DISPERSE: a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates

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Authors	SARREMEJANE Romain CID Nuria STUBBINGTON Rachel DATRY Thibault ALP Maria CANEDO-ARGUELLES Miguel CORDERO-RIVERA Adolfo CSABAI Zoltán Szabolcs GUTIERREZ-CANOVAS Cayetano HEINO Jani FORCELLINI Maxence MILLÁN Andres PAILLEX Amael PAŘIL Petr POLÁŠEK Marek TIERNO DE FIGUEROA Jose Manuel USSEGLIO-POLATERA Philippe ZAMORA-MUNOZ Carmen BONADA Nuria
Year of publication	2020
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Scientific Data
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation	SARREMEJANE, Romain, Nuria CID, Rachel STUBBINGTON, Thibault DATRY, Maria ALP, Miguel CANEDO-ARGUELLES, Adolfo CORDERO-RIVERA, Zoltán Szabolcs CSABAI, Cayetano GUTIERREZ-CANOVAS, Jani HEINO, Maxence FORCELLINI, Andres MILLÁN, Amael PAILLEX, Petr PAŘIL, Marek POLÁŠEK, Jose Manuel TIERNO DE FIGUEROA, Philippe USSEGLIO-POLATERA, Carmen ZAMORA-MUÑOZ and Nuria BONADA. DISPERSE: a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates. Scientific Data. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2020, vol. 7, No 1, p. 1-9. ISSN 2052-4463. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00732-7.
web	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00732-7
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00732-7
Keywords	dispersal; movement quality; morphological feature; behavioral quality
Description	Dispersal is an essential process in population and community dynamics, but is difficult to measure in the field. In freshwater ecosystems, information on biological traits related to organisms’ morphology, life history and behaviour provides useful dispersal proxies, but information remains scattered or unpublished for many taxa. We compiled information on multiple dispersal-related biological traits of European aquatic macroinvertebrates in a unique resource, the DISPERSE database. DISPERSE includes nine dispersal-related traits subdivided into 39 trait categories for 480 taxa, including Annelida, Mollusca, Platyhelminthes, and Arthropoda such as Crustacea and Insecta, generally at the genus level. Information within DISPERSE can be used to address fundamental research questions in metapopulation ecology, metacommunity ecology, macroecology and evolutionary ecology. Information on dispersal proxies can be applied to improve predictions of ecological responses to global change, and to inform improvements to biomonitoring, conservation and management strategies. The diverse sources used in DISPERSE complement existing trait databases by providing new information on dispersal traits, most of which would not otherwise be accessible to the scientific community.
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