Assisted colonization of a regionally native predator impacts benthic invertebrates in fishless mountain lakes

The data package includes: 1) raw count data collected from 202 sample sites at 36 alpine and sub-alpine lakes (including zooplankton) (RAW_taxa_2015_2016.xlsx); 2) density values (individuals·m2) for 26 common (present in >10 % of lakes) littoral invertebrate (rare taxa and zooplankton excluded), categorized by lake group (fishless, nonnative, native) (taxa.csv); 3) density values (individuals·m2) for 50 littoral invertebrate families (rare taxa included, zooplankton excluded), categorized by lake group (fishless, nonnative, native) (taxa_diversitymeasures.csv), and; 4) environmental predictor variables for each lake, categorized by lake group (fishless, nonnative, native) (env.csv). All anlayses performed in the publication are combined into one R script (R_Script_Banting_etal.R). All data comes from Kootenay National Park, B.C., and Banff National Park, Alberta. Date of data collection: June & July of 2015 & 2016