species (taxonomic group) per site database including environmental information
data type:
point data/observation data
short description of the dataset/summary:
The EFI+ database was derived within the EU-project "Improvement and Spatial extension of the European Fish Index (EFI+)". EFI+, an EU FP6 research project from 2007-2009 was designed to gain new knowledge and to further develop and improve new biological assessment methods to meet needs of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The output of the project was a methodological approach to assess the ecological status of rivers in accordance with the WFD. Therefore the EFI+ project represents a direct and important contribution to the Water Framework Directive in further development and implementation of harmonised fish-based assessment tools and methodology that can be used as a standard method in EU Member States, as well as Candidate countries.
The overall objective of EFI+ was to overcome existing limitations of the European Fish Index (EFI) by developing a new, more accurate and pan-European fish index. The related database covers 15 European countries and contains 14 221 fish sampling sites.
Do you plan to publish the data on the Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal:
yes
update level:
completed
documentation:
type:
manual, others/specify
others/details:
deliverables of the EU project
language:
English
contact details:
metadata contact person:
first, last name:
Rafaela
Schinegger
phone:
+43 1 4765481223
email:
rafaela.schinegger@boku.ac.at
institution:
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management
address:
Max Emanuel-Strasse 17
postal code, city:
1180
Vienna
province, state:
Vienna
country:
Austria
web address:
http://www.wau.boku.ac.at/en/ihg/
technical contact person:
first, last name:
Andreas
Melcher
phone:
+43 1 4765481223
email:
andreas.melcher@boku.ac.at
scientific contact person:
first, last name:
Stefan
Schmutz
phone:
+43 1 4765481200
email:
stefan.schmutz@boku.ac.at
comments:
Acknowledgements are going to Florian Pletterbauer who integrated the EFI+ metadata into the Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal and made data-requests with EFI+ partners about publishing absence/presence data of species.
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
data contributors to/owners of this dataset:
multiple
number:
22
data contributor/owner 1
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
andreas.melcher@boku.ac.at
contact institute:
BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 2
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
uwe.braemick@ifb-potsdam.de
contact institute:
Institut für Binnenfischerei e.V.
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 3
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
teppo.vehanen@rktl.fi
contact institute:
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 4
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
samuel.dembski@onema.fr
contact institute:
ONEMA
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 5
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
maio@aquaprogram.it
contact institute:
Aquaprogram.s.r.l.
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 6
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
maio@aquaprogram.it
contact institute:
Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 7
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
maio@aquaprogram.it
contact institute:
Provincia di Venezia
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 8
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
maio@aquaprogram.it
contact institute:
Provincia di Verona
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 9
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
maio@aquaprogram.it
contact institute:
Provincia di Vicenza
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 10
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
HFNaturschutzdaten@forst.hessen.de
contact institute:
Hessen-Forst FENA
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 11
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
diego.gjalon@upm.es
contact institute:
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 12
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
halasi1@t-online.hu
contact institute:
Research Insitute for Fisheries Aquaculture and Irrigation
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 13
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
r.a.noble@hull.ac.uk
contact institute:
Hull University
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 14
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
I.G.Cowx@hull.ac.uk
contact institute:
Hull University
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 15
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
kbattes@yahoo.com
contact institute:
Bacau University
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 16
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
terferreira@isa.utl.pt
contact institute:
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 17
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
armin.peter@eawag.ch
contact institute:
eawag
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 18
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
tom.buijse@deltares.nl
contact institute:
Deltares
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 19
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
graeme.peirson@environment-agency.gov.uk
contact institute:
Environment Agency UK
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
other/additional criteria:
Acknowledge the source of the information by including the following attribution statement: "Contains Environment Agency information of Environment Agency and database rights."
data contributor/owner 20
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
tvirbickas@takas.lt
contact institute:
Nature Research Centre
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
data contributor/owner 21
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
pdebow@infish.com.pl
contact institute:
Inland Fisheries Institute in Olsztyn
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
comments:
Polish fish data were delivered to the Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal through a BioFresh contingency fund project compiled by J. Kotusz (dataset "BF_CF8").
data contributor/owner 22
contact name:
contact orcid:
contact position:
contact email:
patrik.bohman@slu.se
contact institute:
Institute of Freshwater Research- Swedish Board of Fisheries
contact country:
criteria for using this part of the dataset:
The dataset needs to be requested from dataset creator with specific conditions of use.
comments:
Data belongs to the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management which did not give any response to the data approval.
citation of this dataset:
author(s):
EFI+ Consortium
title and journal (name, number, pages):
Central database EFI+. Improvement and spatial extension of the European Fish Index. http://efi-plus.boku.ac.at/
year:
2009
citation of the metadata:
author(s):
Schinegger R., Pletterbauer F., Melcher A. & Schmutz S.
title and journal (name, number, pages):
Metadata describing the European Fish Index Plus (EFI+) database. Freshwater Metadata Journal 0: 0-0
year:
0000
doi (if applicable):
https://doi.org/10.15504/fmj.0000.0
comments:
IHG/BOKU was lead partner of the EFI+-project. Due to the complicated structure of intellectual property rights (data was not sampled during the project but gathered through national institutions) BOKU performed a data approval call among all former project partners to approve data to be published through the Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal (BioFresh). In this list of database providers only those are mentioned who approved data for the BioFresh data portal.
Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Oceania
countries:
Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Somaliland
North America: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Clipperton Island, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Navassa Island, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, United States Virgin Islands
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Abkhazia, Taiwan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia
Europe: Åland Islands, Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City, Kosovo, Pridnestrovie (Transnistria)
Oceania: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
freshwater ecoregions of the world (FEOW) according to WWF:
Africa:
Albertine Highlands, Amatolo - Winterberg Highlands, Ashanti, Bangweulu - Mweru, Bight Drainages, Cape Fold, Coastal East Africa, Comoros - Mayotte, Cuanza, Cuvette Centrale, Drakensberg - Maloti Highlands, Dry Sahel, Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands, Eburneo, Ethiopian Highlands, Etosha, Fouta - Djalon, Horn of Africa, Inner Niger Delta, Kafue, Kalahari, Karoo, Karstveld Sink Holes, Kasai, Lake Chad, Lake Malawi, Lake Rukwa, Lake Tana, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Turkana, Lake Victoria Basin, Lower Congo, Lower Congo Rapids, Lower Niger - Benue, Lower Nile, Lower Zambezi, Madagascar Eastern Highlands, Madagascar Eastern Lowlands, Mai Ndombe, Malagarasi - Moyowosi, Malebo Pool, Mascarenes, Mediterranean Northwest Africa, Middle Zambezi - Luangwa, Mount Nimba, Mulanje, Namib, Niger Delta, Nile Delta, Northern Eastern Rift, Northern Gulf of Guinea Drainages, Northern Upper Guinea, Northwestern Madagascar, Ogooue - Nyanga - Kouilou - Niari, Okavango, Pangani, S. Tome & Principe - Annobon, Sahara, Sangha, Senegal - Gambia, Seychelles, Shebelle - Juba, Southern Eastern Rift, Southern Gulf of Guinea Drainages - Bioko, Southern Kalahari, Southern Madagascar, Southern Temperate Highveld, Southern Upper Guinea, Sudanic Congo - Oubangi, Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages, Tumba, Uele, Upper Congo, Upper Congo Rapids, Upper Lualaba, Upper Niger, Upper Nile, Upper Zambezi Floodplains, Volta, Western Equatorial Crater Lakes, Western Madagascar, Western Orange, Western Red Sea Drainages, Zambezian Headwaters, Zambezian Highveld, Zambezian Lowveld
North America:
Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal, Alaskan Coastal, Ameca - Manantlan, Apalachicola, Appalachian Piedmont, Bahama Archipelago, Bermuda, Bonneville, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Atlantic Islands, Central Arctic Coastal, Central Prairie, Chagres, Chesapeake Bay, Chiapas - Fonseca, Chiriqui, Coatzacoalcos, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Colorado, Columbia Glaciated, Columbia Unglaciated, Cuatro Cienegas, Cuba - Cayman Islands, Cumberland, Death Valley, East Texas Gulf, Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava, English - Winnipeg Lakes, Estero Real - Tempisque, Florida Peninsula, Gila, Grijalva - Usumacinta, Gulf of St.Lawrence Coastal Drainages, Guzman - Samalayuca, Hispaniola, Isthmus Caribbean, Jamaica, Lahontan, Laurentian Great Lakes, Lerma - Chapala, Llanos El Salado, Lower Mackenzie, Lower Mississippi, Lower Rio Grande - Bravo, Mayran - Viesca, Middle Missouri, Middle Saskatchewan, Mobile Bay, Mosquitia, Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages, Oregon & Northern California Coastal, Oregon Lakes, Ouachita Highlands, Ozark Highlands, Panuco, Papaloapan, Pecos, Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands, Quintana Roo - Motagua, Rio Balsas, Rio Conchos, Rio Salado, Rio San Juan (Mexico), Rio Santiago, Rio Tuira, Sabine - Galveston, Sacramento - San Joaquin, San Juan (Nicaragua/Costa Rica), Santa Maria, Scotia - Fundy, Sierra Madre del Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora, Southern California Coastal - Baja California, Southern Hudson Bay, St.Lawrence, Teays - Old Ohio, Tennessee, Upper Mackenzie, Upper Mississippi, Upper Missouri, Upper Rio Grande - Bravo, Upper Saskatchewan, Upper Snake, Upper Usumacinta, Upper Yukon, US Southern Plains, Vegas - Virgin, West Florida Gulf, West Texas Gulf, Western Hudson Bay, Windward & Leeward Islands, Yucatan
South America:
Amazonas Estuary & Coastal Drainages, Amazonas Guiana Shield, Amazonas High Andes, Amazonas Lowlands, Atacama, Bonaerensean Drainages, Central Andean Pacific Slopes, Chaco, Cuyan - Desaguadero, Essequibo, Fluminense, Galapagos Islands, Guapore - Itenez, Guianas, Iguassu, Juan Fernandez Island, Laguna dos Patos, Lower Parana, Lower Uruguay, Madeira Brazilian Shield, Magdalena - Sinu, Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont, Mar Chiquita - Salinas Grandes, Maracaibo, North Andean Pacific Slopes - Rio Atrato, Northeastern Caatinga & Coastal Drainages, Northeastern Mata Atlantica, Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages, Orinoco Guiana Shield, Orinoco High Andes, Orinoco Llanos, Orinoco Piedmont, Paraguay, Paraiba do Sul, Parnaiba, Patagonia, Ribeira de Iguape, Rio Negro, S. Francisco, South America Caribbean Drainages - Trinidad, South Andean Pacific Slopes, Southeastern Mata Atlantica, Tapajos - Juruena, Titicaca, Tocantins - Araguaia, Tramandai - Mampituba, Ucayali - Urubamba Piedmont, Upper Parana, Upper Uruguay, Valdivian Lakes, Western Amazon Piedmont, Xingu
Asia:
Aceh, Anadyr, Andaman Islands, Aral Sea Drainages, Argun, Balkash - Alakul, Baluchistan, Biwa Ko, Borneo Highlands, Central & Eastern Java, Chao Phraya, Chin Hills - Arakan Coast, Chuya, Coastal Amur, Coastal Fujian - Zeijang, Dzungaria, East Chukotka, Eastern Borneo, Eastern Gulf of Thailand Drainages, Eastern Taiwan, Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages, Er Hai, Ganges Delta & Plain, Ganges Himalayan Foothills, Hainan, Hamgyong - Sanmaek, Helmand - Sistan, Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu, Huang He Great Bend, Indian Ocean Slope of Sumatra & Java, Indus Himalayan Foothills, Inle Lake, Inner Mongolia Endorheic Basins, Irgyz -Turgai, Kamchatka & Northern Kurils, Kapuas, Khorat Plateau (Mekong), Kolyma, Koryakia, Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong), Lake Baikal, Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu, Lake Lanao, Lake Poso, Lena, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liao He, Lower & Middle Indus, Lower & Middle Salween, Lower & Middle Syr Darya, Lower Amur, Lower Huang He, Lower Lancang (Mekong), Lower Yangtze, Mae Khlong, Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope, Malili Lakes, Malukku, Mekong Delta, Middle Amu Darya, Middle Amur, Middle Brahmaputra, Middle Yangtze, Mindanao, Namuda - Tapi, Nicobar Islands, Northeastern Borneo, Northern Annam, Northern Central Asian Highlands, Northern Central Sumatra - Western Malaysia, Northern Deccan Plateau, Northern Philippine Islands, Northwestern Borneo, Ob, Okhotsk Coast, Palawan - Busuanga - Mindoro, Qaidan, Sakhalin, Hokkaido, & Sikhote - Alin Coast, Shilka (Amur), Sitang - Irawaddy, Song Hong, Songhua Jiang, Southeastern Borneo, Southeastern Ghats, Southeastern Korean Peninsula, Southern Annam, Southern Central Sumatra, Southern Deccan Plateau, Southern Sumatra - Western Java, Sri Lanka Dry Zone, Sri Lanka Wet Zone, Sulawesi, Taimyr, Tarim, Tibetan Plateau Endorheic Drainages, Upper Amu Darya, Upper Brahmaputra, Upper Huang He, Upper Huang He Corridor, Upper Indus, Upper Irtysh, Upper Lancang (Mekong), Upper Salween, Upper Yangtze, Western Ghats, Western Mongolia, Western Taiwan, Xi Yiang, Yaghistan, Yenisei, Yunnan Lakes
Europe:
Aegean Drainages, Arabian Interior, Atlantic Northwest Africa, Barents Sea Drainages, Cantabric Coast - Languedoc, Caspian Highlands, Caspian Marine, Central & Western Europe, Central Anatolia, Coastal Levant, Crimea Peninsula, Dalmatia, Dnieper - South Bug, Dniester - Lower Danube, Don, Eastern Iberia, Esfahan, Gulf of Venice Drainages, Iceland - Jan Mayen, Ionian Drainages, Italian Peninsula & Islands, Jordan River, Kavir & Lut Deserts, Kuban, Kura - South Caspian Drainages, Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga, Lake Van, Lower Tigris & Euphrates, Namak, Northern Anatolia, Northern Baltic Drainages, Northern British Isles, Northern Hormuz Drainages, Norwegian Sea Drainages, Oman Mountains, Orontes, Orumiyeh, Sinai, Southeastern Adriatic Drainages, Southern Anatolia, Southern Baltic Lowlands, Southern Iberia, Southwestern Arabian Coast, Thrace, Turan Plain, Upper Danube, Upper Tigris & Euphrates, Vardar, Volga - Ural, Volga Delta - Northern Caspian Drainages, Western Anatolia, Western Caspian Drainages, Western Iberia, Western Transcaucasia
Iberic-Macaronesian Region (ER1), Pyrenees (ER2), Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), Alps (ER4), Dinaric Western Balkan (ER5), Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6), Eastern Balkan (ER7), Western Highlands (ER8), Central Highlands (ER9), The Carpathians (ER10), Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), Pontic Province (ER12), Western Plains (ER13), Central Plains (ER14), Baltic Province (ER15), Eastern Plains (ER16), Ireland and Northern Ireland (ER17), Great Britain (ER18), Iceland (ER19), Borealic Uplands (ER20), Tundra (ER21), Fenno-Scandian Shield (ER22), Taiga (ER23), The Caucasus (ER24), Caspic Depression (ER25), North Africa (ERX), Middle East (ERY)
ecosystem type:
rivers, lakes/ponds, wetlands, groundwater, general freshwater, coastal areas
