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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. / Grigoropoulou, Afroditi; Hamid, Suhaila Ab; Acosta, Raúl et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 32, No. 5, 31.05.2023, p. 642-655.

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Grigoropoulou, A, Hamid, SA, Acosta, R, Akindele, EO, Al‐Shami, SA, Altermatt, F, Amatulli, G, Angeler, DG, Arimoro, FO, Aroviita, J, Astorga‐Roine, A, Bastos, RC, Bonada, N, Boukas, N, Brand, C, Bremerich, V, Bush, A, Cai, Q, Callisto, M, Chen, K, Cruz, PV, Dangles, O, Death, R, Deng, X, Domínguez, E, Dudgeon, D, Eriksen, TE, Faria, APJ, Feio, MJ, Fernández‐Aláez, C, Floury, M, García‐Criado, F, García‐Girón, J, Graf, W, Grönroos, M, Haase, P, Hamada, N, He, F, Heino, J, Holzenthal, R, Huttunen, KL, Jacobsen, D, Jähnig, SC, Jetz, W, Johnson, RK, Juen, L, Kalkman, V, Kati, V, Keke, UN, Koroiva, R, Kuemmerlen, M, Langhans, SD, Ligeiro, R, Van Looy, K, Maasri, A, Marchant, R, Garcia Marquez, JR, Martins, RT, Melo, AS, Metzeling, L, Miserendino, ML, Moe, SJ, Molineri, C, Muotka, T, Mustonen, KR, Mykrä, H, Cavalcante do Nascimento, JM, Valente‐Neto, F, Neu, PJ, Nieto, C, Pauls, SU, Paulson, DR, Rios‐Touma, B, Rodrigues, ME, de Oliveira Roque, F, Salazar Salina, JC, Schmera, D, Schmidt‐Kloiber, A, Shah, DN, Simaika, JP, Siqueira, T, Tachamo‐Shah, RD, Theischinger, G, Thompson, R, Tonkin, JD, Torres‐Cambas, Y, Townsend, C, Turak, E, Twardochleb, L, Wang, B, Yanygina, L, Zamora‐Muñoz, C & Domisch, S 2023, 'The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 642-655. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13648

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Grigoropoulou, A., Hamid, S. A., Acosta, R., Akindele, E. O., Al‐Shami, S. A., Altermatt, F., Amatulli, G., Angeler, D. G., Arimoro, F. O., Aroviita, J., Astorga‐Roine, A., Bastos, R. C., Bonada, N., Boukas, N., Brand, C., Bremerich, V., Bush, A., Cai, Q., Callisto, M., ... Domisch, S. (2023). The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 642-655. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13648

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Grigoropoulou A, Hamid SA, Acosta R, Akindele EO, Al‐Shami SA, Altermatt F et al. The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2023 May 31;32(5):642-655. Epub 2023 Mar 10. doi: 10.1111/geb.13648

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Grigoropoulou, Afroditi ; Hamid, Suhaila Ab ; Acosta, Raúl et al. / The global EPTO database : Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2023 ; Vol. 32, No. 5. pp. 642-655.

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title = "The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects",
abstract = "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 accompanied by the elevation value, the freshwater ecoregion and the protection status of their location. Spatial location and grain: The database covers the global extent, with 86% of the observation records having coordinates with at least four decimal digits (11.1 m precision at the equator) in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinate reference system. Time period and grain: Sampling years span from 1951 to 2021. Ninety‐nine percent of the records have information on the year of the observation, 95% on the year and month, while 94% have a complete date. In the case of seven sub‐datasets, exact dates can be retrieved upon communication with the data contributors. Major taxa and level of measurement: Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Odonata, standardized at the genus taxonomic level. We provide species names for 7,727,980 (93%) records without further taxonomic verification. Software format: The entire tab‐separated value (.csv) database can be downloaded and visualized at https://glowabio.org/project/epto_database/. Fifty individual datasets are also available at https://fred.igb‐berlin.de, while six datasets have restricted access. For the latter, we share metadata and the contact details of the authors.",
keywords = "DATA ARTICLE, DATA ARTICLES, aquatic insects, biodiversity, Ephemeroptera, freshwater ecosystems, global dataset, observation records, Odonata, Plecoptera, species distributions, Trichoptera",
author = "Afroditi Grigoropoulou and Hamid, {Suhaila Ab} and Ra{\'u}l Acosta and Akindele, {Emmanuel Olusegun} and Al‐Shami, {Salman A.} and Florian Altermatt and Giuseppe Amatulli and Angeler, {David G.} and Arimoro, {Francis O.} and Jukka Aroviita and Anna Astorga‐Roine and Bastos, {Rafael Costa} and N{\'u}ria Bonada and Nikos Boukas and Cecilia Brand and Vanessa Bremerich and Alex Bush and Qinghua Cai and Marcos Callisto and Kai Chen and Cruz, {Paulo Vilela} and Olivier Dangles and Russell Death and Xiling Deng and Eduardo Dom{\'i}nguez and David Dudgeon and Eriksen, {Tor Erik} and Faria, {Ana Paula J.} and Feio, {Maria Jo{\~a}o} and Camino Fern{\'a}ndez‐Al{\'a}ez and Mathieu Floury and Francisco Garc{\'i}a‐Criado and Jorge Garc{\'i}a‐Gir{\'o}n and Wolfram Graf and Mira Gr{\"o}nroos and Peter Haase and Neusa Hamada and Fengzhi He and Jani Heino and Ralph Holzenthal and Kaisa‐Leena Huttunen and Dean Jacobsen and J{\"a}hnig, {Sonja C.} and Walter Jetz and Johnson, {Richard K.} and Leandro Juen and Vincent Kalkman and Vassiliki Kati and Keke, {Unique N.} and Ricardo Koroiva and Mathias Kuemmerlen and Langhans, {Simone Daniela} and Raphael Ligeiro and Kris Van Looy and Alain Maasri and Richard Marchant and Garcia Marquez, {Jaime Ricardo} and Martins, {Renato T.} and Melo, {Adriano S.} and Leon Metzeling and Miserendino, {Maria Laura} and Moe, {S. Jannicke} and Carlos Molineri and Timo Muotka and Kaisa‐Riikka Mustonen and Heikki Mykr{\"a} and Cavalcante do Nascimento, {Jeane Marcelle} and Francisco Valente‐Neto and Neu, {Peter J.} and Carolina Nieto and Pauls, {Steffen U.} and Paulson, {Dennis R.} and Blanca Rios‐Touma and Rodrigues, {Marciel Elio} and {de Oliveira Roque}, Fabio and Juan Carlos Salazar Salina and D{\'e}nes Schmera and Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber and Deep Narayan Shah and Simaika, {John P.} and Tadeu Siqueira and Tachamo‐Shah, {Ram Devi} and G{\"u}nther Theischinger and Ross Thompson and Tonkin, {Jonathan D.} and Yusdiel Torres‐Cambas and Colin Townsend and Eren Turak and Laura Twardochleb and Beixin Wang and Liubov Yanygina and Carmen Zamora‐Mu{\~n}oz and Sami Domisch",
year = "2023",
month = may,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1111/geb.13648",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "642--655",
journal = "Global Ecology and Biogeography",
issn = "1466-822X",
publisher = "Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "5",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - The global EPTO database

T2 - Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

AU - Grigoropoulou, Afroditi

AU - Hamid, Suhaila Ab

AU - Acosta, Raúl

AU - Akindele, Emmanuel Olusegun

AU - Al‐Shami, Salman A.

AU - Altermatt, Florian

AU - Amatulli, Giuseppe

AU - Angeler, David G.

AU - Arimoro, Francis O.

AU - Aroviita, Jukka

AU - Astorga‐Roine, Anna

AU - Bastos, Rafael Costa

AU - Bonada, Núria

AU - Boukas, Nikos

AU - Brand, Cecilia

AU - Bremerich, Vanessa

AU - Bush, Alex

AU - Cai, Qinghua

AU - Callisto, Marcos

AU - Chen, Kai

AU - Cruz, Paulo Vilela

AU - Dangles, Olivier

AU - Death, Russell

AU - Deng, Xiling

AU - Domínguez, Eduardo

AU - Dudgeon, David

AU - Eriksen, Tor Erik

AU - Faria, Ana Paula J.

AU - Feio, Maria João

AU - Fernández‐Aláez, Camino

AU - Floury, Mathieu

AU - García‐Criado, Francisco

AU - García‐Girón, Jorge

AU - Graf, Wolfram

AU - Grönroos, Mira

AU - Haase, Peter

AU - Hamada, Neusa

AU - He, Fengzhi

AU - Heino, Jani

AU - Holzenthal, Ralph

AU - Huttunen, Kaisa‐Leena

AU - Jacobsen, Dean

AU - Jähnig, Sonja C.

AU - Jetz, Walter

AU - Johnson, Richard K.

AU - Juen, Leandro

AU - Kalkman, Vincent

AU - Kati, Vassiliki

AU - Keke, Unique N.

AU - Koroiva, Ricardo

AU - Kuemmerlen, Mathias

AU - Langhans, Simone Daniela

AU - Ligeiro, Raphael

AU - Van Looy, Kris

AU - Maasri, Alain

AU - Marchant, Richard

AU - Garcia Marquez, Jaime Ricardo

AU - Martins, Renato T.

AU - Melo, Adriano S.

AU - Metzeling, Leon

AU - Miserendino, Maria Laura

AU - Moe, S. Jannicke

AU - Molineri, Carlos

AU - Muotka, Timo

AU - Mustonen, Kaisa‐Riikka

AU - Mykrä, Heikki

AU - Cavalcante do Nascimento, Jeane Marcelle

AU - Valente‐Neto, Francisco

AU - Neu, Peter J.

AU - Nieto, Carolina

AU - Pauls, Steffen U.

AU - Paulson, Dennis R.

AU - Rios‐Touma, Blanca

AU - Rodrigues, Marciel Elio

AU - de Oliveira Roque, Fabio

AU - Salazar Salina, Juan Carlos

AU - Schmera, Dénes

AU - Schmidt‐Kloiber, Astrid

AU - Shah, Deep Narayan

AU - Simaika, John P.

AU - Siqueira, Tadeu

AU - Tachamo‐Shah, Ram Devi

AU - Theischinger, Günther

AU - Thompson, Ross

AU - Tonkin, Jonathan D.

AU - Torres‐Cambas, Yusdiel

AU - Townsend, Colin

AU - Turak, Eren

AU - Twardochleb, Laura

AU - Wang, Beixin

AU - Yanygina, Liubov

AU - Zamora‐Muñoz, Carmen

AU - Domisch, Sami

PY - 2023/5/31

Y1 - 2023/5/31

N2 - 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 accompanied by the elevation value, the freshwater ecoregion and the protection status of their location. Spatial location and grain: The database covers the global extent, with 86% of the observation records having coordinates with at least four decimal digits (11.1 m precision at the equator) in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinate reference system. Time period and grain: Sampling years span from 1951 to 2021. Ninety‐nine percent of the records have information on the year of the observation, 95% on the year and month, while 94% have a complete date. In the case of seven sub‐datasets, exact dates can be retrieved upon communication with the data contributors. Major taxa and level of measurement: Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Odonata, standardized at the genus taxonomic level. We provide species names for 7,727,980 (93%) records without further taxonomic verification. Software format: The entire tab‐separated value (.csv) database can be downloaded and visualized at https://glowabio.org/project/epto_database/. Fifty individual datasets are also available at https://fred.igb‐berlin.de, while six datasets have restricted access. For the latter, we share metadata and the contact details of the authors.

AB - 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 accompanied by the elevation value, the freshwater ecoregion and the protection status of their location. Spatial location and grain: The database covers the global extent, with 86% of the observation records having coordinates with at least four decimal digits (11.1 m precision at the equator) in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinate reference system. Time period and grain: Sampling years span from 1951 to 2021. Ninety‐nine percent of the records have information on the year of the observation, 95% on the year and month, while 94% have a complete date. In the case of seven sub‐datasets, exact dates can be retrieved upon communication with the data contributors. Major taxa and level of measurement: Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Odonata, standardized at the genus taxonomic level. We provide species names for 7,727,980 (93%) records without further taxonomic verification. Software format: The entire tab‐separated value (.csv) database can be downloaded and visualized at https://glowabio.org/project/epto_database/. Fifty individual datasets are also available at https://fred.igb‐berlin.de, while six datasets have restricted access. For the latter, we share metadata and the contact details of the authors.

KW - DATA ARTICLE

KW - DATA ARTICLES

KW - aquatic insects

KW - biodiversity

KW - Ephemeroptera

KW - freshwater ecosystems

KW - global dataset

KW - observation records

KW - Odonata

KW - Plecoptera

KW - species distributions

KW - Trichoptera

U2 - 10.1111/geb.13648

DO - 10.1111/geb.13648

M3 - Journal article

VL - 32

SP - 642

EP - 655

JO - Global Ecology and Biogeography

JF - Global Ecology and Biogeography

SN - 1466-822X

IS - 5

ER -