EPA: Freshwater Biological Traits Database

The Freshwater Biological Traits Database currently contains traits data for 3,857 North American macroinvertebrate taxa, and includes habitat, life history, mobility, morphology and ecological trait data.

More information on this dataset can be found in the Freshwater Metadatabase - BFE_99 (http://www.freshwatermetadata.eu/metadb/bf_mdb_view.php?entryID=BFE_99).

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Field	Value
Last Updated	June 23, 2017, 14:47 (UTC)
Created	June 23, 2017, 14:47 (UTC)
Access constraints	no limitations
Contact email	bierwagen.britta@epa.gov
Dataset language	eng
Dataset reference date	2012-01-01
Dataset reference type	publication
Guid	BFE_99
Licence	no conditions apply
Metadata date	2014-08-21
Metadata language	eng
Resource type	dataset
Responsible party	USEPA Headquarters
Responsible party role	Principal Investigator
Spatial harvester	true
Topic category	biota, environment, inlandWaters
harvest_object_id	08ab8044-d574-4ac6-b66b-f310d56711b9
harvest_source_id	65f99de1-ecac-4e1d-9081-b5dcd8eedffd
harvest_source_title	fip-mdb