Ricerc@Sapienza

In recent years, mindfulness has been considered as a potential source of proenvironmental attitudes and behavior. Present research is aimed at consolidating and expanding previous knowledge by proposing that mindfulness is related to both proenvironmental behavior and belief in global climate change through social dominance orientation (SDO). A first study was conducted on undergraduate students (n = 279) and found, as expected, that trait mindfulness was related to proenvironmental behavior through SDO.

Elevational gradients are characterized by strong abiotic variation within small geographical distances and provide a powerful tool to evaluate community response to variation in climatic and other environmental factors. We explored how temperature and habitat diversity shape the diversity of holometabolous predator and parasitoid insects along temperate elevational gradients in the European Alps. We surveyed insect communities along 12 elevational transects that were selected to separate effects of temperature from those of habitat diversity.

New data are reported on the Mediterranean parrotfish Sparisoma cretense in the coastal waters of Giglio Islands (North Tyrrhenian Sea). Using visual census strip transects, we documented the occurrence of both adult and sub-adult individuals, providing evidence on the existence of an established population of this species, 26 years after its first record in the same location. The potential of this warm adapted fish to further expand its distribution across the Mediterranean coasts is raised and discussed.