The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

作者：Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Suhaila Ab Hamid, Raúl Acosta, Emmanuel O. Akindele, Salman Abdo Al‐Shami, Florian Altermatt, Giuseppe Amatulli, David G. Angeler, Francis O. Arimoro, Jukka Aroviita, Anna Astorga Roine, Rafael Costa Bastos, Núria Bonada‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬, Nikos Boukas, Cecilia Brand, Vanessa Bremerich, Alex Bush, Qinghua Cai, Marcos Callisto, Kai Chen, Paulo Vilela Cruz, Olivier Dangles, Russell G. Death, Xi‐Ling Deng, Eduardo Domı́nguez, David Dudgeon, Tor Erik Eriksen, Ana Paula Justino Faria, Maria João Feio, Camino Fernández‐Aláez, Mathieu Floury, Francisco García‐Criado, Jorge García‐Girón, Wolfram Graf, Mira Grönroos, Peter Haase, Neusa Hamada, Fengzhi He, Jani Heino, Ralph W. Holzenthal, Kaisa‐Leena Huttunen, Dean Jacobsen, Sonja C. Jähnig, Walter Jetz, Richard K. Johnson, Leandro Juen, Vincent J. Kalkman, Vassiliki Kati, Unique N. Keke, Ricardo Koroiva, Mathias Kuemmerlen, Simone D. Langhans, Raphael Ligeiro, Kris Van Looy, Alain Maasri, L. C. Marchant, Jaime Márquez, Renato Tavares Martins, Adriano S. Melo, Leon Metzeling, María Laura Miserendino, S. Jannicke Moe, Carlos Molineri, Timo Muotka, Kaisa‐Riikka Mustonen, Heikki Mykrä, Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Francisco Valente‐Neto, Peter J. Neu, Carolina Nieto, Steffen U. Pauls, Dennis R. Paulson, Blanca Ríos‐Touma, Marciel Élio Rodrigues, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Juan Carlos Salazar-Salina, Dénes Schmera, Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber, Deep Narayan Shah, John P. Simaika, Tadeu Siqueira, Ram Devi Tachamo‐Shah, Günther Theischinger, Ross M. Thompson, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Yusdiel Torres‐Cambas, Colin R. Townsend, Eren Turak, Laura A. Twardochleb, Beixin Wang, L. V. Yanygina, Carmen Zamora‐Muñoz, Sami Domisch · 发表于：Global Ecology and Biogeography · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1111/geb.13648 · 被引用次数：19 · 研究领域：Marine Biology and Ecology Research、Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior、Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology

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‐d...