Study site: Mediterranean climate regions, mainly the Mediterranean Basin. Authors: Núria Bonada & Carmen Zamora.

Contact details:

Núria Bonada. E-mail: bonada@ub.edu. ORCID: https:/orcid.org/0000-0002-2983-3335. Affiliation: University of Barcelona.

Carmen Zamora. E-mail: czamora@ugr.es. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-1529. Affiliation: University of Granada.

Site-specific environmental data available upon communication with Núria Bonada.

Data contributors:

Bonada, N.

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Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): -71.78, 44.87, 35.83, -36.03

Centroid coordinates (x,y): 4.913426,38.125477

Number of records: 2602

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: 341,403,413,414,416,418,436,438,501,502,578

Taxonomic focus of the study: All macroinvertebrate community

Survey methods: Dip net and entomological net