The Environment Agency undertakes freshwater and marine biological monitoring in England.

This dataset contains site, sample, metric and taxa information from freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys carried out across England from 1965 onwards.

Notes:

• These survey data are stored in an archive more commonly known as BIOSYS.
• This dataset contains Freshwater, River macroinvertebrate surveys only.
• Pollution Samples are excluded from the dataset.
• The family-level BMWP and LIFE calculations in this dataset were updated in 2018 to correct errors discovered in 2016. The Species level LIFE calculations and CCI index were updated in 2019.

River invertebrate data, survey metrics & taxa data joined to Sites data via relationship class in ArcGIS Pro

The United States Geological Survey Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center (USGS VA-WV-WSC) and Fairfax County assembled this data release in support of ongoing USGS VA-WV-WSC monitoring and evaluations of stream conditions overtime of two previously restored, urban-suburban streams in Reston, Virginia – Snakeden Branch and The Glade. The aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate, fish, and habitat sampling and surveying were conducted on the same eight, 100-meter stream reaches (four reaches in Snakeden Branch and four reaches in The Glade) by the USGS VA-WV-WSC. Aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate sampling and physical habitat surveys were conducted in both Spring and Fall of 2021 and a fish survey was conducted in the Summer 2021. Data provided are of five general types: 1. Site locations and characteristics for each of the eight sampling and surveying sites within the two monitored streams; 2. Benthic macroinvertebrate identifications and analytical laboratory results; 3. Fairfax County benthic macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) scores and individual metric results; 4. Fish assemblages, and; 5. Physical habitat measurements. The metadata file “Metadata_for_Reston_Ecological_Data.xml” contains important information pertaining to the attributes of each entity of data, field and laboratory methods, and caveats associated with the Fall benthic macroinvertebrate IBI and metric scores. The "README.txt" file contains a description of each file contained in this data release. This database contains the aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate taxonomic identification and abundance data derived from samples collected at each of the eight total reaches within Snakeden Branch and The Glade in Fall and Spring of calendar year 2021. Samples were collected by the USGS VA-WV-WSC using the Fairfax County standard operating procedures (FCSOP) and specimen identification and abundance calculations were performed by a third-party laboratory. Fairfax County benthic macroinvertebrate IBI scores and individual metrics were calculated by Fairfax County following FCSOP. It is important to note for this data release that the IBI scores presented for Fall samples have caveats associated with them and the ratings (e.g. Excellent, Good, Fair, etc.) for the Fall samples have been intentionally excluded. Please read the methods section of the “Metadata_for_Reston_Ecological_Data.xml” file carefully for further explanation. This data release also contains the fish assemblages data, collected during the Summer of 2021, from the eight total reaches in Snakeden Branch and The Glade. Electrofishing surveys were conducted following FCSOP by the USGS VA-WV-WSC to obtain these results. Finally, this data release contains the physical habitat data surveyed in both Fall and Spring of 2021. Multiple habitat metrics were measured throughout each of the eight total reaches on Snakeden Branch and The Glade.

The survey results from a 2011-2012 macroinvertebrate study in three streams on the island of Kadavu in Fiji are presented here as presence and absence records. This dataset is part of a larger research study in Fiji on the effects of catchment forest cover on the community structure of macroinvertebrates.

Bindiya Rashni, the author of this dataset, compiled these results as part of her Master of Science research at The University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji, and was funded under a Graduate Assistant scholarship at the Institute of Applied Science (at USP).

The State of Hawaii DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources) DAR (Division of Aquatic Resources) marine monitoring team conducted surveys for fish and large mobile invertebrates along the West Hawaii coastline. Data were recorded along 5x25 meter transects at random sites going as far south as Manuka and as far North as Upolu Point. Data collection for one transect was completed at each site. Data are provided as individual observations noting species, quantity, and size of fish and species and quantity of invertebrates.

The Macroinvertebrate survey is conducted by the Murray?Darling Fresh Water Research Centre (MDFRC) on behalf of the Murray?Darling Basin Authority to provide long term baseline biological datasets for eight specified locations in the Murray River and four specified locations in the Mitta Mitta River.

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been superseded by the 'Freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys (Biosys)' dataset and is now Retired. As of March 2020 all data formerly available in 'Freshwater and Marine Biological Surveys for Invertebrates England' is available from 'Freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys (Biosys)'. The abstract below provides a historical reference for 'Freshwater and Marine Biological Surveys for Invertebrates England' at the point of retirement. Freshwater and Marine Biological Surveys England. The Environment Agency undertakes freshwater and marine biological monitoring in England. Freshwater and Marine Biological Surveys England is a large dataset containing taxonomic level species data for biological surveys carried out in freshwater and marine environments. Species surveys include: • Invertebrate, algal and macrophyte surveys in rivers and still waters; • Marine macro-invertebrate, algal, macrophyte and seagrass data. Note: - This archive is more commonly known as BIOSYS - This dataset contains Freshwater, River and Lake Macroinvertebrate surveys only. - Pollution Samples are excluded from the dataset. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

This report summarizes results of a survey of invertebrates in stream inflows of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in 2012-13.

The Environment Agency undertakes freshwater and marine biological monitoring in England. This dataset contains site, sample, metric and taxa information from freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys carried out across England from 1965 onwards. Notes: These survey data are stored in an archive more commonly known as BIOSYS. This dataset contains Freshwater, River macroinvertebrate surveys only. Pollution Samples are excluded from the dataset. The family-level BMWP and LIFE calculations in this dataset were updated in 2018 to correct errors discovered in 2016. The Species level LIFE calculations and CCI index were updated in 2019. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2023. All rights reserved.

This was a survey effort to determine species diversity and density of macro-invertebrates and avian species inhabiting playa systems located in SW regions of Baca NWR. These playa systems have been dry for some time now but showed evidence of once great bio diversity, hinting that when these playas become wet from seasonal moisture, either from precipitation or via irrigation, they can support a wide range of plants and animals that may not be found in other regions of the refuge. This year there was an extra ordinary high run off from the various creeks that feed into the Baca NWR. This run off was able to extend deep into the western portions of the refuge and filled these playa systems. Wanting to take advantage of these wet conditions, efforts were put forth to survey these areas. Our efforts primarily focused on macro-invertebrates and waterbirds found on or near the playa systems; however we recorded all avian species that were observed.

Macroinvertebrate and water chemistry data collected as part of the NCRN Biological Stream Monitoring Proocol. All data were collected during the Spring sampling season. In 2005, the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCRN) initiated a long-term water quality and quantity monitoring program, funded in part by the National Park Service Water Resources Division. The Biological monitoring portion of the program is carried out every 6 years at 37 sites within 10 of the NCRN parks. The data collected using this protocol will provide much needed baseline information on the stream biological resources in the NCRN, particularly in terms of community structure and composition. The information will also be used to determine long term trends in community composition, as well as trends in the abundance and distribution of individual species. Macroinvertebrate and water chemistry data collected as part of the NCRN Biological Stream Monitoring Proocol. This data set incldues macroinvertebrate taxa lists from all streams sampled as well as water quatlity data collected at those streams. In addition, macroinvertebrate data were used to calculate an benthic index of biotic integrity (B-IBI) that can be used to assess the health of the stream based on the macroinvertebrate populations. All data were collected during the Spring sampling season.

Freshwater macroinvertebrates are used as an indicator of water quality and river flow requirements due to the relative immobility and abundance.

This dataset contains site, sample, metric and taxa information from freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys carried out across Wales by Natural Resources Wales and former Environment Agency Wales since 1978 and onwards. These surveys are conducted as part of on-going monitoring of river water quality for legislative requirements and to meet business drivers.

A version of this data is available in a Darwin Core format, please see NRW_DS122460 for more information.

This dataset details the findings of a series of freshwater surveys for macroinvertebrates, periphyton and plankton in selected sub-catchments of the Ba River (Viti Levu, Fiji) that were conducted in 2019. The survey was funded under the Fiji Global Environment Facility 5 System for Transparent Allocation of Resources Ridge to Reef project.

The sub-catchments surveyed were Waimanu, Waisali, Nadrou, Navisa, Nakara and Nabiarua. A list of targeted taxon was first compiled and investigated across all sites. The results of the surveys are presented here as presence and absence records.

This dataset contains the observed abundances of different freshwater macroinvertebrates taxa in French streams and rivers, extracted from the national surveys, with IBGN protocol (sampling_method). Macroinvertebrates are described at the family level (Taxon). It covers 305 survey sites (site_ID), from 1992 to 2017. The sites have been selected to match the 2 following criteria: shortest time-serie is 10 years and the smallest number of sample occasions is 8 (sampling_date). Coordinates of sampling points are WGS84 decimal degrees (X_coordinate, Y_coordinate).

Macroinvertebrate Species for Vavau island group during a BioRAP 2014

Food availability varies considerably over space and time in wetland systems, and consumers must be able to track those changes during nutrient demanding points in the life cycle like breeding. Resource tracking has been studied frequently among herbivores, but receives less attention among consumers of macroinvertebrates. We evaluated the change in resource availability across habitat types and time, and the simultaneous density of waterfowl consumers throughout their breeding season in a high-elevation, flood-irrigated system. We also assessed whether the macroinvertebrate resource density better predicted waterfowl density across habitats, compared to consistency (i.e., temporal evenness) of the invertebrate resource or taxonomic richness. Resource density varied marginally across wetland types but was highest in basin wetlands (i.e., ponds) and peaked early in the breeding season, whereas it remained relatively low and stable in other wetland habitats. Breeding duck density was positively related to resource density, more so than temporal resource stability, for all species. Resource density was negatively related to duckling density, however. These results have the potential to not only elucidate mechanisms of habitat selection among breeding ducks in flood-irrigated landscapes, but also suggest there is not a consequential trade-off to selecting wetland sites based on energy density versus temporal resource stability and that good-quality wetland sites provide both. Methods Macroinvertebrate Data Collection We collected nektonic invertebrate samples using 2-L activity traps in 2020 and 2021 (Murkin et al. 1983). We placed traps at randomly-selected points within 40 wetland sites that encompassed the five different wetland habitats. The sites we sampled in four of the wetland habitats (basin wetlands, riparian wetlands, irrigation ditches, and flooded hay meadows) spanned three individual properties, including two private ranches and Arapaho NWR (Figure 1). We also sampled three public reservoirs across the study area. We selected three random wetlands of each type on each of the three properties, and three random sampling points within each selected wetland with the exception of reservoirs. We randomly selected two 200-m length plots of shoreline in each reservoir and three random points within each plot to sample (Cooper and Anderson 1996, de Szalay et al. 2003, Behney 2020). In total, we deployed 126 traps during each sampling occasion (3 properties x 4 wetland habitats x 3 sampled wetland sites of each variety x 3 sampled points in each wetland) = 108 samples, + (3 reservoirs x 2 plots in each reservoir x 3 points in each plot = 18 samples). Traps remained in the wetlands for 48 hours every fourteen days, resulting in six sampling occasions each year over the course of the breeding season (13 May through 22 July). No traps were placed if the wetland was dry on a given sampling occasion, and that status was noted and aquatic invertebrate resource density was treated as a zero for that occasion. In the event that a wetland was not flooded or less flooded during the second year of sampling (2021), we randomly selected new points within the new boundary of the same wetland and treated those sampling points as unique from the original locations, but nested within the same site. Occasionally traps became dislodged and either went missing or floated to the surface, in which case we replaced traps and allowed them to remain in the wetland for the subsequent 48 hours. Activity traps had a 15 cm opening at the widest part of the funnel and a 2 cm opening at the narrowest part of the funnel. We placed them so that the top of the widest part of the funnel was approximately 1 cm above the surface of the water to capture invertebrates in the part of the water column in which dabbling ducks most often forage (Guillemain et al. 2000, Behney 2020). Upon collection, traps were emptied into a mesh sieve-bottom bucket. All individual invertebrates from the sample were placed into plastic storage cups and stored in 70% ethanol until processing. We emptied each sample into a 0.355 mm (number 45) gauge mesh sieve in a wet lab and moved all individuals to a Petri dish for identification and counting (Behney 2020). We placed samples under a dissecting microscope (AmScope SM-1BSY-64S Stereo Zoom Microscope) and identified individuals to taxonomic Family when possible. Any sample containing more than 1000 individuals of a given Family was subsampled by 16.6% using a 6 x 6 square gridded Petri dish (Williams et al. 2014, Behney 2020). We counted individuals in a random subset of six of the 36 cells and multiplied by six to estimate the total number of individuals of that Family in the sample. Waterfowl Data Collection We conducted breeding pair counts of ducks on the same wetland sites being sampled for macroinvertebrates (n=40) using a dependent double-observer methodology during the breeding seasons of 2020 and 2021 (Nichols et al. 2000). Pair count survey timing coincided with the first three macroinvertebrate sampling occasions. A primary observer counted every individual dabbling and diving duck observed and reported the number to a secondary observer, who recorded data while also recording any observations missed by the primary observer (Roy et al. 2021). We restricted the dataset to the four most common species of breeding ducks in our study system, which included cinnamon teal (Spatula cyanoptera), gadwall (Mareca strepera), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), and lesser scaup (Aythya affinis). Although we used the standard pair count practice of separating lone drakes from paired ducks in each count to identify breeding phenology and thus the timing of our first invertebrate sampling occasion, we used the total count of breeding ducks for the purposes of evaluating the relationship between duck density and invertebrate availability. In addition, few individuals were missed by the primary observer (i.e., detection probability was high), so we pooled observed drakes and hens of a given species to give us a site- and occasion-specific count. Brood surveys also occurred on the sites sampled for macroinvertebrates, but followed an independent double-observer methodology during 2020-2021 (Nichols et al. 2000, Vrtiska and Powell 2011). Both observers counted the number of ducklings they observed and subsequently compared observations to determine whether they had been observing the same brood and compare the number counted. The smaller number of ducklings commonly observed at one time allowed for accurate count comparisons between observers (Pagano and Arnold 2009). The timing of counts coincided with the latter three macroinvertebrate sampling occasions. Observers counted all ducklings within a given brood and identified their age class according to Gollop and Marshall (1954). Observers spent a minimum of ten minutes at each wetland site and conducted surveys using window- or tripod-mounted spotting scopes and binoculars to allow time for hidden broods to become visible (Pagano and Arnold 2009, Walker et al. 2013). We restricted the dataset to ducklings of the same four duck species listed above, and pooled the total number of ducklings for a given species, site, and occasion.

From 20 May - 8 June 2021, a Virginia Tech team of 2-3 sampled the macroinvertebrate community in 30 Shenandoah Valley streams (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature,fish community, and fish health at the same 30 streams. The macroinvertebrate community team also characterized the habitat units sampled for macroinvertebrates. At each stream, we sampled macroinvertebrates in two ways:1) in each stream we took 5 slack samples in riffles according to NAWQA protocol, and 2) we selected the most available and productive habitat where we used the Slack sampler to collect 5 additional samples in wood debris accumulations, undercut banks or leaf packs. Mesh size was 250 micrometer and samples were all taken for a known area. Other measurements included water temperature, electrical conductivity, and clarity, and percent of the reach comprising pool, riffle, and run habitats.

This dataset consists of invertebrate species records, sampled from headwater streams during a survey in 2007. Macro-invertebrates were sampled using standard protocols. The sample area in each stream was a single area of stream-bed whose major habitat types can be sampled within the recommended sampling period of three minutes of active sampling, supplemented by a one minute hand search. The length of river surveyed would normally vary from 5 to 15m. Samples were collected using a standard 1mm mesh pond net and returned to the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for later sorting and identification. Supplemental physical measurements (width, depth, substrate composition) required to run RIVPACS (River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System) were taken. Data were collected under the Countryside Survey long term monitoring project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The Countryside Survey is a unique study or 'audit' of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The sample sites are chosen from a stratified random sample, based on a 15 by 15 km grid of GB. Headwater stream surveys have been carried out in 1990, 1998 and 2007 with repeated visits to the majority of sites. The countryside is sampled and surveyed using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare new results with those from previous surveys. In this way we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the UK's countryside over time. In addition to headwater stream data, soil data, habitat areas, vegetation species data and linear habitat data are also gathered by Countryside Survey. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/18849325-358b-4af1-b20d-d750b1c723a3

MDBA Fish and Macroinvertebrate Survey data 2004 to 2019 (Implementation Periods 1 to 14). An Access 2013 version database in relational form including all controlled vocabularies, Catch and Bio measurement data for the Murray-Darling Basin. Includes distribution and abundance for fish and macroinvertebrates.

Friends of Reef Guam is a community monitoring project that trains members as citizen scientists to build local capacity in identification of species. From February 2013 through October 2019, members gathered benthic and macroinvertebrate cover in specific areas identified on Guam. During benthic surveys, members identified corals, algae, seagrass, sponges and macroinvertebrates. Identification of macroinvertebrates was collected by members as well through species, including; echinoderms, mollusks, and crustaceans. Data is supported by photos from the sites.