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      A dataset on trophic modes of aquatic protists

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          Background

          An important functional trait of organisms is their trophic mode. It determines their position within food webs, as well as their function within an ecosystem. For the better part of the 20 th century, aquatic protist communities were thought to consist mainly of producers (phytoplankton) and consumers (protozooplankton). Phytoplankton cover their energy requirements through photosynthesis (phototrophy), while protozooplankton graze on prey and organic particles (phagotrophy). However, over the past decades, it was shown that another trophic group (mixoplankton) comprise a notable part of aquatic protist communities. Mixoplankton employ a third trophic mode by combining phototrophy and phagotrophy (mixotrophy). Due to the historical dichotomy, it is not straightforward to gain adequate and correct information on the trophic mode of aquatic protists. Long hours of literature research or expert knowledge are needed to correctly assign trophic modes. Additionally, aquatic protists also have a long history of undergoing taxonomic changes which make it difficult to compare past and present literature. While WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species, keeps track of the taxonomic changes and assigns each species a unique AphiaID that can be linked to its various historic and present taxonomic hierarchy, there is currently no machine-readable database to query aquatic protists for their trophic modes.

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          This paper describes a dataset that was submitted to WoRMS and links aquatic protist taxa, with a focus on marine taxa, to their AphiaID and their trophic mode. The bulk of the data used for this dataset stems from (routine) monitoring stations in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The data were augmented and checked against state-of-the-art knowledge on mixoplankton taxa by consulting literature and experts. Thus, this dataset provides a first attempt to make the trophic mode of aquatic protists easily accessible in both a human- and machine-readable format.

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                Journal
                Biodivers Data J
                Biodivers Data J
                1
                urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:F9B2E808-C883-5F47-B276-6D62129E4FF4
                urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:245B00E9-BFE5-4B4F-B76E-15C30BA74C02
                Biodiversity Data Journal
                Pensoft Publishers
                1314-2836
                1314-2828
                2020
                23 October 2020
                : 8
                : e56648
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Deltares, Delft, Netherlands Deltares Delft Netherlands
                [2 ] Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles Belgium
                [3 ] Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven Germany
                [4 ] Sorbonne University, CNRS, Roscoff, France Sorbonne University, CNRS Roscoff France
                [5 ] School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University Cardiff United Kingdom
                [6 ] Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark
                [7 ] Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, Germany Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity Oldenburg Germany
                [8 ] CNRS, Roscoff, France CNRS Roscoff France
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Lisa K. Schneider ( lisa.schneider@ 123456deltares.nl ).

                Academic editor: Anne Thessen

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0245-0561
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8208-6789
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9505-1673
                Article
                56648 12271
                10.3897/BDJ.8.e56648
                7599203
                33177947
                ce80319b-c110-4099-b41e-ae5143780c8d
                Lisa K. Schneider, Konstantinos Anestis, Joost Mansour, Anna A. Anschütz, Nathalie Gypens, Per J Hansen, Uwe John, Kerstin Klemm, Jon Lapeya Martin, Nikola Medic, Fabrice Not, Willem Stolte

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 20 July 2020
                : 08 September 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 4, Tables: 0, References: 36
                Funding
                This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 766327.
                Categories
                Data Paper (Biosciences)
                Bacteria
                Protozoa
                Plantae
                Chromista
                Data analysis & Modelling
                Aquatic biology
                World
                Europe

                aquatic protists,phytoplankton,protozooplankton,mixoplankton,trophic mode,functional traits,functional biodiversity

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