fd44a346-4b1b-4ba7-ad3b-6376b5658b50 1.0 Italian Taxonomic Backbone 2025-01-20 The Italian Taxonomic Backbone gathers nomenclatural and distributional data on Italian biodiversity from published checklists of Italian taxonomists encompassing native and alien vascular plants and lichens, as well as information on terrestrial, freshwater, and marine of the Italian metazoa. Ilaria Rosati National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) ilaria.rosati@cnr.it Lucia Vaira LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre lucia.vaira@lifewatch.eu Martina Pulieri University of Salento martina.pulieri@unisalento.it Mariantonietta La Marra University of Salento mariantonietta.lamarra@unisalento.it Davide Raho National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) davide.raho@cnr.it Stefano Martellos University of Trieste martelst@units.it Marco Oliverio Sapienza University of Rome marco.oliverio@uniroma1.it Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna alessandro.chiarucci@unibo.it Ilaria Rosati National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) ilaria.rosati@cnr.it Ilaria Rosati National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) ilaria.rosati@cnr.it Lucia Vaira LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre lucia.vaira@lifewatch.eu https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/fd44a346-4b1b-4ba7-ad3b-6376b5658b50/attachments/IT_taxo_backbone.png IT_taxo_backbone.png biodiversity checklist flora fauna lichens data management taxonomy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://taxonomicbackbone.lifewatchitaly.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the service Navigation and search https://taxonomicbackbone.lifewatchitaly.eu/taxa/search Navigation and search of species and associated information within the Italian Taxonomic Backbone. Add new taxon Request to add a new taxon observed in Italy. Download Download of selected taxonomic records. Request Request to modify information on taxonomic records. data classification data validation data curation The development of the Italian Taxonomic Backbone has been funded by the project LIFEWATCHPLUS PIR01_00028 (CUP: B67E19000030007) in the framework of PNIR Research and Innovation 2014-2020 under the action “Enhancement of Research Infrastructures”. https://helpdesk.lifewatchitaly.eu/