Macro-invertebrates of Lake Wamala, 1999-2003

Willy Gandhi Pabire1, Laban Musinguzi1

1 National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Nile Crescent, Plot 39/45, Opposite the wagon ferry terminal, 343, Jinja, Uganda

Corresponding author(s): Willy Gandhi Pabire (gpabire@gmail.com), Laban Musinguzi (labanmusinguzi@firi.go.ug)

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Resource Citation

Pabire W G (2021): Macro-invertebrates of Lake Wamala, 1999-2003. v1.3. National Fisheries Resources Research Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-uganda.gbif.fr/resource?r=wamala_macrobethos&v=1.3

Abstract

This resource is composed of occurrences and abundance of macroinvertebrates of Lake Wamala, 1999-2003

Keywords: Occurrence, Uganda, Lake Wamala, macro-invertebrates, Freshwater, Observation

Project details

Project title: The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP)
Personnel: Willy Gandhi Pabire
Funding: The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) was funded by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF and a loan the World Bank.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Lake Wamala is an environmental change hotspot within the Lake Victoria basin. The lake has an area of 250 sq. km, an average depth of 5m and a catchment of ≈2000 sq. km.
Design description: Field data was obtained on macroinvertebrates from different sites across the lakes.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-uganda.gbif.fr/resource?r=wamala_macrobethos

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Macro-invertebrates taxa identified to class, order, family, and genus
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Hirudinea, Oligochaeta
Order: Hydracharina
Family: Chironomidae
Genus: Chaoborus, Chironomus, Clinotanypus, Procladius, Tanypus
Species: Byssanodonta parasitica

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The resource covers Lake Wamala. The lake is a UNEP designated environmental change hotspot (https://na.unep.net/atlas/webatlas.php?id=391).
Coordinates: 0°14'45.6''N and 0°25'22.8''N Latitude; 31°44'45.6''E and 32°1'4.8''E Longitude 

Formation period: 1999-2003

Methods

Method step description: Refer to a related dataset (Pabire et al. 2020; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b34036fa-f8de-4bbe-b2a2-f90ba0a234fd)
Study extent description: Data was collected from 1999 to 2003 in selected sites on the lake.
Sampling description: For sampling information, please refer to a related dataset  (Pabire et al. 2020; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b34036fa-f8de-4bbe-b2a2-f90ba0a234fd)

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Macro-invertebrates of Lake Wamala, 1999-2003
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-uganda.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=wamala_macrobethos
Publication date of data: 2021-05-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-01-30
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Pabire W G, Egessa R, Musinguzi L (2020). Abundance of macroinvertebrates in sites with varying degradation levels in Lake Wamala. Version 1.1. National Fisheries Resources Research Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/va97uo accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-08-06.