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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 642-655 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 10 Mar 2023 |
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In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 32, No. 5, 10.03.2023, p. 642-655.
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T1 - The global EPTO database : 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
N1 - Funding Information: SCJ acknowledges funding through the Leibniz Association for the project Freshwater Megafauna Futures. Funding Information: MC is grateful for continued funding by Programa Peixe Vivo of the Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (P&D Aneel‐Cemig GT 599, and GT 611), Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), National Council for Scientific & Technological Development (CNPq) research productivity grant 304060/2020‐8, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (grant PPM 00104‐18). Funding Information: JDT is supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi (RDF‐18‐UOC‐007), and Bioprotection Aotearoa and Te Pūnaha Matatini, both Centres of Research Excellence funded by the Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand. Funding Information: AA‐R acknowledges funding from the programme ANID Programa Regional R20F0002. Funding Information: MJF acknowledges the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology through the projects UIDB/04292/2020, UIDP/04292/2020 granted to MARE, and LA/P/0069/2020, granted to the Associate Laboratory ARNET and the Principal Investigator CEEC contract granted to MJF. Funding Information: The Global EPTO Database is part of the Global Freshwater Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation project (https://glowabio.org), and AG, JRGM and SD acknowledge funding by the Leibniz Competition to SD (J45/2018). We acknowledge funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant agreement number 033W034A). We thank the Yale Center for Research Computing for the use of research computing infrastructure. We also sincerely thank Daniel Langenhaun and Thomas Tomiczek for their help in uploading the files to https://fred.igb-berlin.de and https://geo.igb-berlin.de. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. NH received research grants from National Council of Development for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (308970/2019-5) and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, unidade de pesquisa Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (INPA/MCTI). Collecting campaign of Aquatic Insects – LACIA/INPA dataset was supported in part by INCT ADAPTA II funded by CNPq (465540/2014-7), Amazonas State Research Foundation – FAPEAM (0621187/2017), CAPES – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, FAPEAM-Program POSGRAD, BIODIVERSA/FAPEAM, and Universal/CNPq (403758/2021-1). RTM received a fellowship from BIODIVERSA/FAPEAM. FOR received research grants from National Council of Development for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, Brazil. FVN was supported by grant #2021/13299-0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). SCJ acknowledges funding through the Leibniz Association for the project Freshwater Megafauna Futures. JDT is supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi (RDF-18-UOC-007), and Bioprotection Aotearoa and Te Pūnaha Matatini, both Centres of Research Excellence funded by the Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand. AA-R acknowledges funding from the programme ANID Programa Regional R20F0002. MC is grateful for continued funding by Programa Peixe Vivo of the Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (P&D Aneel-Cemig GT 599, and GT 611), Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), National Council for Scientific & Technological Development (CNPq) research productivity grant 304060/2020-8, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (grant PPM 00104-18). MJF acknowledges the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology through the projects UIDB/04292/2020, UIDP/04292/2020 granted to MARE, and LA/P/0069/2020, granted to the Associate Laboratory ARNET and the Principal Investigator CEEC contract granted to MJF. We thank the PIs Jon Gelhaus, Barbara Hayford, Riley Nielson and John Morse, and Boloroo Erdenee, Suvdtsetseg Chuluunbat and Oyunchuluun Yadamsuren from Mongolia, who were instrumental in getting the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey data sampled and identified. AS-K, PJN and WG sincerely thank all the caddisfly data providers who contributed to the Distribution Atlas of European Trichoptera and are listed here: https://doi.org/10.15504/fmj.2015.9. We dedicate this work to the memory of Carmen Zamora-Muñoz and thank her for her support and enthusiasm for this project. Funding Information: FVN was supported by grant #2021/13299‐0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Funding Information: The is part of the Global Freshwater Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation project ( https://glowabio.org ), and AG, JRGM and SD acknowledge funding by the Leibniz Competition to SD (J45/2018). We acknowledge funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant agreement number 033W034A). We thank the Yale Center for Research Computing for the use of research computing infrastructure. We also sincerely thank Daniel Langenhaun and Thomas Tomiczek for their help in uploading the files to https://fred.igb‐berlin.de and https://geo.igb‐berlin.de . Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Global EPTO Database Funding Information: NH received research grants from National Council of Development for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (308970/2019‐5) and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, unidade de pesquisa Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (INPA/MCTI). Collecting campaign of Aquatic Insects – LACIA/INPA dataset was supported in part by INCT ADAPTA II funded by CNPq (465540/2014‐7), Amazonas State Research Foundation – FAPEAM (0621187/2017), CAPES – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, FAPEAM‐Program POSGRAD, BIODIVERSA/FAPEAM, and Universal/CNPq (403758/2021‐1). RTM received a fellowship from BIODIVERSA/FAPEAM. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/3/10
Y1 - 2023/3/10
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 - aquatic insects
KW - biodiversity
KW - Ephemeroptera
KW - freshwater ecosystems
KW - global dataset
KW - observation records
KW - Odonata
KW - Plecoptera
KW - species distributions
KW - Trichoptera
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U2 - 10.1111/geb.13648
DO - 10.1111/geb.13648
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150987064
SN - 1466-822X
VL - 32
SP - 642
EP - 655
JO - Global Ecology and Biogeography
JF - Global Ecology and Biogeography
IS - 5
ER -