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Loch Leven monitoring data (water quality, chemistry, crustacean zooplankton), 2021

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
4 September 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains weather conditions, water quality, water chemistry and crustacean zooplankton counts sampled at Loch Leven throughout the year 2021. Loch Leven is a lowland lake in Scotland, United Kingdom. The data were collected as part of a long-term monitoring programme, which began in 1968 and is still underway. Sampling occurs roughly every 2 weeks with laboratory analysis and data processing being performed at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Edinburgh site. The sampling and processing was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f5dc095c-e3f6-4d9e-be80-40e35c298142

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
02 September 2026
Harvest GUID
f5dc095c-e3f6-4d9e-be80-40e35c298142
Extent (Latitude)
56.224° to 56.171°
Extent (Longitude)
-3.424° to -3.319°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2022-12-08
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, P.J., Dobel, A., Grant, A., Gunn, I.D.M., Olszewska, J.P., May, L. (2022). Loch Leven monitoring data (water quality, chemistry, crustacean zooplankton), 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f5dc095c-e3f6-4d9e-be80-40e35c298142
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng