A5049382896- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Smart Materials for Construction
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Landslides and related hazards
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Educational and Social Studies
University of Milano-Bicocca
2017-2021
Large lakes of the world are habitats for diverse species, including endemic taxa, and valuable resources that provide humanity with many ecosystem services. They also sentinels global local change, recent studies in limnology paleolimnology have demonstrated disturbing evidence their collective degradation terms depletion (water food), rapid warming loss ice, destruction ecosystems, accelerating pollution. particularly exposed to anthropogenic climatic stressors. The Second Warning Humanity...
For several hundred years, farming in the Po Plain of Italy (46,000 km2, 20 million inhabitants) has been supported by intensive surface irrigation with lake and river water. Despite longevity irrigation, its effects on quality quantity groundwater is poorly known so investigated here through seasonal measurements hydraulic heads water groundwaters, rivers, lake, springs rainwaters. In north study region, an unconfined coarse-grained alluvial aquifer, infiltration water, sourced from Oglio...
Ammonia is a widespread pollutant in aquatic ecosystems originating directly and indirectly from human activities, which can strongly affect the structure functioning of foodweb. The biological oxidation NH4+ to nitrite, then nitrate key part complex nitrogen cycle fundamental process environments, having profound influence on ecosystem stability functionality. Environmental studies have shown that our current knowledge physical chemical factors control this abundance function involved...
Abstract Recent studies have highlighted an increase of chloride in many lakes worldwide, with negative effects on chemical and physical properties inland waters freshwater biota. In this study, we assessed the long‐term trend (1993–2017) Lake Iseo, located midlatitudes, analyzed its relationship discharge data inflows hydrological hydroclimatic changes. Additionally, performed a specific annual survey, collecting water samples at biweekly frequency tributaries, calculating load, comparing...
We review the state of art limnological studies in Lake Iseo and provide updated data concerning long-term investigations (from 1993 to 2018) carried out on chemical physical parameters (e.g., oxygen, phosphorus, silicon). Changes observed were compared with those reported other Deep South alpine Lakes (DSLs) highlight analogies differences chemical, physical, biological patterns. Until 1960s, DSLs oligotrophic. The increase anthropogenic pressure global warming has led a progressive...
Achieving a better understanding of the role climate change in altering population phenology, seasonal cycles freshwater organisms, and ecosystem structure function is high scientific economic value. The present paper has demonstrated different food-web responses to teleconnection indices, which are proxy fluctuations, lakes characterised by trophic levels. We analysed an 18-year long-term dataset (1998–2015) recorded deep eutrophic Lake Iseo we compared our results those concerning...
Zooplankton is a key node in many trophic webs, both for food that persistent organic contaminants can accumulate biota. of different size was seasonally sampled two years three deep Italian subalpine lakes (Maggiore, Como, Iseo) with the aim determining concentrations perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), DDT, and PCB, assessing seasonality impacts on concentrations. In general, Lake Maggiore showed highest each group contaminants, mean values 7.6 ng g−1 ww PFAS, 65.0 dw 65.5 PCB. When...
In Lake Iseo (Lombardia, Italy), the predominant species in cyanobacterial taxa was Planktothrix rubescens. However, since 2014, presence of an allochthonous Cyanobacteria, Tychonema bourrellyi, able to produce consistent biomasses and harmful toxins, detected. The causes this expansion are poorly understood. Many studies have linked development Cyanobacteria populations with climate change. This study shows spatio-temporal dynamics, ecological requirements, interspecific relationship P....
Abstract In big lakes with strong anthropogenic pressure, it is usually difficult to disentangle the impacts of climate variability from those driven by eutrophication. The present work aimed at reconstruction change in species distribution and density subfossil Cladocera Lake Iseo (Italy) relation pressure. We related composition an 80-cm sediment core collected pelagic zone long-term temperature trends phosphorus concentration inferred diatoms frustules. remains detected reflected modern...