The WISER way of organising ecological data from European rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters

Moe, S. Jannicke; Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid; Dudley, Bernard J.; Hering, Daniel. 2013 The WISER way of organising ecological data from European rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters. Hydrobiologia, 704 (1). 11-28. 10.1007/s10750-012-1337-0

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Abstract/Summary

The implementation of the Water Framework Directive has required intense research in applied aquatic ecology in Europe, and thus created challenges for data management in international research projects. In the project Waterbodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery (WISER), biological and environmental data from rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters in 26 European countries were collated. More than one million records of biological observations were stored in the project’s central database, representing phytoplankton, macrophytes, macroalgae, angiosperms, phytobenthos, invertebrates and fish. The central database includes new data from the WISER field campaign in lakes and transitional/coastal waters during 2009–2010 (more than 6,000 biological samples from 58 waterbodies in 14 countries). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the data collated within WISER, in order to facilitate future re-use of these data by other scientists. More specifically, the objectives are to (1) describe the data management in WISER, (2) describe the structure and content of the WISER central database and (3) share experiences and give recommendations for data management in large ecological research projects.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1007/s10750-012-1337-0
Programmes:	CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Water
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Watt
ISSN:	0018-8158
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	This document is the author’s final manuscript version of the journal article, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer review process. Some differences between this and the publisher’s version remain. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from this article. The final publication is available at link.springer.com
Additional Keywords:	EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), data management, databases, taxonomy, intellectual property rights (IPR), metadata
NORA Subject Terms:	Data and Information
Date made live:	29 Nov 2012 12:53 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20604

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1007/s10750-012-1337-0

Programmes:

CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Water

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Watt

ISSN:

0018-8158

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

This document is the author’s final manuscript version of the journal article, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer review process. Some differences between this and the publisher’s version remain. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from this article. The final publication is available at link.springer.com

Additional Keywords:

EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), data management, databases, taxonomy, intellectual property rights (IPR), metadata

NORA Subject Terms:

Data and Information

Date made live:

29 Nov 2012 12:53 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20604