10.15468/mzhrqh 4e1e783d-421c-404e-aa95-803235c8fe16 https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=italian_freshwaters_mountain_macroinvertebrates Angela Boggero Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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angela.boggero@cnr.it https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Boggero 0000-0002-7534-3126 Elzbieta Dumnicka Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences Professor

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dumnicka@iop.krakow.pl https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elzbieta-Dumnicka-2 0000-0002-7604-8794 Riccardo Fornaroli Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) PostDoc

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riccardofornaroli@gmail.com https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Riccardo-Fornaroli 0000-0001-6326-5653 Daniele Paganelli Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) PostDoc

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daniele.paganelli@gmail.com https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniele-Paganelli 0000-0002-8634-7368 Silvia Zaupa Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) PostDoc

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silvia.zaupa@gmail.com https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Silvia-Zaupa 0000-0001-7379-6087 Angela Boggero Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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angela.boggero@cnr.it https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Boggero 0000-0002-7534-3126 Riccardo Fornaroli Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) PostDoc

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riccardofornaroli@gmail.com https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Riccardo-Fornaroli 0000-0001-6326-5653 Angela Boggero Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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angela.boggero@irsa.cnr.it https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Boggero 0000-0002-7534-3126 PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR 2022-12-23 ENGLISH 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 over the period 1989-2020, the spatial data refer to the 2019-2020 sampling activity. The dataset is available for download as csv format at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) data infrastructure. aquatic habitat; zoobenthos; occurence; mountain area; geographic distribution; long-term data GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/archive.do?r=italian_freshwaters_mountain_macroinvertebrates All the study lakes are in the Ossola Valley, a main valley consisting of 7 secondary Alpine valleys fan-like distributed in the northern edge of Piedmont Region at the border with Switzerland and with Lake Maggiore area to the south, surrounded by the Pennine Alps on the western side and by the Lepontine Alps on the northern and eastern sides. The lakes occupy only 4 out of 7 secondary valleys. 8.078 8.493 46.249 45.939 1989-10-17 2020-09-30 Phylum Arthropoda Phylum Annelida Phylum Mollusca Phylum Platyhelminthes Class Insecta Class Bivalvia Class Oligochaeta Class Arachnida Class Turbellaria Class Clitellata Class Malacostraca irregular Angela Boggero Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA) Researcher

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angela.boggero@cnr.it https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Boggero 0000-0002-7534-3126 Semi-quantitative macroinvertebrate samples were taken, during the ice-free season, mainly in Autumn before insect diapause, through a 2-5 min handle-netting the substrate (250 μm mesh size). <br> Different habitats were considered (gravel, pebbles, boulders, rock faces) over a 0.5-1.0 m littoral- or river-reaches sampling. Sorting and identification were performed at genus/species group/species level using Italian macroinvertebrate identification guides based each on single taxa group (AA.VV. 1977-1985), or on European identification guides on oligochaetes (Timm, 2009; Schmelz and Collado, 2010), or on chironomids (Andersen et al., 2013).<br< To be considered valid, and therefore to be included in the checklist, a species name must meet the criteria of publication in Articles 8 and 9 of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (1999, 2011). The checklist presents taxa arranged according to the Fauna Europaea classification where subgenera, species groups/series/types and species are listed alphabetically within each genus (de Jong et al. 2014). A data set including information on macroinvertebrates identified to genus/species gr./species level was created within the monitoring activities of several European and national projects. The data set includes 2115 macroinvertebrate records on temporal fragmentary data from lakes Paione (upper, middle, and lower lakes Paione), and 530 records on spatial data relative to eigth 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 over the period 1989-2020, the spatial data refer to the 2019-2020 sampling activity. Macroinvertebrates sampling was performed following the standard sampling methodologies developed within NIVA and, more recently, ICP WATERS Manuals and Programmes (NIVA 1987; ICP Waters Programme Centre 1996, 2010). Semi-quantitative macroinvertebrate samples were taken, during the ice-free season, mainly in Autumn before insect diapause, through a 2-5 min handle-netting the substrate (250 μm mesh size). At the same time, 1 L water bottle for water chemistry analyses was taken at lake-mouth where littoral water temperatures have also been recorded through a thermometer. Different habitats were considered (gravel, pebbles, boulders, rock faces) over a 0.5-1.0 m littoral- or river-reaches sampling. Sorting and identification were performed at genus/species level using Italian macroinvertebrate identification guides based each on single taxa group (AA.VV. 1977-1985), or on European identification guides on oligochaetes (Timm, 2009; Schmelz and Collado, 2010), or on chironomids (Andersen et al., 2013). Quality control was performed using a Spell Checker to correct the spelling of names, and Google maps identification of lakes, altitude, latitude and longitude coordinates standardized to WGS84 DD. The absence of anomalous ASCII characters in the dataset was also additionally checked. 2026-03-16T18:53:00Z Boggero A, Dumnicka E, Fornaroli R, Paganelli D, Zaupa S (2022). Geotargeting spatial and temporal data of Italian freshwater high-altitude macroinvertebrates. Version 1.8. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mzhrqh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-03-16. AA VV, 1977-1985. 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