LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Incidence of alien species in Italian habitats and ecosystems
This R code is used for data integration, data cleaning and data analyses of biodiversity datasets with native and alien species records. The analyses include the integration of five datasets with georeferenced records in different ecosystems (marine, transitional, freshwater and terrestrial). After data integration, the script runs a data cleaning process including a taxonomic check and a check of the species's alien status. The analytical part of the script includes the calculation and visualisation of species abundance and an assessment of the incidence of alien species across different EUNIS habitats and ecosystems.
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Identification
- Date ( Creation )
- 2024-05-01
- Date ( Publication )
- 2024-06-01
- Status
- On going / operational
- Version
- 1.0
- Keywords
- biodiversity
- Keywords
- alien species
- Keywords
- EUNIS habitat
- Keywords
- terrestrial ecosystem
- Keywords
- marine ecosystem
- Keywords
- freshwater ecosystem
- Keywords
- transitional ecosystem
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use limitation
- Metadata records are freely available under a Public Domain (CC0 1.0) License; while the service is free for use, including sharing and adaptation, by all individuals provided that the owners are acknowledged in any use or publication and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- OnLine resource
- Alien_species_incidence_in_Italy
- Operation name
- Dataset_Biodiversity_Freshwaters_LifeWatch_2015.csv
- Description
- Biodiversity dataset of Italian freshwater ecosystems (lakes, rivers, and artificial sites) spanning 1951-2013, including 6715 occurrence records for 1884 species, with taxa ranging from prokaryotes to vertebrates and plants.
- Function
- Input
- Operation name
- Dataset_Biodiversity_Terrestrial_Habitats_LifeWatch_2015.csv
- Description
- Biodiversity dataset of Italian terrestrial ecosystems, including 3386 occurrence records of both native and alien species across Italy.
- Function
- Input
- Operation name
- Dataset_Biodiversity_Terrestrial_Plants_and_Fungi_LifeWatch_2015.csv
- Description
- Biodiversity dataset of Italian terrestrial plants and fungi, with gt;6000 occurrence records across 28 sites and 7 EUNIS habitats, covering both native and alien species.
- Function
- Input
- Operation name
- Dataset_Biodiversity_Marine_Lifewatch_2015.csv
- Description
- Biodiversity dataset of Italian marine ecosystems, with gt;12.200 occurrence records from 91 sites across 7 EUNIS habitats, covering both native and alien species.
- Function
- Input
- Operation name
- Dataset_Biodiversity_TransitionalWaters_LifeWatch_2015.csv
- Description
- Biodiversity dataset of Italian transitional waters, with gt;3.800 occurrence records from 23 sites across 4 EUNIS habitats, covering 9 species groups and both native and alien species.
- Function
- Input
- Operation name
- Incidence of alien species in Italian habitats and ecosystems - Service Output
- Function
- Output
- Topic Category
- Species distribution
- Service Category
- data integration
- Service Category
- data cleaning
- Service Category
- data analysis
- Service Category
- data curation
- Service Language
- eng
- Service TRL
- TRL 2 – Technology concept formulated
- Service Helpdesk
- https://helpdesk.lifewatchitaly.eu
