Benthic copepod records in the littoral area of Lake Maggiore
Citation
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://doi.org/10.15468/3w9bw4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-30.Description
This dataset includes information on the benthic copepod assemblages of the littoral zone of Lake Maggiore (Northern-western Italy-Switzerland). Data were collected in the frame of the Interreg Italy-Switzerland 2014-2020 Parchi Verbano Ticino Project (ID: 481668), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).We compiled a dataset listing 234 occurrence records of benthic copepod species recorded in three littoral sampling stations situated in three protected areas, of which two are part of the Natura 2000 network in Italy and one is part of the Emerald Network in Switzerland. We collected the specimens during the summer-autumn period in 2019-2021. We identified copepods down to the species level. We created a dataset with individual georeferenced occurrence records for each of these species, organized in a standardized Darwin Core Archive format.
We made available a total of 13 distinct taxonomic entities and 234 unique georeferenced occurrence records related to the benthic copepod assemblage of the littoral zone of Lake Maggiore. This dataset is relevant in that it concerns the benthic copepods of the littoral zones of a large lake whose water levels are regulated for human uses. The dataset has the potential to assist the authorities in charge of managing Lake Maggiore’s water levels in addressing the ecological risk connected with water management and developing shared implementation strategies for human activities that are sustainable on the lake.
Sampling Description
Study Extent
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: Bolle di Magadino (MA), which is situated in the homonymous Smeraldo protected area in Switzerland, Fondo Toce (FT) and Angera-Sesto Calende (SC), in two sites that are part of Natura 2000 network in Italy. We examined two types of littoral habitats at each station: one that is permanently wet (W) and the other that experiences drought (D) during low lake levels. In each habitat, we collected three spatial replicates along an oblique transectSampling
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).Quality Control
Validation for taxonomic consistency was performed using World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board, 2023).Taxon specialists: Diana Maria Paola Galassi
Quality control for geographic information: Google Maps was used to verify the accuracy of the coordinates. The dataset's geographic coordinate format, locations that fall inside state or provincial borders, and anomalous ASCII characters were examined.
Method steps
- 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.
Taxonomic Coverages
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.
Taxonomic ranks: Data from species, genus, subfamily, family, order, class, subphylum, phylum and kingdom rank were included in the dataset.
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Arthropodacommon name: crustacea rank: phylum
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Copepodarank: subclass
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Harpacticoidarank: order
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Cyclopoidarank: order
Geographic Coverages
Biogeographic region: Alpine (EEA, 2017)<br
Country: Italy, Switzerland
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.
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.
Bibliographic Citations
- 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. -
- 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 -
- Suárez-Morales, E. (2015). Class maxillopoda. In Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates (pp. 709-755). Academic Press. -
- 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
- 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
- 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. -
Contacts
Agostina Tabilio Di Camillooriginator
position: PhD student
National Research Council – Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET)
Via Madonna del Piano 10
Sesto Fiorentino
50019
FI
IT
email: agostina.tabiliodicamillo@iret.cnr.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-8885
Angela Boggero
originator
position: Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
IT
email: angela.boggero@cnr.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7534-3126
Diana Maria Paola Galassi
originator
position: Full Professor
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila
Via Vetoio I
L’Aquila
67100
IT
email: dianamariapaola.galassi@univaq.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-2710
Lyudmila Kamburska
originator
position: Resarcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbania
IT
email: lyudmila.kamburska@irsa.cnr.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5071-6953
Barbara Fiasca
originator
position: University Technician
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila
Via Vetoio I
L’Aquila
67100
L’Aquila
email: barbara.fiasca@univaq.it
Tiziana Di Lorenzo
originator
position: Researcher
National Research Council – Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
Via Madonna del Piano 10
Sesto Fiorentino
50019
FI
IT
email: tiziana.dilorenzo@cnr.it
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Tiziana Di Lorenzo
metadata author
position: Researcher
National Research Council – Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
Via Madonna del Piano 10
Sesto Fiorentino
50019
FI
IT
email: tiziana.dilorenzo@cnr.it
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Lyudmila Kamburska
metadata author
position: Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
Verbania
28922
Verbania
IT
Telephone: 3468473975
email: lyudmila.kamburska@irsa.cnr.it
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Agostina Tabilio Di Camillo
administrative point of contact
position: PhD student
National Research Council – Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET)
Via Madonna del Piano 10
Sesto Fiorentino
50019
FI
IT
email: agostina.tabiliodicamillo@iret.cnr.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-8885
Tiziana Di Lorenzo
administrative point of contact
position: Reseracher
National Research Council – Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET)
Via Madonna del Piano 10
Sesto Fiorentino
50019
FI
IT
email: tiziana.dilorenzo@cnr.it
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3131-7049