Study site: China. Authors: Fengzhi He & Qinghua Cai.

Contact details:

Fengzhi He. E-mail: fengzhi.he@igb-berlin.de. ORCID: https:/orcid.org/0000-0002-7594-8205. Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB).

Qinghua Cai.   Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.

Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): 99.4022777777778, 40.3630333333333, 117.7515, 25.460583

Centroid coordinates (x,y): 107.275222,29.383597

Number of records: 4062

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: 636,725,764-766

Taxonomic focus of the study: all benthic community

Survey methods: Kick net, Surber net, aquatic D-net