fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:29 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Macroinvertebrates of the river Conwy catchment, UK 2016-10-04 publication 2012-12-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c 10.5285/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c doi: Edwards, F.K., Webb, G.P., Scarlett, P.M., Vincent, H.M., Cooper, D.M. (2016). Macroinvertebrates of the river Conwy catchment, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c The data consist of species level descriptions of macroinvertebrate communities from the Conwy catchment in Wales, UK, sampled over three years between 2008 and 2010. The water bodies studied are tributary streams of the river Conwy, Wales, UK. Sampling took place in November of each year. Macroinvertebrates were sampled using a 1 mm kick net following the RIVPACS (River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System) field protocol. Site variables (depth, width, velocity, substrate cover, macrophyte cover) were also recorded and are supplied as supporting information. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c Edwards, F. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Edwards, F.K. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9875-6663 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Webb, G.P. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Scarlett, P.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-8158 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Vincent, H.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Cooper, D.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-7918 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication invertebrate GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Ecosystem services Water quality Environmental survey otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Edwards, F.K., Webb, G.P., Scarlett, P.M., Vincent, H.M., Cooper, D.M. (2016). Macroinvertebrates of the river Conwy catchment, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c textTable English utf8 biota environment inlandWaters 2008-11-01 2010-11-30 -3.998 -3.653 52.99 53.303 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/fbbf2775-2f4d-478b-b59e-38aeaafaf67c.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 The data consist of species level descriptions of macroinvertebrate communities from the Conwy catchment in Wales, UK sampled over three years 2008 - 2010. Supporting habitat and geographical data are included. The waterbodies studied are tributary streams of the Conwy, Wales, UK. Sampling took place in November 2008, 2009 and 2010. Macroinvertebrates were sampled using a 1mm kick net following the RIvPACS field protocol as described in Murray-Bligh, J. A. D., Furse, M. T., Jones, F. H., Gunn, R. J. M., Dines, R. A. & Wright, J. F. (1997) Procedure for collecting and analysing macro-invertebrate samples for RIVPACS. Environment Agency and Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Bristol, UK. Site variables (depth, width, velocity, substrate cover, macrophyte cover) were also recorded as described in the above document. Samples were washed into plastic sample bags, labelled and preserved with a 4% formaldehyde solution in the field. In the laboratory, samples were washed through a 500μm sieve and all macroinvertebrates were picked from the samples and identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible, usually species. Valid taxonomic names and unique taxon identification codes were provided in Davies, C. and Edwards, F.K. (2011) Code list for recording the macroinvertebrates in freshwater in the British Isles. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. Data entry was validated by crosschecking data print outs with laboratory sheets. Map variables were derived for those point locations using the Intelligent River Network (Version 17), which was first described in Dawson, F.H., Hornby, D.D. and Hilton, J. (2002), A method for the automated extraction of environmental variables to help the classification of rivers in Britain. Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst., 12: 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.534