FRESHWATER METADATA JOURNAL

Title

Abiotic and biotic data of the rivers Pinka and Lafnitz 2012 - 2014

Author(s)

Heidelinde Trimmel, Gerda Kalny, Florian Dossi, Herbert Formayer, Wolfram Graf, Patrick Leitner, David Leidinger, Imran Nadeem, Hans Peter Rauch, Philipp Weihs & Andreas Melcher

Abstract

During the project BIO_CLIC abiotic and biotic data of the rivers Pinka and Lafnitz were collected from the year 2012 until 2014, in order to analyse the present state of river morphology, riparian vegetation, riparian microclimate, fish species and benthic invertebrate abundance and diversity. This data was produced to be able to predict the near stream microclimate and stream water temperature until the end of the century, estimate the stress on aquatic organisms and the ability of vegetation to mitigate this stress. Initially only stream water observations, predictions of the river Pinka and corresponding input data for extreme heat wave events used in Trimmel et al. (2016a) are available for download. Other parts of the data set may be included later after they have been published.

Keywords

stream temperature, riparian vegetation, Pinka, Lafnitz, simulations, benthic invertebrates, fish, climate change, Heat Source, oberservations

How to cite this article

Trimmel H., Kalny G., Dossi F., Formayer H., Graf W., Leitner P., Leidinger D., Nadeem I., Rauch H. P. , Weihs P. & Melcher A., 2017. Abiotic and biotic data of the rivers Pinka and Lafnitz 2012 - 2014. Freshwater Metadata Journal 22: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.15504/fmj.2017.22