Overall records: 6,560
doi: https://doi.org/10.15468/wngz4x
Record Count: 3,319
Dataset Type: Occurrence
Dataset subtype: Specimen
Description: The collection of Tardigrada by Giuseppe Ramazzotti, preserved at the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (CNR-IRSA) in Verbania, Italy, is composed of numerous slides and microscopic preparations of tardigrades, including animals and their eggs. It is a historical collection that includes samples taken over a period of years from 1938 to 1964 in Europe, Africa, North and South America by one of the Italian taxonomists working on the phylum Tardigrada. The dataset of the Ramazzotti collection is composed of 3319 records, prepared within the Project ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System) dedicated to build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures in the environmental scientific domain. The purpose of creating this dataset is to protect the information through the digitalization of the samples, and to facilitate sharing the information on the animals collected by Ramazzotti and stored at CNR-IRSA, Verbania. For this reason, each record in the database is associated with a photograph of the microscopic slide. The data have been organized into a standardized Darwin Core Archive format, so that they can be harmonized and be available globally, through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility infrastructure (GBIF).
Keywords: Tardigrada, Darwin Core, GBIF, Occurrence, Specimen
Parent Collection: CNR-IRSA-IRSAV
Parent Institution: CNR-IRSA-VB
Publisher: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
doi: https://doi.org/10.15468/mzhrqh
Record Count: 2,641
Dataset Type: Occurrence
Dataset subtype: n/a
Description: A data set including information on macroinvertebrates identified to genus/species group/species level was created within the monitoring activities of several European and national projects. The data set includes 2111 macroinvertebrate records on temporal fragmentary data from lakes Paione (upper, middle, and lower lakes Paione), and 530 records on spatial data relative to eight other high-altitude lakes from the Ossola Valley (North-western Italy, Piedmont, Central Alps). The study area is included within the Lake Maggiore watershed. All records are georeferenced because, since the beginning of the studies, temporal data were taken in the same sampling sites over years. The temporal data span over the period 1989-2020, the spatial data refer to the 2019-2020 sampling activity. The dataset is available for download as csv format at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) data infrastructure.
Keywords: Aquatic habitat, Zoobenthos, Occurence, Mountain area, Geographic distribution, Long-term data
Parent Collection: CNR-IRSA-IRSAV
Parent Institution: CNR-IRSA-VB
Publisher: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
doi: https://doi.org/10.15468/sh5kzm
Record Count: 600
Dataset Type: Occurrence
Dataset subtype: n/a
Description: The data set was developed at CNR-IRSA during the activity of the Project Interreg Italy-Switzerland project Parchi Verbano Ticino funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, ID: 481668). Data are organised in a systematic and coherent way according to Darwin Core Standards. Occurrence records of chironomids (Insecta, Arthropoda, Diptera, Chironomidae) and Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata) in Lake Maggiore were collected along the shores at depths comprised between 50 and 120 cm at three sampling sites located in protected areas: two sites in Italy and one in Switzerland. The lake belongs to the national (LTER-Italy), European (LTER-Europe) and International (ILTER) long-term ecological research (LTER) networks. All 600 occurrence records are georeferenced. The data set presents a total of 373 records of Chironomids larvae and 227 of Oligochaetes sampled in summer-autumn period during 2019-2021. The dataset includes 336 records at species level, 184 at genus level, 73 records at subfamily level. The data set includes 23 columns with each row contains a record of a chironomid or oligochaete taxon with taxonomy information according to the Darwin Core Standard (Wieczorek et al., 2012), a sampling date, location (site, habitat, locality, number of a replicate) and abundance of each taxon. We believe the strong potential of open access occurrence records in a standardised Darwin Core Archive format in biogeography studies and ecological research in the context of global environmental changes is indisputable.
Keywords: Darwin Core, GBIF, Chironomids, Oligochaetes, Occurrence, Subalpine Lake Maggiore, INTERREG Project
Parent Collection: CNR-IRSA-IRSAV
Parent Institution: CNR-IRSA-VB
Publisher: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
