Terrestrial Isopod Communities and Environmental Variables Along an Urban Gradient in Rome

Pietro Gardini's dataset contains plot-level environmental variables and species abundance data for terrestrial isopods. It was collected to investigate urbanisation effects along a gradient from semi-natural to highly urbanised sites in Rome, Italy. The dataset is stored in an XLS file of 115.0 KB and was last updated on 2026-05-05.

Use Cases

• Modeling species abundance based on local edaphic conditions.
• Analyzing community composition changes based on landscape-scale urbanization metrics.
• Investigating microhabitat complexity as a predictor of isopod diversity.

Strengths

• Includes plot-level environmental variables describing edaphic conditions, microhabitat complexity, and landscape-scale urbanization.
• Contains a species-by-plot matrix of terrestrial isopod abundances.
• Data is explicitly collected along a gradient from semi-natural to highly urbanised sites.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (115.0 KB), indicating a limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collected to investigate the effects of urbanisation on terrestrial isopod communities.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 08:52:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rome, Italy