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A large-scale stream benthic diatom database

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A relational database linking benthic diatom records, taxonomic nomenclature including synonyms, and corresponding environmental data has been built in MS Access. It allowed flexible and long-term use of a relatively important amount of data (∼3000 records) gathered in the framework of the EC-funded PAEQANN project, gathering precise and documented information both about benthic diatoms and quantitative or semi-quantitative environmental data. Such a database has been shown to be a useful tool for the definition of benthic diatom typology at a multi-regional scale, the prediction of the impact of environmental characteristics on the structure of diatom communities, and additionally for a new insight on the auto-ecology of some taxa. This database could serve as a template for further work on diatoms and, after some implementation, on other freshwater communities. It could also be the basis for wider typology of stream diatoms, extended to other regions.

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  1. Facultés Universitaires N-D de la paix, Department of Biology, URBO, rue de Bruxelles, 61, 5000, Namur, Belgium

    Véronique Gosselain, Claude Fauville, Magdalena Licursi & Jean-Pierre Descy

  2. Cemagrel, Bordeaux, France

    Michel Coste, François Delmas & Juliette Tison

  3. Section of Geography Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Quebce, Canada

    Stéphane Campeau

  4. Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann, CREBS, Luxembourg

    Luc Ector, Frédéric Rimet & Loïc Tudesque

  5. Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, Vienna, Austria

    Markus Knoflacher

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Gosselain, V., Coste, M., Campeau, S. et al. A large-scale stream benthic diatom database. Hydrobiologia 542, 151–163 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-7423-1

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