Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Freshwater insects comprise 60% of freshwater animal diversity; they are widely used to assess water quality, and they provide prey for numerous freshwater and terrestrial taxa. Our knowledge of the distribution of freshwater insect diversity in the USA is incomplete because we lack comprehensive, standardized data on their distributions and functional traits at the scale of the contiguous United States (CONUS). We fill this knowledge gap by presenting Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States. This database includes 2.05 million occurrence records for 932 genera in the major freshwater insect orders, at 51,044 stream locations sampled between 2001 and 2018 by federal and state biological moni

SUBMITTER: Twardochleb L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986927 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature