ef70dcaa-8bd5-432f-8532-aa38fd60f621 Flavio Monti National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher flavio.monti@cnr.it 0000-0001-8835-1021 Jessica Titocci National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Research Technologist jessica.titocci@cnr.it 0000-0001-9157-1578 Teodoro Semeraro National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher teodoro.semeraro@cnr.it 0000-0001-9239-9060 Lorenzo Liberatore National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Research Technologist lorenzo.liberatore@cnr.it 0000-0002-0409-2286 Alberto Basset University of Salento Full professor alberto.basset@unisalento.it 0000-0002-3603-9316 Flavio Monti National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher flavio.monti@cnr.it 0000-0001-8835-1021 Jessica Titocci National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Research Technologist jessica.titocci@cnr.it 0000-0001-9157-1578 Ilaria Rosati National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Technologist ilaria.rosati@cnr.it 0000-0003-3422-7230 Custodian Steward Cristina Di Muri National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Technologist cristina.dimuri@cnr.it 0000-0003-4072-0662 Information Manager 2026-01-28 English This dataset includes species-level records from literature sources or gathered from online repositories/websites on home range, body mass, and longevity for vertebrate species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes from around the world. It also contains associated categorical information on taxonomic group, realm, thermoregulatory system, locomotion mode, and primary food type. biodiversity vertebrates Environmental Thesaurus Behavioural trait Life-history trait Traits Thesaurus cc-by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Global -180 180 90 -90 Class Aves V2 Class Mammalia 6224G Class Squamata 45C Class Elasmobranchii LB Class Holocephali CK Class Crocodylia 329 Class Testudines 477 http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#keyword http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21673 http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#keyword http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20623 http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#keyword https://kos.lifewatch.eu/thesauri/traits/c_cc244e43 http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#keyword https://kos.lifewatch.eu/thesauri/traits/c_07e68778 The dataset is intended for testing and executing workflows within the "Biomass VRE" platform, developed as part of the ITINERIS project. Flavio Monti National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher flavio.monti@cnr.it 0000-0001-8835-1021 For data on home range estimates and body mass we relied on three different available published resources: 1) Tamburello, Natascia; Côté, Isabelle M.; Dulvy, Nicholas K. (2015). Data from: Energy and the scaling of animal space use [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q5j65; 2) Pinsky, M., McCauley, D. (2019) Home range and body size data compiled from the literature for marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2019-01-31. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.752795.1 ; 3) Udyawer, Vinay (2022). Scaling of activity space in marine organisms across latitudinal gradients [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdmx. As these datasets contained a different number of species, sometimes expressed even at the genus or subspecies level, a long process of filtering, checking and cleaning the datasets was carried out. Before being assembled, for each of these original datasets, we carried out a taxonomic identification via the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility - https://www.gbif.org/) “species name matching” validation tool, in order to avoid some misspelled names and unaccepted synonyms. Species names were thus corrected, as per the most recent internationally accepted nomenclature. We then proceeded by combining data from these different datasets to provide a unified version in a single dataset. Data for individual species were averaged across datasets to obtain single home range (expressed in m2) and body size (expressed in g) values for each species. The resulting dataset was thus composed by 1164 records at species level, spanning fish (n = 191, including Elasmobranchs), reptiles (n = 136), mammals (n = 642) and birds (n = 195), from around the globe. We ammended to this dataset, data on longevity/lifespan as the maximum recorded age at species level, by relying on the AnAge dataset: a database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits (De Magalhaes and Costa, 2009), as well as from other available resources such as: ADW Animal Diversity Web: (https://animaldiversity.org/), World Species: (https://worldspecies.org/) and FishBase: (https://www.fishbase.se/). After this step, we proceeded by adding, for each species, the following four behavioural and life-history traits: realm (aquatic vs terrestrial), thermoregulation system (endotherm vs ecthoterm), locomotion type (crawling, flying, walking, swimming), primary diet (carnivore vs herbivore). For the latter category, omnivores have been included as carnivores or herbivores, based on their prevalent diet, following trophic classification databases or published literature. In addition to that, we included for each species the conservation status according to the IUCN Red List Categories (i.e. NE: Not Evaluated; DD: Data Deficient; LC: Least Concern; NT: Near Threatened; VU: Vulnerable; EN: Endangered; CR: Critically Endangered), as per the most recent available version on the IUCN website. A taxonomic check via the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility - https://www.gbif.org/) “species name matching” validation tool, was employed to avoid some misspelled names and unaccepted synonyms. Flavio Monti National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher flavio.monti@cnr.it 0000-0001-8835-1021 Content Provider Jessica Titocci National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Research Technologist jessica.titocci@cnr.it 0000-0001-9157-1578 Information Manager Teodoro Semeraro National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Researcher teodoro.semeraro@cnr.it 0000-0001-9239-9060 Information Manager Lorenzo Liberatore National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) Research Technologist lorenzo.liberatore@cnr.it 0000-0002-0409-2286 Information Manager Alberto Basset University of Salento Full professor alberto.basset@unisalento.it 0000-0002-3603-9316 Principal Investigator Most critical issues currently faced by our society involve key environmental challenges. Pollution, land use and climate change, and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem integrity need to be urgently addressed, providing quantitative knowledge to be transformed into actionable strategies. Given the complexity of such challenges, a multi-disciplinary approach to the Earth System is deemed crucial. This approach involves combining field and laboratory measurements, analyses, experiments, data analysis, and modeling tools across the various interlinked environmental domains. Italy is actively involved in all major pan-European Environmental Research Infrastructures (RIs) and also hosts other nationally relevant RIs, all essential for providing the systematic and coherent information needed for high-level research. Given the large number and heterogeneity of these infrastructures, coordinated actions are essential to integrate and interlink them, as well as to harmonize their activities. To achieve an integrated approach to the Earth system and its changes, the 22 participating RIs agreed to jointly prepare and build the thematic network called ITINERIS. The primary objective of ITINERIS is to establish the italian integrated system of the Research Infrastructures in the environmental scientific domain, facilitating observation and study of processes in the atmosphere, marine domain, terrestrial biosphere, and geosphere. Such a broad-scale and long-term vision of environmental research, sustained by the main Italian scientists currently involved in European RIs, is truly innovative and it will support Italy in taking a leading role in European environmental research activities, designing the framework for the next decades. 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