Study site: Chile. Authors: Anna Astorga.

Contact details:

Anna Astorga. E-mail: aastorga78@gmail.com. ORCID: https:/orcid.org/0000-0003-4600-4384. Affiliation: Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia.

Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): -72.787, -42.2579154968262, -71.411394893115, -45.6671246244179

Centroid coordinates (x,y): -72.28528,-44.503884

Number of records: 1037

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: 348

Taxonomic focus of the study: All benthic community

Survey methods: Surber net and/or D-frame kick or dip net