Freshwater invertebrates - diversity and function of stream macroinvertebrates: Effects of

Freshwater invertebrate communities from stream sites within the SAFE Project experimental area in Malaysian Borneo, including the Maliau Basin and Danum Valley. The dataset was collected by Sarah H. Luke of the University of Cambridge as part of a project funded by multiple organizations including the Sime Darby Foundation and NERC. It contains abundance data for specific taxa like Chironomids, sampled using Surber samplers along 200-meter transects.

Use Cases

• Assessing the impact of habitat conversion (e.g., old growth forest to oil palm) on macroinvertebrate community composition based on the described disturbance gradient.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of riparian buffer zones for conservation by comparing sites with and without buffers.
• Modeling species abundance distributions for specific invertebrate taxa like Chironomids based on the provided abundance columns.
• Conducting spatial ecological analysis across the described locations within the SAFE landscape, Maliau Basin, and Danum Valley.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to a well-defined habitat disturbance gradient including old growth forest, logged forest, and oil palm plantations.
• Sampling methodology is described in detail, specifying the use of a Surber sampler with a 0.33m2 quadrat and 250 μm mesh net.
• Dataset includes 48 fields and 151 data rows for the described '10m Chironomids' table.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent for the majority of the dataset; field semantics for other tables must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the full dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

SAFE Project research led by Sarah H. Luke, University of Cambridge.

Collection Method

Field sampling using Surber samplers along stream transects.

Time Range

Likely includes data from 2012/2013.

Geography

Stream sites within the SAFE Project experimental area, surrounding area, Maliau Basin, and Danum Valley in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.