Benthos monitoring

Benthos monitoring The objective of benthos monitoring is to know the state of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in rivers according, in particular, to the composition of the substrate and the type of flow. Information on benthic macroinvertebrate samples collected at benthos monitoring stations is classified according to the benthos health index: iSBG for coarse-substrate streams and iSBM for soft-substrate streams. The Benthos Health Index (ISB) is a multimetric index based on benthic macroinvertebrates that assesses the biotic integrity of shallow streams. The benthos monitoring dataset includes a layer of sampling stations sampled between 2003 and 2022 and a layer of drainage areas for each type of substrate, either coarse or loose. The drainage area attribute table also provides a compilation of land use by category for the last year available at the time of data production, i.e. the year 2019.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).** 2024-04-04 Government and Municipalities of Québec lyne.pelletier@environnement.gouv.qc.ca Form DescriptorsNature and EnvironmentScience and Technology Benthos monitoringFGDB/GDB https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b/resource/2079242e-f532-4b4a-9004-2afbcd3ce76e/download/benthos_20230602.gdb.zip Benthos monitoringGEOJSON https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b/resource/994b8f3f-9ac8-401b-9b3e-ca6d0b1b718a/download/benthos_20230602.zip Benthos monitoringGPKG https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b/resource/f0327209-d0a9-49e4-90c1-a9b997fb8ef1/download/benthos_20230602.gpkg Original metadata (https://www.donneesquebec.ca)HTML https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b Metadata - Benthos monitoringPDF https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b/resource/ecb8b75f-7e4d-4729-be61-b3330d02d165/download/benthos_stations.pdf Metadata - Drainage areas of benthos monitoring stationsPDF https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/0d59c2e9-86aa-4cc0-a62b-d26301b4ef8b/resource/d032e96a-7228-43c0-bdfe-e1b1b1c08371/download/benthos_ad.pdf

The objective of benthos monitoring is to know the state of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in rivers according, in particular, to the composition of the substrate and the type of flow. Information on benthic macroinvertebrate samples collected at benthos monitoring stations is classified according to the benthos health index: iSBG for coarse-substrate streams and iSBM for soft-substrate streams. The Benthos Health Index (ISB) is a multimetric index based on benthic macroinvertebrates that assesses the biotic integrity of shallow streams. The benthos monitoring dataset includes a layer of sampling stations sampled between 2003 and 2022 and a layer of drainage areas for each type of substrate, either coarse or loose. The drainage area attribute table also provides a compilation of land use by category for the last year available at the time of data production, i.e. the year 2019.This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).

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