Lake District meiofauna Workshop records

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Abstract

The present dataset refers to all the records of meiofauna collected from the English Lake District (UK) and identified during the First freshwater meiofauna workshop from 27th August to 11th September 2025, organised by the National History Museum of London. The data were structured based on the Darwin Core standard (Wieczorek et al., 2012). The dataset includes 299 occurrence records of 209 distinct taxa of meiofauna belonging to 46 families, 24 orders and 8 major taxonomic groups. More, two new species (Tardigrades) were found in the Lake District , a region of exceptional ecological and biogeographical interest. This dataset is integral part of the paper "Freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna of the Lake District, UK" by Majdi et al., submitted to Biogeographia.

Authors 34

1. Nabil Majdi

   Université de Toulouse

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   University of Toulouse

2. Will Dawson

   Fera Science (United Kingdom) · Newcastle University

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   Newcastle University; Fera Science Ltd, Biotech Campus, York

3. Isobel Evans

   Loughborough University

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   Loughborough University

4. Louise Thurston

   Loughborough University

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   Loughborough University

5. Matylda Gajda

   Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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   Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

6. Andrea Lenti

   University of Bologna

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   University of Bologna, Italy

7. H. Smit Aachen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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   Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netheralnds

8. Diego Fontaneto

   Water Research Institute · National Research Council

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   National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)

9. Lyudmila Kamburska

   Water Research Institute · National Research Council

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   National Research Council of Italy- Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)

10. Wiktoria Dmuchowska

    Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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    Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

11. Walter Traunspurger

    Bielefeld University

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    Bielefeld University, Animal Ecology, Germany

12. Christer Erséus

    University of Gothenburg

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    Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

13. Matthew Shepherd

    Natural England

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    Natural England, Sterling House, UK

14. Alexander Kieneke

    Senckenberg am Meer

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    German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer

15. André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni

    Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

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    Laboratório de Evolução de Organismos Meiofaunais, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, State University of Campinas, Campinas

16. Witold Morek

    Wellcome Sanger Institute

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    Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge

17. Ewan M. Shilland

    Natural History Museum

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    The Natural History Museum, London

18. Erik Tihelka

    University of Cambridge

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    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

19. Vojtěch Brož

    Charles University

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    Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University

20. Jarosław Brodecki

    University of Łódź

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    Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz

21. Giovane Murilo de Assis Vedovatti

    Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

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    Laboratório de Evolução de Organismos Meiofaunais, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, State University of Campinas

22. Clay Grant Bibby

    University of Alabama in Huntsville

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    The University of Alabama in Huntsville

23. Katarzyna Tratkiewicz

    University of Warsaw

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    Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw

24. H. King

    University of Oxford

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    Department of Biology, University of Oxford

25. Dylan Keene

    Natural History Museum

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    The Natural History Museum, London

26. David Mark Wilkinson

    University of Lincoln

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    University of Lincoln

27. Rony Huys

    Natural History Museum

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    The Natural History Museum

28. David Horne

    Natural History Museum

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    The Natural History Museum

29. Hannah Budroe

    University of Georgia

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    University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Marine Sciences

30. Gill Notman

    University of Cumbria

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    University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, Ambleside, UK

31. Genoveva F. Esteban

    Bournemouth University

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    Bournemouth University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

32. Kay Van Damme

    Mendel University in Brno

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    Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University

33. Srishti Arya

    Queen Mary University of London

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    School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London

34. Christopher Laumer

    Natural History Museum

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    The Natural History Museum, London