Dataset on Article: Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration

The shape file contains the raw data from the Global Change Biology article "River types, hydrology, riparian land use, nutrients, toxic substances, ecological status, stressor interactions". 

General Information

Name of the dataset: MultipleStress_RiverEcoStatus.shp

Type of dataset: vector data (shape file)

Number of polygons: 52.847

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984

Contact details

Metadata / scientific contact person:

               First, last name: Sebastian Birk

               Email: sebastian.birk@uni-due.de

               Institution: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Aquatic Ecology

               Address: Universitätsstrasse 5

               Postal code, city: 45141 Essen

               Country: Germany

               Web address: https://www.uni-due.de/aquatic_ecology/

Attribute description

m_zhyd_1

• Unique identifier of FEC (Functional Elementary Catchment)
• Data structure: character

mars_bt12

• Broad river type aggregated
• Data structure: character

eco_stat_2

• Ecological status (class)
• Data structure: character

eco_stat_n

• Ecological status (numeric class)
• Data structure: integer

LoadTPArea

• Total phosphorous riverine loading (unit: kg km^-2 a^-1)
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

LoadTN_Are

• Total nitrogen riverine loading (unit: kg ha^-1 a^-1)
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

lu_r_urb

• Percent urban land use in the riparian zone
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

lu_r_agr

• Percent agricultural land use in the riparian zone
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

hy_maf_abs

• Alteration of mean annual flow (ratio scale)
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

hy_bfi_abs

• Alteration of base flow (ratio scale)
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

msPAFP5EC5

• Multi-substance Potentially Affected Fraction of species (msPAF-EC₅₀ based on 95^th percentile)
• Decimal separator: comma
• Data structure: double

Further information

For more details on the dataset, see

(Manuscript accepted, wating for publication at the moment)
 

Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the MARS project (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress), funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, contract no. 603378.