Cheli Germán H, Flores Gustavo E, Román Nicolás Martínez, Podestá Darío, Mazzanti Renato, Miyashiro Lidia
CENPAT-CONICET, Bvd. Brown 2915, U9120ACF, Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA, CCT-CONICET Mendoza), Casilla de correo 507, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina.
Zookeys. 2013 Dec 18(364):93-108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.364.4761.
The Natural Protected Area Peninsula Valdés, located in Northeastern Patagonia, is one of the largest conservation units of arid lands in Argentina. Although this area has been in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1999, it has been continually exposed to sheep grazing and cattle farming for more than a century which have had a negative impact on the local environment. Our aim is to describe the first dataset of tenebrionid beetle species living in Peninsula Valdés and their relationship to sheep grazing. The dataset contains 118 records on 11 species and 198 adult individuals collected. Beetles were collected using pitfall traps in the two major environmental units of Peninsula Valdés, taking into account grazing intensities over a three year time frame from 2005-2007. The Data quality was enhanced following the best practices suggested in the literature during the digitalization and geo-referencing processes. Moreover, identification of specimens and current accurate spelling of scientific names were reviewed. Finally, post-validation processes using DarwinTest software were applied. Specimens have been deposited at Entomological Collection of the Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT-CONICET). The dataset is part of the database of this collection and has been published on the internet through GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) (http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14669/). Furthermore, it is the first dataset for tenebrionid beetles of arid Patagonia available in GBIF database, and it is the first one based on a previously designed and standardized sampling to assess the interaction between these beetles and grazing in the area. The main purposes of this dataset are to ensure accessibility to data associated with Tenebrionidae specimens from Peninsula Valdés (Chubut, Argentina), also to contribute to GBIF with primary data about Patagonian tenebrionids and finally, to promote the Entomological Collection of Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT-CONICET) and its associated biodiversity data. For these reasons, we believe that this information will certainly be useful for future faunistic, ecological, conservational and biogeographical studies.
瓦尔德斯半岛自然保护区位于巴塔哥尼亚东北部，是阿根廷最大的干旱土地保护单位之一。尽管该地区自1999年起就被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录，但一个多世纪以来，它一直持续遭受绵羊放牧和养牛业的影响，这对当地环境产生了负面影响。我们的目标是描述生活在瓦尔德斯半岛的拟步甲科甲虫物种的首个数据集，以及它们与绵羊放牧的关系。该数据集包含11个物种的118条记录和198个采集到的成虫个体。在2005年至2007年的三年时间框架内，考虑到放牧强度，在瓦尔德斯半岛的两个主要环境单元中使用陷阱诱捕法收集甲虫。在数字化和地理参考过程中，按照文献中建议的最佳做法提高了数据质量。此外，还对标本的鉴定和科学名称的当前准确拼写进行了审核。最后，应用了使用达尔文测试软件的后验证过程。标本已存放在国家巴塔哥尼亚中心（CENPAT-CONICET）的昆虫学收藏中。该数据集是该收藏数据库的一部分，并已通过GBIF综合出版工具包（IPT）在互联网上发布（http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14669/）。此外，它是GBIF数据库中首个可获取的巴塔哥尼亚干旱地区拟步甲科甲虫数据集，也是首个基于先前设计的标准化采样来评估这些甲虫与该地区放牧之间相互作用的数据集。该数据集的主要目的是确保能够获取与来自瓦尔德斯半岛（阿根廷丘布特省）的拟步甲科标本相关的数据，同时为GBIF提供有关巴塔哥尼亚拟步甲科的原始数据，最后推广国家巴塔哥尼亚中心（CENPAT-CONICET）的昆虫学收藏及其相关的生物多样性数据。出于这些原因，我们相信这些信息对于未来的动物区系、生态、保护和生物地理学研究肯定会有用。
