EPT Ecuador

EPT Ecuador Study site: Ecuador, various locations. Authors: Blanca Rios-Touma & Ralph Holzenthal. Contact details: Blanca Rios-Touma. E-mail: [e-mail]. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3921-0908. Affiliation: Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador. Ralph Holzenthal. E-mail: [e-mail]. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-6340. Affiliation: University of Minnesota Insect Collection. Coordinates of the bounding box (ulx, uly, lrx, lry): -78.78233, 0.32495, -76.14602, -2.243183333 Centroid coordinates (x,y): -77.339502,-0.115912 Number of records: 388 The dataset includes records in areas: Not protected on the observation date (0) Protected on the observation date (1) Protected on a date following the observation date (2) using the November 2022 version of the Protected Planet WDPA WD-OECM dataset (Protected Planet: World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2022). Please see publication for further information. Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW, Abell et al., 2008) covered: 301,312,313,316 Taxonomic focus of the study: Aquatic insects Survey methods: Kick net (3 minute multihabitat sample), Surber Sampler (30 cm x 30 cm) for benthic samples, Light Trap (2 hour dusk sample) for terrestrial samples