Description
Online datasets on Italian carabids are scarce, and information about the species biology, richness, and abundance often lies in hardcopy papers. This dataset is the first tentative, at least for the Italian fauna, to propose a formal structure for data on carabids acquired by field surveys, and to give open access to these data.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 19 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Pizzolotto R (2021): Carabids in beech forests, Calabria, Italy. v1.2. Dept. Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences - Università della Calabria. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=prova&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Dept. Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences - Università della Calabria. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a14e32aa-6662-4139-b020-8277a7820ee8. Dept. Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences - Università della Calabria publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Occurrence
Contacts
- Principal Investigator
- assistant professor
- Ponte Bucci 4b
- Principal Investigator
- assistant professor
- Ponte Bucci 4b
Geographic Coverage
Beech forests along the "Strada delle Vette", within the Sila plateaux, Calabria, Italy
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [39.272, 16.394], North East [39.333, 16.485] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Carabid beetles, identified to species level
| Species | Coleoptera, Carabidae (carabids) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1998-06-02 / 1998-09-21 |
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| Start Date / End Date | 2007-06-13 / 2007-10-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Carabids of the Sila beech forests |
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The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Ground beetles were collected, from June to September 1998 (sample sites FaV1-4), and from June to October 2007 (sample site MS4), by pitfall traps, to obtain a “year’s sample”, which is the sum of the collections made during the research campaign.
| Study Extent | The study area was in Italy, Calabria, within the Sila plateau, along the road "Strada delle Vette" |
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Method step description:
- The traps were plastic vessels with an upper diameter of 9.2 cm, a depth of 11 cm and a small opening at 4 cm below the border, to avoid rainwater overflowing, filled with 200ml of a conservative mixture made of wine vinegar and 5% formaldehyde.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Carabid Collection of the Dept.B.E.S.T. - Calabria University |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Pinned |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 15,765 +/- 10 specimen |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=prova |
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