The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze - MUSE
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The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze - MUSE
The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze Report 2012-2013 ISBN 978-88-531-0022-1 9 788853 100221 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze Report 2012-2013 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze Report 2012-2013 MUSE - Museo delle Scienze President Marco Andreatta Director Michele Lanzinger MUSE Research Report 2012-2013 © 2014 Museo delle Scienze, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento, Italy Managing editor Valeria Lencioni Editorial committee Marco Avanzini, Costantino Bonomi, Marco Cantonati, Giampaolo Dalmeri, Valeria Lencioni, Paolo Pedrini, Francesco Rovero Editorial assistant Stefano Neri Cover and layout design BigFive Cover photos ©Museo delle Scienze, Matteo Lencioni (photo on the right) Printing Publistampa, Pergine Valsugana (TN) 978-88-531-0029-0 The research activities AT THE MUSEO DELLE SCIENZE Report 2012-2013 5 Preface Part 1 7 11 1. The MUSE 2. The research programmes 14 Macroarea Biodiversity and Ecology 15 Macroarea Earth Sciences and Lanscape 19 3. The research staff and activities 25 4. The scientific collections 29 5. The main results and projects Part 2 61 Appendix 1: The staff of the scientific sections 87 Appendix 2: The staff of the science communicators 93 Appendix 3: Research projects, high education and teaching 113 Appendix 4: Publications 145 Appendix 5: Collaborations: the research national network 149 Appendix 6: Collaborations: the research international network The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 The period described in this report has seen the opening on 27th July 2013 of our new museum, MUSE - Museo delle Scienze (previously Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali), the first museum in Italy that harmoniously blends nature, science and technology. Opening the new museum completed a transition process that lasted almost 10 years and that involved all the staff, with the research area taking a leading role in defining the scientific contents of the new museum. The new museum manages, in addition to the main museum in Trento, a whole network of centres for scientific dissemination, established during the last 70 years. In Trentino these are: Botanical Alpine Garden on Viotte di Monte Bondone, Museum on the Bronze Age at the Lago di Ledro, Arco Arboretum, Glaciology Museum “J. Payer”, Aeronautic Museum “G. Caproni” in Trento, Bosco Caproni at Arco, Lymnological Field Station at the Lago di Tovel and the Geology Museum of Dolomites in Predazzo. In Tanzania, MUSE manages the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, a field station annexed to a national park of outstanding biodiversity importance. The main museum in Trento is organized in four Areas managed by the general Directorate and the Administrative Directorate: Cultural mediation, Naturalistic Research, Museum Territorial branches, Services. The research area includes seven research sections: Botany, Limnology and Algology, Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Vertebrate Zoology, Tropical Biodiversity, Geology, Prehistory. They carry out the traditional natural science disciplinary research activities, both basic and applied, in the field of the environment, however they are commonly dedicated to the issue of biodiversity and ecology of mountain ecosystems. Our research in this area concerns the documentation and monitoring of species and communities that are sensitive to environmental and climate change as key components of biodiversity in the mountains (alpine, tropical and sub-tropical). In the realm of Earth and Landscape Sciences, the museum explores the geology, morphology, and hydrology of the Alpine region in order to document and reconstruct their its evolution; it analyses the aspects related to the evolution of living organisms (vertebrate and invertebrate fossils) over geological time and studies the relationship between man and environment in an alpine setting during the period between the Late Glacial and ancient Holocene. In addition to the well-established educational activities inherent in its institutional tasks, MUSE has an important role in the communication and dissemination of both scientific and environmental culture, in order to foster the cultural, social and economic development of well-rooted local communities and the reemergence of identity processes in the environmental field. 4 Preface The MUSE has grown and evolved over time, and specifically in the last 2 years 18 new people were employed in the permanent staff. At present (December 2013), it comprises about 90 employees, of which 24 in the research staff, in addition to more than 150 collaborators with different nonpermanent contract types. Our researchers are supported by the a team of cultural mediators scientific communicators, engaged in the dissemination of research results to citizens and stakeholders, in planning and processing related to refunds related to higher education and cultural mediation. In the biennium 2012-2013 the MUSE promoted and participated to several research projects in collaboration with local research institutes especially with the Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM) in response to the Trento Province’s request to enhance cooperation on common research topics. A strategically-important Memorandum of Understanding was indeed signed with FEM to boost mutual collaboration and the establishment of a platform of excellence on biodiversity research. The national and international collaborations with other museums and research institutes has also increased, with the boosting of large-scale research programmes in Europe and Africa in the fields of biodiversity assessment, sustainable development, environmental education. The report provides quantitative indicators of such research activities, with a focus on the main results published in scientific journals. The care of MUSE’s collections that originate from the research has contributed to increase the relevance of such results (at present about 5 millions of specimens/ items are hosted in the museum). Furthermore, part of the about 5.000 m2 surface of gallery devotes exhibits to the field of nature and biodiversity with special regards to the research activities of the MUSE and other local institutes, providing the diffusion of scientific data to the public in form of easily accessible contents. The Open Labs are working laboratories designed to profile MUSE researchers, master and PhD students and to display the relevance of their work to the public. In conclusion, I am grateful to all the personnel who contributed with constant care, dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism to the performance of the MUSE, included the administrative employers. A special mention goes to the Autonomous Province of Trento for its financial support to our research programmes and to all the sponsors who supported our activities in the last two years. Michele Lanzinger Director of MUSE 5 1 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 MUSE - Museo delle Scienze is a new building designed by the world-famous architect Renzo Piano. The building’s outline recalls the profile of the surrounding mountains, with a finely balanced contrast between empty and full spaces that adds charm and prestige to the entire exhibition venue. Built on eco-compatible criteria, MUSE is a model that sets the standard for a green economy and for energy saving. MUSE combines characteristics from both traditional natural science museums and modern science centres in a very innovative way. This brand-new layout is enriched by a strong social characteristic that underpins its vocation as a meeting place providing dialogue with visitors. To enhance local background and knowledge, acting as a social venue where people can discuss issues of global importance is the cultural objective of MUSE. 8 The MUSE MUSE is a big open space where scientific and technological knowledge are the means used to study the relationship between man and the environment, and at the same time to provide updated information on the available choices for sustainable development. Multi-media exhibits, interactive games, hands-on experiments and the practical mixing of culture with DIY are the informal educational tools with which visitors can join the scientific debate about important local and global issues. Specimens and objects exhibited outside glass boxes (“objects at hand”) represent one of the innovative museology designs chosen to solicit visitors’ curiosity and empathic feelings. The ultimate aim of the new museum is to be a centre of cultural interpretation at the service of society, dedicated to nature and to the promotion of sustainability, science and innovation. MUSE addresses local population by inspiring citizens but is at the same time an extraordinary venue for cultural tourism from all over the world. The forecast scenarios and the development programmes promoted by the European Union within the framework of the Europe 2020 programme have identified three main axes, i.e. economy, environment and society, along which to build the idea of the future of our continent. MUSE is aligned with these three pillars, as it has elected as primary feature of its philosophy the dialectic and constructive relationship between development and environmental sustainability in connection with the contemporary society. To learn how our environment has changed since the beginning of history to our present times means to understand a journey of over 200,000 years, which involves the joint evolution of humanity’s technological skills and its relationship with nature and the landscape. This is one of the strongest and most innovative conceptual focuses of MUSE. In this respect the exhibition floor dedicated to pre-history with its succession of themes and experiences that are totally new to the international museum scene, presents a refreshingly simple and direct viewpoint. Reflection, experimentation, a cue for the visitor to return and acquire new educational experience and informal knowledge: MUSE targets a very wide range of visitors by choosing not to focus on a specific age group. MUSE supports tourism by attracting visitors who wish to discover the thousands of relations between the MUSE’s themes and the Alpine territory, and in particular curious and attentive families, that are a must in the museum’s tradition, and school groups that find an extraordinary good educational tool in the many exhibitions and workshops offered. All this will help understand the paths to be followed in the fields of energy and of respect and conscious use of natural resources, widening the view of individuals to encompass what new technology and biotechnology we could develop in the future, so as to take steps towards a harmonious symbiosis between mankind and the environment. This is where the investment in future generations begins. 9 2 The research programmes The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 MUSE - Museo delle Scienze traces back its origin in the mid XIX century, while only in 1964 it was established with the current asset. Throughout this period it progressively evolved into a modern museum, dedicated to research, visitor interpretation and education. Research at MUSE is articulated around two mainstream areas: Biodiversity and Ecology, Earth Sciences and Landscape. Environmental research focuses mainly on the Alpine region, and aims at attaining both local and global relevance, trying to be effective, integrated and useful to the local community and research area but also strategically placed at European level in key research networks, valuing international research cooperation and participation to consortia and competitive projects, delivering research products relevant at global level. Since 2008 however, research on mountain ecosystems of other parts of the world has begun, especially in biodiversity-rich mountain forests of eastern Africa. Research on the public communication of science continuously develops new means to raise public awareness on the alpine environment, promoting the sustainable use of its resources, necessary to grant an environmentally friendly development of the local society, highlighting local assets and natural heritage, promoting public understanding of science. The role of the new science museum MUSE is to investigate and explain nature using scientific tools, addressing the challenges posed by the modern times and promoting the values of science, innovation and sustainable development. Since 2012 a new focus on documenting and valuing the landscape with all its biotic and abiotic dimensions, and with emphasis on biodiversity research and conservation is being framed, with the contribution of all the seven research sections. Such unified research theme aims to bring up their strategic value in the field of conservation planning from the landscape level down to ecosystems, communities and species level. This is because environmental research is increasingly called to inform the public, including the administrators, on scientifically-sound ways to manage the environment. MUSE has an exceptional potential towards this goal, as it is one of the few institutions in Trento Province that can use its vast documentation knowledge on nature to address key issues of landscape and biodiversity planning and management. 12 The research programmes 13 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Macroarea Biodiversity and Ecology The MUSE’s studies on biodiversity involve the integration between ecological, physiological and molecular data of plants (algae and higher plants) and animals (arthropods and vertebrates), both at individual, population and community level, with the main aims of: 1. Assessing the ecological factors influencing the biogeographic and evolutionary patterns of species distribution and model communities; 2. Defining the population dynamics and evolutionary processes of plant and animal species in mountainous areas; 3. Analysing the data collected in order to predict how model organisms and communities will respond to climate change and environmental issues; 4. Finalizing the realization of tools aimed to the understanding of the impact of human activities on landscapes and to estimate the resilience of natural systems to the anthropization processes; 5. Identifying the factors that determine and affect biodiversity patterns both at local and global levels, and produce maps of potential biodiversity; 6. Providing stakeholders with new tools and methods for the management and conservation of habitats and species; 7. Performing actions aimed to the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts and to the re-naturalization of habitats; 8. Developing cultural and scientific tools in order to promote and disseminate the concept of a knowledge-based sustainable development. A critical assumption of our interdisciplinary approach is the long-standing experience of the museum biological sections in biodiversity documentation through the aggregation of data in specific databases, production of scientific publications and scientific and technical reports (eg. Red Lists, Check Lists, Action Plans, management and conservation plans). Furthermore the combination of these skills and their integration in the study of ecosystems, contributes to the study of landscape outlined below. This field of research pertains to the macro-area “Earth and Landscape Sciences”. 14 The research programmes Macroarea Earth Sciences and Lanscape Economic development and quality of life (understood as a form of social development), are closely related to the quality of the environment. Research projects pertaining to this area aim to a better understanding of the geological structure, soil properties and land use of the region, and investigate recent and past changes in climatic and environmental conditions of the area. The classification of the territory in forestry areas, agricultural zones, settlements and infrastructural areas is reformulated in terms of “quality”. This scheme allows a new representation of the units according to an eco-functional approach to the study of the landscape. This moves towards the development of a model in which the ecomosaic of natural biotic and abiotic components (past, present, future) interact with anthropogenic ones. As far as we are concerned, the latter are related to the traditional use of the soils, the presence of diffuse cultural entities, parks and protected areas, to the systems of interpretation and evaluation of these units. The goals of this area are therefore: 1. to define the main components of the alpine landscape, its geological structure and past environments and ecosystems. This includes the study of present and past transformations and of the processes that have led to the most relevant changes; 2. to investigate the main features of the extant alpine landscape with reference to both instances of equilibrium and situations characterized by change (on different scales and times). This is carried out with special focus to the agents and dynamics of transformation; 3. to summarize the features of the alpine landscape and to track their changes over time. 15 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 MUSE is recognized as a research centre of excellence in the following themes: -- Documentation and conservation of alpine flora and fauna, both terrestrial and freshwater. These studies aim to assess and monitor the biodiversity in Trentino, create databases (which are mainly of insects and vertebrates), checklists, red lists and use these data to realize predictive models of spatial patterns of distribution in both natural and protected areas and urban areas. Such research has relevant implications for conservation because provides knowledge used to make landscape management plans. - Effects of climate and environmental change on natural ecosystems and alpine biodiversity. It consists in basic and applied researches aimed to test the effect of natural and anthropogenic impacts on alpine biodiversity, to model trends in biodiversity, to define new bioindicators of ecosystem quality, and to evaluate the species extinction risks. The researches developed on springs, glacial rivers, glacier forelands and rock glaciers have national and international relevance due to the ongoing global warming and consequent glacier retreat. These researches help to implement the algae and entomological collections. -- Ex situ conservation, propagation, cultivation and reintroduction of alpine plant species (seed bank). The researches maintain a long term seeds conservation centre in Trentino for endangered alpine species, crop wild relatives and neglected crops varieties. Tropical species are also in collection together with the local species enhancing the international value of the MUSE seed bank. -- Biological diversity and conservation of tropical and sub-tropical regions. These researches originates from the assessment of the forest vertebrate diversity of poorly known or even previously unexplored areas, and subsequently involves analysis of biogeographic and speciation patterns, as well as focal, species-level studies, especially on mammals, on abundance estimation, ecological modeling, temporal monitoring and conservation. Most of the research and conservation activities are conducted in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, one of the top global biodiversity hotspots. Here MUSE has a field station annexed to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park. -- Palaeontology and palaeoichnology. This project aims to quantify the abundance and study the relationships of dinosaurs and other terrestrial reptiles in Trentino and surrounding regions. Specific actions involve the identification of new palaeontological sites and the development of new conservation actions and valorisation projects. -- Geodiversity. This project aims at documenting local geodiversity in order to understand the relation between the natural environment and the dynamics of anthropic modification. This actions have high social relevance, in particular when associated with geological mapping and assessments of geological hazard. -- Speleothems and cave waters. These projects aim to track past climatic oscillations in Trentino by means of sampling the calcite deposited in the caves, the underground waters and the hypogeal soils in the Province. -- Prehistory. These mainly refer to researches on the first human peopling of the Alps (Late Glacial and early Holocene), which highlight the close relationship between the patterns of land use and social organization of human groups and the reconstruction of ancient landscapes. Of particular value are the abundant examples of mobilary prehistoric art discovered in prehistoric sites of Trentino. 16 The research programmes -- Interconnections between scientific and technological innovations and social implications, focusing especially on sustainability issues of the sciences of life and its applications. This research is based on international networks. The aim is to enhance the role of MUSE to operate as a venue that brings culture and science together in a deliberative space, i.e. a ‘agora’ hosting dialogues where producers, policy makers and users of the scientific innovation can meet and directly face, and where science of culture and cultures of science become visible. MUSE’s research work has a strong impact on the local context, for its vocation to provide recommendations relevant to environmental management, valuing nature for tourism, and public engagement in science. MUSE’s researchers work alongside with professionals and administrators linked to the Provincia autonoma di Trento, contributing with environmental impact assessments and the provision of wildlife and protected area management plans. 17 3 The research staff and activities The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Seven scientific Sections are involved in research activities: Section name Head of Section Botany Costantino Bonomi Geology Marco Avanzini Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Valeria Lencioni Limnology and Phycology Marco Cantonati Prehistory Giampaolo Dalmeri Tropical Biodiversity Francesco Rovero Vertebrate Zoology Paolo Pedrini Each working group (Section) is represented by a curator (with the role of coordinator), one technician and a variable number of researchers (Table 1; Appendix 1). A staff of 6 scientific communicators support the scientific sections (Appendix 1). Table 1 - Research staff in 2012-2013 (as full time equivalent). Research staff 2012 2013 Curators - chief-researchers, Section coordinators 8 11 Researchers 28 21 Technicians 6 10 Science communicators 3 4 Total 44 46 In Table 2 and Appendix 2 data referred to teaching and research activity carried out in 2012/2013 are given. Table 2 - Quantitative data on research and teaching activities (2012-2013). Research and teaching activities (2012-2013) Number Research projects 56 Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 32 Seminars c/o universities and museums 94 Lectures 5 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 9 Ph.Ds 17 Masters and degrees 39 Trainings 4 Volunteers 3 Public activities 28 Temporary exhibitions 10 More than 150 publications have been produced in 2012-2013 by the MUSE research staff (see Table 3 and Appendix 3). 20 The research staff and activities Table 3 - Number of publications by MUSE researchers (2012-2013). Publications (2012-2013) Nr. Scientific papers on ISI journals 91 Scientific papers on non- ISI journals 66 Books or book chapters 24 Popular science papers 13 Oral communications (with published abstract) 76 Oral communications (without published abstract) 44 Posters (with published abstract) 19 Posters (without published abstract) 9 Congress attendances 74 Project reports 48 Among the outputs of the MUSE research activities are the following scientific journals edited by the MUSE: Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali (since 1926), Preistoria Alpina (since 1963), Monografie del Museo delle Scienze (since 2004), Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze (since 2007) and Natura alpina (since 1950) The scientific committee is represented by curators of the MUSE 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 2012-2013, 13 volumes were printed for a total of 2538 printed pages (Table 4). Table 4 - Publications edited by MUSE in 2012-2013.ING= in English; FRA: in French. Journal, volume Title N.pages N.contributes (in foreign language) N.authors Print year Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 90 RIBES e la conservazione ex situ della flora spontanea autoctona 320 32 (8 ING) 106 2012 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 91 Mondi animali (Atti di convegno 2008-2010) 148 12 21 2012 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92 Miscellany 92 10 (4 ING) 20 2012 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93 Aggiornamento di mineralogia trentina 308 19 25 2013 Preistoria Alpina, 46/1 Atti IIPP XLII, l’arte preistorica in Italia vol. I 354 51 84 2012 Preistoria Alpina, 46/2 Atti IIPP XLII, l’arte preistorica in Italia vol. II 396 51 (1 FRA) 63 2012 Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze, 5 Rapaci diurni (nidificanti e migratori) delle Alpi prontuario tassonomico 160 - 1 2012 Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze, 6/1 I macroinvertebrati dei laghi 201 5 11 2013 Libro ed. MTSN La migrazione postriproduttiva degli uccelli attraverso le Alpi italiane 112 4 4 2012 Natura alpina, 1-2.2010 Miscellany 144 11 1 2012 Natura alpina Indice per Autori e per Soggetti 2000-2009 45 - 1 2012 Natura alpina, 3-4.2010 Miscellany 66 10 13 2013 Natura alpina, 1-2.2011 Guida alla biodiversità urbana in Trentino-Alto Adige. I. Animali. 192 8 8 2013 21 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Overall, the MUSE has collaborated with about 50 research institutions, museums, and scientific associations in Italy and abroad (Table 5, Appendixes 4, 5). Table 5 - Number of collaborations of the research staff of MUSE in 2012-2103. Type of Collaborations In Italy Abroad Agreements (with financial support) 12 5 Memorandum of Understanding (without financial support) 2 5 Partnerships 2 20 Other collaborations (co-authorship, free consultancies, etc.) 40 23 Total 56 53 Funds for research activities amount at 2.885.933,80 Euros in 2012 and at 3.443.518,25 Euros in 2013. The research activities were financed mainly by the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) as reported in Tables 6 and 7. Table 6 - Funds for research activities (2012-2013). Grant-in-aid by PAT - Research Service 2012 2013 2.134.700,00 2.701.080,00 PAT - other Services 71.193,60 0 PAT - large collaborative projects 143.330,00 141.200,00 Other revenues 536.710,20 601.238,25 2.885.933,80 3.443.518,25 Total Table 7 - MUSE research funds: Trend in the last 5-years 22 Year Grant-in-aid by PAT Other revenues % Other revenues/ Grant-in-aid by PAT 2009 1.900.000,00 833.382,00 30.5% 2010 1.900.000,00 1.023.943,00 35% 2011 1.990.000,00 647.962,55 25% 2012 2.134.700,00 751.233,80 26% 2013 2.701.080,00 742.438,25 22% The research staff and activities The figure shows the repartition of the research projects by the following three sources of revenue: -- institutional projects: supported by the Grant-in-aid; -- grant-based projects: financed by PAT or other institutions through grant competitions; -- on agreement projects: financed within an agreement subscribed with other institutions for research consultancies or services. 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Agreement Grant Institutional 2012 2013 Number of research projects (2012-2013). Overall, in both years the research was supported mainly by agreements (23 total projects, of which 7 supported by MUSE, 3 projects founded by PAT, 2 founded by PNAB and 2 incoming post-doc funded by PAT) and institutional funds (see Appendix 2). All these data were compiled by the administration staff (Massimo Eder, Alberta Giovannini, Sabrina Candioli). 23 4 The scientific collections The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 The natural history and archaeological collections of the Museo delle Scienze (about 300 collections and 5 millions objects) are of great interest for their close relationship with the Trentino area. Besides the objects of local origin, there are many specimens coming from the rest of Italy and from foreign countries, obtained through 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. Sections N. collections Objects estimated Items/specimens Tropical Biodiversity 1 4,650 4,650 Botany 48 150,000 370,000 Limnology and Phycology 12 8,600 11,000 Invertebrate Zoology 17 4,500 1,200,000 Vertebrate Zoology 19 11,500 13,000 Geology 8 16,800 42,000 Prehistory 196 95,000 3,300,000 Total 301 291,050 4,940,650 The MUSE collections are constantly investigated and cared for conservation by the staff, in order to go in depth in their documentation and study, and to make them available to the research community as to the general public. At present the 60.3% of the preserved heritage is fully catalogued with a specific software in accordance with the national standards. In 2012-2013 MUSE received several loan requests: 62 outgoing loans were approved, 49 for research purposes and 13 for temporary exhibitions. The MUSE collections specimens were described or used as material in 35 different publications written by the museum staff or by other researchers who borrowed MUSE collections objects. Acquisition and documentation increased conspicuously with 6,021 new objects, 10,838 new catalogue cards digitized and 19,064 revised. Collections 2012-2013: loans, publications, acquisitions and cataloguing (digitization). Collections 2012 2013 Research outgoing loans 24 25 Exhibitions outgoing loans 8 5 Publications about collections 14 21 New acquisitions (estimated specimens) 3,265 2,756 New catalogue cards 9,431 1,407 Catalogue card revised 15,052 4,012 26 The scientific colllections Tropical Biodiversity Since 1998 MTSN has conducted several research expeditions in the mountain rainforests of Tanzania, that have led to a collection of 4,650 specimens of amphibians and reptiles (and mammals to a much less extent). These include over 60 species that are new to science. The tropical african herpetology collection of MUSE is 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 MUSE researchers and described in 2008. Botany 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 originate 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 the Eastern Alps. Limnology and Phycology Phycological and limnological collections of the MUSE include more than 4,000 items collected in the frame of the numerous research projects carried out by the Section. These are mostly samples of microscopic organisms -such as diatoms, cyanobacteria, algae, zoobenthos and zooplankton- collected mainly in the Alps, and namely in the Autonomous Province of Trento. Besides these recently started collections, the Section also curates four historical algae collections including 4,000 exsiccata of marine and freshwater algae originating from different locations worldwide and collected mainly in the Nineteenth Century. Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Invertebrate collections of the MUSE include more than 1,2 million of specimens, aquatic and terrestrial. Historical collections (1850-1950 yr) include mainly terrestrial insects (about 175,000 specimens) and marine, freshwater and terrestrial molluscs. Most part of specimens (terrestrial and aquatic) are preserved in ethanol and were collected mainly in mountain regions in Italy but also abroad (Svalbard Islands, Pakistan-Karakorum, France-Pyrenees, etc.). A collection of more than 5,000 microscope slides of aquatic insects and crustaceans is also present. Vertebrate Zoology The Vertebrate Zoology collections of MUSE include all classes of this taxon, with a marked prevalence of birds and mammals. Overall there are almost 11,500 specimens, of which 4,000 were collected between 1850 and 1950, while the rest come from recent donations, acquisitions and MUSE own research. It is especially interesting the small mammal collection, that counts 6,000 specimens among insectivors and rodents. The material demonstrate the tight link of MUSE with the local environment, and it overall includes whole animals prepared as skins or wet specimens, bird nests, eggs, prepared skeletons. 27 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Geology Geological collections of the MUSE are constituted of rocks, minerals and fossils collected from the main localities of the Trentino Alto Adige region and, in minor part, from Italian and foreign sites. The 16,800 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. Specimens, collected in a temporal range of more then two centuries, well document the local territory and testify the geological research enterprise of the Trentino area. Prehistory MuSe’s archaeological collections are referred to lithic materials, ceramics, bone and horn manufacts, art manufacts, wood, vegetal fibres, metal manufacts and faunas. MuSe’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. 28 5 The main results and projects The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Valve deformities of the diatom Achnanthidium minutissimum as indicators of metal enrichment in diverse widely-distributed freshwater habitats Section of Limnology and Phycology In the presence of different environmental stressors, diatoms can produce frustules presenting different types of deformities. Metals and trace elements are among the most common causes of these teratological forms. Metal enrichment in water bodies can be attributed to the geological setting of the area or to pollution. The widespread benthic diatom Achnanthidium minutissimum (ADMI) is one of the most metaltolerant species. In the present study, ADMI teratologies were defined from samples taken from eight very diverse, widely-distributed inlandwater habitats: streams affected by active and abandoned mining areas, a metal-contaminated stream, a spring in an old chalcopyrite mine, a mineral-water fountain, and a sediment core taken from a lake affected by metal contamination in the past. Deformed frustules of ADMI were characterised mainly by one (sometimes two) more or less bent off ending, conferring to the specimens a cymbelloid outline (cymbelliclinumlike teratology, CLT). Marked teratologies were distinguished from slight deformities. Hydrochemical analyses, including metals and trace elements, were carried out and enrichment factors (EF) relative to average crustal composition were calculated. To improve our knowledge on the potential of different metals and trace elements to trigger the occurrence of ADMI CLT, we carefully selected 15 springs out of 110 (CRENODAT dataset) where both ADMI and above-average metal or metalloid concentrations occurred, and 30 re-analysed these samples. The results from the eight widely-distributed core sites as well as from the 15 selected CRENODAT springs led to the hypothesis that two metals (copper and zinc) and a metalloid (antimony) were the most likely triggers of ADMI CLT formation. From a quantitative point of view, it is worth noting that the lowest concentrations triggering ADMI CLT can be fairly low, particularly in the case of copper contamination. The antimony-rich site was characterised by a marked-teratology variant where both ends of ADMI were bent off. This work was partially supported by: the European project KEYBIOEFFECTS (MRTNCT-2006-035695), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche / RE-SYST project (ANR 08-CES-014), and the National Science Centre (project N304 092834). We are grateful to: the University and Scientific Research Department of the Autonomous Province of Trento for funding the CRENODAT Project; the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park for its long-lasting support to spring research (ACQUA-TEST_PNAB and other projects); the Environmental Agency (ARPA Liguria) for providing historical water quality data for the Gromolo sampling site. Cantonati M., Virtanen L., Angeli N., Wojtal A., Gabrieli J., Falasco E., Lavoie I., Morin S., Marchetto A., Fortin C. & Smirnova S. 2013. Achnanthidium minutissimum (Bacillariophyta) valve deformities as indicators of metal enrichment in diverse widely-distributed freshwater habitats. The Science of the Total Environment. http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.018 The main results and projects 2012-2013 The impact of climate change on alpine plants Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Botany Despite the considerable number of studies on the impact of climate change on alpine plants, there have been only few attempts to investigate its effect on regeneration. However, recruitment is a key event in the life-history of plants, affecting their distribution and evolution. Seasonal changes in turn will affect the recruitment success. In the context of a Marie Curie Co-Fund Post-Doc grant named CAPACE, MUSE is investigating how climate change will affect the timing and the level of germination and subsequent seedling establishment in eight alpine species occurring in glacier foreland in the European Alps. Using a novel approach which takes into account the altitudinal variation of temperature as a surrogate for future climate scenarios, seeds were exposed to higher temperature cycles in the lab and in the field both on site and at a lower altitude (400 m lower). In both conditions, subsequent experiments investigated seedling emergence and survival. Under lab conditions simulating the present climate, germination occurred in spring in all but one species, after the seeds had experienced autumn and winter seasons. However, simulated climate warming produced a significant increase in germination during the autumn in all species with the only exception of two of them. By contrast, seed germination was less sensitive to changes in spring and/or winter temperatures and duration. Experiments in the wild similarly showed spring emergence in the present climate, and confirmed autumn emergence in the warmest conditions. The seedlings emerged in autumn mostly survived the winter and the final recruitment was higher only at lower altitude. Our results suggest that climate warming will lead to a shift from spring to autumn emergence in alpine plants, but that the extent of this change will be driven by the dormancy status. Un-germinated seeds at the end of the autumn will experience shorter winter seasons and lower spring temperatures resulting in an increased recruitment. 31 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Spatial arthropod-richness gradients across areas with different glacial histories Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology During the last glacial period the Italian Alps were covered by glacier tongues, in contrast to the Alps, Prealpine areas were only partially covered by glaciers. During interglacial periods, as glaciers retreated, populations became isolated in the highest parts of the Prealpine mountains or took refuge in cold, moist interiors of caves. Aim of the study performed by the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section of the MUSE in cooperation with Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona was to investigate the distribution of cave-dwelling arthropod communities in 2 adjacent karst areas with different glacial histories. Endemic and obligate cave-dwelling faunas were recorded in 60 caves located in 2 adjacent Prealpine areas (in Veneto, northeastern Italy): the Baldo and Lessinia Mountain groups were compared. During the last glacial period, the Baldo Mountain group was completely surrounded and isolated from the Lessinia group by the Adige glacier, while the Lessinia was only partially surrounded. The effect of glacial isolation, both geographically (cave locations) and elevationally (cave el- 32 evation), on the faunal distribution was tested using the number of troglobiont and endemic species collected in each area. The Lessinia hosts a higher number of troglobiont species and a lower number of endemic species compared to those of the Baldo area. Furthermore, results indicated that the similarity in species assemblages in caves was not driven by their geographic location, but by colonization patterns caused by isolation created by the Adige glacier during the last ice age. This suggests that the geographic isolation of the Baldo area during Quaternary climatic fluctuations determined the species which colonized the caves and consequently prevented multiple colonizations during warm periods. Glacier-induced isolation during the last ice age can therefore be considered one of the main factors which determined terrestrial arthropod colonization of caves in the Prealps area. Latella L., Verdari N. & Gobbi M., 2012 - Distribution of terrestrial cave dwelling arthropods in two close Prealpine Italian areas with different glacial histories. Zoological Studies, 51 (7): 1113-1121. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Demographic consequences of poison-related mortality in a threatened bird of prey Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Vertebrate Zoology Evidence for decline or threat of wild populations typically come from multiple sources and methods that allow optimal integration of the available information represent a major advance in planning management actions. We used integrated population modelling and perturbation analyses to assess the demographic consequences of the illegal use of poison for an insular population of Red Kites, Milvus milvus, in the island of Mallorca (Spain). We first pooled into a single statistical framework the annual census of breeding pairs, the available individual-based data, the average productivity and the number of birds admitted annually to the local rehabilitation centre. By combining these four types of information we were able to increase estimate precision and to obtain an estimate of the proportion of breeding adults, an important parameter that was not directly measured in the field and that is often difficult to assess. Subsequently, we used perturbation analyses to measure the expected change in the population growth rate due to a change in poisonrelated mortality. We found that poison accounted for 0.43 to 0.76 of the total mortality, for yearlings and older birds, respectively. Results from the deterministic population model indicated that this mortality suppressed the population growth rate by 20%. Despite this, the population was estimated to increase, albeit slowly. This positive trend was likely maintained by a very high productivity (1.83 fledglings per breeding pair) possibly promoted by supplementary feeding, a situation which is likely to be common to many large obligate or facultative European scavengers. Under this hypothetical scenario of double societal costs (poisoning of a threatened species and feeding programs), increasing poison control would help to lower the public cost of maintaining supplementary feeding stations. Relationship between Red Kite population growth rate, fecundity, and proportional change in survival probability due to illegal poisoning. Tenan S., Adrover J., Muñoz Navarro A., Sergio F., Tavecchia G., 2012 - Demographic Consequences of Poison-Related Mortality in a Threatened Bird of Prey. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49187. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0049187. © GOb - Mallorca 33 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 MUSE’s biodiversity research project in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania participates to a global study that assessed the critical conservation status of tropical forest protected areas Section of Tropical Biodiversity est cover, pollution, hunting, fires, etc. - have determined these changes. Data from experts were validated using empirical data-sets. One of the sites is the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania, where MUSE has been involved in research and technical advisory to the protected areas for over a decade. Results showed that despite the protection, the biodiversity is not well conserved. Estimates of how biodiversity is changed in numbers over the past 2-3 decades suggest that about half of the reserves are struggling to sustain their original biodiversity. While reserves with ground protection fare better, protection clearly must include the landscapes and habitats surrounding reserves, which are under threats particularly from habitat disruption and overharvesting. A simple research question led to the study published in 2012 in Nature, titled “Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas“, and signed by William Laurence along with the impressive number of 215 co-authors: are protected areas in tropical forests succeeding to conserve earth’s richest biodiversity? The question is critical, because the rapid destruction of rainforests is the contemporary phenomenon having the greatest impact on life on earth. Hence, protected areas are the last chance, the final refuge, to protect threatened tropical species and ecosystems. The study looked at more than 30 different categories of species—from trees, and butterflies to primates and large predators in these regions. And used experts working in 60 protected areas across the tropics to determine trends in the abundance of these species inside and outside protected areas, and in parallel, how potential threats -changes in for- Laurance W.F. and 215 co-authors (including F. Rovero). 2012. Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature 489: 290-294. 16 Suffering reserves 14 Succeeding reserves 12 Number of reserves Biodiversity and Ecology 10 8 6 4 2 0 -1.0 -0.5 0.5 0 <<< Worsening 1.0 Improving >>> Distribution of the ‘reserve-health index’ for 60 protected areas spanning the world’s major tropical forest regions. This relative index averages changes in 10 well-studied guilds of animals and plants, including disturbance avoiding and disturbance-favouring groups, over the past 20 to 30 years. 34 The main results and projects 2012-2013 New records of two protected insects (Leucorrhinia pectoralis and Osmoderma eremita) threatened by habitat loss Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Within a project financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento and focused on the distribution of invertebrates in protected areas of Trentino, we carried out surveys for the update of the entomological data in Sites of Community Importance (SCI). New records of two insect species listed both in the Habitat Directive and in the IUCN European Redlist were collected in Sites of Community Importance (SCI) in Valsugana (eastern Trentino). Specifically, the species are: the dragonfly Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Insecta: Odonata) and the hermit beetle Osmoderma eremita (Insecta: Coleoptera). L. pectoralis colonizes preferentially densely vegetated habitats with mesotrophic to eumesotrophic, still or slow flowing acidic or Osmoderma eremita, Torcegno (Tn), July 2012. neutral water, and medium stages of vegetation succession. It has declined sharply, especially in the westernmost portions of its range and it is present with small and scattered local populations. The only historical certain record in Italy is about the peat bogs of Iseo (Brescia, Lombardy), however, the last record of the species dates back to 2003. In addition the only historical certain record for Trentino was on three nymphs that were harvested in Fiavè peat bog on 25.VII.1972. In the summer 2012, a large population of L. pectoralis was observed in the SCI Monte Piano - Palù di Fornace which is a densely vegetated peat bog in medium stage of ecological succession (~0.2 ha). O. eremita is a saproxylic beetle that develops and dwells in old, hollow, but still living, broadleaf trees, feeding off wood mould. Its low vagility added to the increasing absence of old hollow trees with wood mould makes the species undergoing significant decline. Several historical data were present in Trentino, but all belonging to the period 1880-1965. During the summer 2012 O. eremita was collected in the SCI Torcegno in wood mould of chestnut trees. These records enhance the historical, socio-economic and naturalistic importance of the monumental chestnut trees of the Valsugana area. Macagno A., Gobbi M. & Lencioni V., 2012 - The occurrence of Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825) (Odonata, Libellulidae) in Trentino (Eastern Italian Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 92: 33-36. Macagno A., Gobbi M., Franceschini F. & Lencioni V., 2012 - New record of Osmoderma eremita (Scopoli, 1763) (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae) in chestnut trees in Trentino (Eastern Italian Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 92: 37-41. 35 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness in calcareous-spring fens Section of Limnology and Phycology Understanding the factors controlling species richness is of paramount importance to develop effective conservation strategies. In a collaborative work among the University of Brno, New Mexico and MUSE, for the first time we tested the importance of habitat age, size, isolation, and climate on species richness for three organism groups (vascular plants, bryophytes, and mollusks) inhabiting calcareousspring fens of Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. Habitat age was determined coring peat sediment and using radiometric dating technique. The model suggests that the dispersal ability of species has long-lasting impacts on habitat specialist richness, especially for long-lived organisms with poor dispersal abilities such as vascular plants. Because of this, older habitats will more likely possess richer floras/faunas through both long-term relict-species persistence as well as the longer time required for interpatch dispersers with poor dispersal abilities to effectively saturate potential habitats within a landscape. Ancient and large spring fens therefore deserve priority in conservation. Horsák M, Hájek M, Spitale D, Hájková P, Díte D, Nekola JC., 2012. The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness. Ecology 93(5):1106-1114. Path models for bryophyte species richness (Species), Altitude, Fen area, Fen age, and Isolation, for generalists and specialists. 36 The main results and projects 2012-2013 Population abundance, size structure and sex-ratio in an insular lizard Section of Vertebrate Zoology Estimating population size and understanding its variation is a fundamental, yet complicated, aim of many ecological studies. We considered the problem of estimating spring and autumn population abundance, size-dependent population structure and sexratio of the endemic Balearic Lizard, Podarcis lilfordi from a three occasions capture-recapture study. Lizards were captured using pit traps positioned along and within the bushes, in a five hectares islet off the southern coast of Mallorca Island (Balearic Islands, Spain). We used a Bayesian formulation of individual covariate models to incorporate individual sex, size and trap-response. We first considered a set of simulated data with a mediumto-low probability of recapture and individual recapture heterogeneity to evaluate potential problems in model fitting and selection. Results from simulated data indicated a low performance in parameter estimation and model selection when probability of detection was low (0.15-0.30). We found a negative permanent trap response and a positive effect of size on detection probability in the spring survey but not in the autumn one. The estimated mean densities varied from about 800 to 1000 lizards/ha, a high value when comparing with mainland lizard populations. The observed increase in abundance was probably due to a drop in territorial behaviour and the immigration of females into the area sampled. As a consequence, sexratio changed from nearly even in June (mean posterior, 95% CRI; 0.928, 0.676-1.167) to a female-skewed population in October (0.612, 0.478-0.772). Tenan S., Rotger Vallespir A., Igual J.M., Moya O., Royle J.A., Tavecchia G. 2013 - Population abundance, size structure and sex-ratio in an insular lizard. Ecological Modelling, 267: 39-47. Balearic Lizard, Podarcis lilfordi, and its sex-specific population size estimates. 37 Biodiversity and Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Cues to androgens and quality in male gibbon songs Section of Tropical Biodiversity Whether signals provide honest information about the sender is a central question for understanding the evolution of communication. By investigating animals’ complex vocal signals, such as gibbon songs, and their relation to hormones as well as socio-demographic status (i.e., age, social organization, mating system) we aimed to provide new information in this respect. Our results show a highly significant correlation between androgen levels and vocal pitch, which shows the opposite of what is known about the influence of testosterone on male voice in humans. It is known that during puberty, elevated testosterone may act through androgen receptors on vocal folds and causes their growth. By lengthening and thickening the vocal folds, fundamental frequency becomes lower and, as a consequence, men vocalize with lower pitch. However, in non-human primate vocalizations, data from two studies on chacma baboons indirectly suggest a positive rather than negative relationship between male testosterone levels and vocal pitch, which is one of the rare examples showing the influence of testosterone levels on vocalizations. One possible interpretation is that androgen levels lead to a higher motivation to sing which may trigger structural changes in vocalizations. Independent of the proximate mechanism, it is likely that group members use such structural differences to assess motivation and status of the caller. This higher motivation could lead to calls having higher amplitude and thus an increase in call pitch. Socio-demographic features did not seem to have any impact on song parameters, except for age. A comparison of call duration of senior and adult males showed that adult males sang longer than senior ones. This finding, combined with the result that males having higher androgens sang with higher pitched voice, suggests that solo songs may potentially provide honest signals of male quality and could play an important role in mate choice and male male competition. Male white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) from a wild population at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. 38 The main results and projects 2012-2013 Experimental evidences of thermotolerance associated to HSP70 proteins synthesis in larvae of the cold stream non-biting midges Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology In most organisms, the genes encoding heat shock proteins (HSPs) are expressed primarily in response to stress but not in normal conditions, probably because hsp expression at normal temperature may be deleterious during development. Conversely, animals from extreme habitats, such as deserts and polar regions, express constitutive hsp genes always and show no or modest up-regulation of these genes in response to thermal stress. Laboratory experiments on the cold stenothermal Diamesa cinerella (Diptera, Chironomidae) were performed to study the relationship between acute heat shocks and HSP70 expression at translational level. IV instar larvae were collected in a cold (1.5-4.3°C) alpine stream (Trentino) throughout the year. A high thermotolerance was detected (LT50 = 30.932.8°C and LT100 = 34.0-37.8°C), decreasing consistently with increasing exposure time, es- pecially at higher temperature (LTime50 = 7.64 h at 26°C and LTime50 = 1.73 h at 32°C). A relationship between HSP70 level and larval survival rate was generally found, with a Heat Shock Response (= hsp70 up-regulation) consistent in summer. These results stressed how in this midge the HSP70 protein family confers resistance against cold, being detected under natural conditions in control larvae collected in all seasons, but also against warm under experimental heat shocks. These results give new insights into possible responses to climate changes in freshwater insects within the context of global warming. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Cesari M. & Rebecchi L., 2013 - Thermal stress induces HSP70 proteins synthesis in larvae of the cold stream non-biting midge Diamesa cinerella Meigen. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 83(1): 1-14. Representative Western blots and relative levels of HSP70 in Diamesa cinerella larvae exposed to short term heat shock collected in (A) summer. Each bar shows the mean value ±SE. C = control. *P < 0.05 (LSD Tuckey post-hoc test). 39 Biodiversity and Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Naviculadicta lange-bertalotii, a new freshwater diatom from streams in Galicia. Section of Limnology and Phycology Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Limnology and Phycology Research Unit of the Museo delle Scienze is dealing with different type of mountain freshwater habitats: springs, streams, lakes. One of the most relevant taxonomic results of a study of the Galicia-Costa watershed district (north-western Spain), in which 28 rivers were sampled between 2002 and 2007, has been the discovery of a new species of diatom, that has been named Naviculadicata langebertalotii M. Cantonati et M. Leira sp. nov. The type locality (Soutomaior, at the River Verdugo) is a stream stretch located in a narrow valley with steep slopes. The river bed is dominated by hard geological substrata, such as granites and phyllites. No intensive agricultural and important livestock activities are carried out, and population density is relatively low. The stream is shallow, and reaches a certain width that facilitates the penetration of light. To date, we found the new species only in three streams of Galicia: river Verdugo, river Lérez, and river Eume. The new diatom is distinguished by a rather peculiar character combination. Of the established naviculoid genera, it mostly resembles Adlafia Lange-Bertalot but striae are not as dense and abruptly convergent towards the valve ends, and there are several minor differences, e.g. in the outline and exact position of the external terminal raphe fissures. The new species is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Horst Lange-Bertalot (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to diatom taxonomy and ecology. The description was published in 2012 in the journal Nova Hedwigia. The financial support for this study has been provided by Augas de Galicia (Xunta de Galicia, Spain). Cantonati M., Leira M., Angeli N. & C. L. Rodríguez, 2010. Naviculadicta langebertalotii sp. nov (Bacillariophyta) from streams in Galicia (N-W Spain). Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 141, 71-80. LM and SEM micrographs of diatom Naviculadicta langebertalotii, and Prof. Horst Lange-Bertalot. LM and SEM micrographs of diatom Naviculadicta langebertalotii, and Prof. Horst Lange-Bertalot. 40 The main results and projects 2012-2013 Bird ecology and conservation in the agricultural landscapes of the Trento province Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Vertebrate Zoology Farmland habitats host a large number of threatened species at the European level. Among breeding birds, several species have undergone severe declines both at the continental level, and in Trento province. One of the main tool to promote biodiversity conservation in farmed landscapes is the Rural Development Programme (RDP), which includes agro-environmental schemes. Within this project, started in 2010, we analysed the breeding ecology of farmland species of high conservation value in the Trento province, and the effect of the implementation of the RDP on farmland bird species. We continued the research on grassland habitat and species, also within the framework of the project LIFE+ TEN. We carried out new surveys of the corncrake Crex crex population in the main occurrence sites in the province, assessed the effects of the RDP on its demographical trend over the province, and coordinated researchers from other regions to obtain a general picture of the species status in Italy. The simultaneous mowing over large areas favoured by some specific measures implemented by the RDP is likely to have severely affected the species and its breeding grassland habitats. The species is suffering from both land abandonment and agricultural intensification also in the other regions. Measures to conserve grasslands must be implemented, but they should take into account the ecological requirements of conservation-dependent species like the corncrake. We analysed the effect of structural and management features in apple orchards on species diversity and abundance. Our study had a particular focus on song thrush Turdus philomelos, a species that occurs at high density in orchards, which host a significant breeding population of the species. Thrush abundance is affected by factors strongly dependent on orchard management, such as tree height, bare soil, type of irrigation, cover of anti-hail nets, use of herbicide and by the occurrence of nonorchards habitats, such as wetland. This work is still ongoing and will be carried out also by means of a PhD program (started November 2013), which will focus on ecology and conservation of farmland birds, starting from birds in vineyards, and considering landscape, spatial and management factors affecting the occurrence and abundance of bird species in farmland habitats. Ceresa F., G. Bogliani, P. Pedrini & M. Brambilla. 2012. The importance of key marginal habitat features for birds in farmland: an assessment of habitat preferences of Red-backed Shrikes Lanius collurio in the Italian Alps. Bird Study 59: 327-334. Pedrini P., F. Rizzolli, F. Rossi & M. Brambilla. 2012. Population trend and breeding density of corncrake Crex crex (Aves: Rallidae) in the Alps: monitoring and conservation implications of a 15-years survey in Trentino, Italy. Italian Journal of Zoology 79: 377-384. Brambilla M., G. Martino & P. Pedrini. 2013. Changes in song thrush Turdus philomelos density and habitat association in apple orchards during the breeding season. Ardeola 60: 73-83. Brambilla M. & P. Pedrini. 2013. The introduction of subsidies for grassland conservation in the Italian Alps coincided with population decline in a threatened grassland species, the Corncrake Crex crex. Bird Study 60: 404-408. Pedrini P., Brambilla M., Florit F., Mezzavilla F., Martignago G., Rassati G., Silveri G. Andamento demografico del re di quaglie Crex crex nell’Italia nord orientale, 2013. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 settembre 2013. 41 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Leading research in IBSE education Section of Botany In the last two years MUSE concluded the INQUIRE project - Inquiry-based teacher training for a sustainable future - an FP7 project in the Science and Society framework, aiming to promote Science Education and Career development, specifically focusing on IBSE - inquiry based Science Education. Globally the project run 29 training courses in 11 European counties involving 560 practitioners: 411 teacher and 149 museum and botanic garden educators, reaching out during its duration, to more than 10,000 pupils across Europe and having the potential to reach out 100 times more end users for its long term impact. The project published a course manual available in 9 European languages and a Train the Trainers manual 42 available in English only, all downloadable from the project website www.inquirebotany.eu. In the Italian context MUSE took up a national leadership in IBSE training 72 practitioners: 32 teachers and 40 educators with 2 courses held at MUSE in Trento and at the Botanic Garden in Bergamo. The train the trainer course was run in summer 2013 and received 84 applications for 34 posts available, with representatives from 14 Italian regions. MUSE will run a new course in summer 2014 and at least other 3 institution are taking up the INQUIRE format to run a similar course in other parts of Italy. The project has been formally congratulated by the EU a success story and has been celebrated at many education meetings. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Forests as promoters of terrestrial life-history strategies in East African amphibians Section of Tropical Biodiversity Many amphibian lineages show terrestrialization of their reproductive strategy and breeding is partially or completely independent of water. A number of causal factors have been proposed for the evolution of terrestrialized breeding. While predation has received repeated attention as a potential factor, the influence of other factors such as habitat has never been tested using appropriate data or methods. Using a dataset that comprises 180 amphibian species from various East African habitats, we tested whether species occurring in different habitats show different patterns of terrestrialization in their breeding strategy. We recovered a significant association between terrestrialized breeding strategies and forest habitats. In general, forest seems to act as a facilitator, providing a permissive environment for the evolution of terrestrialized breeding strategies. However, while terrestrial oviposition is strongly correlated with lowland and montane forest habitat, complete terrestrial development is significantly correlated with montane forest only, indicating different selective pressures acting at different steps towards complete terrestrial development. Müller H., Liedtke H.C., Menegon M., Beck J., Ballesteros-Mejia L., Nagel P. & Loader S.P., 2013 - Forests as promoters of terrestrial life-history strategies in East African amphibians. Biology Letters, 9(3). A terrestrialized Probreviceps sp. with its egg clutch in the subterranean chamber. 43 Biodiversity and Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology The investigation of riverine diatoms from Cyprus Section of Limnology and Phycology The Limnology and Phycology Research Unit has a long research tradition on different oligotrophic habitats such as springs, high-mountain lakes, different types of mountain streams. Other types of freshwater environments, such as the mediterranean rivers, were studied more recently in the frame of the analysis of the riverine diatoms from Cyprus in order to have a first overview on the diatom community composition, and on ecological quality. The river sites cover a large environmental gradient and are subject both to typical natural hydrological variability of mediterranean sites, and antrophic pressures due to agricultural and urban land use. About 200 diatoms samples were processed after being collected between 2005 and 2012 in perennial and temporary water courses selected from the national monitoring network. More than 350 taxa belonging to more than 70 genera were identified. Every sample was identificated and counted; different indices were calculated using the OMNIDIA software, in particular the IPS index, i.e. the national assessment method adopted in Cyprus to assess ecological quality using phytobenthos. Diatoms are an important component of aquatic ecosystems and constitute a water quality monitoring tool where the main objective is either a measure of general water quality or of some components of water quality (e.g., eutrophication, pH). The method is based on the fact that diatom species have tolerance limits and optima with respect to their preference for environmental conditions such as nutrients, organic pollution, and acidity. The ecological quality of Cyprus rivers was evaluated applying the IPS Index. Most of the sites resulted in high and good classes. The taxonomic analysis of the diatom samples from the running waters of Cyprus was carried out with the maximum detail possible, thus allowing to discover three species new to science, and ten putative species new to science. We are grateful to David Armanini and Elisa Stocchetti (Prothea Srl, Milan, Italia), Martin Kelly (Bowburn Consultancy, Durham, UK), and the Water Development Department (WDD) of the Republic of Cyprus for promoting and supporting this investigation in the frame of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. Rivers Agios Nikolaos, Chrysochou Skoulloi and LM micrographs of diatom Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (valve and girdle view). 44 The main results and projects 2012-2013 Chironomids as bioindicators of environmental quality in mountain springs Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Among macroinvertebrates, chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) are a candidate as the best bioindicators of spring water quality because they typically dominate spring fauna in terms of abundance and species number. Responses of chironomid communities to environmental factors in 124 natural, moderately, and highly disturbed springs in the Italian Prealps and Alps were analyzed Natural or little-disturbed springs at high altitude with low temperature, low conductivity, and high current velocity differed from lowland springs, including highly disturbed ones, with low current velocity and higher temperature, conductivity, and nutrient concentrations. Cold stenothermal intolerant species were clustered in the 1st group, tolerant and euriecious species in the 2nd group by Self Organizing Map analysis. Indicator value analysis detected species characterizing springs with different degrees of disturbance and of different types. Coinertia Analysis (CoA) detected relationships among species structure and environmental variables. CoA axis 1 represented a gradient of water temperature, altitude, alkalinity, and conductivity and separated cold stenothermal species (Pseudokiefferiella parva, Pseudodiamesa branickii, Diamesa spp.) from species tolerant of high temperatures (Polypedilum nubeculosum, Phaenopsectra flavipes, Paratrissocladius excerptus). Axis 2 represented a hydrologic (rheocrene-limnocrene) and anthropogenic disturbance (total disturbance, agriculture, organic debris) gradient and separated species by preference for water velocity and spring type (rheocrenes: Eukiefferiella spp.; limnocrenes: Prodiamesa olivacea, Natarsia sp.), and pollution tolerance (P. nubeculosum, Macropelopia spp.). Water temperature and chemical composition affected chironomid distribution. Some species were associated with degraded (P. nubeculosum) or pristine conditions (Diamesa spp., Stilocladius montanus). These results implement our knowledge on environmental factors influencing species distribution in springs and on evaluation of chironomids as bioindicators of spring water quality. Lencioni V. & Sartori G., 2012 - Diversità e distribuzione dei ditteri chironomidi in 22 sorgenti prealpine (Veneto). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, sez. Botanica Zoologia, 36: 35-46. Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2012 Chironomids as bioindicators of environmental quality in mountain springs. Freshwater Science, 31(2): 525-541. Box-and-whisker plots for taxon richness (A) and Shannon Diversity Index (B) in natural and moderately or highly disturbed springs in the Italian Prealps and Alps. Lines in boxes are medians, box ends are quartiles, whiskers show ranges (non-outliers within an interval of 1.5 3 height of the box), and + indicates outliers. 45 Biodiversity and Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Developing an Afro-mountain rainforest in Trento Section of Botany A new, geographically focused, living display has been growing at MUSE since summer 2013. Such a special and unique feature required a careful planning, integrating the diverse expertise of biologists, engineers and landscape architects that soon had to face the complexities of developing a tropical living biome under grass constrained by the European climate and the architecture of the new building. Significant new research was needed to test and develop effective and energy efficient solutions for climate control specifically tailored for MUSE. Highlights include ultra clear, UV transparent, double glazed, safety glass panes, a powerful fresh air circulation system capable to remove excessive moisture and renovate the volume of air in the glasshouse 10 times per hour, an adiabatic heat recovery and free cooling ventilation. Significant research was also needed to explore the African plant diversity available on the European nursery trade to produce an immersive and realistic display, that attracts and invites the visitor to explore the Udzungwas: a mountain rainforest in Tropical East Africa (Tanzania). The route starts from the eastern lowland marshes, wet cliffs, ponds and waterfalls getting into a pristine wet and lush mountain rainforest represented by many African trees and shrubs 46 belonging the genera Ficus, Sterculia, Tabernaemontana, Ensete, Afrocarpus, Costus, Dracena and Phylodendron, passing into the driest western slopes with baobas and palms and slowly emerging in the cultivated highlands with the most common tropical crops such as bananas, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, and an African vegetable garden and market stall with African millets and beans (genus Eleusine and Vigna), pigeon pea, roselle, taro, yam but also interesting local neglected crops such as Telfairia pedata. This initial display is still constrained by plant availability in the nursery trade and will be progressively enriched with plants sourced directly in Tropical East Africa thanks to international agreements and the collaborative support of the local Tanzanian botanists based at Dar University and Forestry Department. The new plants will be propagated from seed in the new research greenhouse at the moment being build in the stadium grounds opposite MUSE, providing an opportunity to investigate seed ecology and germination of tropical rainforest species never studied before. The greenhouse opened to the public together with MUSE in July 2013 and passed excellently the test of the first six months of operation with healthy and fast growing plants. The main results and projects 2012-2013 New insights in the life of the recently discovered sengi as revealed by camera traps Section of Tropical Biodiversity Three of the 4 species of giant sengis or elephant shrews (genus Rhynchocyon) have restricted geographic distributions in eastern Africa and are threatened by anthropogenic habitat loss. However, little is known about their ecology and habitat relationships. We used remotely triggered cameras to detect the grey-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis), which is endemic in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania and was described in 2008 by MUSE’s researchers as the fourth species of the genus. The study aim was to defining distributional limits, estimating occupancy patterns, and determining habitat requirements. We deployed 183 camera stations over 6 years and accumulated 4,600 camera trapping days. We refined the area of known occurrence to be 390 km2, thus confirming the species’ restricted range and vulnerability. We estimated the average occupancy at 56% of sites occupied on sites sampled, and found that occupancy was best predicted by the forest habitat type, with interior, closed-canopy forest supporting highest estimated sengi occupancy. Terrain slope and distance to the nearest park boundary were less important covariates, but nevertheless included among the best models. Camera-trapping rate (photographic events by day) was significantly correlated with subcanopy tree coverage. Combined, these habitat features may provide optimal conditions for antipredation vigilance (vegetation cover), and for nest-building and/or foraging on invertebrates in the thicker leaf litter on gentle slopes. Our results offer new insights into the ecology of giant sengis and confirm the potential utility of camera trapping for occupancy analysis of small, forest-dwelling mammals. Rovero F., Collett L., Ricci S., Martin E., Spitale D. (2013). Distribution, occupancy and habitat associations of the grey-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) as revealed by camera traps. Journal of Mammalogy 94: 792-800. An intriguing camera trap image of the grey-faced sengi or elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis), as closely followed by a green-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyuran). Both species feed on insects, hence this photo may have captured an interesting behaviour by the bird, perhaps aiming at stilling a prey dag out by the sengi on the leaf litter. 47 Biodiversity and Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology Animal ecology through stable isotope analysis Section of Vertebrate Zoology The project will focus on isotopic methods applied to Alpine bird migration. Stable isotope ratios of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and sulfur can help in understanding geographic provenance, trophic level and food webs of the birds. Keratinous tissues like feathers carry informations about the areal where they grew, revealing connectivity existing between breeding and wintering areal. Post-breeding migration through the Alps, whose dynamics are not well known up to now, will be investigated in order to discover which populations are in- 48 volved in this phenomenon. The use of extrinsic markers, such as banding recoveries and morphometrics, or genetics that have been used until now to study such phenomenon, led no improvement on the knowledge about geographical provenance of migrants. Aim of the study is to unravel which populations cross the Alps, in which period and with which densities. The increase of knowledge that could result from this study could help to support the conservation of migratory birds, particularly in the case of endangered species. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Designing the Seed Bank of MUSE Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Botany The relocation of the museum into the new building offered the opportunity to re-develop the Seed Bank of the botany department. This facility cannot be easily accommodated into standard labs, but requires specific design and effective building solutions, being what you could easily define a ‘sensitive’ infrastructure, whose proper function heavily depends on the shape and layout of its components. The core of the new seed bank includes the seed drying and storage rooms that need a low humidity (15%RH) and cool (15°C) environment. In the new design these two rooms have been separated into two distinct areas that serve the two main stages of the seed processing cycle: a ‘dirty’ zone attached to the seed curation lab for initial drying and seed cleaning and a ‘clean’ zone for final drying and packaging next to the seed germination lab. The two rooms have a rectangular base to facilitate the airflow in a specific direction. The coolers and dryers are external, redundant and dedicated for each room, the temperature and RH values are electronically controlled, alarmed and logged. The cold store has been enlarged with 8 deep freezers. The germination lab has an increased capacity with 12 cooled incubators and is equipped for sterile procedures. An additional external area, close to the propagation greenhouse, is equipped with tanks for liquid nitrogen storage for experimental long term conservation of species that are short lived in conventional dry cold storage. This major upgrade and increased capacity of the museum seed storage facilities has been instrumental in developing NASSTEC, a new European project aimed at promoting the production and use of native seed for grassland restoration. NASSTEC is an FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network approved in June 2013 by the EU and running from 1.4.2014 to 30.3.2018. NASSTEC will train 11 Early Stage Researchers in native seed science promoting technology transfer to the existing seed companies for native seed production, delivering ecosystem services impact mitigation in the many infrastructure works (roadwork, quarries, ski slopes) impacting on grassland habitats. 49 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Biodiversity and Ecology A special series of papers on The Ecology of Springs published in Freshwater Science Section of Limnology and Phycology Springs are unique aquatic habitats that contribute significantly to local and regional biodiversity because of their high habitat complexity and the large number of different spring types. Many springs are small, but they are numerous and often of high water quality, and thus, provide habitats for species that are rare elsewhere because of their sensitivity to anthropogenic impacts (least-impaired habitat relicts). Springs are often species-rich and contain a larger number of Red List taxa than other aquatic habitats. Hydrological factors, particularly flow permanence, water chemistry, and temperature are important ecological factors determining species distribution and community composition. Despite their importance for biodiversity and water quality, springs are much less studied than other aquatic ecosystems. They also are insufficiently covered by protective legislation, often resulting in the destruction of their natural habitat. The authors of papers in this special issue (15 articles) describe specific spring biota, including multitaxon studies, and discuss the role of environmental factors, habitat variability at different spatial and temporal scales, and the importance of natural and anthropogenic disturbance in spring habitats. They suggest directions for future research, including defining reference conditions for springs and their role in long-term ecological research, the development of quality-assessment methods, and their more sustainable use as freshwater resources. We are grateful to Pamela Silver for supporting this special issue, the Museo delle Scienze of Trento (Autonomous Province of Trento) for 50 providing funding for page charges for papers authored or co-authored by M.C., the University and Scientific Research Department of the Autonomous Province of Trento for funding the CRENODAT Project (Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of Trentino Italian Alps - and long-term ecological research, 2004-2008) from which at least 5 papers in this issue resulted. Cantonati M., Füreder L., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (Guest Eds.). 2012. The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science. Special series of papers 31(2): 463-668. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Databases at the service of Trentino Ecological Network Biodiversity and Ecology Section of Vertebrate Zoology In un’era ormai dominata dai Big Data, la strutturazione e gestione di importanti database relazionali è un passo fondamentale nell’ottimizzazione del processo conoscitivo che la ricerca coadiuva, e rendere liberamente disponibile una conoscenza fino ad ora gelosamente custodita in anfratti altrimenti dimenticati è uno degli obiettivi della Sezione di Zoologia dei Vertebrati, che negli ultimi anni ha compiuto grandi sforzi verso la standardizzazione dei suoi dataset cartacei ed informatici. In particolare, grazie all’avvento dell’Azione A1 del progetto europeo LIFE+T.E.N. (Trentino Ecological Network), sotto l’egida della Provincia Autonoma di Trento e grazie alla stretta collaborazione della Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) di San Michele all’Adige il primo passo verso la creazione di un Portale unificato (WebGIS) per la biodiversità trentina è compiuto: in uno sforzo continuo di miglioramento ed utilizzando esclusivamente software Open Source, la Sezione è giunta a creare non solo una piattaforma di condivisione dati utile a valorizzare l’immenso patrimonio floristico e faunistico Trentino, ma anche uno strumento utile a facilitare il recupero di importanti informazioni necessarie ad uno sforzo di ricerca sempre più affamato di dati. Structuring and management of major relational databases is a crucial step in the optimization of cognitive process that supports research activities. In an era ruled by the Big Data paradigm, the disclosing of a freely available knowledge otherwise forgotten is one the objectives of the Vertebrate Zoology Section, which in recent years has undertake great efforts toward standardization of its datasets. In particular, thanks to the advent of the Action A1 of the European project LIFE + T.E.N. (Trentino Ecological Network), with the leadership of the Autonomous Province of Trento and thanks to the close collaboration with the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) of San Michele, the first steps towards creating a unified biodiversity portal (WebGIS, built with Open Source software only) have been carried out: in a constant effort towards improvement, the Section has created not only a platform for sharing data useful to value the immense flora and fauna in Trentino, but also a useful tool to facilitate the recovery of fundamental biological datasets. 51 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape YDESA PRB 343 Section of Prehistory The climatic and environmental changes characteristic of the European Younger Dryas had a definitive impact on Epigravettian societies of north-eastern Italy, inducing several changes in the mobility pattern of these human groups. This project aims to define a new model for interpreting settlement system put in place during Younger Dryas, through the analysis of all known archaeological sites in the Alps and the investigation of new sites in Trentino. New directions for addressing this topic have emerged from studies of Palù Echen, an open-air camp located on the Folgaria Plateau (Trentino, Italy) at an altitude of 1 260 m, near an ancient lake basin which is today a peat bog. The archaeological deposits are dated to 12 209 ± 197 years cal. BP and consist solely of undisturbed lithic material preserved thanks to the repeated deposition of colluvial sediments covering the original Epigravettian living floor. The simplicity of the spatial organisation, combined with the near complete absence of 52 hearths and the limited dispersal of the material, suggest short-terms occupations, consistent with evidence from other Prealpine sites from the Younger Dryas. The technological analysis of the lithic industry confirmed the gradual simplification of the production system as a feature typical of Epigravettian sites dated to the second part of Lateglacial. The existence of a network of complementary sites within a quite reduced territory is supported by the raw materials introduced in the site and the spatio-temporal segmentation of the reduction sequences. In the light of these considerations, the site of Palù Echen can be interpreted as a mid-altitude camp frequented sporadically during the exploitation of the Prealps as part of a settlement system characterised by higher mobility patterns compared to the previous period. The available data, also from other sites, depicts an organisation articulated around a number of small camps frequented for short periods, rather than a few The main results and projects 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape sites located in strategic positions and periodically re-occupied. So that, the progressive disappearance of a ‘planned economy’ appears as a notable feature of Epigravettian societies from the Younger Dryas. Duches R., Avanzini M., Bassetti M., Flor E., Neri S., Dalmeri G., 2013- Evolution de la mobilité épigravettienne durant le Dryas récent: quelles nouvelles informations pour l’Italie nord-orientale? Actes de la Séance de la Société préhistorique francaise de Bordeaux, 24-25 mai 2012. Les groupes Culturels de la transitions Pléistocene-Holocéne entre Atlantique et Adriatique, Société préhistorique francaise 2014, Paris, pp. 185-203. Peresani M., Romandini M., Duches R., Jéquier C., Nannini N., Pastoors A., Picin A., Schmidt I., Vaquero M. & Weniger G.-C., 2013 - Adding new evidence for the Palaeolithic in the Northern Adriatic region: Neanderthal demise and earliest Gravettian occurrences at Rio Secco Cave. Journal of Field Archaeology, 39. GEO3DMAP project Section of Geology The GEO3DMAP project - 3D modeling of the Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbonate platform - is funded by the European Community and the Provincia Autonoma di Trento in the frame of the 7th research framework programme - Marie Curie Actions - COFUND - project “Trentino”. In the GEO3DMAP project modern digital modeling techniques are applied to produce a three dimensional structural-geological model of the Calcari Grigi platform, a carbonate sedimentary body, Early Jurassic in age, whose rocks are widely diffused in Trentino and neighboring regions. Main scientific goal of the project is to study the network of extensional paleo-faults that formed in connection with the Jurassic rifting and influenced this huge platform during its growth. The project combines classical in-field geological observation and modern 3D geologic modeling in the attempt of giving, for the first time, a synthesis glimpse to the largescale structural features that developed on the Trento Plateau in the geological past. 53 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape Dolo P/T Project Section of Geology The Dolo P/T Project (The Permian-Triassic ecological crisis in the Dolomites: extinction and recovery dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosytems) is funded by the Research Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. Its working group is composed of researchers from the Naturmuseum Südtirol/Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, Utrecth University and National Natural History Museum ‘Naturalis’, and Museo delle Scienze. The Permian-Triassic (P-T) extinction event occurred 251.4 ±0.3 million years ago and is considered the most severe extinction event of the Phanerozoic, with a loss of at least 50% of families both within the terres- 54 trial and the marine ecosystems, corresponding to an estimated loss of between 75% and 96% of all species. The general aim of the project is to understand the composition and spatio-temporal relationships of the Late Permian and Early-Middle Triassic terrestrial ecosystems of the eastern Southern Alps. The rate of extinction within the terrestrial realm and the time and mode of the plant and animal biotic recovery are investigated to understand if the Permian-Triassic ecological crisis documented in the Southern Alps mirrors the global pattern. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Monte Terlago Earth Sciences and Landscape Section of Prehistory The basin of Terlago, characterized by undulating morphologies and bordered to the north-west by Paganella-Monte Gazza and to the south by Monte Bondone, is a very interesting area for the research on first prehistoric human occupation of the alpine environment. In this context at an altitude of about 900 m, over Prada plain and just north of Dos di Camosciara, a rockshelter opens in a pebbly limestone wall. The excavation, carried out by Science Museum of Trento since 2009, has yielded a very interesting stratigraphic sequence with distinct anthropic occupations. A test pit aimed at verifying the stratigraphy that fills the cavity to a depth of 2.70 meters, allowed to identify a sequence of layers with distinct traces, from top to bottom, of historical (Late Antiquity and Roman period), protohistoric (Iron Age, Middle Bronze Age) and prehistoric (Neolithic and Mesolithic) human occupation. For the older layers are already available two radiocarbon dates. The inner deposit is full of bricks and daub fragments associated with pottery shards and charcoals that characterize the upper band of the sequence near the rocky overhang. In gen- eral, the anthropogenic component in the upper living floors is given by some pottery shards, sporadic faunal remains, charcoals and smelting slags. For these levels is being developed an interdisciplinary research project aimed at a prosecution of the excavations in order to provide an important contribution to the knowledge of the settlement dynamics related to the smelting activities (archaeometallurgy) in the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity of central-western Trentino. Future research on the oldest layers of the deposit will also increase the knowledge about prehistoric frequentations of the region with direct economic and environmental implications. Dalmeri G., 1996 - Terlago (Valle dei Laghi, Trento). Paleolitico, Mesolitico e Neolitico dell’Italia nordorientale, a cura di A. Broglio, Guide Archeologiche. Preistoria e Protostoria in Italia- 4. Ed. ABACO, Forlì. Dalmeri G., Flor E., Neri S., 2011 - Sondaggio con verifica stratigrafica a riparo Monte Terlago (Monte Terlago - Trento). Preistoria Alpina 45, pp. 327-329, Trento. Dalmeri G., Flor E., Neri S., 2012- Preistoria a Monte Terlago: una nuova ricerca archeologica. Judicaria n. 80, agosto 2012, pp 41-45, Tione (Trento). 55 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape “Memorie dal sottosuolo” (Underground Memories) Section of Geology The project “Memorie dal sottosuolo” (Underground Memories) started in June 2012 and will end in June 2014. It is co-founded by Fondazione CARITRO (Bank Foundation of Trento and Rovereto) and Museo delle Scienze di Trento. The main purpose is to collect information about the mining activity in the Province of Trento, by the creation of a territorial network involving most of the local authorities, associations and museums dealing with the mining history in the Province of Trento. Each partner will bring data about his ter- 56 ritory and help to increase a georeferenced database of mining and mineralogical sites, specifically created for the project. The archive is based on 3DRTE, a 3D map navigation software, and gSID, an online database linked to 3DRTE. The collected data will be useful to preserve the historical memory of the local mining industry and to sensitize people about this; to conduct historical, archeological and geological researches; to direct valorization interventions that respect the history of each site. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Malga Palù PRI 348 Earth Sciences and Landscape Section of Prehistory The Prehistory Section of the Science Museum of Trento studies the Palaeolithic frequentations of the Folgaria - Lavarone and Vezzena Plateau since 1999, obtaining interesting scientific results of national and international importance. These frequentations fit within a system of human occupations articulated mainly on the heads of Astico and Assa Valley, due primarily to the presence of ancient lakes related to the current wetlands and peat bogs. The focus on the plateau and the traces left by the ancient Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of 10.000-14.000 years ago, have recently led to the identification of a new interesting site at Malga Palù, in the municipality of Levico Terme (Trento) at an altitude of 1,380 m asl. The first occasional findings date back to 1997 and were located on the western edge of the wetland under the Vezzena Pass in a predominantly peat-bog deposit. This site opens new research prospects that include interesting issues related to the state of preservation of sites and to the vegetational and depositional history of ancient lakes. The carrying out of two campaigns of archaeological excavation in 2012 and 2013, covering an area of about 30 square meters, have allowed us to detect the presence of an extensive seasonal camp dated to the Late Palaeolithic (Recent Epigravettian). The site is partially preserved, rich in lithic indus- try and flaking products (about 2,000 artifacts). As in other similar circumstances, the interdisciplinary study, just started, includes the acquisition of new and interesting data on the dwelling organization and the function of the site as well as the analysis of settlement strategies during Late Glacial in the Eastern Central Alps. The first typo-technological observations suggest the presence of an undisturbed living floor; the main activities seem to be oriented toward the first roughing and knapping of flint blocks, given the substantial presence of cortical blanks, cores and tested blocks. At first sight the raw material used by Epigravettian hunter-gatherers of Malga Palù seems to belong mostly to local varieties (Maiolica, Scaglia Variegata Alpina). Dalmeri G., Cappelletti G., Duches R., Flor E., Moira P., Neri S., 2013- Il sito epigravettiano recente di M.ga Palù (Levico Terme-TN). Le evidenze emerse dal sondaggio archeologico 2012. Preistoria Alpina 472013, pp. 329-332. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Avanzini M., Bassetti M., Flor E., Neri S., 2013- Frequentazione delle medie quote montane durante il Dryas recente: nuove informazioni dal sito epigravettiano di Palù Echen (Altopiano di Folgaria, Trentino). Preistoria Alpina 47-2013, pp. 153-181. 57 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape INTCLIM Project Section of Geology The INTCLIM project aims to provide a number of well-characterised datasets from the climatically sensitive, Alpine region of Trentino to address the need for further data for the improvement of climate models. The project is specifically targeting Interglacial periods as these warm periods in Earth history provide a comparison with modern, pre-industrial times which can be used to test climate models over long timescales. The Trentino region provides the perfect location for the study because speleothem-hosting caves have been identified at a variety of altitudes within the pure carbonate bedrocks. Using this palaeo-temperature data, the idea of the 58 INTCLIM project is to back-calculate the oxygen isotope signal of the speleothem-feeding waters. This temperature effect during oxygen isotope storage in calcite is the largest obstacle currently hindering speleothem research and the elimination of which would allow the inclusion of the dataset in water-isotope enabled General Circulation Models and permit a better understanding of the climate system at the time of speleothem formation. INTCLIM is funded by the European Community and the Provincia Autonoma di Trento in the frame of the 7th research framework programme - Marie Curie Actions - COFUND project “Trentino”. The main results and projects 2012-2013 Riparo Dalmeri PRI 0044 Earth Sciences and Landscape Section of Prehistory In the last twenty years of prehistoric research in the Alps, Dalmeri rockshelter represented a key site for understanding the life of Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers (Recent Epigravettian). The good preservation of faunal remains, stone tools and living floors has resulted in a partial but approximate reconstruction of palaeo-economy, dwelling organization and site functionality. The discovery of a large number of red ochre-painted stones substantiated the view that Epigravettian art and symbolic behavior are more complex than previously imagined. Another interesting discovery made just outside of the rockshelter involves three pits that were filled with different materials. The structures (and substructures) contained an abundant selection of cranial parts and ibex horns with more than 8,000 remains, particular objects, polishers and stones painted with ochre. We cannot exclude their possible diversified use, including a function related to the ritual sphere. The first dwelling phase includes, in addition to the pits, a large structure of about 18 square meters (U.S. 65) formed by the intentional accumulation of limestones, linked to the deposition of 267 ochre-painted stones and a subcircular feature interpreted as a hut. The hypothesis of a direct connection between these structures is supported by the stratigraphic data, the spatial organization and the C14 dates. The analysis of the earliest phase of frequentation, which includes the three pits, is in progress, as well as the interpretation of their symbolic significance. In addition to the archaeozoological study (Lab. Archeozoologia Museo L.Pigorini-Roma), we consider which and how many animals have been “ deposed “, such as the portions and the age of death. At the same time we proceed to the analysis of the distribution of bone remains, so as to define how many skulls of ibex were actually placed, such as the original positions and the state of integrity at the time of deposition. Dalmeri G., Neri S., Bassetti M., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher N., 2011Riparo Dalmeri: le pietre dipinte dell’area rituale. Preistoria Alpina, 45: 67-117. Trento. Cristiani E., Lemorini C., Dalmeri G., 2012- Ground stone tool production and use in the Late Upper Palaeolithic: The evidence from Riparo Dalmeri (Venetian Prealps-Italy). Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 37 NO. 1, pp. 34-50, Trustees of Boston University. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Bassetti M., Neri S., 2012Le pietre con pitture in ocra di Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). Sviluppi delle ricerche sull’arte e la ritualità del sito epigravettiano. A cura di R. C. De Marinis, G. Dalmeri, A. Pedrotti, Preistoria Alpina 46 I-II vol., Atti della XLII Riunione Scientifica dell’IIPP, L’Arte Preistorica in Italia, Trento-Riva del Garda, Val Camonica, 9-13 ottobre 2007, pp 31-40. 59 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Earth Sciences and Landscape Glaciers one time Section of Greology Glaciers one-time involves the citizenship in the development of a popular scientific project, which, among its objectives, aims to make the society conscious of the glacial retreat in action and to quantify the changes in the mountain landscape. All are invited to take photographs of the modern Italian glaciers with the exact points of view of historical photographs, and to make photographic comparisons. Glaciers one-time is carried out in collaboration with in- 60 stitutions that carry out glaciological activities. The institutional network so has the goal to cooperate together for the promotion of research within the society and the understanding of the landscape changes due to retreat of the glaciers. With the active participation of citizenship, it was possible to do a picture of glaciation to publicize the awareness of the state of health of the glaciers and to disseminate the importance of the cryosphere. Appendix 1 The staff of the scientific sections Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Tropical Biodiversity research group Francesco Rovero Head of the Tropical Biodiversity Section 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 and a Ph.D. in Animal Ecology in 2000 at the University of Wales, UK. Since 1999 he is involved in research and biodiversity conservation in east Africa. In 2004-2007 he conducted post-doctoral research with MUSE on ecology and conservation of primates and forest ungulates in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. In 2008 he became the Curator of the newly established MUSE’s Tropical Biodiversity Section. His main research interests are on threatened populations of forest mammals in Tanzania (abundance estimation, habitat use and modeling, conservation status assessment). Besides pure and applied research, he is interested in ecological monitoring, technical support to protected areas, development of community conservation plans. This led to the establishment of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (www.udzungwacentre.org) that he directs since 2006, a field station annexed to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park that promotes and facilitates research in the area, and bridges between park management and community education initiatives. It became the first site in Africa of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) network. He authored over 70 scientific papers (of which 40 ISI). FABIO PUPIN Research fellow Born in Asiago (VI) in 1978, since 2009 he collaborates with the Museum, where he contributes to various projects on East Africa herpetofauna. In particular, he is involved in a research program on the herpetofauna of the Albertine Rift, and conducted field surveys in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; he also implemented the contents of the website Tanzaniaherps.org and assists in the managing of the herpetological collection. Before joining the Tropical Biodiversity Section he collaborated with the Animal Biology Section of the University of Pavia (Italy) on various researches on ecology, behaviour and morphology of amphibians and reptiles, notably in the “Socotra Conservation and Development Project” in Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. In the same University he achieved his bachelor and Ph.D. degrees. Silvia Ricci Research fellow Born in Firenze in 1970, she is a zoologist and a public science writer. She got a degree in Natural Sciences in 1995 at the University of 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, writing books and articles of scientific popularization. Since 2006 she worked as scientific consultant, environmental educator, tutor of formative courses and translator. From 20082009 she collaborated with Trento Museum studying the new species of elephant-shrew. Her research interests include population dynamics and trophic ecology of small mammals, habitat use and fauna surveys. Since 2010, she is managing Associazione Mazingira, an organization established within the MUSE to conduct community-based projects in the area of the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. 62 The staff of the scientific sections Emanuel H. Martin Research fellow Born in Rombo, Tanzania, in 1977, he is a zoologist with a degree in wildlife management obtained at the Sokoine University of Agriculture - SUA, Tanzania (2002), and Master in Management of Protected Areas obtained at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (2009). During 2003 - 2007, he worked as a Conservation Officer at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Botswana, gaining wide experience in the field of biodiversity monitoring and protected area management. He was also extensively involved with training park personnel on monitoring capacity. In 2009 he was recruited as full-time research collaborator by MUSE to cover the position of Site Manager of the TEAM project (Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring), a pan-tropical network of standardized biodiversity monitoring sites, coordinated in the Udzungwa Mountains by MUSE. Since February 2012 he has enrolled into a PhD programme with SUA on the ecology of the forest mammals’ community. CLAUDIA BARELLI Research fellow Born in Viareggio (LU) in 1972, she is a zoologist and primatologist. She holds a master’s degree (1999) in Natural Sciences from Florence University and a Ph.D. (2007) on primate reproductive strategies from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Leipzig University, Germany. In 2008 she became an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellow at the German Primate Center (DPZ), Goettingen. Her main research interests focused on sexual selection, reproductive strategies, vocal communication and endocrinology in primates, and in particular, in a wild gibbon population of the Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. From 2010 till 2013 she was a post-doctoral fellow within the program of Marie Curie Action-Incoming - COFUND by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento at MUSE, conducting a multidisciplinary research on the ecology and conservation of an endangered and endemic primate species of the Udzungwa Mountains NP, Tanzania. Over 18 publications in peer-reviewed journals and internationally recognized research grants achieved. Michele Menegon Tecnical assistant Born in Montebelluna (VI) in 1969, since 1998 he is affiliated to MUSE where he contributes to the establishment of the Tropical Biodiversity Section. Since 1998 he has also been conducting research and environmental cooperation in East Africa. In 2009 he started a Ph.D. at the Tropical Ecology of the University of Manchester. The research is focused on global diversification patterns, species phylogenetic relationships and radiation and speciations patterns of Amphibians and Reptiles that represent the model groups. Multi-taxon mapping of evolutionary information is also used in order to define optimal conservation areas for threatened species of montane Amphibians and Reptiles. He set up the initiative skyislands.net on biological exploration in the Eastern Afromontane in collaboration with the University of Basel. He published over 40 scientific and public science papers, books and book chapters. 63 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Selection of papers - IF (2012-2013): 101.5 Barej M.F., Rödel M.O., Loader S.P., Menegon M., Gonwouo N.L., Penner J., Gvoždík V., Günther R., Bell R.C., Nagel P. & Schmitz A., 2013 - Light shines through the spindrift – Phylogeny of African torrent frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Petropedetidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 71: 261-273. [IF2012 = 4.107] Barelli C. & Heistermann M., 2012 - Socio-demographic correlates of fecal androgen levels in wild male white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar). International Journal of Primatology, 33: 784798. [IF2012= 1.786] Barelli C., Mastudaira K., Roos C., Wolf T., Heistermann M., Hodges K., Ishida T., Malaivijitnond S. & Reichard U.H., 2013 - Extra-pair paternity confirmed in wild white-handed gibbons. American Journal of Primatology, 75: 1185-1195. [IF2012= 2.459] Barelli C., Mundry R., Heistermann M. & Hammerschmidt K., 2013 - Cues to androgens and quality in male gibbon songs. PLoS ONE, 8(12): e82748. [IF2012 = 3.730] Gillespie T., Barelli C. & Heistermann M., 2013 - Effects of social status and stress on patterns of gastrointestinal parasitism in wild white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150: 602–608. [IF2012= 2.481] Laurance W.F. & 216 authors (including F. Rovero), 2012 - Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature, 489: 290-294. [IF2012 = 38.597] Lawson L.P., Vernesi C., Ricci S. & Rovero F., 2013 - Evolutionary history of the grey-faced sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, from Tanzania: a molecular and species distribution modelling approach. PLoS ONE, 8(8): e72506. [IF2012 = 3.730] Müller H., Liedtke H.C., Menegon M., Beck J., Ballesteros-Mejia L., Nagel P. & Loader S.P., 2013 Forests as promoters of terrestrial life-history strategies in East African amphibians. Biology Letters, 9(3): 20121146. [IF2012 = 3.348] Rovero F., Collett L., Ricci S., Martin E. & Spitale D., 2013 - Distribution, occupancy and habitat associations of the grey-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) as revealed by camera traps. Journal of Mammalogy, 94: 792-800. [IF2012 = 2.308] Rovero F., Mtui A., Kitegile A. & Nielsen M., 2012 - Hunting or habitat degradation? Decline of primate populations in Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania: An analysis of threats. Biological Conservation, 146: 89-96. [IF2012 = 3.794] 64 The staff of the scientific sections Botany research group Costantino Bonomi Head of the Botany Section Born in Trento in 1971. M.Sc. in Biology (Padua,1997) M.Phil. in Botanical Diversity (Reading and Birmingham, 2000). Keeper of the herbarium, curatorof the museum’s two botanic gardens. His main research interests are plant conservationbiology and seed ecology. Since 2001 he is in charge of the museum’s plant conservation projects,and botanic garden management. He promoted and developed Trentino Seed Bank, now amember of Ensconet, the European Native Seed Conservation Network, funded by the EU under FP6 research infrestructures. He contributed to Plant Science Gardens and Inquire, two European education projects funded by the EU under FP6 & FP 7. Science and Society. He provides the secretariat for RIBES, the Italian network of seed banks. He is the Italian delegate in the European Consortium of Botanic Gardens. Renzo Vicentini Research assistant Born in Rovereto in 1984, since 2009 he collaborated with the Museum of Science where he contributed to various conservation projects such as ESCONET in FP6 and ACESAP as well as the study of the biology of alpine endemisms. He surveyed biodiversity rich alpine grasslands and tested theirm biomass production to evaluate their use in the traditional therapy of phytobalneotherapy. He collaborates with the seed collection and curation of threatened species in Italy, Spain and Tanzania. Since 2011 he is actively training in tropical botany and horticulture in the UK in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He is also involved in the design and development of the new Tropical Glasshouse of MUSE, the tropical nursery and quarantine facilities. Before joining the Museum of Science he collaborated with Rovereto Civic Museum on the collection and digitalization of the distribution data of the flora of the provinces of Verona and Trento. SERENA DORIGOTTI Research Assistant Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1975, she graduated in Natural Sciences at the University of Padua in July 2005 with a dissertation on a palynologic analysis of an Alpine environment. Since 2006 she worked at the Educational Department of the Museum of Sciences as senior educator in Botany. She performed educational activities mainly in the museum two botanic gardens, the Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden and at the Arco Arboretum. In 2011 she joined the Inquire Project, developing and evaluating a training course for teachers and educators on IBSE methodology. She is skilled and experienced expert in the creation and management of workshops based on the IBSE technique. 65 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Gilberto Parolo Research fellow Born in Sondrio in 1975. M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Pavia, 1999) Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (Pavia, 2004), research fellow at Pavia University 2004-09. His main research interest lies in plant population biology of rare and threatened species, plant taxonomy (Festuca), conservation biology, ecology of extreme mountain ecosystem in relation to global change, effects on flora and vegetation in the Alps and in the Appennines, 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 (ACESAP, OPENLOC). Andrea Mondoni Research fellow Born in Pavia in 1978. M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Pavia, 2003), Ph.D. in Plant Ecology (Pavia, 2007). Post-doc (Marie Curie Action) at the Trento Museum of Science. His main research interest is germination ecology and seed bank management. He investigated in detail dormancy and germination of woodland herbaceous temperate species and has a keen interest in seed longevity of alpine species. He currently carries out studies on the effects of climate change on plant regeneration. He contributed to the Eurpean project ENSCONET in FP6 and to the local project ACE-SAP. Maurizia Gandini Research Fellow Born in Broni (PV) in 1977, M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Pavia, 2004), Ph.D. in Dendroecology (Pavia, 2007). Post-doc (Marie Curie Action) at Trento Museum of Science. Her main research interest is climate change in relation to alpine plant ecology, with a particular focus on Global Warming impact on biodiversity and spatiotemporal patterns of species living in highaltitude environments. She is also involved in statistical elaboration of ecological dataset and ecological modelling. She currently contributes to worldwide project GLORIA and to European project LTER. 66 The staff of the scientific sections Selection of papers (2012-2013) - IF 2012-13= 14.9 Abeli T., Rossi G., Gentili R., Gandini M., Mondoni A. & Cristofanelli P., 2012 - Effect of the extreme summer heat waves on isolated populations of two orophitic plants in the north Apennines (Italy). Nord. J. Bot., 30: 109-115. Abeli T., Gentili R., Mondoni A., Orsenigo S., Rossi G. 2013 - Effects of marginality on plant population performance. J. Biogeogr., ISSN: 0305-0270, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12215. Gilardelli F., Gentili R., Prosser F., Bonomi C., Varotto C., & Sgorbati S., 2013 - Ecological and biodiversity gradients across alpine dry grassland habitats: implications for an endangered species. Nord. J. Bot., 31(2): 225-238. Kapelari S., Regan E., Bonomi C., Dillon J., Willison J., Vergou A., Schepker H. & Elster D., 2012 - Initiating Inquiry Based Science Education in Outdoor Learning Sites: Issues and challenges. Fibonacci Second European Conference, 26-27 April, 2012, Leicester, UK: 10pp. Mondoni A., Tazzari E.R.., Zubani L., Orsenigo S., Rossi G., 2013 - Percussion as an effective seed treatment for herbaceous legumes (Fabaceae): implications for habitat restoration and agriculture. Seed Sci. Technol., vol. 41, p. 175-187. Mondoni A., Orsenigo S., Rossi G., 2013 - Ecophysiology of embryo development and seed germination of the European woodland herbaceous perennial Corydalis cava (L.) Schweigg. & Körte subsp. cava (Fumariaceae). Plant Sp. Biol., vol. 28: 215-223. Mondoni A., Rossi G., Orsenigo S., Probert R., 2012 - Climate warming could shift the timing of seed germination in alpine plants. Ann. Bot., 110: 155-164. Orsenigo S., Rossi G., Mondoni A. & Bhuju D.R., 2012 - Ev-K2-CNR/NAST Himalayan Seed Bank Project - Kathmandu (Nepal). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 90: 215-219. Orsenigo S., Mondoni A., Gandini M., Abeli T., Belotti J., Sossai E., Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2012 - Le attivita’ di ricerca sul cambiamento climatico del laboratorio di ecologia vegetale e conservazione delle piante dell’Università di Pavia. In Atti del Convegno “Cambiamento climatico: Analisi ed impatti su specie ed ecosistemi vegetali”. A cura di: N. Cannone, E. Barni, M. Marignani (Ed.). Gruppo di Ecologia della Società Botanica Italiana, Varese, 18 aprile 2012: 80-84. Ventura L., Donà M., Macovei A., Carbonera D., Buttafava A., Mondoni A., Rossi G., Balestrazzi A., 2012 - Understanding the molecular pathways associated with seed vigor. Pl. Physiol. Biochem., 60: 196-206. 67 Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Limnology & phycology research group Marco Cantonati Head of the Limnology and Phycology Section Born in Neuburg Donau (Germany) in 1967, he holds a University teaching Habilitation (Venia docendi) in Limnology (Phycology) (2011) and a PhD in freshwater ecology (1998) from the University of Innsbruck, a MSc in Natural Sciences (1992) and MSc in Biology (1990) from the University of Pavia. Alumnus at the Ghislieri College (Pavia), and Garbini Prize for limnology. MC dealt with an unusually broad spectrum of aquatic biota and habitats, with internationally-recognized expertise in spring-habitat ecology and conservation, and in the ecology and taxonomy of freshwater benthic algae (particularly diatoms, cyanobacteria, red algae). He discovered several diatom taxa (genera and species) new to science. Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck and Trento. Teaching in international courses (Visiting Professorships, summer schools etc.), PhD theses (Supervisor 7, Opponent, Reviewer), Post-Docs mentoring, Visiting PhD students, MSc Theses (14) and Bachelors (8) supervising. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Limnology, International Journal of Biodiversity, Journal of Ecosystems, and Guest Ed. for Freshwater Science, J. Limnol., and Hydrobiologia. Author of 270 scientific contributions, of these: 51 Research Articles on ISI International Journals with IF, and 35 Special Issues, Monographic Volumes, Books or Chapters. Organization of International Congresses and Special Sessions (12), Session Chairing (12), Invited talks (16) & talks (35 international + 19 national). R&D Funding acquisition: Scientific coordinator or WP coordinator of 19 Projects (1.5 million EURO managed). Daniel Spitale Research fellow Born in Lennep - Remscheid (Germany) in 1976, he is an independent researcher with a PhD and a broad skill base in ecology. In the early stages of his career, he focused the research activity on lake phytoplankton, and then he moved his interests on to the fields of bryology and numerical analysis of ecological data. He is capable of applying to a variety of scientific contexts related to the ecology, from biodiversity analysis to ecosystem ecology and conservation biology. He collaborated with the MUSE Limnology and Phycology Research Unit on many research projects (e.g. SALTO, CRENODAT, ACE-SAP), and more recently he started working also with the MUSE Tropical Biodiversity Section and the MUSE Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology. He is author of 28 publications with IF (updated on March 2013), and he is referee for 12 international journals of ecological disciplines. Nicola Angeli Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1975, he is the Specialized Technical Assistant of the Limnology and Phycology Research Unit of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE). M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (2000) at the University of Padua (Italy), and Ph.D. in Ecology (2006) at the University of Parma. Since 2000 he collaborates with the Limnology and Phycology Research Unit of the MTSN/MUSE. In particular he deals and dealt with high-mountain lakes and springs, lake inventories, biological databases, paleolimnology, and diatoms in the frame of several research projects. Moreover, since 2005 he has been appointed to be in technical charge for the MUSE scanning electron microscope (Zeiss EVO40 XVP). Since 2009 he is also in charge for the Hydrochemistry Lab, and for the Collections of the Limnology and Phycology Research Unit. He has also been involved in the content-development project team for the new Science Museum (MUSE). 68 Selection of papers - IF (2012-2013): 31.4 Cantonati M., Angeli N., Bertuzzi E., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2012 - Diatoms in springs of the Alps: spring types, environmental determinants, and substratum. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31: 499-524. [IF2011= 2.957] Cantonati M., Füreder L., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J., 2012 - Crenic habitats, hotspots for freshwater biodiversity conservation: toward an understanding of their ecology. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31: 463-480. [IF2011= 2.957] Cantonati M., Rott E., Spitale D., Angeli N. & Komárek J., 2012 - Are benthic algae related to spring types? In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science 31: 481-498. [IF2011= 2.957] Cantonati M., Virtanen L., Angeli N., Wojtal A., Gabrieli J., Falasco E., Lavoie I., Morin S., Marchetto A., Fortin C. & Smirnova S., 2013 - Achnanthidium minutissimum (Bacillariophyta) valve deformities as indicators of metal enrichment in diverse widely-distributed freshwater habitats. The Science of the Total Environment.[IF2011= 3.258] Horsák M., Hájek M., Spitale D., Hájková P., Dítě D. & Nekola J.C., 2012 - The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness. Ecology, 93(5): 1106-1114. [IF2011= 5.175] Rott E., Hotzy R., Cantonati M. & Sanders D., 2012 - Calcification types of Oocardium stratum Nägeli and microhabitat conditions in springs of the Alps. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31: 610-624. [IF2011= 2.957] Spitale D., Leira M., Angeli N. & Cantonati M., 2012 - Environmental classification of springs of the Italian Alps and its consistency across multiple taxonomic groups. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31:563-574. [IF2011= 2.957] Spitale D., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2012 - Relative importance of space and time in determining the biotic structure in the upper part of spring-fed streams. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31:586-598. [IF2011= 2.957] Spitale D., Scalfi A. & Cantonati M., 2012 - Niche partitioning, shape of species response, and diversity in the phytobenthos across the rocky shoreline of a large peri-Alpine lake. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 38: 620–627. [IF2012= 2.309] Spitale D., Scalfi A., Angeli N. & Cantonati M., 2012 - Fine-scale spatial patterns of mature and immature filaments and bioorganic compounds of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in the supra- and eulittoral zones of a large lake. Journal of Phycology, 48: 1530-1534. [IF2011= 2.239] 69 Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology research group Valeria Lencioni Head of the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section Born in Salò (BS) in 1970, with a degree in Biological Sciences (University of Milan), and a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (University of Innsbruck, A), she is a hydrobiologist focused mainly on headwaters ecology. She has experience on taxonomy, physiology and autoecology of invertebrates from spring, lakes and streams. Her present research refers mainly to the adaptive potential of target species of aquatic insects (mainly Diptera Chironomidae) in relation to environmental stressors (e.g. temperature variations, presence of pollutants) from a physiological and molecular point of view. She is also involved in projects on invertebrate biodiversity monitoring in protected areas in collaboration with local stakeholders within the Natura 2000 Networking Programme. Since 2005 she is member of the ministerial working team engaged for the elaboration of the national quality index for lakes within to the WFD 60/2000. She is author of more than 100 scientific papers, including book chapter, and attended about 70 congresses/workshops with more than 30 posters and 70 oral presentations. She collaborates with the MUSE since 1996, as referent person for the MdS’s collections and scientific publishing since 2003 and as head of the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section from January 2009. Since 2012 she is the chief-manager of the MUSE’s Research Informative System. Mauro Gobbi Research assistant Born in Milan in 1979, he is an entomologist and ecologist with a strong focus in ecology and conservation biology of terrestrial ecosystems. His research interests include the impact of global change on alpine arthropod species assemblages (mainly carabid beetles and spiders). He is involved in several research projects aimed to test the effects of climate and land use changes on entomological biodiversity of different alpine habitats. His stronger expertise is on insect and spider species assemblages living at high elevations, specifically along the glacier forelands and in the periglacial areas. His scientific activity is testified by international collaborations and by publications on ISI-ranked journals. He won two research fellows (2001 and 2003), a prize for the best Msc thesis (2004) and in 2009 he received, on the base of his results obtained on the ecological entomology, the award for the best Italian young entomologist; the award was conferred by the Italian Academy of Entomology. He is a research entomologist at the MUSE since 2007. Paola Bernabò Research assistant Born in Trento in 1982, she is graduated at the University of Padua in Evolutionary Biology in 2006. In 2009 obtained the Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia in collaboration with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MUSE with a thesis titled “Global climate changes and adaptive strategies in two mountain’s chironomids: Pseudodiamesa branickii and Diamesa cinerella”. Since 2008 is focusing on the effects of environmental stressors such as temperature variations and presence of pollutants in insects (Diptera and Coleoptera) at molecular level (gene expression analyses) within several MUSE’s projects, in collaboration with the Centre of Integrative Biology (CiBio) of the University of Trento. She is coauthor of six scientific papers in international journals. 70 The staff of the scientific sections Anna L. M. Macagno Research assistant Born in Cuneo in 1980, she obtained her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Conservation at the University of Torino in 2010. She is a broadly trained entomologist, with a research background on the evolution of morphology of Onthophagus beetles, on the community ecology and conservation of dung beetles in Alpine areas, and on the ecology, distribution, and conservation of dragonflies and saproxylic beetles. As part of the staff of the MuSe from June 2012 to January 2013, she carried out surveys of Odonata, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera protected by the Habitats Directive within the Province of Trento, and assisted in the care and management of the entomological collection. She had previously worked with the University of Torino, the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Carmagnola, the CNBFVR (Corpo Forestale dello Stato), and the Sapienza University of Rome. Alessandra Franceschini Technical assistant Born in Venice in 1967, she obtained a degree in Biological Science at the University of Padua in hydrobiology and macroinvertebrates. Since 1993 she collaborates with the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MUSE within projects on riparian zones of rivers, mountain streams and alpine lakes. She focused on riparian fauna (mainly Coleoptera Carabidae) and aquatic insects (mainly Plecoptera). She was teacher for the “Indice Biotico Esteso” (IBE) application and co-author of the IFF index “Applicazione dell’Indice di Funzionalità Fluviale”. In 2008 she was worked as chemical technician at the Environmental Agency of Trento (Italy). Since 2009 she is technical assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MUSE, involved both in research projects (field and laboratory work) and in entomological collections managing (cataloging, care, loan and moving managing, exhibit mounting etc.). Luca Toldo Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1985, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Padua in 2011 with a thesis regarding the Diptera Chironomid fauna in mountain springs of Trentino (Italy). From 2009 to 2010 he worked as volunteer of Civil Service at the MUSE within a project on management and conservation of the invertebrate collections and one on invertebrate fauna of springs. Since 2011 he has been involved as technical assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MUSE in the monitoring of the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in the territory of the municipality of Trento. In 2012-2013 he held laboratory exercises at the University of Trento (Bachelor degree in Biomolecular Sciences and Technology). In 2013 he worked as a field and laboratory assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the MUSE for the study on macroinvertebrates from headwaters. 71 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Valentina Lai Technical assistant Born in Varese (Va) in 1983, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Milan in 2007; in 2011 she obtained a Master’s degree in “Evolution Animal and Human Behavior” at the University of Turin with the thesis “Direct and indirect effects of meteorological factors on the flight behaviour of Maculinea alcon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)”. From 2009 to 2011 she took part in different research projects on myrmecophily and invertebrate monitoring (especially regarding butterflies) at the University of Turin and Pavia. In 2012 she was involved as research assistant in a project of Gran Paradiso National Park : “Autoecology of pre-imago and imago phase of Euphydryas aurinia glaciegenita (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae included in the Habitat Directive, Annex II)”. In 2013 she was involved as research assistant of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the Sciences Museum (MUSE) of Trento in the monitoring of butterfly and Odonata cenosis in 8 Sites of Community Importance of Trentino. Teresa Boscolo Technical assistant Born in Napoli in 1973, she obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna in 2003 whit a thesis regarding the Macrolepidoptera Eterocera in the Parco Regionale Corno alle Scale, Bologna (Italy). From 2008 to 2012 she collaborated with the Zoology Section of the Natural History Museum of Verona (Italy) as field and laboratory assistant , within research projects mainly on entomological fauna. From 2011 to 2013 she worked as taxonomist at the Natural History Museum of Ferrara (Italy) within the project “Climaparks” (Monitoring of the climatic effects on biocenosi in Parco Regionale del Delta del Po Emilia Romagna, Italy). In 2013 she started a collaboration with the Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology Section of the MUSE within several projects on alpine entomofauna as expert in Coleoptera Carabidae taxonomy. Selection of papers (2012-2013) - IF 2012-13= 11.1 Gobbi M., Priore C., Tattoni C. & Lencioni V., 2012 - Surprising longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae) richness along an Italian alpine valley. ZooKeys, 208: 27-39. [IF2012= 0.864] Gobbi M., Riservato E., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2012 - An expert-based approach to invertebrate conservation: identification of priority areas in central-eastern Alps. Journal for Nature Conservation, 20: 274-279. [IF2012= 1.535]. Hussain E., Khan B., Lencioni V., Mumtaz S. & Ali F., 2012 - Stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Bagrot Valley of Central Karakoram National Park, Pakistan. Records Zoological Survey of Pakistan, 21: 60-64. Latella L., Verdari N. & Gobbi M., 2012 - Distribution of terrestrial cave dwelling arthropods in two close Prealpine Italian areas with different glacial histories. Zoological Studies, 51 (7): 11131121. [IF2012= 1.261]. Lencioni V. & Sartori G., 2012 - Diversità e distribuzione dei ditteri chironomidi in 22 sorgenti prealpine (Veneto). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, sez. Botanica Zoologia, 36: 35-46. Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Cesari M. & Rebecchi L., 2013 - Thermal stress induces HSP70 proteins 72 The staff of the scientific sections synthesis in larvae of the cold stream non-biting midge Diamesa cinerella Meigen. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 83(1): 1-14. [IF2012= 1.515]. Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Rossaro B., 2012 - Chironomids as bioindicators of environmental quality in mountain springs. Freshwater Science, 31(2): 525-541. [IF2012= 2.957]. Macagno A.L.M., Gobbi M., Franceschini A. & Lencioni V., 2012 - New record of Osmoderma eremita (Scopoli, 1763) (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae) in chestnut trees in Trentino (Eastern Italian Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92: 37-41. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lods Crozet B., Free G., Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Wolfram G., 2012 - A benthic quality index for European alpine lakes. Proceedings of the 1 8th International Symposium on Chironomidae, Fauna norvegica, 31: 95-107. Spitale D., Lencioni V. & Cantonati M., 2012 - Relative importance of space and time in determining the biotic structure on the upper part of spring - fed streams. Freshwater Science, 31(2): 586598. [IF2012= 2.957]. 73 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Vertebrate zoology research group Paolo Pedrini Head of the Vertebrate Zoology Section Born in Trento in 1958, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences, with a post-degree specialization in “Nature conservation and land planning and development” (University of Pavia) and “Vertebrate management” (University of Pavia). From 1983 to 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 he is curator of the Vertebrate Zoology Section at the MUSE (previously “Museo delle Scienze”), he has also been the curator of the Environmental education Section of the same museum until 2001. He has been the supervisor of several degree theses and the author of over a hundred of scientific publication, mainly focusing on bird ecology, distribution and conservation. He attended and coordinated national and international research projects on birds (among which the projects “BIODIVERSITÀ”; RETE NATURA 2000; PROGETTO ALPI) on distribution, population trend and reproduction and ecology of alpine birds; he has been the coordinator of the action plan on threatened species conservation, of the atlas of local species distribution as well as of the red-list species assessment (Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals). From 2011, he is coordinator of many conservation actions of the LIFE+T.E.N. (Trentino Ecological Network) project. Natalia Bragalanti Research assistant Born in Cremona in 1979, she is graduated at University of Insubria (Verese) in Natural Sciences in 2004. She is a research consultant cooperating with Stelvio National Park (since 2005), Wildlife Office of Provincia Autonoma di Trento and vertebrate zoology section at MUSE (since 2012). Her expertise is on animal conservation. Her research topics are on ungulates, grouse and large carnivores. Her main skills are on field activity (in particular radiotracking and census design), Geographic Information System and database management. Franco Rizzolli Research assistant Born in Trento in 1968, he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the Padova University 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 Zoology Section on researches on bird migration, nesting ecology and faunal censuses. He work on management and implementation of GIS databases; he is author of several scientific publications published both on national and international journals, especially on 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). 74 The staff of the scientific sections Enrico Romanazzi Research assistant Born in Montebelluna (TV) in 1980, he graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Padua (Italy). In 2010, he holds a Postgraduate Course in Conservation of Animal Biodiversity from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” for a thesis entitled ‘’Action Plan for the Amphibians of Montello (TV)”. He is particularly involved in conservation, research and environmental education projects regarding amphibians and reptiles. Author of a dozen scientific publications, he collaborates with the MUSE about Alpine Salamanders (distribution, ecological factors and management, education, conservation genetics and phylogeography). He’s also mapping the focal crossing points of amphibians on the streets with the evaluation of the effectiveness of mitigation works carried out by the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Guidelines for amphibians and reptiles Monitoring and Action Plan for Golden Alpine Salamander, Italian Crested Newt and Yellow-bellied Toad in Trento. Clara Tattoni Research assistant 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 naturale Adamello 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 MUSE 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. Alessandro Franzoi Research fellow Born in Trento in 1985, he graduated in Natural Sciences at University of Pavia. His BSc dissertation (2009) focused on the monitoring of the bird breeding population of one of the protected areas of Trentino province, while his MSc dissertation (2011) focused on density and habitat selection of rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in western Alps. His main interests are now bird ecology, management and conservation. He has been collaborating with MUSE on the monitoring campaigns of breeding bird population of Trentino province and on researches on bird post-nuptial migration through Alps since 2004. In 2013 he collaborated with Vertebrate Zoology department of MUSE as research assistant to project LIFE T.E.N. Since November 2013 he is attending a PhD at University of Pavia with a scholarship funded by MUSE and Fondazione Edmund Mach. The PhD project focuses on investigation on geographic provenance of post-breeding migratory birds on Alps, applying Stable Isotope Ratios. 75 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Aaron Iemma Research fellow Born in Lugo (RA) in 1989, he is currently studying at the University of Trento, at the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 2011 he applied for a national civil service programme at MUSE (previously Museo delle Scienze), during which he focused on deploying an efficient implementation of various databases. Working constantly on the integration of spatial databases and geographical software in an Open Source environment, he is from 2013 collaborating with the MUSE Vertebrate Zoology department, with the aim to develop a multipurpose spatial database with graphical capabilities. His main interests cover a wide range of topics, including efficient computation, programming and modern pagination. Mattia Brambilla Research fellow Born in Cantù (CO) in 1980, he graduated in Natural Sciences (April 2003) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Natural and Environmental Sciences (Jan. 2007) in Milan. His main research interests are bird ecology and conservation (with particular regards to farmland species, rails and raptors), evolution and phylogeography. Now most of his work is dedicated to conservation, and especially to biodiversity in farmland habitats, ecology and conservation of rallids, shrikes and other birds of conservation concern, monitoring plans at the regional scale, ecological networks from local to regional scale, conservation and management of areas and species of conservation concern, assessment of conservation status and setting of conservation targets for animal species according to EU Directives at both the national and the regional scale. He is the author of 37 ISI-ranked papers (32 as first author; 2004-2013). GIACOMO ASSANDRI Ph.D. student Born in Moncalieri (TO) in 1989. M.Sc. at the University of Pavia in 2013 with a dissertation focussed on the conservation of frugivorous birds in olive orchards. His main interests are ecology and conservation biology with a particular reference to the effects of human activity on biodiversity. My favourite model organisms are birds and dragonflies. From November 2013 Ph.D. student at the University of Pavia with a Ph.D. fellowship from MUSE (Vertebrate Zoology Section). His Ph.D. project is focussed on investigate the ecological relations between birds and agroecosystems of Trento Province and Alpine ecoregion in order to define adequate conservation measures. Simone Tenan Ph.D. student Born in Rovigo in 1974, M.Sc. (Hons) in Natural Science at the University of Padua (Italy) with a dissertation focussed on ecology of bird migration across the Mediterranean Sea. Since 1995, he has been participating in different projects on bird migration and breeding birds, as collaborator of the Italian Ringing Scheme of the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He has been collaborating with the Vertabrate Zoology Section of the MUSE since 2008, on the data analyses related to the “Progetto Alpi”, on the post-nuptial bird migration. Ph.D. student at the University of Pavia (Italy) since November 2009, with a Ph.D. fellowship from the MUSE, his dissertation is focussed on modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of bird migration across the Italian Alps. 76 The staff of the scientific sections Maria Chiara Deflorian Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1976, she obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Pavia with a dissertation on the ecology of the european badger (Meles meles). In 2004 she attended a Master in scientific museology at the University of Padova and in 2007 a CNRS course (France) on scientific collection management. She works at MUSE since 2000, where she mainly deals with the management of the scientific collections (cataloguing, care and conservation). She curates the vertebrate collections. She is author of several publications dedicated to the study of the museum scientific collections. She conducts laboratory activities for the identification of mammals signs of presence and collaborates on research projects of the Vertebrate Zoology Section. She participates in the realization of permanent and temporary exhibitions and other activities for the public. Karol Tabarelli De Fatis Technical assistant Born in Trento in 1981, he is currently studying for a degree in Natural Sciences at Padova University specializing in Natural Resources Conservation. He has conducted research and training activities since 1997 within the vertebrate zoology Section of the Natural Sciences Museum of Trento, Italy. He collaborated to several wildlife monitoring projects, mostly with birds, and he is actively involved in the education Section of the Museum pertaining to zoology topics. He has been recognized by the Province of Trento as a professional taxidermist and he is also a member of the Consiglio direttivo della Societàdi Scienze Naturali del Trentino. FRANCESCA ROSSI Technical assistant Born in Firenze in 1972, she obtained a degree in Forestry at the University of Firenze in 1998. From 2001 she collaborated on bird research and monitoring projects, both on migrantory and resident species. She is the referent person for the Bird Ringing Station at Passo del Brocon, which is part of the “Progetto ALPI”. For the same project 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 databases, status and phenology of faunal species of conservation relevance; assessment of the conservation value of selected sites and related management issues; monitoring work in the context of the “Rete Natura 2000 “ of Trento province. From 2013 deals with the management of the Muse’s aquariums. 77 Biodiversity Ecology Biodiversity Ecology The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Selection of papers - IF (2012-2013): 44.9 Brambilla M. & Pedrini. P., 2013 - The introduction of subsidies for grassland conservation in the Italian Alps coincided with population decline in a threatened grassland species, the Corncrake Crex crex. Bird Study, 60: 404-408. Brambilla M., Rizzolli F. & Pedrini P., 2012 - The effects of habitat and spatial features of wetland fragments on the abundance of two rallid species with different degree of habitat specialization. Bird Study, 59: 279-285. Ceresa F., Bogliani G., Pedrini P. & Brambilla M., 2012 - The importance of key marginal habitat features for birds in farmland: an assessment of habitat preferences of Red-backed Shrikes Lanius collurio in the Italian Alps. Bird Study, 59: 327-334. Chamberlain D., Arlettaz R., Caprio E., Maggini R., Pedrini P., Rolando A., Zbinden N., 2012 - The altitudinal frontier in avian climate impact research. Ibis, 154(1): 205-209. Hendriks I.E., Tenan S., Tavecchia G., Marbà N., Jordà G., Deudero S., Alvarez E., Duarte C.M. 2013 - Boat anchoring impacts coastal populations of the pen shell, the largest bivalve in the Mediterranean. Biological Conservation, 160: 105-113. [IF2012= 3.794] Martínez-Abraín A., Viedma C., Gómez J.A., Bartolomé M.A., Jiménez J., Genovart M., Tenan S., 2013 - Assessing the effectiveness of a hunting moratorium on target and non-target species. Biological Conservation, 165: 171-178. [IF2012= 3.794] Pedrini P., F. Rizzolli, F. Rossi & M. Brambilla., 2012 - Population trend and breeding density of corncrake Crex crex (Aves: Rallidae) in the Alps: monitoring and conservation implications of a 15-years survey in Trentino, Italy. Italian Journal of Zoology, 79: 377-384. Tenan S., Adrover J., Muñoz Navarro A., Sergio F., Tavecchia G., 2012 - Demographic Consequences of Poison-Related Mortality in a Threatened Bird of Prey. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49187. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049187. [IF2012= 3.730] Tenan S., Rotger Vallespir A., Igual J.M., Moya O., Royle J.A., Tavecchia G. 2013 - Population abundance, size structure and sex-ratio in an insular lizard. Ecological Modelling, 267: 39-47. [IF2012= 2.069] Zambelli P., Lora C., Spinelli R., Tattoni C., Vitti A., Zatelli P. & Ciolli M., 2012 - A GIS decision support system for regional forest management to assess biomass availability for renewable energy production. Environmental Modelling & amp. Software, 38: 203–213. 78 The staff of the scientific sections Geology research group Marco Avanzini Head of the Geology Section Curator of the geology and palaeontology department. His research focus on stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment reconstruction of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Southern Alps and Southern Europe. Has experience in palaeontological excavations and the geological mapping of the alpine area. Is author of more than 300 publications in national and international journals concerning the study of tetrapod footprints, geology and stratigraphy of the Mesozoic of the Southern Alps. MASSIMO BERNARDI Research assistant Born in Rovereto (TN) in 1984; he is a palaeontologist. He focus his research on the study of fossil vertebrates and terrestrial ecosystems around the Permian-Triassic interval. He graduated in Natural Sciences at the University of Padova (2006), and gained a Master of Science in Paleobiology at the University of Bristol (UK, 2009) where he is now a PhD student. From 2006 to 2008 he was assistant of Alessandro Minelli for the Laboratory of Evolution (University of Padova). In 2010 he was lecturer at the university of Padova (Evolution). He has active collaboration with Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, Geopark Bletterbach e Adamello-Brenta, Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO, University of Padova, University of Torino, Universidade de Sao Paulo. He is curator of the Paleontological galleries of the new MUSE. As member of the Geology Section of the Museo delle Scienze he is involved in research and outreach activities concerning both vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology. Rossana Todesco Research fellow Graduated in Geology at the University of Modena (2006) with a thesis on a Triassic ichnological assemblage from the Trentino Alto-Adige region. Since 2004 she collaborates with the Geology section of the Museo delle Scienze, and is involved in several ichnological and palaeoecogical studies of the Alpine region. She is now coordinating outreach activities expecially devoted to. Riccardo Tomasoni Research fellow Born in Rovereto, August 7, 1972, graduated at the University of Bologna in 1998. Since 1999 he worked as geologist freelance in various areas, bringing together technical activities in the field with scientific research and geological-environmental promotion. Since 1999 he has participated in the 1:50.000-scale geological mapping of Italy as a compiler designated by the geological Survey of the Province autonome di Trento and Bolzano and collaborated in geological, stratigrafic and paleoecological research activities on the Southalpine sedimentary succession promoted by the Geology section of the Museo delle Scienze. His passion for geology and the natural environment has led him to undertake numerous projects to safeguard and promote the local geological-environmental heritage. He contributed to cataloguing 79 Biodiversity Ecology Earth Science and Landscape The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 geosites in Trentino and supervised the process leading to the inclusion of the Adamello Brenta Nature Park in the European Geoparks Network under the aegis of UNESCO. He deals with the planning of geological itineraries and has participated in the development of exhibitions and displays for museums and visitor centres. Since august 2013 he is curator of the geology of the Hearth Science departement of the Museo delle Scienze. Fabio Massimo Petti Research fellow Holding a PhD in Paleontology, from 2007 he cooperates with the Geology and Paleontology section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, benefiting of a post-doc grant funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento. The topic of the post-doc project is the study of dinosaur footprints as constraints in the palaeogeographical and palaeoecological reconstructions of the Central Mediterranean area during the Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous interval. From 2007 he is assistant editor of the Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, the Italian journal devoted to Paleontology. Andrea Borsato Research fellow Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (Australia), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Environmental and Climate Change Research Group, field trip tutor at the l’University of Newcastle (Australia) School of Environmental and Life Sciences and Skilled user at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France). His studies mainly deals with Quaternary geology, hydrogeology and geochemistry. In the last fifteen years he contributed to the improvement of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironment reconstruction performed by means of speleothems and continental carbonates through radiometric dating, isotopic analyses, geochemical studies of trace elements and microstratigraphy. Isabella Salvador Research fellow Graduated in Architectural Engineering at the University of Trento, from 2007 she collaborated with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department on Apsat project (Ambiente e paesaggio dei siti d’altura alpini) studying traditional building evolution in mountain areas in relation to socio-economic and environmental changes. In 2011 she earned a PhD in Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems from University of Trento. From the same year she cooperates with the Geology section of the Museo delle Scienze di Trento as part of the Openloc project, where she studies land use changes in upland areas and their interrelation to the traditional architecture, physical resources and environmental dynamics, in particular for highland pastures. 80 The staff of the scientific sections Lara Casagrande Research fellow Graduated in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Padova (Master degree 2008) with a thesis on iron archaeometallurgy. From 2009 to 2011 she hold a research fellowship at the University of Padova in the APSAT project, funded by the Province of Trento, for the study of mining landscapes in Trentino. Since 2010 she collaborates with the Geology Section of the Museo delle Scienze, with projects on the documentation of local mining history. Marco Franceschi Post doc PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Padova in 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he held a 2-year post-doc position at the Dept. of Geosciences of the University of Padova, working on the 3D modeling of the Triassic Latemar carbonate platform. He’s currently hosted by the Museo delle Scienze as post-doc researcher, P.I. of the GEO3DMAP project (3D modeling of the Early Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbonate platform). His areas of expertise are stratigraphy of the Southern Alps and Apennines, cyclostratigraphy, terrestrial laser scanning, remote sensing and 3D geological modeling. His current research interests focus on 3D modeling of ancient carbonate platforms, study of active laser sensors as tool for recognition of rock properties and application of terrestrial laser scanning to cyclostratigraphy. Vanessa Johnston Post doc Graduated with a Master’s degree in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Bristol (UK, 2005) and then went on to gain a PhD focusing on cosmogenic isotopes in karst settings from University College Dublin (Ireland, 2010). Vanessa is currently studying past climate changes using speleothems from Trentino, focusing on warm periods known as interglacials as part of the project INTCLIM. Paolo Ferretti Technical assistant Born in Rovereto (Tn), in 1972. Since 2001 is member of the Geology Section of the Museo delle Scienze, where he firstly joined several research activities regarding hydrogeology and quaternary geology. Afterwards he addressed his activity towards mineralogy and petrography with important discoveries in the Alpine region. 81 Earth Science and Landscape Earth Science and Landscape The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Selection of papers - IF (2012-2013): 13.7 Avanzini M., BargossiG.M., Cucato M., Morelli C., Prosser G., Tomasoni R., 2013. Guida ai percorsi geologici Foglio 026 Appiano, Provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige. Ufficio geologia e prove materiali, Cardano (BZ): 324 p. Salvador I. & Avanzini M., 2013 - Uomo e montagna in Pasubio: l’alpicoltura prima della Grande Guerra. Archivio Trentino, 02: 132-171. Cavin L., Avanzini M., Bernardi M., Piuz A., Proz P.A., Meister C., Boissonnas J. & Meyer C., 2012 - New Triassic trackways from the autochthonous of the Triassic of the Aiguilles Rouges Massif, and re-evaluation of the dinosaur record in Valais, SW Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 131(2): 317-324. Carturan L., Baroni C., Becker M., Bellin A., Cainelli O., Carton A., Casarotto C., Dalla Fontana G., Godio A., Martinelli T., Salvatore M. C., & Seppi R., 2013 - Decay of a long-term monitored glacier: the Careser glacier (Ortles-Cevedale, European Alps). The Cryosphere Discuss., 7: 3293-3335. Casarotto C., 2013 - Glaciers One-Time-The Society Protagonist of the Research. Journal of Earth Science and Engineering, 3: 477-483. Johnston, V., Borsato, A., Spötl, C., Frisia, S., & Miorandi, R., (2013). Monitoring stable isotopes in caves over altitudinal gradients: fractionation behaviour and inferences for speleothem sensitivity to climate change. Climate of the Past, 9: 99–118. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Kustatscher E., Renesto S. & Avanzini M. 2013 - Diversity of continental tetrapods and plants in the Triassic of the Southern Alps: Ichnological, paleozoological and palaeobotanical evidences. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 61: 458- 484. Renesto S. & Bernardi M., 2013 - Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Megachirella wachtleri Renesto et Posenato, 2003 (Reptilia, Diapsida). Palaontologisches Zeitschrift. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-013-0194-0. Scholz D., Frisia S., Borsato A., Spötl, C., Fohlmeister J., Mudelsee M., Mühlinghaus C., Miorandi R., Mangini A., 2012 - Holocene climate variability in north-eastern Italy: potential influence of the NAO and solar activity recorded by speleothem data. Clim. Past, 8: 1367-1383. Wackerbarth A., Langebroek P.M., Werner M., Lohmann G., Riechelmann S., Borsato A., & Mangini A., 2012 - Simulated oxygen isotopes in cave drip water and speleothem calcite in European caves. Clim. Past, 8: 1781–1799. 82 The staff of the scientific sections Prehistory research group Giampaolo Dalmeri Head of the Prehistory Section Born in Pergine (Trent) in 1952. In 1977 he obtained his degree in Geology at the University of Ferrara with a degree in Human Paleontology. He works for about 35 years of prehistoric antiquity. Conducts research projects sponsored by the Museum relating the oldest alpine human population, especially in Trentino. Currently directs the research and palaeoenvironmental paletnologiche to Shelter Dalmeri Grigno in wetlands Palù Echen in Folgaria and Malga Palù (Plateau Vezzene, Levico-Spa), a Laget (Predaia-Val di Non) and in the shelter of Monteterlago (Terlago). In the years ‘80-’90 he collaborated on numerous research projects on the Mesolithic in Trentino, in the valley and at high altitude , and others with the Archaeological Superintendence of Trento for excavations on different histories in Val d’Adige and Trentino West. He discovered the shelter in 1990 he was named, and research and interdisciplinary that followed under his direction have shown exceptional employment-related human aspects, such as residential mobility, ways of life and hunting, art and rituals of the ancient hunter-gatherers of the late Upper Paleolithic. Since 1997, he coordinated more than 30 theses (undergraduate and PhD) in Science Prehistoric Archaeological and Cultural Heritage to address. Has participated in 40 conferences / whorkshop national and internationally, in person or as a co-author, 20 posters and 30 oral communications. He is co-author of about 100 works in scientific journals. He has published over 250 scientific articles, popular science and book chapters. He is Associate Ordinary of ‘Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History”, based in Florence (IIPP). Elisabetta Flor Research assistant Born in Cles (Tn) February 28, 1982, received his Master Degree in Prehistoric Sciences at University of Ferrara March 20th, 2009 with an elaborate analysis of the lithic technology of the levels of the shelter sauveterriani Romagnano LOC III (Tn). On 21 March 2005, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage, Archaeological and at the University of Trento, with an elaborate analysis of the lithic technology levels sauveterrinai shelter Pradestel (Tn). Since 2006 he collaborates occasionally with the Tridentine Museum of Natural Science as a technical consultant / scientific materials for inventory and computerization of the collections in storage proto at the Laboratory of Prehistory Museum of Natural Sciences of Trento. Participate in the research project valence provincial OPENLOC “Social capital and environmental capital. It is part of Project MUSE Team regarding the exposure of prehistory. Rossella Duches Post-doc Born in Trento, December 06, 1982, she graduated in Prehistoric Sciences in 2007 and earned a Ph.D. in Science and Technology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage - curriculum Quaternary and Prehistory, in 2012 at the University of Ferrara. She gained different research grants from public institutions and foundations, and her Ph.D. thesis has been recognized from University of Ferrara as one of the best works of 2012. Her principal research topics are settlement dynamics and hunting strategies of Lateglacial human groups. She uses lithic technology as her primary research tool, applying chaîne opératoire concepts to recognize cases of behavioral variability. Her actual research is focused on Younger Dryas 83 Earth Science and Landscape Earth Science and Landscape The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 societies of the Eastern Italian Alps (YDESA project); this project is aimed to evaluate the techno-economic and social changes typical of this period. Besides, she is involved in other research projects concerning the demise of Homo Neandertalensis and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, in collaboration with the University of Ferrara and other foreign institutions (Grotta di Fumane and Grotta del Rio Secco research projects). ALEX FONTANA Technical assistant Born in Aosta April 11, 1977. He graduated in 2006-2007 academic year in Natural Sciences, paleontological curriculum at the University of Parma, with a thesis on “the fauna of the ancient Bronze Age Caves of Castelcorno of Isera (Trento)”. His principal research topics grants from zooarchaeology of italian contexts, with particular attention to the north-italian archaeological sites and animal exploitation. As part of the technical scientific section deals with the design, construction and management of the new zooarchaeological laboratory, collaborating and interacting closely with a prehistory and zoology sections. He collaborates with the Educational Services for the design and delivery of educational activities for schools and organized groups, according to the offer of the Museum or on educational projects with institutions or institutions outside the school in Prehistory. Stefano Neri Technical assistant Born in Trento, April 23, 1980, has worked since 2005 at the MTSN first as educators, then from 2007 as the Technical Section of Prehistory. He received the 2004-2005 Academic Year Degree in Cultural Heritage, Archaeological and at the University of Trento, Faculty of Humanities, with thesis on “Records and GIS analysis of the archaeological record of attendance the last hunter-gatherers in Trentino. In the ‘technical-scientific field of the Section is responsible for operational and logistics to the archaeological excavations. Cooperates with the preparation of excavation data, as well as cataloging and archive of artifacts. It is part of Project Team MUSE and collaborates with the Educational Services for the Project Team is part of the Muses and collaborates with the Educational Services for the design and delivery of educational activities for schools and organized groups, according to the offer of the Museum or on projects educational with institutions or institutions outside the school in Prehistory. He collaborates in the activity of the scientific journal publishing “ Alpine Prehistory “. Alessandro Fedrigotti Research assistant (Museo delle Palafitte del Lago di Ledro) Born in Rovereto (TN), November 05, 1983, he graduated in Prehistoric Sciences in 2009 and earned a Ph.D. called “The pile-dwelling sites of Ledro. Combined methodologies and approaches for the understanding of a site and its territory”: this study is related to piledwelling site but also to the entire context of Ledro Valley. Among his latest works we find the project “Le palafitte nel cassetto dei ricordi” and a research on prehistoric bows. He collaborates with the Pile Dwelling Museum of Lake Ledro as regards education and scientific divulgation. He collaborates also in the project “Rete di Riserve Alpi Ledrensi” since 2014. 84 The staff of the scientific sections Luca Scoz Research assistant (Museo delle Palafitte del Lago di Ledro) Born in Trento, November 6, 1983, he obtained a Master degree in Prehistoric Sciences in 2007 at the University of Ferrara, with a thesis on the spatial analysis of Tagliente rockshelter (Verona, Italy). He worked for University of Trento and he has been working in the Science Museum of Trento since 2009, in the branch office of Pile-dwelling Museum of Lake Ledro. His research concerns the settlement strategies of prehistoric hunters and gatherers in Western Trentino, investigated through archaeological field surveys and excavations. He also deals with cultural dissemination of the archaeology and history of the First World War in Trentino. Selection of papers - IF (2012-2013): 1.4 Belli R, Gialanella S., Mandelli M., Turco I., Dalmeri G., 2012- Studio archeometrico di frammenti d’ocra provenienti da Riparo Dalmeri. A cura di R. C. De Marinis, G. Dalmeri, A. Pedrotti , Preistoria Alpina 46 I-II vol., Atti della XLII Riunione Scientifica dell’IIPP, L’Arte Preistorica in Italia, Trento-Riva del Garda, Val Camonica, 9-13 ottobre 2007, pp 89-90. Cristiani E., Lemorini C., Dalmeri G., 2012- Ground stone tool production and use in the Late Upper Palaeolithic: The evidence from Riparo Dalmeri (Venetian Prealps-Italy). Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 37 NO. 1, pp 34-50, Trustees of Boston University. Dalmeri G., Cusinato A., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher M., Bassetti M., Neri S., 2012- Le pietre con pitture in ocra di Riparo Dalmeri (Trento). Sviluppi delle ricerche sull’arte e la ritualità del sito epigravettiano. A cura di R. C. De Marinis, G. Dalmeri, A. Pedrotti, Preistoria Alpina 46 I-II vol., Atti della XLII Riunione Scientifica dell’IIPP, L’Arte Preistorica in Italia, Trento-Riva del Garda, Val Camonica, 9-13 ottobre 2007, pp 31-40. Dalmeri G., Cappelletti G., Duches R., Flor E., Moira P., Neri S., 2013- Il sito epigravettiano recente di M.ga Palù (Levico Terme-TN). Le evidenze emerse dal sondaggio archeologico 2012. Preistoria Alpina 47-2013, pp. 329-332. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Avanzini M., Bassetti M., Flor E., Neri S., 2013- Frequentazione delle medie quote montane durante il Dryas recente: nuove informazioni dal sito epigravettiano di Palù Echen (Altopiano di Folgaria, Trentino). Preistoria Alpina 47-2013, pp. 153-181. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Kompatscher K., Kompatscher N., Flor E., Neri S., 2013- Laget di Predaia (Tres-TN), primo rapporto sulle campagne di scavi 2011-2012. Preistoria Alpina 47-2013, pp. 325-328. Duches R., Avanzini M., Bassetti M., Flor E., Neri S., Dalmeri G., 2013- Evolution de la mobilité épigravettienne durant le Dryas récent: quelles nouvelles informations pour l’Italie nord-orientale? Actes de la Séance de la Société préhistorique francaise de Bordeaux, 24-25 mai 2012. Les groupes Culturels de la transitions Pléistocene-Holocéne entre Atlantique et Adriatique, Société préhistorique francaise 2014, Paris, pp 185-203. Peresani M., Duches R., Pastoors A. 2012 - Evidence of Gravettian frequentation around 30ky BP at the foot of the Friulian Dolomites. Gortania, 33: 93-100. Peresani M., Pastoors A., Vaquero M., Romandini M., Duches R., Jéquier C., Nannini N., Picin A., Schmidt I. & Weniger G.-C. 2012 - The Rio Secco Cave and the North Adriatic region, a key context for investigating the Neanderthal demise. Antiquity, Project Gallery. Volume 086 Issue 332. Peresani M., Romandini M., Duches R., Jéquier C., Nannini N., Pastoors A., , Picin A., Schmidt I., Vaquero M. & Weniger G.-C., (in stampa) - Adding new evidence for the Palaeolithic in the Northern Adriatic region: Neanderthal demise and earliest Gravettian occurrences at Rio Secco Cave. Journal of Field Archaeology, 39. 85 Earth Science and Landscape Appendix 2 The staff of the science communicators The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Science Communicators Group Christian Casarotto Glaciologist Born in Busto Arsizio (Italy) in 1975, since 2003 he is member of the Geology and Educational Section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali of Trento. He firstly took part to educational activities; afterwards he addressed his activity towards monitoring of alpine glacial also as part of Comitato Glaciologico Trentino. He is involved in territorial studies of sustainable development through the valorisation of natural heritage. Since 2009 he is geomorphologist and Science communicator of the Museo delle Scienze. He join his research activities with the popularization of study results in several meeting and public communication. CLAUDIA LAURO Geologist Geologist, collaborating with the Museo delle Scienze since 1993. She firstly carried out educational and research activities for the Educational, Geology and Prehistory Sections. She was also charged with technical assignments: geological-geomorphological surveys, applied geology and hydrogeology tasks for private and public offices. For the museum she has dealt with science communication since 2001, planning temporary and permanent exhibitions, natural paths and cultural events. Since 2009 she is member of the communication science team and she has mainly worked on planning the exhibition galleries dedicated to the Earth Sciences of the new Muse project. Lucia Martinelli Geneticist Born in Trento in 1957; PhD at the Wageningen Agricultural University, Laurea in Biological Sciences at the Bologna University and Master of Scientific Journalism and Communication at the Ferrara University. During a nearly 30-year experience as researcher in Italian and foreign public and industrial research institutes, she developed and coordinated research in the field of plant biotechnology, concerning gene transfer, functional genomics and scientific communication. Since June 2011 she works at MUSE - Science museum where her research regards the interconnections between scientific and technological innovations and social implications, focusing on the sciences of life. The activity is based on collaborations within the Trentino research system and in International networks. Results have been disseminated in around 180 publications and nearly 90 scientific papers have been peer reviewed. She is participant to advisory and scientific committees and institutional organizations and is in the board of the European Platform of Women Scientists. Osvaldo Negra Zoologist Born in Bolzano, in 1966, he achieved a master degree in Biology at Parma University in 1991 (with a thesis “Ecophysiology of the autumn migration of the Sedge Warbler in a site on the Italian mainland”). In 1994 he gained a PhD in Animal Biology at Pisa University (with a thesis “ Stable and transient components of a bird community of the Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany”). In 1997, he won a contest for “technician of zoology” at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento (MTSN), where he carried out research and science dissemination for many years and curated several temporary exhibitions about natural sciences. Since 2008 he works at MUSE as Cultural Mediator for Biodiversity and curator of the new science museum developed in Trento. 88 The staff of the science communicators Alessandra Pallaveri Zoologist Born in Bozen , Italy, in 1966, he achieved a master degree in Biology at Parma University in 1991 (with a thesis “Ecophysiology of the autumn migration of the Sedge Warbler in a site on the Italian mainland”). In 1994 he gained a PhD in Animal Biology at Pisa University (with a thesis “ Stable and transient components of a bird community of the Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany” ). In 1997, he won a contest for “technician of zoology” at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento (MTSN), where he carried out research and science dissemination for many years and curated several temporary exhibitions about natural sciences. Since 2008 he works at MUSE as Cultural Mediator for Biodiversity and curator of the new science museum developed in Trento. Francesco Rigobello Botanist Francesco Rigobello graduated in Natural Science with an experimental thesis on phytosociology in 1993. From that year he is collaborating with the Botany Section of the Museum of Science of Trento. From 2009 he is one of Science Communicators of the museum. He manages the museum’s satellite visitor centre of Tremalzo and he is involved in the project management and set up of exhibitions, educational programs and botanical gardens piloting. He projects and lead refresher courses for science teachers. He authored more than 50 scientific and divulgative papers. Massimiliano Tardio Limnologist Born in Cles (TN) in 1973, he is MUSE Cultural Mediator for projects on the territory. M.Sc. in Biology (2001) at the University of Bologna (Italy) with a thesis on mesocosm-studies on the phytoplankton of Lake Tovel; Ph.D. in Evolutionistic Biology at the University of Pisa (2007) specializing on dinoflagellates, in particular on their use as biological monitors in hyperdiluted high-mountain lakes and as a proxy (dinocysts) in paleolimnology. At present he is mainly dealing with cultural mediation and environmental interpretation (he is coordinator and supervisor of the activities at the Tovel Limnological Station of the MUSE). 89 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Name Section E-mail address Telephone Bonomi Costantino Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Dorigotti Serena Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Gandini Maurizia Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Mondoni Andrea Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Parolo Gilberto Botany [email protected] +39 0461270381 Vicentini Renzo Botany [email protected] +39 0461270313 Avanzini Marco Geology [email protected] +39 0461270312 Bernardi Massimo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Borsato Andrea Geology [email protected] +39 0461270325 Casagrande Lara Geology [email protected] +39 0461270328 Casarotto Christian Geology [email protected] +39 0461270345 Ferretti Paolo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270328 Franceschi Marco Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Johnston Vanessa Geology [email protected] +39 0461270325 Petti Fabio Massimo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Salvador Isabella Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Todesco Rossana Geology [email protected] +39 0461270345 Tomasoni Riccardo Geology [email protected] +39 0461270344 Bernabò Paola Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270371 Boscolo Teresa Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270372 Franceschini Alessandra Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270372 Gobbi Mauro Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270363 Lai Valentina Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270372 Macagno Anna Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270372 Lencioni Valeria Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270371 Toldo Luca Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology [email protected] +39 0461270372 Angeli Nicola Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270338 Cantonati Marco Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270342 Spitale Daniel Limnology and Phycology [email protected] +39 0461270342 Dalmeri Giampaolo Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Duches Rossella Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Fontana Alex Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270314 Flor Elisabetta Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270357 Neri Stefano Prehistory [email protected] +39 0461270328 Lauro Claudia Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270365 90 Contacts Name Section E-mail address Telephone Martinelli Lucia Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270370 Negra Osvaldo Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270321 Pallaveri Alessandra Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270321 Rigobello Francesco Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270354 Tardio Massimiliano Science Communicators [email protected] +39 0461270339 Barelli Claudia Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270319 Martin Emanuel H. Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +255 785274469 Menegon Michele Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270319 Pupin Fabio Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270354 Ricci Silvia Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270374 Rovero Francesco Tropical Biodiversity [email protected] +39 0461270374 Brambilla Mattia Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Deflorian Maria Chiara Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Pedrini Paolo Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270310 Rizzolli Franco Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Tabarelli De Fatis Karol Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270311 Franzoi Alessandro Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Iemma Aaron Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Rossi Francesca Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Assandri Giacomo Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270310 Bragalanti Natalia Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 Tattoni Clara Vertebrate Zoology clara.tattoni@ mtsn.tn.it +39 0461270340 Tenan Simone Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270329 Romanazzi Enrico Vertebrate Zoology [email protected] +39 0461270340 91 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 92 Appendix 3 Research Projects, high education and teaching The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Research and teaching activities (2012-2013) Nr. Research projects 56 Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 32 Seminars c/o universities and museums 94 Lectures 5 In-house workshops and congresses organizations 9 Ph.Ds 17 Masters and degrees 39 Training courses 4 Volunteers 3 Public activities 28 Temporary exhibitions 10 Research projects: Grant project 1. ACE-SAP - Alpine ecosystems in a Changing Environment: Biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potential”. Project funded by Autonomous Province of Trento Servizio Università e Ricerca. (20082012), “Bando grande progetto”. 2. CYPRUS-DIATOMS - Diatoms from the running waters of Cyprus. Project co-financed with Prothea S.r.l. (MI), (2012-2013). 3. Dolo P/T Project (The Permian-Triassic ecological crisis in the Dolomites: extinction and recovery dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosytems). Project funded by the Research Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (2011-2014). 4. Dolomiti - montagne e paesaggi: da teatro di guerra a simbolo universale. Project in collaboration with Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (Rovereto), Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO, Soprintendenza Beni Architettonici PAT, Archivio di Stato (Trento), Parco Naturale Paneveggio Pale di San Martino. (2013-2015), “Progetto Bando Caritro”. 5. ECOGENPHI - Effetti della frammentazione dell’habitat e del disturbo antropico su popolazioni di primati in un hotspot di biodiversità in Tanzania: integrazione di approcci ecologici, genetici e fisiologici. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie curies actions (2010-2013), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 6. GEO3DMAP- Modellazione tridimensionale della piattaforma giurassica dei Calcari Grigi / 3D modeling of the Jurassic Calcari Grigi carbonate platform. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie curies actions (2011-2013), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 7. Hierarchical Bayesian modelling: Applications in animal population ecology. phD in Experimental Ecology and Geobotany, XXV cycle. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, in collaboration with University of Pavia and Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), (2011-2013). 8. INTCLIM Reconstructing Interglacial climate with Trentino speleothems using stable and ‘clumped’ isotopes. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie curies actions (20102012), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 94 Research Projects, high education and teaching 9. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Project cofunded by MUSE, Museo delle Scienze and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto, “Progetto Bando Caritro” (2012-2014). 10. 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 Autonomous Province of Trento Servizio Università e Ricerca. (2008-2012), “Bando grande progetto”. 11. Progettazione, gestione e sviluppo di serre tropicali in collaborazione con Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Specialization course with scholarship. Tutors: L. Morris (RBGE), C. Bonomi. 1 January 2012 - 31 December 2012. 12. TEAM -, Assessment and Monitoring network. Long-term standardized biodiversity monitoring in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Funded by Conservation International (since 2009). 13. The herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot: under standing evolutionary history to identify extinction risk and key areas for conservation, in collaboration with University of Manchester Metropolitan. Partly funded by Wildlife Conservation Society. (2009-2013). 14. YDESA - Younger Dryas and Evolution of human Societies in the Alpine region. Project cofounded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto, in collaboration with University of Ferrara, “Progetto Bando Caritro”. (2012-2014). Projects by agreements 1. CAPACE - Capacità di adattamento delle piante alpine ai cambiamenti climatici. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie curies actions (2011-2014), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 2. CLIMBIVEG - Effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sulla biodiversità vegetale in ambienti d’alta quota. Post-doc funded by Autonomous Province of Trento and cofunded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), Marie curies actions (2011-2014), “Bando incoming post-doc”. 3. Conservazione della fauna vertebrata in ambiente alpino (e in Trentino). Project in collaboration with University of Pavia, Dipartimento Urbanistica, Territorio e Ambiente, Servizio Conservazione della Natura, Servizio Foreste e fauna (PAT), (Since 2011). 4. EBERs: Exploring the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna springs. Project funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region; Geological, Sismic and Soils Service. (2011-2013). 5. Ghiacciai di una volta. Project founded by Comitato Glaciologico Italiano and Club Alpino Italiano, (2011-2013). 6. Impact of global change on ecosystems, animal communities and species of alpine and mediterranean areas of Italy: models, scenarios and evaluation from macro- to microscale, based on ecology and philogeography of vertebrates and invertebrates. Project cofounded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze and University of Calabria, (2009-2013). 7. Implementazione delle conoscenze sulla fauna invertebrata in aree SIC del Trentino. Project fonded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, (2012-2013). 8. INQUIRE - Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future. Funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) (2010-2014). 9. LAGET - Laget, modalità di occupazione e funzione dell’insediamento. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (2011-2013). 95 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 10. Malga Palù, comprensione dello stato di conservazione e consistenza del deposito antropico, acquisizione dati paletnologici/paleo ambientali e funzionalità. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, with support of Comune di Levico Terme (TN), BIM Consorzio dei Comuni del bacino Imbrifero Montano del Brenta, Famiglia Cooperativa - Caldonazzo Alta Valsugana. (Since 2012). 11. Monitoraggio della zanzara tigre nella città di Trento. Supported by Comune di Trento, (2009-2013). 12. Palù Echen - interpretazione, modalità di occupazione e funzione dell’insediamento. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, with support of Medio Credito Trentino Alto Adige, Cassa Centrale Banca (Trento), Cassa Rurale di Folgaria. (2009-2012). 13. Piano di gestione dell’ontaneta di Croviana. Project founded by Croviana, (2013-2014). 14. Pozza Lavino, studio del sito di altura a varie cronologie. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (2012-2013). 15. Progetto di monitoraggio della biodiversità alpina: monitoraggio della fauna invertebrate. Supported by Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, (2013). 16. Redazione di un documento ricognitorio inerente la fauna delle zone umide del Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta. Supported by Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, (2013). 17. Ricerca applicata alla gestione della fauna vertebrata del Trentino. Project fonded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (Servizio Conservazione Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale), (2012-2013). 18. Riparo Dalmeri - definizione e interpretazione della fase cultuale. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (2010-2014). 19. Riparo Monteterlago - studio del sito pluristratificato. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, with support of CORA ricerche archeologiche snc and Comune di Terlago (Since 2011). 20. Valagola_SEFIRA - Reconstruction of the development of the mountain Lake Valagola -AdamelloBrenta Nature Park-, and prediction of senescing and filling rates. Project founded by Parco Nazionale Adamello Brenta, (2013-2014). 21. Vegetazione e Artropodofauna delle geoforme pro- e periglaciali: significato ecologico e biogeografico di un complesso di habitat. PhD grant from the Univeristy of Milan, (2012-2015). 22. Vertebrate monitoring plan in the Nature 2000 Network, Plan validation. Project fonded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, (2012-2013). 23. WLF_Ritorto - Impacts of water-level fluctuations and water abstraction on high-mountain lakes and streams - Dissemination of the results. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (20122013). Institutional project 1. AQUA_TEST - Ricerca ecologica di lungo corso e ACQUA-TEST_PNAB. Project founded by Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, (Since 1998). 2. Bear project in Trentino. Project fonded by the Autonomous Province of Trento (Servizio Conservazione Natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale), (Since 2006). 3. EBISS - Exploring the BIodiversity of Swiss Springs. PhD grant from University of Zurich, (20102013). 4. ELBA-FWS - Special series of papers on the Ecology of Lake Benthic Algae (FreshWater Science). Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (2012-2014). 96 Research Projects, high education and teaching 5. Farmland Bird Index, Woodland Bird Index e andamenti di popolazione delle specie nel periodo 2000-2012. Project fonded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, (2000-2012). 6. GBTR - Gestione Giardini Botanici TR. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (continuativo). 7. GLASSTZ - Serra tropicale Eastern Arc del Muse. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), with collaboration of University of Dar es Salaam (Since 2010). 8. HTR - Herbarium tridentinum TR. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project) (continuous). 9. La costruzione del Paesaggio Alpino. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (2013-2015). 10. Monitoraggio a lungo termine degli ambienti acquatici di alta quota. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (1996-2013). 11. Monitoraggio a lungo termine degli ambienti terrestri di alta quota. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (2010-2013). 12. NATEC - Caratterizzazione ecologica e tassonomica di taxa (specie, generi) di alghe e cianoprocarioti nuovi per la scienza o comunque di particolare interesse scientifico. (New And interesting Taxa: Ecological and Taxonomical Characterization - NATEC). Project supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (Since 2010). 13. Ornithological data base, Ornitho.it. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (Since 2010). 14. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, TN / Monitoring of vertebrate fauna in the Stelvio National Park. Supported by Parco Nazionlae dello Stelvio, (2012-2013). 15. PERFORM - PaleoEnvironmental Reconstructions From OmbRothophic Mires. PhD grant from University of Venice (2012-2015). 16. Progetto ALPI - Studio delle migrazione alltraverso le Alpi. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (Since 1997). 17. Studio delle relazioni tra migratori e cambiamenti climatici. Supported by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, (institutional project), (2012-2013). 18. T.E.N. - Progetto LIFE TEN (Trentino Ecological Network). Founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze and U.E, (institutional project) (2012-2014). 19. UEMC - Gestione della sezione territoriale Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre. Project founded by MUSE - Museo delle Scienze and Tanzania Natural Parks, (Since 2006). Teaching activity (masters, training courses) 1. Bonomi C., 2012 - Insegnamento di Botanica Applicata (CM 500857) afferente al Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Natura - Università degli Studi Pavia, 10 hours. 2. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2013 - corso di formazione per formatori: “La diffusione dell’approccio IBSE nella didattica delle scienze”, 28-31 agosto 2013, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Viotte e Arco, 32 hours. 3. Cantonati M., 2012 - Workshop on the ecology of the lake littoral (L. Molveno & L. Tovel) - Staff involved in pedagogical and educational activities of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park 11 June 2012. 97 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 4. Cantonati M., 2012 - WS 2011/2012 LV 717040 Student Project - Algae sampling in streams according to European standards / Hydrobotanische Projektstudie Botany Institute, Practical Project: PJ 1 [part of a student Project, jointly directed with Prof. Eugen Rott]. 5 hours in 2012. 5. Cantonati M., 2013 - WS 2013/2014 LV 717038 Phytobenthos. Part of the Wahlmodul: Spezielle Hydrobotanik directed by Prof. Eugen Rott. Botany Institute, VU 1. 6. Casarotto C. 2013 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Sezione SAT Sardagna, Sardagna, Trento, 18.1.2013, 2 hours. 7. Casarotto C., 2012 - “Ghiacciaio. Ieri, oggi… e domani?” Riva del Garda (TN), 1 February 2012, 2 hours. 8. Casarotto C., 2012 - Conferenza Laggio di Cadore, Comitato Scientifico Regione Veneto del Club Alpino Italiano “la Neve”, Laggio di Cadore, 4 January 2012, 2 hours. 9. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai delle Alpi Orientali. Stato di salute e evoluzione. Sondrio, 20 February 2012, 2 hours. 10. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai: un libro che racconta di climi, paesaggi e uomo che cambiano. Università degli Studi di Trento, 25 January 2012, 2 hours. 11. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai: un libro che racconta di climi, paesaggi e uomo che cambiano. Università degli Studi di Trento, Facoltà di Economia, 18 April 2012, 2 hours. 12. Casarotto C., 2012 - I ghiacciai cosa sono e come si formano, stato di conservazione nelle Alpi Orientali. Sezione Club Alpino Italiano di San Vito di Cadore, San Vito di Cadore (BL), 22 September 2012, 1 hour. 13. Casarotto C., 2013 - Ghiacciai, storie di climi, uomini e paesaggi che cambiano. Conegliano Veneto, 8 May 2013, 2 hours. 14. Casarotto C., 2013 - Ghiacciai, storie di climi, uomini e paesaggi che cambiano. Camposanpiero (PD), 22 March 2013, 2 hours. 15. Casarotto C., 2013 - Ghiacciai. Thiene (VI), 12 April 2013, 2 hours. 16. Casarotto C., 2013 - I ghiacciai e la neve. Sezione Club Alpino Italiano di San Vito di Cadore, San Vito di Cadore (BL), 23 October 2013, 2 hours. 17. Casarotto C., 2013 - Il Ghiacciaio della Marmolada. Arzignano (VI), 12 March 2013, 2 hours. 18. Dalmeri G., 2012 - “La Preistoria in Trentino”. Corso di Formazione per insegnanti A.S. 2012/2013, Istituto Comprensivo di Cavalese-Trento, 17 October 2012, 3 hours. 19. Dalmeri G., 2012 - Corso di Formazione di Geografia sulle Dolomiti Patrimonio UNESCO (Preistoria). Fondazione G. Angelini-Centro Studi sulla Montagna, Villa Welsperg-Parco Naturale di Paneveggio e Pale di S. Martino (TN), 6-8 July 2012, 1 hour. 20. Dalmeri G., 2012 - Corso di Formazione per Operatori Didattici Mostra Homo Sapiens, Museo delle Scienze Trento, 17 September 2012, 1 hour. 21. Dalmeri G., 2013 - Collegio Guide Alpine Trentino PAT, Docenza Corso di aggiornamento per Accompagnatori di Territorio Provinciali, visita ai siti preistorici della Piana di Marcesina e Riparo Dalmeri (TN). 1° intervento, 13 October 2013, 9 hours. 22. Dalmeri G., 2013 - Collegio Guide Alpine Trentino PAT, Docenza Corso di aggiornamento per Accompagnatori di Territorio Provinciali, visita ai siti preistorici della Piana di Marcesina e Riparo Dalmeri (TN). 2° intervento, 20 October 2013, 9 hours. 98 Research Projects, high education and teaching 23. Dalmeri G., 2013 - Collegio Guide Alpine Trentino PAT, Docenza Corso di aggiornamento per Accompagnatori di Territorio Provinciali, visita ai siti preistorici della Piana di Marcesina e Riparo Dalmeri (TN). 3° intervento, 03 June 2013, 9 hours. 24. Dalmeri G., Flor E., Neri S., 2013 - docenza sull’arte di Riparo Dalmeri e Riparo Gaban per proff. e studenti Università di Cambridge, 21 March 2013, 1 hours. 25. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2013 - docenza sull’arte di Riparo Dalmeri e Riparo Gaban per prof.ssa A. Pedrotti con studenti Università degli Studi di Milano, 09 April 2013, 1 hours. 26. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2013 - lezione con visita guidata a Riparo Dalmeri per alunni Scuola Primaria di Grigno e Ospedaletto (rif. ins. M.T. Marighetti, E. Coradin), 04 June 2013, 3 hours. 27. Duches R., 2012 - “La Preistoria in Trentino”. Corso di Formazione per insegnanti A.S. 2012/2013, Istituto Comprensivo di Cavalese-Trento, 31October 2012, 3 hours. 28. Flor E., 2012 - “La Preistoria in Trentino”. Corso di Formazione per insegnanti A.S. 2012/2013, Istituto Comprensivo di Cavalese-Trento, 14 November 2012, 3 hours. 29. Martinelli L., 2013 - COST IS1001 ‘bio-object’, PhD trainig event Autumn school: ‘Bio-objects Network: materiality, innovation and regulation’, University York, UK, 30 September - 2 October 2013. 30. Neri S., 2012 - “La Preistoria in Trentino”. Corso di Formazione per insegnanti A.S. 2012/2013, Istituto Comprensivo di Cavalese-Trento, 28 November 2012, 3 hours. 31. Pedrini P., 2012/2013 - Corso di Formazione per rilevatori Ornitho, Uccelli acquatici svernanti, studio delle migrazioni e rapaci diurni. Indirizzato ai rilevatori volontari della Sezione, al personale interno, agli studenti coinvolti. 32. Pedrini P., Tenan S., 2012 - Corso di ecologia dell’Università di Pavia. Corso tecnico pratico e teorico sulle migrazioni attraverso le ALPI. Seminars c/o universities and museums 1. Avanzini M., 2012 - Dolomiti: geologia e paesaggio. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 16 August 2012, 2 hours. 2. Bernardi M., 2012 - Le Dolomiti milioni di anni fa vulcani, foreste, isole coralline e strani rettili. Colfosco, 23 July 2012, 2 hours. 3. Bernardi M., Todesco R. 2012 - Rettili e dinosauri delle Dolomiti. Predazzo, 18 July 2012, 2 hours. 4. Bonomi C. & Vicentini R., 2012 - Workshop on the Muse glasshouse. Floriade 2012 - World Horticultural Expo, Venlo, The Netherlands, 15 June 2012. 5. Bonomi C., 2012 - Fenologia: cicli di crescita e sviluppo delle piante. Corso di formazione e aggiornamento “Fenologia: cicli vegetativi e cambiamenti climatici” La scuola incontra la ricerca, 12 October 2012, 3 hours. 6. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2012 - 1° incontro della 2a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE, Bergamo, 19 September 2012, 8 hours. 7. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2012 - 2° incontro della 2a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE, Bergamo, 22 October 2012, 8 hours. 8. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2012 - 3° incontro della 2a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE, Bergamo, 12 November 2012, 8 hours. 99 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 9. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2013 - 4° incontro della 2a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Bergamo, 21 February 2013, 8 hours. 10. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S. & Galetto M., 2013 - 5° incontro della 2a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Bergamo, 13 maggio 2013, 8 hours. 11. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M. & Battistotti M., 2012 - 5° incontro della 1a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Trento, 13 February 2012, 3 hours. 12. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M. & Battistotti M., 2012 - 6° incontro della 1a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Trento, 9 march 2012, 3 hours. 13. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M. & Battistotti M., 2012 - 7° incontro della 1a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Trento, 23 March 2012, 3 hours. 14. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M. & Battistotti M., 2012 - 8° incontro della 1a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Trento, 4 May 2012, 3 hours. 15. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M. & Battistotti M., 2012 - 9° incontro della 1a edizione del corso di formazione per docenti INQUIRE. Trento, 7 May 2012, 3 hours. 16. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Vicentini R. & Battistotti M., 2012 - Workshop on the Inquire project at Floriade: A cooperative classroom - Penguins and climate change. Floriade 2012 - World Horticultural Expo, Venlo, The Netherlands, 15 June 2012, 3 hours. 17. Brambilla M., 2013 - Playing with occurrence - some possible contributions of distribution models to bird conservation. British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, UK, 30 August 2013, 2 hours. 18. Casagrande L., 2012 - Le miniere storiche del Trentino. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 12 July 2012, 2 hours. 19. Casagrande L., 2013 - Le miniere storiche del Trentino. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 12 July 2013, 2 hours. 20. Casagrande L., 2013 - Memorie dal sottosuolo: minatori in Trentino dalla preistoria ai giorni nostri. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 08 August 2013, 3 hours. 21. Casagrande L., 2013 - Un viaggio nel tempo: le miniere in Trentino. Conferenza presso Liceo Prati, Trento, 06 February 2013, 2 hours. 22. Casarotto C. 2012 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Sezione SAT San Michele all’Adige, San Michele all’Adige (TN), 22 April 2012, 2 hours. 23. Casarotto C., 2012 - “Ghiacciaio. Ieri, oggi… e domani?”. Sezione Club Alpino di Mirano, Mirano (VE), 11 May 2012, 2 hours. 24. Casarotto C., 2012 - Aspetti geomorfologici della Valle dei Laghi. Geologia e ghiacciai autori di un romanzo lungo migliaia di anni. Vezzano (TN), 11 November 2012, 2 hours. 25. Casarotto C., 2012 - Con i ghiacciai, storie di climi, uomini e paesaggi che cambiano. Levico (TN), 5 November 2012, 2 hours. 26. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai. Filmfestival della montagna, Trento, 28 April 2012, 1 hour. 27. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai. Scuola di slpinismo Giorgio Graffer, Trento, 5 September 2012, 2 hours. 28. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai. Villa Lagarina (TN), 22 February 2012, 2 hours. 29. Casarotto C., 2012 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, Dimaro, 25 July 2012, 2 hours. 100 Research Projects, high education and teaching 30. Casarotto C., 2012 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Sezione SAT Congnola, Cognola (TN), 13 April 2012, 2 hours. 31. Casarotto C., 2012 - L’evoluzione dei ghaicciai italiani negli ultimi 50 anni. Università degli Studi di Milano, 27 November 2012, 2 hours. 32. Casarotto C., 2012 - L’evoluzione dei ghaicciai italiani negli ultimi 50 anni, Università degli Studi di Milano, 27 November 2012, 2 hours. 33. Casarotto C., 2012 - Lo stato di salute dei ghiacciai. Careser e La mare. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, 1 June 2012, 1 hour. 34. Casarotto C., 2013 - Ghiacciai. Rifugio Denza (TN), 15 June 2013, 1 hour. 35. Casarotto C., 2013 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, Molveno, 2 September 2013, 2 hours. 36. Casarotto C., 2013 - I ghiacciai del Trentino. Researcher open mic, Fondazione Bruno Kesler, Trento, 19 February 2013, 2 hours. 37. Casarotto C., 2013 - I ghiacciai. Scuola di slpinismo Giorgio Graffer, Trento, 28 August 2013, 1 hour. 38. Casarotto C., 2013 - Lo stato di salute dei ghiacciai. I ghiacciai del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Cogolo (TN), 4 July 2013, 2 hours. 39. Casarotto C., Tognoni G., 2012 - lo studio dei ghiacciai del trentino. Liceo Prati, Trento, 25 Jannuary 2012, 2 hours 40. Casarotto C., Tognoni G., 2013 - lo studio dei ghiacciai del trentino. Liceo Prati, Trento, 16 Jannuary 2013, 2 hours. 41. Casarotto C., Tognoni G., 2013 - lo studio dei ghiacciai del trentino. Liceo Galilei, Trento, 13 May 2013, 1 hour. 42. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2013 - Presentazione ricerche archeologiche sul sito pluristratificato del Riparo di Monteterlago, Terlago, Sede Comunale, 15 Jannuary 2013, 2 hours. 43. DalmeriG., Neri S., 2013 - I territori dei cacciatori Paleolitici e Mesolitici: Marcesina e dintorni. Conferenza per Associazione Culturale di Enego, Enego (VI), 27 December 2013, 2 hours. 44. Dellantonio E., 2012 - Le miniere del territorio eruttivo di Predazzo. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 05 September 2012, 2 hours. 45. Duches R., 2013 - Quello che la selce racconta: alla scoperta della vita quotidiana nel Paleolitico. Seminario al Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti di Predazzo. 01 August 2013, 3 hours. 46. Duches R., 2013 - Quello che la selce racconta: dimostrazione di archeologia sperimentale. Seminario divulgativo tenuto presso il Museo Archeologico dell’Altopiano a Rotzo (VI), 17 August 2013, 2 hours. 47. Duches R., Benini S., 2012 - Cacciatori si nasce. ARCHEO LIVE (Mostra Homo Sapiens), Biblioteca Museo delle Scienze Trento, 14 November 2012, 2 hours. 48. Duches R., Neri S., 2012 - L’archeologia sperimentale a servizio dell’interpretazione archeologica: armi e strategie venatorie degli ultimi cacciatori paleolitici del Trentino. Tracce dal passato: nuovi approcci per la ricostruzione del popolamento preistorico trentino. Biblioteca Museo delle Scienze, Trento, 9 May 2012, 2 hours. 49. Duches R., Neri S., 2012 - Schegge di preistoria. OPERAMUSE, Museo delle Scienze Trento, 07 ovember 2012, 3 hours. 101 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 50. Duches R., Neri S., 2012 - Sperimentare la selce. ARCHEO LIVE (Mostra Homo Sapiens), Biblioteca Museo delle Scienze, 10 October 2012, 2 hours. 51. Duches R., Peresani M., 2013 - Dal ritiro glaciale, alle foretste, all’uomo. Dopo cena alternativo, Museo di Scienze Naturali, Trento, 10 Jannuary 2013, 3 hours. 52. Ferretti P., 2012 - A cavallo della linea della Valsugana: i minerali delle pegmatiti granitiche di Cima d’Asta. Conferenza presso Ecomuseo del Lagorai, Carzano, 13 June 2012, 2 hours. 53. Ferretti P., 2012 - I minerali delle pegmatiti granitiche di Cima d’Asta. Conferenza presso Gruppo Mineralogico Paleontologico Euganeo, Abano Terme, 04.05,2012, 2 hours. 54. Ferretti P., 2012 - Novità mineralogiche dal Trentino. Conferenza presso Club Mineralogico Bolzano, 06 November 2012, 2 hours. 55. Ferretti P., 2012 - Novità mineralogiche dal Trentino. Conferenza presso Club Mineralogico Scaligero, Verona, 22 November 2012, 2 hours. 56. Flor E., 2013 - La Preistoria della Valle di Non. Dall’Anaunia al Mondo Dal Mondo all’Anaunia, undicesima settimana di studio dedicata all’Emigrazione, Tuenno (Trento), 18 November 2013, 1 hour. 57. Franceschi M., 2012 - Geologia in 3D: il Latemar da un insolito punto di vista. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 26 July 2012, 2 hours. 58. Franceschini A., 2012 - Ecologia fluviale ed invertebrati acquatici. Seminario di formazione per Operatori Didattici del Museo delle Scienze, 20 February 2012, 3 hours. 59. Franceschini A., 2012 - Insetti coinquilini e concittadini. Seminario all’interno del progetto didattico “Tè degli insegnanti”, Museo delle Scienze, Trento,16 March 2012, 2 hours. 60. Franceschini A., 2012 - La zanzara tigre: dal sud-est asiatico a Trento. Seminario all’interno del progetto didattico “Ask to the Scientist”, 13 February 2012, 2 hours. 61. Franceschini A., 2012 - Torrenti, forre ed ecologia. Seminario all’interno del “1° Corso Nazionale di Perfezionamento Tecnico Torrentistico” tenutosi in Val Concei (TN), 18 July 2012, 2 hours. 62. Gandini M., 2013 - Cambiamenti climatici e flora di alta montagna: il bio-monitoraggio. Università degli Studi di Pavia, corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura, insegnamento di Botanica Applicata, 22 April 2013, 2 hours. 63. Gobbi M., 2012 - Effetto del Global Change sulla biodiversità: chiediamolo agli Insetti terrestri. Seminario all’interno del progetto didattico “Ask to the Scientist”, 3 February 2012, 2 hours. 64. Gobbi M., 2012 - Gli Artropodi terrestri per la valutazione ambientale e il monitoraggio degli ecosistemi. Seminario tenuto all’interno del corso “Metodi di analisi degli ecosistemi” tenuto presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, 12 marzo 2012, 2 hours. 65. Gobbi M., 2012 - Insetti coinquilini e compagni di escursione: amici o nemici?. Serata naturalistica tenuta presso la sede del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Cogolo, 17 July 2012, 2 hours. 66. Gobbi M., 2012 - Insetti coinquilini e compagni di escursione: amici o nemici?. Serata naturalistica tenuta presso Rabbi Fonti, 5 September 2012, 1 hour. 67. Gobbi M., 2012 - Insetti coinquilini e concittadini. Seminario all’interno del progetto didattico “Tè degli insegnanti”, 16 marzo 2012, 2 hours. 68. Gobbi M., 2012 - Le comunità di artropodi predatori per la valutazione e il mantenimento della qualità degli agro ecosistemi. Seminario all’interno del corso “Biodiversità e Agricoltura” tenuto presso l’Istituto di San Michele al’Adige, 15 February 2012, 2 hours. 102 Research Projects, high education and teaching 69. Gobbi M., 2012 - Mangiare insetti: mitologia, cultura e sostenibilità ambientale. Seminario tenuto all’interno del Festival della Biodiversità, Parco Nord (Milano), 13 September 2012, 2 hours. 70. Gobbi M., 2012 - Piccoli animali dei boschi. Serata naturalistica per il gruppo micologico di Cavalese, 16 July 2012, 2 hours. 71. Gobbi M., 2013 - Ecologia delle geoforme alpine clima-dipendenti: gli artropodi terrestri come strumento interpretativo. CNR di Pallanza, 3 December 2013, 2 hours. 72. Gobbi M., 2013 - Insetti coinquilini e compagni di escursione: amici o nemici?. Municipio di Predazzo (TN), 22 August 2013, 1 hour. 73. Gobbi M., 2013 - Mangiare insetti: perché no?. Il tè degli Insegnanti, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, 20 July 2013, 1 hour. 74. Gobbi M., 2013 - Mangiare insetti: perché no?. Serata Naturalistica per il Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Cogolo di Peio (TN) 24 July 2013, 1 hour. 75. Gobbi M., 2013 - Mangiare insetti: perché no?. Serata Naturalistica per il Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Rabbi Fonti (TN), 28 August 2013, 1 hour. 76. L. Martinelli, 2013 - “Donne di Scienza e prospettive professionali”. 2° incontro pubblico di formazione, Consigliera di parità, “la cultura: spesa o investimento? Opportunità formative e professionali”. Showroom Quartiere delle Albere, MUSE - Museo delle scienze, Trento, 24 May 2013. 77. Lencioni V., 2013 - La biodiversità ed i cambiamenti del clima. Conferenza nell’ambito della summer school “L’Unione europea e il cambiamento climatico”, Università degli Studi di Trento, 24 June 2013, 4 hours. 78. Lencioni V., 2013 - Studi sulla fauna invertebrata di torrenti glaciali alpini: ecologia, fisiologia e capacità adattativa in relazione ai cambiamenti climatici. CNR-IRSA, Brugherio (MN), 11 December 2013, 4 hours. 79. Mondoni A. 2012 - Capacità di adattamento delle piante alpine ai cambiamenti climatici. Progetto CAPACE, Provincia Autonoma di Trento - Marie Curie Action COFUND, EU FP7. Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Bioscienze 26 November 2012, 3 hours. 80. Pedrini P., 2012 - Habitat di specie. Corso di Aggiornamento per agronomi forestali Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 23 February 2012. 81. Pedrini P., 2012 - La conservazione dei boschi ripari: tecniche di gestione e conservazione a tutela della fauna. 82. Ricci S., Rovero F, Menegon M., 2012 - 3 Seminari su biodiversità e progetto in Tanzania alla facolta di Ingegneria. Università di Trento, corso di ecologia tenuto dal Dr. Marco Ciolli, 2012, 6 hours. 83. Ricci S., Rovero F, Menegon M., 2013 - Seminari su biodiversità e progetto in Tanzania alla facolta di Ingegneria. Università di Trento, corso di ecologia tenuto dal Dr. Marco Ciolli, 2013, 6 hours. 84. Romanazzi E., 2013 - Anfibi e Rettili: lo sconosciuto popolo dell’Altopiano. 8° Festival del Fungo e della Natura di Gallio (VI), 19 agosto 2013, 3 hours. 85. Romanazzi E., 2013 - Attività di conservazione degli anfibi in provincia di Treviso dal 2003 ad oggi. Giornate Provinciali dell’Ambiente, Convegno “Gli Anfibi: Attività di conservazione dalla provincia di Treviso all’Unione Europea”, Provincia di Treviso, 26 September 2013, 1 hour. 86. Romanazzi E., 2013 - Salamandre pre-alpine: aggiornamenti dal campo, tra ricerca e conservazione. In: Herpethon 2013 - Maratona erpetologica nazionale, Societas Herpetologica Italica, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. “- 1 + 1 = … 2 problemi di conservazione! Ovvero la 103 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 scomparsa di Anfibi e Rettili locali non è compensata dall’arrivo di specie esotiche”, Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 29 June 2013, 1 hour. 87. Rovero F., 2013 - Ecologia e conservazione di mammiferi di foresta pluviale: il progetto del MUSEMuseo delle Scienze di Trento in Tanzania. Seminario, Università di Firenze, November 2013, 2 hours. 88. Rovero F., 2013 - La ricerca scientifica negli hotspot di biodiversità globale: motivi e significati. Liceo Prati, Trento, March 2013, 3 hours. 89. Rovero F., 2013 - Ricerca e conservazione della biodiversità nei Monti Udzungwa della Tanzania: il progetto del MUSE. Liceo Galilei, Trento, November 2013, 2 hours. 90. Rovero F., 2013 - Ricerca faunistica e conservazione della biodiversità tropicale: il progetto del Museo di Trento in Tanzania. Lezione a master Università di Padova, June 2013, 3 hours. 91. Rovero F., 2013 - Studio e monitoraggio della fauna selvatica tramite fototrappolaggio, e cenni sul ‘distance sampling’. Lezione a master, Unievrsità di Bari, September 2013, 4 hours. 92. Todesco R., Bernardi M., 2012 - Rettili e dinosauri delle Dolomiti. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, 18 July 2012, 2 hours. 93. Tomasoni R., 2012 - Geological landscapes: alla scoperta del paesaggio geologico trentino. Conferenza presso Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo Predazzo, 30 August 2012, 2 hours. 94. Vicentini R., 2012 - The MUSE Eastern Arc tropical green house. Mottershead Suite, Cedar House, Chester Zoo, Chester, UK, 29 November 2012, 1 hour. Lectures 1. Casagrande L., 2012 - Lezione per il corso di Archeologia Medievale (laurea triennale in Archeologia, Università di Trento - Prof. Elisa Possenti), aprile, 4 hours. 2. Casagrande L., 2012 - Lezioni per il corso di Archeologie Postclassiche (laurea specialistica in Archeologia Medievale, Prof. Gian Pietro Brogiolo), marzo, 4 hours. 3. Casarotto C., 2012 - Ghiacciai: un libro che racconta di climi, paesaggi e uomo che cambiano. Università degli Studi di Trento, 25 January 2012, 2 hours. 4. Casarotto C., 2012 Ghiacciaio. Un libro che racconta di climi, paesaggi e uomini che cambiano. Università degli Studi di Trento, Facoltà di Economia, 18 April 2012, 2 hours. 5. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2013 - lezione con visita guidata a Riparo Dalmeri per studenti Scuole Superiori di Rovereto-ITET FONTANA (rif. prof. F. Cramerotti), 3 hours. In-house workshops and congresses organizations 1. 5th INQUIRE Partner’s meeting. MUSE, Trento, Arco Arboretum, 29 September - 2 October 2013. 2. Congresso della Società Italiana di Biologia Evoluzionisitica. Trento 28-31 August 2013. 3. Giornata di studi “Conoscere e valorizzare le miniere del Trentino”. Trento, 20 April 2013. 4. Le Reti ecologiche nella pianificazione territoriale: il contributo del LIFE TEN. Trento, 25 May 2013. 5. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. 6. Workshop annuale Progetto Alpi - ISPRA. Ozzano Emilia (BO), 12 July 2012. 7. Workshop annuale Progetto Alpi - ISPRA. Ozzano Emilia (BO), 14 June 2013. 104 Research Projects, high education and teaching 8. XV Meeiting of African Amphibian Working Group. Trento, May 2012. 9. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia - Trento, 11-15 September 2013. Ph.Ds 1. Araldi Alessandro, 2011/2013 - Effects of habitat fragmentation and human disturbance on the Udzungwa red colobus. Tutor: F. Rovero. 2. Bernareggi Giulietta, 2013/2016 - Studio degli effetti del riscaldamento climatico sulla germinazione e sulla longevità delle specie di valletta nivale. Università degli Studi di Parma - Dipartimento di Bioscienze - Ciclo XXVIII. Tutors: G. Rossi A. Mondoni. In prep. 3. Ceppa Florencia, 2012/2016 - Stress and the gut microbiota - keys to unlocking the mammalian gut-brain axis. Tutor: C. Barelli. In prep. 4. Duches Rossella, 2009/2012 - Pratiche venatorie e dinamiche comportamentali dei gruppi tardoglaciali dell’Italia nord-orientale: analisi tecnologica, economica e funzionale delle armature litiche. Dottorato di Ricerca in “Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Archeologica e i Beni Culturali”. Curriculum: Quaternaio, Preistoria e Protostoria, XXIV CICLO. Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Tutors: M. Peresani, G. Dalmeri. 338 pp. 5. Kamberovic Jasmina, 2013 - Main topics: Photoautotrophs in mountain springs of Konjuh [visiting PhD student]. University of Zagreb (Croatia) & University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 6. Letáková Markéta, 2013/2014 - Main topics: Epiphytic diatoms from the Valagola_SEFIRA Project, macroscopic colonies of Cymbella excisiformis in the downstream sector of a SAL spring. [visiting PhD student]. University of Olomouc (Czech Republic). 7. Martin Emanuel, 2012/2016 - Ecology and conservation of mammals in the Udzungwa mountains. Tutor: F. Rovero. In prep. 8. Mogna Marcella, 2012 - Ricerche ecologiche su habitat sorgentizi nel Parco Naturale Alta Valle Pesio e Tanaro e valli limitrofe / Ecological investigations on spring habitats in the Alta Valle Pesio and Tanaro Nature Park and nearby valleys. Tutors: M. Cantonati, G. Berta, Dr. Flora Andreucci. Dept. of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria (Italy). Thesis defence: 28 March 2012. 120 pp. 9. Orsenigo Simone, 2011/2014 - Approccio multiscala per lo studio dell’effetto dei cambiamenti climatici sulla flora alpina. Dottorato in Ecologia Sperimentale e Geobotanica. Università degli Studi di Pavia - Ciclo XXVII. Università degli Studi di Pavia - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente (AA 2010/2011), Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni. In prep. 10. Rimet Frédéric, 2012 - Diatoms: an ecoregional indicator of nutrient, organic matter and micropollutants pollution. PhD Thesis, Université de Savoie, France. Tutors: I. Domaizon. M. Cantonati was member of the Thesis Committee as Rapporteur. 11. Rosati Melissa, 2013/2016 - Ostracod assemblages in relation to hydrogeological and hydrochemical settings in selected Emilia-Romagna springs. Tutors: G. Rossetti, M. Cantonati, S. Segadelli. Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Parma (Italy). In prep. 12. Saber Abdullah A., 2012-2014 - Characterization of algae and cyanobacteria assemblages of freshwater environments (in particular wells and hot springs) in the El-Farafra Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt. Tutors: A.S. Shaaban, M. Cantonati. Ain Shams University (Egypt). Project proposals to gain economic support for the collaboration are in prep. In prep. 13. Segnana Michela, 2012/2015 - Environmental and climate change (Holocene) in the Dolomites inferred from subfossil diatoms in mire cores (training set based on assemblage composition and 105 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 diatom-silica oxygen-isotopes). Tutors: M. Cantonati (2012-2013; then she changed PhD topic, switching from diatoms to pollen), C. Barbante. Environmental Sc. Dept., University of Venice (Italy). Funded by CariVerona Foundation. In prep. 14. Tampucci Duccio, 2012/2015 - Vegetazione e artropodofauna delle geoforme pro- e periglaciali: significato ecologico e biogeografico di un complesso di habitat. Dottorando dello’Univeristà degli Studi di Milano, Dottorando di ricerca in Scienze Naturalistiche e ambientali XXVIII Ciclo - Tutor: M. Gobbi. 15. Taxböck Lukas, 2010/2014 - Diatoms in Swiss springs. Tutors: M. Cantonati, P. Linder (the former supervisor was Prof. H. Preisig, deceased 2011). Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich (Switzerland). In prep. 16. Tenan Simone, 2010/2012 - Hierarchical Bayesian modelling: Applications in animal population ecology. Dottorato di Ricerca in Ecologia sperimentale e Geobotanica, XXV ciclo. Università di Pavia. tutors: G. Bogliani, M. Girardello, P. Pedrini, G. Tavecchia. 17. Tonelli Elena, 2013/2016 - Ecology and conservation of critically endangered forestal amphibians within the Eastern Arc center of hyper-endemism. Tutor: M. Menegon. In prep. Masters and degrees 1. Angelini Lisa , 2012 - Revisione e sviluppo di attività educative in chiave IBSE presso i giardini botanici del Museo delle Scienze di Trento. Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Laurea specialistica. Università di Padova. 1 May- 31 December 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 2. Angelini Lisa, 2013 - Revisione e sviluppo di attività educative in chiave IBSE (Inquiry Based Science Education) presso l’Arboreto di Arco, Giardino Botanico del Museo delle Scienze di Trento. Laurea magistrale in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Padova (AA 2012/2013). Tutors: A. Miola, C. Bonomi. 154 pp. 3. Basso Silvia, 2013 - Tirocinio formativo per la tesi di laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie per la Natura (Università di Padova) presso la stazione di inanellamento Passo del Brocon, 20 September 2013 - 30 November 2013. Tutor: F. Rossi. (Training). 4. Beber Anna, 2013/2014 - La fauna invertebrata e lo stato ecologico delle zone umide nell’Ontaneta di Croviana (Sito di Importanza Comunitaria IT3120117, Trentino, Italia). Tesi di Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Padova. Tutors: L. Guidolin e V. Lencioni. In prep. 5. Bernareggi Giulietta, 2012 - Simulazione in campo degli effetti del riscaldamento climatico sulle piante alpine. Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente (AA 2010/2011). Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni. 64 pp. 6. Bortolotti Eleonora, 2012 - Gestione e catalogazione delle collezioni entomologiche del MUSE. Ist. De Carneri, Civezzano, presso la sezione di Zoologia degli Invertebrati ed Idrobiologia, 21-29 February 2012. Tutor: A. Franceschini. (Training). 7. Canteri Elisabetta, 2013 - Banche dati di mammiferi fototrappolati. Università di Bologna. Tutor: F. Rovero. (Training). 8. Cavriani Davide, 2012/2013 - Studio sulla longevità dei semi in popolazioni europee di silene suecica (lodd.) greuter & burdet (caryophyllaceae). Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni. 59 pp. 9. Decarli Giulia, 2013 - Tirocinio formativo per la tesi di laurea triennale Scienze Agrarie Bologna. Campionamento parassiti su Uccelli migratori a Bocca Caset , August - October 2013. Tutor: A. Franzoi. (Training). 106 Research Projects, high education and teaching 10. Fambri Letizia, 2011/2012 - Studio demografico di Callianthemum kernerianum (Ranunculaceae) sul Monte Baldo (NE-Italia). Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Tutors: R. Gerdol, Correlatore: G. Parolo, C. Bonomi. 47 pp. 11. Frizzera Martina, 2012 Censimento e Sviluppo delle collezioni del parco botanico del liceo Galilei e del Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Liceo Galilei, Trento. 2-13 July 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 12. Gaglio Matteo, 2012/2013 - Risposta molecolare e capacità di detossificazione in Chironomus riparius (Diptera, Insecta) esposto al rame. Tesi di Laurea Triennale in Biotecnologie, Università di Trento. Tutors: O. Jousson, G. Viero, V. Lencioni M. Gaglio. In prep. 13. Giosele Cristina, 2012 - Studio sulla connettività negli uccelli migratori in transito attraverso le Alpi. Università di Venezia, Facoltà di Sc., Mat. Fisiche e Naturali, corso di laurea triennale in Scienze Ambientali. Tutor: P. Pedrini. 14. Gozzini Matteo, 2012/2013 - Araneocenosi del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: B. Rossaro, M. Gobbi. In prep. 15. Imperiale Giada, 2012/2013 - Conservazione della morfologia e delimitazione delle specie nel genere Rhampholeon (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Università di Padova.Tutors: M. B. Rasotto, M. Menegon. 16. Isabelle Verin, 2012 - Verifica della determinazione delle specie in coltivazione al Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Laurea triennale Università di Padova. 28 July - 30 october 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 17. Losapio Gianalberto, 2012/2013 - Studio della rete di impollinatori in ambiente di prateria alpina. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: M. Caccianiga, M. Gobbi e C. Compostella. In prep. 18. Maffioletti Chiara, 2012/2013 - Comunità di piante e carabidi su debris-covered glaciers. Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: M. Caccianiga, M. Gobbi e C. Compostella. In prep. 19. Maistri Eleonora, 2012 - L’utilizzo di fonti vegetali nella fitobalneoterapia: tradizione e nuove prospettive nella promozione del benessere. Il caso studio di Garniga Terme. Corso di laurea in scienze e tecnologie dei prodotti erboristici, dietetici e cosmetici, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università di Ferrara. 1 May - 31 July 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 20. Manzinello Margherita, 2013 - Lo studio della migrazione attraverso l’attività di inanellamento, Bocca di Caset. Liceo Galilei di Trento. 20-31 August 2013. Tutor: A. Franzoi. (Training). 21. Martina Zanetti, 2013 - Le collezioni entomologiche del MUSE: gestione e catalogazione. MarchJuly 2013. Tutor: A. Franceschini. (Training). 22. Martino Giuseppe, 2012 - Fattori influenzanti l’ornitofauna nidificante nei meleti della Val di Non (TN). Tesi di Laurea Specialistica in Scienze e Gestione della Natura, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Tutors: S. Tommasini, P. Pedrini, M. Brambilla. 23. Mazzulon Ilaria Alice, 2012/2013 - Cenosi di ragni e coleotteri carabidi sul rock glacier del Vedrettino (SO). Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. Bioscienze. Tutors: M. Caccianiga, M. Gobbi. 24. Michelon Francesca, 2012 - Lo studio della migrazione attraverso l’attività di inanellamento, Bocca di Caset. Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige. Trento. 27 August - 7 September 2012. Tutor: A. Franzoi. (Training). 25. Micheloni Manuel, 2012 - Censimento e Sviluppo delle collezioni del parco botanico del liceo Galilei e del Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Liceo Galilei, Trento. 6-18 August 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 107 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 26. Mosna Simone, 2012 - Censimento e Sviluppo delle collezioni del parco botanico del liceo Galilei e del Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Liceo Galilei, Trento. 20-31 August 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 27. Recchia Matteo, 2012 - Effetti ambientali sulla longevità dei semi: il caso studio di Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke. Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura, Università degli Studi di Pavia - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente (AA 2010/2011), Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni; A. Balestrazzi M. Donà. 71 pp. 28. Rossi Eleonora, 2012/2013 - I Lepidotteri del Monte Peller (TN): tassonomia, ecologia e vulnerabilità. Tesi di Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: F. De Bernardi e M. Gobbi. 29. Rossi Giulia, 2012 - Verifica della determinazione delle specie in coltivazione al Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Laurea triennale Università di Bologna. 28 July - 3 September 2012. Tutor: Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 30. Santini Chiara, 2011/2012 - Distribuzione spaziale rispetto al livello idrometrico di filamenti maturi e immaturi dell’alga rossa Bangia atropurpurea e delle diatomee epifite sulle rive rocciose del Lago di Garda. Corso di laurea triennale in Scienze Naturali, Elaborato di Laurea in Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente, Università di Genova. Tutors: M. Cantonati, S. Salvidio. Thesis defence: 13 November 2012. Awarded the highest grade for the Bachelor thesis. 25 pp. 31. Sartori Matteo, 2011/2012 - Gli Anfibi della Valle dell’Adige : stato di conservazione e proposte gestionali Università Ala Mater Studiorum. Università di Bologna. Tutors: F. Pupin, M. Menegon. 32. Slomp Giulia, 2012 - Censimento e Sviluppo delle collezioni del parco botanico del liceo Galilei e del Giardino Botanico Alpino delle Viote. Liceo Galilei, Trento. 16-27 July 2012. Costantino Bonomi. (Training). 33. Vailati Marzia, 2012/2013 - I Lepidotteri del Monte Peller (TN): biodiversità e sensibilità in relazione alla gestione degli habitat. Tesi di Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano. Tutors: F. De Bernardi e M. Gobbi. In prep. 34. Verin Isabelle, 2012/2013 - Determinazione delle specie presenti in un Giardino Botanico: il caso delle Viotte. Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Padova. Tutors: A. Miola, C. Bonomi. 52 pp. 35. Wang Chu, 2012/2013 - Metodologie per la conservazione delle collezioni vive di piante: la banca dei semi. Laurea Triennale in Scienze Biologiche, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologia. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni. 32 pp. 36. Zani Deborah, 2011/2012 - Trattamenti post raccolta per il miglioramento della longevità dei semi di specie target alpine conservate ex situ. Laurea Triennale in Scienze Biologiche, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni, A. Balestrazzi. 32 pp. 37. Zanini Alessandro, 2013/2014 - Impatti di gestione e uso del territorio sui tassi di senescenza e interramento del Lago di Valagola, Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta:. [Impacts of land use and management on the senescing and filling rates of the mountain Lake Valagola -Adamello-Brenta Nature Park]. Baccalaureate Thesis in Mountain Environment Protection and Development, University of Mountain Environment in Edolo. Tutor: M. Cantonati. in prep. 38. Zannella Giulia, 2012/2013 - Effetto delle onde di calore sulla germinazione autunnale di specie alpine. Laurea triennale in Scienze Biologiche, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente. Tutors: G. Rossi, A. Mondoni, S. Orsenigo. 33 pp. 108 Research Projects, high education and teaching 39. Zanotti Maddalena, 2013 - La migrazione attraverso la Valle di Ledro: Attività di Iananellamento scientifico presso la Bocca di Caset. Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige. 21-26 October 2013. Tutor: A. Franzoi. (Training). Training courses 1. Alpine Summer School: Climate Change and the Mountain Environment, partecipazione alla summer school organizzata dall’Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima - Isac Cnr di Torino - in collaborazione al Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS - Francia). 18-28 June 2013. 2. Studio dei macroinvertebrati d’acqua dolce, Summer school, Giardino Botanico Alpino, Viote del Monte Bondone, Trento, 23-27 luglio 2012. 3. Tropical rainforest biodiversity: GIS and field tools for assessing, monitoring and mapping, Summer school, 2012 edition. 4. Tropical rainforest biodiversity: GIS and field tools for assessing, monitoring and mapping, Summer school, 2013 edition. Volunteers 1. Aaron Iemma - Biodiversità in Rete, Banche dati al servizio della conservazione. 8 October 2011 - 8 October 2012. 2. Elisa Stocchetti - Paleolimnology of Lake Valagola (diatoms). [Volunteer research fellow]. November 2013. 3. Helen Wiesinger - Biodiversità in rete: banche dati biologiche al servizio della conservazione dell’ambiente. 1 November 2011 - 30 October 2012. Public activities 1. Duches R., 2013 - “A caccia di risposte:l’archeologia sperimentale al servizio dell’interpretazione archeologica”, FameLab, Researcher’s Open Mic, FBK, Povo (TN), 28 February 2013, 4 hours. 2. Duches R.,2013 - “Famelab”, finale regionale, Teatro Cuminetti Trento, 15 March 2013, 4 hours. 3. Forum italiano del progetto Inquire. http://inquire.italiaforum.net/login 4. Franceschini A., 2012 - “Insetti”, registrazione intervista radiofonica all’interno del programma “Micro-Macro”, sede Rai di Bolzano, 30 November 2012. 5. Franceschini A., 2012 - “Monitoraggio della zanzara tigre a Trento”, registrazione intervista radiofonica, RTTR, 6 August 2012. 6. Franceschini A., 2012 - “Monitoraggio della zanzara tigre a Trento”, registrazione intervista televisiva all’interno del TGR, Rai di Trento, 6 August 2012. 7. Gobbi M., 2012 - “Aperitivo con alghe e insetti”, Trento, 19 November 2012. 8. Gobbi M., 2012 - “Festival dell’Economia”, Trento, 2 June 2012. 9. Gobbi M., 2012 - “Insetti alla carta”, progetto “Incroci di senso”, Pergine Valsugana, Trento, 8 July 2012. 10. Gobbi M., 2012 - “L’aperitivo che non immagini” all’interno del Festival della Scienza, Genova, 28 October 2012. 109 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 11. Gobbi M., 2013 - “Ragni, Insetti e Clima: gli ambienti d’alta quota come trappola, chance e rifugio”, FameLab, Researcher Open Mic - FEM, San Michele all’Adige (TN), 19 February 2013. 12. Gobbi M., Franceschini A., Lencioni V., Macagno A.L.M. & Toldo L., 2012 - “Notte dei ricercatori”, Università di Trento, Facoltà di Lettere, 28 September 2012. 13. Marino E.R., Martinelli L., 2013 - “ETERNeTA’: La vecchiaia può attendere”. Teatrincorso & MUSE, Trento. Repliche: (i) Museo delle Scienze, Trento, 18 April 2013 (ii) MUSE, Trento, 27 September 2013, evento speciale in ‘Researchers’ night: one night, 300 European cities, 2013. 14. MUSE, 2012 - “Notte dei ricercatori”, Trento, 26 September 2012. 15. MUSE, 2013 - “Notte dei ricercatori”, Trento, 27 September 2013. 16. MUSE, 2013 - “Opening MUSE”, evento inaugurazione, 27-28 July 2013. 17. Nuovo sito del Giardino Botanico Alpino Viotte. http://www.mtsn.tn.it/Viote_giardino_botanico/ online da maggio 2012 18. Pagina facebook italiana del progetto Inquire. https://www.facebook.com/pages/INQUIRE-Italia/221537364550949 19. Pagina twitter italiana del progetto Inquire. https://twitter.com/INQUIREItalia 20. Pedrini P., 2012 - “Naturalmente Trentino”, Presentazione libro SAT (2012) Festival della Montagna. 21. Rinnovata edizione del sito della Sede minore del MUSE in Tanzania, Centro di Monitoraggio Ecologico dei Monti Udzungwa. www.udzungwacentre.org 22. Sez. Zoologia dei Vertebrati, 2012 - “Aree protette e Servizi ecosistemici, valori ambientali sociali ed economici”. Seminario, Chair Massimo De Marchi, Museo delle scienze, 25 May 2012. 23. Sez. Zoologia dei Vertebrati, 2012 - “Gli Uccelli acquatici svernanti in Trentino: sintesi dei censimenti IWC 2000-2009”. Presentazione pubblicazione Museo delle Scienze 24. Sez. Zoologia dei Vertebrati, 2012 - “Rotta Sauch 2012 - Porte aperte al Roccolo Sauch Val di Cembra”, in collaborazione con APPA; 20-21 October 2012. 25. Sez. Zoologia dei Vertebrati, 2012 - Ciclo conferenze Fauna Club - per parlare di Fauna al Museo delle Scienze (sette conferenze con relatori nazionali ed internazionali su tematiche legate alla fauna, ai suoi habitat e alla conservazione e gestione). 26. Sez. Zoologia dei Vertebrati, 2013 - Ciclo conferenze Fauna Club - per parlare di Fauna al Museo delle Scienze (sette conferenze con relatori nazionali ed internazionali su tematiche legate alla fauna, ai suoi habitat e alla conservazione e gestione). 27. Sezione italiana del sito internet del progetto inquire. http://www.inquirebotany.org/it/ 28. Sito sul progetto di realizzazione di un film documentario sull’esplorazione biologica in collaborazione con l’agenzia Prospekt. www.skyilands.net 110 Research Projects, high education and teaching Temporary exhibitions 1. Avanzini A., Bernardi M., Petti F.M & Kustatscher E., “DinoMiti, rettili fossili delle Dolomiti” - mostra itinerante promossa dalla Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO. Predazzo, 21 June 2013 - 31 October 2013. 2. Avanzini A., Bernardi M., Petti F.M & Kustatscher E., “DinoMiti, rettili fossili delle Dolomiti” - mostra itinerante promossa dalla Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO. Cortina d’Ampezzo, 6 december 2013 21 April 2014. 3. Barelli C., “La Mano. Arto, arte, artefatti” - Mostra temporanea, 24 September 2013 - 20 january 2014. 4. Bombarda R., Casarotto C., Decarli R., “Dalle Alpi all’Artico, a 140 anni dalla spedizione alla Franz Joseph Land” - Trento 26 April 2012 - 1 June 2012. 5. Bonomi C., Vicentini R., “Floriade 2012” - Contribution to the Italian Pavillion, World Horticultural Expo, Venlo, The Netherlands, 5 April - 7 October 2012. 6. Casarotto C., Pole Position - mostra temporanea Genova 19 May 2012. 7. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Flor E., Neri S., “Homo Sapiens” - mostra temporanea, 21 September 2012 - 13 January 2013. 8. Kustatscher E., Bernardi M., Petti F.M & Avanzini, M. “Dino&co. Saurier der Dolomiten/Sauri delle Dolomiti” - mostra temporanea del Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige e del Museo delle Scienze, Trento. Bolzano 18 October 2011 - 8 April 2012. 9. Romanazzi E. (a cura di), “Il gioiello dell’Altopiano: la salamandra dorata si racconta in cimbro” // “The jewel of the Plateau: the golden salamanders tells his story in cimbrian” - Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Progetto Alpensalamander-Università di Salisburgo, Università di Padova. Museo dell’Acqua di Asiago, August 2012 - May 2013. 10. Romanazzi E., “Anfibi e Rettili: lo sconosciuto popolo dell’Altopiano” // “Amphibians and Reptiles: the unknown inhabitants of the Plateau” - Comune di Gallio, Comunità Montana Spettabile Reggenza dei Sette Comuni, MUSE Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Societas Herpetologica Italica, Progetto Alpensalamander-Università di Salisburgo. 8° Festival del Fungo e della Natura di Gallio (VI), 16-20 August 2013. 111 Appendix 4 Publications The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Publications (2012-2013) Nr. Scientific papers on ISI journals 91 Scientific papers on non- ISI journals 66 Books or book chapters 24 Popular science papers 13 Oral communications (with published abstract) 76 Oral communications (without published abstract) 44 Posters (with published abstract) 19 Posters (without published abstract) 9 Congress attendances 74 Project report 48 Scientific papers on ISI journals 1. Abeli T., Gentili R., Mondoni A., Orsenigo S., Rossi G. 2013 - Effects of marginality on plant population performance. J. Biogeogr., ISSN: 0305-0270, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12215. 2. Abeli T., Rossi G., Gentili R., Gandini M., Mondoni A. & Cristofanelli P., 2012 - Effect of the extreme summer heat waves on isolated populations of two orophitic plants in the north Apennines (Italy). Nord. J. Bot., 30: 109-115. 3. Barej M.F., Rödel M.O., Loader S.P., Menegon M., Gonwouo N.L., Penner J., Gvoždík V., Günther R., Bell R.C., Nagel P. & Schmitz A., 2013 - Light shines through the spindrift - Phylogeny of African torrent frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Petropedetidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 71: 261273. 4. Barelli C. & Heistermann M., 2012 - Socio-demographic correlates of fecal androgen levels in wild male white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar). International Journal of Primatology, 33: 784-798. 5. Barelli C., Mastudaira K., Roos C., Wolf T., Heistermann M., Hodges K., Ishida T., Malaivijitnond S. & Reichard U.H., 2013 - Extra-pair paternity confirmed in wild white-handed gibbons. American Journal of Primatology, 75: 1185-1195. 6. Barelli C., Mundry R., Heistermann M. & Hammerschmidt K., 2013 - Cues to androgens and quality in male gibbon songs. PLoS ONE, 8(12): e82748. 7. Bernardi M., 2013 - Review of Wheeler, W. D, Systematics: A Course of Lectures. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 51(1): 83. 8. Bionda R. & Brambilla. M., 2012 - Rainfall and landscape features affect productivity in an Alpine population of Eagle Owl Bubo bubo. Journal of Ornithology, 153: 167-171. 9. Böhm M., Collen B., Baillie J.E.M., Bowles P., Menegon M., Pupin F., et al., 2013 - The conservation status of the world’s reptiles. Biological Conservation, 157: 372-385. 10. Brambilla M. & Bionda. R., 2013 - Variation in productivity and territory occupancy in an Eagle Owl Bubo bubo population. Ornis Fennica, 90: 50-56. 11. Brambilla M. & Ficetola G.F., 2012. Species distribution models as a tool to estimate reproductive parameters: a case study with a passerine bird species. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81: 781-787. 114 Pubblications 12. Brambilla M. & Pedrini. P., 2013 - The introduction of subsidies for grassland conservation in the Italian Alps coincided with population decline in a threatened grassland species, the Corncrake Crex crex. Bird Study, 60: 404-408. 13. Brambilla M., Bassi E., Bergero V., Casale F., Chemollo M., Falco R., Longoni V., Saporetti F., Viganò E. & Vitulano S., 2013 - Modelling distribution and potential overlap between Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus and Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius: implications for management and monitoring plans. Bird Conservation International, 23: 502-511. 14. Brambilla M., Falco R. & Negri I., 2012 - A spatially explicit assessment of within-season changes in environmental suitability for farmland birds along an altitudinal gradient. Animal Conservation, 15: 638-647. 15. Brambilla M., Fulco E., Gustin M. & Celada C., 2013 - Habitat preferences of the threatened Blackeared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica in southern Italy. Bird Study, 60: 432-435. 16. Brambilla M., Gustin M. & Celada C., 2013 - Species appeal predicts conservation status. Biological Conservation, 160: 209-213. 17. Brambilla M., Martino G. & Pedrini P., 2013 - Changes in song thrush Turdus philomelos density and habitat association in apple orchards during the breeding season. Ardeola, 60: 73-83. 18. Brambilla M., Rizzolli F. & Pedrini P., 2012 - The effects of habitat and spatial features of wetland fragments on the abundance of two rallid species with different degree of habitat specialization. Bird Study, 59: 279-285. 19. Brambilla M., Vitulano S., Ferri A., Spina F., Fabbri E. & Randi E., 2012 - An unexpected pattern of migration revealed in the Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans complex by mitochondrial DNA analyses. Ibis, 154: 616-620. 20. Butikofer L., Sacchi R., Pupin F., Pellitteri-Rosa D., Razzetti E., Pella F. & Fasola M., 2013 - Sexual dimorphism and allometry of the lacertid Mesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881), endemic to the Archipelago of Socotra (Yemen) (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). Herpetozoa, 25(3-4): 101-108. 21. Cantonati M., Angeli N., Bertuzzi E., Spitale D. & Lange-Bertalot H., 2012 - Diatoms in springs of the Alps: spring types, environmental determinants, and substratum. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31: 499-524. 22. Cantonati M., Füreder L., Gerecke R., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J., 2012 - Crenic habitats, hotspots for freshwater biodiversity conservation: toward an understanding of their ecology. In: M. Cantonati, L. Füreder, I. Jüttner & E.J. Cox (Eds.), The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science, 31: 463-480. 23. Cantonati M., Leira M., Angeli N. & López Rodríguez C., 2012 - Naviculadicta langebertalotii sp. nov. 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Ferretti P., Casagrande L., Deflorian M.C., 2013 - Le collezioni mineralogiche del Museo delle Scienze di Trento: riordino e nuove acquisizioni. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 21-35. 34. Ferretti P., Chiocchetti M., Masetto M., Gualtieri A., 2013 - Stellerite, gismondina e altre zeoliti nelle mineralizzazioni di contatto delle Pale Rabbiose (Monti Monzoni, Trentino-Alto Adige). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 181-192. 35. Ferretti P., Dellantonio E., Gabrielli A., Rizzi T., 2013 - Le collezioni mineralogiche aperte al pubblico nelle Valli di Fiemme e Fassa: Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti (Predazzo), Museo Mineralogico Monzoni, esposizione del Gruppo Mineralogico Fassa e Fiemme. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 37-45. 36. Ferretti P., Galli E., Masetto M., Medici L., 2013: I minerali di contatto di Cima Uzza (Adamello Meridionale, Italia). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 73-87. 37. Ferretti P., Gualtieri A., Masetto M., 2013 - Armotomo, heulandite-K e “gmelinite” nelle vulcaniti eoceniche del Monte Baldo (Brentonico, Trentino-Alto Adige). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 139-147. 38. Ferretti P., Gualtieri A., Rocchetti I., Unterrainer G., 2013 - I minerali del giacimento piombo argentifero del Dosso dei Furli (Lavis, Trentino-Alto Adige). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 115-130. 39. Ferretti P., Masetto M., Campostrini I., Demartin F., 2013 - Bavenite, allanite-(Y) e vanadinite: nuove segnalazioni nelle pegmatiti del plutone di Cima d’Asta (Trentino-Alto Adige, Italia). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 209-214. 40. Franceschini A., Gobbi M., Menegon M., Minerbi T., Negra O., Tabarelli de Fatis K., Trentin L. & Zobele Lipparini G., 2013 - Guida alla biodiversità urbana in Trentino-Alto Adige. Natura alpina, 1/2: 192. 41. Gobbi M. & Angeli F., 2012 - Segnalazioni faunistiche italiane, 537 - Monochamus galloprovincialis (Olivier 1795). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 144(1): 47. 42. Gobbi M., Bragalanti N. Lencioni V. & Pedrotti L., 2013 - Contributo alla conoscenza delle comunità di carabidi (Coleoptera: Carabidae) del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio (Settore Trentino). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Botanica Zoologia, 37: 123-130. 43. Gobbi M., Lencioni V. & Tomasi G., 2012 - Stefano Bertolini (1832-1904): tribute to one of the most important Italian entomologists and to his entomological collection. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92: 7-11. 44. Gobbi M., Riservato E., Bragalanti N. & Lencioni V., 2013 - Dalle collezioni museali alla prima lista di specie prioritarie di invertebrati per il Trentino. In: Mazzotti S. (ed.), “I musei delle scienze e la biodiversità”, XX Congresso ANMS, Ferrara, 17-19 novembre 2010, Museologia Scientifica Memorie, 9: 157-161. 45. Hussain E., Khan B., Lencioni V., Mumtaz S. & Ali F., 2012 - Stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Bagrot Valley of Central Karakoram National Park, Pakistan. Records Zoological Survey of Pakistan, 21: 60-64. 122 Pubblications 46. Kapelari S., Regan E., Bonomi C., Dillon J., Willison J., Vergou A., Schepker H. & Elster D., 2012 - Initiating Inquiry Based Science Education in Outdoor Learning Sites: Issues and challenges. Fibonacci Second European Conference, 26-27 April, 2012, Leicester, UK: 10pp. 47. Lencioni V. & Sartori G., 2012 - Diversità e distribuzione dei ditteri chironomidi in 22 sorgenti prealpine (Veneto). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, sez. Botanica Zoologia, 36: 35-46. 48. Lencioni V., & Gobbi M., 2012 - Documentazione e conservazione della biodiversità “glaciale”: studi e collezioni entomologiche del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali. In: Mazzotti S. (ed.), “I musei delle scienze e la biodiversità”, XX Congresso ANMS, Ferrara, 17-19 novembre 2010, Museologia Scientifica Memorie, 9: 118-123. 49. Macagno A.L.M., Gobbi M. & Lencioni V., 2012 - The occurrence of Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825) (Odonata, Libellulidae) in Trentino (Eastern Italian Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92: 33-36. 50. Macagno A.L.M., Gobbi M., Franceschini A. & Lencioni V., 2012 - New record of Osmoderma eremita (Scopoli, 1763) (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae) in chestnut trees in Trentino (Eastern Italian Alps). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92: 37-41. 51. Micheli A., 2012 - I rapaci diurni delle Alpi, prontuario tassonomico per il loro riconoscimento. Quaderni del Museo delle Scienze, 5: 160 pp. 52. Orsenigo S., Mondoni A., Gandini M., Abeli T., Belotti J., Sossai E., Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2012 - Le attivita’ di ricerca sul cambiamento climatico del laboratorio di ecologia vegetale e conservazione delle piante dell’Università di Pavia. In Atti del Convegno “Cambiamento climatico: Analisi ed impatti su specie ed ecosistemi vegetali”. A cura di: N. Cannone, E. Barni, M. Marignani (Ed.). Gruppo di Ecologia della Società Botanica Italiana, Varese, 18 aprile 2012: 80-84. 53. Orsenigo S., Rossi G., Mondoni A. & Bhuju D.R., 2012 - Ev-K2-CNR/NAST Himalayan Seed Bank Project - Kathmandu (Nepal). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 90: 215-219. 54. Peresani M., Centi L., Chravzez J., Danti A., de March M., Di Taranto E., Duches R., Jéquier C., Muratori S., Romandini M., 2012 - Gli ultimi Neandertal nella Grotta di Fumane. La Lessinia - Ieri oggi domani: 89-98. 55. Peresani M., Romandini M., Duches R., Jéquier C., Nannini N., Picin A. 2012 - Il Musteriano finale di Grotta del Rio Secco nel contesto nordadriatico. Risultati dalle nuove ricerche. Bollettino della Società Naturalisti “Silvia Zenari”, 46: 9-28. 56. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., Kustatscher E., Renesto S. & Avanzini M. 2013 - Diversity of continental tetrapods and plants in the Triassic of the Southern Alps: Ichnological, paleozoological and palaeobotanical evidences. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 61: 458- 484. 57. Rocchetti I., Gentile P., Ferretti P., 2013 - La Miniera di Frattasecca presso Malga Broi (Novaledo, Trentino-Alto Adige). Storia e nuove segnalazioni mineralogiche. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 93: 167-180. 58. Rossaro B., Boggero A., Lods Crozet B., Free G., Lencioni V., Marziali L. & Wolfram G., 2012 - A benthic quality index for European alpine lakes. Proceedings of the 1 8th International Symposium on Chironomidae - Fauna norvegica, 31: 95-107. 59. Rossi G., Bedini G., Bonomi C. & Tazzari E.R., 2012 - Cenni storici su RIBES Rete Italiana Banche del germoplasma per la conservazione Ex Situ della flora spontanea. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 90: 11-16. 123 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 60. Rossi G., Bonomi C. & Gandini M. (a cura di), 2012 - RIBES e la conservazione ex situ della flora spontanea autoctona. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 90: 320. 61. Rossi G., Mondoni A., 2012 - Lombardy Seed Bank - Centro Flora Autoctona della Regione Lombardia. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 90: 53-61. 62. Rovero F. & Jones T., 2012 - Wildlife corridors in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Ecological Restoration, 30: 282-285. 63. Rovero F. & Menegon M., 2013 - Il Museo delle Scienze di Trento in Tanzania: esplorazione biologica, ricerca e conservazione delle foreste montane dell’Eastern Arc. Museologia Scientifica Memorie, 9: 57-62. 64. Salvador I. & Avanzini M., 2012 - Uomo e pietra: l’evoluzione dei depositi caseari tradizionali in Pasubio tra architettura montana e identità alpina. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 92: 71-83. 65. Salvador I. & Avanzini M., 2013 - Uomo e montagna in Pasubio: l’alpicoltura prima della Grande Guerra. Archivio Trentino, 02: 132-171. 66. Scoz L., Fedrigotti A., Neri S., Dalmeri G., 2013- Prime tracce di popolamento in Valle di Ledro: l’industria litica di Pozza Lavino. Preistoria Alpina, 47: 333-336. Books or book chapters 1. Avanzini M. & Salvador I., 2012 - Pasubio, una montagna di storie: cinquecento anni di cultura alpina in una terra di confine. Edizioni Osiride, Rovereto (TN): 143 pp. 2. Bernardi M. & Menegon M., 2013 - La specie in biologia: Problemi teorici, difficoltà operative. In: Soavi M., Minelli A., Giaretta P. & Carrara M. (eds), Le Classificazioni nelle Scienze. Collana Filosofie N 231 Mimesis Edizioni: 67-82. 3. Bernardi M. 2012 - Ossimori evolutivi: quando il tempo non invecchia. In: Gaudino L. & Pascolini M. (eds), Misura. Collana Multiverso, Forum Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Udine: 11 pp. 4. Bertolli A. & Pedrini P., 2012 - Prealpi Trentine occidentali. Tremalzo-Tombea. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Ed. Curcu & Genovese: 115-120. 5. Campobello D., Pedrini P., Ciolli M., Carere C., Chamberlain D., Serra L., Rossi F., Iemma A., 2013 - “XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia: Programma e abstract”. Libro dei riassunti: 154pp. 6. Cantonati M., Füreder L., Jüttner I. & Cox E.J. (eds), 2012. The Ecology of Springs. Freshwater Science. Special series of papers 31(2): 463-668. 7. Ciolli, M.; Tattoni, C. & Ferretti F., 2012 - Understanding Forest Changes to Support Planning: A Fine-Scale Markov Chain Approach. In: Jordán F. & Jørgensen S. (eds), Models of the Ecological Hierarchy: From Molecules to the Ecosphere. Elsevier B.V, Great Britain: 355-373. 8. Cucato M., Ferretti P., Zampedri G., 2013 - Risorse del sottosuolo e sfruttamento antropico. In: Avanzini M.,Bargossi M.B., Borsato A., Cucato M., Morelli C., Picotti V., Selli L. (eds), Note illustrative della Carta Geologica della Provincia di Trento alla scala 1:50.000, Foglio 043 Mezzolombardo. Ed. Provincia autonoma di Trento, Servizio Geologico: 213-216. 9. Dalmeri G., 2013 - Cenni di Preistoria antica del Lagorai. In: Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini Sezione del CAI Commissione sentieri, …per sentieri e luoghi sui monti del Trentino, Lagorai Cima d’Asta Calisio Monti di Cembra 2: 45-46. 124 Pubblications 10. Fedrigotti A., Scoz L., 2012 - Archeologia involontaria, tre vicende che mescolano memoria, territorio, guerra, lavoro e ricerca scientifica in Valle di Ledro. Supplemento Judicaria n. 83. Tione di Trento: 66pp. 11. Kapelari S., Bonomi C., Dillon J., Reagen E., Bromley G., Vergou A. & Willison J., 2012 - The INQUIRE Train the Trainers Course Manual. BGCI, London, UK: 65pp. 12. Kapelari, S., Jeffreys, D., Willison, J., Vergou, A., Regan, E., Dillon, J., Bromley, G. & Bonomi, C. (eds.), 2013 - Proceedings of the INQUIRE Conference, Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 9-10 July 2013. London: BGCI: 61pp. 13. Pasquali T., Neri S., 2013 - I ritrovamenti preistorici della Piana Rotaliana “allargata” dopo il 1913. In: Carli R., Pasquali T & Kaisermann B. (eds), I Castellieri Preistorici del Trentino attraverso le ricerche di Desiderio Reich. La Piana Rotaliana e la Bassa-Media Val di Non-Aggiornamenti. Associazione Castelli del Trentino, Publistampa Edizioni, Pergine: 219-237. 14. Pedrini P. & Volcan G., 2012 - Dolomiti Trentine occidentali. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 253-261. 15. Pedrini P. & Volcan G., 2012 - Dolomiti Trentine orientali. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 343-351. 16. Pedrini P. & Volcan G., 2012 - Lagorai - Cima d’Asta. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 479-487. 17. Pedrini P. & Volcan G., 2012 - Prealpi Trentine orientali. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 165-171. 18. Pedrini P., Tenan S. & Spina F. (eds), 2012 - La migrazione postriproduttiva degli Uccelli attraverso le Alpi italiane: fenologia ed andamenti. Museo delle Scienze: 112 pp. 19. Pedrini P., Volcan G. & Maiolini B., 2012 - Prealpi Trentine occidentali. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Ed. Curcu & Genovese : 71-77. 20. Reichard U.H., Ganpanakngan M. & Barelli C., 2012 - White-handed gibbons of Khao Yai: social flexibility, complex, reproductive strategies, and a slow life history. In: Kappeler P.M. & Watts D. (eds), Long-term Field Studies of Primates. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg: 237-258. 21. Rossi G., Tomaselli M., Gandini M., Gualmini M. & Parolo G., 2012 - Appennino Settentrionale: App. Tosco-Emiliano. In: Bertoni R. (ed.), La rete italiana per la ricerca ecologica a lungo termine (LTERItalia). Situazione e prospettive dopo un quinquennio di attivita’ (2006-2011). ARACNE editrice S.r.l., Roma: 43-46. 22. Tolley K.A. & Menegon M. - 2013 Evolution and biogeography of chameleons. In: Tolley K.A. & Herrel A. (eds), The Biology of Chameleons. University of California Press: 131-221. 23. Volcan G. & Pedrini P., 2012 - Adamello - Presanella. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 429-437. 24. Volcan G. & Pedrini P., 2012 - Cevedale - Maddalene. Fauna. In: SAT - Commissione Tutela Ambiente Montano (ed.), Naturalmente Trentino. I paesaggi, la Natura, I Luoghi. Curcu & Genovese: 581-587. 125 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Popular science papers 1. Bernardi M. & Avanzini M., 2012 - Tracce del passato: rettili e dinosauri di casa nostra. Rivista Fiemme e Fassa: 104-105. 2. Bonomi F., Dalmeri G., Neri S., Pasquali T., 2012 - Ritrovamenti mesolitici della zona di Arco: aggiornamenti. La Giurisdizione di Pénede, Gruppo Culturale Nago-Torbole, Anno XX - n. 38: 103-107. 3. Boselli L., Boselli F., Ferretti P., Demartin F., 2013 - Datolite - Nuovo ritrovamento sul Buffaure (Val di Fassa, Trentino). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 2: 108-115. 4. Cantonati M., 2012 - Kieselalgen (Bacillariophyceae oder Diatomeae). In: Gerecke R., Haseke H., Klauber J. & Maringer A. (Eds), Quellen. Schriften des Nationalparks Gesäuse 7: 86-99. 5. Cantonati M., Angeli N., Spitale D. Rott E., Stoch F., Nascimbene J., 2012 - La sorgente di Labante (20-21), le sorgenti del M. Penna (35-36), le Fonti di Poiano (42) nell’ambito del Progetto EBERs - Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D., Cantonati M., Alla scoperta della biodiversità delle sorgenti dell’Emilia-Romagna: Il progetto EBERs (26-30) 2012. In: Segadelli S. et al. A deterministic walk looking for springs. FLOWPATH 2012. Bologna, Italy, June 20-22, 2012. Field trip guide. 6. Casarotto C., 2012 - Così evolvono i “Giacciai di una volta”. 360° Mantagne. 7. Dalmeri G., 2012 - Laget, Altopiano di Predaia. Il più antico accampamento preistorico della Val di Non. Strenna Trentina, 2013: 216-219. 8. Dalmeri G., Flor E., Neri S., 2012 - Preistoria a Monte Terlago: una nuova ricerca archeologica. Judicaria, 80: 41-45. 9. Dalmeri G., Neri S., 2012 - Ricerche Preistoriche nel Riparo di Monteterlago, i risultati di una prima ricerca. Terlago Notizie, 1/2011: 27-29. 10. Ferretti P., 2013 - MUSE - Il nuovo Museo delle Scienze di Trento. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 3: 175. 11. Ferretti P., Cavada G., Dallabona S., 2013 - Fluorite in Val di Fassa, Trentino. Un recente ritrovamento nelle vulcaniti di Drio le Pale. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 3: 166-174. 12. Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D. & Cantonati M. 2012 - Alla scoperta delle biodiversità delle sorgenti dell’Emilia-Romagna. Published online: http://www.stefanosegadelli.it/cat.html?cat=233. 13. Todesco R., Casarotto C., Ferretti P., 2012 - La geologia a portata di mano. Percorso tattile per scoprire le rocce del Trentino: parco giochi Viote, Monte Bondone-Trento. Museo delle Scienze, Trento: 35 pp. Oral communications (with published abstract) 1. Avanzini M. & Salvador I., 2012 - Mountain men under climate change: pastoral land use between the 17th and 19th centuries. 18th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists EAA, Helsinki, in Abstract Book. 2. Avanzini M., Salvador I., Gios G., 2012 - Uomo e montagna tra economia tradizionale e cambiamenti climatici: il caso del Pasubio tra XVIII e XX secolo. Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), Congress Papers, no. 124126. 3. Battistotti M. & Dorigotti S., 2012 - Education workshop - Designing engaging education activities for Alpine Botanic Gardens, promoting Inquiry Based Science Education and awareness of alpine plants. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 25. 126 Pubblications 4. Battistotti M., Dorigotti S. & Bonomi C., 2012 - 14 years of education at Viote Alpine Botanic Garden. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 22. 5. Bernardi M., Kustatscher E., Petti F.M. & Avanzini M. 2012. Diversity of continental tetrapods and plants in the Triassic of Southern Alps: ichnological and palaeobotanical evidences. Giornate di Paleontologia SPI 2012, Abstract volume: 19. 6. Bonomi C. & Gratzfeld J., 2012 - Networking practical 1 - Workshop on data upload into BGCI Garden Search and Plant Search. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 27. 7. Bonomi C., 2012 - Attività 2011 del Consorzio Europeo dei Giardini Botanici. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana, Giardini Trauttmannsdorff, Merano, 17-18 May 2012, libro degli abstract: 6-7. 8. Bonomi C., 2012 - Horticultural Practical 1: Plant data verification - Workshop on the identification of critical species of uncertain determination present in Viotte Alpine Botanic Garden. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 16. 9. Bonomi C., 2012 - Horticultural Practical 2: Developing the collections of Viote Alpine Botanic Garden - Workshop examining the collections of Viote Alppine Garden, suggesting ideas on how to improve them, sharing and exchanging seeds and plants. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 17. 10. Bonomi C., 2012 - Networking practical 2 - World café workshop: Promoting and developing the Alpine and Arctic Botanic Garden network - promoting discussion and ideas. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 27. 11. Bonomi C., 2012 - New labels and visitor interpretation at Viote Alpine Botanic Garden. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 23. 12. Bonomi C., 2012 - The 2005 IBC excursion in the lesser Caucasus and on Mt. Kazbek (Georgia) - Evening sessions: Alpine Flora in Pictures. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 33. 13. Bonomi C., 2012 - Trentino Alpine flora - Evening sessions: Alpine Flora in Pictures. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 30. 14. Bonomi C., 2013 - NASSTEC: A new EU project for native seed production and use in grassland restoration. 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress. Celebrating Success. The influence and appeal of botanic gardens. Dunedin centre and Botanic Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand. 20-25 October 2014. Book of Abstracts: 48. 15. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2013 - workshop - The INQUIRE project: reinvigorating IBSE approach outdoors. European conference: Science and Sustainability through outdoor learning, Planica, Slovenia 27-30 november 2013, Book of Abstracts: 7. 16. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2012 - Attività per la diffusione dell’approccio IBSE a livello nazionale tramite il progetto europeo Inquire. 22° congresso ANMS - Il patrimonio culturale dei musei scientifici, Firenze, 14-16 November 2012,- sessione D - Il ruolo delle collezioni nella cultura scientifica. Libro degli abstract: 47. 127 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 17. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., Battistotti M., 2012 - Il progetto europeo Inquire. XXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Ecologia (SITE), Ecologia e Gestione Ambientale, sessione S5 Didattica dell’Ecologia ed Educazione alla Sostenibilità, Alessandria, 10-13 September 2012, Book of Abstracts: 98. 18. Bonomi C., Rovero F., 2012 - Eastern Arc - la serra tropicale del Muse, Trento. 22° congresso ANMS - Il patrimonio culturale dei musei scientifici, Firenze, 14-16 November 2012 - nella sessione B2 “Musealizzare” la natura: parchi naturali, giardini e orti botanici. Libro degli abstract: 22. 19. Borsato A., Johnston V.E., Frisia S., Eggins S., and Cotte M., 2012 - High-resolution trace elements analyses in speleothems: recent advances and comparison between LA-ICP-MS and SR-microXRF techniques. 4th Daphne Workshop, Heidelberg 8-10 February 2012: 47-48. 20. Brambilla M., Bergero V., Celada C., Falco R., Ficetola G.F., Gustin M., Saporetti F., Tattoni C. & Pedrini P., 2013 - How Species Distribution Models promote bird conservation? New applications to go beyond the simple mapping of suitable areas. IX EOU Congress, Norwich (UK), 27-30 August 2013. Abstract book. 21. Brambilla M., Bergero V., Falco R., Ficetola G.F., Saporetti F., 2013 - I modelli di distribuzione per la conservazione di specie ornitiche: oltre la semplice individuazione di aree idonee. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 22. Bromley G., Willison J., Vergou A., Kapelari S. & Bonomi C., 2012 - workshop 3: Learining about Biodiversity and Climate Change through Botanic Garden networks and communities of practice. 6th European Botanic Gardens Congress, Chios, Greece, 27 May - 2 June 2012, Book of abstracts: 48. 23. Cantonati M., Angeli N. & Spitale D., 2012 - Towards the development of benthic-algae tools for the bioassessment of the quality and ecological integrity of spring habitats. 8th International Symposium on the Use of algae for Monitoring Rivers (UAMRIVER 2012), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 18-22 June 2012. Program and Abstracts: 20. 24. Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D., Rossetti G., Rosati M., Rott E., Stoch F., & De Nardo M.T., 2013 - Exploring and understanding the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna Spring habitats (Northern Italy): The EBERs Project. Congress Internat. Society Limnology. Theme 2: Biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. SIL 2013 - 4-9 August, Budapest. Book of Abstracts: 85. 25. Cantonati M., Gerecke R., Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D., Rossetti G., Rosati M., Rott E., Stoch F., & De Nardo M.T., 2013 - Exploring and understanding the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna Spring habitats (Northern Italy): The EBERs Project. Congress Internat. Society Limnology. SIL 2013 - 4-9 Aug. Budapest. Theme 2: Biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. Parallel Session 4. Chairs: T. Muotka, N. Willby, B. Pinel-Alloul, D. Schmera, N. Usio. Tuesday 6 August 2013 15.20. 26. Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Segadelli S., Angeli N. & Gabrieli J., 2013 - Unexpectedly-high diatom biodiversity in spring-habitats of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy, EBERs Project), and its hydrogeological and hydrochemical prerequisites. 7th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM7), Thonon-les-Bains, France, 17-21 September 2013. Abstract Book (F. Rimet et al. ed.): 121-123. 27. Cantonati M., Scalfi A., Lange-Bertalot H. & Spitale D., 2012 - Benthic diatoms in the frame of an adaptive-biology study (water-level-fluctuations-related stressors) of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in the phytobenthos of the large, peri-Alpine Lake Garda (ACE-SAP.A2.WP2). 6th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM6), Innsbruck, Austria, 22-25 March 2012. Abstract Book (D. Gesierich Ed.): 18. 28. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Guella G. & La Rocca N., 2012 - Adaptive biology (desiccation and UV) of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in the eulittoral phytobenthos of the large peri-alpine Lake Garda. Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) 2012 Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 20-25 May 2012. 128 Pubblications 29. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Guella G. & La Rocca N., 2013 - A2-wp2 - Adaptive traits of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in relation to water-level-fluctuations-related stressors in the phytobenthos of the large, peri-Alpine Lake Garda. ACE-SAP Review Meeting, S. Michele all’Adige (TN), 04 February 2013. Abstract book. 30. Cantonati M., Spitale D., Guella G. & La Rocca N., 2013 - A2-wp2 - Adaptive traits of the rhodophyte Bangia atropurpurea in relation to water-level-fluctuations-related stressors in the phytobenthos of the large, peri-Alpine Lake Garda. ACE-SAP Review Meeting, S. Michele all’Adige (TN), 04 February 2013. Abstract book. 31. Casagrande L., 2012 - Mining landscapes from remote sensing (LiDAR DTM): study cases in the Province of Trento (NE Italy), VII Symposium Europa Subterranea 2012, Jihlava - Česká Republika, 25-28 May 2012. 32. Casagrande L., 2013 - Mining landscapes in the Province of Trento (north-east of Italy): new technologies for research and preservation. Archaeomontan 2012, Internationale Fachtagung Dippoldiswalde, 18-20 October 2012. 33. Casagrande L., 2013 - Remote sensing and GIS tools to study the mining landscape development in Trentino,VIII Symposium Europa Subterranea 2013, Reichelsheim-Odenwald (Germany), 9-11 May 2013. 34. Casarotto C., 2012 - Glaciers one-time A century of climate change on glaciers of Italy. 86° Congresso Società Geologica Italiana, 18-20 September 2012, Arcavacata di Rende (CS). 35. Dorigotti S., 2012 - Progetto Inquire. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana, Giardini Trauttmannsdorff, Merano, 17-18 May 2012, libro degli abstract: 12. 36. Duches R., Bassetti M., Flor E., Neri S., Kompatscher K., Hrozny Kompatscher N., Dalmeri G., 2013 - Trasformazione della mobilità epigravettiana durante il Dryas recente: nuove informazioni dalle ricerche in territorio trentino. XLVIII Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria IIPP. Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, Padova 5-9 November 2013. 37. Duches R., Dalmeri G., Peresani M., 2013 - Considerations on the evolution of hunting weapons during the Lateglacial interstadial as inferred from epigravettian lithic armatures and experimental texts.Congresso Internazionale annuale 55th Hugo Obermaier Society meeting, Vienna 2-6 April 2013. 38. Duches R., Dalmeri G., Peresani M., 2013 - Trasformazione della mobilità epigravettiana durante il Dryas recente: nuovi dati dalle Alpi orientali italiane. AAI Associazione Antropologica Italiana, XX Congresso degli Antropologi italiani, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara 11-13 September 2013. 39. Duches R., Dalmeri G., Peresani M., Cattelain P., 2012 - Réflexions sur l’evolution de l’armament de chasse durant l’Interstadiaire tardiglaciaire à partir des armatures épigravettiennes del’Abri Dalmeri (Italie) et de résultats experimentaux. Les sociétés de l’Allerød et du Dryas récent entre Atlantique et Méditerranée, Bordeaux 24-25 May 2012. 40. Fleitmann, D., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Badertscher, S., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L.; Tüysüz, O., 2012 - Speleothems as sensitive recorders of volcanic eruptions - the Bronze Age Minoan eruption recorded in a stalagmite from Turkey. EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria., Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012, p.9293. 41. Foglini C., Bazzi G., Brambilla M., Rubolini D., 2013 - Gestione degli habitat e comunità di Passeriformi dei pascoli montani prealpini. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 42. Frisia S., Borsato A., Woodhead J., Drysdale R.N., Johnston V.E., and Blyth A.J., 2012 - Fabrics and geochemistry of Nullarbor speleothems: a regional perspective on the “wet” Early Pliocene. 4th Daphne Workshop, Heidelberg 8-10 February 2012: 56. 129 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 43. Gandini M., Abeli T., Cauzzi P., Ardenghi N., Petraglia A., Tomaselli M. & Rossi G., 2013 - Climate change impact on alpine plants biodiversity in Northern Apennines (Italy) during the period 20012008. In Frei, E.R.; Stöckli, V.; Rixen, C.; Wipf, S. (eds) 2013, 2nd conference: Faster, Higher, More? Past, Present and Future Dynamics of Alpine and Arctic Flora under Climate Change. Abstracts. International conference, 22-25 September 2013, Bergün, Switzerland. Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL: 35. 44. Gandini M., Crawford J. A., Rossi G. & Nydick K., 2013 - Alpine plant species composition, abundance and β-diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the San Juan Mountains GLORIA Target Region (Colorado, USA). In Frei, E.R.; Stöckli, V.; Rixen, C.; Wipf, S. (eds) 2013 2nd conference: Faster, Higher, More? Past, Present and Future Dynamics of Alpine and Arctic Flora under Climate Change. International conference, 22-25 September 2013, Bergün, Switzerland. Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL: 34-35. 45. Gandini M., Orsenigo S., Belotti J., Abeli T., Bonomi C. & Rossi G., 2012 - Climate change and long-term monitoring in Italian alpine environment. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 19. 46. Gargini A., Cantonati M., De Nardo M.T., Filippini M., Piccinini L. & Segadelli S., 2013 - Conflicts between ecological protection and public water supply for a main petrifying spring in the Northern Apennines (Italy). 40th International Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) “Solving the Groundwater Challenges of the 21st Century”, Perth, Western Australia, 15-20 September 2013. 47. Johnston V.E., Borsato A., Spötl C., Hellstrom J.C., Frisia S., & Eggins S., 2012 - Termination II and Eemian climate in Trentino, Italy. 4th Daphne Workshop, Heidelberg 8-10 February 2012: 22-23. 48. Kapelari S., Bonomi C., Bromley G., Dillon J., Regan E., Vergou A. & Willison J., 2012 - Botanic Gardens - broadening the network for educational best practice. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 21. 49. Kustatscher E., Petti F.M., Bernardi M., & Avanzini M., 2012. Diversity of plants and continental tetrapods in the Triassic of the Southern Alps: palaeobotanical and ichnological evidences. Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Terra Nostra 2012/3: 103. 50. Marchetti L., Bernardi M. & Avanzini M. 2012. Impronte di tetrapodi nel Permiano Inferiore del Sudalpino: nuove scoperte e siti di interesse. Giornate di Paleontologia SPI 2012, Abstract volume: 53. 51. Martin E. & Rovero F., 2013 - Assessing tropical forest mammal communities using camera trapping and occupancy analysis: case study from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Abstract of the 9th Tawiri Scientific Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 4-6 December 2013. 52. Meyer C.A., Avanzini M., Bernardi M. and Cavin L. 2012. An Early Triassic Megatracksite from the Triassic of SW Switzerland and France (Vieux Emosson, Aiguilles Rouges Massif). European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists Meeting, X ed., Abstract volume: 159-160. 53. Michele M., 2013 - Biogeografia di un arcipelago continentale. Darwin Day, Museo Storia Naturale di Milano, February 2013. 54. Michele M., 2013 - Biogeografia di un arcipelago continentale. Seminario Università di Padova, June 2013. 55. Michele M., 2013 - Biogeografia di un arcipelago continentale. Università di Trento, Facoltà di Ingegneria, October 2013. 130 Pubblications 56. Mondoni A., Rossi G. & Bonomi C., 2012 - Effects of climate warming on seed germination and seedling establishment in alpine plants. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 19. 57. Naudinot N., Tomasso A., Duches R., Dalmeri G., Peresani M., Tozzi C., 2013 - Entering the mountain range: altitude settlements at the end of the Late-Glacial in the Italic Epigravettian area. 78th Annual Meeting SAA-Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii 3-7 April 2013. 58. Nelli L., Franzoi A., Franceschi S., Pisani C., Fattorini L. & Meriggi A., 2013 - Census methods of alpine galliforms: an experimental comparison. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento 11-15 September 2013: 44. 59. Nespoli, D., Brambilla, M. Somiglianza morfologica versus playback: una nuova specie di sterpazzolina? Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 60. Pedrini P., Brambilla M., Florit F., Mezzavilla F., Martignago G., Rassati G., Silveri G., 2013 - Andamento demografico del re di quaglie Crex crex nell’Italia nord orientale. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 61. Pedrini P., Tenan S. & Spina F., 2012 - Fenologia e andamenti della migrazione attraversole le Alpi italiane. XI Convegno Nazionale degli Inanellatori Italiani, Gaeta (LT) 24-26 February 2012. 62. Peresani M., DUCHES R., Nannini N., Picin A., Romandini M., 2012 - Disentangling the significance of Discoid technology: first results of the last three field campaigns at Grotta di Fumane, Italy. SAASociety for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting , Memphis 18-22 april 2012. 63. Peresani M., Pastoors A., Vaquero M., Duches R., Jéquier C., Nannini N., Picin A., Romandini M., Schmidt I., Weniger G.-C., 2012 - The Rio Secco Cave in the North Adriatic Region, Italy. A new context for investigating the Neanderthal demise and the settlement of Anatomically Modern Humans. ESHE, 2nd annual meeting, Bordeaux, 21-22 September 2012. 64. Petti F.M., Bernardi M., D’Orazi Porchetti S. & Avanzini M. 2012. Large tridactyl footprints associated with a diverse ichnofauna from the Carnian of Southern Alps. Giornate di Paleontologia SPI 2012, Abstract volume: 59. 65. Reichard U.H. & Barelli C. 2012 - Long reproductive careers of wild white-handed gibbon females. XXIV Congress of the International Primatological Society, Cancun, Mexico, 12-17 August 2012. 66. Romanazzi E., Bonato L., 2013 - Updating the range of the narrowly endemites Salamandra atra aurorae and S. atra pasubiensis on the Southern Prealps”. 17th European Congress of Herpetology, 22-27 August 2013, Veszprém, Hungary. 67. Rosati M., Cantonati M., Primicerio R. & Rossetti G., 2013 - Ecological drivers and multi-scale spatial patterns of ostracod diversity in cold springs of Western Palearctic. 17th International Symposium on Ostracoda. Rome, 23-26 July, 2013. 68. Rott, E., M. Cantonati & D. Sanders., 2013 - Carbonate precipitation in springs - a process shaped by groundwater conditions and biotic influences - the Oocardium case for Central Europe. Congress Internat. Society Limnology. SIL 2013 4-9 August, Budapest. Theme 14: Biogeochemical cycles. 69. Rovero F., Martin E., Spitale D., 2013 - Camera trapping for the study of ground-dwelling primates: case study on the endemic Sanje mangabey in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Convegno Associazione Primatologica Italiana, Asti, 19 April 2013. 70. Shaaban A. E-S., Cantonati M., Mansour H. & Saber A., 2013 - Diatoms from different freshwater habitats of El-Farafra Oasis (Egypt), with special attention to wells and hot springs. 7th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM7), Thonon-les-Bains, France, 17-21 September 2013. Abstract Book (F. Rimet et al. ed.): 207-209. 131 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 71. Tattoni C., Brambilla M., Pedrini P., 2013 - L’approccio metodologico alla Rete Ecologica del Trentino attraverso l’utilizzo dell’avifauna come modello biologico. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 72. Todesco R., Casarotto C., Ferretti P., Dorigotti S., Ceccato F., Trentini D., Matassoni I. & Pieropan G., 2012 - Visitors with special needs. The role of naturalistic activities to face visual impairment. the experience of Museo delle Scienze of Trento. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 24. 73. Tomaselli M., Rossi G., Stanisci A., Petraglia A., Mondoni A., Gandini M. & Orsenigo S., 2012 - Climate change impact on European mountain flora: GLORIA Project evidences. XXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Ecologia (SITE), Ecologia e Gestione Ambientale, sessione T1 Impatti antropici sugli ambienti montani: dallo sci al global warming, Alessandria, 10-13 September 2012, Book of Abstracts: 141. 74. Tomasi G. & Bonomi C., 2012 - Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, its inception, early development, recent improvements, present day layout and future outlook. The 3rd International Congress of Alpine and Arctic Botanical Gardens. Viote Alpine Botanic Garden, Trento, 12-15 September 2012. Book of Abstracts: 19. 75. Vitulano S., Brambilla M., Nespoli D., Randi E., 2013 - Le indagini molecolari in aiuto all’ornitologia: l’esempio del complesso Sylvia [cantillans]. Atti del XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 76. Willison J., Vergou a., Bjureke K., Bonomi C., 2013 - Special event: Curing ‘Plant Blindness’ through inquiry. 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress. Celebrating Success. The influence and appeal of botanic gardens. Dunedin centre and Botanic Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand. 20-25 October 2014. Book of Abstracts: 23. Oral communications (without published abstract) 1. Barelli C., 2012 - Effects of habitat fragmentationand human disturbance on the endangered Udzungwa red colobus in the Udzungwa Mountains: Integrating Ecological. Genetic and Physiological approaches (ECOGENPHI). Marie Curie Actions - COFUND “TRENTINO” - Review Meeting. Trento, Italy. 2. Barelli C., Araldi A., Hodges K. & Rovero F., 2013 - Effects of habitat type and human impact on three monkey species in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. XXI Congresso Associazione Primatologica Italiana, Asti, Italy. 3. Barelli C., Mundry R., Heistermann M. & Hammerschmidt K., 2013 - Androgen levels shape male gibbon songs‘ structure. XXI Congresso Associazione Primatologica Italiana, Asti, Italy. 4. Bonomi C., 2012 - workshop per l’ultilizzo di Plant Search di BGCI. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana, Giardini Trauttmannsdorff, Merano, 17 May 2012. 5. Bonomi C., 2013 - Il Giardino Botanico Viotte e il progetto Inquire. Il Giardino Botanico di Valbonella. Trent’anni al servizio della natura, Santa Sofia (FO), 8 June 2013. 6. Bonomi C., 2013 - La nuova serra tropicale del MUSE a Trento. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana, Orto Botanico di Pisa, 7 June 2013. 7. Bonomi C., 2013 - Resoconto sul lavoro del consorzio europeo dei giardini botanci. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana, Orto Botanico di Pisa, 7 June 2013. 132 Pubblications 8. Bonomi C., Cattadori M., 2013 - Developing on-line communities of practice via subject oriented resource gateways, e-forums & social media. INQUIRE Final Conference: Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 9-10 July 2013. Book of Abstracts, 19-20. 9. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2012 - Selection criteria for final conference parteicipation for teachers and educators. 3rd INQUIRE partners meeting, Madrid, Spain, 29 February - 2 March 2012. 10. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2012 - Using the worldcafe format to assess participant feedback on the course. 4th INQUIRE partners meeting, Lisbon & Coimbra, Portugal 2-5 October 2012. 11. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., 2012 - Il progetto europeo Inquire. Convegno nazionale Education 2.0, Firenze, 26 October 2012. 12. Cantonati M. & Angeli N., 2012 - 9th International Symposium on the Use of algae for Monitoring Rivers (9th UAMRIVER). Trento. June-July 2015. First Announcement. 8th International Symposium on the Use of algae for Monitoring Rivers (UAMRIVER 2012), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 18-22 June 2012. 13. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H. (with contributions of Martyn Kelly and David Armanini), 2013 New freshwater araphid diatom species from different freshwater habitats. 2nd European Workshop on Diatom Taxonomy - 2nd EWDT: Araphid freshwater diatoms), Chairperson: Luc Ector. h: 14.00 20/09. Thonon-les-Bains, 20-21 September 2013. 14. Cantonati M., 2012 - Ricerche su ambienti acquatici, con particolare attenzione alle sorgenti e alle microalghe diatomee. Convegno “Documentazione della biodiversità e valorizzazione del pregio naturalistico del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio attraverso le ricerche del Museo delle Scienze” organizzato dal Museo delle Scienze (MUSE) e Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio (PNS), Cogolo di Peio (TN), 01 June 2012. 15. Casagrande L., 2013 - Il progetto “MEMORIE DAL SOTTOSUOLO”. Giornata di studi “Conoscere e valorizzare le miniere del Trentino”, Trento, 20 April 2013. 16. Dalmeri G., Duches R., Flor E., Neri S., 2012 - Fréquentation d’un site lacustre de moyenne montagne pendant le Dryas récent: donne préliminaires du gisement épigravettien de Palù Echen (Plateau de Folgaria, Trentin, Italie du Nord). Les sociétés de l’Allerød et du Dryas récent entre Atlantique et Méditerranée, Bordeaux 24-25 May 2012. 17. Dellantonio E., 2013 - Miniera della Bedovina - Predazzo, Monte Mulàt (Elio Dellantonio, Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti di Predazzo). Giornata di studi “Conoscere e valorizzare le miniere del Trentino”. Trento, 20 April 2013. 18. Dorigotti S., Bonomi C., Galetto M., 2013 - workshop - World Café: engaging participants in an INQUIRE course. INQUIRE Final Conference: Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 9-10 July 2013. Book of Abstracts, 15. 19. Dovigo F., Rocco V., 2013 - Fostering INQUIRE through Evaluation Capacity Building. INQUIRE Final Conference: Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 9-10 July 2013. Book of Abstracts, 24. 20. Ferretti P., 2013 - Il report “Aggiornamento di mineralogia trentina”: uno stato dell’arte sulla conoscenza della mineralogia regionale della provincia di Trento. Giornata di studi “Conoscere e valorizzare le miniere del Trentino”. Trento, 20 April 2013. 133 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 21. Galetto M. & Dorigotti S., 2012 - La diffusione dell’approccio IBSE attraverso il Progetto europeo Inquire. Workshop creativo: come progettare un’attività IBSE. Convegno nazionale: Didattica delle scienze nella scuola post-riordino e costruzione di una cittadinanza scientifica - Inquiry-based Science Education ed integrazione delle scienze sperimentali: esempi e riflessioni sulla pratica docente, Ancona, 17-18 December 2012. 22. Galetto M. & Dorigotti S., 2013 - Il progetto europeo INQUIRE ed il corso Formiamo i formatori “La diffusione dell’approccio IBSE nella didattica delle scienze. Congresso L’integrazione delle scienze e la didattica laboratoriale: Il Cannocchiale di Galileo, organizzato dall’INDIRE, MIUR, Fiesole (FI), 11-13 March 2013. 23. Galetto M., Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2012 - Il progetto europeo INQUIRE - Quando lo studente diventa scienziato. Convegno nazionale: “Le giornate della scienza/education in science - Gli strumenti e gli approcci per un apprendimento significativo delle scienze”, Camerino (MC), 6-8 September 2012. 24. Gandini M., 2012 - CLIMBIVEG: CLIMate change effects on BIodiversity of high-altitude environment VEGetation. Review meeting project COFUND “Trentino” - Trento, 3 December 2012 - Invited talk. 25. Gobbi M., 2012 - Effetti del Global Change sulla biodiversità: chiediamolo agli Insetti. Congresso “Biodiversità entomologica, un’idea progettuale per i nostri territori”, Museo Geologico di Predazzo, 24 May 2012. 26. Gobbi M., 2012 - Entomofauna del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio: documentazione della biodiversità in relazione agli habitat, alla presenza dell’uomo e alla fauna vertebrata. Convegno: “Documentazione della biodiversità e valorizzazione del pregio naturalistico del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio attraverso le ricerche del Museo delle Scienze”, Sede Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Cogolo, Trento, 1 June 2012. 27. Hendriks I.E., CSIC, Basso L., Marba N., Jorda G., Tenan S., Duarte C.M., 2012 - Will the Pen Shell Pinna nobilis survive to the end of the Century? An overview of its vulnerability to global change. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Lake Biwa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, 8-13 July 2012. 28. Hendriks I.E., CSIC, Basso L., Marba N., Jorda G., Tenan S., Duarte C.M., 2012 - Will the Pen Shell Pinna nobilis survive to the end of the Century? An overview of its vulnerability to global change. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Lake Biwa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, 8-13 July 2012. 29. Kapelari S., Regan E., Bonomi C., Dillon J., Willison J., Vergou A., Schepker H. & Elster D., 2012 - Initiating Inquiry Based Science Education in Outdoor Learning Sites: Issues and challenges. Fibonacci Second European Conference, Leicester, UK, 26-27 April 2012. 30. Lencioni V., 2012 - Le ricerche idrobiologiche del Museo delle Scienze nel Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio (TN) negli ultimi 15 con approfondimenti sugli invertebrati. Convegno: “Documentazione della biodiversità e valorizzazione del pregio naturalistico del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio attraverso le ricerche del Museo delle Scienze”, Sede Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Cogolo, trento, 1 June 2012. 31. Lencioni V., 2013 - Macroinvertebrates from S-Alpine glacial streams: from an ecological to a physiological and molecular approach. The Science Museum (Trento, Italy) research from the AASER project to the present. ESF Exploratory Workshop: Glacier-Fed Rivers, Hydroecology And Climate Change; Current Knowledge And Future Network Of Monitoring Sites, Birmingham (UK), 15-18 September 2013. 32. Macagno A.L.M., Gobbi M., Lencioni V. & Festi A., 2013 - La riscoperta di Leucorrhinia pectoralis in Italia. VI Convegno di Odonata.it., Trevi (PG), 16-17 March 2013. 134 33. Mondoni A., 2012 - CAPACE: Capacità di adattamento delle piante alpine ai cambiamenti cliamtici Provincia Autonoma di Trento. Marie Curie Action COFUND, EU FP7. Review meeting project COFUND “Trentino”, Trento, 3 December 2012. 34. Mondoni A., Orsenigo S., Bernareggi G., Probert R.J., Bonomi C., Abeli T., Rossi G., 2013 - Effects of climate warming on seed germination and seedling establishment in alpine plants. The Fourth International Society for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment. Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 22-26 June 2013. 35. Orsenigo S., Mondoni A., Gandini M., Abeli T., Belotti J., Sossai E., Parolo G. & Rossi G., 2012 - Le attivita’ di ricerca sul cambiamento climatico del laboratorio di ecologia vegetale e conservazione delle piante dell’Università di Pavia. Workshop on Climate Change, Società Botanica Italiana - gruppo di Ecologia, Varese (Italy), 18 April 2012. 36. Pedrini P. & Brambilla M., 2012 - Il contributo dell’ornitologia nella definizione delle misure agro ambientali per la conservazione attiva degli habitat di specie minacciate in Trentino. Giornata delle Aree protette in Trentino, PAT Servizio Conservazione della Natura, Brentonico, 27 March 2012. 37. Pedrini P., 2012 - I rapaci quali indicatori dei cambiamenti ambientali sulle Alpi. CISO DAY, Venezia, 14-16 December 2012. 38. Peresani M., Tomio C., Dalmeri G., 2012- Techno-typologie de l’Epigravettien récent de l’Italie du nord à travers la reduction des grattoirs. Les sociétés de l’Allerød et du Dryas récent entre Atlantique et Méditerranée, Bordeaux 24-25 May 2012. 39. Pugni F., 2013 - IBSE activity on textile plants and fabrics. INQUIRE Final Conference: Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 9-10 July 2013. Book of Abstracts, 18. 40. Rovero F., 2013 - Ricerca e monitoraggio della biodiversità nei parchi di foresta pluviale: il caso del MUSE nel Parco Nazionale dei Monti Udzungwa, Tanzania. IV Convegno Nazionale della Ricerca nei Parchi, Parco Natura Viva, 4 October 2013. 41. Scoz L., Fedrigotti A., 2013 - Pastori ± antichi in valle di Ledro. Primi dati dalle ricognizioni archeologiche. Tavola rotonda “Antichi pastori: sopravvivenze, tradizione orale, storia, tracce nel paesaggio e archeologia”, Bosco Chiesanuova 26-27 October 2013. 42. Sugni M., Dorigotti S., 2013 - workshop: Per una rete educativa italiana: world café, Congresso nazionale Costruiamo insieme il futuro degli Orti botanici, Orto Botanico di Bergamo, 17-18 October 2013. 43. Tenan S., Adrover J., Muñoz Navarro A., Sergio F., Tavecchia G., 2012 - Demographic consequences of illegal poisoning in raptors: an integrated approach. International Statistical Ecology Conference 2012, Krokkleiva, Oslo, Norway, 3-6 July 2012. 44. Tenan S., Tavecchia G., 2013 - Modelli gerarchici Bayesiani in ornitologia. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. Posters (with published abstract) 1. Bernardi M., Avanzini M., Petti F.M. & Benton M.J., 2012 - First marine reptile remains from the Early Triassic of the Southern Alps. European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists Meeting, X ed., 10th Annual Meeting, 19-24 June 2012, Teruel, Espana, Abstract volume (Fundamental Series): 21-22. 2. Bontempo L., Ceppa F, Ziller L., Pedrini P. & Camin F., 2013 - Comparison of methods for preparing bird feathers for stable isotope ratio analysis (C, N, H, O). XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013: 82. 135 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 3. Bontempo L., Ceppa F., Ziller L., Pedrini P., Tenan S., Camin F., 2013 - Stable isotopes (C, N, O, H) of feathers collected in an Italian alpine region, during postbreeding migration. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, 07-12 April 2013. 4. Cantonati M., Gargini A., Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D. & De Nardo M.T., 2012 - Springs as main groundwater dependent ecosystems. 7th EUropean Congress on REgional GEOscientific Cartography and Information Systems (EUREGEO), Bologna, 12-15 June 2012, Programme: 47. 5. Cantonati M., Gargini A., Segadelli S., Angeli N., Spitale D., De Nardo M.T. & Ercolessi G., 2012 Exploring the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna springs: The EBERs Project. Flowpath 2012 Percorsi di Idrogeologia, Bologna, 20-22 June 2012. 6. Cavulli F., Scoz L., Angelucci D.E., Pedrotti A., 2013 - La sequenza stratigrafica, le strutture antropiche e la distribuzione spaziale dei manufatti di Lugo di Grezzana (VR). XLVIII Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria IIPP, Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, Padova, 5-9 November 2013. 7. Duches R., Dalmeri G., Peresani M., 2013 - Riflessioni sull’evoluzione degli armamenti da caccia durante l’interstadio tardoglaciale: analisi tecno-tipo-funzionale delle armature litiche di Riparo Dalmeri (TN) e risultati sperimentali. XLVIII Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria IIPP, Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, Padova, 5-9 November 2013. 8. Franzoi A., Nelli L., Bionda R. & Meriggi A., 2012 - Habitat selection of Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Veglia-Devero Natural Park, a small scale study. 12th International Grouse Symposium, Matsumoto Japan, 21-28 July 2012. 9. Gandini M., Abeli T., Cauzzi P., Petraglia A., Tomaselli M. & Rossi G., 2013 - Effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sulla biodiversità della vegetazione alpina in appennino settentrionale (GLORIA network). 108° Congresso Nazionale della Società Botanica Italiana, Trento, 18-20 September 2013: 89. 10. Gandini M., Orsenigo S., Abeli T., Mondoni A. & Rossi G., 2013 - Effetti delle onde di calore sulla flora alpina in Appennino settentrionale. 108° Congresso Nazionale della Società Botanica Italiana , Trento, 18-20 September 2013: 90. 11. Glerean P., Bogliani G., Lencioni V., Gobbi M. & Stoch F., 2012 - Progettazione di una metodologia uniformata di monitoraggio e di analisi dell’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sulla biodiversità faunistica. Giornata di studi della Società Botanica Italiana - Gruppo di Ecologia: “Cambiamento climatico: analisi ed impatti su specie ed ecosistemi vegetali”, Varese, 18 April 2012. 12. Leonardi R., Tattoni C. & Pedrini P., 2013 - Studio della presenza del picchio verde Picus viridis negli ambienti forestali di margine tramite l’applicazione di modelli predittivi. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento 11-15 September 2013: 112. 13. Meikl M., Gimeno Represas A., Pitt A., Berninger U., Romanazzi E., Doglio S., Fernandez Cardenete J.R., Benavides J., 2013 - Educational work and protection of salamanders in three European countries within a Sparkling Science project. 17th European Congress of Herpetology, Veszprém, Hungary, 22-27 August 2013. 14. Mondoni A., Rossi G., Orsenigo S., 2012 - Effects of climate warming on seed germination in alpine plants. XXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Ecologia (SITE), Ecologia e Gestione Ambientale, sessione P2 Studi ecologici a lungo termine, Alessandria, 10-13 September 2012, Book of Abstracts: 194. 15. Nelli L., Franzoi A. & Meriggi A., 2013 - Habitat selection of rock ptarmigan in Veglia-Devero Natural Park (Italy): a small-scale study. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013: 127. 136 16. Orsenigo S., Abeli T., Mondoni A., Cristofanelli P., Gandini M., Bonasoni P. & Rossi G., 2013 - Effect of the extreme heat-waves on populations of alpine plants in the N-Apennines (Italy). International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change, HIGH SUMMIT, Lecco, 23-25 October 2013: 55. 17. Segnana M., Cantonati M. & Angeli N., 2013 - Epilithic diatom assemblages of an extremely-lowalkalinity high mountain lake (Adamello-Brenta Nature Park, south-eastern Alps) with special reference to the depth-distribution. 7th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM7), Thonon-lesBains, France, 18-20 September 2013, Abstract Book (F. Rimet et al. ed.): 124-126. 18. Stocchetti E., Angeli N., Kelly M., Spitale D., Dorflinger G., Armanini D.G. and Cantonati M., 2013 - Analysis of diatoms from Cyprus rivers: biological quality of mediterranean fluvial sites under environmental stress gradient. Congresso SItE 2013. 19. Tenan S., Rotger A., Igual J.M., Tavecchia G., 2012 - Population size estimate in short-time. Handling behavioural response, individual heterogeneity in three-session surveys. International Statistical Ecology Conference 2012, Krokkleiva, Oslo, Norway, 3-6 July 2012. Posters (without published abstract) 1. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., Galetto M., Battistotti M., 2012 - Mid term report of the Italian edition of the Inquire preliminary training course “IBSE: Think like a Scientist!”. 3rd INQUIRE partners meeting, Madrid, Spain, 29 February - 2 March 2012. 2. Bontempo L., Ceppa F., Ziller L., Pedrini P., Tenan S., Camin F., 2013 - Stable isotopes (C, N, O, H) of feathers collected in an Italian alpine region, during postbreeding migration. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia, Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 3. Cantonati M. & Lange-Bertalot H. (with contributions of Martyn Kelly and David Armanini), 2013 New freshwater araphid diatom species from different freshwater habitats. 2nd European Workshop on Diatom Taxonomy 2nd EWDT), Thonon-les-Bains, 20-21 September, 2013. 4. Gvoždìk V., Mariaux J., Müller M., Menegon M. &Loader S.P., 2013 - Phylogeography, phenotypic variation and distribution modelling of Leptopelis frogs across the sky islands of the Eastern Arc Mountains in East Africa. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lisbona, August 2013. 5. Gvoždìk V., Mariaux J., Müller M., Menegon M. &Loader S.P., 2013 - Phylogeography, phenotypic variation and distribution modelling of Leptopelis frogs across the sky islands of the Eastern Arc Mountains in East Africa. XVII European Congress of Herpetology, Veszprém, Ungheria, August 2013. 6. L. Casagrande L., 2013 - A proposal for a georeferenced database of mining and mineralogical sites in Trentino (Italy). Symposium Europa Subterranea 2012, Jihlava - Česká Republika, 25-28 May 2012. 7. Orsenigo S., Mondoni A., Rossi G., 2013 - Effects of heat waves on seed germination in 55 high montane plants from the Northern Apennines (Italy). The Fourth International Society for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, 22-26 June 2013. 8. Rosati M., Cantonati M., De Nardo M.T., Segadelli S. & Rossetti G., 2013 - Conoscenze sull’ostracodofauna di sorgenti in Italia e obiettivi e metodi per un nuovo ciclo di ricerche in Appennino settentrionale. Meeting of Italian Ostracodologists, Catania, 22-24 February 2013. 9. Tenan S., Rotger A., Igual J.M., Tavecchia G., 2012 - Population size estimate in short-time. Handling behavioural response, individual heterogeneity in three-session surveys. International Statistical Ecology Conference 2012, Krokkleiva, Oslo, Norway, 3-6 July 2012. 137 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Congress attendances 1. “Biodiversità entomologica, un’idea progettuale per i nostri territori” - Museo Geologico di Predazzo, 24 May 2012. 2. “Documentazione della biodiversità e valorizzazione del pregio naturalistico del Settore trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio attraverso le ricerche del Museo delle Scienze” - Cogolo, TN (Sede Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio), 1 June 2012. 3. “Habitat e stato ecologico: risposta biologica a possibili misure di ripristino in fiumi e laghi italiani” Convegno finale Progetto INHABIT: Idromorfologia locale, habitat e Piani di Gestione: nuove misure per migliorare la qualità ecologica in fiumi e laghi sud europei, Milano, 29-30 October 2013. 4. 1° Meeting per la progettazione della seconda edizione del corso Inquire - Bergamo, 17 July 2012. 5. 108° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana - Baselga di Pinè, 18-20 September 2013. 6. 10th Meeting of the Management Team of the Inquire project - London, England, 4-5 December 2012. 7. 1st Annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium - Chios, Greece, 26-27 May 2012. 8. 1st Annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium - Prague Botanic garden (BGCI/ IABG), Czech republic, 25-26 May 2013. 9. 2° Meeting per la progettazione della seconda edizione del corso Inquire - Bergamo, 17 July 2012. 10. 22° congresso ANMS - Il patrimonio culturale dei musei scientifici - Firenze, 14-16 November 2012. 11. 2nd Annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium - Gibraltar ‘Alameda’ Botanic Garden (BGCI/IABG), Gibraltar, UK, 7-8 December 2013. 12. 2nd Annual meeting of the European Botanic Gardens Consortium - Jardin Botanic Atlantico, Gijon, Spain, 1-2 December 2012. 13. 3° Meeting per la progettazione della seconda edizione del corso Inquire - Bergamo, 10 October 2012. 14. 3rd INQUIRE partners meeting - Madrid, Spain, 29 February, 2 march 2012. 15. 4° Meeting per la progettazione della seconda edizione del corso Inquire - Bergamo, 24 gennaio 2013. 16. 4th INQUIRE partners meeting - Lisbon & Coimbra, Portugal, 2-5 October 2012. 17. 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress - Celebrating Success. The influence and appeal of botanic gardens. Dunedin centre and Botanic Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-25 October 2014. 18. 6th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM6) - (Chairperson:Cantonati M.), Poster session 1 - Paleolimnology, Springs, Taxonomy, Innsbruck, Austria, 22-25 March 2012 . 19. 6th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM6) - Innsbruck, Austria, 22-25 March 2012. 20. 6th European Botanic Gardens Congress - Chios, Greece, 27 May - 2 June 2012. 21. 6th Meeting of the Management Team of the Inquire project - Innsbruck, Austria, 25-27 January 2012. 22. 7th Central European Diatom Meeting (CEDIATOM7) - Taxonomy session 1. (Chairs: Jüttner I. & Cantonati M.), Thonon Les Bains, France, 17-21 September 2013. 138 23. 7th EUropean Congress on REgional GEOscientific Cartography and Information Systems (EUREGEO) - Bologna, Italy, 12-15 June 2012. 24. 7th Meeting of the Management Team of the Inquire project - Madrid, Spain, 28-29 February 2012. 25. 8th International Symposium on the Use of algae for Monitoring Rivers (UAMRIVER 2012) - Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 18-22 June 2012. 26. 8th International Symposium Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers - Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), 1922 June 2012. Oral Session 2. (‘Last advances in algal monitoring methodologies’; Chaired by: M. Cantonati and E. Rott). 27. 8th Meeting of the Management Team of the Inquire project - Innsbruck, Austria, 30 August 1 September 2012. 28. 9th Meeting of the Management Team of the Inquire project - Lisbon, Portugal, 1-2 October 2012. 29. Botanic Garden Education Network Annual Meeting - Dundee, Scotland, UK, 6-8 November 2013. 30. Conferenza “I prati permanenti trentini. Valore agronomico, pregio ambientale e prospettive di conservazione” - San Michele all’Adige TN, 30 November 2012. 31. Congresso “L’integrazione delle scienze e la didattica laboratoriale: Il Cannocchiale di Galileo” - INDIRE, MIUR, Fiesole (FI), 11-13 March 2013. 32. Congresso nazionale “Costruiamo insieme il futuro degli Orti botanici” - Orto Botanico di Bergamo, 17-18 October 2013. 33. Convegno “Clima e biodiversità in ambiente alpino: esperienze di monitoraggio” - Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, 24 february 2012. 34. Convegno nazionale “Didattica delle scienze nella scuola post-riordino e costruzione di una cittadinanza scientifica - Inquiry-based Science Education ed integrazione delle scienze sperimentali: esempi e riflessioni sulla pratica docente” - Ancona, 17-18 December 2012. 35. Convegno nazionale “Education 2.0” - Firenze, 26 October 2012. 36. Convegno nazionale “Le giornate della scienza/education in science - Gli strumenti e gli approcci per un apprendimento significativo delle scienze”. Camerino (MC), 6-8 September 2012. 37. Corso di formazione su “Introduzione al metodo CARAVAGGIO” - Sede CNR di Via Bassini 15, Milano. 3 - 5 October 2012. 38. ESF Exploratory Workshop: Glacier-Fed Rivers, Hydroecology And Climate Change; Current Knowledge And Future Network Of Monitoring Sites Birmingham (UK), 15-18 September 2013. 39. Giornata delle Aree protette in Trentino, PAT Servizio Conservazione della Natura, Brentonico, 27 March 2012. 40. HIGH SUMMIT - International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change - Lecco 23-25 October 2013. 41. II Convegno Italiano Rapaci (diurni e notturni) - Treviso, 12-13 October 2012. 42. INQUIRE Final Conference: Raising Standards Through Inquiry: Professional Development in the Natural Environment - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK 9-10 July 2013. 43. INQUIRE Management team meeting - Innsbruck, Austria, 20-21 March 2013. 44. INQUIRE Meeting at Bordeaux Botanic garden - Bordeaux, France, 12 September 2013. 139 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 45. INQUIRE Meeting at Oslo Botanic garden - Oslo, 9 September 2013. 46. INQUIRE Meeting at the national museum of science & technology - Milano, 28 Marzo 2013. 47. International conference: Faster, Higher, More? Past, Present and Future Dynamics of Alpine and Arctic Flora under Climate Change - Bergün, Switzerland, 22-25 September 2013. 48. IX Assemblea dei soci RIBES - Rete Italiana Banche del Germoplasma per la Conservazione Ex situ della Flora spontanea Italiana, e comunicazioni scientifiche sul tema “Banche del germoplasma e conservazione in situ”, Orto Botanico di Roma, 23 aprile 2013. 49. Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science - (SFS, formerly NABS, Louisville, KY, USA, 20-24 May 2012) Freshwater Stewardship: Challenges and Solutions. Organizer (with Prof. Rex Lowe, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA) of the Special Session Lake benthic algae: communities, bioassessment, traits and adaptive ecology of selected species (S02; 24 May 2012, 12 contributed talks). 50. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 8th ISUAMR - Madrid, Spain, 19-22 June 2012. 51. MUW 13, Mountains Under Watch 2013, Observing climate change effects in the Alps - Forte di Bard, Val d’Aosta (Italy), 20-21 February 2013. 52. Project coordinators’ meeting - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks ITN 2013 - EU Charlemagne building, Bruxelles, 15 November 2013. 53. Real World Learning Conference: Science and Sustainability through outdoor learning - Planica, Slovenia 27-30 November 2013. 54. Review Meeting Project Cofund “Trentino” - Trento, 3 December 2012. 55. RIBES Congress: “Native seed banks as providers of crop wild relatives for agro-food uses and as sources of wild species for ecological restoration projects’” - Pisa, 27 April 2012. 56. Riunione annuale “National Advisory group del progetto INQUIRE” - Giardini Trauttmannsdorff, Merano, 17 May 2012. 57. Riunione annuale 2012 del direttivo AIGBA - Associazione Internazionale Giardini Botanici Alpini Stradella 27 February 2012. 58. Riunione annuale 2012 del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana - Giardini Trauttmannsdorff, Merano, 17-18 May 2012. 59. Riunione annuale del gruppo Orti Botanici della Società Botanica Italiana - Orto Botanico di Pisa, 7 June 2013. 60. Seminario “Il Neolitico in ambiente Montano” - Analisi Tecno-Funzionale dei Manufatti Preistorici, Scuola di Dottorato Università degli Studi di Trento Dip. Lettere e Filosofia, Trento ,15 November 2013. 61. Seminario scientifico “Il Giardino Botanico di Valbonella. Trent’anni al servizio della natura” - Santa Sofia (FO) 8 June 2013. 62. Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) 2012 Annual Meeting - Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 20-25 May 2012. 63. The annual Bearded Vulture Meeting 2012 - Brunnen CH, 10-11 November 2012.. 64. The Fourth International Society for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, 22-26 June 2013. 140 65. Training day on inquiry at the national museum of science & technology, Milan, 5 October 2013. 66. VIII Assemblea dei soci RIBES - Rete Italiana Banche del Germoplasma per la Conservazione Ex situ della Flora spontanea Italiana, Pisa 28 aprile 2012. 67. Workshop “Progetto Alpi” - incontro annuale di programmazione, Ozzano dell’Emilia Bologna, 12 July 2012. 68. Workshop “Technologie de la Pierre Tailée Préhistorique: methodologie et initiation pratique” - Action Nationale de Formation du CNRS, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac et Campagne, Dordogne, 18-26 September 2013. 72 hours. 69. Workshop di ornitologia “CISO DAY, demografia e distribuzione degli uccelli in un mondo che cambia” - Venezia, 14-15 December 2012. 70. Workshop on Climate Change - Società Botanica Italiana, gruppo di Ecologia, Varese (Italy), 18 April 2012. 71. XI Convegno Nazionale degli Inanellatori Italiani - Gaeta (LT), 24-26 February 2012. 72. XII International Grause Symposium - Matzumoto Japan, 21-28 July 2012. 73. XVII Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia - Trento, 11-15 September 2013. 74. XXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Ecologia (SITE) - Ecologia e Gestione Ambientale, Alessandria, 10-13 September 2012. Project report 1. AA.VV., Segreteria Progetto Alpi - Resoconto sull’attività di campo 2011 - Incontro annuale 12.7.2012 ISPRA Ozzano Emilia. 2. AA.VV., Sezione Zoologia dei Vertebrati - Relazione attività di inanellamento 2011, Museo delle Scienze, pp 24. 3. Bonomi C. & Battistotti C., 2012 - Pilot Inquire Course Participants feedback, being deliverable D4.4, Trento, Italy. 15pp. 4. Bonomi C., 2012 - National Report for Italy to the European Botanic Gardens Consortium. Period covered: second half 2010, 2011 & 2012. 13 pp. 5. Bonomi C., 2012 - Verbale della I riunione semestrale 2012 del Consorzio Europeo dei Giardini Botanici (BGCI/IABG), Isola di Chio, Grecia, 26-27 May 2012. 6pp. 6. Bonomi C., 2012 - Verbale della II riunione semestrale 2012 del Consorzio Europeo dei Giardini Botanici (BGCI/IABG), Atlantic Botanic Garden, Gijon, Asturie, Spagna, 1-2 December 2012. 6pp. 7. Bonomi C., 2013 - Dissemination Summary, being deliverable D6.3 of the INQUIRE project, Trento, Italy. 10 pp. 8. Bonomi C., 2013 - Inquire Course Participants feedback, being deliverable D4.5 of the INQUIRE project, Trento, Italy. 22 pp. 9. Bonomi C., 2013 - National Report for Italy to the European Botanic Gardens Consortium. Period covered: first half 2013. 7 pp. 10. Bonomi C., 2013 - National Report for Italy to the European Botanic Gardens Consortium. Period covered: second half 2013. 7 pp. 141 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 11. Bonomi C., 2013 - Verbale della I riunione semestrale 2013 del Consorzio Europeo dei Giardini Botanici (BGCI/IABG), Giardino Botanico di Praga, Repubblica Ceca, 25-26 May 2013. 7pp. 12. Bonomi C., 2013 - Verbale della II riunione semestrale 2013 del Consorzio Europeo dei Giardini Botanici (BGCI/IABG), Gibraltar ‘Alameda’ Botanic Garden, Gibraltar, UK, 7-8 december 2013. 6pp. 13. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2013 - INQUIRE Budget justification report months 19-36, Trento, Italy. 8 pp. 14. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2013 - INQUIRE Periodic Report months 19-36, Trento, Italy. 15 pp. 15. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2013 - INQUIRE Summary of Partner activities for the Final report months 1-36, Trento, Italy. 6 pp. 16. Bonomi C., Dorigotti S., 2013 - Plans and actions for the sustainability of the INQUIRE project, Trento, Italy. 2 pp. 17. Brambilla M. & Pedrini P., 2012 - MELA: Monitoraggio EcoLogico dell’Avifauna. Un contributo alle conoscenze ed alla conservazione dell’avifauna dei frutteti trentini. 54 pp. 18. Brambilla M., Pedrini P., Prosser F., 2013 - Bertolli A. LIFE11/NAT/IT000187 T.E.N. AZIONE A2 -Individuazione delle priorità di conservazione per specie e habitat delle Direttive “Uccelli” e “Habitat” sul territorio della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, November 2013. 19. Brambilla M., Tattoni C. & Pedrini P., 2012 - Costruire la base di conoscenze biologiche propedeutica alla realizzazione della rete ecologica trentina. 44 pp. 20. Bronzini L. & Pedrini P. (coord.), 2012 - Progetto di attuazione della Rete di riserve “Alpi Ledrensi” tra i comuni di Ledro, Riva del Garda, Tenno, Storo e Bondone. Museo delle Scienze, 66 pp. 21. Cantonati M. & Angeli N., 2012 - Diatoms from the running waters of Cyprus. Results of preliminary analyses of 120 samples out of 186. 22. Cantonati M. & Spitale D., 2012 - Ricerca ecologica di lungo corso e ACQUA-TEST_PNAB. Relazione V anno. December 2012. 23. Cantonati M., 2012 - EBERs. Exploring the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna springs. Activity report. 2nd Project year. December 2012. 24. Cantonati M., 2012 - Relazione tecnico-scientifica per la valutazione dell’impatto ambientale del prelievo d’acqua per innevamento artificiale dal Lago Ritorto. 31 October 2012. 25. Cantonati M., Angeli N. & Spitale D., 2013 - EBERs. Exploring the Biodiversity of Emilia-Romagna springs. Activity report. 2nd Project year. December 2013. 26. Casarotto C., 2013 - Report progetto “Ghiacciai di una volta”, 5 March 2013. 27. Casarotto C., Bertolli A., Savador I., Odasso M., & Pedrini P., 2012 - Rapporto ambientale Marmolada, Museo delle Scienze, 328 pp. 28. Gobbi M., Boscolo T. & Lencioni V., 2013 - Progetto di monitoraggio della biodiversità alpina: monitoraggio della fauna invertebrata. Relazione di fine progetto, anno 2013, 4 pp. 29. 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Relazione di attività, anno 2013, 13 pp. 143 Appendix 5 Collaborations: the research national network The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 2 Sondrio Verbania Alessandria Torino Monza 1 3 Milano 2 1 1 Verona Bolzano 29 Trento 2 1 2 2 Pavia Genova 1 Padova 1 Ferrara 1 Parma Belluno 1 Italy 56 Bologna 1 Roma 2 L’Aquila 1 1 1 National Collaborations (2012-2013) Cosenza Catania In Italy Agreements (with financial support) 12 Memorandum of Understanding (without financial support) 2 Partnerships 2 Others (co-authorship, free consultancies, etc.) 40 Total 56 Agreements 1. Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO, Cortina (BL) 2. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Dip. di Biodiversità ed Ecologia Molecolare, San Michele all’Adige (TN) 3. Museo Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto (TN) 4. Museo L. Pigorini, Laboratorio Archeozoologia, Roma 5. Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta, Strembo (TN) 6. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Bormio (SO) 7. Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Servizio Conservazione della natura e Valorizzazione Ambientale, Trento 8. Regione Emilia-Romagna Direzione Generale Ambiente e Difesa del Suolo e della Costa, Servizio Geologico,Sismico e dei Suoli, Bologna 9. Università degli studi di Trento, Dip. di Economia e Management Trento 146 Collaborations: the research national network 10. Università della Calabria, Dip. di Ecologia, Arcavacata di Rende (CS) 11. Università di Pavia, Dip. di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Pavia 12. Università di Trento, DICA, Trento Memorandum of Understanding 1. Università di Ferrara, Dip.Biologia ed Evoluzione, Ferrara 2. RIBES - The Italian seed bank network for the ex-situ conservation of the italian native flora, Centro Universitario di Servizi Giardini Botanici Hanbury Università di Genova , Genova Partnerships 1. Archivio di Stato, Trento 2. Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Archeologici, Trento Others 1. Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente, Settore Informazione e monitoraggi U.O. Attività di Monitoraggio Ambientale, Trento 2. BIM Consorzio dei Comuni del bacino Imbrifero Montano del Brenta, Borgo Valsugana (TN) 3. Bio-Physic Institute - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Unità di Trento, Povo (Trento) 4. Cassa Centrale Banca, Trento 5. Cassa Rurale di Folgaria, Folgaria (TN) 6. CNR, Plant Virology Institute, Grugliasco Unit, Grugliasco (TO) 7. CNR-IBF, Istituto di Biofisica, Trento 8. CNR-IRSA, Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, Brugherio (Monza) 9. CNR-ISE, Istituto per lo studio degli Ecosistemi, Pallanza (VB) 10. Comune di Levico Terme, Levico Terme (TN) 11. Comune di Terlago, Terlago (TN) 12. Comune di Trento, Servizio Ambiente, Ufficio Ecologia urbana, Trento 13. CORA ricerche archeologiche snc, Trento 14. ENEA, Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, Roma 15. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Dip. Biodiversità ed Ecologia Molecolare, San Michele all’Adige (TN) 16. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Qualità alimentare e nutrizione Piattaforma Analisi Isotopiche, S.Michele All’Adige (TN) 17. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all’Adige (TN) 147 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 18. Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi - CNR Sezione di Idrobiologia, Pallanza (VB) 19. Medio Credito Trentino Alto Adige, Trento 20. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Sezione di Zoologia, Verona 21. Museo Civico di Rovereto, Sezione Botanica, Rovereto (TN) 22. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Bormio (SO) 23. Sartori Ambiente - soluzioni per l’ecologia, Arco (TN) 24. Studio di Architettura K.N. Kompatscher, Bolzano 25. The Italian Botanic Gardens Network, Catania 26. Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. di Biologia, Milano 27. Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. di Protezione dei Sistemi Agroalimentare e Urbano e Valorizzazione delle Biodiversità (Dipsa), Milano 28. Università degli studi di Trento, Dip. di Economia e Management, Trento 29. Università degli studi di Trento, Dip. di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica, Trento 30. Università degli Studi di Trento, Dip. Lettere e Filosofia, Lab. B. Bagolini, Trento 31. Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dip. di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Alessandria 32. Università dell’Aquila, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, L’Aquila 33. Università di Milano - Bicocca, Dip. di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Milano 34. Università di Padova, Dip. di Biologia, Laboratorio di Algologia, Padova 35. Università di Parma, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, Parma 36. Università di Pavia, Dip. di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Pavia 37. Università di Torino, Dip. di Biologia Animale, Laboratorio di Ecologia, Torino 38. Università degli studi di Trento CIBIO, Bioorganic Chemistry Lab, Trento 39. Università degli studi di Trento, Dip. di Fisica, Bioorganic Chemistry Lab, Trento 40. Università di Venezia & IDPA-CNR, Dip. di Scienze Ambientali, Belluno 148 Appendix 6 Collaborations: the research International network The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 Denmark Germany Belgium USA 2 UK 1 Norway 1 Sweden 2 7 Finland 1 2 3 2 Spain 1 5 Switzerland 2 Poland 3 Czech Republic Bulgaria 1 Austria 4 3 World 53 International Collaborations (2012-2013) 1 5 Memorandum of Understanding (without financial support) 5 Partnerships 20 Others (co-authorship, free consultancies, etc.) 23 Total 53 Tanzania South Africa Abroad Agreements (with financial support) Agreements 1. Foundation Conservation International, Washington DC, USA 2. Nice University, CEPAM - Cultures et Environnements Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge - unità di ricerca CNRS, Nice, France 3. Université de Bordeaux, PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie PPP (Préhistoire, Paléoenvironnement, Patrimoine), Bordeaux, France 4. University of Innsbruck, Geology Dept., Innsbruck, Austria 5. University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany, Botanic Garden, Green school, Innsbruck, Austria 150 Russia 11 France Portougal 1 Collaborations: the research International network Memorandum of Understanding 1. Ensconet - The Eurpean Native Seed Conservation Network, Wakehurst, UK 2. German Primate Center (DPZ), Reproductive Biology Unit, Goettingen, Germany 3. Tanzania National Parks, Arusha, Tanzania 4. University of Dar es Salaam, Dept. of Zoology and Dept. of Botany, Tanzania 5. Wildlife Conservation Society, Tanzania programme, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Partnerships 1. Bordeaux Botanic Garden, Bordeaux, France 2. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK 3. Botanika GmbH, Rhododendron Park, Bremen, Germany 4. King´s College London, Dept. of Education & Professional Studies, London, UK 5. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Botanic Garden, Moscow, Russia 6. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Population Ecology Group, Esporles, Spain 7. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Education Dept., Meise, Belgium 8. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark 9. Royal Botanic Garden, Education Dept., Madrid, Spain 10. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Education Dept., Richmond, UK 11. School Biology Centre, Hanover, Germany 12. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Molecular Ecology Program, Cape Town, South Africa 13. University of Alcala, Real Jardín Botánico Juan Carlos I, Alcala de Hernares, Spain 14. University of Bremen, Instiutute of Biology Education, Bremen, Germany 15. University of Coimbra, Botanic Garden, Coimbra, Portugal 16. University of Frankfurt, Botany Institute, Frankfurt, Germany 17. University of Innsbruck, Botany Institute, Hydrobotany, Innsbruck, Austria 18. University of Lisbon, Botanic Garden, Lisbon, Portugal 19. University of Oslo, Natural History Museum Botanic Garden, Dept. of Exhibitions and public services, Oslo, Norway 20. University of Sofia, Botanic Gardens department, Sofia, Bulgaria Others 1. Chester Zoo,Chester, UK 2. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Dept. of Global Change, Research, Esporles, Spain 3. National Museum & Galleries, Biodiversity, Cardiff UK, Wales 4. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, USA 5. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Algology Dept., Krakow, Poland 6. Research Center Jülich, Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Jülich, Germany 7. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK 8. The Eden Project, St. Austell, UK 151 The research activities at the Museo delle Scienze: Report 2012-2013 9. The European Botanic Gardens Consortium, Richmond, UK 10. The Natural History Museum, Botany Department, Diatom Lab, London, UK 11. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Group of Biology and Environmetal Toxixology, Madrid, Spain 12. University of Antwerp, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Antwerp, Belgium 13. University of Birmingham Edgbaston, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, UK 14. University of Brno, Dept. of Botany and Zoology, Brno, Czech Republic 15. University of Helsinki, Department of Environmental Sciences, Aquatic Community Ecology Group, Helsinki, Finland 16. University of Innsbruck, Ecology Institute, Innsbruck, Austria 17. University of Olomouc, Dept. of Botany, Phycology, Olomouc, Czech Republic 18. University of Rzeszów, Institute of Applied Biotechnology and Basic Sciences, Kolbuszowa, Poland 19. University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejowice, Czech Republic 20. University of Tübingen, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Tübingen, Germany 21. University of Turku, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, Turku, Finland 22. University of Zürich, Institute of Botany, Phycology, Zürich, Switzerland 23. Uppsala University, Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala, Sweden 152