Authors
Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Suhaila Ab Hamid, Raúl Acosta, Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele, Salman A Al‐Shami, Florian Altermatt, Giuseppe Amatulli, David G Angeler, Francis O Arimoro, Jukka Aroviita, Anna Astorga‐Roine, Rafael Costa Bastos, Núria Bonada, Nikos Boukas, Cecilia Brand, Vanessa Bremerich, Alex Bush, Qinghua Cai, Marcos Callisto, Kai Chen, Paulo Vilela Cruz, Olivier Dangles, Russell Death, Xiling Deng, Eduardo Domínguez, David Dudgeon, Tor Erik Eriksen, Ana Paula J Faria, Maria João Feio, Camino Fernández‐Aláez, Mathieu Floury, Francisco García‐Criado, Jorge García‐Girón, Wolfram Graf, Mira Grönroos, Peter Haase, Neusa Hamada, Fengzhi He, Jani Heino, Ralph Holzenthal, Kaisa‐Leena Huttunen, Dean Jacobsen, Sonja C Jähnig, Walter Jetz, Richard K Johnson, Leandro Juen, Vincent Kalkman, Vassiliki Kati, Unique N Keke, Ricardo Koroiva, Mathias Kuemmerlen, Simone Daniela Langhans, Raphael Ligeiro, Kris Van Looy, Alain Maasri, Richard Marchant, Jaime Ricardo Garcia Marquez, Renato T Martins, Adriano S Melo, Leon Metzeling, Maria Laura Miserendino, S Jannicke Moe, Carlos Molineri, Timo Muotka, Kaisa‐Riikka Mustonen, Heikki Mykrä, Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Francisco Valente‐Neto, Peter J Neu, Carolina Nieto, Steffen U Pauls, Dennis R Paulson, Blanca Rios‐Touma, Marciel Elio Rodrigues, Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Juan Carlos Salazar Salina, Dénes Schmera, Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber, Deep Narayan Shah, John P Simaika, Tadeu Siqueira, Ram Devi Tachamo‐Shah, Günther Theischinger, Ross Thompson, Jonathan D Tonkin, Yusdiel Torres‐Cambas, Colin Townsend, Eren Turak, Laura Twardochleb, Beixin Wang, Liubov Yanygina, Carmen Zamora‐Muñoz, Sami Domisch
Publication date
2023/5
Journal
Global ecology and biogeography
Volume
32
Issue
5
Pages
642-655
Description
Motivation
Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater ecosystem health, as well as to test ecological hypotheses. Despite their importance, a comprehensive, global database of aquatic insect occurrences for mapping freshwater biodiversity in macroecological studies and applied freshwater research is missing. We aim to fill this gap and present the Global EPTO Database, which includes worldwide geo‐referenced aquatic insect occurrence records for four major taxa groups: Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Odonata (EPTO).
Main type of variables contained
A total of 8,368,467 occurrence records globally, of which 8,319,689 (99%) are publicly available. The records are attributed to the corresponding drainage basin and sub‐catchment based on the Hydrography90m dataset and are …
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A Grigoropoulou, SA Hamid, R Acosta, EO Akindele… - Global ecology and biogeography, 2023