Ricerca Laboratori DSTLaboratori di Stratigrafia e Geologia StrutturaleLABORATORIO DI PALINOLOGIAResearch interests
Research interests
Last Papers!
Niccolini, G., Bertini, A., Degl’Innocenti, N., Moretti, M., & Mastronuzzi, G. (2026). Six centuries (15th–21st) of environmental change and land-use in Mar Piccolo, Southern Italy: palynological and historical evidence. Regional Environmental Change, 26(1), 39.
Tabbabi, H., Temani, R., Niccolini, G., Moktar, N. B., Balestra, B., Ammar, H. K., ... & Bertini, A. (2026). Palynological and Biostratigraphical Contributions to the Stratigraphic Understanding of Pliocene-Pleistocene Deposits in the Cap Bon Area (Northeast Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences, 106034.
Badino, F., Bertini, A., Pili, M., Ciampalini, R., Baroni, D., Querci, G., ... & Goiran, J. P. (2026). Modern palynological assemblages from nearby Mediterranean coastal lagoons: Implications for palaeoecological interpretation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 105502.
Falsini, S., Santioli, M., Alberti, F., Bertini, A., Campatelli, G., Dibari, C., ... & Gentilini, G. (2026). The University of Florence’s Commitment to Sustainability: An Ongoing Challenge Proved by the UI Green Metric. In Green Metric in Higher Education-Measuring and Reporting on Sustainability Initiatives at Higher Education Institutions (pp. 1093-1113). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Niccolini, G., Bertini, A., Degl’Innocenti, N., Lisco, S., Moretti, M., Scardino, G., & Mastronuzzi, G. (2025). Holocene landscape changes and human impact in Southern Italy: A case-study from the Mar Piccolo semi-enclosed marine basin (Taranto). Catena, 254, 108962.
Bertini, A., Marino, M., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Girone, A., Maiorano, P., Niccolini, G., & Suc, J. P. (2025). Unravelling land-sea correlations during the Pliocene-Pleistocene in the Mediterranean area. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 64, 289-312.
Charton, L., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Bertini, A., Lebreton, V., Peyron, O., Robles, M., ... & Moncel, M. H. (2025). Vegetation and climate changes during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the southwestern Mediterranean: What happened to the last Neanderthals during Heinrich stadial 4?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 359, 109345.
Sassoon, D., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Peyron, O., Bertini, A., Toti, F., Lebreton, V., & Moncel, M. H. (2025). Pollen-based climatic reconstructions for the interglacial analogues of MIS 1 (MIS 19, 11, and 5) in the southwestern Mediterranean: insights from ODP Site 976. Climate of the Past, 21(2), 489-515.
Palynological Atlas and other iconographic documentation
Niccolini, G., & Bertini, A. (2023). Atlas of holocene pollen of southern italy (Mar Piccolo, Taranto). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 319, 104992.
Niccolini, G., Martinetto, E., Lanini, B., Menichetti, E., Fusco, F., Hakobyan, E., & Bertini, A. (2022). Late Messinian flora from the post-evaporitic deposits of the Piedmont Basin (Northwest Italy). Fossil Imprint, 78(1), 189-216.
We are interested in environmental, climate and stratigraphic reconstructions, especially of latest Neogene-Quaternary terrestrial and marine deposits of the Mediterranean biogeographic region.
Current topics:
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes in the Piedmont Basin during the Messinian salinity crisis. [Research agreement - University of Turin].
Comparison and integration between Quaternary terrestrial and marine records of the Mediterranean area (ODP 976, ODP 975, Montalbano Jonico) [In collaboration with A. Girone, P. Maiorano and M. Marino - University of Bari].
The Lake Ohrid record (Albania / Macedonia) for the reconstruction of the climate history of the Mediterranean during the last 1.36 million years ago. [Coord. B. Wagner].
The Upper Valdarno-Levane Project. [Research Project Contribution from the Valdarnese del Poggio Academy - Montevarchi (Arezzo)].
The Tuscan Holocene coastal lagoons (Elba, Burano, Orbetello, Orti-Bottagone). [Collaboration with ISPRA, WWF and the University of Lyon - Labex-IMU Project] National Biodiversity Future Centre (CN5 - Spoke 7).
The Holocene transition environments: Butrinto and Traiano Lake [Coord. L. Sadori, La Sapienza-University of Rome].
Foreland / foredeep / chain sedimentary sequences of the southern Apennine system. [AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO ART. 15 L. No. 241/1990. Collaboration with G. Mastronuzzi, University of Bari].
POLlen et ARIdité, résilience de la végétation aux SÉcheresses récurrentes - POLARISE 2020 - 2024 - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK (IRN). [Collaboration with N. Combourieu-Nebout - CNRS].
The human settlement of the Near East during the Paleolithic: archaeological prospections in central-southern Jordan. [Coordinator D. Lo Vetr, SAGAS].
The Paleolithic of the Krakow-Czestochowa plateau. Bisnik cave study. [Coordinator P. Mazza - DST].
Travertines, tufa and speleothems as a climatic-environmental archive for the late Quaternary.
