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  1. The disappearance of a riverine forest in the Kyzylkum Desert 3,000 years ago

    Article • The Holocene, July 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  2. An MIS 8 terrestrial record retrieved from a glacially overdeepened basin in the northern foreland of the European Alps

    Article • E&G Quaternary Science Journal, March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  3. Multiproxy reconstruction of the annual signal in a temperate glacier: The Adamello ADA270 ice core

    Article • Earth History and Biodiversity, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  4. ALIVE: A New Protocol for Investigating the Modern Pollen Deposition of Italian Forest Communities and the Correlation with Their Species Composition

    Article • Forests, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  5. Holocene Forest Dynamics in Western Mediterranean Islands: Rates, Periodicity, and Trends

    Article • Forests, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  6. Palaeoenvironmental, stratigraphic and geochronological study of the coastal site of Dalani i Vogël (Vlora, Albania): new evidence for late Neanderthal occupation and prehistoric archaeology

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  7. Vegetation and climate history during the Last Interglacial on the Istrian coast (Northern Adriatic Sea)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  8. Assessing changes in global fire regimes

    Article • Fire Ecology, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brisset Elodie, Dr. Roberta Pini

  9. Workshop report: PlioWest – drilling Pliocene lakes in western North America

    Article • Scientific Drilling, October 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  10. High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  11. Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps

    Article • The Holocene, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  12. Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (ICDP-DOVE): quantifying the age, extent, and environmental impact of Alpine glaciations

    Article • Scientific Drilling, October 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  13. Linking North Atlantic and Alpine Last Glacial Maximum climates via a high-resolution pollen-based subarctic forest steppe record

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  14. A tribute to Menke (1970): Results of pollen analysis on the Pleistocene stratigraphy and the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Schleswig-Holstein

    Article • E&G Quaternary Science Journal, December 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  15. Middle Pleistocene to Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the south-eastern Alpine foreland basin from multi-proxy analysis

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  16. Hunter-gatherers across the great Adriatic-Po region during the Last Glacial Maximum: Environmental and cultural dynamics

    Article • Quaternary International, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  17. Assessment of liquefaction potential in the central Po plain from integrated geomorphological, stratigraphic and geotechnical analysis

    Article • Engineering Geology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  18. The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800 year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  19. Early life of Neanderthals

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alessia Nava, Dr. Roberta Pini

  20. Life on a hilltop: vegetation history, plant husbandry and pastoralism at the dawn of Bergamo-Bergomum (northern Italy, 15th to 7th century bc)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  21. The fast-acting “pulse” of Heinrich Stadial 3 in a mid-latitude boreal ecosystem

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  22. Birch-sedge communities, forest withdrawal and flooding at the beginning of Heinrich Stadial 3 at the southern Alpine foreland

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  23. Peopling dynamics in the Mediterranean area between 45 and 39 ky ago: State of art and new data

    Article • Quaternary International, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  24. An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition

    Article • Quaternary International, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  25. Effects of stepped-combustion on fresh pollen grains: Morphoscopic, thermogravimetric, and chemical proxies for the interpretation of archeological charred assemblages

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  26. Holocene vegetation history and quantitative climate reconstructions in a high-elevation oceanic district of the Italian Alps. Evidence for a middle to late Holocene precipitation increase

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  27. Human settlement and vegetation-climate relationships in the Greenland Stadial 5 at the Piovesello site (Northern Apennines, Italy)

    Article • Quaternary Research, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  28. 8800 years of high-altitude vegetation and climate history at the Rutor Glacier forefield, Italian Alps. Evidence of middle Holocene timberline rise and glacier contraction

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  29. The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

    Article • Earth System Science Data, September 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  30. Altitudinal training sets of pollen rain – vegetation cover and modelled climate as a tool for the interpretation of paleoecological records

    Article • Ecological Questions, August 2017, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  31. Charred honeycombs discovered in Iron Age Northern Italy. A new light on boat beekeeping and bee pollination in pre-modern world

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  32. Prehistoric anthropic pastures in the western italian Alps are as old as the onset of the Copper Age

    Article • Journal of Ecology, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  33. Palaeoecological implications of the subfossil Pediastrum argentinense-type in Europe

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Normunds Stivrins, Dr. Roberta Pini

  34. Sedimentary evolution and persistence of open forests between the south-eastern Alpine fringe and the Northern Dinarides during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  35. Holocene dynamics of tree taxa populations in Italy

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  36. The latest LGM culmination of the Garda Glacier (Italian Alps) and the onset of glacial termination. Age of glacial collapse and vegetation chronosequence

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  37. Evidence for late Alpine tectonics in the Lake Garda area (northern Italy) and seismogenic implications

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, July 2014, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa, Dr. Roberta Pini

  38. The first continuous Late Glacial – Holocene peat bog multi-proxy record from the Dolomites (NE Italian Alps)

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicola Surian, Dr. Roberta Pini

  39. Correlating Alpine glaciation with Adriatic sea-level changes through lake and alluvial stratigraphy

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, July 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  40. Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

    Article • The Holocene, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Daniele Colombaroli, Dr. Roberta Pini

  41. The vegetation and climate history of the last glacial cycle in a new pollen record from Lake Fimon (southern Alpine foreland, N-Italy)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  42. Underestimation of fine grain quartz OSL dating towards the Eemian: Comparison with palynostratigraphy from Azzano Decimo, northeastern Italy

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  43. Reconstructing the palaeoenvironments of the early Pleistocene mammal faunas from the pollen preserved on fossil bones

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  44. Pollen stratigraphy, vegetation and climate history of the last 215ka in the Azzano Decimo core (plain of Friuli, north-eastern Italy)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  45. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of a stratigraphic Late Glacial–Holocene sequence in the Po plain (Bubano quarry, Bologna, Italy)

    Article • Quaternary International, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  46. Quaternary Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Alpine Region and the Mediterranean area in the European and Global Framework

    Article • Quaternary International, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  47. Evidence of a two-fold glacial advance during the last glacial maximum in the Tagliamento end moraine system (eastern Alps)

    Article • Quaternary Research, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  48. Interactions between climate and vegetation during the Lateglacial period as recorded by lake and mire sediment archives in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  49. Magnetostratigraphic dating of an intensification of glacial activity in the southern Italian Alps during Marine Isotope Stage 22

    Article • Quaternary Research, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  50. A new Late-glacial site with Picea abies in the northern Apennine foothills: an exception to the model of glacial refugia of trees

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  51. Migration and population expansion of Abies, Fagus, Picea, and Quercus since 15000 years in and across the Alps, based on pollen-percentage threshold values

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2005, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  52. The lacustrine deposits of Fornaci di Ranica (late Early Pleistocene, Italian Pre-Alps): stratigraphy, palaeoenvironment and geological evolution

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  53. The palaeoenvironment of Cervalces latifrons (Johnson, 1874) from Fornaci di Ranica (late Early Pleistocene, Northern Italy)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  54. Late Neolithic vegetation history at the pile-dwelling site of Palù di Livenza (northeastern Italy

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, October 2004, Wiley

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  55. Onset of major Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps

    Article • Geology, January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Dr. Roberta Pini

  56. A high-resolution Late-Glacial ? Holocene pollen diagram from Pian di Gembro (Central Alps, Northern Italy)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, December 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Roberta Pini