Dataset on Article: Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration

The shape file contains the raw data from the Global Change Biology article "River types, hydrology, riparian land use, nutrients, toxic substances, ecological status, stressor interactions". <strong>General Information</strong> Name of the dataset: MultipleStress_RiverEcoStatus.shp Type of dataset: vector data (shape file) Number of polygons: 52.847 Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984 <strong>Contact details</strong> Metadata / scientific contact person: First, last name: Sebastian Birk Email: [e-mail] Institution: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Aquatic Ecology Address: Universitätsstrasse 5 Postal code, city: 45141 Essen Country: Germany Web address: https://www.uni-due.de/aquatic_ecology/ <strong>Attribute description</strong> <strong>m_zhyd_1</strong> Unique identifier of FEC (Functional Elementary Catchment) Data structure: character <strong>mars_bt12</strong> Broad river type aggregated Data structure: character <strong>eco_stat_2</strong> Ecological status (class) Data structure: character <strong>eco_stat_n</strong> Ecological status (numeric class) Data structure: integer <strong>LoadTPArea</strong> Total phosphorous riverine loading (unit: kg km^-2 a^-1) Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>LoadTN_Are</strong> Total nitrogen riverine loading (unit: kg ha^-1 a^-1) Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>lu_r_urb</strong> Percent urban land use in the riparian zone Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>lu_r_agr</strong> Percent agricultural land use in the riparian zone Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>hy_maf_abs</strong> Alteration of mean annual flow (ratio scale) Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>hy_bfi_abs</strong> Alteration of base flow (ratio scale) Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>msPAFP5EC5</strong> Multi-substance Potentially Affected Fraction of species (msPAF-EC₅₀ based on 95^th percentile) Decimal separator: comma Data structure: double <strong>Further information</strong> For more details on the dataset, see (Manuscript accepted, wating for publication at the moment)<br> <strong>Acknowledgements</strong> This work was funded by the MARS project (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress), funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, contract no. 603378.