Cereja River, Bragança, Pará, Brazil: water, sediment and benthic macroinvertebrate survey data

The impact of increasing urbanization was assessed in the Cereja River, eastern Amazonia in June and July 2021 using a Riparian Habitat Diversity Index (RHDI) (RHDI_en.csv), benthic macroinvertebrate structure (fauna_atualizada.csv) and water (agua.csv) and sediment (sedimento.csv) variables in ten areas along the Cereja using multivariate analyzes. Increasing urbanization is associated with lower RHDI, abundance, diversity and equity of benthic macroinvertebrates, higher conductivity, pH, temperature, width and percentage gravel.