Data Descriptor: A European Multi Lake Survey dataset of environmental variables, phytoplankton pigments and cyanotoxins

• Authors: MANTZOUKI Evanthia; CAMPBELL James; VAN LOON Emiel; VISSER Petra; KONSTANTINOU Iosif; ANTONIOU Maria; GIULIANI Gregory; MACHADO-VIEIRA Danielle; DE OLIVEIRA Alinne Gurjao; MARONIC Dubravka Spoljaric; STEVIC Filip; PFEIFFER Tanja Zuna; VUCELIC Itana Bokan; ZUTINIC Petar; UDOVIC Marija Gligora; PLENKOVIC-MORAJ Andelka; TSIARTA Nikoletta; BLÁHA Luděk; GERIŠ Rodan; FRÁNKOVÁ Markéta; CHRISTOFFERSEN Kirsten Seestern; WARMING Trine Perlt; FELDMANN Tonu; LAAS Alo; PANKSEP Kristel; TUVIKENE Lea; KANGRO Kersti; HAGGQVIST Kerstin; SALMI Pauliina; ARVOLA Lauri; FASTNER Jutta; STRAILE Dietmar; ROTHHAUPT Karl-Otto; FONVIELLE Jeremy; GROSSART Hans-Peter; AVAGIANOS Christos; KALOUDIS Triantafyllos; TRIANTIS Theodoros; ZERVOU Sevasti-Kiriaki; HISKIA Anastasia; GKELIS Spyros; PANOU Manthos; MCCARTHY Valerie; PERELLO Victor C.; OBERTEGGER Ulrike; BOSCAINI Adriano; FLAIM Giovanna; SALMASO Nico; CERASINO Leonardo; KOREIVIENE Judita; KAROSIENE Jurate; KASPEROVICIENE Jurate; SAVADOVA Ksenija; VITONYTE Irma; HAANDE Sigrid; SKJELBRED Birger; GRABOWSKA Magdalena; KARPOWICZ Maciej; CHMURA Damian; NAWROCKA Lidia; KOBOS Justyna; MAZUR-MARZEC Hanna; ALCARAZ-PARRAGA Pablo; WILK-WOZNIAK Elzbieta; KRZTON Wojciech; WALUSIAK Edward; GAGALA Ilona; MANKIEWICZ-BOCZEK Joana; TOPOROWSKA Magdalena; PAWLIK-SKOWRONSKA Barbara; NIEDZWIECKI Michal; PECZULA Wojciech; NAPIORKOWSKA-KRZEBIETKE Agnieszka; DUNALSKA Julita; SIENSKA Justyna; SZYMANSKI Daniel; KRUK Marek; BUDZYNSKA Agnieszka; GOLDYN Ryszard; KOZAK Anna; ROSINSKA Joanna; SZELAG-WASIELEWSKA Elzbieta; DOMEK Piotr; JAKUBOWSKA-KREPSKA Natalia; KWASIŹUR Kinga; MESSYASZ Beata; PELECHATA Aleksandra; PELECHATY Mariusz; KOKOCINSKI Mikolaj; MADRECKA Beata; KOSTRZEWSKA-SZLAKOWSKA Iwona; FRAK Magdalena; BANKOWSKA-SOBCZAK Agnieszka; WASILEWICZ Michal; OCHOCKA Agnieszka; PASZTALENIEC Agnieszka; JASSER Iwona; ANTAO-GERALDES Ana M.; LEIRA Manel; HERNANDEZ Armand; VASCONCELOS Vitor; MORAIS Joao; VALE Micaela; RAPOSEIRO Pedro M.; GONCALVES Vitor; ALEKSOVSKI Boris; KRSTIC Svetislav; NEMOVA Hana; DRASTICHOVA Iveta; CHOMOVA Lucia; REMEC-REKAR Spela; ELERSEK Tina; DELGADO-MARTIN Jordi; GARCIA David; CEREIJO Jose Luis; GOMA Joan; TRAPOTE Mari Carmen; VEGAS-VILARRUBIA Teresa; OBRADOR Biel; GARCIA-MURCIA Ana; REAL Monserrat; ROMANS Elvira; NOGUERO-RIBES Jordi; DUQUE David Parreno; FERNANDEZ-MORAN Elisabeth; UBEDA Barbara; GALVEZ Jose Angel; MARCE Rafael; CATALAN Nuria; PEREZ-MARTINEZ Carmen; RAMOS-RODRIGUEZ Eloisa; CILLERO-CASTRO Carmen; MORENO-OSTOS Enrique; BLANCO Jose Maria; RODRIGUEZ Valeriano; MONTES-PEREZ Jorge Juan; PALOMINO Roberto L.; RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ Estela; CARBALLEIRA Rafael; CAMACHO Antonio; PICAZO Antonio; ROCHERA Carlos; SANTAMANS Anna C.; FERRIOL Carmen; ROMO Susana; SORIA Juan Miguel; HANSSON Lars-Anders; URRUTIA-CORDERO Pablo; OZEN Arda; BRAVO Andrea G.; BUCK Moritz; COLOM-MONTERO William; MUSTONEN Kristiina; PIERSON Don; YANG Yang; VERSPAGEN Jolanda M. H.; DE SENERPONT DOMIS Lisette N.; SEELEN Laura; TEURLINCX Sven; VERSTIJNEN Yvon; LURLING Miquel; MALIAKA Valentini; FAASSEN Elisabeth J.; LATOUR Delphine; CAREY Cayelan C.; PAERL Hans W.; TOROKNE Andrea; KARAN Tunay; DEMIR Nilsun; BEKLIOGLU Meryem; FILIZ Nur; LEVI Eti E.; ISKIN Ugur; BEZIRCI Gizem; TAVSANOGLU Ulku Nihan; CELIK Kemal; OZHAN Koray; KARAKAYA Nusret; KOCER Mehmet Ali Turan; YILMAZ Mete; MARASLIOGLU Faruk; FAKIOGLU Ozden; SOYLU Elif Neyran; YAGCI Meral Apaydin; CINAR Sakir; CAPKIN Kadir; YAGCI Abdulkadir; CESUR Mehmet; BILGIN Fuat; BULUT Cafer; UYSAL Rahmi; KOKER Latife; AKCAALAN Reyhan; ALBAY Meric; ALP Mehmet Tahir; OZKAN Korhan; SEVINDIK Tugba Ongun; TUNCA Hatice; ONEM Burcin; RICHARDSON Jessica; EDWARDS Christine; BERGKEMPER Victoria; O LEARY Sarah; BEIRNE Eilish; CROMIE Hannah; IBELINGS Bastiaan W.
• Year of publication: 2018
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: SCIENTIFIC DATA
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018226
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.226
• Keywords: CLIMATE-CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; CYANOBACTERIA; WATERS; BLOOM
• Description: Under ongoing climate change and increasing anthropogenic activity, which continuously challenge ecosystem resilience, an in-depth understanding of ecological processes is urgently needed. Lakes, as providers of numerous ecosystem services, face multiple stressors that threaten their functioning. Harmful cyanobacterial blooms are a persistent problem resulting from nutrient pollution and climate-change induced stressors, like poor transparency, increased water temperature and enhanced stratification. Consistency in data collection and analysis methods is necessary to achieve fully comparable datasets and for statistical validity, avoiding issues linked to disparate data sources. The European Multi Lake Survey (EMLS) in summer 2015 was an initiative among scientists from 27 countries to collect and analyse lake physical, chemical and biological variables in a fully standardized manner. This database includes in-situ lake variables along with nutrient, pigment and cyanotoxin data of 369 lakes in Europe, which were centrally analysed in dedicated laboratories. Publishing the EMLS methods and dataset might inspire similar initiatives to study across large geographic areas that will contribute to better understanding lake responses in a changing environment.