dataset · England
Freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys (Biosys)
The Environment Agency undertakes freshwater and marine biological monitoring in England. This dataset contains site, sample, metric and taxa information from freshwater river macroinvertebrate surveys carried out across England from 1965 onwards. Notes: - These survey data are stored in an archive more commonly known as BIOSYS. - This dataset contains Freshwater, River macroinvertebrate surveys only. - Pollution Samples are excluded from the dataset. - The family-level BMWP and LIFE calculation
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Evidence quality: 43.6
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=66c79b9a-c855-4b65-a894-0668bbbd1843&fileName=Freshwater_river_macroinvertebrate_surveys_(Biosys).zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/3faf10d7-04bc-49e0-8377-61f75186d21d/freshwater-river-macroinvertebrate-surveys-biosys
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