Table 3 Summary table of observed taxa, with genus and species grouping, presented together with number of observations, and suggestions on how to filter species for calculating alpha diversity of underwater vegetation.

From: Finnish inventory data of underwater marine biodiversity

Column

Description

scientificName

The highest level of taxonomic accuracy observed

verbatimIdentification

The species name reported at highest taxonomical precision, and when not available the taxonomic representation as it was originally recorded but with translations.

Genus

Species genus when applicable

Species_URI

Species Uniform Resource Identifier originating from FinBIF

Group

Unique taxonomic units grouped in the following categories; algae, annelida, arthropoda, bacteria, bryophyta, bryozoa, crustacea, fish, hydrozoan, insecta, marchantiophyta, molluscs, nematoda, nematomorpha, nemertea, opistobranchia, platyhelminthes, polychaeta, porifera, priapulida, unclassified, vascular plants.

IncludeForAquaticVegSpeciesRichness

Expert based suggestion on what to include for calculating alpha diversity for aquatic vegetation. As all species are not identified to species level, this indicates if e.g. genus or other levels of taxonomic precision can be included. Taxonomic units to include indicated by x and taxonomic units that should be merged prior to calculation indicated by the new suggested name. However, when calculating maximum number of species for the whole area species level should be considered.

TerrestrialVegetation

Terrestrial vegetation indicated with x.

N

Number of observations for each taxonomic unit

Source

The source of the data; LajiGIS & ÅA or POHJE

Translation

Translations made to verbatimIdentification

  1. The source of the data is also listed.