Di Bella Letizia
Foraminifers: biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Applied and
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
Biography
"Letizia Di Bella is University Researcher in Paleontology and Paleoecology (scientific sectors GEO/01) at “Sapienza” University of Rome. She is gradueted in Geological Science (1990), PhD in Paleontology (1995) Postdoctoral fellowship at “Sapienza” University of Rome (1996-1998), three research collaboration fellowships (2000-2006). Since 1994 she is a member of Italian Paleontological Society. From 1993 she engages to numerous research project; as specialist in Plio-Pleistocene biostratigraphy of central Italy. Main scientific interests: biostratigraphy of Neogene-Quaternary marine succession of Central Italy through the study of foraminiferal assemblages; tassonomy, ecology and paleoecology of Caenozoic foraminifera finalised to paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Studies on recent foraminiferal assemblages as biomarker in stressed environmental areas. "
Research Interest
Foraminifers: biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Applied and environmental Micropaleontology
Publications
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Di Bella L. Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal assemblages of the Monte Mario site (Rome, Italy). Boll. Soc. Paleontol. Ital. 2010 Jan 1;49:145-61.
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Frezza V, Bergamin L, Di Bella L. Opportunistic benthic foraminifera as indicators of eutrophicated environments. Actualistic study and comparison with the Santernian middle Tiber Valley (Central Italy). BOLLETTINO-SOCIETA PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA. 2005;44(3):193.
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Di Bella L, Carboni MG, Pignatti J. Paleoclimatic significance of the Pliocene Amphistegina levels from the NE Tyrrhenian margin of Central Italy. BOLLETTINO-SOCIETA PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA. 2005;44(3):219.
