A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland’s river network, 2007–2018 (EPA)
Citation
Wayne Trodd; Catherine Bradley; Hugh Feeley. A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland’s river network, 2007–2018 (EPA). National Biodiversity Data Centre. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c63xzc accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-01.Description
The data described here were originally collected for one purpose – to assess rivers nationwide to determine the quality of the macroinvertebrate communities across the country as part of the WFD ecological status assessment. These assessments indicate changes that pollution brings about in the benthic macroinvertebrate communities, i.e. larval insects (e.g. mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, beetles, etc.) together with crustaceans (e.g. shrimps), snails and bivalves, worms, and leeches. These changes reflect the varying sensitivities of the different groups of macroinvertebrates to the stresses caused by pollution, with sensitive species being progressively replaced by more tolerant forms as pollution increases.Purpose
Assessment of river biological qualitySampling Description
Quality Control
All data has undergone full quality control checking. Note taxonomic resolution may vary. More information is available in our open access publication Feeley et al. (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8Method steps
- Please see open access publication Feeley et al. (2020) for full details. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8
Additional info
A full description of data collection is available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8. Also see www.catchments.ie and https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/freshwater-and-marine/Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Republic of Ireland
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Wayne Trodd; Catherine Bradley; Hugh Feeleyoriginator
Environmental Protection Agency
IE
email: W.Trodd@epa.ie; C.Bradley@epa.ie; H.Feeley@epa.ie
homepage: https://www.epa.ie/
metadata author
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland
Beechfield house, Carriganore WIT West Campus
Waterford
County Waterford
IE
Telephone: +353 (0)51 306 240
email: info@biodiversityireland.ie
homepage: http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/
Barry O'Neill
administrative point of contact
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland
Beechfield house, Carriganore WIT West Campus
Waterford
County Waterford
IE
Telephone: +353 (0)51 306 240
email: boneill@biodiversityireland.ie
homepage: http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/