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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.

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Date ( Publication)
2018
Date ( Creation)
2016
Date ( Revision)
2021
Status
Under development / Pre operational
Principal investigator
  University of Bari, Biology Department - Giuseppe Corriero

Creator
  University of Bari, Biology Department - Cataldo Pierri

Creator
  CNR ISE - National Research Council of Italy Institute of Ecosystem Study - Angela Boggero

Creator
  CNR Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Remote Sensing Departement - Paolo Tagliolato

Creator
  CNR ISE - National Research Council of Italy Institute of Ecosystem Study - Paolo Colangelo

Creator
  Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) - Ilaria Rosati

Creator
  LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre - Lucia Vaira

Creator
  CNR Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Remote Sensing Department - Alessandro Oggioni

Principal investigator
  University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy - Alberto Basset

Keywords

alien species

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ecosystem vulnerability

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Virtual Research Environment

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thesaurus

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data analysis

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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.

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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/geonetwork/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)

https://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

Metadata

File identifier
20630581-de64-41d8-ab92-1103f600ae04 XML
Metadata language
en
Hierarchy level
Virtual Research Environment
Metadata Schema Version

1.1

 
 

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