Ricerc@Sapienza

The quest for sustainable chemistry is fortunately an unstoppable process, and a new class of
biodegradable compounds, the Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) [1,2], has recently been proposed as
inexpensive and “greener” alternative to flank the family of solvents currently considered the “pillar” of
solution green chemistry—ionic liquids. Such a new class is composed of an eutectic mixture of
solids, usually the quaternary ammonium salt choline chloride, and a hydrogen-donor (HBD) Brønsted

Red Mullet Mullus barbatus is an important target of fishing activities in the central Tyrrhenian Sea, so it is essential to identify its critical habitats in order to manage this resource efficiently. Our research specifically focused on the identification and characterization of nursery areas. The use of spatial interpolation techniques enabled us to identify five nurseries that were highly persistent through time.

A long‐standing hypothesis in biogeography is that a species’ abundance is highest at the centre of its geographical or environmental space and decreases toward the edges. Several studies tested this hypothesis and provided mixed results and overall weak support to the theory. Most studies, however, are affected by several limitations related to the sample size, the comparability among abundance measures, the definition of species geographic range and corresponding environmental space, and the proxy variables used to represent centrality/marginality gradients.