Lucilla Capotondi

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• PhD Earth Science
• Senior Researcher at Italian National Research Council

The planktic foraminiferal distribution identified in 60 cores collected in different basins of the Mediterranean Sea allowed to establish an ecostratigraphical scheme which provides a very important tool for the biochronological subdivision of the uppermost Quaternary. We identified a succession of ten ecozones during the last 23 ka in the Tyrrhen...

Planktonic foraminiferal assemblages were studied at high-resolution in core KC01B from the Ionian Sea. Quantitative analysis allowed us to distinguish the main climatic features and associated paleoceanographic changes, that occurred between Marine Isotopic Stages (MIS) 13 and 9 (~500–300 ka). MIS 12 and MIS 10 are characterized by relatively temp...

Time-series analyses of satellite images reveal that sea ice extent in the Ross Sea has experienced significant changes over the last 40 years, likely triggered by large-scale atmospheric anomalies. However, resolving how sea ice in the Ross Sea has changed over longer timeframes has until now remained more elusive. Here we used a laminated sedimen...

During the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, the Ross Sea Ice Shelf exhibited strong spatial variability in relation to the atmospheric and oceanographic climatic variations. Despite being thoroughly investigated, the timing of the ice sheet retreat from the outer continental shelf since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) still remains controversial, mainly d...

The Bølling-Allerød interstadial (14.7-12.9 kyr BP), during the last deglaciation, was characterized by rapid retreat of ice sheets and significant sea level rise (Meltwater Pulse 1A, MWP-1A; 14.7-14.3 kyr BP). Yet, the response of the terrestrial cryosphere during this period of abrupt climate change remains elusive. Here we present a multi-proxy...

The Mediterranean Sea is considered a hotspot for bioinvaders. Nonetheless, information on non-indigenous benthic foraminifera is still fragmented. This study documents for the first time the presence along the northwestern Adriatic coast of the non-indigenous benthic foraminifera species Virgulinella fragilis, Grindell and Collen (1976). Due to th...

Il rapporto tecnico presenta i principali risultati emersi dall'analisi dei dati registrati dal sistema S1-GB e da sistemi osservativi/previsioni ARPAE ed ISAC-CNR, prima della perdita del segnale dal sistema, avvenuta l'8 dicembre 2024. Vengono inoltre descritte le condizioni meteorologiche registrate nell'area a sud del delta del Po di Goro e i r...

Data on marine microfossil assemblage composition has multiple applications. Initially, it was primarily used for (chrono)stratigraphy and palaeoecology, but these data are now also widely used to study evolutionary and ecological processes, such as past biodiversity and its links with environmental dynamics, or to provide a basis for conservation...

The present dataset comprises observations spanning from 2012 to 2022, focusing on parameters collected from the E1 meteo-oceanographic buoy in the Northern Adriatic Sea (north of Rimini city on a bottom depth of 10.5 m), Italy. Specifically, it encompasses measurements taken in the water column at a defined depth (URI: https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/col...

The CNR-ISMAR DiSSCo WG developed this manual as part of Activity 6.6 "National network of the aquatic science collection" in the Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System-ITINERIS Project. This guideline suggests a procedure for managing and harmonising the metadata associated with the physical specimens of the aquatic natur...

We investigate the impact of sediment depositional events on benthic foraminiferal (BF) assemblages in the North Adriatic focusing on two Italian Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER) stations, S1 and E1. Results show that BF assemblages at S1 are mainly influenced by the Po riverine discharges causing density and diversity decrease, and domi...

We investigate the impact of sediment depositional events on benthic foraminiferal (BF) assemblages in the North Adriatic focusing on two Italian Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER) stations, S1 and E1. Results show that BF assemblages at S1 are mainly influenced by the Po riverine discharges causing density and diversity decrease, and domi...

The Natural Science Collections (NSCs) built for research purposes (i.e., Research Collections - RCs) serve as vital records of a region's historical and current biodiversity and geodiversity, fulfilling the dual purpose of conveying cultural information and providing study materials. However, differently from samples of museum collections, samples...

The past ice sheet dynamics and the timing of retreat events in the paleo-record in the Ross Sea is an issue still few understood. In order to contribute to this topic, we provide a multiproxy data from marine sediment archives (cores and box cores) collected in three sites in the Central Basin (Western Ross Sea, Antarctica). Each site recorded dif...

The Activity WP6.6 provides biodiversity (meta)data linked to Acquatic Science Collections (ASCs) focusing on the extended digital specimen, a virtual representation of the physical specimen stored in a collection and identified by different levels of MIDS and additional information (e.g. images and video, codification of functional traits,environm...

The long-term ecosystem dynamic and resilience during past climatic events showing similarities with present climate changes (global warming, deoxygenation, ocean acidification), recently gained significant attention in science, politics and society. Foraminifera are marine protists abundant in the fossil record and highly sensitive to the chemical...

The present database comprises observations spanning from 2012 to 2021, focusing on abiotic parameters collected from the S1-GB dynamic pylon, in the Northern Adriatic Sea (around 7 miles offshore within the Po Delta on a bottom depth of 22.5 m), Italy. Specifically, it encompasses measurements on atmospheric parameters above the water surface and...

The present database comprises observations spanning from 2012 to 2021, focusing on abiotic parameters collected from the E1 meteo-oceanographic buoy in the Northern Adriatic Sea (north of Rimini city on a bottom depth of 10.5 m), Italy. Specifically, it encompasses measurements taken atmospheric parameters above the water surface and measurements...

L’Infrastruttura di Ricerca DiSSCo riunirà virtualmente le collezioni di scienze naturali conservate in musei di storia naturale, orti botanici, centri di ricerca ed università, in un portale unico a livello europeo rendendole Findable, Accessible, Interoperable e Reusable (FAIR). Il presente rapporto tecnico nasce con l’intento di descriverne il c...

ISMAR Natural Science Collections (NSCs) will be part of a national repository for digital collections, data and metadata, shared with FAIR principles in the frame of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure. This action highlights the relevant role of NSCs in detecting biodiversity changes and developing appropriate conservation measures.

The Bølling-Allerød interstadial (14,700–12,900 years before present), during the last deglaciation, was characterized by rapid warming and sea level rise. Yet, the response of the Arctic terrestrial cryosphere during this abrupt climate change remains thus far elusive. Here we present a multi-proxy analysis of a sediment record from the northern S...

TR17-08, a marine sedimentary core (14.6 m), was collected during 2017 from the Edisto Inlet (Ross Sea, Antarctica), a small fjord near Cape Hallett. The core is characterized by expanded laminated sedimentary sequences making it suitable for studying submillennial processes during the Early Holocene. By studying different well-known foraminifera s...

We present the results o the tephrochronology study o a 14.49 m long marine sediment core (TR 17–08) collected in the Edisto Inlet, Ross Sea (Antarctica). The core contains our cryptotephra layers at 55–56, 512–513, 517–518, and 524–525 cm o depth, which have been characterised by a detailed description o the texture, mineral assemblage, and s...

Information on early invasion stages, whether successful or not, is often lacking because most invaders are only discovered once they have become abundant enough to be casually detected or have caused appreciable changes to the recipient environment. Moreover, when newcomers fail to establish self-sustaining populations, they are often not even doc...

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages have been studied at 11 sediment surface samples located in the Neretva Channel covering the delta habitat and the adjacent open sea areas. The major objective of the investigation was to explore the main environmental parameters affecting the benthic foraminifera compositional changes. To this end, a statistical a...

There is a growing number of new foraminifera with agglutinated wall types held together by secreted crystallites of high-magnesium calcite that do not fit within the traditional definition of the Miliolida. In this study, we analysed entire and sectioned foraminiferal specimens from modern marine sediments collected off the Croatian coast (Adriati...

Information on early invasion stages, whether successful or not, is often lacking because most invaders are discovered only once they have become abundant or have caused appreciable changes to the recipient environment. Moreover, when newcomers fail to establish self sustaining populations, they are often not even documented. Here we report an earl...

Long-term data series (2012–2020) of physical and oceanographic parameters at the LTER-Italy research site “Delta del Po and Costa Romagnola” were analyzed to investigate the variability of surface turbidity along the North-Western Adriatic shelf. This shallow coastal ecosystem is characterized by high river runoff and by extremely variable wind an...

The planktonic foraminiferal species Globorotalia truncatulinoides is widely used as a biostratigraphic proxy for the Quaternary in the Mediterranean region. High-resolution quantitative studies performed on sediment cores collected in the central and western Mediterranean Sea evidence a significant abundance of G. truncatulinoides during the Middl...

This Policy Brief succinctly presents the Ecological Observing System of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), aimed at integrating the ecological and oceanographic dimensions within the conservation strategy of the Natura 2000 network, and to propose a way to go for its future development and maintenance. After a definition of marine ecological observatories...

Trace Metals (TMs: Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, Cd, and Ni), major elements (Al and Fe) and radionuclides (²¹⁰Pb/¹³⁷Cs) investigations on EL-C01 sediment core provides new information on sedimentary regime and anthropogenic impacts during the last 175 years in the Po river prodelta area. The results allow to identify some TMs/Al peak in the upper part of the co...

Ecology is the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. These studies are scientifically challenging, requiring an interdisciplinary approach since ecosystems involve dynamic interactions between the variety of biotic and abiotic components of the system. To identify the full range of variability and evolutionary trends o...

The LTER-Italy network encompasses 79 sites distributed in terrestrial, freshwater and marine domains and reflects the great variety and biodiversity of environments present in Italy and in two extraterritorial areas under Italian responsibility. The research activities carried out at these sites allow following and understanding the short and long...

The study of the past is of fundamental importance in understanding the processes that control the functioning of the Earth System and the interaction between ecosystems, human society and natural variability. The Quaternary scientist produces a variety of proxies derived from the investigation of natural, archaeological and historical records cove...

The recent expansion of Atlantic waters into the Arctic Ocean represents undisputable evidence of the rapid changes occurring in this region. Understanding the past variability of this “Atlantification” is thus crucial in providing a longer perspective on the modern Arctic changes. Here, we reconstruct the history of Atlantification along the ea...

Planktonic foraminifer oxygen isotopes through MIS 12 were analysed from Ocean Drilling Program Site 977 in the Alboran Sea. After the correction of the sea surface temperature (SST) effect on the δ¹⁸O composition of foraminiferal calcite, the resulting seawater δ¹⁸O (δ¹⁸Ow) was used to reconstruct variations in the δ¹⁸Ow of the Atlantic inflow int...

The design and establishment of Marine Ecological Observatories (MEOs) are fostered at the European level. MEOs should adopt a holistic view, integrating and harmonizing long-term oceanographic and ecological research and monitoring, and increasing conservation strategies effectiveness according to the ecological connectivity concept. The data and...

Questo rapporto tecnico descrive le operazioni svolte tra il 18 marzo e il 7 giugno 2021 per il recupero, ripristino e riposizionamento del sistema boa E1. Le attività si sono rese necessarie a seguito dell’improvvisa rottura dell’ormeggio del sistema, avvenuta presumibilmente in data 13 marzo 2021. A seguito dell’evento, il sistema E1 (privo di an...

The continental margin is a key area for studying the sedimentary processes related to the advance and retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica); nevertheless, much remains to be investigated. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge of the last glacial/deglacial dynamics in the Central Basin slope–basin system using a multidisciplinary...

This study focused on the geochemical and sedimentological characterization of recent sediments from two marine sites (S1 and E1) located in the North Adriatic Sea, between the Po River prodelta and the Rimini coast. Major and trace metal concentrations reflect the drainage area of the Po River and its tributaries, considered one of the most pollut...

We investigated the living (stained) and dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages collected in surface sediment samples (0–1 cm) from two different areas (JOIDES Basin and Mawson Bank) of the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Samples were collected during the BEDROSE oceanographic cruise from January to February 2017. Four living and dead benthic foraminiferal...

Ice shelves are very sensitive to climate variability as their dynamic change is related to atmospheric and oceanic warming/cooling. The dynamics of the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest in Antarctica, have been investigated by several researchers, however, the timing of its retreat from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is still under debate, mainly due to...

Sediment samples were collected in 2019 from Fiumi Uniti catchment in Italy in an area between the Romagna Apennines and the Adriatic Sea. The sampling phase included the collection of sediments from the Ridracoli reservoir, a large artificial basin located at 480 m a.s.l. made by construction of a dam on the Bidente river and used as the main drin...

We examined the transport of sediments and their surficial pathways from the mouth of Neretva River, through the Neretva Channel, toward the Adriatic Sea. This research was based on twelve box-cores and five grab samples collected within the Neretva Channel. Sediment dynamics were evaluated using several proxies, such as organic matter, radiochemic...

Natural Science Collections (NSCs) from field of studies such as botany, zoology, ecology, geology, paleontology, provide more information beyond the purposes for which they were originally collected allowing further insights to the effects of environmental transformations, such as climate change. Moreover paleontological collections provide valuab...

A review of the climatic variability over the last two millennia based on oxygen stable isotopic (δ18OG. ruber) signals from different areas of the Mediterranean Basin (Minorca Basin, central and south Tyrrhenian Sea, Taranto Gulf, south Adriatic Sea and Israel) has been proposed. The correlation of data testifies an almost synchronicity of the ide...

This study presents new data on biogenic and terrigenous particle fluxes collected by an oceanographic mooring (Mooring A) deployed in the southwestern Ross Sea (Antarctica) in the frame of the Italian Long-Term Ecological Research network (LTER-Italy). Results from the years 2005 and 2008 document high mass fluxes during the summer and early autum...

The present Special Issue entitled “ Italian Long-Term Ecological Research for understanding ecosystem diversity and functioning. Case studies from aquatic, terrestrial and transitional domains” is the first published collection of studies performed at LTER-Italy sites which address the diversity and dynamics of ecosystems in different domains in r...

The Archivio di Studi Adriatici (ASA) is a repository of the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR), completely open source and open access. It was developed in collaboration with the IRCRES CNR of Turin with the aims to preserve and make accessible natural collections, heritage books, documents, and maps of the Institute of Marine Sciences. I...

Agglutinated foraminifera from surface sediments of two sites (S1 and E1) in the North Adriatic Sea were in- vestigated in order to detect their test composition and to explore possible links with the surrounding en- vironment. Chemical-mineralogical analyses of the agglutinated tests by scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectrosco...

Modern deep-water benthic foraminiferal assemblages were studied from box cores collected in four areas of the Ross Sea, during the oceanographic cruise ANTA05 within the framework of the Italian Antarctic Research National Programme (PNRA). The investigated sites are characterised by different oceanographic settings. Samples from the Drygalski (si...

A multiproxy study combining paleomagnetic, rock magnetic (magnetic susceptibility; anhysteretic remanent magnetization, ARM; isothermal remanent magnetization, IRM, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, AMS) and geochemical (XRF) data was carried out on trench sediments collected in the area of Boca do Rio (Algarve, South Portugal) known to have...

The last five millennia, in Europe, have been characterized by an alternation of warm and cool intervals, but the driving mechanism that leads these climatic variations is still uncertain. One of the possible causes of the European climatic variations is the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The planktonic foraminiferal assemblages...

L’approccio socio-ecologico considera la ricerca ecologi-ca come un processo culturale, oltreché scientifico, collegandosi saldamente agli aspetti storici e sociali dell’ambiente di studio (Haberl et al., 2006).È proprio in questa dimensione storica che si colloca la “ricerca ecologi-ca di lungo termine” (LTER, dall’inglese Long Term Ecological Res...

Central Mediterranean shelves show a large variability in morphology (width, slope, unevenness), stratigraphy (different thickness of depositional bodies resulting from the last climatic/eustatic cycle) and sedimentology (shelf-mud offshore of the main river mouths, bioclastic sediment in under-supplied areas) because of their geologically young ag...

Vengono presentate le attività svolte e i risultati preliminari della campagna oceanografica LTER-ANOC16 svoltasi dal 26-04-2016 al 30-04-2016 nel Mare Adriatico settentrionale con la Nave Oceanografica Dallaporta. Obiettivi principali della campagna sono stati l’esecuzione di misure oceanografiche, fisiche, biologiche con incluso il campionamento...

The report includes and examines the list of taxonomists from IAMC (Institute for Coastal Marine Environment), IGG (Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources), ISE (Institute of Ecosystem Study), and ISMAR (Institute of Marine Sciences), who responded to the Taxonomy Census 2016, their scientific publications and the number of taxa described new...

Transverse ridges are large topographic anomalies running adjacent to slow-slip oceanic transforms. They form due to different processes, including thermal stresses, hydration-dehydration of peridotites, non-linear viscoelastic rheology of the oceanic crust and vertical tectonic motions of lithospheric slivers induced by changes in ridge/transform...

A sequence of tephra layers is studied in a 13.9 m-long deep-sea core (MD01-2474G) from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea. The chronology of the succession is provided by a high-resolution age-depth model based on isotope stratigraphy and AMS radiocarbon dating, which place the succession of events in a time interval spanning the last 70 ka. Based on a p...

A new high resolution pollen, planktonic foraminiferal and oxygen isotopes record from a shallow water marine sedimentary core from the central Tyrrhenian Sea (Gulf of Gaeta) provides information on vegetation and climate changes occurred in the central Mediterranean region during the last 5000 cal. years BP (Margaritelli et al., 2016). Nine tim...

Planktonic foraminiferal assemblages were studied at high-resolution in core KC01B from the Ionian Sea. Quantitative analysis allowed us to distinguish the main climatic features and associated paleoceanographic changes, that occurred between Marine Isotopic Stages (MIS) 13 and 9 (~500-300 ka).MIS 12 and MIS 10 are characterized by relatively tempe...

Recent studies demonstrated that the Mediterranean continental shelf and, especially, the delta areas provide one of the most complete archive for monitoring the palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes occurring in the last millennia. This work based on marine paleo proxies is aimed at documenting high-resolution time-series (decadal to cent...

Four sediment cores (ANTA99-cJ3, ANTA95-98C, KI13-C1 and KI13-C2) and two box cores (KI13-bc2 and KI13-bc4), collected in the different geological settings of the Joides Basin-Central Basin area (Ross Sea, Southern Ocean), were studied in the framework of the Italian Antarctic Project ROSSLOPE (Past and present sedimentary dynamic in the ROSS Sea:...

A new high resolution pollen and planktonic foraminiferal record from a shallow water coastal marine core (water depth 83 meters) collected in the Gulf of Gaeta (Tyrrhenian Sea, central Italy), provides information on the complex relations among natural vegetation development, climate changes, and human impact on ecosystems in an historically dense...

Several discrete tephra layers occur in a Marion Dufresne 13.9 m-long deep-sea core (MD01-2474G) from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea. Major, minor and trace element data (EMPA-WDS and LA-ICP-MS analyses) from fresh micro-pumices and glass shards allow to correlate them with the volcanic activity from Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Vulcano, Salina), Campania...

A study of benthic foraminifera was carried out in sediment samples collected from the central Adriatic coast of Italy, near the Ancona harbour and the Falconara Marittima oil refinery, in order to validate and support their use as bioindicators of ecosystem quality. On the basis of a principal component analysis (PCA), three biotopes (following th...

The recurrence of mass-flow units within sapropel S1, an organic carbon-rich lower Holocene marker bed in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, was used to study the interplay between earthquakes and sedimentation along the seismically active Calabrian Arc (Ionian Sea). Nine turbidite beds interrupt anoxic conditions during the deposition of sapropel S1....

The recurrence of mass-flow units within sapropel S1, an organic carbon-rich lower Holocene marker bed in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, was used to study the interplay between earthquakes and sedimentation along the seismically active Calabrian Arc (Ionian Sea).

A new high resolution pollen and planktonic foraminiferal record from a shallow water coastal marine core (water depth 83 meters) collected in the Gulf of Gaeta (Tyrrhenian Sea, central Italy), provides information on the complex relations among natural vegetation development, climate changes, and human impact on ecosystems in an historically dens...

Revision of the tephrostratigraphy previously proposed for the marine core AD91-17 (Adriatic Sea), supported by energydispersive- spectrometry (EDS) chemical data, has allowed to challenge previous interpretation and proposed a core chronology on the basis of new tephrochronological data. Four different tephra layers were identified and correlated...

Revision of the tephrostratigraphy previously proposed for the marine core AD91-17 (Adriatic Sea), supported by energydispersive- spectrometry (EDS) chemical data, has allowed to challenge previous interpretation and proposed a core chronology on the basis of new tephrochronological data. Four different tephra layers were identified and correlated...

We publish here in Italian a contribution from the National Research Council (CNR) on the final event of the SperimEstate project, aimed at bridging school and research. This initiative has brought dozens of fourth grade students of secondary schools in Emilia Romagna to research institutes. During the summer, students have had the opportunity to p...

La cartografia, importante tematica nell’ambito delle Scienze della Terra, mira alla descrizione del mondo che ci circonda. Il suo insegnamento a scuola consente di evidenziare lo stretto legame tra la conoscenza scientifica e la sua applicazione nella vita quotidiana attraverso un percorso che accompagna gli studenti verso la consapevolezza dell’i...

A high-resolution integrated study has been performed in a super-expanded marine record (sedimentation rate spanning from 11 cm / 100 yr to 20 cm / 100 yr) from the continental shelf area of the SE Tyrrhenian Sea. Planktonic foraminiferal distribution illustrates six major environmental changes during the last 2000 years: i) Roman period - Dark Age...