Datasets


Title: Shoreline fish distribution in italian lakes assessed by electrofishing
Description: The dataset includes data on fish species distribution along the shoreline of 25 italian lakes and reservoirs achieved by point abundance stadardised electrofishing.
Published reference: Galafassi S., Sala P., Volta P., 2019. Shoreline fish distribution in italian lakes assessed by electrofishing. Freshwater Metadata Journal 42: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.15504/fmj.2019.42.
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: Shoreline_fish_distribution.csv


Title: Fish distribution in 28 Italian lakes based on CEN gillnets
Description: The database comprises the distribution of freshwater fish species in 28 Italian lakes obtained from standardised (CEN based) samplings with benthic and mesopelagic multi-mesh gillnets.
Published reference: Volta, P. & Galafassi, S., 2018. Metadata to the database on fish distribution in Italian lakes and reservoirs. Freshwater Metadata Journal 35: 1-4. https://doi.org/10.15504/fmj.2018.35.
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: Fish_distribution.csv


Title: Benthic diatoms from Italian lakes
Description: Diatom assemblages (average percentage) in Italian lakes and average total phosphorus concentration
Published reference:Marchetto A. & Sforzi. T. 2018. Using benthic diatoms for estimating lake ecological quality: Comparing different taxonomic resolution. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2018; 9(1): DOI: 10.4081/aiol.2018.7389
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: Diatoms.csv


Title: Macroinvertebrates from Italian mountain lakes
Description: The data set, based on a total of 76 published papers (from 1902 to 2016), includes 2372 records of macroinvertebrates from 189 Italian mountain lakes. Records refer mostly to the Alps (6 regions) and partly to the Apennines (4 regions).
Published reference:Boggero A., Garzoli L. & Varini G. 2017. An historical and geographic data set on the distribution of macroinvertebrates in Italian mountain lakes. Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 32: 77–87. DOI: 10.21426/B632136983
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: Mountain lake Macroinvertebrates_2017.csv


Title: Rotifera Monogononta in the world: 1960-1992
Description: The dataset includes 46,549 records of monogonont rotifers from about 1800 papers published between 1960 and 1992, compiled from De Ridder (1986, 1991, 1993) and De Ridder & Segers (1997). It is subdivided by country and by the four geographic levels of the Taxonomic Diversity Working Group standards.
Published reference: Fontaneto D., Barbosa A.M., Segers H. & Pautasso M., Ecography (2012) 35: 174-182. DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06850.x
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: E6850_Appendix_S1.csv


Title: Rotifera from Antarctica
Description: The dataset includes 1,165 records of rotifers published from Antarctica and Subantarctica until 2014. For each record, it reports the literature reference, the name of the locality with the coordinates, and the type of habitat, if available.
Published reference: Fontaneto D., Iakovenko N. & De Smet W.H., Hydrobiologia (2015) 761: 235-248. DOI:10.1007/s10750-015-2258-5
File format: comma separated value, csv
Link to file: Antarctic_rotifers_2014.csv