Records of testate amoebae in São Miguel island (Azores archipelago)

Description

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 499 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Souto M, Gonçalves V, Pontevedra-Pombal X, Raposeiro P (2021): Records of testate amoebae in São Miguel island (Azores archipelago). v1.10. Universidade dos Açores. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=tecamebas&v=1.10

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Universidade dos Açores. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 13c79ceb-0ceb-424f-b000-7991d7c49834.  Universidade dos Açores publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Testate amoebae; Azores; oceanic islands; new records; Testate amoebae; Azores; oceanic islands; new records

Contacts

Martin Souto

• Metadata Provider ●
• Author ●
• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Investigator

CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recurso Genéticos – Polo dos Açores, InBio, Laboratório Associado / Universidade dos Açores

Campus de Ponta Delgada Rua da Mãe de Deus, s/n Complexo Científico

9500-321 Ponta Delgada Ponta Delgada

São Miguel

PT

martin.s.souto@uac.pt

http://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-3090

Vitor Gonçalves

• Metadata Provider ●
• Author ●
• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Professor

CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recurso Genéticos – Polo dos Açores, InBio, Laboratório Associado / Universidade dos Açores

Campus de Ponta Delgada Rua da Mãe de Deus, s/n Complexo Científico

9500-321 Ponta Delgada Ponta Delgada

São Miguel

PT

vitor.mc.goncalves@uac.pt

http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5737-296X

Xabier Pontevedra-Pombal

• Metadata Provider ●
• Author ●
• Originator

Professor

Dpto. Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Fac. Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Santiago

PT

Pedro Raposeiro

• Metadata Provider ●
• Author ●
• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Investigator

CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recurso Genéticos – Polo dos Açores, InBio, Laboratório Associado / Universidade dos Açores

Rua da Mãe de Deus, s/n Complexo Científico

9500-321 Ponta Delgada Ponta Delgada

São Miguel

PT

http://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7461-0851

Geographic Coverage

São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago) is an oceanic island located in the middle of the North Atlantic about 1500 km off Portugal mainland.

Taxonomic Coverage

Testate amoebae

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Collections were undertaken, and occurrence data recorded during 2020 in São Miguel Island. The collectors were Martin Souto, Vitor Gonçalves and Pedro Miguel Raposeiro. Identification was done by Martin Souto and Xabier Pontevedra-Pombal. Production and analysis of scanning electron microscopy images was done by Xabier Pontevedra-Pombal.

The personnel involved in the project:

Martin Souto

• Author

http://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-3090

Sampling Methods

Testate amoebae were collected by washing 10 X 10 cm of a wet mass of plant material. The soil was dominated by silt sized particules derived from pyroclastics, because of this, they tried to collect only the vegetable part, the top layer of mosses.

Method step description:

1. To isolate the testate amoebae shells, the mosses were fragmented, washed and stirred in one l of distilled water and then sieved through a 300 μm mesh size to separate large moss particles. The samples were condensed by the sedimentation method and the samples stored in vials with alcohol 50% at 4°C. A small sample from each site of study were stored as reference collection. A drop of each sample was mounted on a semi-permanent slide and all tecamebas were counted and identified at ×200 and ×400 magnification. Microphotographs were taken by a Leica DFC495 camera attached to a Leica DM2500 light microscope with the aid of image analysis software (Leica Application Suite version 3.8.0). The systematics of the taxa are given in accordance with Ogden & Hedley (1980). Accepted names and authorities for vascular plants and bryophytes were checked in http://www.theplantlist.org. (June 2020). The taxa are listed in alphabetical order and major taxonomic groups, together with their brief descriptions, habitats, localities, collection dates, and accession numbers.

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