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Ecological Metadata Language (EML) Specification
Official specification for the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) version 2.2.0, a comprehensive XML vocabulary designed specifically for documenting ecological and... -
GBIF Data Quality Requirements and Documentation
Official GBIF documentation on data quality requirements for publishing occurrence, checklist, and sampling-event datasets. Describes over 50 automated data quality flags that... -
GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) User Manual
Official manual for the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), the free, open-source Java application used to publish biodiversity datasets to the GBIF network. Covers... -
Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard...
Foundational peer-reviewed paper describing the Darwin Core standard's history, design principles, community governance model, and practical applications. Traces DwC's evolution... -
Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide
Official TDWG quick reference for all currently recommended Darwin Core terms. Lists each term with its identifier (URI), label, definition, comments, and examples, organised by... -
Global Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration (Grill et al. 2019)
Global-scale assessment mapping the degree of flow regulation and hydrological alteration across 12 million river kilometres worldwide. Published in Nature, this study found... -
Pairwise IHA Analysis: Python Toolkit for Assessing Reservoir Impacts
Python-based tool for pairwise upstream-downstream IHA analysis at reservoirs and dams. Enables comparison of flow regime characteristics above and below impoundments to... -
IHA R Package: Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration Implementation
Open-source R package implementing the full Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) methodology for reproducible, scriptable analysis. Provides functions for calculating all... -
Ecological Reserve Determination and Compliance Monitoring: Crocodile River Catchment
Reserve determination and compliance assessment for the Crocodile (West) River using IHA-based flow analysis. Documents recommended ecological flows based on the Building Block... -
Understanding Hydrological Processes at Ungauged Points in the Incomati...
Application of the IHA methodology to 33 gauging stations across the Incomati (Inkomati) River Basin in South Africa. Analyses streamflow variability and identifies... -
The Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA): A New Framework...
Framework for developing regional environmental flow standards that scales the IHA approach from individual sites to entire regions. ELOHA consists of four steps: (1)... -
The Natural Flow Regime: A Paradigm for River Conservation and Restoration...
Landmark paper establishing the natural flow regime as the central paradigm for river conservation and restoration. Identifies five critical components of flow regime —... -
How Much Water Does a River Need? The Range of Variability Approach (Richter...
Key companion paper to the 1996 IHA methodology introducing the Range of Variability Approach (RVA) for setting streamflow-based river ecosystem management targets. Defines a... -
A Method for Assessing Hydrological Alteration within Ecosystems (Richter et...
Foundational scientific paper introducing the Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) methodology. Presents 32 hydrological parameters (later expanded to 33) organised in 5... -
IHA Software Version 7.1: User's Guide
The Nature Conservancy's Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) software manual, version 7.1. Provides comprehensive guidance on using the free IHA software for calculating... -
GRDC: Global Runoff Data Centre
The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), operated by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), maintains... -
Environmental Profile of the Inkomati River Basin
Comprehensive environmental profile of the Inkomati (Incomati) River Basin covering hydrology, water resources, biodiversity, land use, and environmental challenges. Produced... -
CHIRPS: Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data
CHIRPS is a quasi-global rainfall dataset spanning from 1981 to the present, covering 50°S to 50°N at 0.05° (~5 km) spatial resolution. Produced by the Climate Hazards Center at... -
HydroATLAS: Global Hydro-Environmental Sub-Basin & River Reach Data
HydroATLAS is a global compendium of hydro-environmental attributes for all sub-basins and river reaches worldwide, providing 56 hydro-environmental variables organised in 281... -
SASS5 Rapid Bioassessment Method for Rivers
The South African Scoring System version 5 (SASS5) is the standardised national protocol for rapid biological assessment of river health using aquatic macroinvertebrates as...