Complesso Forestale La Selva - Fondazione Ethoikos Fauna Occurrence Data

Occurrence
Latest version published by Fondazione Ethoikos on Dec 5, 2025 Fondazione Ethoikos
Publication date:
December 5, 2025
Published by:
Fondazione Ethoikos
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 7,684 records in English (634 KB) - Update frequency: monthly
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Description

Public records of fauna specimens and observations from La Selva forest, a sub-mediterranean environment near Siena, central Italy, curated by Fondazione Ethoikos, Radicondoli. The specimen collection is housed at the Corbaiola Field Station. New fauna specimens are continuously added to the collection. The majority of specimens consist of prepared insect specimens.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 7,684 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
7684
Multimedia 
1544

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fondazione Ethoikos (2025). Complesso Forestale La Selva - Fondazione Ethoikos Fauna Occurrence Data. Version 1.42. Fondazione Ethoikos. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=ethoikos_fauna_occurrence_records&v=1.42

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Fondazione Ethoikos. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a78dc9a5-f4d2-4e12-bf03-4ca2f1c071ee.  Fondazione Ethoikos publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Radicondoli; Biodiversity; Siena; Toscana; Checklist; Fauna

Contacts

Fondazione Ethoikos
  • Convento dell’Osservanza
53030 Radicondoli (SI)
Toscana
IT
Nicholas Moray Williams
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Fondazione Ethoikos
  • Convento dell’Osservanza
53030 Radicondoli (SI)
Toscana
IT
Roberto Cozzolino
  • Point Of Contact
  • President and Research director
Fondazione Ethoikos
  • Convento dell’Osservanza
53030 Radicondoli (SI)
Toscana
IT

Geographic Coverage

This dataset contains data on fauna occurrences within La Selva forest in the Province of Siena and the municipalities Radicondoli, Casole d’ Elsa, Chiusdino and Sovicille

Bounding Coordinates South West [43.204, 11.047], North East [43.308, 11.166]

Taxonomic Coverage

All published specimens have been identified to order or more precise taxonomic level.

Class Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Chilopoda, Arachnida, Insecta, Actinopterygii, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2009-05-28 / 2025-12-03

Collection Data

Collection Name Fauna collection
Collection Identifier https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/05c62714-bd5e-41f9-9fd3-6f0d6cba8a17
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable
Specimen preservation methods Pinned,  Alcohol,  Deep frozen,  Dried

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Purpose
Maintenance Description The dataset will be updated at least every thee months.
Alternative Identifiers a78dc9a5-f4d2-4e12-bf03-4ca2f1c071ee
https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=ethoikos_fauna_occurrence_records