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Maria Rita Palombo

Maria Rita Palombo

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Environmental Sciences

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37
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5124
World Ranking
8921
National Ranking
198

Overview

Maria Rita Palombo is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research encompasses a variety of topics primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Paleontology and Ecology.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate engagement with multiple aspects of evolutionary and paleontological studies, including paleoecology and ancient biodiversity loss. Notable papers include:

  • "The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Thinking about the Biodiversity Loss in This Changing World," 2021, Geosciences
  • "Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A first comparison of bone histomorphometry in extant domestic horses (Equus caballus) and a Pleistocene Indian wild horse (Equus namadicus)," 2020, Integrative Zoology
  • "On the devil's tracks: unexpected news from the Foresta ichnosite (Roccamonfina volcano, central Italy)," 2020, Journal of Quaternary Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Marco Zedda
  • Adolfo Panarello
  • Marco Romano
  • Matteo Antonelli
  • Luca Bellucci

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Quaternary
  • Historical Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Integrative Zoology
  • Journal of Quaternary Science

Their fields of study emphasize:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields addressed in their work include:

  • Paleontology
  • Ecology
  • Anthropology
  • Archeology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main research topics covered are:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Paleopathology and ancient diseases

Best Publications

  • BIOCHRONOLOGY OF SELECTED MAMMALS, MOLLUSCS AND OSTRACODS FROM THE MIDDLE PLIOCENE TO THE LATE PLEISTOCENE IN ITALY. THE STATE OF THE ART

    Elsa Gliozzi;L. Abbazzi;P. Argenti;A. Azzaroli

  • Of mice and mammoths: generality and antiquity of the island rule

    Mark V. Lomolino;Alexandra A. van der Geer;George A. Lyras;Maria Rita Palombo

  • Of mice and mammoths: evaluations of causal explanations for body size evolution in insular mammals

    Mark V. Lomolino;Dov F. Sax;Maria Rita Palombo;Alexandra A. van der Geer

  • Elephant fossil record from Italy: knowledge, problems, and perspectives

    Maria R. Palombo;Marco P. Ferretti

  • The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean.

    Daniel M. Fernandes;Daniel M. Fernandes;Daniel M. Fernandes;Alissa Mittnik;Iñigo Olalde;Iosif Lazaridis

  • Ongoing research at the late Middle Pleistocene site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (central Italy), with emphasis on human–elephant relationships

    Anna Paola AnzideI;Grazia Maria Bulgarelli;Paola Catalano;Eugenio Cerilli

  • Les faunes de grands mammifères de la Caune de l'Arago (Tautavel) dans le cadre biochronologique des faunes du Pléistocène moyen italien

    Anne-Marie Moigne;Maria Rita Palombo;Véronique Belda;Djamila Heriech-Briki

  • Early to Middle Pleistocene dynamics of plant and mammal communities in South West Europe

    Donatella Magri;Maria Rita Palombo

  • Early–Middle Pleistocene environmental changes and human evolution in the Italian peninsula

    Giorgio Manzi;Donatella Magri;Maria Rita Palombo

  • PLIO-PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL VERTEBRATES OF MONTE TUTTAVISTA (OROSEI, EASTERN SARDINIA, ITALY), AN OVERVIEW

    Laura Abbazzi;Chiara Angelone;Marisa Arca;Giancarlo Barisone

  • The new chronology of the Ceprano calvarium (Italy)

    Giorgio Manzi;Donatella Magri;Salvatore Milli;Maria Rita Palombo

  • The Olduvai buffalo Pelorovis and the origin of Bos

    Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros;Maria Rita Palombo;Lorenzo Rook

  • Deconstructing mammal dispersals and faunal dynamics in SW Europe during the Quaternary

    Maria Rita Palombo

  • Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6 Ma

    Maria Rita Palombo;Raffaele Sardella;Micaela Novelli

  • A scenario of human dispersal in the northwestern Mediterranean throughout the Early to Middle Pleistocene

    Maria Rita Palombo

  • An Early Pleistocene interglacial record from an intermontane basin of central Italy (Scoppito, L'Aquila)

    Donatella Magri;Federico Di Rita;Maria Rita Palombo

  • REMARKS ON THE BIOCHRONOLOGY OF MAMMALIAN FAUNAL COMPLEXES FROM THE PLIOCENE TO THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE IN FRANCE

    Maria Rita Palombo;Andrea Maria Francesco Valli

  • Coupling tooth microwear and stable isotope analyses for palaeodiet reconstruction: the case study of Late Middle Pleistocene Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus teeth from Central Italy (Rome area)

    Maria Rita Palombo;M. L. Filippi;P. Iacumin;A. Longinelli

  • New data on the Early Villafranchian fauna from Vialette (Haute-Loire, France) based on the collection of the Crozatier Museum (Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France)

    Frédéric Lacombat;Laura Abbazzi;Marco P. Ferretti;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro

  • Palaeoloxodon exploitation at the Middle Pleistocene site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)

    Ernesto Santucci;Federica Marano;Eugenio Cerilli;Ivana Fiore

  • Holocene sea level change in Malta

    Stefano Furlani;Stefano Furlani;Fabrizio Antonioli;Sara Biolchi;Sara Biolchi;Timothy Gambin

  • Short Paper The Olduvai buffalo Pelorovis and the origin of Bos

    Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros;Maria Rita Palombo;Lorenzo Rook

Frequent Co-Authors

Raffaele Sardella
Raffaele Sardella Sapienza University of Rome
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Donatella Magri
Donatella Magri Sapienza University of Rome
Biagio Giaccio
Biagio Giaccio Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Fabrizio Antonioli
Fabrizio Antonioli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Dov F. Sax
Dov F. Sax Brown University
Paola Iacumin
Paola Iacumin University of Parma
Paul Palmqvist
Paul Palmqvist University of Malaga

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