Ontario Benthic Invertebrate Communities with Habitat Data

Ontario benthic-invertebrate community structure and habitat conditions in lakes, streams, and wetlands. The dataset includes counts of invertebrates, water chemistry, and sample metadata such as geographic coordinates, collection dates, and sampling agencies. It is provided by the Government of Ontario and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze benthic community structure based on invertebrate counts
• Assess water quality conditions based on water chemistry data
• Map sampling locations and correlate with habitat types based on geographic coordinates and waterbody types
• Evaluate sampling methodologies based on descriptions of sampling effort and equipment

Strengths

• Includes multiple data facets: biological counts, chemical measurements, and spatial metadata
• Spatially explicit with geographic coordinates for samples
• Last updated 2026-04-17, indicating recent maintenance

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Biomonitoring network sampling

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:43:44.571794

Geography

Ontario, Canada