Abstracts – Oral presentations
* : Presenting author.
2025
Clò, E.*, Mercuri, A.M., Zappa, J., Ricucci, C., Braga, L., Florenzano, A. Measuring Millennial Biodiversity with Pollen: Archaeo-Data from Southern Italy. 2025 IMEKO TC26 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 15 – 17 October 2025, Bergamo, Italy.
Braga, L.*, Vinci, G., Rattighieri, E., Florenzano, A., Fontana, A., Mercuri, A.M. Protected biotopes and glacial relicts from the past: preliminary palynological findings and time-based indicator species from the Teor-Campomolle palaeochannel sedge peatland (NE Italy).
3rd Paleolimnology & Limnogeology International Symposium, 06 – 10 October 2025, Aix-les-Bains, France.
Presented: 07 October 2025.
Braga, L.*, Vinci, G., Rattighieri, E., Florenzano, A., Fontana, A., Mercuri, A.M. Palaeobiodiversity of wetlands among buried protected biotopes and glacial relicts: preliminary palynological findings and time-based indicator species from the Teor-Campomolle palaeochannel sedge peatland (NE Italy).
120th Congress of the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) / XI International Plant Science Conference (IPSC), 03 – 06 September 2025, Gorizia, Italy.
Presented: 03 September 2025.
2024
Braga, L.*, Rattighieri, E., Pescini, V., Rellini, I., Florenzano, A. Transhumance landscapes in the southwestern Italian Alps: the contribution of Palynology in environmental and cultural heritage.
30th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, 28 – 31 August 2024, Italy.
Presented: 30 August 2024.
Braga, L.*, Vinci, G., Fontana, A., Florenzano, A., Mercuri, A.M. A simplified key for Cyperaceae pollen: preliminary results from a sedge peatland in a Holocene paleochannel of Tagliamento River (NE Italy).
MedPalynoS 2024, 17 – 19 July, Salamanca, Spain.
Presented: 17 July 2024.
Braga, L.*, Zappa, J., Torri, P., Mercuri, A.M., Florenzano, A. PROTO Database: establishing a link between pollen and flora in the digital era.
XV International Palynological Congress (IPC) – XI International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference (IOPC), 27 – 31 May 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
Presented: 28 May 2024.
2023
Zappa, J.*, Torri, P., Fontana, A., Degasperi, N., Bassetti, M., Florenzano, A., Braga, L., Micheli, R., Mercuri, A.M. Palaeoenvironment and land-use at the UNESCO archaeological site of Palù di Livenza (PN): a palynological perspective.
118th Congress of the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) / IX International Plant Science Conference (IPSC), 13 – 16 September 2023, Pisa, Italy.
Braga, L.* Pollen and Flora as Bioindicators in Assessing the Status of Polluted Sites: The Case Study of the Mantua Lakes (SIN “Laghi di Mantova e Polo Chimico”, N Italy).
BioMeeting 2023, 30 March 2023, Modena, Italy.
Presented: 30 March 2023.
Abstracts – Posters
* : Presenting author.
2025
Clò, E., Mercuri, A.M., Zappa, J., Ricucci, C., Braga, L.*, & Florenzano, A. Tracing Millennia of Flora and Land Use: Archaeo-Palynological Insights from Southern Italy.
120th Congress of the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) / XI International Plant Science Conference (IPSC), 03 – 06 September 2025, Gorizia, Italy.
Zappa, J.*, Ricucci, C., Clò, E., Rattighieri, E., Braga, L., Florenzano, A., Mercuri, A.M. Wetlands as long-term archives of flora, climatic change and ecological dynamics: palynological evidence from northeastern and northwestern Italy.
Biodiversity and Ecosystems eScience (BEeS) Conference 2025, 30 June – 03 July 2025, Heraklion, Greece.
Clò, E.*, Ricucci, C., Zappa, J., Braga, L., Torri, P., Bosi, G., Florenzano, A., Mercuri, A.M. Monitoring and Enhancing Biodiversity through Palynology and Archaeobotany: Insights from Italian and Mediterranean Ecosystems.
National Biodiversity Forum 2025, 19 – 21 May 2025, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
2024
Clò, E.*, Zappa, J., Braga, L., Ricucci, C. The biodiversity of the past for a conscious valorisation of changing ecosystems.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions under Global Change – International Symposium, 20 – 22 November 2024, Alghero, Italy.
Braga, L.*, Vinci, G., Fontana, A., Florenzano, A., Mercuri, A.M. Past flora and Italian plant biodiversity richness: preliminary results from a sedge peatland in a Holocene paleochannel of Tagliamento River (N Italy).
119th Congress of the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) / X International Plant Science Conference (IPSC), 11 – 13 September 2024, Teramo, Italy.
Presented: 12 September 2024.
Organisation & Supporting Activities
2025
21 January 2025
Un mondo di forme viventi microscopiche: problematiche e moderne tecniche in Tassonomia.
Organisation of symposium-ending round table.
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
2024
16 December 2024
BIOmeeting 2024. Coordinator of the organising committee.
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
17 – 21 June 2024
7th European Congress on Conservation Biology – ECCB 2024.
Voluntary supporting activities.
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Italy.