Fatty acid data among habitats and between seasons in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, 2018-2019

Fatty acid profiles to represent the aquatic food web of the freshwater habitats from
wet and dry seasons of the Everglades, Florida, USA. This dataset provides fatty acid
profiles for a range of food-web members from basal resources (vascular plants, benthic
flocculent matter, periphyton), aquatic invertebrates, amphibians, and fishes (including
non-native and invasive species). Each sample is a composite of six individuals on average.
Samples were collected from multiple habitats across sites in Shark River Slough and Taylor
Slough in the wet (2018) and dry (2019) seasons. In some cases, in order to have enough
tissue to make a composite sample, the composite was made at a higher level then at a
habitat within a site. For example, some composites are from the same slough-season-habitat
and combined from multiple sites. The goal was to capture as much of the aquatic food web in
the wet and dry seasons as possible to build fatty-acid derived food-web snap shots, not
necessarily to quantify variation at various levels of different factors (e.g., habitat and
site). However, common species are relatively well replicated among factor levels. Data
collection is complete.