Irish Spatial Data Exchange
A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland’s river network, 2007–2018 (EPA)
The data described here were originally collected for one purpose – to assess rivers nationwide to determine the quality of the macroinvertebrate communities across the country as part of the WFD ecological status assessment. These assessments indicate changes that pollution brings about in the benthic macroinvertebrate communities, i.e. larval insects (e.g. mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, beetles, etc.) together with crustaceans (e.g. shrimps), snails and bivalves, worms, and leeches. These changes reflect the varying sensitivities of the different groups of macroinvertebrates to the stresses caused by pollution, with sensitive species being progressively replaced by more tolerant forms as pollution increases.
Geographic Coverage: Republic of Ireland
Temporal Coverage: River macroinvertebrates are collected from June to September each year, 2007 to 2018, when flows are likely to be relatively low.
Species Groups recorded: roundworm (Nematoda), hairworm (Nematomorpha), insect - true bug (Hemiptera), insect - beetle (Coleoptera), insect - caddis fly (Trichopte, flatworm (Turbellaria), sponge (Porifera), insect - mayfly (Ephemeroptera, insect - true fly (Diptera), crustacean, annelid, mollusc, insect - alderfly (Megaloptera, acarine (Acari), insect - lacewing (Neuroptera), insect - dragonfly (Odonata), insect - stonefly (Plecoptera)
Dataset Status: The dataset is complete and inclusive of data collected 2007 to 2018.
Additional Information: A full description of data collection is available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8. Also see www.catchments.ie and https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/freshwater-and-marine/
Simple
- Alternate title
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ie.nbdc.dataset.EPANationalRiverInvertebratesData
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-03-04
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-03-04
- Citation identifier
- INSPIRE UUID / ie.nbdc.dataset.EPANationalRiverInvertebratesData
- Purpose
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Assessment of river biological quality
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Biodiversity Data Centre
Barry O'Neill
Point of contact
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GemetInspireTheme
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Species distribution
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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wildlife
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organism
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wildlife conservation
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environmental conservation
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wildlife habitat
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habitat
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wildlife protection
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nature protection
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wildlife sanctuary
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protected area
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species
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ecological parameter
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environment
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ecosystem
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synecology
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ecosystem analysis
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ecosystem research
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environmental research
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biodiversity
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National Biodiversity Data Centre
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National Biodiversity Data Centre
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NBDC
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biodiversity data centre
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publishToISDE
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
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Creative Commons licence conditions apply
- Use limitation
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Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 100 m
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 2007-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2018-12-31T00:00:00
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 0
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version CSV, Excel
RFC 1480, Office 2010
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Biodiversity Data Centre
Barry O'Neill
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
http://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/335 View charts and maps information regarding data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/csv
https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/Download?datasetId=335 Download as CSV (zipped)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Species distribution
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- Explanation
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The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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All data has undergone full quality control checking. Note taxonomic resolution may vary. More information is available in our open access publication Feeley et al. (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8
Data Capture Method: Please see open access publication Feeley et al. (2020) for full details. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00618-8
Data Capture Purpose: Assessment of river biological quality
Original Format: CSV
Metadata
- File identifier
- ie.nbdc.dataset.EPANationalRiverInvertebratesData XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-03-04T14:07:18.9226495
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Biodiversity Data Centre
Barry O'Neill
Point of contact
- Dataset URI
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