The inland water macro-invertebrate occurrences in Flanders, Belgium
| Autor: | Frank Lavens, Ward De Cooman, Dimitri Brosens, Joost Mertens, Wim Gabriels, Bart Vervaeke, Rudy Vannevel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Biotic indices Insecta Annelida Gastropoda Nematomorpha Biodiversity & Conservation macroinvertebrates 010607 zoology Western Europe Environment 01 natural sciences water quality Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) Belgium Crustacea lcsh:Zoology lcsh:QL1-991 License Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Invertebrate Biological data macro-invertebrates Cenozoic business.industry 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Environmental resource management sediments Sediment Turbellaria Species Inventories Bivalvia Europe management monitoring Open data Taxon Geography Animal Science and Zoology Water quality business Biological network Data Paper |
| Zdroj: | ZooKeys, Vol 759, Iss, Pp 117-136 (2018) Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij VMM, Brosens, D, De Cooman, W, Gabriels, W, Lavens, F, Mertens, J & Vervaeke, B 2018, ' The inland water macro-invertebrate occurrences in Flanders, Belgium ' ZooKeys, vol. 759, 759, pp. 117-137 . https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.759.24810 ZooKeys 759: 117-136 ZooKeys |
| DOI: | 10.3897/zookeys.759.24810 |
| Popis: | The Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) has been performing biological water quality assessments on inland waters in Flanders (Belgium) since 1989 and sediment quality assessments since 2000. The water quality monitoring network is a combined physico-chemical and biological network, the biological component focusing on macro-invertebrates. The sediment monitoring programme produces biological data to assess the sediment quality. Both monitoring programmes aim to provide index values, applying a similar conceptual methodology based on the presence of macro-invertebrates. The biological data obtained from both monitoring networks are consolidated in the VMM macro-invertebrates database and include identifications at family and genus level of the freshwater phyla Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca, and Arthropoda. This paper discusses the content of this database, and the dataset published thereof: 282,309 records of 210 observed taxa from 4,140 monitoring sites located on 657 different water bodies, collected during 22,663 events. This paper provides some background information on the methodology, temporal and spatial coverage, and taxonomy, and describes the content of the dataset. The data are distributed as open data under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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