Conservation of taxonomic and biological trait diversity of European stream macroinvertebrate communities: a case for a collective public database

摘要: The use of databases for the conservation biodiversity is increasing. During last decade, such a database has been created European stream macroinvertebrates. Today, it includes 527 sites that are least human-impacted representatives many types across regions. It data on abundance 312 invertebrate genera, several environmental site characteristics, collection methods, bibliographic sources, and 11 biological traits genera (e.g. size, life cycle, food feeding habits, described in 61 categories). will be useful addressing topics potentially relevant to conservation. To illustrate this potential, we provide examples how could exploited. First, describe frequency some taxonomic characteristics richness diversity traits) macroinvertebrate communities assess these related trait increases with genus richness). Second, occurrence frequency, abundance, dispersion index) again abundance). Finally, suggest developed into collective, publicly accessible covers regions Europe more comprehensively.