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Tab created: 2022-01-21

Name Name of the biodiversity monitoring initiative

Friendly name Short and comprehensive name to be used in visualizations. Not required. (i.e. PT - BMS)

Geographical coverage

Geographic coverage At what scale is data collected by the monitoring initiative? (e.g. EU, Biogeographic Region)

Covered countries Select the countries covered by this monitoring initiative

Is the data representative for the whole country? If the answer is yes, stop here. If the answer is NO, and the monitoring sites are concentrated in a particular region, please, select the corresponding NUTS level region

If the biodiversity data/initiative has a subnational coverage or is not representative in whole country for national coverage, select first the corresponding country ("Nuts country" field) and then the NUT levels 1-2-3 covered (multiple choice allowed). If you don´t find the relevant the NUTS region/s in the provided list, please use the field "Geographic coverage" to give further details of the coverage of the biodiversity data/initiative.

Nuts country

Covered nuts

Geographic coverage detail Further details of the geographic scope. For example, if data is collected at the Biogeographic region level, indicate here the specific regions (e.g. Mediterranean)

Data origin Select from the list: systematic monitoring, opportunistic observations, automatic recording, remote sensing, others

Data origin details

Lake Zurich is located at 406 m above sea level on the Swiss Plateau, immediately to the north of the Swiss Alps. With a maximum depth of 136 m, a surface area of 65 km2 and a volume of 3.3 km3, it is one of the largest European peri- alpine lakes and serves as a source of drinking water for almost 1 million people. The complete overturn of the lake during winter mixing does not occur every year and the frequency with which complete overturn occurs is decreasing as a consequence of climate warming (Peeters et al. 2002, Anneville et al. 2004).

Lake Zurich has been monitored for decades with a monthly frequency as part of the monitoring program by the Zurich Water Supply Company (WVZ). Sampling of physical and biological variables occurred at the deepest point of the lake; depth resolution is comparatively fine for a long term historical lake data-set, and includes both physical and biological parameters at: 0, 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15, 20, 30, 40, 80, 120 and 135 m. We used data from 1977 to 2008, which included chemistry, physics and phytoplankton for each of the above described 14 depths. Zooplankton counts, mainly targeting crustaceans (no rotifer and ciliates), were obtained by plankton net-collection (95 μm pore size) from bottom (136 m) to top (0 m) in the same location and at same date of the other parameters. Phytoplankton identification, counts and measurements were carried out under an inverted microscope after sedimentation in chambers.

Brief description of the monitoring initiative: how the data is collected (e.g. sampling transects), what is the frequency of data collection, etc. Please, write here any details that might be relevant for the dataflow that builds on this biodiversity data, including relevant URLs and bibliographic references

Purpose What is driving the monitoring initiative?

Data type Select from the list

Data collection origin Citizen science data includes data collected by volunteers of different backgrounds for example, most of the data uploaded to EBP comes from non-professional birdwatchers and the EBBA2 (European Atlas of Breeding Birds) trained volunteers over different countries to collect the data following the Atlas methodology. Both are examples of citizen science data. Government data includes monitoring programs run by employees of state/governmental agencies and public institutes such as the Nature Conservation Institute. Professional monitoring will include data collected by consultancies or NGOs for example.

Data accessibility Is the data openly available?

Data url Please, indicate the URL to access or request the data

Taxonomy

Target realm Target realm

Target taxa Target taxa

Check this box if you have a list of taxa to upload for this biodiversity data (no need to check it when sending all species available or generalist monitoring programs)

Target species List of the target species/habitats covered in the monitoring initiative. If you don´t find a thesaurus for the taxa of your interest, you might need to upload a New Thesaurus first – see tab New Thesaurus – and then, use the option “Choose Thesaurus” to select all or a subset of the taxa concerning this particular DataStream (the species integrated in a particular indicator/EBV/ESS)

Spatial scale

Spatially explicit Does the monitoring initiative collect/generate spatially-explicit data?

Spatial resolution what is the spatial scale of the data collected?

Resolution Spatial scale resolution value (numeric)

Resolution units Spatial scale resolution units (km or m)

Number of sites Indicate the approximate number of monitoring sampling sites covered

Temporal scale

Temporal scale One-off (occasional records) or temporal series

Temporal resolution If time series is selected in the 'temporal scale' field, please, select the temporal resolution of the data

Start year Since when is this monitoring initiative running? (oldest data records available for this monitoring program, regardless of how these data gets used in the integration initiative under consideration).

Ongoing Indicate whether the monitoring initiative is currently ongoing

Last year Last date the database was updated (please, leave empty if unknown)