Rotifera: Bdelloidea from Xanthoria lichens of the SPEEDY project in Flanders, Belgium

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Description

We present here a database on the bdelloid rotifers (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) collected within the SPEEDY Project in lichen patches of the genus <i>Xanthoria</i> 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.

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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://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=bdelloidea_xanthoria_lichens_speedy_project_flanders_2013&v=1.6

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Keywords

lichen; checklist; occurrence; Flanders; Belgium; Rotifera; Bdelloidea

Contacts

Diego Fontaneto
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
28922 Verbania
Verbania
IT
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA)
  • Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50
28922 Verbania Pallanza
VCO
IT

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [46.377, -4.043], North East [58.124, 22.236]

Taxonomic Coverage

Rotifera: Bdelloidea of the genera Adineta, Habrotrocha, Macrotrachela, Mniobia, Philodina, Pleuretra

Phylum Rotifera (rotifers)
Class Bdelloidea
Genus Adineta, Habrotrocha, Macrotrachela, Mniobia, Philodina, Pleuretra

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2013-06-01 / 2013-07-30

Project Data

This research is part of the “SPatial and environmental determinants of Eco-Evolutionary DYnamics: anthropogenic environments as a model” (SPEEDY) Project.

Title Rotifera Bdelloidea from Xanthoria lichens of the SPEEDY project in Flanders, Belgium
Funding The Project is funded by the Interuniversity Attraction Poles program of the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO (IAP-grant P7/04).
Study Area Description Xanthoria lichen patches in Flanders, Belgium.
Design Description We selected 27 plots (i.e. squares of 3 km × 3 km), among which nine located in low urbanised areas, nine plots in areas with intermediate urbanisation, and nine in high urbanised areas. Within each plot, we then selected the subplots of 200 m x 200 m, one subplot for each urbanization category (i.e. low, intermediate and high).

The personnel involved in the project:

Diego Fontaneto
  • Author

Sampling Methods

Dry lichen thalli between 5 and 10 cm² were cut from the substrate with a knife and kept in paper bags.

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).
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 step description:

  1. 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.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. 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
  2. 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

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