Pizzolotto Roberto
Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy Università della Calabria Rende (CS) Italy.
Biodivers Data J. 2024 Aug 14;12:e127417. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e127417. eCollection 2024.
Carabid beetles are one of the several taxa useful as model organisms to study and monitor current ecosystems features, as well as environmental changes caused by global changes. Open data about these organisms are scarcely available. To fill this gap, a data table (Darwin Core formatted) was uploaded in GBIF database (https://doi.org/10.15468/rzmp6n). The dataset is the result of a pitfall trapping survey of carabid beetles living along an altitudinal bioclimatic gradient, in the Dolomites mountains within the protected area of the Regional Park "Paneveggio e Pale di S. Martino" (Trento, Italy). Investigated environments ranged from spruce forests to the extreme environments of high altitude, so to collect a dataset as complete as possible on carabid beetles harboured in this area.
The dataset included here is part of an initiative aimed at promoting the adoption of a formal structure for datasets on carabid beetles acquired by field surveys and to give open access to these data. This dataset gives the opportunity to test the effects of global change affecting the same area, within long-term surveys on carabid beetles. Furthermore, the availability of open data is intended to promote an ethical approach to ecological research under a social and scientific point of view, the first because it will avoid wasting public funds on repeating the same researches and the second because it will avoid recapturing new organisms in the same (or similar) environments by other researchers.
步甲是几种可用作模式生物的分类群之一，用于研究和监测当前生态系统特征以及全球变化引起的环境变化。关于这些生物的开放数据很少。为了填补这一空白，一个数据表（达尔文核心格式）被上传到全球生物多样性信息网络数据库（https://doi.org/10.15468/rzmp6n）。该数据集是对生活在“帕内韦ggio和圣马尔蒂诺山”地区公园（意大利特伦托）保护区内多洛米蒂山脉沿海拔生物气候梯度的步甲进行陷阱诱捕调查的结果。调查的环境范围从云杉林到高海拔的极端环境，以便收集该地区步甲尽可能完整的数据集。
这里包含的数据集是一项倡议的一部分，该倡议旨在推动对通过实地调查获得的步甲数据集采用正式结构，并开放获取这些数据。该数据集为在步甲长期调查中测试影响同一地区的全球变化的影响提供了机会。此外，开放数据的可用性旨在从社会和科学角度促进生态研究的道德方法，首先是因为它将避免在重复相同研究上浪费公共资金，其次是因为它将避免其他研究人员在相同（或相似）环境中重新捕获新生物。
