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ClimCKmap, a spatially, temporally and climatically explicit distribution database for the Italian fauna.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and counteracting biodiversity losses requires quantitative knowledge on species distribution and abundance across space and time, as well as integrated and interoperable information on climate conditions and climatic changes. In this paper we developed a new biodiversity-climate database for Italy, ClimCKmap, based on the critical analysis, quality estimation and subsequent integration of the CKmap database with several high-resolution climate datasets. The original database was quality-checked for errors in toponym, species name and dating; the retained records were georeferenced and their distribution polygonised via Voronoi tessellation. We then integrated the species distribution information with several high-resolution climatic datasets: average monthly minimum and maximum temperature and total monthly precipitation were reconstructed for each Voronoi cell and year. The resulting database contains 268,977 occurrence records from 8,445 binomials and 16,332 localities, dating between 1680 and 2006 CE. This dataset, fully available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7906739.v4 and http://hdl.handle.net/21.11125/a91f85cb-befd-4e14-8e83-24f17c4a0491 , represents the largest, fully quality-checked, spatially, temporally and climatically explicit distribution database ever assembled for the Italian fauna, now ready for scientific exploitation.

SUBMITTER: Marta S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783616 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ClimCKmap, a spatially, temporally and climatically explicit distribution database for the Italian fauna.

Marta Silvio S Brunetti Michele M Ficetola Gentile Francesco GF Stoch Fabio F Amori Giovanni G Cesaroni Donatella D Sbordoni Valerio V Provenzale Antonello A

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Understanding and counteracting biodiversity losses requires quantitative knowledge on species distribution and abundance across space and time, as well as integrated and interoperable information on climate conditions and climatic changes. In this paper we developed a new biodiversity-climate database for Italy, ClimCKmap, based on the critical analysis, quality estimation and subsequent integration of the CKmap database with several high-resolution climate datasets. The original database was q ...[more]

PMID: 31594943

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