconstructing the distribu- This trace is produced by the activity tion of the land masses and the seas in 2R of ophiuroids on the sea floor, echino- the Early Jurassic, in particular in relation derms closely related with common sea with the reconstruction of the environments that sustained the existence of the sedentary populations of dinosaurs recorded in several sites of the Trentino 3R region in the last 20 years.

In the spring of 2009, several other trace fossils were discovered near Telve, Valsugana (Trentino). This have been found in the youngest rocks of our re- 4R gion, wich are Oligocene in age, circa 30 million years ago. The traces, named Bichordites monastiriensis have been left by sea urchins while digging in the sea bottom. Exceptional conditions of preservation of one specimen gave the 55RR opportunity to document the effects of various environments on the preservation of this traces and to build a general method for the interpretation of sea urchins behavior. 6R

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OPENLOC project Sections of Geology, Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Vertebrate Zoology and Botany 1R The OPENLOC project (Public poli- Understand and quantify the fluxes cies and local development 2008-2011) of values and knowledge of a particular is funded by the Research Section, of the natural environment can support the lo- Provincia Autonoma di Trento, leaded by cal policies of rural and mountain com- the Trento University, and conducted by munities. 2R the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Natu- In this respect the contribution of the rali in collaboration with the University MTSN consists in the naturalistic explora- of Bologna, the University of Manches- tion of few key zones in which the natural ter, and the Edmund Mach Foundation. and environmental patrimony is studied The scope of the project is to define and and documented. 3R measure the role that resources as natu- On these data, local communities ac- ral patrimony and social capital can have tion plans may find quantitative support in determining the economical competi- to stimulate innovative processes and tion of local systems. forms of sustainable development.

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Dalmeri Shelter (Sette Comuni Plateau - Grigno, TN): the conclusion of research. Section of Prehistory 1R Dalmeri rockshelter offers a rare op- European Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. portunity to study both art and ritu- The site may have been a meeting place als of a group of hunter-gatherers where seasonal hunter-gatherers were of the late Paleolithic who frequent- grouped, thus activating a complex com- ed the foothills of the eastern Alps. munication system connected to the pro- A large amount of stones (267) with pitiatory magic-religious rites, probably 2R paintings in ocher were revealed after linked to success in the hunt which was at the removal of sediment and concre- that time the main source of livelihood. tion that covered them, anthropomor- In support of this, of paramount archaeo- phic figures and animals, schematic and logical interest, was the finding of three handprints. The context of discovery of deep-aligned and structured deposits 3R the paintings assumes a great symbolic containing abundant intentional with a meaning, while they are located in the selection of horns and skulls of ibex and area outside of a hut and their testimony stones with ocher. is limited to the first seasonal occupa- That of painting represents a point tions. It is a pictorial language innovator of excellent that can be considered a of considerable scientific interest and is vital hub for the understanding and the 4R part of a wider problem interpretation role of this settlement in the alpine epi- and meaning of art produced by the gravettian communities.

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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-ethological research thesis, and a Ph.D. in Animal Ecol- 2R ogy in 2000 at the University of Wales (Ban- gor), UK. Since 1999 is conducting research and environmental cooperation activities in eastern Africa. Since 2003 he is affiliated to MTSN, and conducted during 2004-2007 a post-doctoral research project funded by 3R the Provincia Autonoma di Trento on ecology and conservation of primates and forest ungulates in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, where he has been working since 2002. In 2008 he became the Curator of the newly-established Tropical Biodiversity Sec- Bi olo gy area 4R tion within MTSN. His main research interests are on threathened populations of forest mammals in Tanzania; research aims include abundance estimation, habitat use, habitat modelling, conservation status assessment. Besides pure and applied research, he developed a keen interest in ecological monitoring, tecnica support to protected areas, habitat connectivity analysis, development of community conservation plans. This lead 5R to the establishment of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (www.ud- zungwacentre.org) that he directs since 2006. It is a field station annexed to the Udzungwa Mountains National 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 becasme the first 6R site in Africa of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) network, managed by Conservation International. He wrote over 40 scientific and public science papers, and book chapters (see selected list).

Michele Menegon Research technician Born in Montebelluna (VI) in 1969, since 1998 he is affiliated to MTSN where he contributes to the establishment of the Tropical Biodi- versity Section. Since 1998 he has also been conductiong research and environmental cooperation in East Africa. In 2009 he started a Ph.D. at the Tropical Ecology of the University of Manchester. The research is focused on global diversification patterns, species phylogenetic relationships and radiation and specia- tions patterns of Amphibians and Reptiles that represent the model groups. Various tecniques are involved: field research, taxonomy, morphological and molecular systematics and biogeographic analysis based both on traditional descriptive methods and

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on molecular analysis. Combined ecological niche modelling 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 tecniques. Multi-taxon mapping of evolutionary information is also used in order to define 1R optimal conservation areas for threatened species of montane Amphibians and Reptiles. 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 wrote over 40 scientific and public science papers, books and book chapters (see selected list). 2R FABIO PUPIN Research fellow Born in Asiago (VI) in 1978, since 2009 he collaborates with MTSN where he contributes to the various projects on East Africa 3R herpetofauna leaded by Michele Menegon. 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 Sec- 4R tion he collaborated with the Animal Biol- ogy 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. 5R

Silvia Ricci Bi olo gy area Research fellow Born in Firenze in 1970, she is a zoologist and a public science writer. She obtained a 6R degree in Natural Sciences in 1995 at the University of 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 for which she has published books and articles of scientific popularization. Since 2006 she worked as scientific consultant for faunal surveys, environmental educator, tutor of formative courses and translator. From 2005 to 2007 she has been Assistant Editor of the international journal Tropical Zoology. During 2008 and 2009 she had a research collaboration contract with Trento Museum for the research project on the new species of elephant-shrew, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, coordinated by Francesco Rovero and funded by the National Geographic. Her research interests include population dynamics and trophic ecology of small mammals, habitat use and fauna surveys. She is also interested in environmental education, popularization, conservation and environmental cooperation activities.

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Emanuel H. Martin Research fellow Born in Arusha in 1977, he is a Tanzanian zoologist with a degree in wildlife manage- 1R ment obtained at the Sokoine University of Agricolture, Tanzania (2002), and a Master in management of protected areas obtained at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (2009). During 2003-2007, he worked as a Conserva- tion Officer at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, 2R in Botswana, gaining wide experience in the field of biodiversity monitoring and protected area management. He was also extensive- ly 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 Manager of the newly estab- 3R lished TEAM project (Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring), managed by Conservation International, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foun- dation, and coordinated in the Udzungwa Mountains by Trento Museum.

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DeFries R., Rovero F., Wright P., Ahumada J., Andelman S., Brandon K., Dempewolf J., Hansen A., Hewson J. & Liu J., (2009) - From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1890/080104 (in press). [IF 2008: 5.065] 5R Loader S.P., Gower D. & Menegon M., (2009) - Description and phylogenetic relationships of three critically endangered species of Callulina Nieder (Amphibia: Anura: Afrobatrachia: Brevicipitidae) from the Pare Mountains, Tanzania. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press). [IF 2008: 2.019] Marshall A.R., Jørgensbye H.I.O., Rovero F., Platts P.J., White P.C.L. & Lovett J.C., (2009) - The species-area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community. American Journal of Primatology (in press). 6R [IF 2008: 1.159] Menegon M., Loader S., Burgess N., Doggart N. & Owen N., 2009 - The South Nguru Mountains - a new Jewel in the Eastern Arc crown. Oryx, 43/2: 174-175. [IF 2008: 1.381] Menegon M., Tolley K., Jones T., Rovero F., Marshall A.R. & Tilbury C., (2009) - A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology (in press). [IF 2008: 0.618] Poynton J.C., Menegon M, & Loader S.P., 2008 - A new giant species of Arthroleptis (Amphibia: Anura) from the montane forests of the Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology, 57/2: 63-74. [IF 2008: 0.618] Rovero F. & Marshall A.R., 2009 - Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46: 1011-1017 [IF 2008: 4.560]. Rovero F., Marshall A.R., Jones T. & Perkin A., 2009 - The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains: diversity, ecology and conservation. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 87: 93-126. [IF 2008: 0.440] Rovero F., Menegon M., Leonard C., Perkin A., Doggart N., Mbilinyi M. & Mlawila L., 2008 - A previously unsurveyed forest in the Rubeho Mountains of Tanzania reveals new species and range records. Oryx, 42: 16-17. [IF 2008: 1.381] Rovero F., Rathbun G.B., Perkin A., Jones T., Ribble D.O., Leonard C., Mwakisoma R.R. & Doggart N., 2008 - A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Zoology, 274: 126-133. [IF 2008: 1.669]

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Botany research group

Costantino Bonomi Head of the Botany Section 1R M.Sc. in Biology (Padua, 1997) M.Phil. in Bo- tanical Diversity (Reading and Birmingham, 2000). Keeper of the herbarium, curator of the museum’s two botanic gardens. His main research interests are plant conservation biology and seed ecology. Since 2001 he is in 2R 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 Eu- ropean Native Seed Conservation Network, funded by the EU under FP6 research infre- 3R structures. He contributed to Plant Science Gardens, an European education project funded by the EU under FP6 Science and So- ciety. He provides the secretariat for RIBES, the Italian network of seed banks. He is the Italian delegate in the European Consortium of Botanic Gardens. 4R

Gilberto Parolo Research fellow M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Pavia, 1999) Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (Pavia, 2004), research fellow at Pavia University 2004-09. His main 5R research interest lies in plant population bi-

ology of rare and threatened species, plant Bi olo gy area taxonomy (Festuca), conservation biology, ecology of extreme mountain ecosystem in relation to global change, effects on flora 6R and vegetation in the Alps and in the Ap- pennines, vegetation ecology. More than 50 papers published on peer reviewed journals (Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation, 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 M.Sc. in Ecology (Ferrara, 2008) with a year abroad in Uppsala university (Sweden) on flora and vegetaion of peat bogs. He contributed to the Eurpean project ENSCONET in FP6 and to the local project ACE-SAP. He is now working on the survey of alpoine grasslands useful for hay-bathing therapy.

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Andrea Mondoni Research fellow M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Pavia, 2003), Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (Pavia, 2007). Research fel- 1R low at the Pavia University. His main resarch interest is germination ecology and seed bank management. He investigated in detail dormancy and germination in the genus Anemone and has a keen intesest in seed longevity of alpine endemics. He is curator 2R of the Lombardy Seed Bank. He contributed to the Eurpean project ENSCONET in FP6 and to the local project ACE-SAP.

Thomas Abeli 3R Research fellow M.Sc. in Natural Science (Pavia, 2005), Ph.D. student in Plant Ecology (Pavia), investigating the survival of small isolated plant populations: using an integrated approach to 4Bi olo gy area R evaluate population viability for future conservation actions. Keen interest for IUCN red listing, ecology of thratened specie. He contributed to the Eurpean projects GLORIA in FP5; ENSCONET in FP6 and to the local project ACE-SAP. 5R

• Selection of papers (2008-2009) - IF 2008-09: 18.885 6R Abeli T., Gentili R., Rossi G., Bedini G. & Foggi B., 2009 - Can the IUCN criteria be effectively applied to peripheral isolated plant populations (PIPPs)? Biodiversity and Conservation, 18: 3877-3890. [IF 2008: 1.473] Ferrarini A., Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ferloni M., 2008 - Planning low-impact tourist paths through the optimisation of biological and logistic criteria. Biological Conservation, 141: 1067-1077. [IF 2008: 1.473] Mondoni A., Daws M.I., Belotti J. & Rossi G., 2009 - Germination requirements of the alpine endemic Silene elisabethae Jan: effects of cold stratification, light and GA3. Seed Science and Technology, 37: 79-87. [IF 2008: 0.660] Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G. & Hay F., 2009 - Habitat-related germination behaviour and emergence phenology in the woodland geophyte Anemone ranunculoides L. (Ranunculaceae) from northern Italy. Seed Science Research, 19: 137-144. [IF 2008: 1.482] Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G., Hay F. & Bonomi C., 2008 - Habitat-correlated seed germination behaviour in populations of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa L.) from Northern Italy. Seed Science Research, 18: 213-222. [IF 2008: 1.482] Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2008 - Upward migration of vascular plants following a climate warming trend in the Alps. Basic and Applied Ecology, 9: 100-107. [IF 2008: 2.584] Parolo G., Ferrarini A. & Rossi G., 2009 - Optimization of tourism impacts within protected areas by means of genetic algorithms. Ecological Modelling, 220: 1138-1147. [IF 5-year average: 2.478]

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Parolo G., Rossi G. & Ferrarini A., 2008 - Toward improved predictions of species distributions by handling overlooked topics. Arnica montana in the Alps as a case study. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1410-1418. [IF 5-year average: 4,560] Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ferrarini A., 2009 - A rapid and cost-effective tool for managing habitats of the European Natura 2000 network: a case study in the Italian Alps. 1R Biodiversity and Conservation, 18: 1375-1388. [IF 2008: 1.473] Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ulian T., 2009 - Human trampling as threat factor for the conservation of peripheral plant populations. Plant Biosystems, 143/1: 104- 113. [IF 2008: 0.517]

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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; M.Sc. in Biology (1990), and Natural Sciences (1992) at the University of Pavia (Italy); Ph.D. in Aquatic sciences (1998) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He initially dealt with 2R several hydrobiological topics, including zooplankton, aquatic carnivorous plants, fito- benthos, biological monitoring. His present research interests focus on benthic diatoms and cyanoprokaryotes with special reference to their autecology, geographic distribution 3R (e.g., comparison between the Alps and the Himalaya), longitudinal distribution in streams, colonization of the different substrata, community structure and diversity. He is referee for the main limnological and

4Bi olo gy area R algological journals, member of the most relevant international societies of these disciplines, and organizer of special sessions and internazional congresses. He has been and is Guest Editor for Special issues of renowned journals. He carries out academic teaching at the Univer- sity of Innsbruck (Austria), he is member of the Doctoral Studies Committee 5R (Ecology) of the University of Parma. Ph.Ds for Italian and foreign Universi- ties: external supervisor (3), opponent or reviewer (5). External supervisor of several Masters and Bachelors. He has described (ecological and taxonomical characterization) two genera and several species of diatoms new to science.

6R Daniel Spitale Research fellow Born in Lennep - Remscheid (Germany) in 1976, he is a Research Fellow of the MTSN 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 vascular plants in spring habitats (CRENODAT Project). He recently started investingating 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 their 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 Techni- cal Assistant of the MTSN Limnology and Phycology Section. M.Sc. in Natural Sci- 1R ences (2000) at the University of Padua (Italy) with a thesis on high-mountain-lakes zooplankton; Ph.D. in Ecology (Paleolim- nology) at the University of Parma (2006). Since 2000 he collaborates with the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali and, in par- 2R ticolar with the Limnology and Phycology Section dealing with high-mountain lakes (lake inventory and biological database of the lakes of the River Avisio Basin), paleolimnology and diatoms in the frame of the research Projects SALTO / BEST (Blooms and Environment: 3R Science for Tovel), Oloambient (Environmental and ecosystem responses to Holocene climate variability in Trentino based on multi proxy-data from lacustrine environments, calcareous tufa and moonmilk) during his Ph.D. thesis. He has recently contributed to the crenbiological studies carried out by the Limnology and Phycology Section for the CRENODAT (Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of Trentino - 4R Italian Alps - and long-term ecological research) Research Project. Moreo- ver, since 2005 he has gained a good experience in scanning electron microscopy, having been appointed to be in charge for the SEM of the Museo Tridentino Scienze Naturali (Zeiss EVO40 XVP). Since 2009 he is also in charge for the Hydrochemistry Lab and for the Collections of the Limnology and Phycology Section. 5R

Alessia Scalfi Bi olo gy area Research assistant Born in Tione di Trento (TN) in 1983, she 6R is Project-based Research Assistant of the MTSN Limnology and Phycology Section. Bachelor in Natural Sciences (2005) at the University of Padua (Italy) and M.Sc. in Biodiversity and Biomonitoring (2008) at the University of Trieste. She has contributed to limnological and phycological research projects, focusing on spring habitats and diatom taxonomy. She has contributed to the organization of an international congress. At present she is collaborating to the WP2 ACE-SAP Project aiming at the ecological and physiological study of the red alga Bangia atropurpurea in Lake Garda. She also devotes relevant amounts of her working time to educational, cultural-mediation, and environmental-interpretation activities in the headquarters and field stations of the Museum.

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Massimiliano Tardio Cultural mediator Born in Cles (TN) in 1973, he is MTSN Cultural Mediator for projects on the ter- 1R ritory. M.Sc. in Biology (2001) at the Uni- versity of Bologna (Italy) with a thesis on mesocosm-studies on the phytoplankton of Lake Tovel; Ph.D. in Evolutionistic Biology at the University of Pisa (2007) specilising on dinoflagellates, in particular on their use 2R 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 Limnological Station 3R of the MTSN).

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4Bi olo gy area R Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - Geissleria gereckei sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from leaf-litter covered stones of very shaded carbonate mountain springs with extremely low discharge. Phycological Research, 57: 171-177. [IF 2008: 0.9] Cantonati M. & Spitale D., 2009 - The role of environmental variables in structuring epiphytic and epilithic diatom assemblages in springs and streams of the Dolo- miti Bellunesi National Park (south-eastern Alps). Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 174/2: 117-133. [IF 2008: 1.293+0.558] 5R Cantonati M., 2008 - Cyanoprokaryotes and algae other than diatoms in springs and streams of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park (Northern Italy). Algological Studies (Suppl. Arch. Hydrobiol.), 126: 113-136. [IF 2008: 1.293] Cantonati M., Silvia S., Angeli N., Guella G. & Frassanito R., 2009 - Environmental controls of epilithic diatom depth-distribution in an oligotrophic lake characterised by marked water-level fluctuations. European Journal of Phycology 44/1: 15- 6R 29. [IF 2008: 1.826] Cantonati M., Van de Vijver B. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - Microfissurata gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a new diatom genus from dystrophic and intermittently-wet terrestrial habitats. Journal of Phycology, 45/3: 732-741. [IF 2008: 2.811] Frassanito R., Cantonati M., Flaim G., Mancini I. & Guella G., 2008 - A new method for the identification and the structural characterisation of carotenoid esters in freshwater microorganisms by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrom- etry, 22: 3531-3539. [IF 2008: 2.772] Leira M. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Effects of water-level fluctuations on lakes: an annotated bibliography. In: Wantzen K.M., Rothhaupt K.-O., Mörtl M., Cantonati M., Lászlo G.-T. & Fischer P. (eds), Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctua- tions in Lakes. Developments of Hydrobiology, Hydrobiologia, 613: 171-184. [IF 2008: 1.449] Spitale D., 2009 - Switch between competition and facilitation within a seasonal scale at colony level in bryophytes. Oecologia, 160/3: 471-482. [IF 2008: 3.008] Spitale D., Petraglia A. & Tomaselli M., 2009 - Structural equation model detects unexpected differences between bryophyte and vascular plant richness along multiple environmental gradients. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 745-755. [IF 2008: 4.566] Tardio M., Ellegaard M., Lundholm N., Sangiorgi F. & Di Giuseppe G., 2009 - A hypocystal archeopyle in a freshwater dinoflagellate from thePeridinium umbonatum group (Dinophyceae) from Lake Nero di Cornisello, South Eastern Alps, Italy. European Journal of Phycology, 44/2: 241-250. [IF 2008: 1.826]

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Invertebrate zoology and hydrobiology research group

Valeria Lencioni Head of the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section 1R Born in Salò (BS) in 1970, obtained a degree in Biological Sciences in 1996 at the University of Milan working on plancton communities from alpine lakes, and a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in 2000 at the University of Innsbruck (A) on tax- 2R onomy and ecology of macroinvertebrates in alpine springs and streams. She collaborates with the MTSN since 1996, is the referent person for the MTSN collections and scientific publishing since 2003 and the head of Inverte- brate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section from 3R January 2009. In the last ten years she carried out studies mainly on the ecological valency of meiofauna and macroinvertebrates (mainly Diptera Chironomidae) and on the adaptive capacity of target species of aquatic insects in 4R relation to environmental stressors (e.g. temperature variations, presence of pollutants) from a molecular point of view (e.g., metabolic rate, expression of hsp70, afps, cyp450, etc.). Since 2005 she was involved in the ministerial programme for the elaboration of the national quality index for lakes according to the WFD 60/2000. She has been co-supervisor of more than 20 master theses and two Ph.Ds; since 5R 2007 she coordinates summer schools for master students from several Italian and foreign universities. She attended more than 60 congresses/workshops with 40 posters and 66 oral presentations and is author/co-author of about 80 re- Bi olo gy area viewed papers (including book chapters) and 20 popular science papers. 6R Mauro Gobbi Research assistant Born in Milan in 1979, he undertaken researches in ecological entomology focused on the use of bioindicators, and on the effects of climate and environmental changes on alpine and lowland terrestrial arthropod coenoses. Specifically, he has dealt with the succession of epigean arthropods in space and in time in grasslands (M.Sc. Thesis, 2003yr), forests and along glacier forelands (Ph.D. Thesis, 2007yr). He is an expertise on the ecology of ground beetle (Coleoptera Carabidae), and their use as bioindicators of human impact and climate change on the ecosystems. His scientific activity is testified by international collaborations and by publications on international journals. He wrote, coordinates and developed many national and international research projects on the use of insects for the management and naturalistic enhancement of the natural and man-managed lowland and alpine ecosystems. He is author of about 50 papers on national and IF-ranked journals. He won three research fellows (2001, 2003), one prize for the best M.Sc. thesis

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(2004) and in 2009 he received the award for the best Italian young entomologist conferred by the Italian Academy of Entomology. He is research assistant at the MTSN (Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section) since 2007.

1R 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- 2R 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- tion ‘A. Dohrn ‘of Naples. His scientific knowl- 3R edge 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. From February 2009 he is involved in the ACE-SAP project, Activity 2,

4Bi olo gy area R work package 3, specifically in gene expression analyses and genebank creation.

Paola Bernabò Ph.D. student Born in Trento in 1982, she is graduated at the 5R University of Padua in Evolutionary Biology (2006), italian degree “laurea specialistica”). Since 2007 is a Ph.D. student in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia in collaboration with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology 6R and Hydrobiology of the MTSN with a thesis titled “Global climate changes and adapta- tive strategies in two mountain’s chironomids: Pseudodiamesa branickii and Diamesa cinerella”. Since 2008 is involved in the ACE-SAP project, Activity 2 of work package 3, regarding the study of the physiological and molecular bases of the cold and warm adaptations in target species of insects threatened of extinction by the global climate change.

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. Since 2007 she is a Ph.D. student in Naturalistic and Environmental Sciences 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 MTSN. At MTSN she carries out studies on toxic resistance in Chironomus riparius (Diptera Chironomidae) within the work package 3, Activity 2, of the ACE-SAP project, from an ecotossicological (toxicity tests) and genetic (gene expression analysis) point of view. 1R

Alessandra Franceschini Technical assistant Born in Venice in 1967, she obtained a degree in Biological Science at the University 2R of Padua in hydrobiology and macroinvertebrates. Since 1993 she collaborates with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hy- drobiology of the MTSN within projects on riparian zonen of rivers, mountain streams and alpine lakes. She focused on riparian 3R fauna (mainly Coleoptera Carbidae) and aquatic insects (mainly Plecoptera). She was teacher for the IBE quality index application (“Metodi biologici pratici per il mappaggio di qualità dei corsi d’acqua: analisi comunità macroinvertebrati”) and co- 4R 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 technical assistant of the Section of In- vertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MTSN.

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Born in Novara in 1977, she collaborates Bi olo gy area with the MTSN from November 2009 as entomologist. She achieved a bachelor and a Ph.D. degree in University of Pavia (Italy) 6R 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 Provincia di Nova- ra), and she deeply collaborates with IUCN on European and Mediterranean basin dragonflies red list assessing. In 2009 she co- founded Odonata.it -the Italian society of dragonfly study and conservation- of which she is the current president.

In 2008, other people participated to some activity research of the Section for some months: Bruno Maiolini (head of the Section from 1995 to 2008), Maria Cristina Bruno (research assistant), Luana Silveri (Ph.D. student) and Mauro Carolli (technical assistant). Since 2008/January 2009 they are working at the Foundation E. Mach in San Michele a/Adige (TN, Italy).

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• Selection of papers (2008-2009) - IF 2008-09: 10.937

Bernabò P., Jousson O., Latella L., Martinez-Guitarte J.L., Rebecchi L., Lencioni V., 2009 - Comparative analysis of Heat shock proteins and thermoresistance in stenothermal insects from caves and cold streams (NE, Italy). Comparative 1R Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 154/1, Page S4, ISSN 1095-6433, DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.05.023. [IF 2009: 2.196] Filippi M.L., Angeli N., Marziali L., Matouk A.H.I., Bertuzzi E., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Paleolimnological techniques applied to springs habitats: Challenges and limits as highlighted by the CRENODAT project (SE Alps, 2R Italy). Verhandlugen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 30/3: 329-332. Gobbi M. & Fontaneto D., 2008 - Biodiversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in different habitats of the Italian Po lowland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 127/3-4: 273-276. [IF 2008: 2.884] Latella L., Bernabò P. & Lencioni V., 2008 - Distribution pattern and thermal tolerance 3R in two cave dwelling Leptodirinae (Coleoptera, Cholevidae). Subterranean Biology, 6: 81-86. [ISI Journal] Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Vanin S., Di Muro P. & Beltramini M., 2008 - Respiration rate and oxy-regulatory capacity in cold stenothermal chironomids. Journal of Insect Physiology, 54/9: 1337-1342. [IF 2008: 2.155] Lencioni V., Boschini D. & Rebecchi L., 2009 - Expression of the 70 kDa Heat shock

Bi olo gy area protein family in Alpine freshwater chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) under 4R natural conditions. Journal of Limnology, 68/2: 251-256. [IF 2009: 0.932] Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2008 - Hyporheic chironomids in alpine streams. Boletim of the Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), Sup. N. 13: 127-132. Maiolini B., 2009 - Il Po, ecologia di un grande fiume:le sfide del clima e dell’Uomo. In: Fuchs G. & Tasser B. (Eds), Obiettivo sulla Pianura Padana, Innsbruck University Press:101-112. 5R Marziali L. Lencioni V., Parenti P. & Rossaro B., 2008 - Benthic macroinvertebrates as water quality indicators in Italian lakes. Boletim of the Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), Sup. N. 13: 51-59. Rebecchi L., Boschini D., Cesari M., Lencioni V., Bertolani R. & Guidetti R., 2009 - Stress response of a boreo-alpine species of tardigrade, Borealibius zetlandicus (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae). Journal of Limnology, 68/1: 64-70. [IF 2009: 0.932] 6R Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Boggero A. & Marziali L., 2009 - A new benthic quality index for Italian lakes: how to face with different lake types? Verhandlugen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 30/5: 790-793.

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Vertebrate zoology research group

Paolo Pedrini Head of the Vertebrate Zoology Section 1R 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” (Uni- versity of Pavia) and “Vertebrate management” (University of Pavia). From 1983 to 2R 1995 he has been working as consultant for several institution within the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) and for several National universities and research institutions; he has also been teaching in high schools. From 1995 is curator of the Verte- 3R brate Zoology Section at the MTSN, he has also been the curator of the Environmental education Section of the same museum un- til 2001. He has been the supervisor of several degree theses and the author of over 4R 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 re- production and ecology of alpine birds; he has been the coordinator of the 5R action plan on threatened species conservation, of the atlas of local species distribution as well as of the red-list species assessment (Amphibians, Rep- tiles, Birds and Mammals). Bi olo gy area

Franco Rizzolli 6R Research assistant Born in Trento in 1968, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the Padova Uni- versity with a dissertation on Hydrobiology. 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 Zo- ology 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 subjects 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 the- 1R sis about ichtyofauna. In the same University 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 Emilia- Romagna Region and Autonomous Province 2R of Trento, and worked in LIFE projects as 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 Autono- 3R mous Province of Trento.

Maria Chiara Deflorian Technical assistant 4Bi olo gy area R 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 European Badger (Meles meles). Since 2000 she collaborates with the MTSN, where she mainly deals with the digitalization and data management of 5R the scientific collections. In 2004 she attended a Master in scientific museology at the University of Padova and in 2007 she attended a course CNRS (in France) on scientific collection management. She collaborates to the research activities of the Vertebrate Zoology Section and 6R since 2003 collaborates to the realization of the distribution atlas of mammals of the Trento province. She is a skilled and experienced expert on 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 hibex in the Parco Naturale di Paneveggio - Pale di S. Martino.

Mattia Brambilla Research fellow 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 ecology and conserva-

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tion 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 plan for terrestrial Verte- brates of Community interest in Lombardy, conservation and management of 1R areas and species of Community interest. He has contributed to the “Assess- ment of conservation status of Italian avifauna” (LIPU - MATTM, 2008-2009). He has published 15 articles in ISI-ranked journals (2004-2009).

Marco Girardello 2R Research fellow Born in 1977, he obtained a degree in Zool- ogy from the University of Abeerdeen (UK) and a Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). During his Ph.D. he carried out a resarch 3R project on the application of machine- learning methods to species distribution modelling. His main research interests are concered with understanding the determinants of species distributions at the large 4R 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 application spatio-temporal modelling techniques to study the dynamics of plant and animal populations. He authour of several pubblications on In- 5R ternational peer-reviewed journals. From June 2009 he works as Quanti- tative Ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK). He has been collaborating with the Vertebtrate Zoology Section at the MTSN since Bi olo gy area 2009. His work has focussed on developing predictive models for breeding birds in the province of Trento to assess the potential impacts of land cover changes in the breeding birds. 6R

Clara Tattoni Research fellow Born in Milan in 1976, she holds a master’s degree in Environmetal Science at the University 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, Fratelli Confalonieri, Parco Ad- amello Brenta, DiCA) . Since 2006 she has been working with the Laboratory of Forest Ecology 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 for bird migration and conservation. With the MTSN 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.

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Simone Tenan Research fellow Born in Rovigo in 1974, M.Sc. (Hons) in Natural Science at the University of Padua 1R (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 2R Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He has been collaborating with the Vertabrate Zoology Section of the MTSN since 2008, on the data analyses related to the “Progetto Alpi”, on the post-nuptial bird migration. Ph.D. student at the 3R University of Pavia (Italy) since November 2009, with a Ph.D. fellowship from the MTSN, his dissertation is focussed on modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of bird migration across the Italian Alps.

Karol Tabarelli De Fatis

4Bi olo gy area R Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1981, he is currently studying for a degree in Natural Sciences at Pa- dova University specializing in Natural Re- sources Conservation. He has conducted research and training activities since 1997 5R within the vertebrate zoology Section of the Natural Sciences Museum of Trento, Italy. In 2003 he completed his B.Sc. Univer- sity thesis working on times and patterns of bird migrations through the Alps, in collab- 6R oration with the MTSN. He 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 also been recognized by the province of Trento as a professional taxidermist.

Francesca Rossi Technical assistant Born in Firenze in 1972, she obtained a degree in Forestry at the University of Firenze in 1998. From 2001 to 2009 she collaborated on bird research and monitoring projects, both on migrantory and resident species. Together with Stefano Noselli, she is the referent person for the Bird Ringing Station at Passo del Broccon, which is part of the “Pro- getto ALPI”. For the same project, during 2001-2008 she was involved in data management and preparation of annual reports. She also conducted fieldwork, management and analysis of data on the Progetto Biodiversità. She has collaborated to the provisioning of data to the Autonomous Province of Trento about faunal

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databases, status and phenology of faunal species of conservation relevance; assessment of the conservation value of selected sites and related management issueszone e relative problematiche gestionali; monitoring work in the context of the “Rete Natura 2000 “ of Trento province. 1R

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AA.VV., (2009) - Atlante Ornitologico Italiano Progetto M.I.T.O. Avocetta. Contribuiti 2R di: Pedrini P., Segata M., Rizzolli F., Rossi F., Volcan G. (in press). Brambilla M. & Jenkins R.K.B., 2009 - Cost-effective estimates of Water Rail Rallus aquaticus breeding population size. Ardeola, 56: 95-102. [IF 2008: 0.46] Dalpiaz D., Frapporti C., Groff C. & Zanghellini P., 2008 - Bear Report 2007. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, January 2008. Dalpiaz D., Frapporti C., Groff C. & Zanghellini P., 2009 - Bear Report 2008. Provincia 3R Autonoma di Trento, January 2009. Deflorian M. C., Menegon M. & Pedrini P. V., 2009 - Le collezioni erpetologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali di Trento. In: Mazzotti S. (ed.), Le collezioni erpetologiche in Italia. Censimento e analisi delle collezioni di Anfibi e Rettili dei musei italiani per la loro valorizzazione scientifica. Museologia Sci- entifica. Memorie, 5/2009: 74-80. Deflorian M.C., Rigobello F., Bertuzzi E., Lencioni V., 2009 - Il materiale esotico nelle 4R collezioni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Atti del XVII Congresso ANMS “Al di là delle Alpi e del Mediterraneo - il significato delle collezioni “esotiche” nei musei naturalistici”. Verona, 4-7 dicembre 2007. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 2. Serie. Monografie Naturalistiche, 4; Museologia Scientifica. Memorie, 4: 32-40. Pedrini P., Rossi F., Rizzolli F. & Spina F., 2008 - Le Alpi italiane quale barriera ecologica 5R nel corso della migrazione post-riproduttiva attraverso l’Europa: risultati generali della prima fase del Progetto (1997-2002). Biol. Cons. Fauna, 116: 1-336.

Sergio F., Marchesi L. & Pedrini P., 2009 - Conservation of Scops Owl Otus scops in Bi olo gy area the Alps: relationships with grassland management, predation risk and wider biodiversity. Ibis, 151: 40-50. [IF 2008: 1.443] 6R

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Geology research group

Marco Avanzini Head of the Geology Section 1R Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1963. His research focus on stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment reconstruction of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Southern Alps and Southern Europe. In the last 2R 10 years he has mainly focused on vertebrate palaeontology, in particular palaeoichnology and palaeoecology of dinosaurs and other reptiles. Has experience in palaeontological excavations and the geological mapping of the al- 3R pine area. Is part of the research group joined by the Italian Geological Survey to edit the new Geological Map of Italy (CARG Project). He has great experi- E ar ence in the protection and valorisation of palaentological and geological

4t h scie n ce area R sites, as well as with public outreach. He is member of the scientific board of the Società Paleontologica italiana, regional referee of the Società Geologica Italiana and of the Società Italiana di Geografia e Geologia militare. Is author of more than 300 publications in national and international journals concern- 5R ing the study of tetrapod footprints, geology and stratigraphy of the mesozoic of the Southern Alps.

Paolo Ferretti Technical assistant 6R Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1972. Since 2001 is member of the Geology Section of the MTSN, 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. He is also involved in ichnological and paleoecological studies of vertebrate tracks discovered in the Permian and Triassic deposits of the Southalpine region and in the realization of several stratigraphic studies. From 2003 he participate as a compiler, to the the 1:50.000-scale geological mapping project of the Trentino Alto Adige region (CARG Project).

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Riccardo Tomasoni Research fellow Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1972. From 1999 he is a member of the Geology and Paleon- tology Section of the MTSN. He took part 1R to several ichnological and paleoecological research activities on vertebrate tracks discovered in the Permian and Triassic deposits of the Southalpine region. From 1999 he participate to the the 1:50.000-scale geo- 2R logical mapping project of Italy, as a compiler designated by the geological Survey of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento. With- in this project he is a member of the task group “Alps” of the Italian Commission on Stratigraphy. He is also involved, as an expert, in the management of the Unesco Geopark Adamello- Brenta. 3R

Fabio Massimo Petti Post. Doc Born in Roma in 1972. Holding a Ph.D. in Paleontology, from 200 to 2006 he was a 4R member of the task group, controlled and coordinated by the Italian Commission on Stratigraphy, that realized an updated “Catalogue of the Italian Geological For- mations”, one of the projects connected to the of the new Geological Map of Italy on 5R a scale of 1:50.000 (CARG project). From

2007 he cooperates with the Geology and t h scie n ce area Paleontology Section of the MTSN, benefit-

ing of a post-doc grant funded by the Pro- E ar vincia Autonoma di Trento. The topic of the post-doc project is the study of 6R dinosaur footprints as constraints in the palaeogeographical and palaeoeco- logical reconstructions of the Central Mediterranean area during the Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous interval.

Christian Casarotto Research fellow Born in Busto Arsizio (VA) in 1975. Since 2003 he is member of the Geology and Educa- tional Section of the MTSN. He firstly took part to educational activities; afterwards he addressed his activity towards monitoring of alpine glacial also as part of Comitato Glaci- ologico Trentino. He is involved in territorial studies of sustainable development through the valorisation of natural heritage. He join his research activities with the popularization of study results in several meeting and public communication.

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Michele Zandonati Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1969. Regional guide of the special list of the Alpine Guides. He is the op- 1R erative responsible of the Alpine Rescue team of Rovereto (TN). From 2004 he works in the Geology Section of the MTSN mainly cooper- ating with research activities on hydrogeology and karstification. He has a well-established 2R experience in speleological explorations and is specialized in database creation, GIS systems and high-resolution monitoring instruments.

Andrea Borsato 3R Research fellow Born in Trento in 1960. Conjoint Senior Lec- turer at the University of Newcastle (Aus- tralia), School of Environmental and Life Sci- E ar ences, Environmental and Climate Change Research Group, field trip tutor at the

4t h scie n ce area R 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 deals with Quaternary geol- 5R ogy, 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 carbonates through radiometric dating, isotopic analyses, geo- chemical studies of trace elements and microstratigraphy.

6R Renza Miorandi Research fellow Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1975. She has a degree in Letters and Philosophy from the Trento University with a thesis on cultural geography concerning the Monte Pasubio springs. Skilled speleologist (in activity since 1991) and speleology instructor of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) since January 2007, she is an operator of National Alpine Res- cue team. Sicne 2001 she cooperates with the Geology Section of the MTSN, being involved in several paleoclimatic studies with monthly sampling in hypogean environments and their digital elaboration. In 2008 she is involved in the “Trentino Clima 2008” exhbit, organised by the MTSN in cooperation with the Provin- cia Autonoma di Trento. From 2005 to 2009 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 peleoenvironment”.

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Avanzini M. & Cavin L., 2009 - A new Isochirotherium trackway from the Triassic of Vieux Emosson, SW Switzerland: stratigraphic implications. Swiss Journal of Geoscience, 102/1: 1-9. [IF 2008: 0.788] 1R Avanzini M. & Mietto P., 2008 - Lower and Middle Triassic footprint-based Biochronol- ogy in the Italian Southern Alps. Oryctos, 8: 3-13. Avanzini M., Mietto P., De Angelis M., Panarello A. & Rolandi G., 2008 - The Devil’s Trails: Middle Pleistocene Human Footprints Preserved in a Volcanoclastic De- posit of Southern Italy. In: Lockley M.G. & Kim Y.J. (eds), Hominid Ichnology. Ichnos, 16/1-2 (2009): 2-21. Becker M., Bellin A. & Borsato A., 2008 - Fractionated Drainage in a Karstic Alpine 2R System: The Italian Dolomites. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Sec- tion of the Geological Society of America, Buffalo, New York, 27-29 March 2008. Ferretti P. & Masetto M., 2008 - Cima d’Asta. Recenti ritrovamenti nelle pegmatiti del massiccio granitico (Trentino orientale). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4/2008: 210-228. 3R Houck K.J., Lockley M.G. & Avanzini M., 2009 - A survey of Tetrapod tracksites preserved in pyroclastic sediments, with special reference to footprints of hominids, other mammals and birds. Ichnos, 16/1-2: 76-97. Lockley, M., Garcia-Ramos J.C., Pinuela L. & Avanzini M., 2008 - A review of vertebrate track assemblages from the Late Jurassic of Asturias, Spain with comparative notes on coeval ichnofaunas from the western USA: implications for 4R faunal diversity in siliciclastica facies assemblages. Oryctos, 8: 53-70. Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., De Gasperi M., Ferretti P., Girardi S., Remond- ino F. & Tomasoni R., 2008 - Digital 3D modelling of dinosaur footprints by photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques: integrated approach at the Coste dell’Anglone tracksite (Lower Jurassic, central-eastern Southern Alps, northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 303-316. Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Nicosia, U., Girardi, S., Bernardi M., Ferretti P., Schirolli, P. & 5R Dal Sasso C., 2009 - Late Triassic (Early - middle Carnian) chirotherian tracks from the Val Sabbia sandstone (Eastern Lombardy, Brescian Prealps, Northern t h scie n ce area Italy). Rivista italiana di paleontologia e stratigrafia, 115, 3: 277-290. E ar 6R

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Prehistory research group

Giampaolo Dalmeri Head of the Prehistory Section 1R Born in Pergine (TN) in 1952, he obtained his degree in Geology in 1977 at the University of Ferrara, School of Mathematical, Chemi- cal, Physical and Natural Sciences with a degree in Human Paleontology with the 2R thesis “Il Giacimento Quaternario di Prades- tel presso Trento”, a sedimentological and stratigraphic study of the Epipalaeolitic lithic industries and series. He has worked for about 30 years in prehistoric antiquity and conducts research projects related to the 3R oldest alpine human population, especially in Trentino, sponsored by the Museum. He has published numerous scientific articles and informatives on this subject and is actu- E ar ally leading the excavation and palaeoenvironmental studies at Dalmeri rockshelter in

4t h scie n ce area R Grigno (Tn). He conducted research projects at the Cogola rockshelter and in the wetland site of Palù Echen (both in Folgaria, Tn) and Lago delle Regole in Val di Non (Tn). In the 80ies and 90ies he collaborated with the Soprintenden- za Archeologica di Trento for numerous research projects on the Mesolithic in Val d’Adige and West Trentino (Tn). In 1990 he discovered the Dalmeri 5R rockshelter; the interdisciplinary researches followed under his direction have shown exceptional aspects related to human behaviour, such as residential mobility, ways of life and hunting, art and rituals of the ancient hunter-gatherers of the late Upper Palaeolithic. The archaeological discoveries of Dalmeri rockshelter are internationally recognized. Since 1997, he coordinated more than 20 theses in Prehistoric Sciences and Archaeological and Cultural Herit- 6R age. He has took part in person or as a co-author in 40 conferences, national and international workshops, 20 posters and 30 oral communications. He is co-author of about 80 works in scientific journals. He has published over 100 scientific articles, popular writings and book chapters.

Stefano Neri Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1980, has been working since 2005 at the MTSN first as educators, then from 2007 as technical of the Prehis- tory Section. He received the 2004-2005 Academic Year Degree in Cultural Herit- age, Archaeological and at the University of Trento, Faculty of Humanities, with the thesis “Catalogazione e analisi GIS delle testimonianze archeologiche relative alla frequentazione degli ultimi cacciatori-raccoglitori in Trentino”. Currently enrolled in the degree in Management of Cultural Heritage at the University of Trento. He is involved in technical and scientific

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researches on the regional territory, the archaeological excavations logistic, data processing of archaeological excavation, inventory of the archaeological collections, collaboration in the activity editor of scientific journal “Pre- historic Alpine “. In the year 2009 he was one of the curators of the temporary exhibition “Quando eravamo cacciatori” built in Grigno (Valsugana, 1R Tn) and editor with Giampaolo Dalmeri in the remaking of the permanent exhibition halls at the Museum. Participation in archaeological excavations: - 2002, lake-dwelling site of Ledro (Tn), directed by the Laboratory of Palaeon- tology of the University of Trento. - 2003, archaeological excavations in Portugal, “Arqueologia na Ribeira da Ponte Pedra 2003”, organized by the Center for Archeology of Vila Nova da 2R Barquinha and the University of Tomar in Portugal, on behalf of the University of Trento (tutor Dr. Sefano Grimaldi). - 2003, archaeological excavations in Spain, “L’Abri Romani” in the province of Barcelona in Spain, with the Atapuerca team headed by Professor Eudald Carbonell i Roura. - Since 2007, technical management and logistics of the archaeological exca- 3R vations promoted by the Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences and under the direction of Dr. Giampaolo Dalmeri.

Elisabetta Flor Research assistant 4R Born in Cles (TN) in 1982, she received her Master Degree in Prehistoric Sciences at University of Ferrara in 2009, with the thesis “Contributo allo studio dei sistemi tecnici sauveterriani: analisi tecnologica dei 5R livelli AF-AC1 del riparo di Romagnano Loc III (Tn)”. In 2005 she received his Bachelor’s t h scie n ce area degree in Cultural Heritage, Archaeological and at the University of Trento, with the thesis “Ambiente e occupazione umana nella E ar Conca di Trento durante il Mesolitico antico: 6R l’esempio del riparo di Pradestel (Tn)”, a technological analysis of the sauveterian lithic industries of Pradestel rockshelter (Tn). She has been collaborating since 2006 with the Museum as a technical/scientific collaborator for inventory of the collection. She has taken part to the research project OPENLOC “Social capital and environmental capital. The possible contribution to local development in a global context, in which she operates to define and study the archaeological character of two areas of Trentino (Leno and Ledro Valley). She has so far parteciped in the creation of two scientific articles and in- formative text, acquiring a position to present an in-depth knowledge of prehistoric archaeology of Trentino.

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Bassetti M., Cusinato A., Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M. & Wierer U., 2009 - Updating on the Final Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition in Trentino (NE Italy). Hugo Obermaier Society. 49 th Annual Meeting in Trento 1R (10-14 of April, 2007). Preistoria Alpina, 44: 121-135. Belli R., Dalmeri G., Gialanella S., Mandelli M., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & Quaranta A., 2009 - Raman characterization of prehistoric pigments. In: Gueli A. (a cura di), Atti del V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria A.I.A.R “Scienza e Beni Culturali.” Morrone Editore, Siracusa: 81-90. Belli R., Lonardelli I., Quaranta A., Girardi F., Cusinato A. & Dalmeri G., 2008 - A 2R methodological approach to discriminate between natural and synthetic haematite used as prehistoric pigments: preliminary results (Riparo Dalmeri - Trentino, Italy). In: Proceedings of AIAr Firenze 2007.. Pàtron Editore, Bologna: 179-185. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2008 - Riparo Dalmeri: l’uomo e due stili di raffigurazione. Analisi formale di quattro pietre decorate con figure antropomorfe. In: Dalmeri G. & 3R Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 299-315. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Frisia S., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Kompatscher K., Bassetti M. & Belli R., 2009 - The Palaeolithic naturalistic art at the Dalmeri rockshelter and climate variability. In: Atti della UISPP Conference, Lisbona: 89-97. E ar Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Neri S. & Nicolodi F., 2008 - Le industrie mesolitiche di Riparo Pradestel (Trento). Aspetti tipologici ed evolutivi. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 131-

4t h scie n ce area R 186. Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Bassetti M. & Cusinato A., 2009 - The colonisation of eastern alpine territories: the Val di Non case study and the “Regole” field camps (Trento, Italy). In: Mesolithic Horizons. Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic. Dublin, Oxbow Books: 60-67. 5R Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Kompatscher M.H., Cusinato A., Bassetti M. & Neri S., (2009) - Le pietre con pitture in ocra di Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). Sviluppi delle ricerche sull’arte e la ritualità del sito epigravettiano. In: Atti Convegno IIPP, Trento (in press). Venzo G.A., Dalmeri G., Neri S. & Pontalti L., (2009) - Geomorfologia e ambiente dei territori frequentati dai cacciatori - raccoglitori epigravettiani del Riparo Dalmeri 6R nel paleolitico superiore. Atti dell’istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 167 (in press). Ziggiotti S. & Dalmeri G., 2008 - Strategie di caccia degli ultimi epigravettiani. Lo studio funzionale delle armature litiche di Riparo Cogola, livello 19. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 13-24.

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Name Section E-mail address Telephone Abeli Thomas Botany [email protected] +39 0461 270381 Angeli Nicola Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461 270342 Avanzini Marco Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312 1R Bernabò Paola Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270371 Hydrobiology Bonomi Costantino Botany [email protected] +39 0461 270381 Borsato Andrea Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312 Brambilla Mattia Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 Cantonati Marco Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461 270342 2R Caputi Luigi Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270371 Hydrobiology Casarotto Christian Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270345 Dalmeri Giampaolo Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461 270314 Dalpiaz Davide Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 3R Deflorian Maria Chiara Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 Ferretti Paolo Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270344 Flor Elisabetta Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461 270314 Franceschini Alessandra Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270372 Hydrobiology Girardello Marco Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 4R Gobbi Mauro Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270372 Hydrobiology Grazioli Valentina Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270371 Hydrobiology Lencioni Valeria Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270371 Hydrobiology 5R Martin Emanuel H. Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +255 785274469 Menegon Michele Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461 270374 Miorandi Renza Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312 Mondoni Andrea Botany [email protected] +39 0461 270381 Neri Stefano Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461 270314 6R Parolo Gilberto Botany [email protected] +39 0461 270381 Pedrini Paolo Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270310 Petti Fabio Massimo Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312 Pupin Fabio Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461 270374 Ricci Silvia Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 3201992969 Riservato Elisa Invertebrate Zoology and [email protected] +39 0461 270372 Hydrobiology Rizzolli Franco Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 Rossi Francesca Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270340 Rovero Francesco Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461 270374 Scalfi Alessia Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461 270342 Spitale Daniel Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461 270342 Tabarelli De Fatis Karol Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270310 Tardio Massimiliano Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461 270383 Tattoni Clara Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270310 Tenan Simone Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461 270310 Tomasoni Riccardo Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312 Vicentini Renzo Botany [email protected] +39 0461 270313 Zandonati Michele Geology [email protected] +39 0461 270312

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Research and teaching activities (2008-2009) Nr.

Research projects 59 1R Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 29 Seminars c/o universities and museums 7 Lectures 36 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 8 2R Post-doc grants 3 Ph.Ds 13 Masters and degrees 19 Other research grants 2

3R Trainings 9 Volunteers 13

Research projects 1. ABOVO - research on italian bird nests. In collaboration with ISPRA, funded by MTSN 4R from 2000. 2. ACE-SAP - Alpine ecosystems in a Changing Environment: Biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potentia”. Project funded by Autonomous Province of Trento Servizio Università e Ricerca. (2008-2011). 3. Ambienti estremi: cambiamenti climatici e strategie adattative in invertebrati acquatici di alta quota. Project funded by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto 5R (2006-2008). 4. 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. (Long-term ecological research from 2008) 5. ARPAV - Metalli pesanti e humus nei suoli della Regione Veneto / Heavy metals and humus in the soils of Veneto Region. Funded by ARPAV Regione Veneto (2008-2009). 6R 6. Azioni propedeutiche alla redazione di un piano di gestione degli invertebrati nella Rete Natura 2000. Project funded by Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale PAT (2009-2010). 7. Biodiversity in Trentino: studies and updating of the Trentino province database. In collaboration with University of Pavia, Centre of Ecology and Hidrology, Oxford (UK), ISPRA- Ministero dell’Ambiente; funded by MTSN e Autonomous province of Trento from 2001. 8. Cartografia geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 / Italian geological cartography 1:50.000. Funded by Servizio Geologico Autonomous Province of Trento (2000-2009). 9. Cartografia geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 - direzione rilevamento fogli Trento e Mezzolombardo - provincia di Trento. Funded by Servizio Geologico Autonomous Province of Trento (2000-2009). 10. Cartografia geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 - geologia del quaternario fogli Trento, Mezzolombardo e Bagolino - provincia di Trento. Funded by Servizio Geologico Autonomous Province of Trento (2000-2009). 11. Cartografia geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 - rilevamento fogli Trento e Mezzolombardo - provincia di Trento. Funded by Servizio Geologico Autonomous Province of Trento (2000-2009). 12. CESSPA - Censimento e studio delle sorgenti e dei pozzi del territorio alpino e prealpino di competenza dell’Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Adige / Inventory and investigation of springs and wells in the River Adige basin. Project funded by Autorità di Bacino dell’Adige / River-Adige Basin Authority. In collaboration with Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona / Natural History Museum of Verona, Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Adige, University of Frankfurt (2007-2009). 13. CLIPAST - Clima e Paleoclima da speleotemi / Climate and Paleoclimate reconstructions

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from spaeleothems. Funded by MTSN (2006-2008). 14. CRENODAT - Biodiversità, valutazione dell’integrità delle sorgenti del Trentino e ricerche ecologiche a lungo termine / Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of Trentino - Italian Alps - and long-term ecological research. Funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. In collaboration with University of Innsbruck, University of Parma, University of Trento, University of Pisa, Istituto Agrario di S. Michele all’Adige 1R (TN), University of Ceske Budejovice, University of Frankfurt (2004-2008). 15. DINOGEO - Le orme dei dinosauri come vincoli nella ricostruzione paleogeografica e paleo ambientale dell’area centro-mediterranea durante l’intervallo Triassico superiore - Cretacico superiore / The dinosaurs tracks as key in the palaegegraphical reconstruction of the center-Mediterranean area during the interval Late Triassic - Early Cretaceous interval. Project funded by Servizio Università e Ricerca Autonomous Province of Trento 2R (2007-2010). 16-23.16. RD / Riparo Dalmeri - Dalmeri Rockshelter / MTSN / (1990 - in corso) Pluriannuale. Eight interdisciplinary palaeoenvironmental and palethnologists researches about the Upper Paleolithic site of Dalmeri rockshelter (Sette Comuni Plateau, Trento) (MTSN) Entities involved: CORA, Ricerche Archeologiche, Trento, Studio Arch. Kompatscher, Bolzano, Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, Università di Trento, Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali, Università di Ferrara, Soprintendenza Speciale al Museo 3R Preistorico ed Etnografico “L. Pigorini, Roma, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Università di Aix-en-Provence, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Laboratori della FBK, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, GEA indagini archeologiche e antropologiche S.C.a.r.l., Roma, Velluti Restauratori, Villabruna, Belluno. 24. ENSCONET - the European Native Seed COnservation NETwork, EU FP6 (2004-2009). 25. Entomofauna del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio: documentazione 4R della biodiversità in relazione agli habitat, alla presenza dell’uomo e alla fauna vertebrata. In collaboration with Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Settore Trentino (2008-2011). 26. GEO-BIO - Progetto Banche Dati Autonomous Province of Trento, Servizio Foreste (2009). 27. Investigation on the impact of turism on the vertebrate fauna. In collaboration with University of Trento DICA. Project funded by Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale Autonomous Province of Trento (2008-2009). 5R 28. Indexing and protecting the notable trees of the city of Trento, Trento city council (2009). 29. International Project Beared Volture, Rete Trentina per il monitoraggio del Gipeto. In collaboration with Servizio Foreste e Fauna (2009). 30. Investigating social and tourist use of the prospective natural park on Mt. Bondone, Trento city council (2009). 31. IWC - International Waterfowl Census. In collaboration with Servizio Foreste e Fauna 6R Autonomous Province of Trento and ISPRA (1995). 32. Landscape design of Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden. Funded by MTSN (2009). 33. Limnological Station of the Museum at Lake Tovel, Field Station of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali in agreement with the Municipality of Tuenno. Main collaborations: Adamello-Brenta Natural Park; Municipality of Tuenno. 34. MEPESA - Influenza dei fattori pedo-ambientali e climatici sulla mobilità dei metalli pesanti in zone alpine / Influence of the pedo-environmental and climatic factors on the mobility of the heavy metals in the alpine environment. Funded by ISSDS (Istituto Sperimentale per la Difesa e lo Studio del Suolo - Firenze) (2006-2009). 35. MIB - Monitoraggio Idrogeologico Dolomiti di Brenta. Funded by Servizio Geologico Autonomous Province of Trento (2006-2008). 36. MITO - Italian Ornithological Monitoring (Farmland Bird Index e Atlante specie comuni in Trentino). In collaboration with Fauna Viva, LIPU Parma; funded by MTSN (2000). 37. OPENLOC - Politiche pubbliche e sviluppo locale: politiche per l’innovazione e ricadute locali di dinamiche globali / Public policies and local development: innovation policy and its effects on locally embedded global dynamics. Project funded by Servizio Università e Ricerca Autonomous Province of Trento (2008-2011). 38. 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 University of Pavia 2008-2009). 39. Faunistic plan of Trentino. Funded by Servizio Foreste e Fauna Autonomous Province of Trento (2009). 40. Popularization editorial initiatives of the Limnology and Phycology Section. Popular book on the lakes of the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park and on the most beautiful

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springs of Trentino. Main collaborations: Adamello-Brenta Natural Park; Autonomous Province of Trento, University and Scientific Research Service. 41. PRISCO - Progetto di Inanellamento a Sforzo Costante (Constant Effort Site), monitoring of the breeding success of common birds. Funded by MTSN in collaboration with ISPRA (from 2004). 1R 42. Progetto ALPI, multiannual investigation aimed to the study of post-breeding migration. In collaboration with Schwezerische Vogelwarte Sempach (CH), EURING, ISPRA - Centro Nazionale di Inanellamento, Ministero dell’Ambiente, Centre of Ecology and Hidrology, Oxford (UK); funded by MTSN (from 1997). 43. Ornithological data base, Ornitho.it. Funded by MTSN, in collaboration with LIPU, EBN Italia, CISO and ISPRA. 2R 44. Bear project in Trentino. In collaboration with Servizio Foreste Autonomous Province of Trento (from 2006). 45. Ranger-based monitoring in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Rufford Foundation and MTSN (2008-2009). 46. PARTY - Public pARticipation and cost-benefiT analYsis. Financed by Autority of Adige River (2009). 47. REPORT - Regolazione delle portate, ecosistemi e dinamica fluviale: linee guida per una 3R gestione eco-compatibile. Financed by Autority of Adige River (2008-2009). 48. Revealing the phylogenetic history and ecological adaptations of Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, a newly-discovered, living fossil of giant elephant-shrews from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. National Geographic Society (2008-2010). 49. RIBES - the Italian Network for the ex situ conservation of the Italian native flora (2009). 50. PECH / Palù Echen 1 / MTSN / (since 2004) long-term research. Second year of 4R palethnologists and palaeoenvironmental researches in Palù Echen 1 (Folgaria plateau, Tn). Entities involved: Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Section Paleoclima; University of Innsbruck, Palinology. 51. Seed germination ecology. Funded by MTSN (2009). 52. Sorting and scanning TR herbarium. Funded by MTSN, (2009). 53. Studio delle relazioni tra cenosi a Coleotteri Carabidi e formazioni vegetali nel Parco 5R Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di S. Martino. Funded by Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di S. Martino (2009-2010). 54. TEAM network (Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring): long-term biodiversity monitoring in the Udzungwa Mountains. Conservation International, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, first phase 2009-2013. 55. Tecniche di misura e modellizzazione tridimensionale applicate all’archeologia e alla 6R geologia. 56. The herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot: understanding evolutionary history to identify extinction risk and key areas for conservation, in collaboration with University of Manchester Metropolitan. Partly funded by Wildlife Conservation Society. Duration: 2009 - 2012. 57. Trentino Seedbank. Funded by MTSN (2009). 58. UNESCO European Geoparks - Adamello Brenta Geopark. Project funded by Adamello Brenta Park (2008-2009). 59. Vertebrati fossili e paleoambienti del sudalpino / Fossil vertebrates and paleonvironments in the Southern Alps. Funded by MTSN.

Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 1. Avanzini M., 2008 - Geografia e analisi morfologica del territorio. University of Trento, Literary Section, Degree Course in Cultural Heritage. 2. Avanzini M., 2008 - Geologia regionale. University of Padova, Geoscience Section, Degree Course in Geology and Technical Geology. 3. Avanzini M., 2008 - Museologia naturalistica. University of Padova, Geoscience Section, Degree Course in Geology. 4. Brambilla M., 2009 - I Rallidi degli Ambienti umidi: riconoscimento, biologia e tecniche di censimento. MTSN, Trento, 3 April 2009. 5. Cantonati M., 2008 - Ecology & taxonomy of benthic diatoms in oligotrophic freshwater habitats. Practical course organizer and instructor. Limnological Station of the MTSN at Lake Tovel, 16-20 June 2008. 6. Cantonati M., 2008 - Diatoms. Practical course. Limnological Station of the MTSN at

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Lake Tovel, 6-10 July 2009. 7. Cantonati M., 2009 - Introduction to Hydrobotany. Course held in collaboration with Prof. Eugen Rott. University of Innsbruck, Botany Institute. 8. Cantonati M., 2009/10 - Algal Ecology. Advanced course. University of Innsbruck, Botany Institute. 9. Dalpiaz D., 2009 - I percorsi didattici: criteri di progettazione, aspetti tecnici e 1R comunicativi. Course for Environment-Forestry Expert, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige - Fondazione E. Mach. 10. Gobbi M. 2008 - Gli Insetti; vita, morte e miracoli in un batter d’ali. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio Regionale delle Guide Alpine della Lombardia. 11. Gobbi M., 2008 - Fauna alpina. Università della Montagna di Edolo, April-May 2008. 2R 12-13.12. Gobbi M., 2008, 2009 - Fauna del Suolo. Limnological Station of the Museum at Lake Tovel, 7-11 July 2008, 20-24 July 2009. 14-15.13. Lencioni V., 2008, 2009 - Chironomidi. Limnological Station of the Museum at Lake Tovel, 1-4 September 2008, September 2009. 16-17.14. Lencioni V., 2008, 2009 - Laghi e fiumi del Trentino. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento. 3R 18. Menegon M., 2008 - Rettili e Anfibi in Trentino. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento. 19. Menegon M., 2009 - Anfibi e Rettili del Trentino. Course in 2 lessons, MTSN, Trento, June 2009. 20. Pedrini P., 2008 - Il verde urbano e la fauna vertebrata. Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige. 21. Pedrini P., 2008 - Raccolta di dati zoologici e utilizzo informatico: un esempio. I Corso di 4R formazione specialistica per catalogatori di beni naturalistici, ANMS, Regione Veneto, Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 4 March 2008. 22. Pedrini P., 2008 - Rapaci, tetraonidi e gipeto in Trentino. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento. 23. Pedrini P., 2008 - Studi e ricerche sulla Biodiversità e in Vertebrati in Trentino. Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige. 5R 24. Pedrini P., 2009 - La migrazione degli Uccelli attraverso le Alpi. Biologia ed ecologia dei migratori e tecniche di studio. Istituto Agrario di S. Michele all’Adige, 7 June 2009. 25. Pedrini P., 2009 - Rapaci, tetraonidi e gipeto in Trentino. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento. 26. Pedrini P., Negra O., Menegon M. & Rovero F., 2008 - Siamo tutti Biodiversi. Course for 6R school teachers, MTSN, Trento, Autumn 2008. 27. Botany Section, 2008 - Siamo tutti Biodiversi. Course for school teachers, six lectures, MTSN, Trento, Autumn 2008. 28. Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2008 - Rapaci, tetraonidi e gipeto in Trentino. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento. 29. Tabarelli de Fatis K., 2009 - Osservazione della Fauna selvatica e riconoscimento dei suoi indici di presenza. Corso di Formazione per Accompagnatori del Territorio, Collegio delle Guide Alpine della Provincia di Trento, 16 June 2009.

Seminars c/o universities and museums 1. Bonomi C., 2008 - Dormienza nei semi delle piante alpine. University of Pavia, Ecology Section, 3 October 2008. 2. Bonomi C., 2008 - Studi di Ageing e longevità dei semi. University of Pavia, Ecology Section, 17 March 2008. 3. Dalmeri G., 2008 - Interdisciplinary research at Dalmeri Shelter. University of Trento. 4. Menegon M., 2008 - The herpetological fauna of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Field Museum, Chicago, USA. 5. Menegon M., 2008 - The herpetological fauna of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Wildlife Conservation Society, Kampala, Uganda. 6. Rovero F. 2008 - Nuovo toporagno elefante dalle foreste della Tanzania: un nuovo tassello nel cammino della specie. Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 12 February 2008. 7. Rovero F. 2009 - Una nuova specie dalle foreste della Tanzania: ricerca e conservazione

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del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali in un hotspot di biodiversità. Museo di Scienze Naturali di Bolzano, 10 February 2009.

Lectures 1. Bonomi C., 2008 - Piante e cambiamenti climatici: minacce e strategie di conservazione. 1R Orto Botanico Forestale dell’Abetone, Programmaestate2008 dell’Abetone, 8 August 2008. 2. Bonomi C., 2008 - Trentino Seed Bank Project Trento - NE Italy. Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Australia, 4 April 2008. 3-5.3. Dalmeri G. & Neri S. 2009 - Three conferences on Dalmeri rockshelter and presentation of the exhibition “When we were hunter”. Grigno, 2009. 2R 6. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2008 - Le ricerche sulla preistoria antica della Val di Non. Museo Retico di Sanzeno, 2008. 7-16.7. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2008 - Ten lectures regional/extra-regional, research at the Dalmeri Shelter. 17-21.8. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2009 - Five regional conferences related searches Dalmeri Shelter and presenting the exhibition “when we were hunter” (Grigno 2009). 3R 22-27.9. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2009 - Six regional/extra-regional conferences, research at the Dalmeri Shelter. 28. Dalmeri G., & Neri S. 2009 - Prehistory of Marcesina Plateau. Quinto Vicentino (VI), 2009. 29. Gobbi M. & Lencioni V., 2008 - Insetti di ambienti estremi (alpini): Gli ambienti terrestri: aree glacializzate, deglacializzate (ritiro dei ghiacciai) e grotte. Lecture held during the event “Secondo Me”, MTSN, 13 May 2008. 30. Lencioni V., 2008 - Gli ecosistemi acquatici alpini: la fauna bentonica e il clima che 4R cambia. Milano, 8 May 2008. 31. Lencioni V., 2008 - Study on Biodiversity of CKNP (Central Karakorum National Park) and surrounding areas. Gilgit (Pakistan), 9 november 2008. 32. Pedrini P., 2008 - Il Trentino, crocevia della migrazione. MTSN, Incontri la Museo per parlare di fauna, Trento, 4 March 2009. 33. Pedrini P., 2008 - Incontri nel cielo: i rapaci diurni. Gruppo Italiano parapendio, Mori 5R (TN), 4 March 2008. 34. Pedrini P., 2008 - La migrazione degli Uccelli: biodiversità in transito attraverso le Alpi italiane. Museo Civico di Rovereto, 27 March 2008. 35. Geology Section, 2008 - Trento cambiamenti climatici 2008. 36. Invertebrate Section, 2009 - Gli adattamenti al clima montano come fatti dell’evoluzione. Darwin Year 2009, MTSN, 12 February 2009. 6R In-house workshops and congresses organizations 1. 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting, Trento, 12-15 June 2008. 2. ACE-SAP Project (Alpine ecosystems in a changing environment: Biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potential), 2nd Annual General Meeting, Trento, Italy, 7 May 2009. 3. Riconoscere e contare gli Uccelli acquatici in natura. Practical course for waterfowls census. 5 lessons, MTSN, April-June 2008. 4. Ecology & taxonomy of benthic diatoms in oligotrophic freshwater habitats. Trento, 16-20 June 2008. 10 instructors of 9 different Countries; 18 students of 11 different nationalities. 5. ENSCONET 5th Annual General Meeting, Trento & Campitello di Fassa, 24 June - 2 July 2009 6. ENSCONET Seed Collecting Practical Workshop, Campitello di Fassa & Riva del Garda 28 June - 4 July 2009 7. Incontri al Museo per parlare di fauna 2008-2009. Organisation of 8 lectures on fauna. 8. Incontri al Museo per parlare di fauna 2009-2010: Organisation of 8 lectures on fauna.

Post-doc grants 1. Studio di terremoti fossili nel Massiccio dell’Adamello (Trentino occidentale). In collaboration with the University of Padova. Funded by CARITRO. 2. DINOGEO - Le orme dinosauri come vincoli nella ricostruzione paleogeografica e paleoambientale dell’area centro-mediterranea durante l’intervallo triassico superiore- cretacico superiore: un approccio integrato geologico-paleontologico. Funded by Autonomous Province of Trento.

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3. Manel Leira Campos, 2007-2008 - Paleolimnology of high-mountain lakes exploited for hydropower production. University La Coruna, Spain.

Ph.Ds 1. Abeli Thomas, 2007-2009 - Population biology and ecology of endemic species in the Central Alps (N-Italy). Ph.D. Programme in Experimental Ecology and Geobotany, 1R University of Pavia. Supervisors: G. Rossi, C. Bonomi. 2. Bernabò Paola, 2007-2009 - Strategie adattative in chironomidi d’alta quota (Diptera, Chironomidae) e cambiamenti climatici. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Tutor: L. Rebecchi, co-tutor: V. Lencioni. 3. Bertuzzi Ermanno, 2006-2008 - Springs of the Alps: complexity, biodiversity and naturalness/integrity indicators. Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, University of Urbino. 2R Supervisor: A. Farina. 4. Bottazzi Elisa, 2006-2008 - Caratterizzazione ecologica di ambienti lotici e sorgentizi dell’alto Appennino parmense. Ph.D. Programme in Ecology. Supervisors: G. Rossetti, S. Fenoglio, B. Maiolini. 5. Duches Rossella - Pratiche venatorie e dinamiche comportamentali dei gruppi tardo glaciali dell’Italia nord-orientale: analisi tecnologica, economica e funzionale delle 3R armature litiche. University of Ferrara. Tutors: M. Peresani, G. Dalmeri. 6. Franceschi Marco, 2007-2009 - Tecniche di misura e modellazione tridimensionale applicate all’archeologia e alla geologia - applicazione della tecnologia laser-scanner alla stratigrafia fisica. Ph.D. Programme funded by MTSN, in collaboration with ITC IRST and University of Padova. 7. Grazioli Valentina, 2008-2010 - Approfondimento delle conoscenze sull’ecologia e la tassonomia dei Ditteri Chironomidi nelle acque interne Italiane. University of Milan, 4R DiPSA. Tutor: B. Rossaro, co-tutor: V. Lencioni. 8. Menegon Michele, 2009-2011 - 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. Marsden, External supervisors: T. Davenport, S. Loader. 9. Mondoni Andrea, 2006-2008 - Geographical and environmental influences on seed 5R germination and longevity of endemic species in the Central Alps (N-Italy). Ph.D. Programme in Experimental Ecology and Geobotany, University of Pavia. Supervisors: G. Rossi, S. Linington, C. Bonomi. 10. Silveri Luana, 2006-2008 - Plecoptera in Alpine streams and springs. Ph.D. Programme in Ecology, Università di Parma. Supervisors: G. Rossetti, B. Maiolini. 11. Spitale Daniel, 2006-2008 - Bryophytes and vascular plants in springs of the Italian 6R alps: Biodiversity analysis at large spatial scale and mechanisms of distribution at fine spatial scale - Ph.D. in Ecology, University of Parma. Supervisors: Dr. G. Rossetti, Dr. M. Cantonati. (date of defence: 03/03/2008) 12. Taxböck L., 2008-2009 - Algae in Swiss springs (biodiversity, seasonality, population dynamics). Ph.D. Project. University of Zürich. Supervisors: Prof. H.R. Preisig, Dr. M. Cantonati, Dr. J. Hürlimann. 13. Tenan Simone - Modellizzazione delle dinamiche spaziotemporali della migrazione degli uccelli attraverso le Alpi italiane. University of Pavia. Supervisors: G. Bogliani, P. Pedrini, M. Girardello, A. Provenzale.

Masters and degrees 1. Baccarani Gianluca, 2007/2008 - Resistenza al freddo in chironomidi di torrenti montani. Master degree in Environmental Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 96 pp.. Tutors: R. Bertolani, V. Lencioni. 2. Battistotti M., 2008/2009 - Spatio-temporal variability of diatoms epiphyitic on Bangia atropurpurea (Rhodophyta, Bangiales) in Lake Garda. Bachelor in Environmental Sciences, University of Padova, 64 pp.. Tutors: P. Cordella, M. Cantonati. 3. Cau Paolo, 2008/2009 - Allestimento di un percorso espositivo per una serra tanzaniana. Master Degree in Natural Sciences, University of Pavia. Tutors: G. Rossi, C. Bonomi. 4. Ceresa Francesco, 2007/2008 - La comunità degli Uccelli nidificanti nella ZPS Pasubio (Trentino). Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Pavia. Tutors: G. Bogliani, P. Pedrini. 5. Ferretti Silvia, 2007/2008 - Il progetto Alpi per lo studio della migrazione post- riproduttiva attraverso la catena alpina: tempi e modalità di transito di alcune specie di

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Passeriformi. Master degree in Natural Sciences, University of Bologna. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 6. Flor Elisabetta, 2007/2008 - Contributo allo studio dei sistemi tecnici sauveterriani: i livelli AF-AC1 del Riparo di Romagnano Loc. III TN. Master Degree Course in Science Prehistoric, University of Ferrara. Tutors: F. Fontana, M. Peresani, A. Broglio, G. Dalmeri. 7. Franzoi Alessandro, 2007/2008 - La comunità degli Uccelli nidificanti nella ZPS Monte 1R Baldo di Brentonico (Trentino). Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Pavia. Tutors: G. Bogliani, P. Pedrini. 8. Gatti Davide, 2008/2009 - Primates and vegetation in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania: ecological models of abundance and methodological aspects. University of Bologna. Tutor: S. Tommasini, co-tutor: F. Rovero. 9. Trivella Maria Teresa, 2008/2009 - Evaluation of an environmental education programme 2R for primary schools in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. University of Bologna. Tutor: S. Tommasini, co-tutor: F. Rovero. 10. Ejaz Hussain , 2008/2009 - Stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Bagrot Valley (Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan). Degree in Biology, Karakorum International University, Gilgit. Tutors: Samina Mumtaz M.Phil, V. Lencioni). 11. Lampo Chiara, 2009/2010 - Odonatofauna in aree protette del Trentino. Master degree in Natural Sciences, University of Padova. Tutors: A. Minelli, V. Lencioni, M. Gobbi. 3R (ongoing) 12. Priore Cristiana, 2008/2009 - Studio della distribuzione di Rosalia alpina (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) e di Euplagia quadripunctaria (Lepidoptera Arctiidae) nel Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta e analisi spazio temporale delle comunità di Coleotteri Cerambicidi della Val Genova (Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta). Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Padova. Tutors: A. Minelli, M. Gobbi, V. Lencioni. (ongoing) 4R 13. Sartori Gianni, 2008/2009 - Diversità e distribuzione dei Chironomidi (Diptera: Chironomidae) in 27 sorgenti alpine e prealpine (Trentino, Veneto). Master Degree in Natural Sciences, University of Padova, 61 pp.. Tutors: A. Minelli, V. Lencioni. 14. Sartori Matteo, 2008/2009 - Revisione delle conoscenze della distribuzione di Coronella girondica e Vipera ammodytes nella provincia di Trento. Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Bologna. Tutors: M. Marini, P. Pedrini, M. Menegon. 5R 15. Scalfi Alessia, 2006/2007 - Seasonality and ecophysiology of micro- and macroalgae in spring habitats. Master Degree in Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, University of Trieste, 85 pp.. Tutors: G. Bressan, M. Cantonati (date of defence: 29/03/2008). 16. Segnana Michela, 2009/2010 - Benthic diatoms in aquatic ecosystems with hyperdilute waters in the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park). Master Degree in Natural Sciences. University of Padova. Tutors: Trevisan R. & M. Cantonati. (ongoing) 6R 17. Toldo Luca, 2009/2010 - Chironomidofauna di sorgenti montane. Master Degree in Natural Sciences. Tutors: Guidolin, V. Lencioni (ongoing). 18. Toloni Flavia, 2007/2008 - Variazioni giornaliere del drift dei Ditteri Chironomidi: Rio Larcher (Alpi) e Westbyelva (Isole Svalbard) a confronto. Master Degree in Natural Sciences. University of Milano, 124 pp.. Tutors: B. Rossaro, V. Lencioni, L. Marziali. 19. Tomio Cristina, 2007/2008 - I grattatoi delle industrie epigravettiane delle Alpi italiane orientali in rapporto ai cambiamenti nei sistemi tecno-economici. University of Ferrara, Master Degree in Science Prehistoric. Tutors: M. Peresani, G. Dalmeri.

Other research grants 1. Corezzola Serena, 2009 - 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. 2. Dal Prà Stefania, 2009 - Parco Monte Bondone una cultura per l’uso sociale, scientifico, ricreativo, turistico e sportivo,. Funded by Trento City Council. Tutors: G. Segatta, C.Bonomi.

Trainings 1. Beber Anna, Ist. Curie Pergine. 27 July - 8 August 2009 c/o Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology. 2. Belloti Ruben, liceo scientifico Galilei, Trento. Progetto DEDALUS: 6 - 25 July 2009, Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Garden. 3. Dalponte Arianna, Istituto De Carneri, Civezzano (40 hours) 4. Giuliani Anna, liceo scientifico Galilei, Trento. Progetto DEDALUS: 30 June - 12 July

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2008, Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Garden. 5. Kirchner Davide, liceo scientifico Galilei, Trento. Progetto DEDALUS: 30 June - 12 July 2008, Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Garden. 6. Pilia Oriana, London College, Ph.D. student - Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on invertebrate biodiversity. Imperial College of London, UK. Supervisor: Dr Simon Leather, Co-supervisor: Dr Robert M. Ewers. (4 months) 1R 7. Rattini Bruno, Istituto De Carneri, Civezzano (40 ore) 8. Tabarelli De Fatis Irene, liceo scientifico Da Vinci, Trento. Progetto DEDALUS: 6 - 25 July 2009, Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Garden. 9. Tonon Emil, liceo classico Prati Trento: 22 June - 3 July 2009 c/o Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology and CIBIO (Centre of Integrative Biology - University of Trento). 2R

Volunteers 1. Anesi Umberto - Catalogazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio naturalistico del Museo tridentino di scienze naturali. 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009. 2. Angelini Lisa - Antiche varietà e piante uniche, una diversità da proteggere. From 28 September 2009. 3R 3. Bernardi Massimo - Catalogazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio naturalistico del Mu- seo tridentino di scienze naturali. 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009. 4. Bolognesi Maddalena - Conservazione diversità vegetale. Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Garden, 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009. 5. Bortoluzzi Elena - Conservazione diversità vegetale. Seedbank and Viotte Alpine Gar- den, 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009. 6. Fontanari Martina - Inventario e gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tri- 4R dentino di Scienze Naturali. From 28 September 2009. 7. Gobbato Stefano - Romagnano Loc: cataloging as an instrument of exploitation of Bronze Age archaeological site. 1 March - 31 August 2009. 8. Menegoz Giuseppe - Antiche varietà e piante uniche, una diversità da proteggere. From 28 September 2009. 9. Micheli Silvia - Catalogazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio naturalistico del Museo 5R tridentino di scienze naturali. 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009. 10. Perli Riccardo - Catalogazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio naturalistico del Museo tridentino di scienze naturali. 1 September 2008 - 20 November 2008. 11. Plank Rachele - Inventario e gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. From 28 September 2009. 12. Todesco Rossana - Inventario e gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tri- 6R dentino di Scienze Naturali. From 28 September 2009. 13. Toldo Luca - Inventario e gestione delle collezioni naturalistiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. From 28 September 2009.

Publications Appendix 3 The Research Activities at MTSN: Report 2008-2009

Publications (2008-2009) Nr.

Scientific papers on peer-reviewed journals (with IF or ISI) 44 1R Scientific papers on peer-reviewed but not ISI journals 67

Scientific papers on un-reviewed journals 4

Books or book chapters 28

2R Popular science papers 28

Oral communications (with published abstract) 39

Oral communications (without published abstract) 22

3R Posters (with published abstract) 20 Posters (without published abstract) 11

Congress attendances 64

4R Scientific papers on peer-reviewed journals (with IF or ISI) 1. Abeli T., Gentili R., Rossi G., Bedini G. & Foggi B., 2009 - Can the IUCN criteria be effectively applied to peripheral isolated plant populations (PIPPs)? Biodiversity and Conservation, 18: 3877-3890. [IF 2008: 1.473] 2. Avanzini M. & Cavin L., 2009 - A new Isochirotherium trackway from the Triassic of Vieux Emosson, SW Switzerland: stratigraphic implications. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 5R 102/1: 1-9. [IF 2008: 0.788] 3. Bernabò P., Jousson O., Latella L., Martinez-Guitarte J.L., Rebecchi L. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Comparative analysis of Heat shock proteins and thermoresistance in stenothermal insects from caves and cold streams (NE, Italy). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 154/1, Page S4, ISSN 1095- 6433, DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.05.023. [IF 2009: 2.196] 6R 4. Bowkett A. E., Rovero F. & Marshall A.R., 2008 - The use of camera-trap data to model habitat use by antelope species in the Udzungwa Mountain forests, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology, 46: 479-487. [IF 2008: 0.618] 5. Brambilla M. & Jenkins R.K.B., 2009 - Cost-effective estimates of Water Rail Rallus aquaticus breeding population size. Ardeola, 56: 95-102. [IF 2008: 0.46] 6. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - Geissleria gereckei sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from leaf-litter covered stones of very shaded carbonate mountain springs with extremely low discharge. Phycological Research, 57: 171-177. [IF 2008: 0.9] 7. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - On the ultrastructure of Chamaepinnularia schauppiana Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin (Naviculaceae s. l.). Diatom Research, 24/1: 225-231. [IF 2008: 0.607] 8. Cantonati M. & Spitale D., 2009 - The role of environmental variables in structuring epiphytic and epilithic diatom assemblages in springs and streams of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park (south-eastern Alps). Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 174/2: 117-133. [IF 2008: 1.293+0.558] 9. Cantonati M., 2008 - Cyanoprokaryotes and algae other than diatoms in springs and streams of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park (Northern Italy). Algological Studies (Suppl. Arch. Hydrobiol.), 126: 113-136. [IF 2008: 1.293] 10. Cantonati M., Silvia S., Angeli N., Guella G. & Frassanito R., 2009 - Environmental controls of epilithic diatom depth-distribution in an oligotrophic lake characterised by marked water-level fluctuations.European Journal of Phycology, 44/1: 15-29. [IF 2008: 1.826] 11. Cantonati M., Van de Vijver B. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - Microfissurata gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a new diatom genus from dystrophic and intermittently-wet terrestrial habitats. Journal of Phycology, 45/3: 732-741. [IF 2008: 2.811]

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12. DeFries R., Rovero F., Wright P., Ahumada J., Andelman S., Brandon K., Dempewolf J., Hansen A., Hewson J. & Liu J., (2009) - From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1890/080104 (in press). [IF 2008: 5.065] 13. Ferrarini A., Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ferloni M., 2008 - Planning low-impact tourist paths through the optimisation of biological and logistic criteria. Biological Conservation, 141: 1R 1067-1077. [IF 5-year average: 3.819]. 14. Frassanito R., Cantonati M., Flaim G., Mancini I. & Guella G., 2008 - A new method for the identification and the structural characterisation of carotenoid esters in freshwater microorganisms by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22: 3531-3539. [IF 2008: 2.772] 15. Gobbi M. & Fontaneto D., 2008 - Biodiversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) 2R in different habitats of the Italian Po lowland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 127/3-4: 273-276. [IF 2008: 2.884] 16. Latella L., Bernabò P. & Lencioni V., 2008 - Distribution pattern and thermal tolerance in two cave dwelling Leptodirinae (Coleoptera, Cholevidae). Subterranean Biology, 6: 81-86. [ISI journal] 17. Leira M. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Effects of water-level fluctuations on lakes: an annotated 3R bibliography. In: Wantzen K.M., Rothhaupt K.-O., Mörtl M., Cantonati M., Lászlo G.-T. & Fischer P. (eds), Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes. Developments of Hydrobiology, Hydrobiologia, 613: 171-184. [IF 2008: 1.449] 18. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Vanin S., Di Muro P. & Beltramini M., 2008 - Respiration rate and oxy-regulatory capacity in cold stenothermal chironomids. Journal of Insect Physiology, 54/9: 1337-1342. [IF 2008: 2.155]. 19. Lencioni V., Boschini D. & Rebecchi L., 2009 - Expression of the 70 kDa Heat shock 4R protein family in Alpine freshwater chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) under natural conditions. Journal of Limnology, 68/2: 251-256. [IF 2009: 0.932] 20. Loader S.P., Gower D. & Menegon M., (2009) - Description and phylogenetic relationships of three critically endangered species of Callulina Nieder (Amphibia: Anura: Afrobatrachia: Brevicipitidae) from the Pare Mountains, Tanzania. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press). [IF 2008: 2.019] 5R 21. Marshall A.R., Jørgensbye H.I.O., Rovero F., Platts P.J., White P.C.L. & Lovett J.C. (2009) - The species-area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community. American Journal of Primatology (in press). [IF 2008: 1.159] 22. Menegon M., Doggart N. & Owen N., 2008 - The Nguru mountains of Tanzania, an outstanding hotspot of herpetofaunal diversity. Acta Herpetologica, 3/2: 107-127. [ISI Journal] 6R 23. Menegon M., Loader S., Burgess N., Doggart N. & Owen N., 2009 - The South Nguru Mountains - a new Jewel in the Eastern Arc crown. Oryx, 43/2: 174-175. [IF 2008: 1.381] 24. Menegon M., Tolley K., Jones T., Rovero F., Marshall A.R. & Tilbury C., (2009) - A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology (in press). [IF 2008: 0,618] 25. Mondoni A., Daws M.I., Belotti J. & Rossi G., 2009 - Germination requirements of the alpine endemic Silene elisabethae Jan: effects of cold stratification, light and GA3.Seed Science and Technology. 37, 79-87. [IF 2008: 0,66] 26. Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G. & Hay F., 2009 - Habitat-related germination behaviour and emergence phenology in the woodland geophyte Anemone ranunculoides L. (Ranunculaceae) from northern Italy. Seed Science Research, 19: 137-144. [IF 2008: 1.482] 27. Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G., Hay F. & Bonomi C., 2008 - Habitat-correlated seed germination behaviour in populations of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa L.) from Northern Italy. Seed Science Research, 18: 213-222. [IF 2008: 1.482] 28. Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2008 - Upward migration of vascular plants following a climate warming trend in the Alps. Basic and Applied Ecology, 9: 100-107. [IF 2008: 2.584]. 29. Parolo G., Ferrarini A. & Rossi G., 2009 - Optimization of tourism impacts within protected areas by means of genetic algorithms. Ecological Modelling, 220: 1138-1147. [IF 2008: 2.176] 30. Parolo G., Rossi G. & Ferrarini A., 2008 - Toward improved predictions of species distributions by handling overlooked topics. Arnica montana in the Alps as a case study. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1410-1418. [IF 5-year average: 4.560].

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31. Poynton J.C., Menegon M, & Loader S.P., 2008 - A new giant species of Arthroleptis (Amphibia: Anura) from the montane forests of the Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology, 57/2: 63-74. [IF 2008: 0.618] 32. Rebecchi L., Boschini D., Cesari M., Lencioni V., Bertolani R. & Guidetti R., 2009 - Stress response of a boreo-alpine species of tardigrade, Borealibius zetlandicus (Eutardigrada, 1R Hypsibiidae). Journal of Limnology, 68/1: 64-70. [IF 2009: 0.932] 33. Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ferrarini A., 2009 - A rapid and cost-effective tool for managing habitats of the European Natura 2000 network: a case study in the Italian Alps. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18: 1375-1388. [IF 2008: 1.473] 34. Rossi G., Parolo G. & Ulian T., 2009 - Human trampling as threat factor for the conservation of peripheral plant populations. Plant Biosystems, 143/1: 104-113. [IF 2008: 0.517] 2R 35. Rovero F. & Marshall A.R., (2009) - Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates. Journal of Applied Ecology (in press). [IF 2008: 4.560]. 36. Rovero F., Marshall A.R., Jones T. & Perkin A., 2009 - The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains: diversity, ecology and conservation. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 87: 93-126. [IF 2008: 0.440] 37. Rovero F., Menegon M., Leonard C., Perkin A., Doggart N., Mbilinyi M & Mlawila L., 3R 2008 - A previously unsurveyed forest in the Rubeho Mountains of Tanzania reveals new species and range records. Oryx, 42: 16-17. [IF 2008: 1.381] 38. Rovero F., Rathbun G.B., Perkin A., Jones T., Ribble D.O., Leonard C., Mwakisoma R.R. & Doggart N., 2008 - A new species of giant sengi or elephant-shrew (genus Rhynchocyon) highlights the exceptional biodiversity of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Zoology, 274: 126-133. [IF 2008: 1.669] 39. Sergio F., Marchesi L. & Pedrini P., 2009 - Conservation of Scops Owl Otus scops in the 4R Alps: relationships with grassland management, predation risk and wider biodiversity. Ibis, 151: 40-50. [IF 2008: 1.443] 40. Spitale D., 2009 - Spatial distribution of bryophytes along a moisture gradient: an approach using photosynthetic pigments as indicators of stress. Ecological Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11284-009-0614-5. [IF 2008: 1.206] 41. Spitale D., 2009 - Switch between competition and facilitation within a seasonal scale at 5R colony level in bryophytes. Oecologia, 160/3: 471-482. [IF 2008: 3.008] 42. Spitale D., Petraglia A. & Tomaselli M., 2009 - Structural equation model detects unexpected differences between bryophyte and vascular plant richness along multiple environmental gradients. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 745-755. [IF 2008: 4.566] 43. Tardio M., Ellegaard M., Lundholm N., Sangiorgi F. & Di Giuseppe G., 2009 - A hypocystal archeopyle in a freshwater dinoflagellate from the Peridinium umbonatum 6R group (Dinophyceae) from Lake Nero di Cornisello, South Eastern Alps, Italy. European Journal of Phycology, 44/2: 241-250. [IF 2008: 1.826] 44. Wantzen K.M., Rothhaupt K.-O., Mörtl M., Cantonati M., Lászlo T. & Fischer P., 2008 - Ecological effects of water-level fluctuations in lakes: An urgent issue. In: Wantzen K.M., Rothhaupt K.-O., Mörtl M., Cantonati M., Lászlo G.-T. & Fischer P. (eds), Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes. Developments of Hydrobiology, Hydrobiologia, 613: 1-4. [IF 2008: 1.449]

Scientific papers on peer-reviewed journals (not ISI journals) 1. AA.VV., (2009). Atlante Ornitologico Italiano Progetto M.I.T.O. Avocetta. Contribuiti di: Pedrini P., Segata M., Rizzolli F., Rossi F., Volcan G. (in press). 2. Angelucci E.D. & Bassetti M., 2009 - Human and their landscape from the Alpine Last Glacial Maximum to the Middle Holocene in Trentino: geoarcheological considerations. Hugo Obermaier Society. 49 th Annual Meeting in Trento (10-14 of April, 2007). Preistoria Alpina, 44: 59-78. 3. Avanzini M. & Mietto P., 2008 - Lower and Middle Triassic footprint-based Biochronology in the Italian Southern Alps. Oryctos, 8: 3-13. 4. Avanzini M. & Mietto P., 2008 - The occurrence of the vertebrate ichnogenus Synaptichnium in the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Southern Alps. Studi Trentini di Scienze. Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 289-302. 5. Avanzini M., Franceschi M., Petti F.M., Girardi S., Ferretti P. & Tomasoni R., 2008 - New Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) sauropodomorph traks from the Trento carbonate Platform (Southern Alps, Northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 317-322.

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6. Avanzini M., Mietto P., De Angelis M., Panarello A. & Rolandi G., 2008 - The Devil’s Trails: Middle Pleistocene Human Footprints Preserved in a Volcanoclastic Deposit of Southern Italy. In: Lockley M.G. & Kim Y.J. (eds), Hominid Ichnology. Ichnos, 15/3-4: 106-125. 7. Avanzini M., Neri C., Nicosia U. & Conti M.A., 2008 - A new Early Permian ichnocoenosis from the “Gruppo vulcanico atesino” (Mt. Luco, Southern Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze 1R Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 231-236. 8. Avanzini M., Pinuela L. & Garcia-Ramos J.C., 2008 - Theropod Palaeopathology inferred from a Late Jurassic trackway,Asturias (N. Spain). Oryctos, 8: 71-75. 9. Bassetti M., Cusinato A., Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M. & Wierer U., 2009 - Updating on the Final Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition in Trentino (NE Italy). Hugo Obermaier Society. 49 th Annual Meeting in Trento (10-14 of April, 2007). 2R Preistoria Alpina, 44: 121-135. 10. Bassetti M., Dalmeri G., Mottes E. & Nicolis F., 2009 - La frequentazione delle alte quote nell’età del Bronzo. Il sito di Storo-Dosso Rotondo. In: Archeologia lungo il Chiese, Atti del 1° Convegno Interregionale Storo 24-25 ottobre 2003. Provincia Autonoma di Trento-Centro Studi Judicaria. EFFE e ERRE, Trento: 107-127. 11. Bassetti M., Ferraro F. & Peresani M., 2008 - Analisi sedimentologica e micromorfologica 3R delle unità epigravettiane di Riparo Cogola - Carbonare di Folgaria (Trento). Preistoria Alpina, 43: 25-47. 12. Baucon A. & Avanzini M., 2008 - Zoophycos-like structures associated with dinosaur tracks in a tidal-flat environment: Lower Jurassic (Southern Alps, Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 123-132. 13. Belli R., Dalmeri G., Gialanella S., Mandelli M., Mattarelli M., Montagna M. & Quaranta A., 2009 - Raman characterization of prehistoric pigments. In: Gueli A. (a cura di), Atti 4R del V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria A.I.A.R “Scienza e Beni Culturali.” Morrone Editore, Siracusa: 81-90. 14. Belli R., Frisia S., Drysdale R. & Borsato A., 2009 - A Multidisciplinary Approach To The Study Of An Archaeological Site. The Case Of Riparo Dalmeri (Trentino, Italy). Quaternary Australasia, Focus on IAG Geomorphology conference, Melbourne (Australia), 26/2: 2-7. 5R 15. Belli R., Lonardelli I., Quaranta A., Girardi F., Cusinato A. & Dalmeri G., 2008 - A methodological approach to discriminate between natural and synthetic haematite used as prehistoric pigments: preliminary results (Riparo Dalmeri - Trentino, Italy). In: Proceedings of AIAr Firenze 2007. Pàtron Editore, Bologna: 179-185. 16. Bertola S., 2008 - Ricerche sulle ocre e sui minerali potenzialmente coloranti nel settore orientale dell’Altopiano di Asiago. In: Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e 6R l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 289-298. 17. Bon M., Confortini I., Latella L., Lencioni V. & Mizzan L., 2009 - Specie animali alloctone in Veneto e Trentino: distribuzione, vie di penetrazione e dispersione. Atti XVIII Convegno del Gruppo per l’Ecologia di Base “G. Gadio”, Un mondo che cambia: successioni ecologiche, invasioni biologiche ed alterazioni antropiche. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 86: 161. 18. Bonomi C., 2008 - Opportunities through ENSCONET. Proceedings of 5th Planta Europa Conference on the Conservation of Wild Plants “Working together for Plants”, 5-9 September 2007, Cluj Napoca, Romania. Available on line @ www.plantaeuropa.org and on CD-ROM. 19. Bonomi C., Campegiani S., Kapelari S., Bertsch C., Bromley G., Welsby C., Johnson S., Marsh G., Kossev K., Grancharova V. & Petkova L., 2008 - Investigating Plants and Sustainability in Botanic Gardens and Primary schools. Proceedings of 5th Planta Europa Conference on the Conservation of Wild Plants “Working together for Plants”, 5-9 September 2007, Cluj Napoca, Romania. Available on line @ www.plantaeuropa.org and on CD-ROM. 20. Bonomi C., Castellani C. & Longo M., 2008 - Aquilegia thalictrifolia Schott & Kotschy.. Flora da conservare: implementazione delle categorie e dei criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 40/1: 58-61. 21. Bonomi C., Longo M. & Castellani C., 2008 - Hypochaeris facchiniana Ambrosi. Flora da conservare: implementazione delle categorie e dei criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 40/1: 82-83.

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22. Bonomi C., Piovesana S., Longo M. & Castellani C., 2008 - Erysimum aurantiacum (Leyb.) Leyb. Flora da conservare: implementazione delle categorie e dei criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 40/1: 75-76. 23. Cantonati M., Bertuzzi E., Scalfi A. & Campana V., 2009 - The potential importance for spring conservation of residual habitats after flow capturing: A case study. Verh. 1R Internat. Verein. Limnol., 30: 1267-1270. 24. Cristiani E., 2009 - Aggiornamento dei manufatti in materia dura animale dal Riparo Dalmeri (TN). Inquadramento morfologico ed analisi tecno-funzionale. Preistoria Alpina, 44: 173-178. 25. Cristiani E., 2009 - Morphology , tecnology and function of osseous tools at Pradestel rockshelter mesolithic levels (TN). Preistoria Alpina, 44: 179-204. 2R 26. Cristiani E., 2008 - Analisi funzionale dei manufatti in materia dura animale del Riparo Dalmeri (Altopiano della Marcesina, Trento). In: Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 259-287. 27. Dalmeri G. & Neri S., 2008 - Riparo Dalmeri: l’uomo e due stili di raffigurazione. Analisi formale di quattro pietre decorate con figure antropomorfe. In: Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 299-315. 3R 28. Dalmeri G. & Nicolis F., 2008 - La Grotta di Ernesto. Archeologia, Conservazione, Gestione. Atti del Convegno “Toirano e la Grotta della Bàsura”, Bordighera: 95-100. 29. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A. & Segata M., 2008 - Risultati preliminari di un sondaggio stratigrafico nel Riparo Gadena (Enego, Vicenza).Preistoria Alpina, 43: 125-129. 30. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Frisia S., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Kompatscher K., Bassetti M. & Belli R., 2009 - The Palaeolithic naturalistic art at the Dalmeri rockshelter and climate variability. In: Atti della UISPP Conference, Lisbona: 89-97. 4R 31. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Bassetti M. & Neri S., 2009 - The ochre painted stones from the Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). Development of the research on the art and rituality of the Epigravettian sit. Hugo Obermaier Society. 49 th Annual Meeting in Trento (10-14 of April, 2007). Preistoria Alpina, 44: 95-119. 32. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Neri S. & Nicolodi F., 2008 - Le industrie mesolitiche di Riparo Pradestel (Trento). Aspetti tipologici ed evolutivi. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 131-186. 5R 33. Dalmeri G., Duches R. & Rosà V., 2008 - Nuovi ritrovamenti del Paleolitico medio sul Monte Baldo settentrionale. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 5-11. 34. Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Bassetti M. & Cusinato A., 2009 - The colonisation of eastern alpine territories: the Val di Non case study and the “Regole” field camps (Trento, Italy). In: Mesolithic Horizons. Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic. Oxbow Books: 60-67. 6R 35. Dalmeri G., Kompatscher K., Kompatscher M.H., Cusinato A., Bassetti M. & Neri S., (2009) - Le pietre con pitture in ocra di Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). Sviluppi delle ricerche sull’arte e la ritualità del sito epigravettiano. In: Atti Convegno IIPP, Trento (in press). 36. Deflorian M.C., Rigobello F., Bertuzzi E. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Il materiale esotico nelle collezioni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Atti del XVII Congresso ANMS “Al di là delle Alpi e del Mediterraneo - il significato delle collezioni “esotiche” nei musei naturalistici”. Verona, 4-7 dicembre 2007. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 2. Serie. Monografie Naturalistiche, 4; Museologia Scientifica. Memorie, 4: 32-40. 37. Deflorian M.C., Valdiserri D. & Avanzini M., 2008 - Le collezioni mineralogiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali: recupero e valorizzazione. In: Cilli C., Malerba G & Giacobini G. (a cura di), Atti del XIV Convegno ANMS “Il patrimonio della scienza. Le collezioni di interesse storico”. Museologia scientifica - Memorie, 2/2008: 70-76. 38. Döppes D., Rosendahl W., Pacher M. Imhof W., Dalmeri G. & Bocherens H., (2009) - Stabile Isotopenuntersuchungen an spätglazialen und holozänen Braunbärenfunden aus Höhlen im Alpenraum. Stalactite, 58/2 (2008) (in press). 39. D’Orazi Porchetti S., Nicosia U., Mietto P. & Avanzini M., 2008 - Atreipus-like footprints and their co-occurence with Evazoum from the upper Carnian (Tuvalian) of Trentino-Alto Adige. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 277-288. 40. Ferretti P. & Masetto M., 2008 - Cima d’Asta. Recenti ritrovamenti nelle pegmatiti del massiccio granitico (Trentino orientale). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4/2008: 210-228. 41. Filippi M.L., Angeli N., Marziali L., Matouk A.H.I., Bertuzzi E., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Paleolimnological techniques applied to spring habitats: Challenges and limits as highlighted by the CRENODAT Project (SE Alps, Italy). Verhandlungen der Internationalen

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Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie, 30/3: 329-332. 42. Fiore I. & Tagliacozzo A., 2009 - Strategie di caccia durante il Paleolitico Superiore nelle Prealpi orientali. Preistoria Alpina, 44: 79-94. 43. Fiore I. & Tagliacozzo A., 2008 - La caccia a Riparo Dalmeri nel Tardiglaciale dell’Italia nord-orientale. In: Mussi M. (a cura di), Il Tardiglaciale in Italia - Lavori in corso. BAR International Series, 1859: 55-65. 1R 44. Fiore I. & Tagliacozzo A., 2008 - Oltre lo stambecco: gli altri mammiferi della struttura abitativa dell’U.S. 26c a Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). In: Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 209-236. 45. Fiore I. & Tagliacozzo A., 2009 - Una preda occasionale nell’Epigravettiano di Riparo Dalmeri: lo sfruttamento del cervo. Atti del 5° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia (Rovereto, 2006). 2R 46. Gerecke R., Franz H. & Cantonati M., 2009 - Invertebrate diversity in springs: Longitudinal distribution, mobility, turnover and conservation. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie, 30/8: 1229-1233. 47. Gobbi M., 2009 - Influenza dei caratteri del suolo e delle tipologie di uso del suolo sulle comunità di Carabidi (Insecta: Coleoptera). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 85: 131-134. 48. Gurioli F., 2008 - Analisi tecnologica dei manufatti in materia dura animale dell’Epigravettiano recente di Riparo Dalmeri (Altopiano della Marcesina, Trento). In: 3R Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 237-258. 49. Gusmeroli F., Della Marianna G. & Parolo G., 2008 - I prati della Media Valtellina. Regione Lombardia, Quaderni della ricerca, 81. 50. Houck K.J., Lockley M.G. & Avanzini M., 2009 - A survey of Tetrapod tracksites preserved in pyroclastic sediments, with special reference to footprints of hominids, 4R other mammals and birds. Ichnos, 16/1-2: 76-97. 51. Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2008 - Hyporheic chironomids in alpine streams. Boletim of the Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), Sup. 13: 127-132. 52. Marziali L. Lencioni V., Parenti P. & Rossaro B., 2008 - Benthic macroinvertebrates as water quality indicators in Italian lakes. Boletim of the Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), Sup. 13: 51-59. 5R 53. Marziali L., Gozzini M., Rossaro B. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Drift patterns of Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) in an arctic stream (Svalbard Islands): an experimental approach. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 84: 87-96. 54. Marziali L., Lencioni V. & Rossaro B., 2009 - Chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) from 108 Italian Alpine springs. XXX Congresso della Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) - International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, 30/9: 1467-1470. 6R 55. Montoya C., 2008 - Apport de l’analyse technique à la compréhension de l’évolution des groupes humains épigravettiens d’Italie Nord Orientale: la production lithique de l’US 15a-65 du Riparo Dalmeri. In: Dalmeri G. & Neri S. (a cura di), Riparo Dalmeri e l’occupazione epigravettiana. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 191-208. 56. Nicolodi F., 2008 - Il “Castello” di Zuclo nelle Giudicarie (Trento). Preistoria Alpina, 43: 87-100. 57. Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2008 - Studio popolazionistico di Leucojum aestivum L., specie vegetale minacciata in Pianura Padana. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 40 (suppl.1): 173-174. 58. Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., De Gasperi M., Ferretti P., Girardi S., Remondino F. & Tomasoni R., 2008 - Digital 3D modelling of dinosaur footprints by photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques: integrated approach at the Coste dell’Anglone tracksite (Lower Jurassic, central-eastern Southern Alps, northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 303-316. 59. Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Boggero A. & Marziali L., 2009 - A new benthic quality index for Italian lakes: how to face with different lake types? Verhandlugen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 30/5: 790-793. 60. Rossaro B., Lencioni V. & Marziali L., 2009 - Micropsectra sofiae Stur & Ekrem, 2006 (Diptera, Chironomidae) redescribed. Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e Bachicoltura, Ser. II, 41/2: 129-139. 61. Rossi G. & Bonomi C., 2008 - A review of plant reintroduction practice., Proceedings of 5th Planta Europa Conference on the Conservation of Wild Plants “Working together for Plants”, 5-9.9.2007, Cluj Napoca, Romania. Available on line @ www.plantaeuropa. org and on CD-ROM.

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62. Spitale D. & Petraglia A., 2009 - Springs like islands: implications on richness and species density. Verhandlugen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 30: 1279-1282. 63. Todesco R. & Avanzini M., 2008 - First record of the trace fossil Undichna from the Middle Triassic of Italy. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 253-258. 1R 64. Todesco R., Wachtler M., Dellantonio E. & Avanzini M.A., 2008 - First report on a new Late Anisian (Illyrian) vertebrate tracksite from the Dolomites (Northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83: 247-252. 65. Todesco R., Wachtler M., Kustatscher E. & Avanzini M., 2008 - Preliminary report on a new vertebrate track and flora site from Piz da Peres (Anisian-Illyrian): Olang Dolomites, Northern Italy. Geo.Alp, 5: 121-137. 2R 66. Venzo G.A., Dalmeri G., Neri S. & Pontalti L., (2009) - Geomorfologia e ambiente dei territori frequentati dai cacciatori - raccoglitori epigravettiani del Riparo Dalmeri nel paleolitico superiore. Atti dell’istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 167 (in press). 67. Ziggiotti S. & Dalmeri G., 2008 - Strategie di caccia degli ultimi epigravettiani. Lo studio funzionale delle armature litiche di Riparo Cogola, livello 19. Preistoria Alpina, 43: 13-24.

3R Scientific papers on un-reviewed journals 1. Boggero A., Rossaro B. & Lencioni V., Bazzanti M., Mastrantuono L. & Solimini A., 2009 - Macroinvertebrati di acque lacustri: stato attuale delle conoscenze e prospettive future. VIII Giornata mondiale dell’acqua “Acque interne in Italia: uomo e natura”, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma 28 March 2008. Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 250: 177-184. 2. Cresti I. & Menegon M., 2008 - Conservare la pioggia: esperienze di gestione sostenibile 4R della foresta tropicale in Tanzania. Silis, annali di civiltà dell’acqua, 4-5. 3. Maiolini B. & Montero Ramirez M., 2008 – Analisi delle caratteristiche delle acque superficiali nel bacino dell’Adige: corpi idrici superficiali e condizioni di riferimento. Adige Etsch, 1-2: 31-35. 4. Maiolini B., Tubino M., Zolezzi G., Sartori P., Bruno .C. & Siviglia A., 2009 - Progetto “Report” regolazione delle portate, ecosistemi e dinamica fluviale: linee guida per una gestione eco-compatibile. Relazione tecnica. Adige Etsch 1-2: I-XXXV. 5R Books or book chapters 1. Avanzini M., 2009 - Archeologia. In: Martin S. & Montresor L., (eds) Tavola 25 II Bresimo. Carta Geologica della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento: 103-104. 2. Avanzini M., 2009 - Successioni mesozoico-cenozoiche delle Alpi meridionali. In: Martin S. & Montresor L., (eds), Tavola 25 II Bresimo. Carta Geologica della Provincia autonoma 6R di Trento, Trento: 44-52. 3. Avanzini M., Flaim M.P., Tomasoni R. & Torchio F., 2009 - Rock Trail: Voices of the Landscape. Alcione ed., Lavis, 84 pp. 4. Avanzini M., Flaim M.P., Tomasoni R. & Torchio F., 2009 - Percorsi di roccia: Voci del territorio. Alcione ed., Lavis, 84 pp. 5. Avanzini M., Flaim M.P., Tomasoni R. & Torchio F., 2009 - Wege in Fels: Eindrucke eines Landes. Alcione ed., Lavis, 84 pp. 6. Bonomi C., Rossi G. & Bedini G., 2008 - A National Italian Network to improve seed conservation of wild native Species (‘RIBES’). In: Maxted N., Ford-Lloyd B.V., Kell S., Iriondo J.M., Dolloo E., Turok J. (eds.), Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. CAB International, Wallingford. 7. Cantonati M, Scalfi A. & Bertuzzi E. (eds), 2008 - Abstract Book of the 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2). Trento, Italy, 12-15 June 2008. 98 pp. 8. Cantonati M. & Bertuzzi E., 2008 - La preparazione dei materiali algologici (acque interne). In: Barbagli F. (Eds), Preparazione, conservazione e restauro dei reperti naturalistici: metodologie ed esperienze. Atti dei Seminari ANMS di Pavia. Museologia Scientifica. Memorie, 3: 39-49. 9. Cantonati M. (ed.), 2009 - Papers presented at the 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting, and submitted for publication on Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 84: 103-160. 10. Carton A., Tomasoni R., Ferrari C. & Avanzini M., 2009 - L’Adamello Brenta Geopark: dossier di candidatura e piano d’azione. Parco naturale Adamello Brenta, Strembo, 80 pp. 11. Casarotto C., 2008 - Pole Position. Catalogo della Mostra. Trento, 258 pp. 12. Dalpiaz D., Frapporti C., Groff C. & Zanghellini P., 2008 - Bear Report 2007. Provincia

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Autonoma di Trento, January 2008. 13. Dalpiaz D., Frapporti C., Groff C. & Zanghellini P., 2009 - Bear Report 2008. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, January 2009. 14. Deflorian M. C., Menegon M. & Pedrini P., 2009 - Le collezioni erpetologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali di Trento. In: Mazzotti S. (ed.), Le collezioni erpetologiche in Italia. Censimento e analisi delle collezioni di Anfibi e Rettili dei musei italiani per la loro 1R valorizzazione scientifica.Museologia Scientifica. Memorie, 5/2009: 74-80. 15. ENSCONET, 2009 - Curation protocols and reccomandations. 32 pp. 16. ENSCONET, 2009 - Manuale per la raccolta dei semi delle piante spontanee. 36pp. Italian translation by Bonomi, Rossi, Bolognesi, Bortoluzzi, Vicentini. 17. ENSCONET, 2009 - Seed collecting manual for wild species. 32 pp. 18. Kingdon J. & Rovero F., (2009) - Harveys’ duiker. In: Kingdon J.S. & Hoffmann M. (eds), 2R The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 6. Pigs, Deer, Giraffe, Bovids and Hippos. Academic Press, Amsterdam (in press). 19. Latella L. & Gobbi M. (a cura di), 2008 - La Fauna del Suolo: tassonomia, ecologia e metodi di studio dei principali gruppi di invertebrati terrestri italiani. Quaderni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 3, 192 pp. 20. Lencioni V. & Maiolini B., 2008 - Le spedizioni di ricerca in Artico dei ricercatori del 3R Museo. In: Casarotto C. (a cura di), Pole position. Catalogo della mostra. Trento: 77-81. 21. Maiolini B., 2009 – Il Po, ecologia di un grande fiume:le sfide del clima e dell’Uomo. In: Fuchs G. & Tasser B. (Eds), Obiettivo sulla Pianura Padana, Innsbruck University Press: 101-112. 22. Marshall A.R., Rovero F. & Struhsaker T.T., (2009) - Procolobus gordonorum. In: Rowe N. (ed), All the World’s Primates. Pogonias Press (in press). 23. Menegon M. & Davenport T., 2008 - The Amphibian Fauna of the Eastern Arc Mountains. 4R In: Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Edicions in association with IUCN. 24. Pedrini P., Rossi F., Rizzolli F. & Spina F., 2008 - Le Alpi italiane quale barriera ecologica nel corso della migrazione post-riproduttiva attraverso l’Europa: risultati generali della prima fase del Progetto (1997-2002). Biol. Cons. Fauna, 116: 1-336. 25. Petti F.M. & Avanzini M., 2008 - Dinosauri polari / Polar dinosaurs. In: Casarotto C. (a cura di), Pole Position. Catalogo della Mostra, 258 pp. 5R 26. Rovero F. & Doggart N., 2008 - Rhynchocyon udzungwensis. In: IUCN, 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . 27. Rovero F., Davenport T.R.B. & Jones T., (2009) - Abbott’s duiker. In: Kingdon J.S. & Hoffmann M. (eds), The Mammals of Africa. Vol. 6. Pigs, Deer, Giraffe, Bovids and Hippos. Academic Press, Amsterdam (in press). 28. Wantzen K.M., Rothhaupt K.-O., Mörtl M., Cantonati M., Lászlo G.-T. & Fischer P., 2008 - 6R Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes. Developments of Hydrobiology, Hydrobiologia, 613: 1-184.

Popular science papers 1. Avanzini M. & Kustatscher E., 2008 - Alla scoperta di rettili e piante preistoriche. Parco naturale Fanes-Sennes-Braies. 2. Avanzini M. & Zambotto P. 2009, - Paleontologi in guerra. Paleoitalia: newsletter della Società paleontologica italiana, 20 (giu. 2009): 17-20. 3. Avanzini M. & Zambotto P., 2008 - Geologi in guerra sul fronte trentino. L’Alpe 19: 29-35. 4. Avanzini M., 2008 - I dinosauri: storie di mari caldi e spiagge tropicali in epoche preistoriche. Economia Trentina, 57/3-4 (Suppl): 30-31. 5. Bernardi M., 2009 - Tracce fossili di arcosauri vicino a Zone (Brescia). Paleoitalia: newsletter della Società paleontologica italiana, 20 (giu. 2009): 21-24. 6. Bonomi C. & Coser E., 2008 - Delectus Seminum 35 (2008) quae Hortus Botanicus Alpinus ‘Viotte’ Musei Tridentini Scientiarum Naturalium pro mutua commutatione offert Semina Anno 2007 in Horto Botanico collecta. 7. Bonomi C. & Coser E., 2009 - Delectus Seminum 36 (2009) quae Hortus Botanicus Alpinus ‘Viotte’ Musei Tridentini Scientiarum Naturalium pro mutua commutatione offert Semina Anno 2007 in Horto Botanico collecta. 8. Cantonati M., 2008 - La biodiversità invisibile. In: Lasen C. (Ed.), Tesori naturalistici. Alla scoperta dei paesaggi e della biodiversità, dalla montagna al mare, nelle province di Belluno, Vicenza, Verona, Mantova e Ancona, Arsenale Editore, Verona: 22-23. 9. Cantonati M., 2008 - La Finlandia delle Alpi. Un moderno database per i laghi e le

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sorgenti del trentino. Economia Trentina, 57/3-4 (suppl.): 36-39. 10. Dalmeri G., 2008 - Il mistero delle pietre dipinte. Il popolamento preistorico della regione dolomitica e le più antiche forme dell’arte. Economia Trentina, 57/3-4 (suppl.): 32-35. 11. Dalmeri G., 2009 - I cacciatori di stambecchi del Riparo Dalmeri. Edizioni CIERRE, Verona. 1R 12. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Rosà V., 2009 - L’uomo di Neanderthal sul Monte Baldo. La Giurisdizione di Pénede, Quaderno periodico di ricerca storica, pp. 111-120. Arco (TN). 13. Dalpiaz D., 2008 - L’orso bruno in Trentino: aggiornamento 2007. Bollettino SAT, 2008/1. 14. Dalpiaz D., 2008 - L’orso bruno in Trentino: la situazione a fine 2007. Terra Trentina, 2008/4. 15. Dalpiaz D., 2009 - L’orso bruno nelle Alpi Centrali 1999-2009. I primi dieci anni. Bollettino 2R del Corpo Forestale Provinciale della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 2009/1: 70-73. 16. Flor E., 2009 - Sulla Piana della Marcesina alla scoperta dei suoi primi abitanti. Itinerari Preistorici, guida. A-P.T. Valsugana-Lagorai-Terme-Laghi. Borgo Valsugana (Trento). 17. Groff C. & Dalpiaz D., 2008 - Genetic monitoring of bears in Trentino - Italy (2007). I.B.A. News, Vol. 16 n. 2, June 2008. 18. Lencioni V., 2008 - Vita nel mondo glaciale. Economia trentina, 3/4 (Suppl.): 40-43. 3R 19. Loader S. & Menegon M., 2009 - Remarkable amphibian diversity in the South Nguru Mountains, Tanzania. Froglog, newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, 91/March: 8-10. 20. Nicolodi F., 2009 - L’uomo e l’orso: due leali avversari da migliaia di anni. Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, Newsletter, 20: 11-13. 21. Nicolodi F., Dalmeri G., 2009 - Il primo popolamento del Chiese trentino: dati e resoconti. Centro Studi Judicaria, Judicaria, 72 (dicembre 2009): 21-30. 4R 22. Pedrini P., 2009 - L’attività di inanellamento del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. Il cacciatore trentino, 76: 20-23. 23. Rovero F. & Jones T., 2008 - The naming of the shrew. Africa Geographic, 16/5: 18-19. 24. Rovero F., 2008 - L’emozione della scoperta. Oasis, 174: 13. 25. Rovero F., 2008 - Pachiderma bonsai. National Geographic Italia, 21/3. 26. Rovero F., 2008 - Per la prima volta alla luce del sole. Il cefalofo di Abbott (Cephalophus 5R spadix) in attività diurna. Natura Alpina, 2007/1-2: 48. 27. Rovero F., 2008 - Un nuovo mammifero dalla foreste della Tanzania. Darwin, 25: 14-19. 28. Società Alpinisti Tridentini & Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 2009 - Sui sentieri del Lagorai - Viaggio alla scoperta di Natura 2000. Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini, Trento, 84 pp. Contribution of P. Pedrini. 29. Tolotti M., Forsström L., Morabito G., Thaler B., Stoyneva M., Cantonati M., Šiško M. 6R & Lotter A., 2009. Biogeographical characterisation of phytoplankton assemblages in high altitude, and high latitude European lakes. In (J. Catalan, C.J. Curtis & M. Kernan Eds.) Patterns and factors of biota distribution in remote European lakes. Advances in Limnology, 62: 55-75.

Oral communications (with published abstract) 1. Avanzini M., De Angelis M., Mietto P., Panarello A., Santello L. & Rolandi G., 2008 - Walking on a volcano: Middle Pleistocene human footprints preserved in a volcanoclastic deposit of Southern Italy - (Conferencias invitadas). Symposio SEP 2008, MUJA, Colunga Asturias (Spain). 2. Avanzini M., Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Dal Sasso C.,M., Ferretti P., Nicosia U. & Schirolli P., 2009 - Crurotarsan tracks from the Iseo lake area (Late Triassic, Eastern Lombardy, Northern Italy). IX Giornate di paleontologia, Apricena (Italy), 2009. Abstract Book: 27. 3. Becker M., Bellin A. & Borsato A., 2008 - Fractionated Drainage in a Karstic Alpine System: The Italian Dolomites. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Buffalo (New York), 27-29 March 2008. 4. Bernardi M., Boschele S., Ferretti P. & Avanzini M., 2009 - Spatangoid (Echinoidea) burrows from the Oligocene of Valsugana (Borgo Valsugana, Trentino, NW Italy). IX Giornate di paleontologia, Apricena (Italy), 2009. Abstract Book: 42. 5. Bernardi M., Ferretti P., Petti F.M. & Avanzini M., 2009 - Asteriacites sp. from the Coste dell’Anglone dinosaur ichnosite (Valle del Sarca, Trentino, NW Italy). IX Giornate di paleontologia, Apricena (Italy), 2009. Abstract Book: 43. 6. Bertuzzi E., Angeli N. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Diatom indices and springs. 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2), Trento (Italy), 12-15 June 2008.

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7. Bon M., Confortini I., Latella L., Lencioni V. & Mizzan L., 2008 - Specie animali alloctone in Veneto e Trentino: distribuzione, vie di penetrazione e dispersione. XVIII Convegno del Gruppo per l’Ecologia di Base “G. Gadio”, Un mondo che cambia: successioni ecologiche, invasioni biologiche ed alterazioni antropiche, Alessandria (Italy), 9-11 May 2008. Abstract Book: 36. 8. Bonomi C., 2008 - Seeds for the future through Ensconet. Alliances workshop 815 - 1R Partnerships for plant conservation Linking in situ and ex situ conservation in Europe. 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress, Barcelona (Spain), 5-14 October 2008. 9. Bonomi C., 2009 - A joint curation protocol to maximise seed longevity in the ENSCONET seed bank network. Eurogard V, Botanic Gardens in the age of Climate Change, Helsinki (Finland), 7-12 June 2009. Abstract Book: 44. 10. Bonomi C., 2009 - Enquiry centred education for alpine Botanic Gardens: case studies 2R from the EU project: “Plant Scientists Investigate”. 2nd International Alpine and Arctic Botanic Garden Congress, Munich (Germany), 22-25 April 2009. Abstract Book: 6. 11. Borsato A., Frisia S., Richards D.A., Miorandi R., Spötl C., van der Borg K., Richards D.A. & Villa I.M., 2008 - Temperature and rainfall variability during the Holocene: reconstruction from speleothem δ18O in northeast Italy. MedCLIVAR Workshop Oxygen isotopes tracers of Mediterranean climate variability, Pisa (Italy), 11-13 june 2008. 12. Caldonazzi M., Pedrini P. & Zanghellini S., 2008 - Dall’Atlante dei Mammiferi del Trentino 3R la Lista Rossa locale. Convegno Nazionale Associazione Teriologica Italiana, Cles (Italy), 17-18 April 2008. 13. Cantonati M., Angeli N., Bertuzzi E., Lange-Bertalot H., Spitale D. & Scalfi A., 2008 - Diatoms in springs of the Alps: Ecology and taxonomy. 20th International Diatom Symposium, Dubrovnik (Croatia), 7-13 September 2008. Abstract Book: 39. 14. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Angeli N., Bertuzzi E., Scalfi A. & Spitale D., 2008 - New 4R diatom genera and species in springs of the Alps, and their suitability for an ecological characterization of springs. 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2), Trento (Italy), 12-15 June 2008. 15. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Komárek J., Angeli N., Frassanito R., Scalfi A. & Guella G., 2008 - Tassonomia ed ecologia di nuovi generi e specie di diatomee e cianobatteri di sorgenti delle Alpi. Annual Meeting of the Italian Phycology Working Group. Abano 5R Terme (Italy), 14-15 November 2008. Atti: 19. 16. Cantonati M., Scalfi A., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2009 - Using epilithic and epiphytic (on the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea) diatoms to assess the environmental quality of the shores of the largest Italian lake (L. Garda). 7th International Symposium “Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers” (7th ISUAMR), Luxembourg, 23-25 November 2009. Programme - Abstracts: 37-38. 6R 17. Cantonati M., Spitale D. & Gerecke R., 2009 - Use of benthic organisms from multiple taxonomic groups for the conservation-oriented classification of spring habitats: Neglected and threatened key habitats for biodiversity conservation. North American Benthological Society 57th Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids (MI, USA), 17-22 May 2009. 18. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Scalfi A. & Battistotti M., 2009 - Epiphytic (on the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea) and epilithic littoral diatoms of Lake Garda (Italy) studied in the frame of the ACE_SAP Project (2008-2011). 3rd Central European Diatom Meeting, CEDIATOM3, Utrecht (The Netherlands), 27-29 March 2009. Abstract Book Diatomededelingen, 33: 43. 19. Gobbi M., 2008 - Diversity patterns of ground dwelling arthropods succession on alpine glacier foreland. Ber. Nat. -med. Verein Innsbruck, Suppl. 18: 15. 20. Gobbi M., 2009 - Effetti dei cambiamenti climatici recenti sulle cenosi di artropodi: le piane proglaciali come modello di studio. Congresso Nazionale di Entomologia, Ancona (Italy), 15-18 June 2009. Proceedings: 61. 21. Lami A., Marchetto A., Musazzi S., Manca M., Salerno F., Tartari G., Boggero A., Lencioni V., Guilizzoni P. & Tartari G.A., 2009 - Effetti sulle caratteristiche chimiche e biologiche di un lago di alta quota, Valle del Khumbhu, Nepal alle oscillazioni del clima sulla base delle indicazioni ottenute dal monitoraggio a lungo termine e da indagini paleolimnologiche. XIX Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Oceanologia e Limnologia A.I.O.L., Venezia Isola di San Servolo (Italy), 22-25 September 2009. Libro dei Riassunti: 33. 22. Leira M., Filippi M. & Cantonati M., 2008 - Water-level changes in Alpine lakes (NE Italy), and their reflection in the diatom sediment record. 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2), Trento (Italy), 12-15 June 2008.

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23. Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2009 - Diversity and distribution of chironomids in natural and impacted springs in the Italian Prealps and Alps. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae, Tianjin (China), 5-10 July 2009. Program and Abstract book: 35. 24. Mondoni A., Probert R., Rossi G. & Bonomi C., 2008 - A comparative study of post- 1R dispersal embryo development and germination phenology in populations of Anemone nemorosa L. and A. ranunculoides L. from Northern Italy. 9 th International Seed Science Society Conference on Seed Biology, Olsztyn (Poland), 6-11 July 2008. 25. Pedrini P., Sottovia L. & Brambilla M., 2009 - Proposta di piano per il monitoraggio di specie ornitiche di interesse comunitario e locale in provincia di Trento. XV Congresso Italiano di Ornitologia, Parco Nazionale del Circeo, Sabaudia (Italy), 14-18 October 2R 2009. Abstract book: 60-61. 26. Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., Degasperi M., Ferretti P., Franceschi M., Girardi S., Remomndino F. & Tomasoni R., 2008 - New approaches to study dinosaur tracks: 30 digital modelling by photogrammetry and active sensors. Second International Congress on Ichnology, Kracow (Poland), 29 August - 8 September 2008. 27. Pinuela L., Farlow J., Garcia Ramos J.C., Ruiz Omenaca J.C., Avanzini M. & Lockley M., 2008 - Probable Anomoepus from the late Jurassic of Asturias, Spain. Second 3R International Congress on Ichnology, Kracow (Poland), 29 August - 8 September 2008. 28. Rossaro B., Marziali L., Lencioni V. & Boggero A., 2009 - Response of benthic macroinvertebrates to environmental factors in Italian lakes. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae, 5-10 July 2009. Program and Abstract book: 40. 29. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Marziali L. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators in lakes. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano, 15-18 settembre 2009. Libro dei 4R riassunti: 75. 30. Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Boggero A., Grazioli V. & Marziali L., 2009 - DNA barcode in chironomid classification. UZI, settembre 2009. 31. Rott, E., Hotzy R. & Cantonati M., 2009 - Tufa spring protection status in the Central Eastern Alps with special reference to the desmid Oocardium stratum, a frequently overlooked key element. 2nd ECCB, Prague (Czech Republic), 1-5 September 2009. 5R 32. Rovero F. & DeFries R., 2009 - Towards the definition of a “Zone of Interaction” of protected areas to quantify and monitor the human impact on biodiversity. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. 33. Rovero F. & Hewson J., 2008 - The importance of monitoring human activities in the Zone of Interaction to interpret biodiversity measurements: case study from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and 6R Conservation, Paramaribo (Suriname), 9-13 June 2008. 34. Rovero F. & Mtui A.S., 2009 - The effect of human disturbance on primate abundance in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, as revealed by fine-scale habitat modelling. Proceedings of the 19th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti (Italy), April 2009. 35. Rovero F. & Struhsaker T.T., 2008 - Habitat determinants of primate abundance in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania: conservation relevance of a fine-scale analysis. Folia Primatologica, 79: 127-128. 36. Rovero F., Marshall A.R., Jones T. & Perkin A., 2009 - The primates of the Udzungwa Mountains:a brief review of current knowledge. Proceedings 7th TAWIRI conference, Arusha (Tanzania), 2-4 december 2009. 37. Santello L., Avanzini M., De Angelis M. Mietto P., Panarello A. & Rolandi G., 2008 - Stratigraphic features of Roccamonfina volcano (Caserta, Southern Italy) related to the presence of Pleistocene human. AVCEI 2008 General assembly, Reykjavìk (Iceland). 38. Santello L., Avanzini M., De Angelis M., Mietto P., Panarello A. & Rolandi G., 2008 - Stratigraphic features of Brown Leucitic Tuff (Roccamonfina volcano, Southern Italy) related to the presence of Pleistocene human footprints. Rendiconti Soc. Geol. It., 2 (2008): 1-3. 39. Tenan S., Girardello M., Pedrini P. & Spina F., 2009 - Inter- and intra-specific determinants of abundance in birds migrating across the Italian Alps. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. Abstract book: 28.

Oral communications (without published abstract) 1. Belli R., Dalmeri G., Gialanella S., Mattarelli M., Montagna M., Quaranta A. & Toniutti L.,

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2008 - Palaeolithic Paintings at Riparo Dalmeri, a Northern Italian Rockshelter: Materials, Technologies, Techniques. 37 International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena (Italy), 12-16 May 2008. 2. Boggero A., Lencioni V. & Rossaro B., 2008 - Le condizioni di riferimento delle acque lacustri basate sui macroinvertebrati - Attuazione della Direttiva 2000/60/CE: Condizioni e siti di riferimento per le tipologie di corpi idrici nel bacino del fiume Po, Parma (Italy), 1R 23-24 January 2008. 3. Boggero A., Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Bazzanti M., Mastrantuono L. & Solimini A., 2008 - Macroinvertebrati di acque lacustri: stato attuale delle conoscenze e prospettive future. Accademia dei Lincei, VIII Giornata Mondiale dell’acqua - Acque interne in Italia: uomo e natura, Roma (Italy), 28 March 2008. 4. Bonomi C., 2008 - Giardini botanici e conservazione della flora. Convegno “Conoscenza 2R e conservazione della biodiversità nelle aree naturali protette delle Dolomiti”, Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi (Italy), 11-12 April 2008. 5. Bonomi C., 2008 - Proteggere ed educare, l’impegno del Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viotte (Trento). Incontri di Oropa, Biella (Italy), 13 June 2008. 6. Bonomi C., 2008 - Valutazione dello stato di rischio IUCN di Aquilegia thalictrifolia Schott et Kotschy. Riunione del gruppo di lavoro per la conservazione della natura della 3R Società Botanica Italiana, Roma (Italy), 15 March 2008. 7. Bonomi C., 2009 - Gli aspetti della conservazione ex situ. Simposio “Gli Orti Botanici italiani nel XXI secolo: nuovi ruoli e strategie”, Camerino (Italy), 30 May 2009. 8. Bonomi C., 2009 - Importanza di Giardini e Orti Botanici Alpini. Eventi dell’Orto Botanico del Monte Baldo: Buon compleanno Orto: L’Orto Botanico compie 20 anni, Ferrara di Monte Baldo (Italy), 11 July 2009. 9. Bonomi C., 2009 - La strategia Europea per la conservazione ex situ della biodiversità. 4R Inaugurazione della Banca del germoplasma per la conservazione delle specie anfiadriatiche dell’Orto Botanico Selva di Gallignano, Ancona (Italy), 28-29 May 2009. 10. Bonomi C., Abeli T. & Rossi G., 2009 - Callianthemum kernerianum. Workshop “Le TOP 50 piante Vascolari più minacciate d’Italia”. Gruppo di conservazione, Società Botanica Italiana, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma (Italy), 27 February 2009. 5R 11. Cantonati M., 2009 - 3. Internationale Quellwoche im Nationalpark Gesäuse. [invited]. National Park Research Program - LIFE Project, 12-20 July 2009. 12. Cantonati M., 2009 - Diatomee come indicatori di integrità e qualità negli habitat sorgivi (progetto CESSPA e progetto CRENODAT). Workshop 05 organized by the River Adige Basin Authority, Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, Bolzano (Italy), 18 March 2009. 6R 13. Cantonati M., 2009 - Ecological and morphological data on some of the main Achnanthidium species in spring habitats of natural preserves of the Alps (carbonate substratum). 1st European Workshop on Diatom Taxonomy (1st EWDT), Luxembourg, 26-27 November 2009. 14. Cusinato A., Dalmeri G., Fontana F. & Guerreschi A., 2008 - Stratégies d’exploitation des Alpes sud-orientales du Tardigliaciaire au début de l’Holocene ancien. Table Ronde Archéologie de l’espace montagnard: confrontation d’expériences européennes, Musée-museum départemental de Gap (Hautes-Alpes, France), 29-30 septembre 2008. 15. Döppes D., Rosendahl W., Pacher M., Imhof W., Dalmeri G. & Bocherens H., 2008 - Stable isotopes investigations of Late Glacial and Early Holocene brown bear finds from caves in the alpine region. Convegno ICBS 2008, Vienna (Austria), August 2008. 16. Festi D., Oeggl K. & Dalmeri G., 2008 - Impact of Palaeolithic Hunters and Gatherers Society on the Environment: a case study from the north-eastern Italian Alps. International Palinological Congress , Innsbruck (Austria), August 2008. 17. Lencioni V., 2009 - Analisi della biodiversità animale nel Central Karakorum National Park - Invertebrati acquatici di sorgenti e torrenti del CKNP e zone limitrofe risultati preliminari. Workshop Ev-K2-CNR: Le ricerche nel Parco Nazionale del Karakoram Centrale (CKNP), Pakistan: risultati e prospettive. Centro Studi per l’Ambiente Alpino “Lucio Susmel”, S. Vito di Cadore (Italy), 1-2 April 2009. 18. Lencioni V., Rovero F., Menegon M. & Lanzinger M., 2008 - Trento Natural Science Museum towards 2010: promoting biodiversity of Alpine and tropic hotspots. EDIT Public Awareness Workshop “The Biodiversity Year Schedule of Events 2010”, Bruxelles (Belgium), 12-14 march 2008. (http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/files/edit_Lencioni_2008.ppt)

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19. Pedrini P. & Brambilla M., 2008 - Criteri generali del piano di monitoraggio faunistico della Rete Natura 2000 in Trentino. Convegno Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto. Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 20. Pedrini P. & Rossi F., 2008 - Progetto Alpi: Programmazione attività, stato del progetto. Workshop Progetto Alpi, ISPRA, Ozzano nell’Emilia (Italy), 20 June 2008. 1R 21. Pedrini P., 2009 - Dalle ricerche sui Vertebrati, indicazioni sullo stato di conservazione della Biodiversità in Trentino. Convegno “Ecologie e Ambienti in Trentino: l’ombra del Futuro”, Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino, Ronzone (Italy), 23-24 May 2009. 22. Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Rossi F. & Spina F., 2008 - Aggiornamenti e considerazioni dal Progetto Alpi. L’inanellamento: strumento di monitoraggio dell’ambiente e dei mutamenti climatici in atto. Pescara (Italy), 2-3 February 2008. 2R Posters (with published abstract) 1. Bernabò P., Caputi L., Frassanito R., Guella G., Jousson O. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Cold resistance in pseudodiamesa branickii (Nowicki): physiological, molecular and biochemical aspects. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae, 5-10 July 2009, Program and Abstract book: 69. 3R 2. Bernabò P., Jousson O., Latella L., Martinez-Guitarte J.L., Rebecchi L. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Comparative analysis of Heat shock proteins and thermoresistance in stenothermal insects from caves and cold streams (NE, Italy). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 154/1, Page S4, ISSN 1095- 6433, DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.05.023. 3. Bernabò P., Jousson O., Rebecchi L. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Termotolleranza in Diamesa 4R cinerella (Diptera, Chironomidae): un approccio molecolare. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. Abstract Book: 126. 4. Bertocchi A., Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Rossi F. & Torboli C., 2009 - Il censimento degli uccelli acquatici svernanti in Trentino (2000-2009). XV Congresso Italiano di Ornitologia, Parco Nazionale del Circeo, Sabaudia (Italy), 14-18 October 2009. Abstract book: 38. 5. Bertocchi A., Rizzolli F., Torboli C. & Pedrini P., 2009 - La moretta Aythya fuligula in Trentino: evoluzione di una popolazione dai primi casi di svernamento all’insediamento 5R come nidificante. XV Congresso Italiano di Ornitologia, Parco Nazionale del Circeo, Sabaudia (Italy), 14-18 October 2009. Abstract book: 27-28. 6. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Scalfi A., Angeli N., Guella G., Frassanito R., Andreoli C., La Rocca N., Moro I. & Sciuto K., 2009 - A2-WP2 Target species Bangia atropurpurea (Roth) C. Agardh. ACE-SAP Project (Alpine ecosystems in a changing environment: Biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potential), 2nd Annual General Meeting, Trento (Italy), 7 May 6R 2009. Abstract Book: 11-12. 7. Deflorian M.C. & Pedrini P., 2009 - Le collezioni ornitologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. XV Congresso Italiano di Ornitologia, Parco Nazionale del Circeo, Sabaudia (Italy), 14-18 October 2009. Abstract book: 100-101. 8. Frassanito R., Mancini I., Cantonati M. & Guella G., 2008 - Modern mass spectrometric strategies in “lipidomics”. 1st French-Italian Conference on Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry. 9. Gatti D., Marshall A.R. & Rovero F., 2009 - Primati e vegetazione arborea nei Monti Udzungwa, Tanzania: effetto del metodo di campionamento della vegetazione sull’analisi delle determinanti di abbondanza dei primati. 19th meeting of the Italian Primatological Society, Asti (Italy), April 2009. 10. Gobbi M., Caccianiga M., Cerabolini B., De Bernardi F., Luzzaro A. & Pierce S., 2008 - Ecosystem dynamics triggered by climate change along a glacier foreland: a quantitative and functional approach on plant and arthopod assemblages. Ber. Nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck, Suppl. 18: 38. 11. Gobbi M., Pilia O. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Biodiversità entomologica negli habitat naturali e antropizzati del settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. XXII Congresso Nazionale di Entomologia, Ancona (Italy), 15-18 June 2009. Proceedings: 78. 12. Gobbi M., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Biodiversità delle comunità di coleotteri carabidi nei siti forestali del Settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. Abstract Book: 138. 13. Lencioni V. & Rossaro B., 2009 - Chironomids of springs, rivers and lakes in five provinces and in the Beijing Municipality of the People’s Republic of China. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae, Tianjin (China), 5-10 July 2009. Program and Abstract book: 68.

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14. Marziali L., Rossaro B. & Lencioni V., 2009 - Chironomid drift behavior (Insecta, Diptera) in an arctic stream (Svalbard Islands) under natural and induced light conditions. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae, Tianjin (China), 5-10 July 2009. Program and Abstract book: 72. 15. Rott E., Cantonati M. & Füreder L., 2009 - Airborne acidification of headwaters: Can it be differentiated from natural conditions using biota? American Society of Limnology and 1R Oceanography ASLO Meeting, Nice (France), 25-30 January 2009. Abstract Book: 231. 16. Rovero F., 2008 - A newly-established centre for monitoring primates in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Folia Primatologica, 79: 157. 17. Rovero F., Marshall A.R. & Mtui A.S., 2009 - The use of camera trapping to estimate density of forest ungulates by calibrating trapping rate to density. Proceedings 7th TAWIRI conference, Arusha (Tanzania), 2-4 december 2009. 2R 18. Scalfi A., Spitale D. & Cantonati M., 2009 - Littoral phytobenthos of the largest Italian lake (L. Garda), with focus on the adaptive traits of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in relation to water-level-fluctuations-related stressors. North American Benthological Society, 57th Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids (MI USA), 17-22 May 2009. Session 45 (Periphyton) (305). 19. Tattoni C., Ferrari M., Rizzolli F., Geneletti D. & Pedrini P., 2009 - Confronto tra modelli 3R predittivi per la distribuzione specie di interesse comunitario della Direttiva Uccelli. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. Abstract book: 124. 20. Tenan S., Pedrini P., Rizzolli F. & Spina F., 2009 - Differenze altitudinali nelle condizioni energetiche di tre specie di Passeriformi durante la migrazione post-riproduttiva attraverso le Prealpi centrali. XIX Congresso S.It.E., Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. Abstract book: 140. 4R Posters (without published abstract) 1. Bernabò P., Rebecchi L. & Lencioni V., 2008 - Resistenza al freddo e allo shock da calore in ditteri chironomidi d’alta quota. Incontro dei dottorandi in scienze dei sistemi acquatici, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige - Fondazione Mach, S. Michele a/ Adige (Italy), 14-16 April 2008. 2. Cantonati M. & Angeli N., 2008 - La biodiversità nascosta del Parco Naturale Adamello- 5R Brenta: specie e generi nuovi per la scienza scoperti negli habitat sorgivi (Progetto CRENODAT). Convegno Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nella aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 3. Cantonati M., Tardio M., Spitale D. & Angeli N., 2008 - Ricerche ecologiche di lungo corso e biodiversità acquatica per il monitoraggio dei cambiamenti climatici e ambientali. Il Progetto ACQUA_TEST-PNAB. Convegno Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità 6R nella aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 4. Gobbi M., Priore C & Lencioni V., 2008 - Indagine storica sulla biodiversità di Coleotteri Cerambicidi della Val Genova (Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta). Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 5. Lencioni V. & Maiolini B., 2008 - Nuove specie per la scienza nelle acque del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, hotspot di biodiversità. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 6. Lencioni V., Gobbi M. & Pilia O., 2008 - Entomofauna del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio: documentazione della biodiversità in relazione agli habitat, alla presenza dell’uomo e alla fauna vertebrata. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 7. Lupo Stanghellini P. S., Maiolini B. & Perghem G., 2008 - Integrating public participation and cost-benefit analysis into water decision making processes: the PARTY project. 4th ECRR Conference on River Restoration, Venice, Italy – 16-21 June 2008. 8. Pedrini P., Nones S., Rizzolli F. & Volcan G., 2008 - L’importanza degli ambienti umidi di fondovalle per i Passeriformi durante la fase premigratoria. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 9. Pedrini P., Rizzolli F. & Rossi F., 2008 - Status e distribuzione del re di quaglie (Crex crex) in provincia di Trento. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008.

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10. Pedrini P., Rizzolli F., Negra O., Brugnoli A., Marchesi L., Pallaveri A. & Tomasi C., 2008 - Il Biotopo Foci dell’Avisio (Valle dell’Adige, Trentino) quale luogo di sosta dei Passeriformi migratori. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 11. Torboli C., Agostini A. & Pedrini P., 2008 - Studi e ricerche sui Chirotteri nella Rete 1R Natura 2000 del Trentino. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a confronto, Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008.

Congress attendances 1. 103° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana. Reggio Calabria (Italy), 17-21 September 2008. 2R 2. 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Riva del Garda (Italy), 15-20 September 2009. 3. 19th Meeting of the Italian Primatological Society. Asti (Italy), April 2009. 4. 1st annual meeting of the European consortium of Botanic Gardens. Botanic Garden of Helsinki (Finland), 7 June 2009. 5. 1st European Workshop on Diatom Taxonomy. Luxembourg, 26-27 November 2009. 3R 6. 1st French-Italian Conference on Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry. 7. 20th International Diatom Symposium. Dubrovnik (Croatia), 7-13 September 2008. 8. 2nd annual Meeting of the European consortium of Botanic Gardens. San Miguel, Azores Islands (Portugal), 20-22 November 2009. 9. 2nd Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM2). Trento (Italy), 12-15 June 2008. 10. 2nd International Alpine and Arctic Botanic Garden Congress. Munich (Germany), 22-25 4R April 2009. 11. 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry. Siena (Italy), 12-16 May 2008. 12. 3rd Central European Diatom Meeting, CEDIATOM3. Utrecht (The Netherlands), 27-29 March 2009. 13. 3rd Internationale Quellwoche im Nationalpark Gesäuse. National Park Research Program - LIFE Project, 12-20 July 2009. 5R 14. 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress. Barcelona (Spain), 5-14 October 2008. 15. 5° convegno Ricerca zoologica e botanica in Alto Adige. Bolzano (Italy), 4-5 September 2008. 16. 7th International Symposium “Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers” (7th ISUAMR). Luxembourg, 23-25 November 2009. 17. 7th Tawiri Wildlife Conference. Arusha (Tanzania), 2-4 december 2009. 6R 18. African Amphibian Working Group. Ilboro Safari Lodge, Arusha (Tanzania), 11-13 April 2008. 19. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ASLO Meeting. Nice (France), 25-30 January 2009. 20. Annual Beared Volture Meeting. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Bormio-Valfurva (Italy), 23-25 October 2009. 21. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Paramaribo (Suriname), 9-13 June 2008. 22. Annual Meeting of the Italian Phycology Working Group. Abano Terme (Italy), 14-15 November 2008. 23. AVCEI 2008 General assembly. Reykjavìk (Iceland). 24. Conoscenza e conservazione della biodiversità nelle aree naturali protette delle Dolomiti. Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi (Italy), 11-12 April 2008. 25. Convegno ICBS 2008. Vienna, August 2008. 26. Convegno internazionale Les serres: Aspects techniques, scientifiques, muséographiques et pédagogiques. Lyon (France), 21-24 octobre 2008. 27. Convegno Nazionale Associazione Teriologica Italiana. Cles (Italy), 17-18 April 2008. 28. ECCB 2009 - 2nd European Conference of Conservation Biology. Prague (Czech Republic), 1-5 September 2009. 29. ECSITE Annual Conference 2009, Workshop T-Nature group. Milano (Italy), 6 June 2009. 30. ECSITE Annual Conference 2008, Budapest, Hungary, May 29-31, 2008. 31. Ecologie e Ambienti in Trentino: l’ombra del Futuro. Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino, Ronzone (Italy), 23-24 May 2009.

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32. Eurogard V, Botanic Gardens in the age of Climate Change. Helsinki (Finland), 8-12 June 2009. 33. Eventi dell’Orto Botanico del Monte Baldo: Buon compleanno Orto: L’Orto Botanico compie 20 anni. Ferrara di Monte Baldo (Italy), 11 July 2009. 34. Gli Orti Botanici italiani nel XXI secolo: nuovi ruoli e strategie. Camerino (Italy), 30 May 2009. 1R 35. I Sistemi Informativi Territoriali negli Enti Locali ed in altre realtà: esperienze a confronto. Rovereto (Italy), 14 October 2008. 36. Incontri di Oropa. Biella (Italy), 13 June 2008. 37. Intenational Conference: Plant Conservation for the Next Decade: A Celebration of Kew’s 250th Anniversary. Kew, London (UK), 12-16 October 2009. 38. International Palinological Congress , Innsbruck (Austria), August 2008. 2R 39. IX Giornate di paleontologia. Apricena (Italy), 2009. 40. L’inanellamento: strumento di monitoraggio dell’ambiente e dei mutamenti climatici in atto. Pescara (Italy), 2-3 February 2008. 41. Le foreste dei cacciatori paleolitici. Convegno nazionale Tambre (Italy), June 2008. 42. Meeting Commissione Italiana Ornitologia. ISPRA, Ozzano nell’Emilia (Italy), 12 October.2008. 43. Meeting of the European consortium of Botanic Gardens. Botanic Garden of Helsinki 3R (Finland), 7 June 2009. 44. North American Benthological Society, 57th Annual Meeting. Grand Rapids (MI, USA), 17-22 May 2009. 45. Pan European Conference on Population level Management Plans for Large Carnivores. Postumia (Slovenia), 10-11 June 2008. 46. Pianificazione e gestione della biodiversità nelle aree protette alpine: esperienze a 4R confronto. Trento (Italy), 27-28 November 2008. 47. Problematiche ambientali del Lago di Garda, approfondimenti e proposte di risanamento. Torri del Benaco (Italy), 13 March 2009. 48. Riparo Tagliente (1958-2008) 50 anni dalla scoperta… Convegno nazionale. Cuzzano- Grezzana, Verona (Italy), 18 October 2008. 49. Riunione del gruppo di lavoro per la conservazione della natura della Società Botanica 5R Italiana. Roma (Italy), 15 March 2008. 50. Second International Congress on Ichnology. Kracow (Poland), 29 August - 8 September 2008. 51. SPNHC 2009 Bridging Continents, Annual Meeting of the Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections. Leiden (The Netherlands), 6-11 July 2009. 52. Symposio SEP 2008, MUJA. Colunga Asturias (Spain). 6R 53. Table Ronde Archéologie de l’espace montagnard: confrontation d’expériences européennes. Musée-museum départemental de Gap (Hautes-Alpes, France), 29-30 septembre 2008. 54. Uso sostenibile delle piante della flora spontanea. Milano (Italy), 5 June 2009. 55. Ville Europeenne des sciences con esposizione progetto Plascigarden. Paris (France), 12-19 November 2008. 56. Workshop “Le TOP 50 piante Vascolari più minacciate d’Italia”. Gruppo di conservazione, Società Botanica Italiana. Roma (Italy), 27 February 2009. 57. Workshop 05 organizzato dall’Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Adige. Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, Bolzano (Italy), 18 March 2009. 58. Workshop Ev-K2-CNR: “Le ricerche nel Parco Nazionale del Karakoram Centrale (CKNP), Pakistan: risultati e prospettive”. Centro Studi per l’Ambiente Alpino “Lucio Susmel”, S. Vito di Cadore (Italy), 1-2 April 2009. 59. Workshop Lifewatch Italia “Una piattaforma europea per la biodiversità”. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma (Italy), 9 October 2009. 60. Workshop Progetto Alpi. ISPRA, Ozzano nell’Emilia (Italy), 20 June 2008. 61. Workshop sulla digitalizzazione delle collezioni naturalistiche. Promosso da Sistema Museale Naturalistico della Regione Lazio con il patrocinio di ANMS, Roma (Italy), 3 December 2009. 62. XIX Congresso S.It.E.. Bolzano (Italy), 15-18 September 2009. 63. XV Congresso Italiano di Ornitologia. Parco Nazionale del Circeo, Sabaudia (Italy), 14- 18 October 2009. 64. XVII International Symposium on Chironomidae. Beijng (China), 5-10 July 2009.

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Collaborations (2008-2009) in Italy

Universities (Sections/Laboratories) 21 (42) 1R Research Institutes 12 Museums 4 Private and public institutions/associations 38 Total 75 (101) 2R

Universities 1. Università del Molise, Banca del germoplasma del Molise 2. Università dell’Aquila 3R 3. Università della Montagna, sede di Edolo (BS) 4. Università della Tuscia, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Viterbo 5. Università di Bologna, Istituto Nazionale di Speleologia 6. Università di Cagliari, Banca del germoplasma della Sardegna (BG-SAR) 7. Università di Catania, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Catania 8. Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali 4R 9. Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Geologia 10. Università di Genova, Centro Universitario di Servizi Giardini Botanici Hanbury 11. Università di Genova, Dipartimento per lo studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse 12. Università di Genova, Laboratorio per la conservazione della diversità vegetale ligure 13. Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Agraria 14. Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Biologia 5R 15. Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze 16. Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Istituto di Mineralogia 17. Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 18. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento del Museo e dell’Orto Botanico 19. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale 20. Università di Padova, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Padova 21. Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Biologia 6R 22. Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Entomologia 23. Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geografia 24. Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Geologia, Paleontologia e Geofisica 25. Università di Palermo, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Palermo 26. Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale 27. Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali 28. Università di Parma, Laboratorio di Geochimica Isotopica 29. Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale 30. Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Ecologia del Territorio 31. Università di Pisa, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Pisa 32. Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Etologia, Ecologia, Evoluzione 33. Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche 34. Università di Roma La Sapienza, Banca del germoplasma dell’Orto Botanico di Roma 35. Università di Roma La Sapienza, Museo delle Origini 36. Università di Torino, Istituto di Anatomia 37. Università di Trento, Centro Interdipartimentale di Biologia Integrata 38. Università di Trento, Dipartmento di Fisica 39. Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale 40. Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Scienze filologiche e storiche 41. Università di Varese, Dipartimento di Scienze Naturali 42. Università Politecnica delle Marche, Banca del germoplasma per la conservazione delle specie anfiadriatiche

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Research institutes 1. CNR-CeFSA, Centro per la Fisica degli Stati Aggregati, Trento 2. CNR-IGAG, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Roma 3. CNR-IRSA, Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, Brugherio (MI) 4. CNR-ISAC, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, Bologna 5. CNR-ISE, Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Verbania Pallanza 1R 6. ENEA, Centro Ricerche Casaccia, Dipartimento Studio del Quaternario, Roma 7. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Settore ricerca scientifica (ex IRST) 8. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro di Ecologia Alpina, Viote del Monte Bondone, Trento 9. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Istituto Agrario di S. Michele all’Adige, Centro Ricerca e Innovazione (TN) 10. Fondazione Minoprio, Vertemate, Lecco 2R 11. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Borgo Grotta Gigante (TS) 12. Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale - ex INFS

Museums 1. Museo Civico di Rovereto (TN) 2. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 3. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 3R 4. Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige (BZ)

Other institutes and associations 1. Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Adige, Trento 2. Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici 3. CODRA Mediterranea s.r.l., Banca del germoplasma 4R 4. Comitato Ev-K2-CNR (BG) 5. Comune di Arco (TN) 6. Comune di Trento 7. Consorzio Parco Monte Barro, Lombardy Seed Bank LSB 8. CORA Ricerche Archeologiche, Trento 9. Ente di Gestione dei Parchi e delle Riserve Naturali Cuneesi, Banca del germoplasma delle Alpi sud occidentali 5R 10. Garden Club Trento 11. Gruppo Micologico “G. Bresaola”, Trento 12. Laboratorio tecnico Velluti Restauratori, Villabruna (BL) 13. LIPU 14. Mediterraneo® ONLUS, Banca del germoplasma 15. Ministero per l’Ambiente 16. Osservatorio Climatico di Milano-Brera 6R 17. Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta 18. Parco Naturale Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino 19. Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, Banca del germoplasma dell'Appennino Centrale 20. Parco Nazionale della Majella, Banca del germoplasma della Majella 21. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Settore Lombardo 22. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Settore trentino 23. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente 24. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Agricoltura e Montagna 25. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Beni culturali 26. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Conservazione della Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale 27. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio emigrazione e solidarietà Internazionale 28. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Foreste e Fauna 29. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Geologico 30. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Ufficio Archeologico 31. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Ufficio Faunistico 32. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Ufficio previsioni e organizzazione 33. Provincia di Livorno, Banche del Germoplasma Livornesi 34. Società Alpinisti Tridentini 35. Società Alpinisti Tridentini, Sezione di Arco 36. Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino 37. Soprintendenza Speciale al Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico “L. Pigorini“, Roma 38. WWF

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Collaborations (2008-2009) Abroad

Universities (Sections/Laboratories) 35 (38) 1R Research Institutes 19 Museums 10 Private and public institutions/associations 30 Total 94 (97) 2R Universities 1. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK 2. Duke University, Section of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, USA 3. Karakorum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan 4. Keele University, Institute of Geology, Dept. of Geography, UK 3R 5. Manchester Metropolitan University, Section of Tropical Ecology, UK 6. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 7. Trinity College Dublin, Eire 8. UNED, Madrid, Spain 9. Universidad de Oviedo, Dep. Ci. Geologicas, Spain 10. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain 4R 11. Universität Basel, Institute of Biogeography, Switzerland 12. Universität Bern, Lab. Isotopengeologie, Institut für Geologie, Switzerland 13. Universitat de Girona, Spain 14. Universitat de Valencia Estudi General, Spain 15. Universität Frankfurt, Germany 16. Universität Heidelberg, Germany 17. Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ökologie, Austria 5R 18. Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Botanik, Austria 19. Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Austria 20. Universität Innsbruck, International Ecology Institute, Austria 21. Universität Tübingen, Germany 22. Universität Wien, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Austria 23. Université Aix-en-Provence, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, France 6R 24. University of Birmingham, UK 25. University of Bristol, Geochronology Laboratory, UK 26. University of Colorado, Denver, USA 27. University of Copenhagen, EDIT Network, Danimarca 28. University of Dar es Salaam, Section of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation, Tanzania 29. University of Davis, California, USA 30. University of Iceland, Institute of Biology, Reykjavik, Iceland 31. University of Olomouc, Czech Republic 32. University of Oslo, Natural History Museum & Botanical Garden, Norway 33. University of Plymouth, Section of Geographical Sciences, UK 34. University of Saint-Paul Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 35. University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic 36. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 37. University of Utrecht, van de Graaff Laboratorium, The Netherlands 38. University of York, UK

Research institutes

1. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Botany Institute, Třeboň, Czech Republic 2. Agricultural Research Institute, Lefkosia, Cyprus 3. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Bulgaria 4. Centre of Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK 5. CNRS, Laboratoire Traces, Universitè de Toulouse le Mirail, France 6. CNRS, Universitè Paris III, France

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7. CSIC, Doňana Biological Station, Section of Conservation Biology, Spain 8. CSIC, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia, Spain 9. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland 10. Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, Switzerland 11. Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, Greece 12. National Center of Competence in Research in Climate, Bern, Switzerland 1R 13. Polish Academy of Sciences, Botany Institute, Krakow, Poland 14. Polish Academy of Sciences, Center for Biological Diversity Conservation & Botanical Garden, Warsaw, Poland 15. Polish Academy of Sciences, Istitute of Nature Conservation, Krakow, Poland 16. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK 17. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Bratislava, Slovakia 2R 18. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Applied Biodiversity Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 19. Stazione Ornitologica Sempach, Switzerland

Museums 1. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA 3R 2. Field Museum, Chicago, USA 3. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest 4. Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland 5. Museum für Naturkunde, EDIT Network, Berlin, Germany 6. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France 7. National Museum & Galleries, Cardiff, UK 4R 8. Russian Academy of Sciences, Museum of Zoology, Russia 9. The Natural History Museum, London, Botany Section, UK 10. The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Other institutes and associations 1. Bird Life International 5R 2. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 3. Botanic Gardens Conservation International 4. Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden, Hungary 5. Conservation International, Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, USA 6. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, USA 7. EDIT Network 6R 8. European Consortium of Botanic Gardens 9. Forestry and Beekeeping Division, Tanzania 10. Fundación Pública Municipal Jardin Botánico de Córdoba, Spain 11. Glacier National Park, Montana, USA 12. Helsinki University Botanic Garden, Finland 13. Jardí Botànic de Sóller, Spain 14. Jardin Botanico Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria, Spain 15. Landesbund fuer Vogleschutz, Bayern, Germany 16. Lisbon Botanical Garden, Portugal 17. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium 18. National Geographic Society, Waswhington DC, USA 19. Nationalpark Berchtesgaden, Germany 20. Nationalpark Gesäuse, Austria 21. Rufford Foundation, UK 22. Tanzania Forest Consevation Group 23. Tanzania National Parks, Tanzania 24. Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute 25. Vulture Conservation Foundation, International Bearded Vulture Monitoring 26. Wildlife Conservation Society, Democratic Republic of Congo 27. Wildlife Conservation Society, Rwanda 28. Wildlife Conservation Society, Tanzania 29. Wildlife Conservation Society, USA 30. WWF - Tanzania Programme

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