Experts
Within freshwaterecology.info there are three different fields of responsibility:
- Taxonomy: experts responsible for checking the species taxonomy can be found here: » taxonomic experts
- Species distribution: experts responsible for the national checklists can be found here: » country checklist experts
- Ecological information: experts responsible for the compilation of ecological parameters can be found here » ecological information experts
For detailed information about data sources, please press on the little booklet-icon on the right side of each query result
or use the reference list-icon in the headline of each queried ecological parameter 
.
We greatly appreciate the work of all the experts and we are grateful for their contributions to improvements of freshwaterecology.info!!
Taxonomic experts
The species/taxa within the freshwaterecology.info database were checked by the following experts regarding species validity, species nomenclature and synonymy.
| Taxonomic group | Expert | Organisation | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish | |||
| Fish | Fame/EFI+/WISER projects
contact person: Andreas Melcher |
BOKU Vienna | andreas.melcher@boku.ac.at |
| Macro-invertebrates | |||
| Turbellaria | Piet Verdonschot | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | Piet.Verdonschot@wur.nl |
| Mollusca | Michal Horsak, Lubos Beran | Masaryk University, Brno | horsak@sci.muni.cz |
| Oligochaeta | Piet Verdonschot | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | Piet.Verdonschot@wur.nl |
| Polychaeta | Piet Verdonschot | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | Piet.Verdonschot@wur.nl |
| Hirudinea, Branchiobdellida | Hasko Nesemann (Armin Lorenz) | BOKU Vienna | armin.lorenz@uni-due.de |
| Hydrachnidia | Tj.H. van den Hoek | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | t.h.vandenhoek@wur.nl |
| Crustacea | Tj.H. van den Hoek | Alterra Green World Reserach, Wageningen | t.h.vandenhoek@wur.nl |
| Ephemeroptera | Tomas Soldan | Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice | soldan@entu.cas.cz |
| Odonata | Jiri Zeleny | Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice | zeleny@entu.cas.cz |
| Plecoptera | Wolfram Graf | BOKU Vienna | wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at |
| Heteroptera | Tj.H. van den Hoek | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | t.h.vandenhoek@wur.nl |
| Megaloptera | Tomas Soldan | Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice | soldan@entu.cas.cz |
| Planipennia | Jiri Zeleny | Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice | zeleny@entu.cas.cz |
| Coleoptera | Wolfram Sondermann | wolfram.sondermann@gmx.de | |
| Trichoptera | Wolfram Graf | BOKU Vienna | wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at |
| Chironomidae | Karel Brabec | Masaryk University, Brno | brabec@sci.muni.cz |
| Ceratopogonidae | Jan Knoz | Masaryk University, Brno | brabec@sci.muni.cz |
| Simuliidae | Gunther Seitz
Ellen Kiel |
Regierung Niederbayern, Landshut
Hochschule Vechta |
gunther.seitz@reg-nb.bayern.de ellen.kiel@uni-vechta.de |
| Pediciidae | Herbert Reusch | Herbert.Reusch@t-online.de | |
| Limoniidae | Herbert Reusch | Herbert.Reusch@t-online.de | |
| Tipulidae | Herbert Reusch | Herbert.Reusch@t-online.de | |
| Brachycera | Rudolf Rozkosny | Masaryk University, Brno | rozk@muni.cz |
| Macrophytes | |||
| Macrophytes | REBECCA/WISER projects
contact person: Bernard Dudley |
CEH, Edinburgh | bedu@ceh.ac.uk |
| Diatoms | |||
| Diatoms | OMNIDIA/Euro-limpacs projects
contact person: Anna Besse |
Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | Anna.Besse@wur.nl |
| Phytoplankton | |||
| Phytoplankton | REBECCA/WISER projects
contact person: Birger Skjelbred |
NIVA, Oslo | Birger.Skjelbred@niva.no |
Country checklist experts
Fish
The country checklists for fish are based on the FAME project.
Macro-invertebrates
The AQEM and STAR partner countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden) compiled lists of aquatic macro-invertebrates occurring in their countries. Additional information was provided by the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.
Click on the taxagroup to see the detailed table.
Ecological information experts
The following experts were responsible for the compilation of ecological information.
Please consult » Terms of use (citation) for details about usage and citation of the data.
| Taxonomic group | Expert | Organisation | Contact | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish | ||||
| Fish | Gael Grenouillet | CNRS, Toulouse | gael.grenouillet@cict.fr | |
| Macro-invertebrates | ||||
| Trichoptera | Wolfram Graf | BOKU Vienna | wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at | |
| Plecoptera | Wolfram Graf
Armin Lorenz |
BOKU Vienna
University Duisburg-Essen |
wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at armin.lorenz@uni-due.de |
|
| Chironomidae | Berthold Janecek
Karel Brabec |
BOKU Vienna
Masaryk University, Brno |
berthold.janecek@boku.ac.at brabec@muni.cz |
|
| Ephemeroptera | Andrea Buffagni
Javier Alba-Tercedor |
CNR-IRSA, Brugherio
University Granada |
buffagni@irsa.cnr.it jalba@ugr.es |
|
| Macrophytes | ||||
| Macrophytes | Bernard Dudley | CEH, Edinburgh | bedu@ceh.ac.uk | |
| Diatoms | ||||
| Diatoms | Anna Besse | Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen | Anna.Besse@wur.nl | |