Montelibretti (RM)

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Montelibretti (RM)

Unit manager: Paolo Colangelo

Address: Strada Provinciale 35d n. 9, 00010 Montelibretti (RM)
Area territoriale di Ricerca di Roma 1

Contacts: segreteria.montelibretti@iret.cnr.it, 06 9067 2531

Montelibretti (RM)

The IRET office in Montelibretti (RM) is located within the CNR Territorial Research Area of Rome, where it has almost 800 square metres of office, laboratory and infrastructure space. The work carried out at the site is carried out by around 40 experts including researchers, technologists, technicians and administrative staff.

Research activities, both basic and applied, are carried out with the aim of increasing basic knowledge and clarifying the mechanisms that generate and maintain biological diversity, efficiency and resilience in terrestrial ecosystems, and to provide support in planning monitoring, conservation and management activities, based on scientific evidence.

The staff of the office carry out a broad spectrum of research ranging from plant ecophysiology and ecotoxicology to animal biodiversity, forest management, spatial modelling and remote sensing. The research is supported by laboratories, instrumentation and infrastructures that allow the different problems to be tackled through different approaches. One of the Eddy Covariance Towers, part of the ICOS Research Infrastructure, located on the Castelporziano Presidential Estate (RM), is attached to the Montelibretti site.

The main research areas of the unit are:

  • Study of phytotechnology and phytoremediation aimed at the remediation of contaminated sites, the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions and the dissemination of related ecosystem services;
  • Analysis of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) to study the physiological aspects of leaf emission/absorption in response to abiotic and biotic stresses;
  • Spatial modelling for monitoring the effect of climate change on animal and plant species, and for planning biodiversity conservation strategies;
  • Research in the field of remote sensing, identifying sensors and algorithms that can support the analysis and monitoring of biophysical parameters of vegetation;
  • Defining sustainable forest management strategies to promote biodiversity conservation in productive forests, combining economic, environmental and social needs;
  • Studying the basic components, evolution and conservation of animal biodiversity using morphological/molecular approaches.

Projects

Mosses and Plants for Environmental Monitoring

LEMIBIO

NBFC_SPOKE 6 – BIODIVERSITY AND HUMAN WELLBEING

SERRA-LAB

MOBILES

HYDRO FERN for water depuration

Assisted phytoremediation of perfluorinated alkyl substances with industrial hemp

HIC SUNT LUPI

Conservation genomics of the Apennine chamois

ITINERIS

Ecosystems Biodiversity by Remote Sensing

LIFE MODERn (NEC)

Laboratories

Biochemistry

Animal ecology and biogeography

Molecular biology and evolutionary genomics

Climatic cells

In vitro culture

Combustion

Forest dynamics and management

Ecophysiology – Montelibretti

Gascromatography

Gas exchange

Sensors

Mass spectrometry

Infrastructures

Integrated Carbon Observation System – ICOS

Mesocosms for growing plants in semi-hydroponics

National Biodiversity Future Center – NBFC

REMUS

Greenhouses – Montelibretti