Description
During 23 years, 3 institutions sampled fish in the Belgian part of the river Meuse with two distincts methodologies.
Data were provided by the survey of fish passages in fish ladders at Tailfer (upstream Namur) and Lixhe (downstream Liège) over the 1989-2011 period (Matondo & Ovidio 2016). Fish were collected daily in a trap placed in the upper pool of the ladder when the migration peaks occurred, and twice a week outside the major migration period. All the fish species were identified and species abundances were estimated without taking into account the juveniles and the youngs-of-the-year. Annual fish abundances were expressed as monthly averages.
Data from Hastière, Andenne and Visé were provided by electrofishing from a boat along the banks in 1994, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Abundances were expressed as number of individuals by 100m² of river sampled.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 39 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Latli Adrien, Ovidio Michael, Kestemont Patrick (2017). Fish abundance evolution in the Belgian River Meuse from 1989 to 2012.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is BioFresh. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7f747121-a7c3-4da1-9bc2-7b1ee63112d9. BioFresh publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data.
Keywords
rivers; ; Biosphere; Terrestrial Hydrosphere; Biota; Samplingevent
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- 22 Quai Van Beneden,
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Geographic Coverage
Belgian part of the Meuse basin
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [50.078, 4.669], North East [50.764, 6.218] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All fish were identified to species
| Species | Fish |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1989-01-01 / 2011-01-01 |
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Sampling Methods
Data were provided by the survey of fish passages in fish ladders at Tailfer (upstream Namur) and Lixhe (downstream Liège) over the 1989-2011 period (Matondo & Ovidio 2016). Fish were collected daily in a trap placed in the upper pool of the ladder when the migration peaks occurred, and twice a week outside the major migration period. All the fish species were identified and species abundances were estimated without taking into account the juveniles and the youngs-of-the-year. Annual fish abundances were expressed as monthly averages. Data from Hastière, Andenne and Visé were provided by electrofishing from a boat along the banks in 1994, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Abundances were expressed as number of individuals by 100m² of river sample
| Study Extent | During 23 years, 3 institutions sampled fish in the Belgian part of the river Meuse with two distincts methodologies. |
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Method step description:
- commonly used series of methods steps regarding fish (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)
Additional Metadata
This article is currently under review in the journal Ecological applications
| Alternative Identifiers | SF_6 |
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| Meuse River fish dataset | |
| 7f747121-a7c3-4da1-9bc2-7b1ee63112d9 | |
| http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ipt/resource?r=sf6-meuse_fish |