Testate Amoebae (Amphitremida, Arcellinida, Euglyphida) in <i>Sphagnum</i> Bogs: The Dataset from Eastern Fennoscandia

Abstract

The paper describes a dataset, comprising 236 surface moss samples and 143 testate amoeba taxa. The samples were collected in 11 Sphagnum-dominated bogs during frost-free seasons of 2004, 2007, 2009, 2017, and 2022. For the whole dataset, the sampling effort was sufficient in terms of observed species richness (143 species in total), though a regional species pool is deemed to be discovered incompletely (143 species is its lower 95 % confidence limit using Chao’s estimator). The local community composition demonstrated high heterogeneity in a reduced ordination space. It supports the opinion that the high versatility of bog ecosystems should be taken into account during ecological studies.

Keywords

• testate amoebae
• species richness
• <i>Sphagnum</i> bogs
• community structure
• community variation
• community differentiation