IT25 - Val Mazia/Matschertal - Italy, stream benthic macroinvertebrates abundances (2010-2015)

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Aquatic macroinvertebrates are widely used as bioindicators for water quality assessments involving different kinds of disruptive factors, such as hydrological regime variations or pollutant spills. Recently, they demonstrated to be effective in monitoring effects of climate change in alpine stream and rivers. Indeed, since the distribution of macroinvertebrates in glacier-fed streams has been succesfully investigated and described by several authors, the discrepancy in presence/absence and quantity of specific taxa from the established models may represent an early warning of the effects of climatic changes occurring in alpine riverine ecosystems. Here, we provide a dataset covering a period of 6 years (2010-2015) sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates along a longitudinal transect of a glacier-fed stream located in the Italian Alps, inside the International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) macrosite of Matsch|Mazia (IT-25). Data were collected during the glacial melt period (April - September), with monthly resolution. Owing to the unique temporal resolution of the dataset, we aim to produce a reliable tool (i.e. reference point) for future ecological assessment on the same stream, but also to similar streams worldwide.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.897915
Source https://deims.org/dataset/628e6286-e7e0-4b61-b3ea-d019f985f27d
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Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.897915
Metadata Access https://deims.org/pycsw/catalogue/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetRecordById&Id=628e6286-e7e0-4b61-b3ea-d019f985f27d&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd
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Publisher Long-Term Ecosystem Research in Europe; Eurac research
Contributor DEIMS-SDR Site and Dataset registry deims.org
Publication Year 2019
Rights No conditions apply to access and use; Co-authorship on publications resulting from use of the dataset Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers The opportunity to collaborate on the project using the dataset The opportunity to review the results based on the dataset Reprints of articles using the dataset must be provided to the data provider The dataset provider is given a complete list of all products that make use of the dataset public access limited according to Article 13(1)(g) of the INSPIRE Directive
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Contact alberto.scotti(at)eurac.edu
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Discipline Environmental Monitoring
Spatial Coverage (10.588W, 46.677S, 10.703E, 46.779N)