Scientific articles

• 1. Lirer F., (2000). A new technique for retrieving calcareous microfossils from lithified lime deposits. Micropaleontology vol. 46, n°4, pp. 365-369.

  2. Lirer F., Caruso A., Foresi L. M., Sprovieri M., Bonomo S., Di Stefano A., Iaccarino S., G. Salvatorini, Sprovieri R., Mazzola S., (2002). Astrochronological calibration of the upper Serravallian/lower Tortonian sedimentary sequence at Tremiti Islands (Adriatic Sea, southern Italy). Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., vol.108,241-256, Milano.

  3. Foresi L.M., Bonomo S., Caruso A., Di Stefano A., Di Stefano E., Iaccarino S., Lirer F., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G., Sprovieri R. (2002). High resolution calcareous plankton biostratigraphy of the Serravallian succession of the Tremiti Islands (Italy). Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., vol. 108, 257- 273, Milano.

  4. Sprovieri R., Bonomo S., Caruso A., Di Stefano A., Di Stefano E., Foresi L.M., Iaccarino S., Lirer F., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G. (2002). An Integrated calcareous plankton biostratigraphic scheme and biochronology of the Mediterranean Middle Miocene. Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., vol. 108, 337-353, Milano.

  5. Turco E., Bambini A., Foresi L.M., Lirer F., Iaccarino S., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G., 2002. Middle Miocene High-resolution calcareous plankton biostratigraphy at Site 926 (Leg 154, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean): paleoecological and paleobiogeographical implications. Geobios 35 (M.S. 24), 257-276.

  6. Iaccarino S., Lirer F., Bonomo S., Caruso A., Di Stefano A., Di Stefano E., Foresi L.M., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G., Sprovieri M., Sprovieri R., Turco E., (2004). Astrochronology of Late Middle Mediterranean sections. In: Cyclostratigraphy: An Essay of Approaches and Case Histories. SEPM (Society of Sedimentary Geology), Special Publication, n°81, p. 27-44. ISSN:1060-071X.

  7. Lirer F, Persico D., & Vigorito M., (2005). Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and age of the Middle Miocene deposits of Longano Formation (Eastern Matese Mountains, Southern Apennines). Riv. It. Paleont. Strat., vol. 111 (1), 91-108, Milano.

  8. Lirer F. and Iaccarino S., (2005). Integrated Stratigraphy (Cyclostratigraphy and Biochronology) of late Middle Miocene deposits in the Mediterranean area and comparison with the North and Equatorial Atlantic Oceans: synthesis of the major results. Terranova, 17, 338-349.

  9. Ferraro L., Sprovieri M., Alberico I., Lirer F., Prevedello L. and Marsella E. (2006). Benthic foraminifera and heavy metals distribution: a case study from the Naples Harbour (Tyrrhenian Sea, Southern Italy). Environmental Pollution, 142 (2), 274-287.

  10. Sprovieri M., Coccioni R., Lirer F., Pelosi N., and Lozar F. (2006). Orbital tuning of a Lower Cretaceous composite record (Maiolica Formation - Central Italy). Paleoceanography, 21, 1-19.

  11. Lirer F., Cascella A., Cesarano M., Casciello E., Pappone G. (2007). Micropaleontological study on the Miocene Calcareous turbidite deposits of Faeto and Tufillo Formations (eastern sector of the Southern Apennine chain). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 113, v2, pag. 269-286, Milano.

  12. Coccioni R., Marsili A., Montanari A., Bellanca A., Neri R., Bice D.M., Brinkhuis H., Church N., Macalady A., A. Mcdaniel, Deino A., Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Maiorano P., Monechi S., Nini C., Nocchi M., Pross J., Rochette P., Sagnotti L., Tateo F., Touchard Y., Van Simaeys S.& Williams G.L., (2008). Integrated stratigraphy of the Oligocene pelagic sequence in the Umbria- Marche basin (north-eastern Apennines, Italy): A potential Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Rupelian/Chattian boundary. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, 3/4, 487–511.

  13. Maiorano P., Aiello G., Barra D., Di Leo P., Joannin S., Lirer F., Marino M., Pappalardo A., Capotondi L., Ciaranfi N., Stefanelli S. (2008) Geochemical, mineralogical and micropaleontological proxies in sapropel 19 (i-cycle 90): evidence from the Montalbano Jonico land section (Southern Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 257, 308–334.

  14. Aziz H. A., Di Stefano A., Foresi L. M., Hilgen F.J., Iaccarino S. M., Kuiper K.F., Lirer F., Salvatorini G. and Turco E. (2008). Integrated stratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar chronology of early Middle Miocene sediments from DSDP Leg 42A, Site 372 (western Mediterranean). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 257, 123–138.

  15. Di Stefano A., Foresi L. M., Lirer F., Iaccarino S. M., Turco E., Amore F. O., Mazzei R., Morabito S., Salvatorini G. & Abdul Aziz H., (2008). Calcareous plankton high resolution bio-magnetostratigraphy for the Langhian of the Mediterranean area. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 114, v1, pag. 51-76, Milano.

  16. Sprovieri M., Ribera D’alcalà M., Salvagio Manta D., Bellanca A., Neri R., Lirer F., Taberner Hernandez C., Jose Pueyo J., and Sammartino S. (2008). Ba/Ca evolution in water masses of the Mediterranean late Neogene. Paleoceanography v.23, 1-17.

  17. Marino M., Maiorano P., Lirer F., (2008). Changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution. Marine Micropaleontology, 257, 70-90.

  18. Cita M. B., Capraro L., Ciaranfi N., Di Stefano E., Lirer F., Maiorano P., Marino M., Raffi I., Rio D., Sprovieri R., Stefanelli S., Vai G. B., (2008). The Calabrian Stage redefined. Episodes, 31, n°4, 408-418.

  19. Iaccarino S. M., Bertini A., Di Stefano A., Ferraro L., Gennari R., Grossi F., Lirer F., Manzi V., Menichetti E., Ricci Lucchi M., Taviani M., Sturiale G., Angeletti L., (2008). The Trave section (Monte dei Corvi, Ancona, Central Italy): an integrated paleontological study of the Messinian deposits. Stratigraphy, vol. 5, pag. 283-308.

  20. Budillon F., Lirer F., Iorio M., Macrì P., Sagnotti L., Vallefuoco M., Ferraro L., Innangi S., Sahabi M., Tonielli R., (2009). Integrated stratigraphic reconstruction for the last 80 kyr in a deep sector of the Sardinia Channel (Western Mediterranean). Deep - Sea Research II, 56, 725–737.

  21. Verducci M., Foresi L. M., Scott G. H., Sprovieri M., Lirer F., Pelosi N., (2009). The Middle Miocene Climatic Transition in the Southern Ocean: evidence of paleoclimatic and hydrographic changes at Kerguelen Plateau from planktonic foraminifers and stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 280, 371-386.

  22. Lirer F., Harzhauser M., Pelosi N., Piller W.E., Schmid H.P., Sprovieri M., (2009). Astronomically forced teleconnection between Paratethyan and Mediterranean sediments during the Middle and Late Miocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275, p. 1–13.

  23. Hohenegger J, Rögl F, Ćorić S, Pervesler P, Lirer F, Roetzel R, Scholger R & Stingl K, (2009). The Styrian Basin: a key to the Middle Miocene (Badenian/Langhian) Central Paratethys transgressions. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, v°102, 102-132.

  24. Marino M, Maiorano P, Lirer F, Pelosi N, (2009). Response of calcareous nannofossil assemblages to paleoenvironmental changes through the mid-Pleistocene revolution at Site 1090 (Southern Ocean). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 280- 333–349.

  25. Maiorano P, Capotondi L, Ciaranfi N, Girone A, Lirer F, Marino M, Pelosi N, Petrosino P, and Piscitelli A, (2010). Vrica-Crotone and Montalbano Jonico sections: a potential unit-stratotype of the Calabrian Stage. Episodes, 33 (4), 218-233.

  26. Di Stefano A, Verducci M, Lirer F, Ferraro L, Iaccarino S M, Hüsing S K, Hilgen F J (2010). Paleoenvironmental conditions preceding the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Central Mediterranean: Integrated data from the Upper Miocene Trave section (Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 37–53.

  27. Ciaranfi N., Lirer F., Lirer L., Lourens L.J., Maiorano P., Marino M., Petrosino P., Sprovieri M., Stefanelli S., Brilli M., Girone A., Joannin S., Pelosi N., Vallefuoco M. (2010). Integrated Stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of Lower-Middle Pleistocene Montalbano Jonico Land Section (Southern Italy). Quaternary International, 219, 109-120.

  28. Incarbona A, Ziveri P, Di Stefano E, Lirer F, Mortyn G, Patti B, Pelosi N, Sprovieri M, Tranchida G, Vallefuoco M, Albertazzi S, Bellucci L G, Bonanno A, Bonomo S, Censi P, Ferraro L, Giuliani S, Mazzola S, Sprovieri R, (2010a). The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Coccolithophores in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Climate of the Past 6, 795–805.

  29. Incarbona A, Sprovieri M, Lirer F, Sprovieri R., (2011). Surface and deep water conditions in the Sicily Channel (central Mediterranean) at the time of sapropel S5 deposition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306: 243-248.

  30. Lirer F., and Iaccarino S., (2011). Mediterranean Neogene historical stratotype sections and Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP): state of the art. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien A Mineralogie Petrologie Geologie Palaeontologie Archaeozoologie Anthropologie Praehistorie, Serie A., 113, 67-144. ISSN: 0255-0091. The journal is indexed in GeoRef (http://previews.georef.org/dbtw-wpd/qbeprev.htm), BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record.

  31. Iaccarino S. M., Di Stefano A., Foresi L. M., Turco E., Baldassini N., Cascella A., Da Prato S., Ferraro L., Gennari R., Hilgen F. J., Lirer F., Maniscalco R., Mazzei R., Riforgiato F., Russo B., Sagnotti L., Salvatorini G., Speranza F., Verducci M., (2011). High-resolution integrated stratigraphy of the upper Burdigalian-lower Langhian in the Mediterranean the historical stratotype of the Langhian and new candidate sections for defining its the GSSP. Stratigraphy, 8 (2-3), 199-215.

  32. Foresi L. M., Verducci M., Baldassini N., Lirer F., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G., Ferraro L., Da Prato S., (2011). Integrated stratigraphy of St. Peter’s Pool section (Malta): new age for the Upper Globigerina Limestone member and progress towards the Langhian GSSP. Stratigraphy, 8 (2-3), 125-143.

  33. Kovac M., Minar J., Lirer F., (2011). Foreword: Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean area from 23 Ma to the present. Geologica Carpathica, 62, 1, 3.

  34. Vallefuoco M., Lirer F., Ferraro L., Pelosi N., Capotondi L., Sprovieri M., Incarbona A., (2012). Climatic variability and anthropogenic signatures in the Gulf of Salerno (southern-eastern Tyrrhenian Sea) during the last half millennium. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei - DOI 10.1007/s12210-011-0154-0.

  35. Ferraro L., Alberico I., Lirer F., Vallefuoco M., (2012). Distribution of benthic foraminifera from the southern Tyrrhenian continental shelf (South Italy). Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei - DOI 10.1007/s12210-011-0160-2;

  36. D’Argenio B., Lirer F., Pappone G., (2012). Foreword of Land-Sea Interaction: the Case of Sele River, Southern Italy. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei, 23, 1, pag. 1-2.

  37. Cascella A., Lirer F., Cesarano M., Casciello E., Pappone G., (2012). Integrated stratigraphy of Middle-Late Miocene synorogenic deposits of the Eastern Southern Apennine Chain: The San Bartolomeo Flysch. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 118 (2), 295-311.

  38. Cobianchi M., Luciani V., Lupi C., Mancin N., Lirer F., Pelosi N., Trattenero I., Bordiga M., Hall I. R. and Sprovieri M., (2012). Pleistocene biogeochemical record in the south-west Pacific Ocean (Images Site Md97-2114, Chatham Rise). Journal of Quaternary Science DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2542.

  39. Batenburg S. J., Sprovieri M., Gale A. S., Hilgen F. J., Husing S., Laskar J., Liebrand D., Lirer F., Orue-Etxebarria X., Pelosi N., Smit J., (2012). Cyclostratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Late Maastrichtian at Zumaia (Basque country, Northern Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 359-360, 264–278.

  40. Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Ferraro L., Vallefuoco M., Capotondi L., Cascella A., Petrosino P., Insinga D.D., Pelosi N., Tamburrino S., Lubritto C., (2013). Integrated stratigraphy for the Late Quaternary in the eastern Tyrrhenian Sea. Quaternary International, 292, 71-85.

  41. Girone A., Capotondi L., Ciaranfi N., Di Leo P., Lirer F., Maiorano P., Marino M., Pelosi N., Pulice I., (2013). Paleoenvironmental changes at the lower Pleistocene Montalbano Jonico section (southern Italy): Global versus regional signals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 371, 62–79.

  42. Giordano L., Alberico I., Ferraro L., Marsella E., Lirer F., Di Fiore V., (2013). A new tool to promote sustainability of coastal zones. The case of Sele plain, southern Italy. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei, 24(2), 113-126.

  43. Oliveri E., Sprovieri M., Salvagio Manta D., Giaramita L., La Cono V., Lirer F., Rumolo P., Sabatino N., Tranchida G., Vallefuoco M., Yakimov M. M., Mazzola S., (2013). Sediment geochemistry of the Thetis hypersaline anoxic basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea). Sedimentary Geology, 296, 72–85.

  44. Lirer, F., Sprovieri, M., Vallefuoco, M., Ferraro, L., Pelosi, N., Giordano, L., Capotondi, L., (2014). Planktonic foraminifera as bio-indicators for monitoring the climatic changes that have occurred over the past 2000 years in the southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea. Integrative Zoology, 9: 542–554.

  45. Insinga D. D., Tamburrino S., Lirer F., Vezzoli L., Barra M., De Lange G.J., Tiepolo M., Vallefuoco M., Mazzola S. & Sprovieri M., (2014). Tephrochronology of the astronomically-tuned KC01B deep-sea core, Ionian Sea: insights into the explosive activity of the Central Mediterranean area during the last 200 ka. Quaternary Science Review, 85, 63-84.

  46. Marino M., Maiorano P., Tarantino F., Voelker A., Capotondi L., Girone A., Lirer F., Flores J.-A., Naafs B. D. A., (2014). Coccolithophores as proxy of seawater changes at orbital to millennial scale during middle Pleistocene Marine Isotope Stages 14-9 in North Atlantic core MD01-2446. Paleoceanography, 29 (6), 518-532.

  47. Bonomo S., Cascella A., Alberico I., Ferraro L., Giordano L., Lirer F., Vallefuoco M., Marsella E., (2014). Coccolithophores from near the Volturno estuary (central Tyrrhenian Sea). Marine Micropaleontology, 111, 26-37.

  48. Foresi L.M., Baldassini N., Sagnotti L., Lirer F., Di Stefano A., Caricchi C., Verducci M., Salvatorini G., Mazzei R., (2014). Integrated stratigraphy of the St. Thomas section (Malta Island): a reference section for the lower Burdigalian of the Mediterranean Region. Marine Micropaleontology, 111, 66-89.

  49. Marino M., Bertini A., Ciaranfi N., Aiello G., Gallicchio S., Girone A., La Perna R., Barra D., Lirer F., Maiorano P., Petrosino P., Toti F., (2015). Paleoenvironmental and climatostratigraphic insights for Marine Isotope Stage 19 (Pleistocene) at the Montalbano Jonico succession, South Italy. Quaternary International, 383, 104-115.

  50. Rabineau M., Kuroda J., Aslanian D., Droxler A., Gorini C., Garcia-Castelanos D., Nolet G., Moscariellio A., Hello Y., Burov E., Sierro F. J, Lirer F., Roure F., Pezard P., Mart Y., Camerlenghi A., (2015). Probing connections between deep earth and surface processes in a land-locked ocean basin transformed into a giant saline basin: the Mediterranean DREAM-GOLD project. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66, 6-17.

  51. Capotondi L., Girone A., Lirer F., Bergami C., Verducci M., Vallefuoco M., Afferri A., Ferraro L., Pelosi N., De Lange G. J., (2016). Central Mediterranean Mid-Pleistocene paleoclimatic variability and its connection with global climate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 442, 72-83.

  52. Banak A., Mandic O., Sprovieri M., Lirer F., Pavelić D., (2016). Stable isotope data from loess malacofauna - evidence for climate changes in the Pannonian Basin during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary International, 415, 15-24.

  53. Punzo M., Lanciano C., Tarallo D., Bianco F., Cavuoto G., De Rosa R., Di Fiore V., Cianflone G., Dominici R., Iavarone M., Lirer F., Pelosi N., Ludeno G., Natale A. and Marsella E., (2016). Remocean X-Band Wave Radar for wave field analysis: case study of Bagnara Calabra (south Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). Journal of Sensors, 501, doi.org/10.1155/2016/6236925.

  54. Giannandrea P., Loiacono F., Maiorano P., Lirer F., Puglisi D., (2016). Geological map of the Gorgoglione Basin: eastern sector. Italian Journal of Geosciences, 135 (1), 120-141.

  55. Marino M., Aiello G., Barra D., Bertini A., Gallicchio S., Girone A., La Perna R., Lirer F., Maiorano P., Petrosino P., Quivelli O., Toti F., Ciaranfi N., (2016). The Montalbano Jonico section (South Italy) as a reference for the Early/Middle Pleistocene boundary. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 29 (2), 123-135. ISSN 2279-7327.

  56. Cisneros M., Cacho I., Frigola J., Canals M., Masqué P., Martrat B., Casado M., Grimalt J., Pena L. D., Margaritelli  G. and Lirer F., (2016). Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach. Clim. Past, 12, 849–869.

  57. Margaritelli G., Vallefuoco M., Di Rita F., Capotondi L., Bellucci L.G., Insinga D.D., Petrosino P., Bonomo S., Cacho I., Cascella A., Ferraro L., Florindo F., Lubritto C., Lurcock P.C., Magri D., Pelosi N., Rettori R., Lirer F., (2016). Marine response to climate changes during the last five millennia in the central Mediterranean Sea. Global and Planetary Change. 142, 53-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.04.007

  58. Bonomo S., Cascella A., Alberico I., Sorgato S., Pelosi N., Ferraro L., Lirer F., Vallefuoco M., Bellucci L., Agnini C., Pappone G., (2016). Reworked Coccoliths as runoff proxy for the last 400 years: The case of Gaeta Gulf (central Tyrrhenian Sea, Central Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 459, 15–28.

  59. Alberico, I. Giliberti, D.D. Insinga, P. Petrosino, M. Vallefuoco, F. Lirer, S. Bonomo, A. Cascella, E. Anzalone, R. Barra, E. Marsella, and L. Ferraro, (2017). Marine sediment cores database for the Mediterranean Basin: a tool for past climatic and environmental studies. Gruyter Open Geoscience, 9; 221–239.

  60. Di Rita F., Lirer F., Bonomo S., Cascella A., Ferraro L., Florindo F., Insinga D., Lurcock P., Margaritelli G., Petrosino P., Rettori R., Vallefuoco M., Magri D., (2018). Late Holocene forest dynamics in the Gulf of Gaeta (central Mediterranean) in relation to NAO variability and human impact. Quaternary Science Reviews, 179; 137-152.

  61. Coccioni R., Montanari A., Bice D., Brinkhuis H., Frontalini F., Lirer F., Maiorano P., Monechi S., Deino A., Pross J., Rochette P., Sagnotti L., Sideri M., Sprovieri M., Tateo F., Touchard Y., Van Simaeys S. and Williams G. L., (2018). The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Chattian Stage (Paleogene System, Oligocene Series) at Monte Cagnero, Italy. Episodes Vol. 41, No. 1, 17-32.

  62. Jalali B., Sicre M.-A., Klein V., Schmidt S., Maselli V., Lirer F., Bassetti M.-A., Toucanne S., Jorry S. J., Insinga D., Petrosino P. and Châles F., (2018). Deltaic and coastal sediments as recorders of Mediterranean regional climate and human impact over the past three millennia. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, DOI: 10.1029/2017PA003298.

  63. Ferraro L., Bonomo S., Alberico I., Cascella A., Giordano L., Lirer F., Vallefuoco M., (2018). Live benthic foraminifera from the Volturno River mouth (central Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, doi.org/10.1007/s12210-018-0712-9.

  64. Di Rita F., Fletcher W.J., Aranbarri J., Margaritelli G., Lirer F., Magri D., (2018). Holocene forest dynamics in central and western Mediterranean: periodicity, spatio-temporal patterns and climate influence. Scientific Reports, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-27056-2

  65. Bonomo S., Cascella A., Alberico I., Lirer F., Vallefuoco M., Marsella E., Ferraro L., (2018). Living and thanatocoenosis coccolithophore communities in a neritic area of the central Tyrrhenian Sea. Marine Micropaleontology 142, 67–91.

  66. Cianflone G., Cavuoto G., Punzo M., Dominici R., Sonnino M., Di Fiore V., Pelosi N., Tarallo D., Lirer F., Marsella E., Critelli S., De Rosa R., (2018). Late quaternary stratigraphic setting of the Sibari Plain (southern Italy): Hydrogeological implications, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 97, 422-436. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.07.027.

  67. Margaritelli G., Cisneros M., Cacho I., Capotondi L., Vallefuoco M., Rettori R. and Lirer F., (2018).  Climatic variability over the last 3000 years in the central - western Mediterranean Sea (Menorca Basin) detected by planktonic foraminifera and stable isotope records. Global and Planetary Change, 169, 179-187. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.012

  68. Fabbrini A., Baldassini N., Caricchi Ch., Di Stefano A., Dinarès-Turell J., Foresi L. M., Lirer F., Patricolo S., Sagnotti L., and Winkler A., (2019). Integrated Quantitative Calcareous Plankton Bio-Magnetostratigraphy of the Early Miocene from IODP Leg 342, Hole U1406A, Newfoundland Ridge, NW Atlantic Ocean. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation journal, 27 (2), 259-276. DOI: 10.1134/S0869593819020023

  69. Bini M., Zanchetta G., Perșoiu A., Cartier R., Català A., Cacho I., Dean R. J., Di Rita F., Drysdale R. N., Finnè M., Isola I., Jalali B., Lirer F., Magri D., Masi A., Marks L., Mercuri A. M., Peyron O., Sadori L., Sicre M-A., Welc F., Zielhofer C. and Brisset E., (2019). The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview. Climate of Past, 15, 555–577, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019

  70. Asti R., Faccenna C., Rossetti F., Malusà M. G., Faranda C., Lirer F., Cosentino D., Gliozzi E., (2019). The Gediz supradetachment system (SW Turkey): magmatism, tectonics and sedimentation during crustal extension. Tectonics, 38, 1414-1440, DOI: 10.1029/2018TC005181

  71. Fabbrini A., Baldassini N., Caricchi C., Foresi L.M., Sagnotti L., Dinarès-Turell J., Di Stefano A., Lirer F., Menichetti M., Winkler A. & Di Stefano S., (2019). In search of the Burdigalian GSSP: new evidence from the Contessa Section (Italy). Italian Journal of Geosciences, 138, https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2019.07

  72. Català, A., Cacho, I., Frigola, J., Pena, L. D., and Lirer, F., (2019). Holocene hydrography evolution in the Alboran Sea: a multi-record and multiproxy comparison. Clim. Past, 15, 927–942, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-927-2019

  73. Lirer F., Foresi L.M., Iaccarino S.M., Salvatorini G., Turco E., Cosentino C., Sierro F.J., Caruso A., (2019). Mediterranean Neogene planktonic foraminifer biozonation and biochronology. Earth-Science Review, 196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.05.013

  74. Bonomo S., Ferrante G., Palazzi E., Pelosi N., Lirer F., Viegi G., La Grutta S., (2019). Evidence for a link between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and annual asthma mortality rates in the US. Scientific Reports, 9:11683, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48178-1

  75. Di Fiore V., Punzo M., Pelosi N., Scotto di Vettimo P., Iavarone M., Budillon F., Zeni G., Lirer F., (2019). Electromagnetic field evaluation and EMI on board during a marine geophysical data acquisition (COSMEI). Measurement, 147, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2019.106889

  76. Lirer F., Margaritelli G., Alberico I., Bonomo S., Capotondi L., Cascella A., Di Rita F., Ferraro L., Insinga D.D., Magri D., Pelosi N., Petrosino P., Vallefuoco M., (2019). Climatic variability over the last two millennia in the Mediterranean area: a review from marine paleoarchives. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica del Quaternario, 42, 215-224. DOI 10.4461/ GFDQ. 2019.42.10

  77. Di Rita F., Lirer F., Margaritelli G., Michelangeli F., Magri D., (2019). Climate and human influence on the vegetation of Tyrrhenian Italy during the last 2000 years: new insights from microcharcoal and non-pollen palynomorphs. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica del Quaternario, 42, 203-214. DOI 10.4461/ GFDQ. 2019.42.11

  78. Insinga D.D., Petrosino, P., Alberico I., de Lange, G.J., Lubritto, C., Molisso F, Sacchi M., Sulpizio, R., Wu, J. and Lirer F., (2020). The Late Holocene tephra record of the central Mediterranean Sea: mapping occurrences and new potential isochrons for the 4.4-2.0 ka time interval. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35 (1-2), 213-231,DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3154

  79. Cascella A., Bonomo S., Jalali B., Sicre M.A., Pelosi N., Schmidt S., Lirer F., (2020). Paleoclimate history of the last ~2700 years in the Southern Adriatic Sea: Coccolithophore evidences. The Holocene, 30, 53-64. DOI: 10.1177/0959683619865600

  80. Lupiano V., Calidonna C. R., Avolio E., La Rosa S., Cianflone G., Viscomi A., De Rosa R., Dominici R., Alberico I., Pelosi N., Lirer F., Di Gregorio S., (2020). Final Sediment Outcome from Meteorological Flood Events: A Multi-modelling Approach. In: Sergeyev Y., Kvasov D. (eds) Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms. NUMTA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11973. Springer, Cham, pp 291-306, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-39081-5_26.

  81. Garcia-Solsona E., Pena L. D., Paredes E., Pérez-Asensio J.N., Quirós-Collazos L., Lirer F., Cacho I., (2020). Rare Earth Elements and Nd isotopes as tracers of modern ocean circulation in the central Mediterranean Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102340

  82. Checa H., Margaritelli G., Pena L.D., Frigola J., Cacho I., Rettori R. and Lirer F., (2020). High resolution paleo-environmental changes during the Sapropel 1 in the North Ionian Sea, Central Mediterranean. The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683620941095

  83. Sorgente R., Di Maio A., Pessini F., Ribotti A., Bonomo S., Perilli A., Alberico I., Lirer F., Cascella A., Ferraro L., (2020). Impact of the freshwater inflow from the Volturno river on the coastal circulation. Front. Mar. Sci. - Coastal Ocean Processes, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00293

  84. Lurcock P., Florindo F., Margaritelli G., Vallefuoco M., Di Rita F., Insinga D. D., Petrosino P., Bonomo S., Cascella A., Ferraro L., Magri D., Pelosi N., Cosentino C., Lirer F., (2020). A 4,500-year record of palaeomagnetic secular variation and relative palaeointensity from the Tyrrhenian Sea Geomagnetic Field Variations in past: New data, applications and recent advances. Geological Society of London Special Pubblication, Tema, E., Di Chiara, A. & Herrero-Bervera, E. (Eds) Geomagnetic Field Variations in past: New data, applications and recent advances Geological, 497, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP497-2019-255.

  85. Margaritelli G., Cacho I., Català, A., Barra M., Bellucci L.G., Lubritto C., Rettori R., Lirer F., (2020). Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period. Scientific Reports, 10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67281-2

  86. Margaritelli G., Lirer F., Schroeder K., Alberico I., Dentici M.P., Caruso A., (2020). Globorotalia truncatulinoides in Central -Western Mediterranean Sea during the Little Ice Age. Marine Micropaleontology, 161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.10192

  87. Punzo M., Cianflone G., Cavuoto G., De Rosa R., Dominici R., Gallo P., Lirer F., Pelosi N., Di Fiore V. (2021). Active and passive seismic methods to explore areas of active faulting. The case of Lamezia Terme (Calabria, southern Italy). Journal of Applied Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104316

  88. Bonomo S., Schroeder K., Cascella A., Alberico I., Lirer F., (2021). Living coccolithophore communities in the central Mediterranean Sea (Summer 2016): relations between ecology and oceanography. Marine Micropaleontology, 165, 101995, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.101995 

  89. Trias-Navarro S., Cacho I., de la Fuente M., Pena L. D., Frigola J., Lirer F., and Caruso A., (2021). Surface hydrographic changes at the western flank of the Sicily channel associated with the last sapropel. Global and Planetary Change, 204, 103582, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103582

  90. Baldassini N., Foresi L. M., Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Turco E., Pelosi N., Di Stefano A., (2021). Middle Miocene stepwise climate evolution in the Mediterranean region through high‐resolution stable isotopes and calcareous plankton records. Marine Micropaleontology, 167, 102030, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102030

  91. Cascella A., Bonomo S., Lirer F., Margaritelli G., Checa H., Cacho I., Pena L. D., Frigola J., (2021). The response of calcareous plankton to the Sapropel S1 interval in North Ionian Sea. Global and Planetary Change, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103599

  92. Azibeiro L.A., Sierro F. J., Capotondi L., Lirer F., Andersen N., González-Lanchas A., Alonso-García M., Flores J.A., Cortina A., Grimalt J. O., Martrat B., Cacho I., (2021). Meltwater flux from northern ice-sheets to the Mediterranean during MIS 12. Quaternary Science Reviews, 268, 107108, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107108

  93. Head M.J., Pillans B., Zalasiewicz J.A., Alloway B., Beu A.G., Cohen K.M., Gibbard P.L., Knudsen K.L., van Kolfschoten T., Lirer F., Litt T., Liu J., Marks L., McManus J., Piotrowski J.A., Räsänen M., Rasmussen S.O., Saito Y., Tesakov A., Turner C., Walker M., Cardeña C.Z., (2021). Formal ratification of subseries for the Pleistocene Series of the Quaternary System. Episodes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 241 – 247. DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020084

  94. Russo B., Ferraro L., Correggia C., Alberico I., Foresi L. M., Vallefuoco M., Lirer F., (2022). Deep-water paleoenvironmental changes based on early-middle Miocene benthic foraminifera from Malta Island (central Mediterranean). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 586, 110722, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110722 

  95. Michelangeli F., Di Rita F., Lirer F., Lubritto C., Bellucci L. G., Cascella A., Bonomo S., Margaritelli G., Magri D., (2022). Vegetation history of SE Sicily from feudal land management to post-war agricultural industrialization. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 296, 104547, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104547

  96. Michelangeli F., Di Rita F., Lirer F., Celant A., Tisnerat N., and Magri D., (2022a). Three millennia of vegetation, land-use, and climate change in SE Sicily. Forest, 13, 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13010102

  97. Totaro F., Insinga D. D., Lirer F., Margaritelli G., Català i Caparrós A., de la Fuente M., Petrosino P., (2022). The Late Pleistocene to Holocene tephra record of ND14Q site (southern Adriatic Sea): Traceability and preservation of Neapolitan explosive products in the marine realm. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 423, 107461, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107461

  98. Margaritelli G., Lirer F., Schroeder K., Cloke-Hayes A., Caruso A., Capotondi L., Broggy T., Cacho I., Sierro F. J., (2022). Globorotalia truncatulinoides in the Mediterranean Basin during the Middle–Late Holocene: Bio-Chronological and Oceanographic Indicator. Geosciences, 12, 244. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12060244

  99. Bazzicalupo P., Sicre M.A., Checa H., Maiorano P., Margaritelli G., Klein V., Pena L.D., Cacho I., Frigola J., Bonomo S., Cascella A., Lirer F., (2022). Climate evolution in the Adriatic Sea across the last deglaciation: a multiproxy approach combining biomarkers and calcareous plankton. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111291  

  100. Aubry Marie-Pierre, Miller, K.G., Turco E., Flores J. A., Gladenkov A., Grunert P., Hilgen F., Nishi H., Holbourn A., Krijgsman W., Lirer F., Piller W. E., Quillévéré F., Raffi I., Robinson M., Rook L., Tian J., Triantaphyllou M., and Vallejo F., (2022). Ratification of Neogene subseries as formal units in international chronostratigraphy. Episodes, v. 32, pp. 152–164. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022008

  101. Incarbona A., Bonomo S., Cacho I., Lirer F., Margaritelli G., Pecoraro D., Ziveri P., (2023). Solar Forcing for Nutricline Depth variability inferred by Coccoliths in the Pre-Industrial Northwestern Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change, 224, 104102, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104102

  102. Trias-Navarro S., Pena L.D., de la Fuente M., Paredes E., Garcia-Solsona E., Frigola J., Català A., Caruso A., Lirer F., Haghipour N., Pérez-Asensio J.N. & Cacho I., (2023). Eastern Mediterranean water outflow during the Younger Dryas was twice that of the present day. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, 4:147 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00812-7 | www.nature.com/commsenv

  103. Turco E., Hilgen F.J., Raffi I., Di Stefano A., Foresi L.M., Holbourn A., Iaccarino S.M., Lirer F., (2023). The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Langhian Stage and the Middle Miocene Subseries. Episodes, 1-23, https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2023/023024 

No peer-reviewed publication:

 1. Cascella A. and Lirer F., (1998). Upper Miocene pre-terrigenous deposits of the Queglia Unit (Abruzzo, Central Apennines, Italy): Biostratigraphic data. Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem. Serie A, 105, 137-149. ISSN 0365-7655.

2.  Lirer F. (2002). Integrated Stratigraphy (Cyclostratigraphy and Biochronoloy) of Middle Miocene deposits in the Mediterranean Area and comparison with Atlantic Ocean. P.h.D. Thesis, XIV CICLO, University of Parma, p.1-204

3.  Lirer F., (2003). Integrated Stratigraphy (Cyclostratigraphy and Biochronology) of Middle Miocene deposits in the Mediterranean Area and comparison with Atlantic Ocean. Acta Naturalia “Ateneo Parmense”, vol. 39, pag. 117-121.

4. Lirer F., Caruso A., Foresi L.M., Iaccarino S. & Iacumin P., (2004). Palaeoclimatic changes in the Serravallian record of the Mediterranean area. In Coccioni R., Galeotti S. & Lirer F. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st Italian Meeting on Environmental Micropaleontology. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 9: 77-96. ISBN: 83-912385-5-5 (http://gf.tmsoc.org/publications.html).

5.  Ferraro L. & Lirer F. (2006). Evidence of morphological deformities in benthic foraminifera from Holocene sediments of Sorrento Peninsula (South Tyrrhenian Sea). In Coccioni R. & Marsili A., (Eds.). Proceedings of the 2th and 3st Italian Meeting on Environmental Micropaleontology. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 11: 45-58. ISBN: 83-912385-7-1 (http://gf.tmsoc.org/publications.html).

6.  Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Pelosi N., Ferraro L. (2007). Periodicità sub-millenarie registrate nei sedimenti marini degli ultimi 2000 anni (Tirreno orientale). Special Volume: Clima e Cambiamenti Climatici: le attività di ricerca del CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Ed. (B. Carli et al.) CNR. pag. 209-212.

7.  Verducci, M., Foresi L. M., Scott G. H., Tiepolo M., Sprovieri M. and Lirer F., (2007). East Antarctic Ice Sheet fluctuations during the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition inferred from faunal and biogeochemical data on planktonic foraminifera (Kerguelen Plateau), in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A. K. Cooper and C. R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 037, 5 p.; doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp037.

8.  Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Pelosi N., Ferraro L., (2008). Clues of solar forcing from a 2000 years long sedimentary record of the eastern Tyrrhenian margin. Proceedings of Italian Association of Oceanology and Limnology, Volume 19, part II, pag. 257-272- AIOL del XVII Congresso di Napoli 3-7 luglio 2006.

9.  Antonarakou A., Drinia H., Lirer F., Foresi L.M., Kontakiotis G., (2008). Foraminiferal Assemblages and Paleoclimatic changes in the Langhian record of the Ionian Sea. EMMM’2008 5th International Conference “Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology and Meiobenthology” University of Madras, India, February 17-25, 2008.

10. Incarbona A., Ziveri P., Di Stefano E., Lirer F., Mortyn G, Patti B., Pelosi N., Sprovieri M., Tranchida G., Vallefuoco M., Albertazzi S., Bellucci L. G., Bonanno A., Bonomo S., Censi P., Ferraro L., Giuliani S., Mazzola S., and Sprovieri R., (2010b). Calcareous nannofossil assemblages from the Central Mediterranean Sea over the last four centuries: the impact of the Little Ice Age. Climate of the Past - Journal of the European Geosciences Union- Clim. Past Discuss., 6, 817–866, doi:10.5194/cpd-6-817-2010;

11. Budillon F, Lirer F., Iorio M, Macrì P, Sagnotti L. Vallefuoco M, Ferraro L, Innangi S, Di Martino G, Tonielli R (2011). Deep marine record from Sentinelle Valley (Sardinia Channel): integrated stratigraphy of a key site for Western Mediterranean paleoceanographic and geological reconstruction. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. Volume DTA/06-2011 – Marine Geology, p. 491-508, Roma: CNR, ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

12. Cesarano M, Pappone G, Amato V, Aucelli P, Baranello S, Cascella A, Casciello E, Ferrarini F, Lirer F, Rosskopf C., (2011). Stratigrafia ed assetto geometrico dell'Unità del Sannio nel settore settentrionale dei monti del Matese. Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, Volume, 12, 35-38.

13. Ferraro L, Alberico I, Lirer F., Budillon F, Vallefuoco M (2011). Distribution of Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages on the Southern Campanian Continental Shelf. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. Volume DTA/06-2011 - Marine Geology, p. 645-656, ROMA: Edizioni Servizio Pubblicazioni CNR (Roma), ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

14. Vallefuoco M, Lirer F., Ferraro L, Sprovieri M, Capotondi L, Bellucci L, Albertazzi S, Giuliani S, Angelino A, Iorio M, Iavarone M (2011). Environmental changes and human impact in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea during the last 520 years: evidence from a high-resolution foraminiferal record. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. DTA/06-2011- Marine Geology, p. 797-808, Roma: CNR, ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

15. Cisneros M., Cacho I., Frigola J., Canals M., Masqué P., Martrat B., Lirer F. and Margaritelli G., (2015). Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach. Climate of the Past Discussions, 11(6): 5439-5508, doi:10.5194/cpd-11-5439-2015.

16. Ferraro L., Giordano L., Bonomo S., Cascella A., Di Martino G., Innangi S., Gherardi S., Tamburrino S., Alberico I., Budillon F., Di Fiore V., Punzo M., Tarallo D., Anzalone E., Capodanno M., Cavuoto G, Evangelista L., Ferraro R., Iavarone M., Iengo A., Lirer F., Marsella E., Migliaccio R., Molisso F., Pelosi N., Rumolo P., Scotto di Vettimo P., Tonielli R., Vallefuoco M., (2017). Monitoraggio integrato di un’area marino-costiera: la foce del fiume Volturno (Mar Tirreno centrale). Quaderni di Geofisica, 146: 1-70.

17. Bini M., Zanchetta G., Persoiu A., Cartier R., Català A., Cacho I., Dean J. R., Di Rita F., Drysdale R. N., Finnè M., Isola I., Jalali B., Lirer F., Magri D., Masi A., Marks L., Mercuri A. M., Peyron O., Sadori L., Sicre M.-A., Welc F., Zielhofer C., and Brisset E. (2019). The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2018-147, in review, 2018.

18. Català, A., Cacho, I., Frigola, J., Pena, L. D., and Lirer, F. (2019). Holocene hydrography evolution in the Alboran Sea: a multi-record and multiproxy comparison, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2018-163, in review, 2018.

19. Ribotti Alberto, Bonomo Sergio, Alberico Ines, Lirer Fabrizio, Cascella Antonio, Ferraro Luciana, Sorgente Roberto (2019). I-AMICA coastal hydrological surveys in the eastern Tyrrhenian Sea. SEANOE – Sea scientific open data edition. https://doi.org/10.17882/70324

20. Fabbrini A., Foresi L., Lirer F., Pelosi N., (2020). Preliminary cyclostratigraphic results on planktonic foraminifera from IODP-Hole U1406A. Fossilia, Volume 2020: 15-17. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.2020.0605

Book:

• 1. Iaccarino S., Premoli Silva I., Biolzi M., Foresi L.M., Lirer F., Petrizzo M.R. (2005). Practical manual of Oligocene to Middle Miocene planktonic foraminifera. International School on Planktonic Foraminifera, (Oligocene to Middle Miocene Planktonic Foraminifera) Università di Perugia Press. 1-124.

  2. Iaccarino S., Premoli Silva I., Biolzi M., Foresi L.M., Lirer F., Turco E. (2007). Practical manual of Neogene planktonic foraminifera. International School on Planktonic Foraminifera, (Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera). Università di Perugia Press. 1-180

  3. Bank A., Pavelić D., Mandic O., Kovačić M., Lirer F., (2020). Pleistocene climate change in Central Europe". Chapter in "Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology, and Adaptation" book, ISBN 978-1-83880-358-2. Open Access book, IntechOpen, edited by Ph.D. Rintaro Ono DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.9382

Dissemination Scientific articles:

1. Lirer F., Sprovieri M., Pelosi N., Ferraro L. (2007). Periodicità sub-millenarie registrate nei sedimenti marini degli ultimi 2000 anni (Tirreno orientale). Special Volume: Clima e Cambiamenti Climatici: le attività di ricerca del CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Ed. (B. Carli et al.) CNR. pag. 209-212.

2. Budillon F, Lirer F., Iorio M, Macrì P, Sagnotti L. Vallefuoco M, Ferraro L, Innangi S, Di Martino G, Tonielli R (2011). Deep marine record from Sentinelle Valley (Sardinia Channel): integrated stratigraphy of a key site for Western Mediterranean paleoceanographic and geological reconstruction. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. Volume DTA/06-2011 – Marine Geology, p. 491-508, Roma: CNR, ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

3. Ferraro L, Alberico I, Lirer F., Budillon F, Vallefuoco M (2011). Distribution of Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages on the Southern Campanian Continental Shelf. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. Volume DTA/06-2011 - Marine Geology, p. 645-656, ROMA: Edizioni Servizio Pubblicazioni CNR (Roma), ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

4. Vallefuoco M, Lirer F., Ferraro L, Sprovieri M, Capotondi L, Bellucci L, Albertazzi S, Giuliani S, Angelino A, Iorio M, Iavarone M (2011). Environmental changes and human impact in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea during the last 520 years: evidence from a high-resolution foraminiferal record. In: Enrico Brugnoli, Giuseppe Cavarretta, Salvatore Mazzola, Fabio Trincardi, Mariangela Ravaioli, Rosalia Santoleri. MARINE RESEARCH AT CNR. vol. DTA/06-2011- Marine Geology, p. 797-808, Roma: CNR, ISBN/ISSN: ISSN 2239-5172

5. Lirer F. (2018). Salinità: una caratteristica che ha origini lontane. Almanacco della Scienza del CNR. Mensile a cura dell’Ufficio stampa del CNR. N°6, 6 giugno 2018. ISSN 2037-4801. http://www.almanacco.cnr.it/reader/cw_usr_view_articolo.html?id_articolo=8681&giornale=8646

6. Margaritelli G., Lirer F., Di Rita F., Fara A., (2023). La Piccola Era Glaciale e il suo clima tra mare. terra e arte. Geologicamente, Magazine di Attualità e Cultura delle Geoscience. Periodico della Società Geologica Italiana, n.11, luglio 2023, p. 20-26.