Annotated checklist of the beetles of three beech forests in Gran Sasso National Park, Central Italy

The checklist contains 163 species of beetles which belong to 36 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 3 beech forest sites, named Prati di Tivo (42.5096 N, 13.5679 E), Venacquaro (42.4988 N, 13.5139 E) and Incodara (42.5123 N, 13.4735 E) located in the Italian Central Apennines. The sites are included in the Natura 2000 site IT7110202 “Gran Sasso”.

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 (Sabatini 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.

本名录共收录隶属于36个科的163种甲虫。这些物种采集自2013年与2016年开展的一项旨在调查甲虫群落的野外研究，采样方法采用窗口飞行诱捕器（window flight traps）与羽化诱捕器（emergence traps）。研究区域位于意大利亚平宁山脉中部，包含3处山毛榉林样地，分别为普拉蒂-迪蒂沃（Prati di Tivo，42.5096 N, 13.5679 E）、韦纳夸罗（Venacquaro，42.4988 N, 13.5139 E）以及因科达拉（Incodara，42.5123 N, 13.4735 E）。上述样地均隶属于Natura 2000保护地IT7110202“格兰萨索（Gran Sasso）”。

本名录附带物种分类学信息（包括目与科）、个体数量、采集地点、生境类型（遵循2017版欧洲自然信息系统（EUNIS）生境分类标准）、采样方案、采集者姓名、专家姓名，以及腐木栖性物种（saproxylic species）的国际自然保护联盟（IUCN）红色名录等级（Carpaneto等，2015）。

本数据集字段所使用的术语遵循《达尔文核心（Darwin Core）术语列表》（达尔文核心维护组，2020，生物多样性信息标准（TDWG），https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/）。

基于本数据集已开展林分结构与森林生物多样性调查（Sabatini等，2016）以及动物区系分析（Zanetti与Parisi，2019）。

本数据集在类群、作者署名、生命科学标识符（LSID）方面的标准化工作，以及Zenodo记录中相关标识符的大规模更新，均通过R脚本完成，所使用的R包分别为dplyr、taxize（Chamberlain与Szöcs，2013）以及zen4r（Blondel与Barde，2020）。