Cnr-Istituto di Scienze Marine

L’Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche svolge attività di ricerca fondamentale e applicata in oceanografia fisica, chimica e biologica e in geologia marina.

L’obiettivo è contribuire allo studio dei processi oceanici e della variabilità climatica, allo sviluppo di sistemi/servizi per l’osservazione, la protezione e la gestione sostenibile dell’ambiente marino e delle coste.

                               L’Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR) svolge attività di

Ricerca Fondamentale e Applicata

in oceanografia fisica, chimica e biologica e in geologia marina con l’obiettivo di contribuire sia allo studio dei processi oceanici e della variabilità climatica che allo sviluppo di sistemi/servizi per l’osservazione, la protezione e la gestione sostenibile dell’ambiente marino e delle coste

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Tectonic uplift history of Taiwan deduced from sedimentary records in the northern South China Sea

The tectonic evolution of Taiwan involves uplift that produced the island’s high relief and erodibility. However, characterizing these uplift processes in a geologic scale from the nature and history of the orogenic interior is challenging to directly surmise. For this study, the downcore variability of the clay mineral assemblage, illite chemistry indices, illite crystallinity values, and grain size parameters, along with the onboard magnetic susceptibility and mass accumulation rates, from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 368 Site U1501, are investigated to describe the sedimentary response to the tectonic uplift and other geologic and paleoenvironmental events in relation to the formation of the Taiwan orogeny since the early Pliocene. In this study, the values of non-carbonate mass accumulation rates, (illite + chlorite) / kaolinite ratio, mass specific magnetic susceptibility and (4 – 63 μm) / (<4 μm) ratio are used to describe the terrigenous influx, the geologic processes involved, and consequently, the uplift itself, and are compared with the deformation stages related to the collision of Luzon Arc with the Eurasian Margin.

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Il gruppo seminari CNR-ISMAR, Alessandra Conversi (Lerici), Filomena Loreto (Bologna), Gianluigi Liberti (Roma) e Camilla Palmiotto (Bologna).

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Mesocarnivore community structuring in the presence of Africa’s apex predator

Apex predator reintroductions have proliferated across southern Africa, yet their ecological effects and proposed umbrella benefits of associated management lack empirical evaluations. Despite a rich theory on top-down ecosystem regulation via mesopredator suppression, a knowledge gap exists relating to the influence of lions (Panthera leo) over Africa’s diverse mesocarnivore (less than 20 kg) communities. We investigate how geographical variation in mesocarnivore community richness and occupancy across South African reserves is associated with the presence of lions. An interesting duality emerged: lion reserves held more mesocarnivore-rich communities, yet mesocarnivore occupancy rates and evenness-weighted diversity were lower in the presence of lions. Human population density in the reserve surroundings had a similarly ubiquitous negative effect on mesocarnivore occupancy. The positive association between species richness and lion presence corroborated the umbrella species concept but translated into small differences in community size. Distributional contractions of mesocarnivore species within lion reserves, and potentially corresponding numerical reductions, suggest within-community mesopredator suppression by lions, probably as a result of lethal encounters and responses to a landscape of fear. Our findings offer empirical support for the theoretical understanding of processes underpinning carnivore community assembly and are of conservation relevance under current large-predator orientated management and conservation paradigms.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2020.2379

The paper has been discussed by The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/science/lions-south-africa-wildlife-parks.html?s=08#click=https://t.co/O5STTSL0OZ

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Giovedì 19 giugno  ore 14:30    –    ON LINE LINK
Dr. Fabrice Arhuin (CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale)
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