Benthic copepod records in the littoral area of Lake Maggiore

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 234 records.

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Tabilio Di Camillo A, Boggero A, Galassi D M P, Kamburska L, Fiasca B, Di Lorenzo T (2023). Benthic copepod records in the littoral area of Lake Maggiore. Version 1.7. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=benthic_copepods&v=1.7

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. 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: 78e81992-16c2-4644-9820-4b0dbe19f2a2.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; crustacea; meiofauna; meiobenthic; harpacticoida; cyclopoida; GBIF

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Biogeographic region: Alpine (EEA, 2017)
Locality: Lake Maggiore
Geographical subdivisions: Lombardy and Piedmont regions (Italy); Canton Tessin (Switzerland).
Bounding box: latitude 45.722039 - 46.179841, longitude 8.481792 - 8.860820.

Taxonomic Coverage

The data set represents the two dominant orders of freshwater copepods, Harpacticoida and Cyclopoida, of the meiobethic metazoan assemblages of the littoral of Lake Maggiore.
Taxonomic ranks: Data from species, genus, subfamily, family, order, class, subphylum, phylum and kingdom rank were included in the dataset.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The Project is a part of the 2019-2023 INTERREG Italy-Switzerland Cooperation Program Parks Verbano Ticino Project, which aimed to address stakeholders’ demand for water from Lake Maggiore (Italy-Switzerland). Following the Darwin Core standard, we created a dataset with the geo-referenced distribution sites of the benthic copepod species in three sand beaches of Lake Maggiore.
The dataset was compiled at CNR-IRSA with the collaboration of CNR-IRET. It includes occurrence records and abundance data of species of Copepoda Harpacticoida and Copepoda Cyclopoida of the littoral zone of Lake Maggiore that were collected from three sampling stations

Sampling Methods

Samples were collected in six summer months, between 2019 and 2021, during the periods of low water level (September 2019 and August 2020), medium (August 2019 and September 2020) and high water level (July 2020 and 2021). Therefore, the dataset is built up as six georeferenced sites (MA:W, MA:D, FT:W, FT:D, SC:W, SC:D), with three special replicates each. 234 records of the occurrence of 13 copepod species are included in the dataset. Copepod sampling was done using the techniques described in Cifoni et al. (2021). We disturbed, by foot, a 625 cm^2 submerged littoral area for 30 seconds. To gather the displaced copepod individuals, we trailed a hand net with a mesh of 60 µm over the disturbed area (Cifoni et al., 2022; Boggero et al., 2022). After being collected, the semi-quantitative samples were stored in bottles with a 70% ethanol solution (Suarez-Moralez, 2015) until they were sorted in the laboratory. We standardized the samples in the laboratory by sorting the sediments and selecting 150 meiobenthic individuals with a glass pipette under a stereomicroscope at 16× magnification according to Cifoni et al. (2022).

Method step description:

1. The datasetincludes 22 columns with each row containing a record of a harpacticoid o cyclopoid species with taxonomy information in accordance with the Darwin Core Standard (Wieczorek et al., 2012). It is accessible via Internet Publishing Toolkit (IPT) of the GBIF node “Europe and Central Asia” (https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/). The 22 columns show the event ID number, the occurrence ID, the basis of record, the event date, the scientific name of the species, taxon rank. There are 9 columns that refer to kingdom, phylum, subphylum, class, orders, families, subfamilies, genera and species. Further columns show geographic coordinates, unit of measure and reference system, country code, locality, organism count referred to a standardized samples of 150 meiofaunal individuals (see Sampling design paragraph), and organism quantity type. A combination of SamplingSite: Habitat: ReplicateNumber makes up the "eventID". The "occurrenceID" is made up of Publisher Name: Habitat: ReplicateNumber: Species; SamplingSite.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Wieczorek, J., Bloom, D., Guralnick, R., Blum, S., Döring, M., Giovanni, R., ... & Vieglais, D. (2012). Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard. PloS one, 7(1), e29715.
2. WoRMS Editorial Board (2023). World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed 2023-02-14. doi:10.14284/170
3. Suárez-Morales, E. (2015). Class maxillopoda. In Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates (pp. 709-755). Academic Press.
4. Cifoni M, Boggero A, Rogora M, Ciampittiello M, Martínez A, Galassi DMP, Fisca B, Di Lorenzo T, 2022. Effects of human-induced water level fluctuations on copepod assemblages of the littoral zone of Lake Maggiore. Hydrobiologia 849:3545–3564. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04960-3
5. Boggero A, Kamburska L, Zaupa S, Ciampittiello M, Paganelli D, Cifoni M, Rogora M, Di Lorenzo T, 2022. Sampling and laboratory protocols to study the effects of water-level management on the littoral invertebrate fauna in deep and large temperate lakes. Journal of Limnology 81(s2):2073. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2073
6. Cifoni M, Boggero A, Galassi DMP, Di Lorenzo T, 2021. An overview of studies on meiofaunal traits of the littoral zone of lakes. Water 13(4):473.

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