Study site: Nigeria. Authors: Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele & Abiodun Matthew Adedapo. Species names and sampling days available upon communication with the authors. Data from https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3778 .

Contact details:

Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele. E-mail: eoakindele@oauife.edu.ng. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-8857. Affiliation: Department of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): 4.8371, 8.3852, 8.9113, 5.948

Centroid coordinates (x,y): 5.820118,7.70035

Number of records: 211

The dataset includes records in areas: 

Not protected on the observation date (0)

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: 505,517,518

Taxonomic focus of the study: Benthic macroinvertebrates

Survey methods: Kick net, direct searching of clingers on substrata