The anthropic pressure on natural systems is the main cause for present process of biodiversity loss in terrestrial biosphere [1]. Really, human disturbance Earth affects 74.1% and marine habitats, including 22.4% completely modified, 51.7% partially disturbed just 25.9% pristine conditions [2]. At beginning third millenium, middle a post-industrial era, named “Anthropocene” [3], mankind causin...

New Italian data on the distribution of Annex I Habitats are reported in this contribution. Specifically, 8 new occurrences Natura 2000 sites presented and 27 cells added EEA 10 km × reference grid. The refer to administrative regions Apulia, Campania, Calabria, Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Sardinia, Sicily.

This study investigates the sensitivity of a moderate-intense storm that occurred over Calabria, southern Italy, to upper-tropospheric forcing from a Potential Vorticity (PV) perspective. A prominent mid-troposheric trough can be identified for this event, which occurred between 22–24 May 2002, and serves as the precursor agent for the moderate-intense precipitation recorded. The working hypoth...

The paper reports the qualitative and quantitative composition and its antifungal activities of Thymus capitatus (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link, Lamiaceae, essential oils isolated by hydrodistillation from the aerial parts of plants collected in Calabria, Southern Italy. The essential oils of 22 samples were analysed by GC-Flame ionization detection and GC/MS. A total of sixty five compounds were ident...

We propose a new combination of the bivariate Shepard operators [10] by the three point Lidstone polynomials introduced in [12]. The new combination inherits both degree of exactness and Lidstone interpolation conditions at each node, which characterize the interpolation polynomial. These new operators …nd application to the scattered data interpolation problem when supplementary second order d...

For most species in the Western Palaearctic region, southern Mediterranean peninsulas have been identified as major Quaternary refugia and hotspots of intraspecific diversity, and thus, as areas of particular relevance for the conservation of the evolutionary potential. We analysed the patterns of geographical variation among 26 populations of the Italian stream frog, using both nuclear (allozy...

Hops (Humulus lupulus L.) constitute a species that grows spontaneously in the region of Calabria (South Italy), but species’ morphological and genetic characterization have not yet been explored. Thus, we explored some traits related to cones wild hops from three Calabrian sites: Cosenza (CS), Catanzaro (CZ), Vibo Valentia (VV). In addition, eight Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) were adopted inv...

Abstract Invited for the cover of this issue are Jesús Ferrando‐Soria, Donatella Armentano, Antonio Leyva‐Pérez, Emilio Pardo and co‐workers at University Valencia, Technical Valencia Calabria. The image depicts crystal structure a novel Zn II biological metal–organic framework that mimics β‐lactamase enzymes. Read full text article 10.1002/chem.202301325 .