Individual and population-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of Procambarus clarkii in invaded freshwater ecosystems

Two geo-referenced datasets with carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of Procambarus clarkii in invaded inland waters resolved respectively at population- and individual-scale. The population-scale dataset consists of 160 δ13C and δ15N isotopic values of P. clarkii and its potential prey, including living and non-living primary producers and benthic invertebrates. The individual-scale dataset consists of 1,168 isotopic individual records of P. clarkii. The isotopic information included within the two datasets was gathered from 10 countries located in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and from a total of 41 studies published between 2005 and 2021.

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Alternate Identifier: d25219d3-fe11-4052-879a-eb2e15ca295c

Publication Date: 2022-06-30

Title: Individual and population-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of Procambarus clarkii in invaded freshwater ecosystems

Abstract: Two geo-referenced datasets with carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of Procambarus clarkii in invaded inland waters resolved respectively at population- and individual-scale. The population-scale dataset consists of 160 δ13C and δ15N isotopic values of P. clarkii and its potential prey, including living and non-living primary producers and benthic invertebrates. The individual-scale dataset consists of 1,168 isotopic individual records of P. clarkii. The isotopic information included within the two datasets was gathered from 10 countries located in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and from a total of 41 studies published between 2005 and 2021.

Dataset Creator: University of Salento - Giorgio Mancinelli (Associate Professor)

Dataset Creator: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) - Cristina Di Muri (Research Fellow)

Metadata Provider: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) - Cristina Di Muri (Research Fellow)

Metadata Provider: University of Salento - Giorgio Mancinelli (Associate Professor)

Dataset Contact: University of Salento - Giorgio Mancinelli (Associate Professor)

Dataset Contact: National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) - Cristina Di Muri (Research Fellow)

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Procambarus clarkii
Red swamp crayfish
Louisiana crayfish
Invasive Alien Species
Stable isotope
Inland waters
Trophic habits
Trophic position
Trophic niche

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description: The datasets gather isotopic values of P. clarkii and its potential prey (population-scale dataset only) in invaded lotic and lentic habitats of 10 countries located in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Overall, the study sites were distributed over 27 locations in France mostly located in the Garonne floodplain, nine loations in the USA, seven in Japan, four in China and in Italy, two in Spain, and one in Hungary, Kenya, Portugal, and in the Netherlands.

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate: -180

East Bounding Coordinate: 180

North Bounding Coordinate: 90

South Bounding Coordinate: -90

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date: 2000-11-01

End Date: 2019-07-01

Taxonomic Coverage

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Procambarus clarkii

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Radix auricularia

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Stenopsyche marmorata

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Sparganium erectum

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Semisulcospira reiniana

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Riccia fluitans

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Potentilla anserina

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Pomacea maculata

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Phragmites australis

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Mentha aquatica

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Macrobrachium nipponense

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Hydrochara affinis

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Epophthalmia elegans

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Dreissena polymorpha

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Corbicula fluminea

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Cheumatopsyche analis

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Cipangopaludina chinensis

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Sinotaia quadrata

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Asellus aquaticus

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Anodonta anatina

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Gabbia longicornis

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Species

Taxonomic Rank Value: Alisma plantago-aquatica

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Spirogyra

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Potamogeton

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Poa

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Myriophyllum

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Gammarus

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Ephydra

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Echinogammarus

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Dreissena

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Genus

Taxonomic Rank Value: Corbicula

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Sialidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Lymnaeidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Culicidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Cyrenidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Chironomidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Family

Taxonomic Rank Value: Asellidae

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Order

Taxonomic Rank Value: Ephemeroptera

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Order

Taxonomic Rank Value: Amphipoda

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Taxonomic Rank Name: Class

Taxonomic Rank Value: Gastropoda

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Intellectual Rights: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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A brief description of the the content of online URL.: DOI

URL: https://doi.org/10.48372/d25219d3-fe11-4052-879a-eb2e15ca295c

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A brief description of the the content of online URL.: Info and download page on LifeWatch Italy Data Portal

URL: https://data.lifewatchitaly.eu/handle/123456789/129785

• Project

Title: LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative: the validation case "Functional biogeography of invasive species: the case of two widely-distributed omnivorous crustaceans".

Abstract: The Internal Joint Initiative of LifeWatch ERIC has developed five validation cases on Non-native and Invasive Species (NIS) to address a variety of ecological questions. The validation case "Functional biogeography of invasive species" aims at finding bioclimatic drivers to assess the variation of the trophic position of invasive crustaceans in non-native food webs.

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Organization Name: University of Salento

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Given Name: Giorgio

Surname: Mancinelli

Position Name: Associate Professor

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Organization Name: National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET)

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Given Name: Cristina

Surname: Di Muri

Position Name: Research Fellow

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Organization Name: National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET)

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Given Name: Ilaria

Surname: Rosati

Position Name: Data Manager

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Organization Name: LifeWatch ERIC

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Given Name: Lucia

Surname: Vaira

Position Name: Metadata Catalogue Manager

• Method

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Description: The Google Scholar engine was used to search for relevant publications using the keywords "Procambaus clarkii" and "stable isotopes" and a total of 651 publications were returned. Publications were individually inspected in order to identify those reporting tabular or graphical information on the isotopic values of the crayfish and of potential prey; 41 studies performed in both freshwater and transitional environments and published between 2005 and 2021 were ultimately selected. For data extraction, figures were digitised after a fivefold enlargement and converted to numerical form using the WebPlotDigitizer graph capture software.

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Description: Only records with specified locations were included in the datasets. The location accuracy was checked using Google Earth and, when geographical coordinates were not explicit, the maps of the study sites were used to retrieve them from Google Earth. All geographic coordinates were converted to decimal degrees when not originally specified as such. A taxonomic check was additionally performed using the World Register of Marine Species, the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System to check the current accepted scientific names of all taxa included in the datasets.

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Description: Primary producers, including living (e.g. macrophytes, periphyton, etc.) and non-living (i.e. detritus) organisms were preferentially used as baseline species included in the aggregated dataset. In few instances, herbivorous gastropods, aquatic larval stages of insects, and other invertebrates occurring at the study sites and characterised by a trophic position = 2 were chosen (i.e. Stenopsyche marmorata, Macrobrachium nipponense, Ephydra sp., and Cheumatopsyche analis). Only in two cases, two species of vertebrate predators with a trophic position = 3 were included (i.e. Epophthalmia elegans and Hydrochara affinis).

• Data Table

Name: Population-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of Procambarus clarkii in invaded freshwater ecosystems

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Label: Catalog Number

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Standard Unit: number

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Label: Habitat

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Name: eventDate

Label: Event Date

Definition: The date-time or interval during which an Event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date-time when the event was recorded. Not suitable for a time in a geological context.

Standard Unit: nominalYear

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Name: decimalLatitude

Label: Decimal Latitude

Definition: The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are north of the Equator, negative values are south of it.

Standard Unit: degree

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Name: decimalLongitude

Label: Decimal Longitude

Definition: The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it.

Standard Unit: degree

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Name: taxonName

Label: Taxon Name

Definition: Name of the biological entity, taxonomic group, or lowest level of taxonomic rank that could be determined.

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Name: establishmentMeans

Label: Establishment Means

Definition: Statement about whether an organism or organisms have been introduced to a given place and time through the direct or indirect activity of modern humans ( https://dwc.tdwg.org/em/#dwcem_e).

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Name: trophicRole

Label: Trophic Role

Definition: Statement specifying whether the species is a predator or a prey.

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Name: d13C_VPDB_biota

Label: Enrichment with respect to Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite (VPDB) of carbon-13 {13C CAS 14762-74-4} {delta(13)C} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry

Definition: The ratio of carbon 13 relative to carbon 12 in a biological organism identified elsewhere in the metadata, expressed in per mille and relative to the international reference Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite standard.

Standard Unit: permil

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Name: SD_d13C_VPDB_biota

Label: Enrichment standard deviation of carbon-13 {13C CAS 14762-74-4} {delta(13)C} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry

Definition: The square root of the average of the squares of deviations about the mean of a set of values of the specified measurement.

Standard Unit: number

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Name: d15N_biota

Label: Enrichment of nitrogen-15 {15N CAS 14390-96-6} {delta(15)N} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry

Definition: The ratio of nitrogen 15 relative to nitrogen 14 in a biological organism identified elsewhere in the metadata, expressed in per mille and relative to atmospheric air.

Standard Unit: permil

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Name: SD_d15N_biota

Label: Enrichment standard deviation of nitrogen-15 {15N CAS 14390-96-6} {delta(15)N} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry

Definition: The square root of the average of the squares of deviations about the mean of a set of values of the specified measurement.

Standard Unit: number

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Name: sampleSizeValue_d13C

Label: Sample Size Value d13C

Definition: A numeric value for the measurement of the size (number of samples) in a sampling event for the isotope of the chemical element carbon.

Standard Unit: number

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Name: sampleSizeValue_d15N

Label: Sample Size Value d15N

Definition: A numeric value for the measurement of the size (number of samples) in a sampling event for the isotope of the chemical element nitrogen.

Standard Unit: number

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Name: trophicLevel

Label: Trophic Level

Definition: Any of the feeding levels through which the passage of energy through an ecosystem proceeds; examples are photosynthetic plants, herbivorous animals, and microorganisms of decay.

• Data Table

Name: Individual-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of Procambarus clarkii in invaded freshwater ecosystems

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Format Name: csv

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Name: catalogNumber

Label: Catalog Number

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Standard Unit: number

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Name: associatedReferences

Label: Associated References

Definition: A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, bibliographic reference, global unique identifier, URI) of literature associated with the Occurrence.

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Name: country

Label: Country

Definition: The name of the country or major administrative unit in which the Location occurs.

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Name: locality

Label: Locality

Definition: The specific description of the place.

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Name: habitat

Label: Habitat

Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.

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Name: eventDate

Label: Event Date

Definition: The date-time or interval during which an Event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date-time when the event was recorded. Not suitable for a time in a geological context.

Standard Unit: nominalYear

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Name: scientificName

Label: Scientific Name

Definition: The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known. When forming part of an Identification, this should be the name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. This term should not contain identification qualifications, which should instead be supplied in the IdentificationQualifier term.

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Name: decimalLatitude

Label: Decimal Latitude

Definition: The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are north of the Equator, negative values are south of it.

Standard Unit: degree

Attribute

Name: decimalLongitude

Label: Decimal Longitude

Definition: The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it.

Standard Unit: degree

Attribute

Name: d13C_VPDB_biota

Label: Enrichment with respect to Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite (VPDB) of carbon-13 {13C CAS 14762-74-4} {delta(13)C} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry

Definition: The ratio of carbon 13 relative to carbon 12 in a biological organism identified elsewhere in the metadata, expressed in per mille and relative to the international reference Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite standard.

Standard Unit: permil

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Name: d15N_biota

Label: Enrichment of nitrogen-15 {15N CAS 14390-96-6} {delta(15)N} in biota {biological entity specified elsewhere} by mass spectrometry.

Definition: The ratio of nitrogen 15 relative to nitrogen 14 in a biological organism identified elsewhere in the metadata expressed in per mille and relative to atmospheric air.

Standard Unit: permil

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