EU data portals

Data portals established by the European Union

Spatial data sources

GIS and geographically oriented information portals

Other information portals

Other information and knowledge portals

Data repositories

A variety of freshwater related data storage systems

Biodiversity related data sources

Occurrence data: data portals that provide species distribution information, i.e. point data

Taxonomic data: databases with mainly taxonomic information

Trait data: data related to species traits, ecological preferences or biological characteristics

Genetic data: links to various genetic databases

GBIF

Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data

[Occurrence data]

Freshwater Metadata Journal & Metadatabase

Information about freshwater datasets

[Occurrence data]

FADA

FADA – Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment.

[Taxonomy]

PESI

PESI – Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure

[Taxonomy]

Freshwater Species Traits Database

Unified, standardised & codified information about ecological preferences & biological traits

[Traits]

Freshwater Biological Traits Database

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Macroinvertebrate taxa including habitat, life history, mobility, morphology and ecological trait data

[Traits]

BOLDSYSTEMS

BOLDSYSTEMS - Barcode of Life Data Systems

[Genes]

INSDC

INSDC – International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration

[Genes]

GenBank

Collection of all publicly available DNA sequences

[Genes]

iBOL

International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL)

[Genes]