TY - JOUR
T1 - Occurrence data on beetles (Coleoptera) collected in Dutch coastal dunes between 1953 and 1960
AU - Gerrits, G. M.
AU - Hemerik, L.
N1 - Data archiving: no NIOO data
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Background Historical field data in ecology are exceedingly rare and, therefore, their preservation and publication is of high importance, especially as these data can function as a point of reference for present day biodiversity research. Therefore, we digitised a 65-year-old dataset on ground-dwelling beetles caught with pitfall traps in the coastal dune area "Meijendel", situated in the western part of the Netherlands. New information The data presented in this paper has never been published in a systematic way before and has had a long journey from moment of capture to the current digitisation. From 1953 through to 1960, 100 pitfalls were active and catches were collected once a week. A total of 36,400 samples were aggregated with approximately 90,000 occurrences recorded. All captures were identified up to species level and counted and sex determined where possible. The database has been registered in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and can be found under: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/9d02b439-aa5c-4c22-b1d9-d27fbde9e3ee.
AB - Background Historical field data in ecology are exceedingly rare and, therefore, their preservation and publication is of high importance, especially as these data can function as a point of reference for present day biodiversity research. Therefore, we digitised a 65-year-old dataset on ground-dwelling beetles caught with pitfall traps in the coastal dune area "Meijendel", situated in the western part of the Netherlands. New information The data presented in this paper has never been published in a systematic way before and has had a long journey from moment of capture to the current digitisation. From 1953 through to 1960, 100 pitfalls were active and catches were collected once a week. A total of 36,400 samples were aggregated with approximately 90,000 occurrences recorded. All captures were identified up to species level and counted and sex determined where possible. The database has been registered in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and can be found under: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/9d02b439-aa5c-4c22-b1d9-d27fbde9e3ee.
KW - Carabids
KW - Gbif
KW - Ground-dwelling beetles
KW - Historical field data
KW - Meijendel
KW - Meijendel research project
KW - Pitfalls
UR - https://doi.org/10.15468/adsbxs
U2 - 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90103
DO - 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141776296
SN - 1314-2828
VL - 10
JO - Biodiversity Data Journal
JF - Biodiversity Data Journal
M1 - e90103
ER -