Brown trout is considered a complex of incipient species, including several phylogenetic lineages, whose natural distribution in the Mediterranean area has been altered, since beginning 1900s, by massive introductions domestic strains Atlantic origin to support fisheries. Introduced naturalize new suitable environments and extensively hybridize with native populations. Here, we characterized pu...

The present research investigates the relationship between dietary habits and mortality patterns in Roman Imperial Medieval periods. reconstructions of population dynamics subsistence strategies provide a fascinating source information for understanding our history. This is particularly true given that changes social, economic, political, religious aspects related to transition from period Midd...

BACKGROUND The present paper is a brief survey on the ethnobotanical works published by the Authors since 1981, concerning the research carried out in some southern and central Italian regions. Before Roman domination these territories were first inhabited by local people, while the southern areas were colonized by the Greeks. These different cultural contributions left certain traces, both in ...

[1] Extension of the continental lithosphere leads to the formation of rift basins and ultimately may create passive continental margins. The mechanisms that operate during the early stage of crustal extension are still intensely debated. We present the results from coincident multichannel seismic and wide-angle seismic profiles that transect across the northern Tyrrhenian Sea Basin. The profil...