We greatly appreciate the work of all the experts who have contributed to freshwaterecology.info so far. We are grateful for their contributions and improvements to the database!!

Within freshwaterecology.info there are different fields of responsibilities:

• organism/taxagroups with ecological/biological information: taxagroups for which we offer ecological and biological information were processed by specific experts in terms of taxonomy and ecology/biology; these experts can be found here:  ecological information experts
  For detailed information about data sources used by the experts, 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.
  For more information see also  How to use the database/Additional information.
• other taxagroups: for all other taxagroups we had experts during various EU-funded projects, who checked the species taxonomy and who can be found here:  other taxonomic experts

Experts of taxagroups with ecological/biological information

The following persons were responsible for the taxonomy and the compilation of ecological and biological information of species.
Please consult  Terms of use (citation) for details about usage and citation of the data.

Taxonomic group	Expert	Organisation	Citation
Fish
Fish	Rafaela Schinegger Thomas Friedrich Paul Meulenbroek	BOKU Vienna
Macro-invertebrates
Trichoptera	Wolfram Graf	BOKU Vienna
Plecoptera	Wolfram Graf Armin Lorenz	BOKU Vienna University Duisburg-Essen
Ephemeroptera	Andrea Buffagni Javier Alba-Tercedor	CNR-IRSA, Brugherio University Granada
Odonata	KD Dijkstra	Naturalis, Leiden
Coleoptera	Thomas Hörren Monika Hess	University Duisburg-Essen H2, Munich
Chironomidae	Berthold Janecek Karel Brabec	BOKU Vienna Masaryk University, Brno
Tachet traits	Philippe Usseglio-Polatera	University of Lorraine
Macrophytes
Macrophytes	Karin Pall	Systema, Vienna
Phytobenthos
Diatoms	Gabriele Hofmann Anna Besse	Glashütten Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Phytobenthos without Diatoms	Antje Gutowski	AlgaLab, Bremen
Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton	Ursula Riedmüller Giuseppe Morabito	LBH, Freiburg CNR Istituto Studio Ecosistemi

Other taxonomic experts

The species/taxa of the other organism groups within freshwaterecology.info were checked by the following experts regarding species validity, species nomenclature and synonymy.

Taxonomic group	Expert	Organisation
Macro-invertebrates
Turbellaria	Piet Verdonschot	Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Mollusca	Michal Horsak, Lubos Beran	Masaryk University, Brno
Oligochaeta	Piet Verdonschot	Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Polychaeta	Piet Verdonschot	Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Hirudinea, Branchiobdellida	Hasko Nesemann	formerly: BOKU Vienna
Hydrachnidia	Tj.H. van den Hoek	Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Crustacea	Tj.H. van den Hoek	Alterra Green World Reserach, Wageningen
Heteroptera	Tj.H. van den Hoek	Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen
Megaloptera	Tomas Soldan	Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice
Planipennia	Jiri Zeleny	Entomological Institute, AS, Ceske Budejovice
Ceratopogonidae	Jan Knoz	Masaryk University, Brno
Simuliidae	Gunther Seitz Ellen Kiel	Regierung Niederbayern, Landshut Hochschule Vechta
Pediciidae	Herbert Reusch (†)
Limoniidae	Herbert Reusch (†)
Tipulidae	Herbert Reusch (†)
Brachycera	Rudolf Rozkosny	Masaryk University, Brno