
La ricerca scientifica al MUSE
Il MUSE conduce attività di ricerca scientifica in ambito naturalistico con particolare attenzione ai cambiamenti climatici, alla biodiversità e al paesaggio.
Ambito Clima ed Ecologia
Berlusconi, A., Gobbi, M., Martinoli, A., Alba, R., Assandri, G., Bona, F., … & Morganti, M. (2025). Foraging niche partitioning within a recently established guild of falcons. Ibis.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13399
Bonelli M., Eustacchio E., Gallo G.R., Tampucci D., Ornaghi S., Pedersoli D., Pietra F., Valle B., Gianfranceschi L., Casartelli C., Caccianiga M., Gobbi M. (2025) Elevation to species level of Nebria (Oreonebria) tresignore (Szallies & Huber, 2014) stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae) a cold-adapted, endemic and threatened species of the Italian Alps. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 62(1) https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2025.62.1.1
Bonelli, M., Eustacchio, E., Pietra, F., Pedrotti, L., Casartelli, M., Caccianiga, M., & Gobbi, M. (2025). The Buzz of Inconsistency: Pollinator Potential vs. Research Effort. Journal of Applied Entomology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jen.13430
Cantera, I., Giachello, S., Münkemüller, T., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Losapio, G., Marta, S., Valle, B., Zawierucha, K., Thuiller, W., & Ficetola, F. (2025). Describing functional diversity of communities from environmental DNA. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40(2), 170–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.10.007
Crosta, A., Valle, B., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Ficetola, F. G., Pittino, F., … & Ambrosini, R. (2025). Ecological interactions in glacier environments: a review of studies on a model Alpine glacier. Biological Reviews, 100(1), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13138
Da Re, D., Marini, G., Bonannella, C., Laurini, F., Manica, M., Anicic, N., Franceschini A.,…, LencioniV.,… & Rosà, R. (2025). Modelling the seasonal dynamics of Aedes albopictus populations using a spatio-temporal stacked machine learning model. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 3750 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87554-y
Eustacchio E., Brunetti M., Cappellari A.; Mei M; Pedrotti L., Montagna M., Caccianiga M., Casartelli M. ; Gobbi M., Bonelli M. (in press) ITS2 metabarcoding quantitative reliability in assessing the composition of pollen carried by insects. Apidologie
Masseroni A., Gabriella F. Schirinzi, S. Villa, S. Pozzi, F. Paoli, J. Ponti, A. Valsesia, V. Lencioni (2025) Investigating the presence of nanoplastics in freshwater chironomids from glacial habitats using Raman spectroscopy. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vgaf082, https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf082
Panza R., Laini A., Roggero A., Rolando A., Palestrini C., Gobbi M (in press) Responses of carabid and dung beetles to the extreme windstorm “Vaia”: susceptibility versus resilience to disturbance. The European Zoological Journal
Valle, B., Barbon, G., Cucini, C., Nardi, F., Ambrosini, R., Boschi, S., …, Gobbi, M., & Caccianiga, M. (2025). The Unexplored Biodiversity of ‘Glacier Fleas’(Hexapoda: Collembola): Taxonomy, Distribution and Ecology in the European Alps and Apennines. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 2025(1), 1616350.
https://doi.org/10.1155/jzs/1616350
Valle B., Ligi O., Invernizzi A., Fiaschi T., Gobbi M., Caccianiga M. (2025) Moss flora of two Alpine glacial and periglacial sites on crystalline and limestone bedrock. Natural History Science.
https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2024.809
Varutti M., Gaudio D., Gobbi M. (2025) Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) could limit the emotional connection to the historical photography of glacier changes, BioScience, biaf070.
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf070
Varutti M., Gobbi M., Gaudio D. (2025) Losing glaciers: a call for ‘emotional research’ and ‘radical collaboration’ in research on the ecological crisis. The Anthropocene Review.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196251334762
Avesani, D., Frizzera, D., Lo Giudice, G., Birtele, D., & Lencioni, V. (2024). Diptera dwelling aquatic and terrestrial habitats in an alpine floodplain (Amola glacier, Italian Alps). Insects, 15, 904.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15110904
Battistin, G., Franceschini, A., Paoli, F., & Lencioni, V. (2024). Colonisation by tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus Skuse, 1894) of mountain areas above 600 m a.s.l. in the surroundings of Trento city (NE-Italy). Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 56, 12185.
https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2024.12185
Cantera, I., Carteron, A., Guerrieri, A., Marta, S., Bonin, A., Ambrosini, R., … Gobbi, M., … & Ficetola, G. F. (2024). The importance of species addition ‘versus’ replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacier retreat. Nature Plants, 10(2), 256-267.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01609-4
Carteron, A., Cantera, I., Guerrieri, A., Marta, S., Bonin, A., Ambrosini, R., … Gobbi, M.,… & Ficetola, G. F. (2024). Dynamics and drivers of mycorrhizal fungi after glacier retreat. New Phytologist, 242(4), 1739-1752. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19682
Ceresa, F., Brambilla, M., Kvist, L., Vitulano, S., Pes, M., Tomasi, L., Pedrini, P., Bettega, C., Anderle, M., Hilpold, A., & Kranebitter, P. (2024). Restricted dispersal and inbreeding in a high‐elevation bird across the ‘sky islands’ of the European Alps. Journal of Biogeography, 51(5), 853-868. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14787
Crosta, A., Valle, B., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Ficetola, F., Pittino, F., Franzetti, A., Azzoni, R. S., Lencioni, V., … & Ambrosini, R. (2024). Ecological interactions in glacier environments: A review of studies on a model Alpine glacier. Biological Reviews 100(1), 227-244.
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13138
Da Re, D., Marini, G., Bonannella, C., Laurini, F., Manica, M., Anicic, N., Albieri, A., Angelini, P., … Lencioni V.,…..& Rosà, R. (2024). VectAbundance: A spatio-temporal database of vector observations. Scientific Data, 11, 636. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03482-y
Ficetola, G. F., Marta, S., Guerrieri, A., Cantera, I., Bonin, A., Cauvy-Fraunié, S., … & Carteron, A. (2024). The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat. Nature, 632(8024), 336-342. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07778-2
Giachello, S., Cantera, I., Carteron, A., Bonin, A., Guerrieri, A., Ambrosini, R., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Marta, S., & Ficetola, F. (2024). Functional changes of protist communities in soil after glacier retreat. Science of the Total Environment, 956, 177265.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177265
Guerrieri, A., Cantera, I., Marta, S., Bonin, A., Carteron, A., Ambrosini, R., Caccianiga M.,…Gobbi M. & Ficetola, G. F. (2024). Local climate modulates the development of soil nematode communities after glacier retreat. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17057.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17057
Hågvar, S., Valle, B., & Gobbi, M. (2024). Remarks and advice to the study of early arthropod succession near melting glaciers. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 56(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2335687
Lencioni, V., Adler, P. H., & Courtney, G. W. (2024). Order Diptera. In A. Maasri & J. H. Thorp (Eds.), Identification and ecology of freshwater arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin (pp. 503–639). Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821844-0.00001-6
Lencioni, V., Prat, N., Paoli, F., Acosta, R., Rodriguez-Prieto, A., & Allegrucci, G. (2024). Revisiting Diamesa species in the West Palaearctic: Morphological and molecular insights. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 202. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae136
Manfrin, A., López Moreira Mazacotte, G. A., Spaak, J. W., Osakpolor, S. E., Brühl, C. A., Lencioni, V., Kolbenschlag, S., Schäfer, R. B., Bundschuh, M., & Schulz, R. (2024). Modelling cumulative effects of acute exposure to toxicants on the life cycle of Chironomidae using Bti as a case study. Ecological Modelling, 494, 110768.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110768
Martini, J., Brighenti, S., Vanek, M., Schwingshackl, T., Vallefuoco, F., Scotti, A., Lencioni, V., & Bottarin, R. (2024). Rock glacier springs: Cool habitats for species on the edge. Biodiversity and Conservation 33, 4017-4042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02937-3
Moret P. and Gobbi M. (2024) Comparing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of two sampling methods for monitoring carabid beetle diversity, species assemblages and conservation status in an alpine grassland. Journal of Insect Conservation, 28: 701-713
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-024-00590-3
Paoli, F., Zignin, A., Franceschini, A., & Lencioni, V. (2024). Alghe e invertebrati nell’area umida del Biotopo del Muse delle Scienze di Trento: Biodiversità e stato trofico. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 103, 49–60. https://www.muse.it/contrib/uploads/2025/04/5.STSN105_Paoli-et-al_AR.pdf
Schifani, E., Gobbi, M., et al. (2024). Ant diversity along altitudinal gradients in the European Alps: Insights for conservation under a changing climate. Journal of Insect Conservation, 28, 401–413.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00546-z
Valle, B., Porco, D., Skarżyński, D., Frati, F., Caccianiga, M., Rodriguez-Prieto, A., Zeni, M., & Gobbi, M. (2024). Alpine blooming of “snow fleas”: The importance of snow for Alpine springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) ecology and biodiversity. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 35, 163–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-023-01211-y
Dumnicka, E., Najberek, K., & Lencioni, V. (2023). Oligochaete distribution in alpine freshwaters: Not a mere question of altitude. Journal of Limnology, 82(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2148
Eustacchio, E., Bonelli, M., Beretta, M., Monti, I., Gobbi, M., Casartelli, M., & Caccianiga, M. (2023). Pollen and floral morphology of Androsace brevis (Hegetschw.) Ces. (Primulaceae), a vulnerable narrow endemic plant of the Southern European Alps. Flora, 301,152256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2023.152256
Fugazza, D., Valle, B., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Traversa, G., Tognetti, M., & Senese, A. (2023). Glaciological and meteorological characterization of a typical Alpine debris-covered glacier: The case study of the Amola Glacier (Italy). Cold Regions Science and Technology, 216, 104008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2023.104008
Guerrieri, A., Carteron, A., Bonin, A., Marta, S., Ambrosini, R., Caccianiga, M., … Gobbi, M.,… & Ficetola, G. F. (2023). Metabarcoding data reveal vertical multitaxa variation in topsoil communities during the colonization of deglaciated forelands. Molecular Ecology, 32(23), 6304-6319. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16669
Harvey, J. A., Tougeron, K., Gols, R., Heinen, R., Abarca, M., Abram, P. K., … & Chown, S. L. (2023). Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects. Ecological monographs, 93(1), e1553.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1553
Lencioni, V., Bertola, F., Franceschini, A., Ferrarese, U., Zandonai, F., Stancher, G., & Spitale, D. (2023). Multi-year dynamics of the Aedes albopictus occurrence in two neighbouring cities in the Alps. The European Zoological Journal, 90(1), 101–112.
https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2164802
Lencioni, V., Franceschini, A., Paoli, F., Lutton, A., Olesik, J., & Gabrielli, P. (2023). Metal enrichment in ice-melt water and uptake by chironomids as possible legacy of World War One in the Italian Alps. Chemosphere, 139757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139757
Lencioni, V., Rizzi, C., Gobbi, M., Mustoni, A., & Villa, S. (2023). Glacier foreland insects uptake synthetic compounds: An emerging environmental concern. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30, 113859-113873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30387-x
Maggi, V., Salvatore, M. C., Casarotto, C., Mangili, C., Carton, A., Baccolo, G., Brugger, S. O., Eichler, A., Jenk, T. M., Schwikowski, M., & Baroni, C. (2023). Late Holocene Evolution of the Adamello Glacier (Rhaetian Alps): New Insights for Alpine Temperate Glaciers. Geografia Fisica E Dinamica Quaternaria, 46(1-2), 193-210.
https://doi.org/10.4454/1312gf6j
Marta, S., Zimmer, A., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Ambrosini, R., Azzoni, R. S., Thuiller, W., Provenzale, A., & Ficetola, G. F. (2023). Heterogeneous changes of soil microclimate in high mountains and glacier forelands. Nature Communications, 14, 5306.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41063-6
Muñiz-González, A.-B., Martínez-Guitarte, J.-L., & Lencioni, V. (2023). Impact of global warming on kryal fauna: Thermal tolerance response of Diamesa steinboecki (Goetghebuer, 1933; Chironomidae). Diversity, 15, 708. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060708
Ornaghi, S., Valle, B., Caccianiga, M., & Gobbi, M. (2023). Sex-ratio and body size plasticity in two cold-adapted ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) co-occurring in a periglacial area of the European Alps. Fragmenta Entomologica, 55, 45–56
https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1442
Petri, I., Martens, J., & Gobbi, M. (2023). First records of Ischyropsalis lithoclasica Schönhofer & Martens, 2010 (Arachnida: Opiliones) for Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 103, 35–40.
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Toscano Rivalta, V., Isaia, M., Giaccone, E., Freppaz, M., & Gobbi, M. (2023). Tenuiphantes monachus (Simon, 1884) (Araneae, Linyphiidae): Un raro endemismo alpino rinvenuto in Valle d’Aosta. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 103, 21–24.
https://www.muse.it/contrib/uploads/2024/03/MUSE_Vol_STSN-n103_210x297_021-024.pdf
Valle, B., Brambilla, M., Gobbi, M., Borgatti, M. S., & Caccianiga, M. (2023). Finding the optimal strategy for quantitative sampling of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) in glacial lithosols. Pedobiologia, 101, 150914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150914
Wilkes, M. A., Carrivick, J. L., Castella, E., Ilg, C., Cauvy-Fraunié, S., Fell, S., Füreder, L., Huss, M., James, W., Lencioni, V., Robinson, C., & Brown, L. E. (2023). Glacier retreat reorganises river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02061-5
Bonelli, M., Eustacchio, E., Avesani, D., Michelsen, V., Falaschi, M., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi. M., … & Casartelli, M. (2022). The early season community of flower-visiting arthropods in a high-altitude alpine environment. Insects, 13(4), 393. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13040393
Casarotto, C. (2022). Il cuore bianco delle montagne: segreti e salute dei ghiacciai. Atti del XVII Convegno Regionale di Speleologia del Trentino-Alto Adige. Gruppo Speleologico SAT Lavis, p.229-233
Chirichella, R., Ricci, E., Armanini, M., Gobbi, M., Mustoni, A., & Apollonio, M. (2022). Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure. Community Ecology, 23(3), 289-299. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42974-022-00104-8
Debiasi, D., Franceschini, A., Paoli, F., & Lencioni, V. (2022). How do macroinvertebrate communities respond to declining glacial influence in the Southern Alps? Limnetica, 41(1), 121–137.
https://doi.org/10.23818/limn.41.10
Gaudio, D., & Gobbi, M. (2022). Glaciers in the Anthropocene: A biocultural view. Nature and Culture, 17(3), 243–261. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2022.170301
Gobbi, M., Corlatti, L., Caccianiga, M., ter Braak, C. J. F., & Pedrotti, L. (2022). Hay meadows’ overriding effect shapes ground beetle functional diversity in mountainous landscapes. Ecosphere, 13(5), e4193. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4193
Hågvar, S., & Gobbi, M. (2022). The role of arthropods in early succession near melting glaciers: A challenge to our ecological understanding. Acta Oecologica, 114, 103820.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2022.103820
Lencioni, V., Stella, E., Zanoni, M. G., & Bellin, A. (2022). On the delay between water temperature and invertebrate community response to warming climate. Science of the Total Environment, 837, 155759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155759
Panza, R., & Gobbi, M. (2022). Areal contraction, upward shift and habitat fragmentation in the cold-adapted ground beetle Nebria germarii Heer, 1837 in the Brenta Dolomites, Italy. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 33, 923–931.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12210-022-01112-6
Rizzi, C., Villa, S., Rossini, L., Mustoni, A., & Lencioni, V. (2022). Levels and ecological risk of selected organic pollutants in the high-altitude alpine cryosphere – The Adamello-Brenta Natural Park (Italy) as a case study. Environmental Advances, 7, 100178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100178
Trenti, F., Sandron, T., Guella, G., & Lencioni, V. (2022). Insect cold-tolerance and lipidome: Membrane lipid composition of two chironomid species differently adapted to cold. Cryobiology, 106, 84–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2022.03.004
Valle, B., Gobbi, M., & Caccianiga, M. (2022). Glacial biodiversity of the southernmost glaciers of the European Alps (Clapier and Peirabroc, Italy). Journal of Mountain Science, 19, 2139–2159.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7331-8
Valle, B., di Musciano, M., Gobbi, M., …, & Caccianiga, M. (2022). Biodiversity and ecology of plants and arthropods on the last preserved glacier of the Apennines mountain chain (Italy). The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221096292
Cantonati, M., Angeli, N., Arnaud, E., Galbiati, M., Soróczki-Pintér, É., & Lange-Bertalot, H. (2021). A new Brachysira species from mountain lakes in northern Italy and Corsica. Diatom Research, 36(3), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/0269249X.2021.1982778
Cantonati, M., Bilous, O., Angeli, N., Van Wensen, L., & Lange-Bertalot, H. (2021). Three new diatom species from spring habitats in the northern Apennines (Emilia-Romagna, Italy). Diversity, 13, 549. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13110549
Cantonati, M., Kelly, M. G., Spaulding, S. A., & Zgrundo, A. (Eds.). (2020–2021). Algae in assessment and monitoring: Approaches and perspectives. Ecological Indicators (Virtual Special Issue). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecological-indicators/special-issue/106BWX0RCH7
Cantonati, M., Zorza, R., Bertoli, M., Pastorino, P., Salvi, G., Platania, G., Prearo, M., & Pizzul, E. (2021). Recent and subfossil diatom assemblages as indicators of environmental change (including fish introduction) in a high-mountain lake. Ecological Indicators, 125, 107603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107603
Charles, D. F., Kelly, M. G., Stevenson, R. J., Poikane, S., Theroux, S., Zgrundo, A., & Cantonati, M. (2021). Benthic-algae assessments in the EU and the US: Striving for consistency in the face of great ecological diversity. Ecological Indicators, 121, 107082.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107082
Di Nica, V., Villa, S., & Lencioni, V. (2021). Environmental concerns about the effects of effluents from wastewater treatment plants in tourist areas of the Alps: Toxicity in aquatic microorganisms. Journal of Limnology. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2044
Ficetola, G. F., Marta, S., Guerrieri, A., Gobbi, M., Ambrosini, R., Fontaneto, D., … & Thuiller, W. (2021). Dynamics of ecological communities following current retreat of glaciers. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 52(1), 405-426.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-010521-040017
Gobbi, M., Ambrosini, R., Casarotto, C., Diolaiuti, G., Ficetola, F., Lencioni, V., Pelfini, M., Seppi, S., Smiraglia, C., Tampucci, D., Valle, B., & Caccianiga, M. (2021). Vanishing permanent glaciers: Climate change is threatening a European Union habitat (Code 8340) and its poorly known biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30, 2267–2276.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02185-9
Gobbi, M., Armanini, M., Boscolo, T., Chirichella, R., Lencioni, V., Ornaghi, S., & Mustoni, A. (2021). Habitat and landform types drive carabid beetles distribution at high-altitude. Diversity, 13(4), 142.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d13040142
Hájek, M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Hájek, O., Brancaleoni, L., Cantonati, M., Carbognani, M., … & Horsák, M. (2021). A European map of groundwater pH and calcium. Earth System Science Data, 13, 1089–1105. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1089-2021
Lencioni, V., Franceschini, A., Paoli, F., & Debiasi, D. (2021). Structural and functional changes in the macroinvertebrate community in Alpine stream networks fed by shrinking glaciers. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 194(3), 237–258.
https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2020/1315
Lencioni, V., Rodriguez-Prieto, A., & Allegrucci, G. (2021). Congruence between molecular and morphological systematics of Alpine non-biting midges (Chironomidae, Diamesinae). Zoologica Scripta, 50(4), 455–472. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12480
Lencioni, V., & Gobbi, M. (2021). Monitoring and conservation of cold-adapted insects: Concerns when dealing with isolated populations in vanishing glacial habitats. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 14(6), 723–729. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12522
Lencioni, V., & Moubayed, J. (2021). Synorthocladius federicoi sp. nov., a new species occurring in the middle basin of the Adige River, northern Italy (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). ZooKeys, 1057, 105–116. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1057.68175
Lencioni, V., Di Nica, V., & Villa, S. (2021). Investigation of the combined effects of rising temperature and pesticide contamination on the swimming behaviour of Alpine chironomids. Water, 13, 3618.
https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243618
Lona, A., Mattedi, C., Pavlović, A., & Casarotto, C. (2021) – Nella pancia del ghiacciaio. Speleo-glaciologia in Adamello, ovvero discesa nei più grandi ghiacciai del Trentino per verificarne lo stato di salute e per capire quale futuro li attende. Montagne360, Febbraio 2021, n.l01/2021/, 46-48
Losapio, G., Cerabolini, B., Maffioletti, C., Tampucci, D., Gobbi, M., & Caccianiga, M. (2021). The consequences of glacier retreat are uneven between plant species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 616562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.616562
Maggi, L., Abeli, T., Rossi, G., & Gobbi, M. (2021). Flower visiting and pollen carrying arthropods of Leucojum aestivum L. (Amaryllidaceae) in wild, reintroduced and ex situ populations. Plant Ecology, 222, 965–975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-01154-0
Marta, S., Azzoni, R. S., Fugazza, D., Tielidze, L., Chand, P., Sieron, K., … & Ficetola, G. F. (2021). The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database. Data 2021, 6, 107.. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100107
Michailova, P., Lencioni, V., Nenov, M., & Nikolov, S. (2021). Can DNA barcoding be used to identify closely related Clunio Haliday, 1855 species (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)? Zootaxa, 4927(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.1
Muñiz-González, A.-B., Paoli, F., Martínez-Guitarte, J.-L., & Lencioni, V. (2021). Molecular biomarkers as tool for early warning by chlorpyrifos exposure on Alpine chironomids. Environmental Pollution, 290, 118061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118061
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