Annotated checklist of the beetles of three beech forests in Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni National Park, Southern Italy

The checklist contains 183 species of beetles which belong to 37 families. The species were collected during a field study carried out in the years 2013 and 2016 and aimed at describing the community of beetles. The collection methods consisted of window flight traps and emergence traps. The study area included three beech forest sites, two located in the Natura 2000 site IT8050033 “Monti Alburni” (40.4705 N 15.4317 E; 40.5136 N 15.3292 E), one in the Natura 2000 site IT8050028 “Monte Motola” (40.3761 N 15.4694 E), in the Italian Southern Apennines.

The checklist is annotated with information on the taxonomy of the species (order and family), number of individuals, locality, habitat type (following EUNIS habitat classification 2017), sampling protocol, collector name, specialist name, IUCN Red List categories of the saproxylic species (Carpaneto et al. 2015). 

The terms used for the dataset fields follows the Darwin Core Maintenance Group. 2020. List of Darwin Core terms. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/

Investigations on stand structure and forest biodiversity (Sabbatini et al. 2016) and faunistic analysis (Zanetti and Parisi 2019) have been based on this dataset.

The harmonization of the dataset to the point of view of taxa, authorship, LSID and the massive upgrading of the related identifiers in Zenodo record was performed by the use of R script using respectively dplyr, taxize (Chamberlain and Szöcs, 2013) and zen4r (Blondel and Barde, 2020) packages.

本甲虫物种名录涵盖隶属于37个科的183种甲虫。上述物种采集于2013年与2016年开展的一项野外调查，该调查旨在系统记述研究区域内的甲虫群落。本次调查采用的采样工具为窗式飞行陷阱（window flight traps）与羽化陷阱（emergence traps）。研究区域地处意大利南部亚平宁山脉，共设置3处山毛榉林样地：其中2处位于Natura 2000保护地IT8050033"阿尔布尔尼山脉（Monti Alburni）"（坐标：40.4705°N，15.4317°E；40.5136°N，15.3292°E），剩余1处位于Natura 2000保护地IT8050028"莫托拉山（Monte Motola）"（坐标：40.3761°N，15.4694°E）。

本名录附带丰富的关联信息，包括物种分类学数据（涵盖分类阶元目与科）、个体数量、采集地点、生境类型（遵循2017年欧洲自然信息系统（European Nature Information System, EUNIS）生境分类体系）、采样方案、采集者姓名、鉴定专家姓名，以及蛀木栖物种（saproxylic species）的IUCN红色名录等级（Carpaneto et al. 2015）。

本数据集所使用的字段术语遵循《达尔文核心（Darwin Core）术语列表》（Darwin Core Maintenance Group, 2020. List of Darwin Core terms. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/）。

已有多项学术研究基于本数据集完成，包括林分结构与森林生物多样性调查（Sabbatini et al. 2016）以及甲虫区系分析（Zanetti and Parisi, 2019）。

本数据集在类群规范、作者权管理、生命科学标识符（Life Science Identifiers, LSID）统一协调，以及对Zenodo平台记录中相关标识符的大规模升级工作中，均通过R语言脚本实现，分别调用了dplyr、taxize（Chamberlain and Szöcs, 2013）以及zen4r（Blondel and Barde, 2020）R软件包。