{"pk":39753,"title":"An historical and geographic data set on the distribution of macroinvertebrates in Italian mountain lakes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Macroinvertebrates play a key role in freshwater food webs, acting as major links between organic matter resources, primary consumers (such as bacteria), and secondary consumers (e.g.fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles). In this paper we present a data set encompassing all geographic and historical data available on macroinvertebrates of the Italian mountain lakes from 1902 to 2016. The data set, divided per Italian mountain range (Alps and Apennines) and administrative region, covers more than a century of studies of many foreign and Italian scientists. The data set includes 2372 records and shows macroinvertebrate occurrence data in 176 Alpine and in 13 Apennine lakes, of which 178 of natural origin, 5 reservoirs, and 6 artificially extended. The data set lists 605 taxa, updated on the basis of their current taxonomic position. Only 353 taxa are identified at species level, highlighting the still poorly investigated biodiversity of Italian mountain lake macroinvertebrates. Since they function as key elements to characterize lake ecological status, our data set emphasizes the huge taxonomic effort that still has to be undertaken to fully characterize these ecosystems. The data set is available in csv (comma-separated values) format.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"natural lakes, reservoirs, artificially extended, macroinvertebrates, high altitude, distribution"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h50d9qw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Boggero","name_suffix":"","institution":"CNR-Institute of Ecosystem Study (ISE), Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"","last_name":"Garzoli","name_suffix":"","institution":"CNR-Institute of Ecosystem Study (ISE), Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Gianfranco","middle_name":"","last_name":"Varini","name_suffix":"","institution":"Via Nuova Intra-Premeno 59, 28811 Arizzano (VB)","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-11-08T05:57:51-08:00","date_accepted":"2017-11-08T05:57:51-08:00","date_published":"2017-12-14T00:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/biogeographia/article/39753/galley/29942/download/"}]}