Rotifera: Bdelloidea from Xanthoria lichens of the SPEEDY project in Flanders, Belgium
Citation
Fontaneto D (2023). Rotifera: Bdelloidea from Xanthoria lichens of the SPEEDY project in Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.6. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/bfmkst accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-03.Description
We present here a database on the bdelloid rotifers (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) collected within the SPEEDY Project in lichen patches of the genus Xanthoria in Flanders, Belgium. We sampled 81 stations, collected 79 lichens and found bdelloids in 75 of them. The survey yielded a total of 4936 individuals from 21 species, of which two identified only at genus level.Sampling Description
Study Extent
The selection of plots was designed to be homogeneous across Flanders. The selection of subplots within a plot was random within the constraints imposed by the availability of targeted habitats (e.g. lichen patches), accessibility, and the permission to sample. This sampling design resulted in a total of up to 81 sampling sites (i.e. nine plots × three landscape-scale urbanization levels × three local-scale urbanization levels).Sampling
Dry lichen thalli between 5 and 10 cm² were cut from the substrate with a knife and kept in paper bags.Quality Control
Taxonomic identification was performed by the same person, Diego Fontaneto, in a short period of one month. Taxonomic identification was always performed comparing original descriptions and more recent reviews on the taxonomic group. Georeferenced data were checked by plotting coordinates on a map.Method steps
- Each sample was kept dry after collection and stored for two months before being examined. For each lichen sample, an area of 2.5 cm2 was then hydrated with distilled water in a plastic petri dish. The bdelloid rotifers that were active within four hours after rehydration were picked from the dishes using micropipettes, whole mounted alive and identified to species level using a compound microscope. Animals belonging to undescribed species were assigned to genera.
Taxonomic Coverages
Rotifera: Bdelloidea of the genera Adineta, Habrotrocha, Macrotrachela, Mniobia, Philodina, Pleuretra
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Rotiferacommon name: rotifers rank: phylum
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Bdelloidearank: class
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Adinetarank: genus
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Habrotrocharank: genus
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Macrotrachelarank: genus
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Mniobiarank: genus
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Philodinarank: genus
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Pleuretrarank: genus
Geographic Coverages
Flanders, Belgium
Bibliographic Citations
- Merckx, T., Souffreau, C., Kaiser, A., Baardsen, L. F., Backeljau, T., Bonte, D., ... & Van Dyck, H. (2018). Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities. Nature, 558(7708), 113-116. - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0140-0
- Piano, E., Souffreau, C., Merckx, T., Baardsen, L. F., Backeljau, T., Bonte, D., ... & Hendrickx, F. (2020). Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales. Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1196-1211. - https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14934
Contacts
Diego Fontanetooriginator
position: Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbania
IT
email: diego.fontaneto@cnr.it
homepage: http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5770-0353
Diego Fontaneto
metadata author
position: Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbania
IT
email: diego.fontaneto@cnr.it
homepage: http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5770-0353
publisher
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50
Verbania Pallanza
28922
VCO
IT
Diego Fontaneto
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbania
IT
Telephone: 3468473975
email: diego.fontaneto@cnr.it
homepage: http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5770-0353