10.15468/bfmkst c7b00a37-f7e5-469a-b504-3a9d11757fd2 https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=bdelloidea_xanthoria_lichens_speedy_project_flanders_2013 Diego Fontaneto Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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diego.fontaneto@cnr.it http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto 0000-0002-5770-0353 Diego Fontaneto Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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diego.fontaneto@cnr.it http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto 0000-0002-5770-0353 National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA)

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PUBLISHER 2023-06-13 ENGLISH 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. Flanders Belgium Bdelloidea lichen checklist occurrence Rotifera GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/archive.do?r=bdelloidea_xanthoria_lichens_speedy_project_flanders_2013 Flanders, Belgium -4.043 22.236 58.124 46.377 2013-06-01 2013-07-30 Rotifera: Bdelloidea of the genera Adineta, Habrotrocha, Macrotrachela, Mniobia, Philodina, Pleuretra Phylum Rotifera rotifers Class Bdelloidea Genus Adineta Genus Habrotrocha Genus Macrotrachela Genus Mniobia Genus Philodina Genus Pleuretra asNeeded Diego Fontaneto Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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3468473975 diego.fontaneto@cnr.it http://meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/people/researchers/diego-fontaneto 0000-0002-5770-0353 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. 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). Dry lichen thalli between 5 and 10 cm² were cut from the substrate with a knife and kept in paper bags. 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. Diego Fontaneto 0000-0002-5770-0353 AUTHOR This research is part of the “SPatial and environmental determinants of Eco-Evolutionary DYnamics: anthropogenic environments as a model” (SPEEDY) Project. The Project is funded by the Interuniversity Attraction Poles program of the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO (IAP-grant P7/04). <i>Xanthoria</i> lichen patches in Flanders, Belgium. 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). 2026-04-17T06:28:05Z 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 2026-04-17. 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. 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.