BGS Hosted Metadata
UK Checklist of freshwater species
The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species is a collation of all the species (apart from algae) known to be found in association with fresh waters in the United Kingdom. The following eight major groups were identified as being associated with fresh waters in the UK: algae, amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, macrophytes, mammals and reptiles. Algae (except stoneworts) were not included in the UK Checklist of Freshwater Species as they are currently undergoing a major revision. Other microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and viruses) are also not included in this species list. The checklist was compiled to allow querying of freshwater species data in the Biological Records Centre (BRC) but to also to query freshwater species data from the BRC via the UK Lakes Portal ( https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/), as well as to update the freshwater species list supplied to the UK Species Inventory (UKSI) partners, such as Recorder 6, National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas and iRecord. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-24
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-05-01
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
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Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Gunn, I.
Point of contact Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Gunn, I.D.M.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Carvalho, L. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Davies, C.E.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Edwards, F.K. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Furse, M.T.
Author Fish Conservation Centre
Maitland, P.S.
Author Natural History Museum
Raper, C.
Author British Trust for Ornithology Siriwardena, G.M.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Winfield, I.J. Author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd/UK_checklist_of_freshwater_species.csv Download the data
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- Non geographic dataset
- Other
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nonGeographicDataset
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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species was put together between 2015-2017 by Iain Gunn (CEH Edinburgh) in collaboration with Laurence Carvalho (CEH Edinburgh), Chris Raper (Natural History Museum (NHM)), Gavin Siriwardena (British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)) and Ian Winfield (CEH Lancaster). The checklist was compiled, primarily, under the auspices of the NERC Highlights Hydroscape project (NEC05609). The freshwater invertebrate component of the checklist was updated by Iain Gunn predominantly based on the 2011 version of the Mike Furse (ex-CEH Dorset, now retired)/Peter Maitland (Fish Conservation Centre) invertebrate code list compiled by Cynthia Davies (ex-CEH Wallingford, now retired) and Francois Edwards (CEH Wallingford).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:34:15
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
