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UK Checklist of freshwater species

The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species is a collation of all the species (apart from algae) known to be found in association with fresh waters in the United Kingdom. The following eight major groups were identified as being associated with fresh waters in the UK: algae, amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, macrophytes, mammals and reptiles. Algae (except stoneworts) were not included in the UK Checklist of Freshwater Species as they are currently undergoing a major revision. Other microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and viruses) are also not included in this species list. The checklist was compiled to allow querying of freshwater species data in the Biological Records Centre (BRC) but to also to query freshwater species data from the BRC via the UK Lakes Portal (https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/), as well as to update the freshwater species list supplied to the UK Species Inventory (UKSI) partners, such as Recorder 6, National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas and iRecord. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd

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Date (Publication)
2018-05-24
Date (Creation)
2018-05-01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
Other citation details
Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Gunn, I.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Gunn, I.D.M.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Carvalho, L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-9902
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Davies, C.E.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Edwards, F.K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9875-6663
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Furse, M.T.
Author
  Fish Conservation Centre - Maitland, P.S.
Author
  Natural History Museum - Raper, C.
Author
  British Trust for Ornithology - Siriwardena, G.M.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Winfield, I.J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9296-5114
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Distribution format
  • Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species was put together between 2015-2017 by Iain Gunn (CEH Edinburgh) in collaboration with Laurence Carvalho (CEH Edinburgh), Chris Raper (Natural History Museum (NHM)), Gavin Siriwardena (British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)) and Ian Winfield (CEH Lancaster). The checklist was compiled, primarily, under the auspices of the NERC Highlights Hydroscape project (NEC05609). The freshwater invertebrate component of the checklist was updated by Iain Gunn predominantly based on the 2011 version of the Mike Furse (ex-CEH Dorset, now retired)/Peter Maitland (Fish Conservation Centre) invertebrate code list compiled by Cynthia Davies (ex-CEH Wallingford, now retired) and Francois Edwards (CEH Wallingford).
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57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
nonGeographicDataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:26:37
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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