MEMORIES OF PROFESSOR ARISTEO RENZONI

Here were reported Memories of Professor Aristeo Renzoni, University of Siena. Among the first Professors of Ecology in Italy and internationally recognized scientist. In almost 60 years of research he published over 250 scientific papers. The main ecological and environmental topics of his research were the histology of reproductive structures of bivalves, the histology of the pineal gland in birds, the accumulation of mercury in large pelagic predators of Mediterranean Sea, the contamination of organochlorine compounds in bird eggs, the lead shot pollution from hunters activities in wetlands.