LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Alien and Invasive Species Virtual Research Environment
The LifeWatch Italy national node has realised the Alien and Invasive Species Virtual Research Environment (Alien Species VRE) for supporting researchers to address basic and applied studies on ecosystem vulnerability to alien species arrival.
The Alien Species VRE allows to:
- access and download harmonised data on the national distribution of species of fauna and flora belonging to different habitats (marine, fresh and transitional waters, and terrestrial) published through the LifeWatch Italy Data Portal and distributed by the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue;
- upload their own datasets structured according to the LifeWatch Italy Data Schema in order to execute the service included in the VRE.
Default
Identification
- Date ( Publication )
- 2018
- Date ( Creation )
- 2016
- Date ( Revision )
- 2021
- Status
- Under development / Pre operational
- Version
- 1.1
- Keywords
- alien species
- Keywords
- ecosystem vulnerability
- Keywords
- Virtual Research Environment
- Keywords
- thesaurus
- Keywords
- data analysis
- Access constraints
- License
- Use limitation
- Metadata records are freely available under a Public Domain (CC0 1.0) License; while the VRE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Other constraints
- LifeWatch Italy 2021
- Service Name
- Ecosystem vulnerability to invasive and alien species
- Service Description
-
This service provides a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allow researchers to run a workflow wrapped into R code for:
- the reshaping of the input dataset in order to obtain alien species and native specie richness for each family at the habitat and site level;
- the selection of the best fitting model;
- the plot of the rarefaction curves on the reshaped dataset.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7e81c2d5-8ead-48c1-9e2b-d4306ecb43b9
- Service Name
- Alien Species Thesaurus
- Service Description
- The Alien Species Thesaurus is an initiative to deal with the semantics about alien and invasive species. It has been developed and published by LifeWatch Italy and it is based on already existing glossaries created within the framework of international initiatives aimed at the study of alien and invasive species. The Thesaurus currently consists of about 160 terms.
- Service Reference (id)
- http://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/ontologies/ALIENSPECIES
- Publications about this VRE
- Boggero, A., Pierri, C., Alber, R. et al. (2016) A geographic distribution data set of biodiversity in Italian freshwaters. Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography 31: 55–72. DOI:10.21426/B631132737.
- Publications about this VRE
- Corriero, G., Pierri, C., Accoroni, S. et al. (2016) Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: A case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26, 392-409. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2550.
- Publications about this VRE
- Boggero, A., Basset, A., Austoni, M. et al. (2014) Weak effects of habitat type on susceptibility to invasive freshwater species: an Italian case study. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 24, 841-852. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2450.
- Publications about this VRE
- Colangelo, P., Fontaneto, D., Marchetto, A., Ludovisi, A., Basset, A., Bartolozzi, L., ... & Boggero, A. (2017). Alien species in Italian freshwater ecosystems: a macroecological assessment of invasion drivers.
- Publications about this VRE
- I. Rosati et al. (2017). LifeWatch Italy Thesauri Documentation, Version 1.0. Roma, CNR Pubblicazioni 2017, pp.18, ISBN 978-88-8080-249-5 (online).
- VRE Helpdesk
- https://helpdesk.lifewatchitaly.eu
