Data on macroinvertebrates recorded in Silene Nature Park (Latvia) in 2022

Occurrence
Latest version published by Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) on May 21, 2025 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)
Publication date:
21 May 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The dataset presents macroinvertebrate community data from 10 Latvian ponds within Silene Nature Park. The ponds were created as a habitat restoration measure on the Silene study sites of the EMYS-R project. Macrophyte data are also available for these ponds on https://www.gbif.org/dataset/18a8550a-3906-4cdd-b979-29b659147a84.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 896 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Grac C, van der Zon K (2025). Data on macroinvertebrates recorded in Silene Nature Park (Latvia) in 2022. Version 1.1. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=sileneparklatviamacroinvertebr1&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4eacf23d-23f2-494d-962e-38465d731c1b.  Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Silene; Latvia; biodiversity; animals; fauna; macroinvertebrates; invertebrates; pond; water; restoration; Observation

Contacts

Corinne Grac
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
lecturer
Université de Strasbourg
Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ENGEES, LIVE UMR 7362, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
FR
KarinaA.E. van der Zon
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
PhD candidate
Université de Strasbourg
Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ENGEES, LIVE UMR 7362, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
FR
Oleksii Marushchak
  • Custodian Steward
junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
UA
0964882670

Geographic Coverage

The dataset covers the area of ponds created within Silene site of Silene Nature Park in the sounth of Latvia.

Bounding Coordinates South West [55.684, 26.768], North East [55.695, 26.791]

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset includes data on variouse invertebrates.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca, Arthropoda, Annelida, Cnidaria, Nematoda, Bryozoa
Class Arachnida, Bivalvia, Clitellata, Diptera, Gastropoda, Hydrozoa, Insecta, Malacostraca, Oligochaeta, Phylactolaemata

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2022-07-19 / 2022-07-24

Project Data

Emys-R is a 3-year participatory transdisciplinary action-oriented research project based on seminal theories in humanities, social and natural sciences. It consolidates an existing international network of researchers and stakeholders from France, Germany, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine to share complementary knowledge and expertise on past, present and future wetlands, biodiversity and management. It aims at defining the most effective, socially-supported, ecological methods of wetland restoration in favour of the reintroduction of the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis, and for its associated biodiversity throughout Europe, based on all resources available from past and present programs of wetlands restoration and Emys reintroduction throughout Europe and long term monitoring on three study sites in France, Germany and Latvia.

Title Emys-R
Funding Emys-R (https://emysr.cnrs.fr) is funded through the 2020-2021 Biodiversa+ and Water JPI joint call for research projects, under the BiodivRestore ERA-NET Cofund (GA N°101003777), with the EU and the funding organizations Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France, grant ANR-21-BIRE-0005), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Germany, grant 16LW015), the State Education Development Agency (VIAA, Latvia, grant ES RTD/2022/2), and the National Science Center (NSC, Poland, grant 2021/03/Y/NZ8/00101).
Study Area Description Emys-R operates on three study sites where EU-funded programs of wetland restoration and Emys reintroduction took place: France (Woerr, Lauterbourg), Germany (Neuburg am Rhein) and Latvia (Lake Sitas region, Silene). These sites show contrasting biophysical and socio-ecological contexts, providing ideal case studies to assess the common and specific processes involved in the ecological and sociological success of such conservation actions.

The personnel involved in the project:

Jean-Yves Georges
Kathrin Theissinger

Sampling Methods

For each pond, one sample per mesohabitat was taken by sweep netting or scooping using a 0.05 mm hand net following the S3i method (Labat et al., 2022). The data is expressed in number of individuals per sample. The pond from which a sample was taken and the mesohabitat type from the S3i method are in the column “occurrenceRemarks”. The surface area covered by the sample is in column “locationRemarks”. Furthermore, the proportion of the pond surface covered by the same mesohabitat type as the sample is also in the column “locationRemarks”. Macroinvertebrate sampling performed with the S3i method described in Labat et al., (2022).

Study Extent The dataset represents a summarized result of surveys of the studied territory conducted in 2022 - the Silene site in Silene Nature Park (Latvia). The records of different groups of macroinvertebrates (identified to different taxonomic levels) are shown.
Quality Control The authors are fully responsible for the quality and accuracy of data provided within the published dataset.

Method step description:

  1. Conducting of the field research on the study site.
  2. Preparation of caught invertebrates in case of need.
  3. Identification of the records to certain taxonomic level.
  4. Conducting of nesessary measurements according to the methodology in order to expres the numbers of recorded taxonomic groups.
  5. Georeferencing.
  6. Organizing of a dataset according to Darwin Core requirements.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Labat, F., Piscart, C. & Thiébaut, G. Invertebrates in small shallow lakes and ponds: a new sampling method to study the influence of environmental factors on their communities. Aquat Ecol 56, 585–603 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-021-09939-1

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 4eacf23d-23f2-494d-962e-38465d731c1b
https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=sileneparklatviamacroinvertebr1