Carabids in beech forests, Calabria, Italy

Roberto Pizzolotto1, Roberto Pizzolotto2

1 Dept. Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences - Calabria University, Ponte Bucci 4b, Rende, Italy; 2 Dept. Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences - Calabria University, Ponte Bucci 4b, 87036, Rende, Italy

Corresponding author(s): Roberto Pizzolotto

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Samplingevent, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Carabids of the Sila beech forests
Personnel: Roberto Pizzolotto

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=prova

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Carabid beetles, identified to species level
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Coleoptera, Carabidae
Common names: carabids

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Beech forests along the "Strada delle Vette", within the Sila plateaux, Calabria, Italy
Coordinates: 39°16'19.2''N and 39°19'58.8''N Latitude; 16°23'38.4''E and 16°29'6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 2, 1998 - September 21, 1998

Temporal coverage: June 13, 2007 - October 31, 2007

Natural collections description

Collection name: Carabid Collection of the Dept.B.E.S.T. -  Calabria University
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol
Specimen preservation method: Pinned
Curatorial unit: 15765 with an uncertainty of 10 (specimen)

Methods

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.
Study extent description: The study area was in Italy, Calabria, within the Sila plateau, along the road "Strada delle Vette"
Sampling description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Carabids in beech forests, Calabria, Italy
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=prova
Publication date of data: 2021-11-21
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-11-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset