Realm: Freshwater
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Large river ecosystems
Central latitude: 57.753096
Central longitude: 21.409451
Duration: 26 years, from 1983 to 2015

1911 records

317 distinct species

Across the time series Chironomidae is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

Salaca is a 95 km long river (catchment area of 3415 km2) in northern Latvia, Vidzeme. Salaca is anthropogenically little affected river that is situated in the North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve, flows from hypereutrophic Lake Burtnieks to the Gulf of Riga. In the drainage basin natural territories are dominating: forests (59 %), bogs (4 %) and waterbodies (2 %), arable lands are 34 %, and urban territories (1%) from the drainage area. Three sites were recorded: Vecate, Mazsalaca, and Vecsalaca. Samples were taken between 1968 - 2015. The publication authours used density ( Individuals per m2) as a measure of abundance. At potamal type upper reaches: Vecate and Skanais kalns benthic invertebrate samples were taken by Ekman grab sampler (sampling area of 0.025 m2) (in Vecate: 2 replicates close to both rivers banks and 2 replicates in the middle part of river (in total 6 replicates; 0.15 m2); in Skanais kalns: 2 replicates close to both rivers banks (in total 4 replicates; 0.1 m2)). At riffle section in Vecsalaca (lower reaches) samples were taken with Surber sampler (sampling area of 0.0625 m2) (in total 3 replicates; 0.19 m2 (2m, 15m and 35 m form right river bank)).

Citation(s)

@Dataset{BioTIME_cit339, Study_id = {575}, Citation_id = {339}, Author = {Skuja, Agnija}, Publisher = {eLTER}, Title = {Benthic invertebrates at three sites at River Salaca - Latvia}, Year = {2023}, Doi = {10.23728/b2share.5561d1c856bc46d19b259fc0df90479c}, Url = {doi.org/10.23728/b2share.5561d1c856bc46d19b259fc0df90479c}, Language = {English} }<br/>@Article{BioTIME_cit364, Study_id = {575}, Citation_id = {364}, Author = {Pilotto, Francesca and K{\"u}hn, Ingolf and Adrian, Rita and Alber, Renate and Alignier, Audrey and Andrews, Christopher and B{\"a}ck, Jaana and Barbaro, Luc and Beaumont, Deborah and Beenaerts, Natalie and Benham, Sue and Boukal, David S. and Bretagnolle, Vincent and Camatti, Elisa and Canullo, Roberto and Cardoso, Patricia G. and Ens, Bruno J. and Everaert, Gert and Evtimova, Vesela and Feuchtmayr, Heidrun and Garc{\'\i}a-Gonz{\'a}lez, Ricardo and G{\'o}mez Garc{\'\i}a, Daniel and Grandin, Ulf and Gutowski, Jerzy M. and Hadar, Liat and Halada, Lubos and Halassy, Melinda and Hummel, Herman and Huttunen, Kaisa-Leena and Jaroszewicz, Bogdan and Jensen, Thomas C. and Kalivoda, Henrik and Schmidt, Inger Kappel and Kr{\"o}ncke, Ingrid and Leinonen, Reima and Martinho, Filipe and Meesenburg, Henning and Meyer, Julia and Minerbi, Stefano and Monteith, Don and Nikolov, Boris P. and Oro, Daniel and Ozoli?{\v s}, D?vis and Padedda, Bachisio M. and Pallett, Denise and Pansera, Marco and Pardal, Miguel {\^A}ngelo and Petriccione, Bruno and Pipan, Tanja and P{\"o}yry, Juha and Sch{\"a}fer, Stefanie M. and Schaub, Marcus and Schneider, Susanne C. and Skuja, Agnija and Soetaert, Karline and Spri??e, Gunta and Stanchev, Radoslav and Stockan, Jenni A. and Stoll, Stefan and Sundqvist, Lisa and Thimonier, Anne and Hoey, Gert Van and Ryckegem, Gunther Van and Visser, Marcel E. and Vorhauser, Samuel and Haase, Peter}, Journal = {Nature Communications}, Pages = {3486}, Title = {Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe}, Volume = {11}, Year = {2020}, Doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y}, Language = {English} }