Study site: Mongolia. Authors: Alain Maasri. 

Contact details:

Alain Maasri. E-mail: alainmaasri@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-8374. Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany AND The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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 MAIS data sampled and identified.

Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): 87.94228, 50.78323, 112.55703, 46.09992

Centroid coordinates (x,y): 97.347314,48.588334

Number of records: 1850

The dataset includes records in areas: 

Not protected on the observation date (0)

Protected on the observation date (1)

Protected on a date following the observation date (2)

using the November 2022 version of the Protected Planet WDPA WD-OECM dataset 

    (Protected Planet: World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) 

    and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2022). 

    Please see publication for further information.

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW, Abell et al., 2008) covered: 603,606,618,619,622

Taxonomic focus of the study: All benthic community

Survey methods: Surber net and kick net