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Time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate abundances and site characteristics of European streams and rivers

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WELTI Ellen A R BOWLER Diana E SINCLAIR James S ALTERMATT Florian ALVAREZ-CABRIA Mario AMATULLI Giuseppe ANGELER David G ARCHAMBAUD Gait JORRIN Inaki Arrate ASPIN Thomas AZPIROZ Iker BAKER Nathan Jay BANARES Inaki JOSE Barquin Ortiz BODIN Christian L BONACINA Luca BONADA Nuria BOTTARIN Roberta CANEDO-ARGUELLES Miguel CSABAI Zoltan DATRY Thibault ELVIRA de Eyto DOHET Alain DOMISCH Sami DOERFLINGER Gerald DROHAN Emma EIKLAND Knut A ENGLAND Judy ERIKSEN Tor E EVTIMOVA Vesela FEIO Maria J FERREOL Martial FLOURY Mathieu FORCELLINI Maxence FORIO Marie Anne Eurie FORNAROLI Riccardo FRIBERG Nikolai FRUGET Jean-Francois GARCIA MARQUEZ Jaime R GEORGIEVA Galia GOETHALS Peter GRACA Manuel A S HOUSE Andy HUTTUNEN Kaisa-Leena JENSEN Thomas Correll JOHNSON Richard K JONES J Iwan KIESEL Jens LARRANAGA Aitor LEITNER Patrick L'HOSTE Lionel LIZEE Marie-Helene LORENZ Armin W MAIRE Anthony ARNAIZ Jesus Alberto Manzanos MCKIE Brendan MILLAN Andres MUOTKA Timo MURPHY John F OZOLINS Davis PAAVOLA Riku PAŘIL Petr SILVA Francisco Jesus Penas POLÁŠEK Marek RASMUSSEN Jes RUBIO Manu FERNANDEZ David Sanchez SANDIN Leonard SCHAEFER Ralf B SCHMIDT-KLOIBER Astrid SCOTTI Alberto SHEN Longzhu Q SKUJA Agnija STOLL Stefan STRAKA Michal STUBBINGTON Rachel TIMM Henn TYUFEKCHIEVA Violeta G TZIORTZIS Iakovos UZUNOV Yordan VAN DER LEE Gea H VANNEVEL Rudy VARADINOVA Emilia VARBIRO Gabor VELLE Gaute VERDONSCHOT Piet F M VERDONSCHOT Ralf C M VIDINOVA Yanka WIBERG-LARSEN Peter HAASE Peter

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Scientific Data
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

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web https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03445-3
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03445-3
Keywords Freshwater ecology; Community ecology; Biodiversity
Description Freshwater macroinvertebrates are a diverse group and play key ecological roles, including accelerating nutrient cycling, filtering water, controlling primary producers, and providing food for predators. Their differences in tolerances and short generation times manifest in rapid community responses to change. Macroinvertebrate community composition is an indicator of water quality. In Europe, efforts to improve water quality following environmental legislation, primarily starting in the 1980s, may have driven a recovery of macroinvertebrate communities. Towards understanding temporal and spatial variation of these organisms, we compiled the TREAM dataset (Time seRies of European freshwAter Macroinvertebrates), consisting of macroinvertebrate community time series from 1,816 river and stream sites (mean length of 19.2 years and 14.9 sampling years) of 22 European countries sampled between 1968 and 2020. In total, the data include >93 million sampled individuals of 2,648 taxa from 959 genera and 212 families. These data can be used to test questions ranging from identifying drivers of the population dynamics of specific taxa to assessing the success of legislative and management restoration efforts.
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