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Metadatabase view - dataset: ECN lakes and river macroinvertebrates

General information

dataset entry ID:
BF_W_17-LR-NCA
name of the dataset:
full name of the dataset:
ECN lakes and river macroinvertebrates
type of dataset (more information):
species distribution data
data type:
point data/observation data
keywords according to GCMD:
topic:
Biosphere, Terrestrial Hydrosphere
ISO topic category according to ISO 19115:
Biota, Inland Waters
INSPIRE keywords according to GEMET:
own science keywords:
Macroinvertebrates, lakes, rivers

Technical and administrative specifications

data format:
Access
operating system:
Win 2000
data language:
English
current access level:
internal
currently available through GBIF:
no
exchange planned:
no
Do you plan to publish the data on the Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal:
contact details:
metadata contact person:
technical contact person:
scientific contact person:
first, last name:
Iwan
 
Jones
email:
iwaj@ceh.ac.uk
comments:
[Metadata were harvested from the WISER metadatabase (http://www.wiser.eu/results/meta-database/details.php?id1=17&id2=75) by the BioFresh team.]

Intellectual property rights and citation

dataset creator (data compiler):
data contributors to/owners of this dataset:
single
criteria for using this dataset:
other/additional criteria (please specify)
other/additional criteria:
Data provider must be offered co-authorship for publications using this dataset. Data must be publicly acknowledged and cited correctly.
citation of this dataset:
title and journal (name, number, pages):
http://www.wiser.eu - Water Bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery (Version **).
year:
year of access
version (if applicable):
version number from website
citation of the metadata:

dataset related references:
reference 1:
author(s):
Schmidt-Kloiber, A., S. J. Moe, B. Dudley, J. Strackbein & R. Vogl
title:
The WISER metadatabase: the key to more than 100 ecological datasets from European rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Hydrobiologia.
year:
2012
doi:
10.1007/s10750-012-1295-6
reference 2:
author(s):
Moe, S. J., A. Schmidt-Kloiber, B. J. Dudley & D. Hering
title:
The WISER way of organising ecological data from European rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters. Hydrobiologia.
year:
2012
doi:
10.1007/s10750-012-1337-0

General data specifications

regional coverage of the dataset:
spatial extent of the dataset:
national
continents:
Europe
spatial extent (bounding coordinates):
southernmost latitude [°]:
51.362632
northernmost latitude [°]:
55.417695
westernmost longitude [°]:
-10.526855
easternmost longitude [°]:
-5.376953
        
minimum altitude:
-3
 
metres
maximum altitude:
1038
 
metres
countries:
Europe: Ireland, United Kingdom
European ecoregions according to Illies (WFD):
Ireland and Northern Ireland (ER17)
ecosystem type:
rivers, lakes/ponds
covered timeframe:
year from
1994
 
year to:
2012

Site specifications

coordinate system/grid data:
 
number of sites:
<100
exact number of sites:
12

Biological data

biological data origin:
from sampling
specify project:
ECN
specify method:
organism group addressed:
macro-invertebrates

Sample resolution

macro-invertebrates

taxonomic resolution:
species
percentage of species level data:
100
taxonomic coding:
coding system:
Furse
sample specifications:

Other specifications

quality control procedures:
Querytime: 1.13595 sec