Historical fish survey datasets from productive aquatic ecosystems in Lithuania.

ABSTRACT: Many inland ecosystems (lakes, rivers, reservoirs, lagoons) around the world undergo regular biological monitoring surveys, including monitoring the abundance, biomass and size structure of fish communities. Yet, the majority of fish monitoring datasets for inland ecosystems remain inaccessible. This is especially true for historical datasets from the early and middle 20^th century, despite their immense importance for establishing baselines of ecosystem status (e.g., prior to manifestations of climate change and intensive fisheries impacts), assessing the current status of fish stocks, and more generally determining temporal changes in fish populations. Here we present a newly digitized fish monitoring dataset for two major Lithuanian inland ecosystems - Curonian Lagoon and Kaun

SUBMITTER: Jakubaviciute E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8891978 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature