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A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's river network, 2007-2018.

ABSTRACT: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland is responsible for the ecological monitoring and assessment of 37 hydrometric areas covering 46 river catchments and over 13,000?km of river channel nationwide. The national river monitoring program commenced in 1971 and has developed further since 2007 into the National Rivers Water Framework Directive (WFD) Monitoring Program following the implementation of the WFD across the European Union. The monitoring program is designed to obtain sufficiently representative information to assess ecological quality for each water body assessed. Consequently, macroinvertebrate data have been collected at over 2,900 river survey stations on a minimum 3-year cycle to fulfil these requirements. While the EPA has collected these data for water quality assessments we recognize that the data have value beyond this one purpose. We provide a summary of how these 10,987 data records, covering the years 2007 to 2018, have been collected and used to deepen understanding of water quality, biodiversity and general ecological health of Ireland's river network.

SUBMITTER: Feeley HB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7447801 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's river network, 2007-2018.

Feeley Hugh B HB Bradley Catherine C Free Gary G Kennedy Bryan B Little Ruth R McDonnell Neasa N Plant Caroline C Trodd Wayne W Wynne Caroline C Boyle Shane O' SO

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland is responsible for the ecological monitoring and assessment of 37 hydrometric areas covering 46 river catchments and over 13,000 km of river channel nationwide. The national river monitoring program commenced in 1971 and has developed further since 2007 into the National Rivers Water Framework Directive (WFD) Monitoring Program following the implementation of the WFD across the European Union. The monitoring program is designed to obtain suffi ...[more]

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A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's river network, 2007-2018.

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A national macroinvertebrate dataset collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's river network, 2007-2018.

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