Geotargeting spatial and temporal data of Italian freshwater high-altitude macroinvertebrates

A data set including information on macroinvertebrates identified to genus/species group/species level was created within the monitoring activities of several European and national projects. The data set includes 2111 macroinvertebrate records on temporal fragmentary data from lakes Paione (upper, middle, and lower lakes Paione), and 530 records on spatial data relative to eight other high-altitude lakes from the Ossola Valley (North-western Italy, Piedmont, Central Alps). The study area is included within the Lake Maggiore watershed. All records are georeferenced because, since the beginning of the studies, temporal data were taken in the same sampling sites over years. The temporal data span the period 1989-2020, the spatial data refer to the 2019-2020 sampling activity. The dataset is available for download in.csv format at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) data infrastructure.

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This study created a dataset on macroinvertebrates from monitoring activities in European and national projects. The dataset contains records from Lakes Paione and other high-altitude lakes in the Ossola Valley, covering temporal data from 1989 to 2020 and spatial data from 2019 to 2020.