-First verified nesting of the Song thrush Turdus philomelos in the Aspromonte National Park, Italy.In Calabria, the Song thrush Turdus philomelos breeds only in the central and northern sectors of the Region (i.e. Pollino, Orsomarso and Sila areas) while in the province of Reggio Calabria small feeding and roosting aggregations are mainly observed during migration. During two successive breeding seasons (2015)(2016), using both distance sampling with line transects and point count methods for estimating relative bird abundance in woody habitats of Aspromonte National Park (PNA), we detected a total of N=16 breeding individuals of T. philomelos within different altitudinal bands (min 630 m, max 1,838 m a.s.l.) and predominantly in mesophilic deciduous forests. Whit this work we verified nesting of T. philomelos for the first time for both, PNA and province of Reggio Calabria, but extending future investigations to a wider area, we could more accurately quantify the number of nesting pairs and their distribution on a regional scale.Key words: Song thrush, Turdus philomelos, Aspromonte National Park, Calabria, Italy, first nesting Riassunto -In Calabria, il Tordo bottaccio Turdus philomelos si riproduce solo nei settori settentrionali e centrali della Regione (i.e. Pollino, Orsomarso e Sila), mentre in provincia di Reggio Calabria la nidificazione non è mai stata accertata e le osservazioni risultano scarse e concentrate esclusivamente nei periodi migratori. Durante due successive stagioni riproduttive (2015)(2016), abbiamo osservato N=16 individui di T. philomelos a differenti altitudini (min 630 m, max 1,838 m a.s.l.) prevalentemente nei boschi di latifoglie decidue mesofile. Sono stati utilizzati la modalità del "distance sampling" eseguendo un transetto a piedi ed altre 3 diverse tecniche di campionamento "point-count" per stimare la presenza della specie nel Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte. Con questo lavoro, abbiamo accertato per la prima volta la nidificazione del T. philomelos nel Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte e nella provincia di Reggio Calabria. In futuro, con l'incremento dell'area di investigazione, si potrà quantificare in modo più accurato il numero di coppie nidificanti e la loro distribuzione su scala regionale.Parole chiave: Tordo bottaccio, Turdus philomelos, Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte, Calabria, prima nidificazione.Il Tordo bottaccio Turdus philomelos è una specie politipica a distribuzione eurosibirica (Brichetti & Fracasso, 2008). In Europa la popolazione viene stimata tra 20 e 36 mln di coppie riproduttive e classificata con lo status Least concern (LC) nella European Red List (BirdLifeInternational, 2015). In Italia, con una stima popolazionistica di 200.000-400.000 coppie (BirdLife-International, 2016) e trend stabile (Rondinini et al., 2013), la specie nidifica, tra i 400 e i 2.000 m di quota, in boschi montani o collinari di conifere pure o miste a latifoglie, prediligendo boschi freschi e folti, ricchi di sottobosco e radure erbose. Più abbondante sull'arco alpino, la sua...
In the recent past, the presence of the European polecat, Mustela putorius Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia Mustelidae), in the Aspromonte National Park (Italy) appears to be uncertain due to the lack of objective data and specific studies. In 2017-2018, the Park Authority carried out a project to monitor seven species of mesocarnivores whose status is poorly known even at the local level. Monitoring was performed by means of camera trapping, a technique particularly suitable for the detection of very elusive species. During the second year of activity, the presence of the European polecat was recorded in two different areas of the northeastern side of Aspromonte National Park, the southernmost part of its Italian distribution.
<p>The Aspromonte Geopark project rises from the peculiar geological history of this sector of the southern Italian peninsula, apparently in continuity with the rest of the thin-skinned thrust-sheet system of the Apennine-Magrebian orogenic system, although characterized by deep-seated crystalline basement rocks, interpreted as fragmented relics of a sector of the original southern European Variscan chain (Cirrincione et al., 2015). These rocks are the result of an ancient geological history rooted since the Paleozoic to arrive up to the already active seismogenic tectonic activity, passing through the Oligocene-Miocene syn-orogenic clastic deposition of the Stilo Capo d&#8217;Orlando Formation and the evaporitic deposits, which testifies the Messinian salinity crisis.&#160;This peculiar geological heritage allows the preservation of an articulated geodiversity that contribute to the unraveling of two orogenesis (i.e. Variscan and Alpine), testified by the presence of intensively deformed metamorphic rocks, involved in two orogenic cycles (Ortolano et al., 2005; 2014; 2020), as well as in the occurrence of syn-orogenic sedimentary deposits covered in turn by the back thrusting of the Varicolori Clays and the final deposition of the Gessoso-solfifera succession.&#160;At the moment, the growing Aspromonte Geopark counts 89 geosites, eight of which are of international importance and five inserted within territorial and cultural landscape units.&#160;Many of these geosites are able to experiment new ways to communicate, with the aid of new technologies (i.e. GIS, 3D Virtual outcrop reconstruction and VR), the slow movement of the Earth crust, testified and preserved in different geosites, where is possible to observe clearly the presence of mylonitic rocks (i.e. rocks involved in high strain-rate regime undergoing plastic deformation) as well as the occurrence of several types of folding system activation, such as flow perturbation fold system evolving to sheath folds (Fazio et al., 2017; 2018; Ortolano et al., 2020). This geological peculiarity can communicate as a metamorphic outcrop can be read as an Earth-moving view where are enclosed pieces of the memory of the rock incessant slow movement of Earth interior.</p><p>References</p><p>Cirrincione, R., Fazio, E., Fiannacca, P., Ortolano, G., Pezzino, A., Punturo, R. (2015) - Periodico di Mineralogia, 84 (3B)</p><p>Fazio, E., Ortolano, G., Visalli, R., Alsop, I., Cirrincione, R., Pezzino, A. (2018) Italian Journal of Geosciences, 137 (2), pp. 208-218.</p><p>Fazio, E., Ortolano, G., Cirrincione, R. (2017) International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106 (6), pp. 2039-2040.</p><p>Ortolano, G., Cirrincione, R., Pezzino, A. 2005 Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 85 (1), pp. 31-56.</p>
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