A georeferenced dataset for occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera in Africa
Accepted: 23 February 2023
Supplementary File 1: 153
Supplementary File 2: 116
African rotifer records: 309
HTML: 25
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
Authors
We report a dataset of all known and published occurrence records of animals of the phylum Rotifera, including Bdelloidea, Monogononta, and Seisonacea (with the exclusion of Acanthocephala) for Africa and surrounding islands and archipelagos. The dataset includes 24,704 records of 914 taxa (subspecies: 38; species: 783; genus: 76; family: 17), gathered from 610 published papers. The published literature spans from 1854 to 2022, with the highest number of records in the decades 1990-1999 and 2010-2019. The African countries with the highest number of taxa are Nigeria, Algeria, South Africa, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, whereas no records are yet available for a dozen countries. The number of species known from each country can be explained mostly by sampling efforts, measured as the number of papers published for each country up to now. The dataset is available through the Open Science Framework (OSF) and in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Supporting Agencies
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, Ripon College, TX, USA, Slovak Scientific Grant Agency, National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma, Spain
How to Cite
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Similar Articles
- Cleber C. Figueredo, Ricardo M. Pinto-Coelho, Ana Maria M.B. Lopes, Pedro H.O. Lima, Björn Gücker, Alessandra Giani, From intermittent to persistent cyanobacterial blooms: identifying the main drivers in an urban tropical reservoir , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 75 No. 3 (2016)
- Sujeephon Athibai, Hendrik Segers, La-orsri Sanoamuang, Diversity and distribution of Brachionidae (Rotifera) in Thailand, with a key to the species , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 72 No. s2 (2013): Freshwater Invertebrates of Southeast Asia
- Nadjla Chaib, Zineb Bouhala, Lilia Fouzari, Laura Marziali, Boudjéma Samraoui, Bruno Rossaro, Environmental factors affecting the distribution of Chironomid larvae of the Seybouse wadi, North-Eastern Algeria , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 72 No. 2 (2013)
- Robin J. Smith, Dayou Zhai, Suktonthip Savatenalinton, Takahiro Kamiya, Na Yu, A review of rice field ostracods (Crustacea) with a checklist of species , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 77 No. 1 (2018)
- Csaba Vadadi-Fülöp, Levente Hufnagel, Climate change and plankton phenology in freshwater: current trends and future commitments , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 73 No. 1 (2014)
- Maria Anton-Pardo, Xavier Armengol, Raquel Ortells, Zooplankton biodiversity and community structure vary along spatiotemporal environmental gradients in restored peridunal ponds , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 75 No. 1 (2016)
- Leticia Miguel-Chinchilla, Dani Boix, Stephanie Gascón, Francisco A. Comín, Macroinvertebrate biodiversity patterns during primary succession in manmade ponds in north-eastern Spain , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 73 No. 3 (2014)
- Rocco Tiberti, Sabino Metta, Martina Austoni, Cristiana Callieri, Morabito Giuseppe, Marchetto Aldo, Michela Rogora, Gabriele A. Tartari, Jost Von Hardenberg, Antonello Provenzale, Ecological dynamics of two remote alpine lakes during ice-free season , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 72 No. 3 (2013)
- Kathleen R. Laird, Biplob Das, Brittany Hesjedal, Peter R. Leavitt, Graham R. Mushet, Kenneth A. Scott, Gavin L. Simpson, Bjorn Wissel, Jared Wolfe, Brian F. Cumming, Paleolimnological assessment of nutrient enrichment on diatom assemblages in a priori defined nitrogen- and phosphorus-limited lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 76 No. 3 (2017)
- Maximiliano D. Garcia, Nicolás Bonel, Environmental modulation of the plankton community composition and size-structure along the eutrophic intertidal coast of the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina , Journal of Limnology: Vol. 73 No. 3 (2014)
<< < 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 > >>
You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.
-
Lyudmila Kamburska, Diego Fontaneto, Michela Rogora, Dmitry SchigelJournal of Limnology : 2023