Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles
We present six datasets of saproxylic beetles collected between 2012 and 2018 in Central and Southern Italian forests. Saproxylics represent one of the main components in forest ecosystems in terms of diversity, species richness and functional traits and, for this reason, they are an important targe...
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| description | We present six datasets of saproxylic beetles collected between 2012 and 2018 in Central and Southern Italian forests. Saproxylics represent one of the main components in forest ecosystems in terms of diversity, species richness and functional traits and, for this reason, they are an important target group for studying the modification of forests over time. The datasets consist of annotated checklists and were published on Zenodo repository.Overall, 1,171 records are published, corresponding to 918 taxa (taxonomy at species or subspecies level). The taxa are scarcely shared amongst the areas, 80.2% of them are exclusive, indicating that the beetle communities are substantially different. In consideration of the biodiversity crisis we are passing through, which is especially dramatic for the insects, we want to promotecollaboration amongst researchers for making datasets available in open repositories. This will improve the possibility for researchers and forest managers of analysing the state of species distribution that could serve for long-term studies on the variation of insect communities. We encourage repeating species assessment in the same localities in order to evaluate the trends in insect communities over time and space. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f381978e7a442469b77f4d0f85c56ad2022-12-21T23:36:03ZengPensoft PublishersBiodiversity Data Journal1314-28282021-11-01911210.3897/BDJ.9.e7274172741Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetlesAlessandro Campanaro0Francesco Parisi1Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Council for Agricultural Research and EconomicsGeoLAB - Laboratory of Forest Geomatics, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Università degli Studi di FirenzeWe present six datasets of saproxylic beetles collected between 2012 and 2018 in Central and Southern Italian forests. Saproxylics represent one of the main components in forest ecosystems in terms of diversity, species richness and functional traits and, for this reason, they are an important target group for studying the modification of forests over time. The datasets consist of annotated checklists and were published on Zenodo repository.Overall, 1,171 records are published, corresponding to 918 taxa (taxonomy at species or subspecies level). The taxa are scarcely shared amongst the areas, 80.2% of them are exclusive, indicating that the beetle communities are substantially different. In consideration of the biodiversity crisis we are passing through, which is especially dramatic for the insects, we want to promotecollaboration amongst researchers for making datasets available in open repositories. This will improve the possibility for researchers and forest managers of analysing the state of species distribution that could serve for long-term studies on the variation of insect communities. We encourage repeating species assessment in the same localities in order to evaluate the trends in insect communities over time and space.https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/72741/download/pdf/biodiversity crisisdatasetsforest ecosystems |
| spellingShingle | Alessandro Campanaro Francesco Parisi Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles Biodiversity Data Journal biodiversity crisis datasets forest ecosystems |
| title | Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles |
| title_full | Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles |
| title_fullStr | Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles |
| title_short | Open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline: let’s start from saproxylic beetles |
| title_sort | open datasets wanted for tracking the insect decline let s start from saproxylic beetles |
| topic | biodiversity crisis datasets forest ecosystems |
| url | https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/72741/download/pdf/ |
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