Mauro Gobbi
Born in Milan in 1979, he is a specialist that has undertaken researches in ecological entomology focused on the use of bioindicators, and on the effects of climate and environmental changes on alpine and lowland terrestrial arthropod coenoses. Specifically, he has dealt with the succession of epigean arthropods in space and in time in grasslands (Msc Thesis, 2003yr), forests and along glacier forelands (PhD Thesis, 2007yr). He is an expertise on the ecology of ground beetle (Coleoptera Carabidae), and their use as bioindicators of human impact and climate change on the ecosystems. His scientific activity is testified by international collaborations and by publications on international journals. He wrote, coordinates and developed many national and international research projects on the use of insects for the management and naturalistic enhancement of the natural and man-managed lowland and alpine ecosystems. He is author of about 50 papers on national and IF-ranked journals. He won three research fellows (2001, 2003), one prize for the best Msc thesis (2004) and in 2009 he received the award for the best Italian young entomologist conferred by the Italian Academy of Entomology. He is research assistant at the MTSN since 2007.
Key-publications:
GOBBI M., De Bernardi F., Pelfini M., Rossaro B. & Brandmayr P. (2006) Epigean arthropod succession along a 154 year glacier foreland chronosequence in the Forni Valley (Central Italian Alps). Arctic,
Antarctic and Alpine Research, 38(3): 357-362. (IF2006=0.931)
GOBBI M., Fontaneto D. & De Bernardi F. (2006) Climate impacts on animal communities in space and time: the case of spider assemblages along an alpine glacier foreland. Global Change Biology, 12: 1985-
1992. (IF2006=4.339)
GOBBI M., Rossaro B., Vater A., De Bernardi F., Pelfini M. & Brandmayr P. (2007) Environmental features influencing Carabid beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages along a recently deglaciated area in the Alpine region. Ecological Entomology, 32: 282-289. (IF2007=1.741)
GOBBI M. & Fontaneto D. (2008) Biodiversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in different habitats of the Italian Po lowland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 127/3-4: 273-276.
(IF2008=2.884).
Latella l. & GOBBI M. (2008) La Fauna del Suolo: tassonomia, ecologia e metodi di studio dei principali gruppi di invertebrati terrestri italiani. Quaderni del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 3,
Trento, 192 pp.
Melis C., Olsen C.B., Hyllvang M., GOBBI M., Stokke B.G., Roskaft E. (2010) Effect of traffic intensity on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in central Sweden. Journal of Insect
Conservation, 14(2): 159-168. (IF2008=1.838)
Polidori C., GOBBI M., Chatenaud L., Santoro D., Montani O. & Andrietti F. (2010) Diet preference of the beetle-hunting wasp, Cerceris rubida (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae): is there a bias towards specific prey taxa? Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 99: 544-558. (IF2008=2.019)
GOBBI M., Isaia M. & De Bernardi F. (2010) Arthropod colonisation of a debris-covered glacier. The
Holocene, in press (IF2008=2.167)