Diatom taxon abundances at river sites in the Cordillera Vilcanota region of the Peruvian Andes, 2019

This dataset provides diatom taxon abundance data from 12 rivers in the Cordillera Vilcanota region of the Peruvian Andes. Benthic diatoms were collected from a 9cm2 surface on 5 submerged cobbles at each river site. Diatoms were identified and abundances determined using microscopy methods in the laboratory, then averaged across the 5 replicates for each site. Data were collected from 11/09/2019 to 18/09/2019.