RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems

The database is the result of a global compilation effort of long-term riverine fish surveys from the sYNGEO working group from 46 regional and national monitoring programs as well as individual academic research efforts upon which numerous basic and applied questions in ecology and global change research can be explored. Main types of variables contained: The database includes 11,386 time-series of riverine fish community catch data, including 646,270 species-specific abundance records together with metadata related to geographic location and sampling methodology of each time-series. The database contains 11,072 unique sampling locations (stream reach), spanning 19 countries, 5 biogeographic realms, and 402 hydrographic basins worldwide. Time period and grain: The database encompasses the period 1951–2019. Eachtime-series is composed of a minimum of two yearly surveys and represents a minimum time span of 10 years. Major taxa and level of measurement: The database includes 944 species of ray-finned fishes (Class Actinopterygii).

About this resource

Alternate Identifier: ce70b699-56d5-4e30-94f6-36c6cb19df2b

Publication Date: 2022-09-19

Title: RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems

Short Name: RivFishTIME

Abstract: The database is the result of a global compilation effort of long-term riverine fish surveys from the sYNGEO working group from 46 regional and national monitoring programs as well as individual academic research efforts upon which numerous basic and applied questions in ecology and global change research can be explored. Main types of variables contained: The database includes 11,386 time-series of riverine fish community catch data, including 646,270 species-specific abundance records together with metadata related to geographic location and sampling methodology of each time-series. The database contains 11,072 unique sampling locations (stream reach), spanning 19 countries, 5 biogeographic realms, and 402 hydrographic basins worldwide. Time period and grain: The database encompasses the period 1951–2019. Eachtime-series is composed of a minimum of two yearly surveys and represents a minimum time span of 10 years. Major taxa and level of measurement: The database includes 944 species of ray-finned fishes (Class Actinopterygii).

Dataset Language: English

Dataset Creator: Illinois State University - Lise Comte ()

Metadata Provider: Illinois State University - Lise Comte ()

Dataset Contact: Illinois State University - Lise Comte ()

Keywords (NA)

Species abundance
Biodiversity
Conservation
Freshwater streams and rivers
Actinopterygii
Temporal trends

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description: Global

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate: -180

East Bounding Coordinate: 180

North Bounding Coordinate: 90

South Bounding Coordinate: -90

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Range of Dates

Begin Date: 1951-01-01

End Date: 2019-12-31

Taxonomic Coverage

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Kingdom

Taxonomic Rank Value: Animalia

Common Name

Taxon ID

License Information

Intellectual Rights

Resource License

License Name: Creative Common BY 4.0

URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Acknowledgements

Distribution

Online

A brief description of the the content of online URL.: RivFishTIME Data

URL: https://idata.idiv.de/ddm/Data/DownloadZip/1873?version=5514

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Citation: Comte, L., Carvajal-Quintero, J, Tedesco, P., Giam, X., Brose, U., Eros, T., Filipe, A.F., Fortin, M.-J., Irving, K., Jacquet, C., Larsen, S., Sharma, S., Ruhi, A., Becker, F.G., Casatti L., Castaldelli, G., Dala-Corte, R.B., Davenport, S.R., Franssen, N.R., García-Berthou, E., Gavioli, A., Gido, K.B., Jimenez-Segura, L., Leitão, R.P., McLarney, B., Meador, J., Milardi, M., Moffatt, D.M., Occhi, T.V.T., Pompeu, P.S., Propst, D.L., Pyron, M., Salvador, G.N., Stefferud, J.A., Sutela, T., Taylor, C., Terui, A., Urabe, H., Vehanen, T., Vitule, J.R.S., Zeni, J.O., Olden, J.D. (2020). DATASET: RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems [Dataset]. iDiv Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.1873-10-4000.

• Data Table

Name: 1873_2_RivFishTIME_SourceTable.csv

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Externally Defined Format

Format Name: CSV

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Name: SourceID

Label: Source ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the primary dataset

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Name: DataOwner

Label: Data owner

Definition: Name(s) of the data responsible for each primary dataset

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Name: PointContact

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Name: Citation

Label: Citation

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Name: URLaccess

Label: URL access

Definition: Online link to the raw data (when publicly available)

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Name: 1873_2_RivFishTIME_SurveyTable.csv

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Name: Variable name

Label: Variable name

Definition: Variable description

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Name: TimeSeriesID

Label: Time series ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the time-series

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Name: SurveyID

Label: Survey ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the surveys

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Name: Year

Label: Year

Definition: Sampling year

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Name: Quarter

Label: Quarter

Definition: Sampling quarter (1: January-March; 2: April-June; 3; July-September; 4: October - December)

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Name: Species

Label: Species

Definition: Latin name of fish species

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Name: Abundance

Label: Abundance

Definition: Species abundance records

Standard Unit

Attribute

Name: UnitAbundance

Label: Unit abundance

Definition: Unit of abundance records (abundance class, count, CPUE, individuals/100m2, Leslie index, relative abundance)

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• Data Table

Name: 1873_2_RivFishTIME_TimeseriesTable.csv

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Name: SourceID

Label: Source ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the primary dataset

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Name: SiteID

Label: Site ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the site

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Name: TimeSeriesID

Label: Time series ID

Definition: Unique identifier of the time series

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Attribute

Name: Protocol

Label: Protocol

Definition: Consistent sampling protocol used for each time series through time (electrofishing: backpack, shore-based or boat mounted electrofishers, netting: dip nets, gill nets, beach or pelagic seines, trapping: minnow traps, fyke nets or hoop neets, trawling)

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Name: Latitude

Label: Latitude

Definition: Latitude of the sites (WGS84)

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Name: Longitude

Label: Longitude

Definition: Longitude of the sites (WGS84)

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Name: BioRealm

Label: Biogeographic realm

Definition: Biogeographic realm according to Olson et al. 2001 ( https://databasin.org)

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Name: HydroBasin

Label: Hydrographic basin

Definition: Hydrographic basin according to HydroSheds (version 1.0; http://hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov)

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Name: Country

Label: Country

Definition: Country ISO code as described in the ISO 3166 international standard

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Name: Region

Label: Region

Definition: Regions / administrative unit name

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Annotation

Property URI

Value URI

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Name: Province

Label: Province

Definition: Province / administrative unit name

Standard Unit

Attribute

Name: Waterbody

Label: Water body

Definition: Sampled water body name

Standard Unit

Default

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