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Macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance, water quality, river flow, air temperature and environmental site descriptors from English rivers, 1965-2018, version 2.0
This data product combines macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance for 1,519 monitoring sites across English rivers for the period between 1965 and 2018, with matched concentrations of 41 water quality determinands, river flow exceedance statistics, and air temperature values. It also includes site variables such as sewage effluent exposure, habitat quality, land cover in the upstream catchment, and other physical parameters measured at the sampling point, such as altitude, slope, distance from source, width and depth of the channel, and type of substrate. Developed as part of the ChemPop (2018-2023), a NERC-funded project investigating the impact of chemical exposure on wildlife populations in rivers, this research output is an open data product for use in a broad spectrum of environmental data and modelling analyses. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-03-24
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7
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Bachiller-Jareno, N., Keller, V.D.J., Eastman, M., Edwards, F.K., Jürgens, M.D., Scarlett, P.M., Rizzo, C., Antoniou, V., Dean, H.J., Sadykova, D., Qu, Y., Johnson, A.C. (2025). Macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance, water quality, river flow, air temperature and environmental site descriptors from English rivers, 1965-2018, version 2.0. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Exeter Bachiller-Jareno, N. Point of contact University of Exeter Bachiller-Jareno, N. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Keller, V.D.J. Author Met Office Eastman, M. Author APEM Ltd
Edwards, F.K. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Jürgens, M.D. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Scarlett, P.M. Author Wallingford HydroSolutions
Rizzo, C.
Author Agricultural University of Athens Antoniou, V. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dean, H.J. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Sadykova, D. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Qu, Y. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Johnson, A.C. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species Distribution
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- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
- Water quality
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England
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rivers
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freshwater
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water quality
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chemical pollution
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macroinvertebrates
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- Other restrictions
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- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bachiller-Jareno, N., Keller, V.D.J., Eastman, M., Edwards, F.K., Jürgens, M.D., Scarlett, P.M., Rizzo, C., Antoniou, V., Dean, H.J., Sadykova, D., Qu, Y., Johnson, A.C. (2025). Macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance, water quality, river flow, air temperature and environmental site descriptors from English rivers, 1965-2018, version 2.0. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 1965-01-01
- End date
- 2018-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7.zip Supporting information
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- Dataset
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Conformance result
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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This data product was created by preprocessing and combining survey data of national extent collected by the Environment Agency (EA), such as freshwater macroinvertebrate survey data, water quality data, habitat quality metrics, and river flow; as well as datasets produced by UKCEH, such as the Land Cover Map 2015, CHESS-met air temperature, and estimated sewage effluent exposure. The spatial distribution of this product matches the spatial extent of the macroinvertebrate data. Its time stamps correspond to the dates of macroinvertebrate sampling. The completeness of this product is determined by the spatio-temporal availability of the data sources. Due to the different structures and file formats of the data sources, as well as the varied range of technical skills within our team, a range of file manipulation tools were used. However, the same data processing and data integration methodology was followed in all instances. This involved three steps: first, spatial matching of sampled locations along the river network; second, spatial integration of model-generated variables, including wastewater effluent, land cover, and air temperature; and third, temporal matching of environmental observations, such as water quality concentrations and river flow, along with modelled variables such as air temperature.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 23f194b0-1e21-4f14-be9c-6eabdcc1feb7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:14:37
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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