ECOPOT_2: Phytoplankton in Flemish waterbodies

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 46 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Gerald Louette, Jeroen Van Wichelen, Jo Packet, Thierry Warmoes, Wim Vyverman, Luc Denys, Stefan Van Damme, Willem Van Colen, Jonas Schoelynck, Koenraad Muylaert, Patrick Meire, Sandra De Smedt, K. Lock, I. Simoens, K. Van Looy, Thierry Warmoes, A Leyssen, Annemie Pals, Herman van Dam (2008), Bepalen van het maximaal en het goed ecologisch potentieel, alsook de huidige toestand voor de zeventien Vlaamse (gewestelijke)waterlischamen die verglijkbaar zijn met de categorie meren.

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

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Samplingevent; phytoplankton

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Lakes, ponds and streams from the Flemish part of Belgium.

Taxonomic Coverage

phytoplankton counts, based on microscopy (eukaryotes and cyanobacteria)

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Bepalen van het maximaal en het goed ecologisch potentieel, alsook de huidige toestand voor de zeventien Vlaamse (gewestelijke)waterlischamen die verglijkbaar zijn met de categorie meren

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Each sampling event, an integrated sample was made based on 16 locations in each water body, where 1l water was taken from the surface (upper 30cm) and filtered over 240µm. If colonial or large algae were present, than one sub sample was not filtered.

Method step description:

1. Each sampling event, an integrated sample was made based on 16 locations in each water body, where 1l water was taken from the surface (upper 30cm) and filtered over 240µm. If colonial or large algae were present, than one sub sample was not filtered.
2. Phytoplankton in 250ml sub sampled were fixed using formaldehyde, with a final concentration of 4%, and samples were kept dark and cool until analysis. Microscopic analysis was executed according to the European CEN-standard (EN 15204, 2006). According to this method, a known volume of the sample was concentrated in a cuvet, after which different phytoplankton taxa were identified along a transect using an inverted microscope (Wild M40). When to much detritus was present, samples were coloured using Bengal red, to enable recognizing cells. For each sample, at least 250 individuals were counted, which was used to calculated to number of individuals per ml. Colonies were counted as one individual.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Gerald Louette, Jeroen Van Wichelen, Jo Packet, Thierry Warmoes, Wim Vyverman, Luc Denys, Stefan Van Damme, Willem Van Colen, Jonas Schoelynck, Koenraad Muylaert, Patrick Meire, Sandra De Smedt, K. Lock, I. Simoens, K. Van Looy, Thierry Warmoes, A Leyssen, Annemie Pals, Herman van Dam (2008), Bepalen van het maximaal en het goed ecologisch potentieel, alsook de huidige toestand voor de zeventien Vlaamse (gewestelijke)waterlischamen die verglijkbaar zijn met de categorie meren.

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