Coding systems for ecological parameters

For most purposes in community ecology research and freshwater ecosystem assessment, ecological information for taxa needs to be transformed into numerical values. Simple "yes/no" coding, which either or not assigns a species to only one category of an ecological parameter, did not always reflect the complex characteristics and the heterogeneity of the species' adaptations. Therefore, three options of coding were used, depending on structure and availability of ecological knowledge:

• Ten point assignment system: Most freshwater species inhabit several habitat types or utilise various food sources during their ontogenesis, rather than being solely dependent on a single habitat or food source. The ten point assignment system considers these gradients of habitats, feedings types and other relevant parameters. It is based on the average distributions, occurrences or behaviours of a taxon within the environmental gradient or organismic flexibility under consideration. The ten point assignment system was first introduced by Zelinka and Marvan (1961) for the classification of saprobic valences and was extended by Moog (1995) to other parameters, such as stream zonation preferences and feeding types. Within freshwaterecology.info the ten point assignment system was used for coding the majority of those parameters, which comprise several categories.

  Example for the parameter "stream zonation preference": If 70% of a species' records are observed in spring brooks and 30% in the upper trout region, 7 out of 10 points will be allocated to the category "hypocrenal" (spring brook) and 3 points to "epirhithral" (upper trout region) to describe the expected occurrence of this species within the longitudinal zonation of a river. For all other categories "0" will be used.

• Single category assignment system: The single category assignment system is used, if a taxon can be allocated to only one category of an ecological parameter. If the category applies to the taxon, "1" is assigned, if not, "0" is used.

  Example for the parameter "temperature range preference": If a species only lives in cold water, then "1" will be assigned to the category "cold stenotherm", the categories "warm stenotherm" and "eurytherm" will get a "0".

• Presence/absence assignment system: The presence/absence assignment system is used, if a taxon can be allocated to more than one criterion/category of an ecological parameter.

  Example for the parameter "altitude preference (WFD)": If a species occurs in an altitude range from 100 m to 700 m above sea level, then a "1" will be assigned to the categories "between 200 and 800 m sea level" and "below 200 m sea level" meaning that the species is present in these altitudes. For the category "above 800 m sea level" the value "0" is used indicating that the species is not present in this region.

Moog, O. (Ed.), 1995. Fauna Aquatica Austriaca: A Comprehensive Species Inventory of Austrian Aquatic Organisms with Ecological Notes. Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Wasserwirtschaftskataster Vienna: Loose-leaf Binder.
Zelinka, M., Marvan, P., 1961. Zur Präzisierung der biologischen Klassifikation der Reinheit fließender Gewässer. Arch. Hydrobiol. 57, 389-407.

Information for traits of benthic macro-invertebrates according to Tachet et al. (2010)

One of the goals of the Tachet et al. (2010) handbook was to investigate autecological information from literature and then to synthesise the very large and scattered biological information on benthic macro-invertebrates - readily accessible only to specialists - into easily interpreted sets of attributes including features concerning the life cycle of taxa, the resistance or resilience potential of organisms, general physiological traits, behavioural aspects of reproduction or nutrition of organisms, and multi-scale descriptors of taxon/habitat relationships. The authors resolved "traits" describing biological characteristics and ecological preferences of taxa into a number of "categories".

Tachet et al. searched for a simple coding procedure (i.e. the "fuzzy coding"; cf. Chevenet et al., 1994) that assigns a score to each taxon describing its affinity for the different categories of a trait. This score, allocated to each category of a trait, ranges from 0 indicating "no affinity" to 5 indicating "high affinity". Thereby, the relevant features of a taxon are described by the relative distribution of the information among the categories of each trait. This procedure is a pertinent and simple way to "translate" the available knowledge about species traits of organisms into numerical values. It also avoids the obligate assignment of a taxon to a single category, which can lead to inaccurate characterisations of biological or ecological trait profiles. In the case of missing information for a taxon and a trait (i.e. taxa not documented), authors coded "0" for all the categories. Eleven biological traits (63 categories) and 10 ecological traits (50 categories) were coded for 472 benthic macro-invertebrate taxa, often at higher taxonomic levels.

Chevenet F., Doledec S. & Chessel D. (1994): A fuzzy coding approach for the analysis of long-term ecological data. Freshwater Biology, 31, 295-309.
Tachet H., Bournaud M., Richoux P. & Usseglio-Polatera P. (2010): Invertebres d'eau douce - systematique, biologie, ecologie. CNRS Editions, Paris, 600 p.

Abbreviations

All abbreviations, which are displayed on the Result-page are explained on the Search-page, for example by clicking on the icon next to the parameter name. On the Result-page an explanation is available with tooltips. Just move your mouse pointer over the abbreviation and the full name will appear. Additionally the abbreviations are explained if you click on the icon in the parameter headline.

The following abbreviation table summarises all abbreviations used on freshwaterecology.info. It also offers explanations of individual parameters and categories. The table can be sorted per organism group, per parameter, per category, alphabetically and it is also possible to filter for all entries.

Organism group	Parameter name	Category name	Abbreviation	Explanation	Type of assignment	Additional assignment info
Fish	absolute fecundity (no. oocytes)	55,000 - 60,000	fe2	number of oocytes between 55,000 and 60,000 (fecundity 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	absolute fecundity (no. oocytes)	< = 55,000	fe1	number of oocytes less than or equal 55,000 (fecundity 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	absolute fecundity (no. oocytes)	> 60,000	fe3	number of oocytes more than 60,000 (fecundity 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	acid tolerance	intermediate	im	intermediately tolerant to acidification	single category assignment system
Fish	acid tolerance	intolerant	intol	intolerant to acidification	single category assignment system
Fish	acid tolerance	tolerant	tol	tolerant to acidification	single category assignment system
Fish	body length (cm)	20 - 39 cm	bl2	body length between 20 and 39 cm	single category assignment system
Fish	body length (cm)	< = 20 cm	bl1	body length less than 20 cm	single category assignment system
Fish	body length (cm)	> = 39 cm	bl3	body length more than 39 cm	single category assignment system
Fish	catchment region	Adriatic Sea	AdSe	Adriatic Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Aegean Sea	AeSe	Aegean Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	alien	a	species not native to the catchment	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Anglian Coast	AnCo	Anglian Coast	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Baltic Sea	BaSe	Baltic Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Bay of Biscay	BaBi	Bay of Biscay	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Black Sea	BlSe	Black Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Bristol Channel	BrCh	Bristol Channel	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Danube	Danu	Danube	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Douro	Dour	Douro	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Ebro	Ebro	Ebro	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Elbe	Elbe	Elbe	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	English Channel ER 13	EC13	English Channel ER 13	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	English Channel ER 18	EC18	English Channel ER 18	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Garonne	Garo	Garonne	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Great Ouse	GrOu	Great Ouse	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Guadalquivir	Guqu	Guadalquivir	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Guadiana	Guad	Guadiana	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Gulf of Riga	GuRi	Gulf of Riga	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Ionian Sea	IoSe	Ionian Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Irish Sea	IrSe	Irish Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Kattegatt Sound	KaSo	Kattegatt Sound	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Loire	Loir	Loire	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Mediterranean Sea WB	MeSe	Mediterranean Sea WB	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Mediterranean Sea WB North Pyrenees	MSNP	Mediterranean Sea WB North Pyrenees	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Medway	Medw	Medway	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Mersey	Mers	Mersey	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Meuse	Meus	Meuse	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	native	n	species belongs to the catchment	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	NE Atlantic Ocean	NEAO	NE Atlantic Ocean	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Nemunas	Nemu	Nemunas	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	North Atlantic Ocean	NoAO	North Atlantic Ocean	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	North Sea	NoSe	North Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Odra	Odra	Odra	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Rhine	Rhin	Rhine	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Rhone	Rhon	Rhone	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Seine	Sein	Seine	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Severn	Seve	Severn	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Skagerrak	Skag	Skagerrak	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Strait of Gibraltar	StGi	Strait of Gibraltar	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Tagus	Tagu	Tagus	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Tees	Tees	Tees	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Thames	Tham	Thames	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Trent	Tren	Trent	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Tyrrhennian Sea	TySe	Tyrrhennian Sea	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Wisla	Wisl	Wisla	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	catchment region	Yorkshire Ouse	YoOu	Yorkshire Ouse	presence/absence assignment system	including native/alien information
Fish	climate change affected species according to www.climate-and-freshwater.info (caf)				presence/absence assignment system	including combination freshwater type and temperature; including climate change impact and winner/lo
Fish	egg diameter (mm)	1.35 - 2	ed2	egg diameter between 1.35 and 2 mm (egg diameter 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	egg diameter (mm)	< 1.35	ed1	egg diameter less than 1.35 mm (egg diameter 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	egg diameter (mm)	> 2	ed3	egg diameter more than 2 mm (egg diameter 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	detritivorous	detri	adult diet consists of high proportion of detritus; the digestive tract is unspecialised	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	invertivorous	invert	adult diet consists of more than 75 % insects; individuals have terminal or supraterminal mouth, take aerial, drifting or swimming insects and invertebrates	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	omnivorous	omni	adult diet consists of more than 25 % plant material and more than 25 % animal material; generalists	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	parasitic	parasit	fish that exhibit a parasitic feeding mode	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	phytovorous	phyto	adult diet consists of more than 75 % plant material; fish have terminal or subterminal mouth with bony slashing jaw for clipping and tearing aquatic vegetation; often the digestive tract is as long or longer than the total length of the individual	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	piscivorous	pisci	adult diet consist of more than 75 % other fish; individuals have a wide mouth aperture with needle-like teeth and a strong jaw with marginal and palatal bones; they pursue a prey by stalking, chasing, ambushing or lying-in-wait approach	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding diet (adult)	planktivorous	plankt	adult diet consists of more than 75% zooplankton and/or phytoplankton; fish having fine gill-rakers and elongated pharyngal teeth; they have no stomach but an elongated, undifferentiated intestine	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding habitat	benthic	ben	fish prefer to live near the bottom from where they take food; they usually do not go to the surface for feeding purpose	single category assignment system
Fish	feeding habitat	water column	wc	fish that feed in the water column; they usually do not go to the bottom to search for food	single category assignment system
Fish	female maturity (years)	2 - 3	ma2	females mature for the first time between 2 and 3 years (maturity 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	female maturity (years)	3 - 4	ma3	females mature for the first time between 3 and 4 years (maturity 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	female maturity (years)	4 - 5	ma4	females mature for the first time between 4 and 5 years (maturity 4)	single category assignment system
Fish	female maturity (years)	< = 2	ma1	females mature for the first time before or equal 2 years (maturity 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	female maturity (years)	> = 5	ma5	females mature for the first time after 5 years (maturity 5)	single category assignment system
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	epipotamal	ep	barbel region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	epirhithral	er	upper-trout region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	FRI	FRI	species-specific fish region index	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	hypopotamal	hp	brackish water region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	hyporhithral	hr	grayling region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	metapotamal	mp	bream region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	metarhithral	mr	lower-trout region	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region (fiBS)	S2-FRI	S2-FRI	species-specific fish region variance	12 point assignment system	including fish region index
Fish	fish region index	fish region index			metric value	(3.5 to 6.8)
Fish	habitat	benthopelagic	ben	species living and feeding near the bottom as well as midwaters or near the water surface	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat	demersal	dem	species living and feeding near the bottom	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat	pelagic	pel	species living and feeding in the pelagic/free water zone	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat (fiBS)	indifferent	in	no clear current velocity preferences	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat (fiBS)	rheophilous	rheo	fish prefer to live in a habitat with high flow conditions	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat (fiBS)	stagnophilous	stagno	fish prefer to live in a habitat with low or standing flow conditions	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat degradation tolerance	intermediate	im	intermediately tolerant to habitat degradation	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat degradation tolerance	intolerant	intol	intolerant to habitat degradation	single category assignment system
Fish	habitat degradation tolerance	tolerant	tol	tolerant to habitat degradation	single category assignment system
Fish	HD threat	II	II	Annex II	presence/absence assignment system
Fish	HD threat	V	V	Annex V	presence/absence assignment system
Fish	incubation period (days)	7 - 14	ip2	incubation time is between 7 and 14 days (incubation period 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	incubation period (days)	< = 7	ip1	incubation time is less than or equal 7 days (incubation period 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	incubation period (days)	> 14	ip3	incubation time is more than 14 days (incubation period 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval length (cm)	4.2 - 6.3	ll2	length of larval fish between 4.2 and 6.3 cm (larval length 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval length (cm)	< = 4.2	ll1	length of larval fish less than or equal 4.2 cm (larval length 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval length (cm)	> 6.3	ll3	length of larval fish more than 6.3 cm (larval length 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval stage duration (days)	12 - 25	ld2	larval stage between 12 and 25 days (larval duration 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval stage duration (days)	< 12	ld1	larval stage less than 12 days (larval duration 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	larval stage duration (days)	> 25	ld3	larval stage more than 25 days (larval duration 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	life span (years)	8 -15 years	ls2	life span between 8 to 15 years (life span 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	life span (years)	< 8 years	ls1	life span less than 8 years (life span 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	life span (years)	> 15 years	ls3	life span longer than 15 years (life span 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	migration	diadromous	dia	migratory fish species; parts of the life cycle are spent in fresh and salt water	single category assignment system
Fish	migration	no migration	nom	species with no migration movements	single category assignment system
Fish	migration	oceanodromous	oce	migratory fish species; whole life cycle is spent in salt water	single category assignment system
Fish	migration	potamodromous	pot	migratory fish species; whole life cycle is spent in freshwaters	single category assignment system
Fish	migration (fiBS)	anadromous	ana	brackish water or marine fish that ascend rivers to spawn	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	migration (fiBS)	catadromous	cata	freshwater fish that move the sea to spawn	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	migration (fiBS)	long	long	long distance movements	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	migration (fiBS)	medium	medium	medium distance movements	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	migration (fiBS)	potamodromous	potamo	species that migrate only in freshwaters	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	migration (fiBS)	short	short	short distance movements only	single category assignment system	including distance
Fish	oxygen tolerance	intermediate	im	relatively tolerant to low oxygen concentration	single category assignment system
Fish	oxygen tolerance	intolerant	intol	intolerant to low oxygen concentration: more than 6 mg/l needed	single category assignment system
Fish	oxygen tolerance	tolerant	tol	tolerant to low oxygen concentration: 3 mg/l or less	single category assignment system
Fish	parental care	no protection	no	no protection of eggs or larvae (no parental care)	single category assignment system
Fish	parental care	protection	prot	protection of eggs and/or larvae, often including some form of parental care (nest or eggs hidden in any manner)	single category assignment system
Fish	relative fecundity (no. oocytes/g)	57 - 200	fr2	relative fecundity between 57 and 200 (fecundity relation 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	relative fecundity (no. oocytes/g)	< = 57	fr1	relative fecundity less than or equal 57 (fecundity relation 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	relative fecundity (no. oocytes/g)	> 200	fr3	relative fecundity more than 200 (fecundity relation 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	litho-pelagophilic	litho-pelagophilic	stone and gravel spawners or pelagic spawners	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	lithophilic	lithophilic	stone and gravel spawners	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	marine	marine	marine spawning	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	ostracophilic	ostracophilic	spawning in shells of molluscs	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	pelagophilic	pelagophilic	spawning in the pelagic zone	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	phyto-lithophilic	phyto-lithophilic	spawning in submerged plants or stone and gravel spawners	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	phytophilic	phytophilic	spawning in submerged plants	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	psammophilic	psammophilic	sand spawners	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction (fiBS)	speleophilic	speleophilic	spawning in crevices or caves	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	ariadnophilic	ariad	specialised nest building fish that may exhibit some form of parental care	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	litho-pelagophilic	lthpel	eggs are released at the surface of hard structures (stones, gravel) and drift suspended in the current	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	lithophilic	lith	spawning exclusively on gravel, rocks, stones, rubbles or pebbles; hatchlings are photophobic	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	ostracophilic	ostra	eggs are deposited into the gill cavity of living mussels using a laying tube	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	pelagophilic	pel	eggs are released into the free water body and float	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	phyto-lithophilic	phylith	fish deposit eggs in clear water habitats on submerged plants or on other submerged items such as logs, gravel and rocks; larvae are photophobic	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	phytophilic	phy	fish deposit eggs in clear water habitats on submerged plants	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	polyphilic	poly	non-specialised spawners	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	psamnmophilic	psam	fish spawn on roots or grass above sandy bottom or on the sand itself	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	speleophilic	spel	eggs are deposited in existing or newly created burrows, where brood care is performed	single category assignment system
Fish	reproduction habitat	viviparous	vivi	live bearers	single category assignment system
Fish	reproductive behaviour	fractional	fra	fractional spawners: spawning events either repeated in a season or different components of the population spawn at different times	single category assignment system
Fish	reproductive behaviour	protracted	pro	protracted spawners: spawning occurs over a long period during the potential season	single category assignment system
Fish	reproductive behaviour	single	sin	spawing event at only one time in the season	single category assignment system
Fish	rheophily (habitat)	eurytopic	eury	fish that exhibit a wide tolerance of flow conditions, although generally not considered to be rheophilic	single category assignment system
Fish	rheophily (habitat)	limnophilic	limno	fish prefer to live in a habitat with slow flowing to stagnant conditions	single category assignment system
Fish	rheophily (habitat)	rheophilic	rheo	fish prefer to live in a habitat with high flow conditions and clear water	single category assignment system
Fish	rheophily (habitat)	rheophilic A	rheo A	fish prefer to live in a habitat with very high flow conditions and clear water	single category assignment system
Fish	rheophily (habitat)	rheophilic B	rheo B	fish prefer to live in a habitat with moderate flow conditions and clear water (close to eurytopic)	single category assignment system
Fish	salinity	brackish-marine	brm	brackish to marine waters	single category assignment system
Fish	salinity	freshwater	fre	fresh waters	single category assignment system
Fish	salinity	freshwater-brackish	fbr	fresh to brackish waters	single category assignment system
Fish	salinity	freshwater-brackish-marine	fbm	fresh to brackish to marine waters	single category assignment system
Fish	salinity	freshwater-marine	fma	fresh to marine waters	single category assignment system
Fish	shape factor	4.35 - 4.78	sh2	ratio is between 4.35 and 4.78 (shape factor 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	shape factor	4.78 - 5.6	sh3	ratio is between 4.78 and 5.6 (shape factor 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	shape factor	< = 4.35	sh1	ratio is less than or equal 4.35 (shape factor 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	shape factor	> = 5.6	sh4	ratio is more than 5.6 (shape factor 4)	single category assignment system
Fish	spawning habitat	euryoparous	eury	no clear spawning habitat preferences	single category assignment system
Fish	spawning habitat	limnoparous	limno	preference to spawn in stagnant waters	single category assignment system
Fish	spawning habitat	rheoparous	rheo	preference to spawn in running waters	single category assignment system
Fish	spawning time	summer spawner	st2	fish spwan during summer time (spawning time 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	spawning time	winter spawner	st1	fish spwan during winter time (spawning time 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	swimming factor	0.38 - 0.43	sw2	ratio is between 0.38 and 0.43 (swimming factor 2)	single category assignment system
Fish	swimming factor	< = 0.38	sw1	ratio is less than or equal 0.38 (swimming factor 1)	single category assignment system
Fish	swimming factor	> 0.43	sw3	ratio is more than 0.43 (swimming factor 3)	single category assignment system
Fish	temperature tolerance	eurythermal	eury	fish capable of withstanding a wide range of temperature	single category assignment system
Fish	temperature tolerance	stenothermal	steno	fish capable to withstand only a narrow temperature range	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	critically endangered	CR	critically endangered	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	endangered	EN	endangered	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	least concern	LC	least concern	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	near threatened	NT	near threatened	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	not evaluated	NE	not evaluated	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	regionally extinct	RE	regionally extinct	single category assignment system
Fish	threat Austria	vulnerable	VU	vulnerable	single category assignment system
Fish	toxicity tolerance	intermediate	im	intermediately tolerant to toxic contamination	single category assignment system
Fish	toxicity tolerance	intolerant	intol	intolerant to toxic contamination	single category assignment system
Fish	toxicity tolerance	tolerant	tol	tolerant to toxic contamination	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	filter feeder	filter feeder	food consits of filtered organisms and particles	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	herbivorous	herbivorous	food consists of plants	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	inverti-piscivorous	inverti-piscivorous	food consists of invertebrates	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	invertivorous	invertivorous	food consists of invertebrates	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	omnivorous	omnivorous	opportunistic feeders	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	piscivorous	piscivorous	food consists of fish	single category assignment system
Fish	trophy (fiBS)	planktivorous	planktivorous	food consists of plankton	single category assignment system
Fish	water quality tolerance – general	intermediate	im	in general intermediately tolerant to usual water quality parameters	single category assignment system
Fish	water quality tolerance – general	intolerant	intol	in general intolerant to usual water quality parameters	single category assignment system
Fish	water quality tolerance – general	tolerant	tol	in general tolerant to usual water quality parameters	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	1	1	continuously neutral (not acidic)	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	2	2	predominantly neutral to episodically weakly acidic	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	3	3	periodically critically acidic	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	4	4	periodically very acidic	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	5	5	permanently very acidic	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	acid class preference	acid class	acid class	acid class	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	altitude according to Tachet	alpine level	alp	> 2000 m	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	altitude according to Tachet	lowlands	low	< 1000 m	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	altitude according to Tachet	piedmont level	pie	1000 - 2000 m	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	alpine	alp	2400 - 2900 m	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	collin	col	300 - 800 m (in low mountain ecoregions: 150 - 300 m)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	montane	mon	1000 - 1900 m (in low mountain ecoregions: 450 - 1500 m)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	nival	niv	> 3100 m	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	planar	pla	< 300 m (in low mountain ecoregions: < 150 m)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	subalpine	sal	1900 - 2400 m (in low mountain ecoregions: > 1500 m)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	submontane	smo	800 - 1000 m (in low mountain ecoregions: 300 - 450 m)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference	subnival	sni	2900 - 3100 m	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference (WFD)	200 - 800 m	28h	between 200 and 800 m sea level	presence/absence assignment system	including min and max values
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference (WFD)	< 200 m	l2h	below 200 m sea level	presence/absence assignment system	including min and max values
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference (WFD)	> 800 m	g8h	above 800 m sea level	presence/absence assignment system	including min and max values
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference (WFD)	maximum	max	maximum altitude	presence/absence assignment system	including min and max values
Macro-invertebrates	altitude preference (WFD)	minimum	min	minimum altitude	presence/absence assignment system	including min and max values
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages	adult	adu	quatic stage as adult	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages	egg	egg	aquatic stage as egg	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages	larva	lar	aquatic stage as larva	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages	nymph	nym	aquatic stage as nymph	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages	pupa	pup	aquatic stage as pupa	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages according to Tachet	adult	adult	quatic stage as adult	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages according to Tachet	egg	egg	aquatic stage as egg	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages according to Tachet	larva	larva	aquatic stage as larva	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	aquatic stages according to Tachet	nymph/pupa	nymph	aquatic stage as nymph/pupa	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	climate change affected species according to www.climate-and-freshwater.info (caf)			spring region	presence/absence assignment system	including combination freshwater type and temperature; including climate change impact and winner/lo
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	0	0	invulnerable	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	1	1		single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	2	2		single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	3	3		single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	4	4		single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	5	5		single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	6	6	highly vulnerable	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	climate change vulnerability score (CCVS)	climate change vulnerability score	CCVS	value indicating the vulnerability to climate change	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	indifferent	ind	no preference for a certain current velocity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	limno- to rheophil	lrp	preferably occurring in standing waters, but regularly occurring in slowly flowing streams	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	limnobiont	lib	occurring only in standing waters	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	limnophil	lip	preferably occurring in standing waters; avoids current; rarely found in slowly flowing streams	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	rheo- to limnophil	rlp	usually found in streams; prefers slowly flowing streams and lentic zones; also found in standing waters	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	rheobiont	rhb	occurring in streams; bound to zones with high current	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current preference	rheophil	rhp	occurring in streams; prefers zones with moderate to high current	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	current velocity (preferendum) according to Tachet			< 5 cm/s	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	current velocity (preferendum) according to Tachet	fast	fast	> 50 cm/s	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	current velocity (preferendum) according to Tachet	medium	medium	25 - 50 cm/s	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	current velocity (preferendum) according to Tachet	slow	slow	5 - 25cm/s	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	development: holo-/hemimetabolic	hemimetabolic	hemi	species with an incomplete metamorphosis	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	development: holo-/hemimetabolic	holometabolic	holo	species with a complete metamorphosis	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	disjunct isolated populations	dip	dip	spring region	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	disjunct isolated populations	ecoregion	dip_er	ecoregion, in which the isolated populations appear	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal according to Tachet	aerial active	aerial active	spread actively via air (e.g. activelyy flying)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal according to Tachet	aerial passive	aerial passive	spread passive via air (e.g. through wind or animals)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal according to Tachet	aquatic active	aquatic active	spread active in water (e.g. swimming)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal according to Tachet	aquatic passive	aquatic passive	spread passive in water (e.g. drift)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal capacity	high	hig	high dispersal capacity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal capacity	low	low	low dispersal capacity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal capacity	medium	med	spring region	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal capacity	unknown	unk	unknown dispersal capacity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal strategy	aerial active	aea	spread actively via air (e.g. activelyy flying)	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal strategy	aerial passive	aep	spread passive via air (e.g. through wind or animals)	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal strategy	aquatic active	aqa	spread active in water (e.g. swimming)	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal strategy	aquatic passive	aqp	spread passive in water (e.g. drift)	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	dispersal strategy	doubtful	d		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	drought indication	intermittent: strong indicator	int_str	strong indicator for intermittent flow conditions	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	drought indication	intermittent: weak indicator	int_wea	weak indicator for intermittent flow conditions	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	duration emergence period	long	lon	flight period approximately longer than 2 months	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	duration emergence period	short	sho	flight period approximately shorter than 2 months	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Alps	ER4		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Baltic Province	ER15		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Borealic Uplands	ER20		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Caspic Depression	ER25		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Central Highlands	ER9		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Central Plains	ER14		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Dinaric Western Balkan	ER5		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Eastern Balkan	ER7		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Eastern Plains	ER16		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Fenno-Scandian Shield	ER22		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Great Britain	ER18		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Hellenic Western Balkan	ER6		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Hungarian Lowlands	ER11		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Iberic-Macaronesian Region	ER1		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Iceland	ER19		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Ireland and Northern Ireland	ER17		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Italy, Corsica and Malta	ER3		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Middle East	ERY		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	North Africa	ERX		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Pontic Province	ER12		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Pyrenees	ER2		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Taiga	ER23		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	The Carpathians	ER10		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	The Caucasus	ER24		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Tundra	ER21		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Western Highlands	ER8		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	ecoregional distribution (sensu Illies)	Western Plains	ER13		presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	emergence/flight period	autumn	aut	emerging mainly in autumn	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	emergence/flight period	spring	spr	emerging mainly in spring	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	emergence/flight period	summer	sum	emerging mainly in summer	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	emergence/flight period	winter	win	emerging mainly in winter	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	endemism	ecoregion number	er	number of the ecoregion, in which the taxon occurs	single category assignment system	including (eco)region info
Macro-invertebrates	endemism	ecoregion-endemism	ls	large-scale endemism	single category assignment system	including (eco)region info
Macro-invertebrates	endemism	micro-endemism	mic	micro-endemism	single category assignment system	including (eco)region info
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 1.1	FI011	Streams of the Limestone Alps	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 1.2	FI012	Small rivers of the Limestone Alps	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 11/12	FI11_12	Organic streams and rivers	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 14/16	FI14_16	Sand and gravel dominated lowland streams	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 15/17	FI15_17	Sand, clay and gravel dominated lowland rivers	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 15_large	FI152	Large sand and clay dominated lowland rivers	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 19	FI19	Small lowland streams in stream valleys	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 2.1	FI021	Streams of the Alpine foothills	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 2.2	FI022	Small rivers of the Alpine foothills	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 3.1	FI031	Streams of the top moraine of the Alpine foothills	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 3.2	FI032	Small rivers of the top moraine of the Alpine foothills	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 4	FI04	Large rivers of the Alpine foothills	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 5	FI05	Siliceous, coarse material rich upland streams	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 9	FI09	Siliceous, fine to coarse material rich upland rivers	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 9.1	FI091	Carbonate, fine to coarse material rich upland rivers	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 9.1 Keuper	FI091_K	Siliceous, fine to coarse material rich upland rivers - Keuper waters	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	fauna index Germany	Type 9.2	FI092	Large rivers of the uplands	affinity score assignment system	(-2 to +2)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	absorbers	abs	feed through direct uptake of macromolecules from the environment	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	deposit feeders	dpf	feed on small organic debris	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	filter-feeders	fif	feed on suspended material	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	parasites	par	feed on host	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	piercers (plants or animals)	pie	feed through piercing plants or animals	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	predators (carvers/engulfers/swallowers)	pre	feed on prey	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	scrapers	scr	feed through grazing fine organic particles, microphytes and microinvertebrates of the periphyton and/or the perilithon	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding habits according to Tachet	shredders	shr	feed on coarse detritus, plant or animal material	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	active filter feeders	aff	feed on suspended FPOM, CPOM; micro prey is whirled; food is actively filtered from the water column	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	gatherers/collectors	gat	feed on sedimented FPOM	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	grazers/scrapers	gra	feed on endolithic and epilithic algal tissues, biofilm, partially POM, partially tissues of living plants	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	miners	min	feed on leaves of aquatic plants, algae and cells of aquatic plants	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	other feeding types	oth	use other food sources not meeting the above categories	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	parasites	par	feed on host	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	passive filter feeders	pff	feed on suspended FPOM, CPOM, prey; food is filtered from running water, e.g., by nets or specialised mouthparts	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	predators	pre	feed on prey	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	shredders	shr	feed on fallen leaves, plant tissue, CPOM	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	feeding type	xylophagous taxa	xyl	feed on woody debris	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	dead animals (> 1 mm)	dag1	dead animals > 1mm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	dead plants (>= 1 mm)	dpg1	dead plants > 1 mm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	detritus (< 1 mm)	detl1	fine detritus	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	living macroinvertebrates	lmac	living macroinvertebrates	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	living macrophytes	lima	living macrophytes, e.g. filamentous algae, bryophytes, Dycotyledones	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	living microinvertebrates	lmic	living microinvertebrates, e.g. meiofaunal crustaceans	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	living microphytes	limi	living microphytes, e.g. diatoms, hyphomycetes	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	microorganisms	mior	organic material with fine sediment and microorganisms	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	food according to Tachet	vertebrates	vert	vertebrates, e.g. fish eggs or larvae	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	forewing length	length of female anterior wing - max [mm]	female max	length of the forewing in females; maximum value [mm]	metric value
Macro-invertebrates	forewing length	length of female anterior wing - min [mm]	female min	length of the forewing in females; minimum va [mm]	metric value
Macro-invertebrates	forewing length	length of male anterior wing - max [mm]	male max	length of the forewing in males; maximum value [mm]	metric value
Macro-invertebrates	forewing length	length of male anterior wing - min [mm]	male min	length of the forewing in males; minimum value [mm]	metric value
Macro-invertebrates	groundwater influence	1	gwe	species indicates groundwater influence	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	habitat specialist	habitat specialist	has	specialist on a certain habitat	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	indicator species for	drought resistence	drr	indicator for drought resistence strategies	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	indicator species for	hydrological regime	hyr	indicator for specific hydrological conditions	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	indicator species for	oth-sp	oth-sp	specification for category "others"	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	indicator species for	others	oth	indicator for other situations	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	indicator species for	thermal regime	thr	indicator for specific thermal conditions	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index				affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	1	1	taxon with low preference for lake outlets	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	2	2		affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	3	3	taxon with medium preference for lake outlets	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	4	4		affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	5	5	taxon with high preference for lake outlets	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	index	index	index	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	lake outlet index	weight	weight	weight	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5); including indicator weight ()
Macro-invertebrates	larval development cycle	all year	aly	larval development all year	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	larval development cycle	autumn	aut	larval development mainly in autumn	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	larval development cycle	spring	spr	larval development mainly in spring	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	larval development cycle	summer	sum	larval development mainly in summer	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	larval development cycle	winter	win	larval development mainly in winter	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	eupotamon	eup	main channel and connected side arms	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	habitat value	HV	habitat value	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	indicator weight	IW	indicator weight	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	palaeopotamon (including pools, ponds)	pap	no connectivity with the main channel at mean water levels; coverage by macrophytes exceeds 20%	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	parapotamon	prp	side arms connected only at the downstream end at mean water levels	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	plesiopotamon (including lakes)	plp	no connectivity with the main channel at mean water levels; coverage by macrophytes does not exceed 20%; lakes included	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	temporary streams	stream	occurring in temporary streams	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	lateral connectivity preference	temporary water bodies	tmp	temporary pools, water level primarily dependent on ground water levels	10 point assignment system	including indicator weight (0 to 5) and habitat value (0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	life cycle duration according to Tachet	<= 1 year	<= 1 year	life duration up to one year	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	life cycle duration according to Tachet	> 1 year	> 1 year	life duration longer than one year	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	life duration	<= 1 year	l1y	life duration up to one year	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	life duration	> 1 year	g1y	life duration longer than one year	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	life duration (Odonata)				presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	life duration (Odonata)	<= 1 year	l1y	life duration up to one year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	life duration (Odonata)	> 1 year	g1y	life duration longer than one year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	burrower (epibenthic)	bur	burrowing within the first centimetres of the benthic sediment	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	crawler	crw	crawling over the bottom substrate	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	flier	flr	actively flying as well as passively flying (i.e. passively dispersed by birds)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	full water swimmer	wsw	swimming in open water	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	interstitial (endobenthic)	int	living in the interstitial	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	permanently attached	pat	permanently attached to hard substrates or plants	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	surface swimmer	ssw	swimming on the water surface	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion and substrate relation according to Tachet	temporarily attached	tat	temporarely attached to hard substrates or plants	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	(semi)sessil	ses	tightening to hard substrates, plants or other animals	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	burrowing/boring	bub	burrowing in soft substrates or boring in hard substrates	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	other locomotion type	oth	other locomotion type like flying or jumping (mainly outside the water)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	sprawling/walking	spw	sprawling or walking actively with legs, pseudopods or on a mucus	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	swimming/diving	swd	swimming or active diving	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	locomotion type	swimming/skating	sws	floating in lakes or drifting in rivers passively	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	crenon	cr	spring region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	epipotamon	ep	barbel region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	epirithron	er	upper-trout region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	estuary	est	brackish water region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	hyporithron	hr	grayling region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	metapotamon	mp	bream region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	metarithron	mr	lower-trout region	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	longitudinal distribution according to Tachet	outside river system	out	outside river system	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	<= 0.25 cm	<= 0.25 cm	<= 0.25 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 0.25 - 0.5 cm	> 0.25 - 0.5 cm	> 0.25 - 0.5 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 0.5 - 1 cm	> 0.5 - 1 cm	> 0.5 - 1 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 1 - 2 cm	> 1 - 2 cm	> 1 - 2 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 2 - 4 cm	> 2 - 4 cm	> 2 - 4 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 4 - 8 cm	> 4 - 8 cm	> 4 - 8 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	maximal potential size according to Tachet	> 8 cm	> 8 cm	> 8 cm	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat - vertical distribution	interstices	inter	living in the space netween the substrate particles below the surface	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat - vertical distribution	surface	surf	living on the surface of the substrate	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	akal	aka	fine to medium-sized gravel (grain size 0.2-2 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	algae	alg	micro- and macroalgae	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	argyllal	arg	silt, loam, clay (grain size < 0.063 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	hygropetric habitats	hpe	thin layers of water over bedrocks, waterfalls	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	macro-/megalithal	mal	stones, boulders, bedrock (grain size > 20 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	macrophytes	mph	macrophytes, mosses, Characeae, living parts of terrestrial plants	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	madicol	mad	edge of water bodies, moist substrates	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	micro-/mesolithal	mil	coarse gravel to hand-sized cobbles (grain size 2-20 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	other substrates	oth	e.g., host of a parasite	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	particulate organic matter	pom	coarse and fine particulate organic matter	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	pelal	pel	mud (grain size < 0.063 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	psammal	psa	sand (grain size 0.063-2 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (13 categories)	woody debris	woo	woody debris, twigs, roots, logs (size > 10 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	akal	aka	fine to medium-sized gravel (grain size 0.2 - 2 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	argyllal	arg	silt, loam, clay (grain size < 0.063 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	lithal	lit	coarse gravel, stones, cobbles, boulders, bedrock (grain size > 2 cm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	other	oth	other substrates	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	pelal	pel	mud (grain size < 0.063 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	phytal	phy	algae, mosses, macrophytes	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	pom	pom	coarse and fine particulate organic matter	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	microhabitat/substrate preference (8 categories)	psammal	psa	sand (grain size 0.063 - 2 mm)	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	migrant species (Odonata)	migrant species	migr	species with long-distance dispersal	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	mode of life: holo-/merolimnic	hololimnic	holo	spending the entire life in the aquatic environement	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	mode of life: holo-/merolimnic	merolimnic	mero	spending the adult stage in terrestrial environements	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	occurrence in large quantities	occurrence in large quantities	oil	species occurring in large quantities	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	<= 4	<= 4	pH less than 4	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	> 4 - 4.5	> 4-4.5	pH between 4 and 4.5	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	> 4.5 - 5	> 4.5-5	pH between 4.5 and 5	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	> 5 - 5.5	> 5-5.5	pH between 5 and 5.5	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	> 5.5 - 6	> 5.5-6	pH between 5.5 and 6	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH (preferendum) according to Tachet	> 6	> 6	pH greater than 6	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	pH preference	acid	aci	pH < 7	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	pH preference	indifferent	ind	no specific preference	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	pH preference	neutral to alkaline	neu	pH = 7	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	1	1	taxon with no affinity to the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	2	2	taxon with low affinity to the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	3	3	taxon with medium affinity to the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	4	4	taxon with clear affinity to the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	5	5	taxon with high affinity to the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potamal preference (ECO-P)	Potamal preference	ECO-P	preference for the potamal zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	potential number of cycles per year according to Tachet	1	1	one generation per year (monovoltine)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	potential number of cycles per year according to Tachet	< 1	< 1	life cycle lasts at least two years (semivoltine)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	potential number of cycles per year according to Tachet	> 1	> 1	more than two generations per year (polyvoltine)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	r- K-strategy	K-strategy	kst	species with low reproductive rate remaining at the limit of their capacity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	r- K-strategy	r-strategy	rst	species with high reproductive rate using existing resources beyond their available capacity	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	rare species	ecoregion number	er	number of the ecoregion, in which the taxon is rare	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	rare species	rare species	rasp	rare species	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	asexual	ase	reproduction without fertilisation	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	cemented isolated eggs	cie	separate eggs are laid down and fixed	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	clutches in vegetation	vec	groups of eggs are laid down in the vegetation	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	fixed clutches	fic	groups of eggs are laid down and fixed	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	free clutches	frc	groups of eggs are laid down in the water freely	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	free isolated eggs	fie	separate eggs are laid down in the water freely	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	ovovivipar	ovo	eggs remain within the mother's body until they hatch	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	parasitic	pas	reproduction within a host	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction	terrestrial clutches	tec	groups of eggs are laid down in the riparian zone	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	asexual reproduction	asx	asexual reproduction	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs attached to substrate	ets	eggs attached to substrate	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs in open water	owa	eggs laid into open water	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs in substrate	eis	eggs laid into the substrate	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs inside plant tissue	ipl	eggs laid into open water	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs into submerged soil or onto submerged rock	irs	eggs into submerged soil or onto submerged rock	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs not attached to or in substrate	sub	eggs not attached to or in substrate	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs on exposed soil or rock	ors	eggs on exposed soil or rock	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction (Odonata)	eggs onto plant material	opl	eggs laid onto plant material	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	asexual reproduction	ase	reproduction without fertilisation	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	clutches, cemented or fixed	fic	groups of eggs are laid down and fixed	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	clutches, free	frc	groups of eggs are laid down in the water freely	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	clutches, in vegetation	vec	groups of eggs are laid down in the vegetation	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	clutches, terrestrial	tec	groups of eggs are laid down in the riparian zone	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	isolated eggs, cemented	cie	separate eggs are laid down and fixed	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	isolated eggs, free	fie	separate eggs are laid down in the water freely	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproduction according to Tachet	ovoviviparity	ovo	eggs remain within the mother's body until they hatch	affinity score assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year				presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	bivoltine	biv	two generations per year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	flexible	flx	flexible number of life cycles per year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	multivoltine	muv	more than three generations per year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	semivoltine	sev	one generation in two years	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	trivoltine	trv	three generations per year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	reproductive life cycles per year	univoltine	unv	one generation per year	presence/absence assignment system	including zone
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	cocoons	coc	resisting in cocoons	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	diapause or dormancy	did	resisting through diapause or dormancy	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	eggs, statoblasts	egg	resisting in the egg or statoblast stage	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	housings against desiccation	hou	resisting in housings	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	none	non	no resistance form	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance form	quiescence	qui	resisting through quiescence	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance forms according to Tachet	cocoons	coc	resisting in cocoons	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	resistance forms according to Tachet	diapause or dormancy	did	resisting through diapause or dormancy	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	resistance forms according to Tachet	eggs, gemmula, statoblasts	egg	resisting in the egg, gemmula or statoblast stage	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	resistance forms according to Tachet	housings against desiccation	hou	resisting in housings	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	resistance forms according to Tachet	none	non	no resistance form	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	resistance/resilience to droughts	adult diapause	add	resisting in the adult stage	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance/resilience to droughts	egg diapause	egd	resisting in the egg stage	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance/resilience to droughts	larvae diapause	lad	resisting in the larval stage	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance/resilience to droughts	no drought resilience	nod	no resistance strategy against droughts	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	resistance/resilience to droughts	unknown resistance type	unk	unknown resistance strategy	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	extension/excursion to surface	sur	respiration of atmospheric oxygen	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	gill	gil	respiration using special respiration organs	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	hydrostatic vesicle (aerial)	ves	respiration using air within a small blister	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	plastron	pls	respiration using a thin layer of air around the body	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	spiracle (aerial)	spi	respiration using small openings on the body surface	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	tapping of air stores of aquatic plants	tap	respiration using air stores of aquatic plants	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration	tegument	teg	respiration through the body surface	presence/absence assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	respiration according to Tachet	gill	gil	respiration using special respiration organs	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	respiration according to Tachet	hydrostatic vesicle (aerial)	ves	respiration using air within a small blister	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	respiration according to Tachet	plastron	pls	respiration using a thin layer of air around the body	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	respiration according to Tachet	spiracle (aerial)	spi	respiration using small openings on the body surface	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	respiration according to Tachet	tegument	teg	respiration through the body surface	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	rheo index (RIB)	1		lotic taxon	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	rheo index (RIB)	2		lentic taxon	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	rheo index (RIB)	3		indifferent taxon	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	rheo index (RIB)	rheo index	RIB	rheo index	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	1	1	taxon with no affinity to the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	2	2	taxon with low affinity to the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	3	3	taxon with medium affinity to the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	4	4	taxon with clear affinity to the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	5	5	taxon with high affinity to the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	rhithral preference (RTI)	rhithral preference	RTI	preference for the rhithral zone	affinity score assignment system	(1 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	salinity (preferendum) according to Tachet	brackish water	brw	brackish water	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	salinity (preferendum) according to Tachet	fresh water	frw	fresh water	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference I	brackish water: inland	bwi	total salt content: 0.5‰ - 34.7‰	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference I	brackish water: sea	bws	total salt content: 0.5‰ - 34.7‰	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference II	euhaline (> 30)	saleu	salinity over 30‰	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference II	freshwater (< 0.5)	salfr	fresh water	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference II	mesohaline (5 - < 18)	salme	salinity between 5‰ and 18‰	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference II	oligohaline (0.5 - < 5)	salol	salinity between 0.5‰ and 5‰	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	salinity preference II	polyhaline (18 - 30)	salpo	salinity between 18‰ and 30‰	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	all countries	all	selection of all countries	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	alpha-mesosaprobic	alpha	alpha-mesosaprobic zone	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	Austria	AT	saprobic values used in Austria	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	beta-mesosaprobic	beta	beta-mesosaprobic zone	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	Czech Republic	CZ	saprobic values used in Czech Republic	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	Germany	DE	saprobic values used in Germany	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	indicator weight	G	indicator weight	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	Netherlands	NL	saprobic values used in the Netherlands	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	oligosaprobic	oligo	oligosaprobic zone	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	polysaprobic	poly	polysaprobic zone	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	saprobic index	SI	saprobic index	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	Slovak Republic	SK	saprobic values used in the Slovak Republic	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity	xenosaprobic	xeno	xenosaprobic zone	10 point assignment system	including index (AT: 0.1 to 3.6, CZ: 0.1 to 4.0, DE: 1.0 to 4.0, SK: 0.1 to 4.0, RO: 1.0 to 4.0, HR: 0.1 to 4.0) and weight (AT, CZ, DE, SK: 0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity according to Tachet	a-mesosaprobic	a	species occurring in the alpha-meso-saprobic zone (heavily polluted water courses)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity according to Tachet	b-mesosaprobic	b	species occurring in the beta-meso-saprobic zone (moderately polluted water courses)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity according to Tachet	oligosaprobic	o	species occurring in the oligo-saprobic zone (unpolluted to slightly polluted water courses)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity according to Tachet	polysaprobic	p	species occurring in the poly-saprobic zone (extremely heavily polluted water courses)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	saprobity according to Tachet	xenosaprobic	x	species occurring in the xeno-saprobic zone (perfectly clean water courses)	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	sensitive species	ecoregion number	er	ecoregion, in which the taxon is sensitive	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	sensitive species	sensitive species	sesp	sensitive species	presence/absence assignment system	including ecoregion
Macro-invertebrates	SPEAR pesticide				single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	SPEAR pesticide	no	0	species not at risk	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	SPEAR pesticide	yes	1	species at risk	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	species in Habitats Directive	Habitat Directive	ffh	species in Habitat Directive	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	epipotamal	epo	barbel region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	epirhithral	erh	upper-trout region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	eucrenal	euc	spring region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	hypocrenal	hyc	spring-brook	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	hypopotamal	hpo	brackish water region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	hyporhithral	hrh	grayling region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	littoral	lit	lake and stream shorelines, lentic sites, ponds etc.	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	metapotamal	mpo	bream region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	metarhithral	mrh	lower-trout region	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	stream zonation preference	profundal	pro	bottom of lakes	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	flags/boulders/cobbles/pebbles	fbcp	flags/boulders/cobbles/pebbles	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	gravel	grvl	gravel	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	macrophytes	macp	macrophytes	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	microphytes	micp	microphytes	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	mud	mud	mud	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	organic detritus/litter	odli	organic detritus/litter	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	sand	sand	sand	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	silt	silt	silt	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	substrate (preferendum) according to Tachet	twigs/roots	twro	twigs/roots	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature according to Tachet	eurythermic	eut	no specific preference	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature according to Tachet	psychrophilic	psy	< 15 °C	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature according to Tachet	thermophilic	the	> 15 °C	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference	cold	cod	6 - 10 °C	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference	eurytherm	eut	no specific preference	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference	moderate	mod	10 - 18 °C	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference	very cold	vco	< 6 °C	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference	warm	war	> 18 °C	10 point assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference (KLIWA)	focus temperature	FT	temperature preference of the taxon in °C	metric value	including specifity (0 to 10)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature preference (KLIWA)	specifity	S	indication how specifically a taxon is distributed to individual temperature classes	metric value	including specifity (0 to 10)
Macro-invertebrates	temperature range preference	cold stenotherm	cos	preference for a small cold temperature range (below 10 °C)	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature range preference	eurytherm	eut	no specific preference; wide temperature range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	temperature range preference	warm stenotherm	was	preference for a small warm temperature range (above 18 °C)	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	tolerance score	highly sensitive	hsen	species with a very small distribution range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	tolerance score	moderately sensitive	msen	species with a moderately small distribution range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	tolerance score	moderately tolerant	mtol	species with a moderately wide distribution range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	tolerance score	sensitive	sen	species with a small distribution range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	tolerance score	tolerant	tol	species with a wide distribution range	single category assignment system
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	banks, connected side-arms	bcsa	banks, connected side-arms	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	groundwaters	gw	groundwaters	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	lakes	lake	lakes	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	marshes, peat bogs	mapb	marshes, peat bogs	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	ponds, pools, disconnected side-arms	ppdsa	ponds, pools, disconnected side-arms	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	river channel	rich	river channel	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	transversal distribution according to Tachet	temporary waters	tmpw	temporary waters	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 5)
Macro-invertebrates	trophic status (preferendum) according to Tachet	eutrophic	eu	high nutrient availability, high biological productivity	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	trophic status (preferendum) according to Tachet	mesotrophic	meso	low nutrient availability, intemediate biological productivity	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macro-invertebrates	trophic status (preferendum) according to Tachet	oligotrophic	oli	low nutrient availability, low biological productivity	affinity score assignment system	(0 to 3)
Macrophytes	aquaticity	1	1	exclusively aquatic species	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	2	2	aquatic species, amphibious, developing terrestrial forms	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	3	3	supraaquatic moss	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	4	4	amphiphyte or helophyte, erect shoot, submerged basis	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	5	5	hygrophileous species, at least at the basis temporarily submerged	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	6	6	herbaceous riparian-, forest- grassland- or ruderal-plant, can be found occassionally (during flood events) growing in the water	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	7	7	ligneous riparian species, tolerant to temporary flooding	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	8	8	species living in brackish water	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	aquaticity	Aquaticity-Score		The score is divided into eight classes; 1 is for plants which are exclusively aquatic, and higher values for less dependence on water.	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	euoceanic species, reaching Central Europe only in the extreme West, not in Hungary	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	oceanic species, mainly in Western Europe and western Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	oceanic-suboceanic specis, area in whole Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	suboceanic species, mainly in Central Europe but reaching to East	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	intermediate type with slight suboceanic-subcontinental character	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	subcontinental, main area in eastern Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	continental-subcontinental species, main area in Eastern Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	continental species reaching only eastern part of Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - continentality figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	eucontinental species, main area Sibiria and Eastern Europe, reaching scarcely the eastern part of Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	full shadow plants, often receiving less than 1%, rarely receiving more than 30% of the full day light	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	very shadow-tolerant plants, photosynthetic minimum at 1 to 5% of full day light	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	shadow-plants, photosynthetic minimum under 5% relative light intensity, but survive more illuminated places	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	shadow-halfshadow plants, photosynthetic minimum between 5 and 10% relative light intensity	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	halfshadow plants, receiving more than 10% but less than 100% relative light	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	halfshadow-halflight plants, photosynthetic minimum between 10 and 40% relative light intensity	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	halflight plants, mostly living in full light but also shadow tolerants	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	light plants, photosynthetic minimum above 40% relative ligth intensity, less only in exceptional cases	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - light figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	full light plants of open habitats not receiving less than 50% of relative light intensity	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	plants of extremely dry habitats or bare rocks	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	10	10	plants of frequently flooded soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	11	11	water plants with floating or partly emerged leaves	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	12	12	water plants, mostly fully submerged in water	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	xero-indicators on habitats with long dry period	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	xero-tolerants, but eventually occurring on fresh soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	plants of semidry habitats	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	plants of semihumid habitats, under intermediate conditions	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	plants of fresh soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	plants of moist soils not drying out and well aerated	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	plants of moist soils tolerating short floods	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - moisture figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	plants of wet, not well aerated soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	only in soils extremely poor in mineral nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	plants of habitats very poor in nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	plants of moderately oligotrophic habitats	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	plants of submesotrophic habitats	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	plants of mesotrophic habitats	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	plants of moderately nutrient rich habitats	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	plants of soils rich in mineral nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	nitrogen indicator plants of fertilized soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - nitrogen figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	plants only on hyperfertilized soil, extremely rich in mineral nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	extremely acidophilous, explicitly calciphobe plants	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	intermediate type between 1 and 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	acidifrequent plants, mostly in acid soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	moderately acidophilous plants	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	plants of slightly acid soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	mostly on neutral soils but also in acid and basic ones, generally widely tolerant, more or less indifferent plants	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	basifrequent plants, mostly on basic soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	basiphilous plants	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - reaction figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	explicitly calciphilous plants and ultrabasic specialists	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	0	0	halophobe species not occurring in salty or alkalic soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	salt tolerant plants but living mainly on non saline soils	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	oligohaline plants living on soils of extremely few chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	beta-mesohaline plants living on soils of few chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	alpha-/beta-mesohaline plants living on soils of intermediate chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	alpha-mesohaline plants living on soils of middle chloride content (0.7 - 0.9%)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	alpha-mesohaline to polyhaline plants living on soils of middle to high chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	polyhaline plants living on soils of high chloride content (1.2 - 1.6%)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	euhaline plants living on soils of very high chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - salt figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	euhaline to hypersaline plants living on soils of extremely high chloride content	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	1	1	subnival or supraboreal belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	2	2	alpine, boreal or tundra belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	3	3	subalpine or subboreal belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	4	4	montane needle-leaved forest or taiga belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	5	5	montane mesophilous broad-leaved forest belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	6	6	submontane broad-leaved forest belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	7	7	thermophilous forest or woodland belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	8	8	submediterranean woodland and grassland belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	BORHIDI - temperature figures Hungary (Eastern Europe)	9	9	eumediterranean evergreen belt	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	climate change affected species according to www.climate-and-freshwater.info (caf)				presence/absence assignment system	including combination freshwater type and temperature; including climate change impact and winner/lo
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	1	1	extreme oceanic, in Central Europe only in an few outposts	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	2	2	oceanic, mainly in the West, including western Central Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	3	3	between 2 and 4	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	4	4	suboceanic, mainly in Central Europe, but spreading eastward	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	5	5	intermediate, weakly suboceanic to weakly subcontinental	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	6	6	subcontinental, mainly in the east of Central Europe and adjoining parts of Eastern Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	7	7	between 6 and 8	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	8	8	continental, spreading into Central Europe from the east only exceptionally	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	9	9	extreme continental, virtually absent from western Europe	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - continentality figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	1	1	plant in deep shade, may be less than 1%, seldom more than 30% r.i.	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	2	2	between 1 and 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	3	3	shade plant, mostly less than 5% r.i., but also in lighter places	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	4	4	between 3 and 5	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	5	5	semi-shade plant, rarely in full light, but generally with more than 10% r.i.	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	6	6	between 5 and 7	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	7	7	plant generally in well lit place, but also occurring in partial shade	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	8	8	light-loving plant, rarely found when r.i. is less than 40% r.i.	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	9	9	plant in full light, found mostly in full sun, rarely with less than 50% r.i.	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - light figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	1	1	indicator of extreme dryness, restricted to soils, which often dry out for some time	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	10	10	indicator of sites occasionally flooded, but free from flooding for long periods	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	11	11	plant rooting under water, but at least for a time exposed above, or plant floating on the surface	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	12	12	submerged plant, permanently or almost constantly under water	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	2	2	between 1 and 3	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	3	3	dry-site indicator, more often found on dry ground than on moist places, never on damp soil	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	4	4	between 3 and 5	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	5	5	vascular plants: moist-site indicator, mainly on fresh soils of average dampness; bryophytes: moist-site indicator, lacking on wet soils or on soils frequently drying out	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	6	6	vascular plants: between 5 and 7; bryophytes: between 5 and 7, but indicating constant moist or damp sites	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	7	7	vascular plants: dampness indicator, mainly on constantly moist or damp, but not wet soils; bryophytes: damp-site indicator, mainly in damp to wet sites	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	8	8	between 7 and 9	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	9	9	vascular plants: wet-site indicator, often on water saturated, badly aerated soils; bryophytes: in constant wet sites, on places sprayed by water (e.g. near waterfalls) or regularly flooded, or even submerged or floating	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	indicator plant for frequent flooding		Indicator plant for frequent flooding.	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	indicator plant for often changing water-levels		Indicator plant for frequently changing degree of moisture.	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - moisture figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system	including indicator
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	1	1	indicator of sites extremely poor in available nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	2	2	between 1 and 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	3	3	indicator of sites more or less poor in available nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	4	4	between 3 and 5	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	5	5	indicator of intermediate nitrogen availability	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	6	6	between 5 and 7	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	7	7	indicator of sites rich in available nitrogen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	8	8	between 7 and 9	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	9	9	indicator of extremely nitrogen rich sites, such as cattle resting places or near polluted rivers	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - nitrogen figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	1	1	vascular plants: indicator of extreme acidity, never found on weakly acid or basic soils; bryophytes: never above pH 5, often near or below pH 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	2	2	between 1 and 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	3	3	vascular plants: acidity indicator, mainly on acid soils, but exceptionally also on nearly neutral ones; bryophytes: mostly below pH 5, on soils poor in nutrients	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	4	4	between 3 and 5	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	5	5	vascular plants: indicator of moderate acid soils, only occassionally found on very acid or on neutral to basic soils; bryophytes: mainly between pH 5 and pH 6	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	6	6	between 5 and 7	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	7	7	vascular plants: indicator of weakly acid to weakly basic conditions, never found on very acid soils; bryophytes: around pH 6 until pH 6.9	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	8	8	between 7 and 9	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	9	9	vascular plants: basic reaction and lime indicator, always found on calcareous soils; bryophytes: exclusively in the neutral to basic range, around pH 7 and higher	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - reaction figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	0	0	not salt supporting	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	1	1	salt supporting, but mostly on soils poor in salt (0 - 0.1% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	2	2	oligohaline (I), often on soils with very low chloride content (0.05 - 0.3% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	3	3	beta-mesohaline (II), mainly indicating low chloride content (0.3 - 0.5% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	4	4	alpha/beta-mesohaline (II/III), low to moderate chloride content (0.5 - 0.7% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	5	5	alpha-mesohaline (III), mostly on soils with moderate chloride content (0.7 - 0.9% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	6	6	alpha-meso/polyhaline (III/IV), (0.9 - 1.2% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	7	7	polyhaline (IV), on soils with high chloride content (1.2 - 1.6% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	8	8	euhaline (IV/V and V), on soils with very high chloride content (1.6 - 2.3% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	9	9	euhaline to hyperhaline (V - VI), on soils with high and during drought periods extreme salt content (> 2.3% Cl-)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - salt figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	1	1	cold-indicator plant, found only in high mountains (or in boreal-arctic regions), mostly in alpine and nival levels	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	2	2	between 1 and 3	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	3	3	indicator of cool conditions, mainly subalpine	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	4	4	between 3 and 5	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	5	5	indicator of fairly warm conditions, from lowland to montane, but especial in submontane-temperate sites	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	6	6	between 5 and 7	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	7	7	warmth indicator, in warm lowland sites and colline levels	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	8	8	between 7 and 9	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	9	9	indicator of extreme warm conditions, spreading from the Mediterranean only into the warmest places of the upper Rhine valley	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	?	?	no information	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	ELLENBERG - temperature figure Central Europe	x	x	indifferent behaviour	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	batrachid	batrachid	macrophytes with floating and divided or undivided submerged leaves; anchored (e.g. Ranunculus - Batrachium, Shinnersia)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	bryid	bryid	Bryophyta	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	ceratophyllid	ceratophyllid	pleustophytes (free floating) with large, divided, submerged leaves (e.g. Ceratophyllum, Utricularia)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	charid	charid	submerged macrophytes with whorled branches; anchored by rhizoids (Charophyta)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	elodeid	elodeid	submerged macrophytes with whorled sprouts and undivided, entire, small leaves; anchored (e.g. Egeria, Elodea, Hydrilla, Lagarosiphon)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	equiseteid	equiseteid	shoots and leaves/branches with dentate sheaths, fertile plants with terminal sporangia (Equisetum)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	graminoid	graminoid	Poaceae; anchored (e.g. Agrostis, Alopecurus, Glyceria, Phalaris)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	herbid	herbid	submerged herbaceous plants; anchored (e.g. Berula, Cardamine, Mentha, Myosotis, Nasturtium, Sium, Veronica)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	hydrocharid	hydrocharid	pleustophytes (free floating) with large floating leaves (Hydrocharis)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	isoetid	isoetid	low-growing macrophytes with basal rosettes; anchored (e.g. Eleocharis, Isoetes, Litorella, Lobelia)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	juncid	juncid	submerged macrophytes with undivided, narrow, entire, locular leaves (Juncus)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	lemnid	lemnid	pleustophytes (free floating) with small, foliate floating sprouts (e.g. Azolla, Lemna, Spirodela, Wolffia)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	magnonymphaeid	magnonymphaeid	macrophytes with large floating leaves attached to a submerged rhizome by an elongate petiole; anchored (e.g. Nymphaea, Nuphar)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	magnopotamid	magnopotamid	submerged macrophytes with undivided, broad, entire leaves; anchored (e.g. Potamogeton lucens, Potamogeton perfoliatus)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	myriophyllid	myriophyllid	submerged macrophytes with long stems and finely divided leaves; anchored (e.g. Cabomba, Myriophyllum, Oenanthe)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	parvo-nymphaeid	parvo-nymphaeid	macrophytes with small floating leaves attached to a submerged rhizome by an elongate petiole; anchored (e.g. Sagittaria)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	parvopotamid	parvopotamid	submerged macrophytes with undivided, slender, entire leaves; anchored (e.g. Potamogeton pectinatus, Zannichellia)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	peplid	peplid	macrophytes with elongated or spathulate leaves forming a terminal rosette; anchored (e.g. Callitriche, Peplis portula)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	ricciellid	ricciellid	small submerged pleustophytes (free floating), no differentiation in leaf and sprout (e.g. Riccia, Lemna trisulca)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	stratioid	stratioid	weakly anchored to floating, partly submerged rosettes which overwinter on bottom of waterbody (Stratiotes)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	growth form WIEGLEB, extended according to van de Weyer	vallisnerid	vallisnerid	macrophytes with long, floating basal leaves; anchored (e.g. Sparganium emersum f. vallisnerifolia, Vallisneria spiralis)	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG common metrics	medium-sized lowland streams (range: +1 to -1)		medium-sized lowland streams	presence/absence assignment system	including indication value (-1 to +1)
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG common metrics	small lowland sandy streams (range: +1 to -1)		small lowland sandy streams	presence/absence assignment system	including indication value (-1 to +1)
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG common metrics	small mid-altitude siliceous streams (range: +1 to		small mid-altitude siliceous streams	presence/absence assignment system	including indication value (-1 to +1)
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG disturbance indicator	disturbance indicator	1	species indicates a disturbance	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG ITEM score	ITEM score (range: 1.00 - 8.47)	ITEM score		metric value	(1 to 8.47)
Macrophytes	IC CB-GIG neophyte	neophyte	1	plant introduced to geographical region after 1492 by direct or indirect human activities
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	oceanic: very high relative air humidity, macroclimate with low annual temperature range	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	suboceanic: high relative air humidity, macroclimate with medium annual temperature range	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	suboceanic to subcontinental: medium relative air humidity, macroclimate with medium annual temperature range	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	subcontinental: low relative air humidity, macroclimate with medium annual temperature range	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	continental: very low relative air humidity, macroclimate often with wide annual temperature range	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the continentality value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	B	B	± dendroid, mostly with creeping "rhizome" and errect shoots	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	D	D	relatively large and essentially plagiotropic shoots in deep mat	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	G	G	bud-like	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	P	P	cushion of ± errect, densely arranged shoots	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	R	R	turf form loosely growing, errect shoots	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	T	T	thalloid, forming rosettes or branched bands	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - growth form Switzerland (Alpine region)	Ü	Ü	thin mat of small, creeping shoots	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	deep shade: never direct sunlight	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	shade: direct sunlight relatively rare	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	semi-shade: medium or during the day strongly changing light conditions	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	well-lit places: direct sunlight relatively frequent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	full light: permanently sunlit during cloudless days	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the light value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	very dry: exposed substrates in regions with low precipitation or in places protected from rain	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	dry: exposed substrates in places with low humidity (mostly rocks) or ground in regions with low precipitation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	mesic: medium moisture conditions	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	moist: substrate drying out only rarely, though hardly ever submerged	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	wet: substrate never dry but frequently or permanently submerged	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the moisture value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	infertile substrates	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	intermediate substrates	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	fertile substrates	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the nutrients value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	very acid: substrate pH < ca. 4 (e.g. raised bog peat)	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	acid: substrate pH ca. 3.5 - 5 (e.g. rotten wood)	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	subneutral: base-poor, substrate pH ca. 4.5 - 6.5 (e.g. silicious rock affected by lime)	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	± neutral: substrate pH ca. 6 - 7.5 (e.g. many soils in decidious forests)	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	alkaline: substrate pH > ca. 7 (e.g. limestone)	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the reaction value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	alpine and/or nival	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	subalpine	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	montane	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	colline	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	colline, only warmest places	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the temperature value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT Bryophytes - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	indifferent	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	oceanic: very high relative air humidity, very small daily and annual variation in temperature, relatively mild winters	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	suboceanic: high relative air humidity, small daily and annual variation in temperature, rather mild winters	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	suboceanic to subcontinental: medium relative air humidity, moderate daily and annual variation of temperature, medium winter temperatures	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	subcontinental: low relative air humidity, large daily and annual variation of temperature, rather cool winters	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	continental: very low relative air humidity, very large daily and annual variation in temperature, relativley cold winters	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - continentality Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the continentality value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	deep shade: plant tolerates even less than 3% of relative illumination	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	shade: plant tolerates below 3 %, but often below 10 % of relative illumination	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	semi-shade: plant rarely tolerates below 10 % of relative illumination	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	well-lit places: plant tolerates light shade only occasionally or for short periods	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	full light: plant grows only in open and sunny places	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - light Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the light value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	very dry	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	1.5	1.5	dry	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	moderately dry	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	2.5	2.5	fresh	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	moderately moist	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	3.5	3.5	moist	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	very moist	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	4.5	4.5	wet	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	inundated to flooded	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - moisture Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the moisture value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	very infertile	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	infertile	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	medium infertile to medium fertile	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	fertile	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	very fertile and over-rich	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - nutrients Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the nutrients value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	extremely acid, pH 2.5 - 5.5	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	acid, pH 3.5 - 6.5	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	weakly acid to weakly neutral, pH 4.5 - 7.5	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	neutral or alkaline basic, pH 5.5 - 8.5	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	alkaline, high pH, pH over 6.5 - 8.5	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the reaction value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - reaction Switzerland (Alpine region)	x	x	wide range of variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - salinity Switzerland (Alpine region)	s	s	salt tolerant	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - salinity Switzerland (Alpine region)	ss	ss	salt dependent	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	1	1	alpine and nival	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	1.5	1.5	lower alpine, supra subalpine and upper subalpine	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	2	2	subalpine	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	2.5	2.5	lower subalpine und upper montane	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	3	3	montane	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	3.5	3.5	lower montane and upper colline	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	4	4	colline	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	4.5	4.5	warm colline	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	5	5	very warm colline	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	LANDOLT vascular plants - temperature Switzerland (Alpine region)	variation		range of variation regarding the temperature value: I - small variation, II - large variation	single category assignment system	including variation
Macrophytes	leaf persistance	early-spring green	V	green only from early spring until early summer	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	leaf persistance	evergreen	I	evergreen	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	leaf persistance	hibernating green	W	leaves remaining green during the winter	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	leaf persistance	summergreen	S	green leaves only during the warmer seasons	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	chamaephyte	chamaephyte	plants whose mature branch or shoot system remains perennially within 25 - 50 cm above ground surface or plants that grow taller than 25 - 50 cm, but whose shoots die back periodically to that height limit	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	errant thallo-hydrophyte	errant thallo-hydrophyte	pleustophytic non-vascular cryptogams, free-moving in the water, not attached or rooted in the ground	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	errant vascular hydrophyte	errant vascular hydrophyte	pleustophytic vascular hydrophytes, free-moving in the water, not attached or rooted in the ground	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	geophyte	geophyte	periodic reduction of the complete shoot system to storage organs that are imbedded in the soil	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	hemikryptophyte	hemikryptophyte	periodic shoot reduction to a remnant shoot system that lies relatively flat on the ground surface	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	phanerophyte	phanerophyte	plants that grow taller than 25 - 50 cm or whose shoots do not die back periodically to that height limit	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	thallophyte	thallophyte	non-vascular cryptogams	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - Raunkiaer	therophyte	therophyte	annuals; plants whose shoot and root system dies after seed production and which complete their whole life cycle within one year	presence/absence assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - systema	amphiphyte	A	living both entirely submerged in water as well as temporarily on dry ground	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - systema	helophyte	H	basal parts submerged in water, leaves and inflorescences rising above water surface	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - systema	hydrophyte	Hyd	living permanently completely or mostly submerged in water or floating on the water surface	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	life form - systema	others	SW	other water-bound plant; living primarily in terrestrial areas influenced by rivers or lakes	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	plant life span	annual	annual	annual species	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	biannual	biannual	biannual species	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	hapaxanth	hapaxanth	species is flowering only once in a lifetime and dies after flowering	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	pa 5 - 50	pa5-50	perennial species, life span 5 to 50 years	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	pa < 5	pa<5	perennial species, life span 2 to 4 years	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	pa > 50	pa>50	perennial species, life span more than 50 years	presence/absence
Macrophytes	plant life span	polyannual	polyannual	perennial species	presence/absence
Macrophytes	zone - systema	A	A	plant living in the water or on the water surface	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	zone - systema	B	B	plant living in the riparian zone	single category assignment system
Macrophytes	zone - systema	C	C	plant commonly living along river and lake shores	single category assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting		++	preference according to Rott et al. (1999)	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting		x	additional opinion according to data from the literature or own assessment	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	acidiphil	ACF	occurrence at pH around 7, predominant distribution at pH < 7	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	acidobiont	ACB	occurrence at pH< 7, optimum at pH < 5.5	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	alkalibiont	ALB	occurrence exclusively pH > 7, optimum at pH 8.5	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	alkaliphil	ALF	occurrence around pH 7, predominant distribution at pH > 7	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	circumneutral	CN	occurrence in the range around pH 7	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	geochemical imprinting	indifferent	IND	distribution in the pH spectrum without recognizable optimum	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	disturbance indicator	C	disturbance indicator (indicating eutrophication or a moderate to poor saprobic status)	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	disturbance indicator	D	disturbance indicator (indicating severe eutrophication or poor to bad saprobic status or heavy metal pollution)	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	less sensitive species, occurrence not as restricted as under A	B	less sensitive species, occurrence not as restricted as under A	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 01	PB kbr 01	Type 1: Alpine streams	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 02	PB kbr 02	Type 2: Streams in the alpine foothills	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 03	PB kbr 03	Type 7: Small coarse substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 04	PB kbr 04	Type 9.1 PB 6: Mid-sized fine to coarse substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers (Phytobenthos) Type 9.2: Large highland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 05	PB kbr 05	Type 10: Very large gravel-dominated rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 06	PB kbr 06	Type 6: Small fine substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 07	PB kbr 07	Type 6K: Small fine substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers of the Keuper Type 9.1K: Mid-sized fine to coarse substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers of the Keuper Type 9.1 PB 4: Mid-sized fine to coarse substrate dominated calcareous highland rivers (Phytobenthos)	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 08	PB kbr 08	Type 11: Small organic substrate-dominated rivers Type 12: Mid-sized and large organic substrate-dominated rivers Type 19: Small streams in riverine floodplains	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 09	PB kbr 09	Type 14: Small sand-dominated lowland rivers Type 15: Mid-sized and large sand and loam-dominated lowland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 10	PB kbr 10	Type 16: Small gravel-dominated lowland rivers Type 17: Mid-sized and large gravel-dominated lowland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 11	PB kbr 11	Type 18: Small loess and loam-dominated lowland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB kbr 12	PB kbr 12	Type 15_g: Large sand and loam-dominated lowland rivers Type 20: Very large sand-dominated rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB soba 01	PB soba 01	Type 5: Small coarse substrate dominated siliceous highland rivers Type 5.1: Small fine substrate dominated siliceous highland rivers Type 11: Small organic substrate-dominated rivers Type 12: Mid-sized and large organic substrate-dominated rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB soba 02	PB soba 02	Type 9: Mid-sized fine to coarse substrate dominated siliceous highland rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	PB soba 03	PB soba 03	Type 14: Small sand-dominated lowland rivers Type 16: Small gravel-dominated lowland rivers Type 17: Mid-sized and large gravel-dominated lowland rivers Type 19: Small streams in riverine floodplains Type 11: Small organic substrate-dominated rivers Type 12: Mid-sized and large organic substrate-dominated rivers	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	indicator taxon	sensitive species, characteristic of certain types of running waters	A	sensitive species, characteristic of certain types of running waters	presence/absence assignment system	including running water type information
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	benthic	B	benthic living species	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	epiphytic	E	species living on plants	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	epiphytic on plankton	EP	living epiphytic on plankton	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	planktic	P	planktic living species	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	planktic/benthic	PB	living planktic or benthic	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	life form	terrestrial	T	living terrestrial	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	saprobity Pfister et al.	saprobic indicator (range: 1-4)	indicator	saprobic indicator (range: 1-4)	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Phytobenthos without diatoms	saprobity Pfister et al.	saprobic weight	weight	saprobic weight	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	endolithic	ENLI	in stone	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	endophytic	ENPH	in plants	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	epilithic	EPLI	on stone	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	epipelic	EPPE	on mud	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	epiphytic	EPPH	on plants	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	epipsammic	EPPS	on sand	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	epixylic	EPXY	on wood	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	sapropelic	SAPE	on decaying mud	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	substrate preference	tychoplanktic	TYCH	first in benthos, then in plankton	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	trophy Pfister et al.	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 0.1-3.9)	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Phytobenthos without diatoms	trophy Pfister et al.	trophic weight	weight	trophic weight	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Phytobenthos without diatoms	water type	running waters	FL	species occurs in running waters	presence/absence assignment system
Phytobenthos without diatoms	water type	standing waters	ST	species occurs in standing waters	presence/absence assignment system
Diatoms	moisture van Dam	1	1	never, or only very rarely, occurring outside water bodies	single category assignment system
Diatoms	moisture van Dam	2	2	mainly occurring in water bodies, sometimes on wet places	single category assignment system
Diatoms	moisture van Dam	3	3	mainly occurring in water bodies, also rather regularly on wet and moist places	single category assignment system
Diatoms	moisture van Dam	4	4	mainly occurring on wet and moist or temporarily dry places	single category assignment system
Diatoms	moisture van Dam	5	5	nearly exclusively occurring outside water bodies	single category assignment system
Diatoms	nitrogen van Dam	1	1	nitrogen-autotrophic taxa, tolerating very small concentrations of organically bound nitrogen	single category assignment system
Diatoms	nitrogen van Dam	2	2	nitrogen-autotrophic taxa, tolerating elevated concentrations of organically bound nitrogen	single category assignment system
Diatoms	nitrogen van Dam	3	3	facultatively nitrogen-heterotrophic taxa, needing periodically elevated concentrations of organically bound nitrogen	single category assignment system
Diatoms	nitrogen van Dam	4	4	obligately nitrogen-heterotrophic taxa, needing continuously elevated concentrations of organically bound nitrogen	single category assignment system
Diatoms	oxygen van Dam	1	1	oxygen content continuously high (about 100% saturation)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	oxygen van Dam	2	2	oxygen content fairly high (above 75% saturation)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	oxygen van Dam	3	3	oxygen content moderate (above 50% saturation)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	oxygen van Dam	4	4	oxygen content low (above 30% saturation)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	oxygen van Dam	5	5	oxygen content very low (about 10% saturation)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	1	1	irrelevant	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	10	10	acidobiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	11	11	indifferent (= no apparent optimum)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	2	2	alkalibiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	3	3	alkalibiontic to alkaliphilous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	4	4	alkaliphilous (=basiphilous)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	5	5	alkaliphilous to circumneutral	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	6	6	circumneutral (= neutrophilous)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	7	7	circumneutral to acidophilous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	8	8	acidophilous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	9	9	acidophilous to acidobiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Denys Hustedt	pH indicator	indicator	pH indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	1	ACB	acibiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	2	ACBP	acidophilous to acibiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	3	ACP	acidophilous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	4	INAC	indifferent to acidophilous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	5	IND	indifferent or neutral	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	6	AKIN	alkaliphilous to indifferent	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	7	AKP	alkalipholous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	8	AKPB	alkaliphilous to alkalibiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	9	AKB	alkalibiontic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH Hakansson	pH indicator	indicator	pH indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	1	1	acidobiontic: optimal occurunce at pH < 5.5	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	2	2	acidophilous: mainly occurring at pH < 7	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	3	3	circumneutral: mainly occurring at pH-values about 7	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	4	4	alkaliphilous: mainly occurring at pH > 7	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	5	5	alkalibiontic: exclusively occurring at pH > 7	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pH van Dam	6	6	indifferent: no apparent optimum	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pollution CEE	pollution indicator	indicator	pollution indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	pollution Dell'Uomo	pollution indicator (range: 0.2 - 15)	indicator	pollution indicator (range: 0.2 - 15)	metric value	(0.2 to 15); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	pollution Dell'Uomo	pollution weight	weight	pollution weight	metric value	(0.2 to 15); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	pollution Gomez & Licursi	pollution indicator	indicator	pollution indicator	metric value	(0.25 to 3.75)
Diatoms	pollution IPS	pollution indicator	indicator	pollution indicator	metric value	(1 to 5); including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	pollution IPS	pollution weight	weight	pollution weight	metric value	(1 to 5); including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	pollution Prygiel et al.	pollution indicator	indicator	pollution indicator	metric value	(1 to 5); including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	pollution Prygiel et al.	pollution weight	weight	pollution weight	metric value	(1 to 5); including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	preservation Descy	2	2	large	single category assignment system
Diatoms	preservation Descy	3	3	moderate	single category assignment system
Diatoms	preservation Descy	4	4	low	single category assignment system
Diatoms	preservation Descy	5	5	very low	single category assignment system
Diatoms	preservation Descy	preservation indicator	indicator	preservation indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Denys	2	2	markedly euryhaline	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Denys	3	3	somewhat euryhalline	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Denys	4	4	stenohaline	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Denys	salinity indicator	indicator	salinity indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	10	10	oligohalobous indifferent to halophobous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	10	10	alpha-mesohalobous to oligohalobous indifferent (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	11	11	oligohalobous halophobous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	11	11	beta-mesohalobous to oligohalobous indifferent (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	12	12	oligohalobous halophilous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	13	13	oligohalobous halophilous to indifferent (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	14	14	oligohalobous indifferent (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	15	15	oligohalobous indifferent to halophobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	16	16	oligohalobous halophobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	2	2	polyhalobous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	2	2	polyhalobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	3	3	polyhalobous to mesohalobous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	3	3	polyhalobous to alpha- mesohalobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	4	4	mesohalobous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	4	4	polyhalobous to beta- mesohalobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	5	5	mesohalobous to oligohalobous halophilous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	5	5	mesohalobous to euryhaline (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	6	6	mesohalobous to oligohalobous indifferent (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	6	6	alpha-mesohalobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	7	7	oligohalobous halophilous (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	7	7	beta-mesohalobous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	8	8	oligohalobous halophilous to indifferent (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	8	8	alpha-mesohalobous to oligohalobous halophilous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	9	9	oligohalobous indifferent (Huestedt 1953)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Huestedt	9	9	beta-mesohalobous to oligohalobous halophilous (Huestedt 1957)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity van Dam et al.	1	1	fresh: CL- (mg-1) < 100 sal < 0.2 ‰	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity van Dam et al.	2	2	fresh/brackish: CL- (mg-1) < 500 sal < 0.9 ‰	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity van Dam et al.	3	3	brackish/fresh: CL- (mg-1) 500 - 1000 sal 0.9 - 1.8 ‰	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity van Dam et al.	4	4	brackish: CL- (mg-1) 1000 - 5000 sal 1.8 - 9.0 ‰	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Ziemann	1	1	halophobous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Ziemann	2	2	oligohalobous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Ziemann	3	3	mesohalobous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Ziemann	4	4	polyhalobous	single category assignment system
Diatoms	salinity Ziemann	salinity indicator	indicator	salinity indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Czech Republic	saprobic indicator (range: 0 - 3.5)	indicator	saprobic indicator (range: 0 - 3.5)	metric value	(0 to 3.5); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	saprobity Czech Republic	saprobic weight	weight	saprobic weight	metric value	(0 to 3.5); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	1	1	oligosaprobic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	2	2	oligo- ß-saprobic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	3	3	ß-mesosaprobic	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	4	4	ß-meso - ß-alpha meso	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	5	5	ß -alpha mesosaprob	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	6	6	ß-alpha-meso - alpha meso	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	7	7	alpha mesosaprob	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	8	8	alpha-meso polysaprob	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	9	9	polysaprob	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Hofmann	saprobic indicator	indicator	saprobic indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Pfister et al.	saprobic indicator (range: 1-4)	indicator	saprobic indicator (range: 1-4)	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	saprobity Pfister et al.	saprobic weight	weight	saprobic weight	metric value	(1 to 4); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	saprobity Sladecek	saprobic indicator (range: 0.1 - 4)	indicator	saprobic indicator (range: 0.1 - 4)	metric value	(0.1 to 4); including weight (0 to 4)
Diatoms	saprobity Sladecek	saprobic weight	weight	saprobic weight	metric value	(0.1 to 4); including weight (0 to 4)
Diatoms	saprobity van Dam et al.	1	1	oligosaprobous, oxygen saturation > 85%, BOD5 20 (mgl-1) < 2	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity van Dam et al.	2	2	beta-mesosaprobous, oxygen saturation 70 - 85%, BOD5 20 (mgl-1) 2 - 4	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity van Dam et al.	3	3	alpha-mesosaprobous oxygen saturation 25-70% BOD5 20 (mgl-1) 4-13	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity van Dam et al.	4	4	alpha-meso/polysaprobous, oxygen saturation 10 - 25%, BOD5 20 (mgl-1) 13 - 22	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity van Dam et al.	5	5	polysaprobous, oxygen saturation < 10%, BOD5 20 (mgl-1) > 22	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Watanabe et al.	0	0	indifferent taxa (LECOINTE et al., 2003)	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Watanabe et al.	1	1	saprophilous taxa	single category assignment system
Diatoms	saprobity Watanabe et al.	2	2	saproxenous taxa	single category assignment system
Diatoms	trophy Bayern	trophic indicator (range: 1 - 3.9)	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 1 - 3.9)	metric value	(1 to 3.9)
Diatoms	trophy Behrendt	trophic indicator (range: 1.1 - 4)	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 1.1 - 4)	metric value	(1.1 to 4)
Diatoms	trophy Denys	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	trophy lakes	trophic indicator (range: 1.1 - 4)	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 1.1 - 4)	metric value	(1.1 to 4)
Diatoms	trophy Pfister et al.	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 0.1-3.9)	metric value	(0.1 to 3.9); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	trophy Pfister et al.	trophic weight	weight	trophic weight	metric value	(0.1 to 3.9); including weight (0 to 5)
Diatoms	trophy Schiefele & Schreiner	trophic indicator (range: 1.5 - 4)	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 1.5 - 4)	metric value	(1.5 to 4)
Diatoms	trophy Schmedtje	trophic indicator (range: 1 - 3.6)	indicator	trophic indicator (range: 1 - 3.6)	metric value	(1 to 3.6); including weight (1 to 16)
Diatoms	trophy Schmedtje	trophic weight	weight	trophic weight	metric value	(1 to 3.6); including weight (1 to 16)
Diatoms	trophy TDI	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator	single category assignment system	including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	trophy TDI	trophic weight	weight	trophic weight	single category assignment system	including weight (1 to 3)
Diatoms	trophy Whitmore	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	trophy/organic pollution Schiefele	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator	single category assignment system
Diatoms	trophy/organic pollution Steinberg	trophic indicator	indicator	trophic indicator	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	approximate size class [µm]			Size classes were created by incremental doublings of the cell volume, represented by the upper boundary log-transformed (e.g. -0.3= cell volume <= 0.5 µm³, 0= cell volume 0.5-1 µm³, 0.3= cell volume 1-2 µm³, 0.6= cell volume 2-4 µm³ and so on). A total n	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	habitat - river/lake	IndArt See			presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	habitat - river/lake	IndArtFluss			presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	benthic	B	benthic living species	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	epiphytic	E	species living on plants	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	marine	_marine	marine living species	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	planktic	P	planktic living species	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	pleuston	Pl	species living on the water surface	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	life form	possibly drifting into plankton	_drifted	benthic species, now drifting in the plankton	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	armoured flagellates	afl	armoured flagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	bristle forming algae	bfa	bristle forming algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	chain forming algae	cha	chain forming algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	coccal algae	cal	coccal algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	colonies	col	colonies	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	colony forming algae	coa	colony forming algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	colony forming blue green algae	cfa	colony forming blue green algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	colony forming phytoflagellates	cpf	colony forming phytoflagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	filamentous form	fif	filamentous form	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	Flagellates	fla	Flagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	gallert forming green algae in colonies	gac	gallert forming green algae in colonies	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	heterotrophe Flagellaten	hfl	heterotrophe Flagellaten	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	housing forming phytoflagellates	fpf	housing forming phytoflagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	large central diatoms	lcd	large central diatoms	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	large colony forming algae	lca	large colony forming algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	large phytoflagellates	lpf	large phytoflagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	medium to large diatoms	mld	medium to large diatoms	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	medium-sized central diatoms	mcd	medium-sized central diatoms	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	needle-shaped algae	nsa	needle-shaped algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	phytoflagellaten	pfl	phytoflagellaten	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	small central diatoms	scd	small central diatoms	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	small colony forming algae	sca	small colony forming algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	small phytoflagellates	spf	small phytoflagellates	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	solitary centric diatoms	sod	solitary centric diatoms	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	solitary large single cells	slc	solitary large single cells	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	solitary large single cells or chain forming	slf	solitary large single cells or chain forming	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	solitary small algae	ssa	solitary small algae	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	Thecamoeba	the	Thecamoeba	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	living form	undetermined form	udf	undetermined form	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	MFG trophic score and indicator value				metric value	(1.15 to 1.73); including indicator value (1 to 6)
Phytoplankton	mode of nutrition	heterotrophic (obligatory)	hetero	heterotrophic mode of nutrition	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	mode of nutrition	mixotroph (optional heterotroph)	mixo	mixotrophic mode of nutrition	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	mode of nutrition	no heterotrophy known	no	no heterotrophy known, phototroph	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak				single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	Chlorococcales - gelatinous colonies	11b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	Chlorococcales - naked colonies	11a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	colonial Phytomonadina	3b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	colonies - Nostocales	5e		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	filaments - Chlorophytes	10a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	filaments - Conjugatophytes	10b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	filaments - Xanthophytes	10c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large colonial or unicellular Chrysophytes/Haptophytes	1a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large colonial or unicellular Dinophytes	1b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large colonial or unicellular Euglenophytes	1c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large Diatoms - Centrics	6a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large Diatoms - Pennates	6b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large unicells - other groups	8b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large unicells - unicellular Conjugatophytes/Chlorophytes	8a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	large vacuolated colonies - Chroococcales	5b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	other colonies	11c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	other large colonies, mostly non-vacuolated Chroococcales	5c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small colonies - Chroococcales	5d		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small Diatoms - Centrics	7a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small Diatoms - Pennates	7b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicells - Chlorococcales	9b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicells - Chrysophytes	9c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicells - Conjugatophytes	9a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicells - other groups	9d		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicellular Chrysophytes/Haptophytes	2a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicellular Cryptophytes	2d		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicellular Dinophytes	2b		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	small unicellular Euglenophytes	2c		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	thin filaments colonies - Oscillatoriales	5a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	unicellular Cyanobacteria	4		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	morpho-functional groups according to Salmaso & Padisak	unicellular Phytomonadina	3a		single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	gelatinous large colonies	C3	> 100 µm GALD, Phytomonadina, Chroococcales, Chlorococcales	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	large Bacillariophytes	B2	> 30 µm GALD, without chain-forming colonies	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	large Chrysophytes/Haptophytes, Euglenophytes, Conjugatophytes, Chlorophytes, Chroococcales	U2	large Chrysophytes/Haptophytes, Euglenophytes, Conjugatophytes, Chlorophytes, Chroococcales	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	large Dinophytes	D2	> 30 µm diameter	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	medium-sized colonies	C2	30 - 100µm, Chlorococcales, Phytomonadina, Chroococcales and others	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	medium-thick filaments	F2	Chlorophytes, Conjugatophytes, Xanthophytes, Cyanobacteria, single Nostocales	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	small Bacillariophytes	B1	< 30 µm GALD	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	small Chrysophytes/Haptophytes, Euglenophytes, Cryptophytes, Chlorococcales, unicell Phytomonad	U1	small Chrysophytes/Haptophytes, Euglenophytes, Cryptophytes, Chlorococcales, unicell Phytomonad	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	small colonies	C1	colonial Chlorophyta < 30 µm GALD	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	small Dinophytes - <30µm diameter	D1	< 30 µm diameter	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	thick filamentous aggregates	F3	chain-forming Bacillariophytes, flocs-forming Nostocales	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	phytoplankton guild (PhytoLoss)	thin filaments	F1	Oscillatoriales	single category assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	autumn	autumn	September to November	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	early summer	early summer	May to June	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	late summer	late summer	August to September	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	midsummer	midsummer	July to August	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	no	no	no specific seasonal occurrence	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	spring	spring	March to May	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	summer	summer	June to August	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	seasonal occurrence – rivers	winter	winter	November to March	presence/absence assignment system
Phytoplankton	size class trophic score and indicator value				metric value	(1.22 to 1.78); including indicator value (1 to 6)
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Alpine lakes	lake - AAF	natural lakes, Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Alps and Alpine Foothills	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Central Highland lakes	lake - CH	natural lakes, Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Central Highlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Central Highland rivers	river - CH	rivers and streams in the Central Highlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Danube Basin rivers	river - Danube	Danube and tributaries	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Lowland polymictic HMWB & AWB	pa.lake - LL	polymictic Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Lowlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Lowland polymictic lakes	pn.lake - LL	natural polymictic lakes of the Lowlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Lowland rivers	river - LL	lowland rivers and streams	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Lowland stratified HMWB & AWB	sa.lake - LL	stratified Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Lowlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	stenoecy factor	Lowland stratified lakes	sn.lake - LL	natural stratified lakes of the Lowlands	single category assignment system	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Alpine lakes	lake - AAF	natural lakes, Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Alps and Alpine Foothills	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Central Highland lakes	lake - CH	natural lakes, Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Central Highlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Central Highland rivers	river - CH	rivers and streams in the Central Highlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Danube Basin rivers	river - Danube	Danube and tributaries	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Lowland polymictic HMWB & AWB	pa.lake – LL	polymictic Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Lowlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Lowland polymictic lakes	pn.lake - LL	natural polymictic lakes of the Lowlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Lowland rivers	river - LL	lowland rivers and streams	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Lowland stratified HMWB & AWB	sa.lake - LL	stratified Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Lowlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic anchor value	Lowland stratified lakes	sn.lake – LL	natural stratified lakes of the Lowlands	metric value	including freshwater type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	AAF+CH	AAF+CH	natural lakes, Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies of the Alps, Alpine Foothills and Central Highlands	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	eutrophic	eu	trophic index values: >2.5 – 3.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	eutrophic 1	eu1	trophic index values: > 2.5 – 3.0	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	eutrophic 2	eu2	trophic index values: > 3.0 – 3.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	hypereutrophic	hyper	trophic index values: > 4.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	indifferent	in	indifferent species	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	mesotrohic	meso	trophic index values: >1.5 – 2.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	mesotrophic 1	meso1	trophic index values: > 1.5 – 2.0	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	mesotrophic 2	meso2	trophic index values: > 2.0 – 2.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	oligotrophic	oligo	trophic index values: 0.5 – 1.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	pn.lake - LL	pn.lake - LL	natural polymictic lakes of the Lowlands	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	polytrophic	poly	trophic index values: > 3.5 – 4.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	polytrophic 1	poly1	trophic index values: > 3.5 – 4.0	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	polytrophic 2	poly2	trophic index values: > 4.0 – 4.5	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Phytoplankton	trophic focus	sn.lake – LL	sn.lake – LL	natural stratified lakes of the Lowlands	presence/absence assignment system	including lake type
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western North Africa	1	ecoregion sensu Illies: North Africa ("X"), country: TU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western North Africa	2	ecoregion sensu Illies: North Africa ("X"), country: AL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western North Africa	3	ecoregion sensu Illies: North Africa ("X"), country: MO
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	4a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	5a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: PT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	5b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: PT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	4b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	4c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	4d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Pyrennes (ER2), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western South Europe	6a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Pyrennes (ER2), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	6b	ecoregion sensu Illies: ER8?, country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	7a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	7b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	7c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	7d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central South Europe	6c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Italy, Corsica and Malta (ER3), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	8	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: Levante
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	9	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: IN
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	10	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Caucasus (ER24), country: Caucasus
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	11a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: TR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	11b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: TR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Asia Minor	11c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: TR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	12a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	13	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: AL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	14	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: MK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	15a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Dinaric Western Balkan (ER5), country: RS, ME, Kosovo
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	16	ecoregion sensu Illies: Dinaric Western Balkan (ER5), country: BA
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	17a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Dinaric Western Balkan (ER5), country: HR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Dinaric South Europe	18a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Dinaric Western Balkan (ER5), country: SL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Balkanic South Europe	12b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Balkan (ER7), country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Balkanic South Europe	11d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Balkan (ER7), country: TR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Balkanic South Europe	19	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Balkan (ER7), country: BG
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Balkanic South Europe	15b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Balkan (ER7), country: RS, ME, Kosovo
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	20a	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: RO
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	20b	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: RO
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	21a	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: UA
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	22	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: SK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	23a	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: HU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	24a	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: CZ
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Central Mountains	25a	ecoregion sensu Illies: The Carpathians (ER10), country: PL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	24b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: CZ
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	26a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: AT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	27g	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Northern Central Mountains	28a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Highlands (ER9), country: CH
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	27h	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	26b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: AT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	26c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: AT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	18b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: SL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	7e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	7f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	28b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: CH
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	7g	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: IT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Central Mountains	6d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Alps (ER4), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	6e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	6f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	28c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: CH
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	6g	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	27i	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	29	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: LU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Central Mountains	30a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Highlands (ER8), country: BE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	British Isles	31	ecoregion sensu Illies: Ireland & N. Ireland (ER17), country: IE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	British Isles	46a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Great Britain (ER18), country: UK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	British Isles	46b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Great Britain (ER18), country: UK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Lowland	6h	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Plains (ER13), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Lowland	6i	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Plains (ER13), country: FR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Lowland	30b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Plains (ER13), country: BE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Lowland	44a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Plains (ER13), country: NL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western Lowland	27j	ecoregion sensu Illies: Western Plains (ER13), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	27p	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	44b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: NL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	27k	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	27n	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	45a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	32a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: SE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	27m	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Central Lowland	25b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: PL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	26d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: AT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	23b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: HU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	23c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: HU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	18c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: SL
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	17b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: HR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	23d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: HU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	20c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Pontic Province (ER12), country: RO
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	21b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Pontic Province (ER12), country: UA
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Southern Lowland	33a	ecoregion sensu Illies: Caspian Depression (ER25), country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Lowland	33b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Plains (ER16), country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Lowland	21c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Plains (ER16), country: UA
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Lowland	34	ecoregion sensu Illies: Eastern Plains (ER16), country: BY
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Lowland	35	ecoregion sensu Illies: Baltic Region (ER15), country: LT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Lowland	36	ecoregion sensu Illies: Baltic Region (ER15), country: LV
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern North Europe	37	ecoregion sensu Illies: Baltic Region (ER15), country: ET
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern North Europe	33c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Taiga (ER23), country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern North Europe	38	ecoregion sensu Illies: Taiga (ER23), country: FI
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western North Europe	32b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Fenno-Scandian Shield (ER22), country: SE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Western North Europe	39	ecoregion sensu Illies: Borealic Uplands (ER20), country: NO
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Arctic Europe	40	ecoregion sensu Illies: Tundra (ER21), country: Tundra
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Ural	33d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Ural Mountains, country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Palaearctic	33e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Siberia, country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Palaearctic	33f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Siberia, country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Palaearctic	33g	ecoregion sensu Illies: Siberia, country: RU
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern Palaearctic	41	ecoregion sensu Illies: Mongolia, country: MN
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	42	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iceland (ER19), country: IS
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	45b	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	45c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Central Plains (ER14), country: DK
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	32c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Baltic Region (ER15), country: SE
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	15c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hungarian Lowlands (ER11), country: SR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	43	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y), country: CY
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	47	ecoregion sensu Illies: Middle East (Y) ?, country: Arabian Penisula
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	12c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	12d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	12e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	12f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Hellenic Western Balkan (ER6) , country: GR
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	4e	ecoregion sensu Illies: Iberic Region (ER1), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	4f	ecoregion sensu Illies: Macaronesian Region (ER1), country: ES
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	5c	ecoregion sensu Illies: Macaronesian Region (ER1), country: PT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Selected Islands & Regions	5d	ecoregion sensu Illies: Macaronesian Region (ER1), country: PT
Macro-invertebrates	small-scale geographical distribution according to Berthold Robert	Eastern North Africa	48	ecoregion sensu Illies: North Africa ("X"), country: EG