Individual body mass and length dataset for over 12,000 fish from Iberian streams

Ignasi Arranz; Sandra Brucet; Mireia Bartrons; Carmen García-Comas; Carles Alcaraz; Mònica Bardina; Patricia Navarro Barquero; Frederic Casals; Nuno Caiola; María Concepción Duran; Emili García-Berthou; Alberto Maceda-Veiga; Antoni Munné; María José Rodríguez-Pérez; Carolina Solà; Adolfo de Sostoa; Lluís Benejam

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108248

Individual body mass and length dataset for over 12,000 fish from Iberian streams

Data Brief. 2022 May 6:42:108248. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108248. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Ignasi Arranz^{1

2}, Sandra Brucet^{1

3}, Mireia Bartrons¹, Carmen García-Comas^{1

4}, Carles Alcaraz⁵, Mònica Bardina⁶, Patricia Navarro Barquero⁷, Frederic Casals^{8

9}, Nuno Caiola^{10

11}, María Concepción Duran⁷, Emili García-Berthou¹², Alberto Maceda-Veiga¹³, Antoni Munné⁶, María José Rodríguez-Pérez⁷, Carolina Solà⁶, Adolfo de Sostoa¹³, Lluís Benejam¹

Affiliations

¹ Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Catalonia, Spain.
² Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France.
³ Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ IRTA - Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Marine and Continental Waters Program, La Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain.
⁶ Agència Catalana de l'Aigua, C/Provença 260, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro Paseo Sagasta, Zaragoza, Spain.
⁸ Department of Animal Science, Lleida University, Campus ETSEA - Edifici 1, Av. Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
⁹ Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia-CTFC, Ctra. De St. Llorenç de Morunys, km 2, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain.
¹⁰ Climate Resilience Center (CRC), Amposta, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Climate Change, EURECAT, Amposta, Spain.
¹² GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
¹³ Integrative Zoology Lab, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

We provide a unique fish individual body size dataset collected from our own sampling and public sources in north-eastern Spain. The dataset includes individual body size measures (fork length and mass) of 12,288 individuals of 24 fish species within 10 families collected at 118 locations in large rivers and small streams. Fish were caught by one-pass electrofishing following European standard protocols. The fish dataset has information on the local instream conditions including climatic variables (i.e., temperature and precipitation), topography (i.e., altitude), nutrient concentration (i.e., total phosphorus and nitrates), and the IMPRESS values (a measure of cumulative human impacts in lotic ecosystems). The potential uses of this new fish dataset are manifold, including developing size-based indices to further estimate the ecological status of freshwater ecosystems, allometric models, and analysis of variation in body size structure along environmental gradients.

Keywords: Mediterranean streams; body size; environmental variables; freshwater fish; functional traits; human-altered ecosystems; intraspecific variability; water quality.