www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies,standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences |
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| Institution: | 2. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States;3. Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain;4. University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia;5. Irstea, UR MALY, centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France;11. Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia;12. Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Blacksburg, VA, United States;1. Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway;2. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway;1. The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulic in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi''an University of Technology, Xi''an 710048, China;4. Biodiversity Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Paavo Havaksen Tie 3, P.O. Box 413, 90014 Oulu, Finland;1. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany;2. Centre for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Species’ ecological preferences are progressively important for understanding distribution patterns, for conserving biodiversity or for assessing and evaluating the status of freshwater ecosystems. Comprehensive databases compiling species traits are already established in the terrestrial realm, but widely missing in freshwater science. We established a database for European taxa of five aquatic organism groups by compiling information on taxonomy, ecology and distribution based on extensive literature surveys, which were performed by experts for the targeted organism groups. The database includes fishes (654 taxa/21 ecological preferences), macro-invertebrates (8586/40), macrophytes (1083/5), diatoms (8868/36) and phytoplankton (1976/4). It is available online with various options and tools for finding information and has currently over 800 users. The reviewed literature as well as examples given in this paper, highlight the importance of the general availability of knowledge on ecological preferences for various aspects in ecological assessment. Freshwaterecology.info is considered a service for basic research, applied scientists, water managers or other stakeholders. It serves as base for bioassessment and monitoring. |
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| Keywords: | Fish Macro-invertebrates Macrophytes Diatoms Phytoplankton Indicator traits |
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