Description

Get data describing benthic-invertebrate (bottom dwelling aquatic invertebrates) community structure and habitat conditions in various waterbodies. This dataset includes: * counts of different kinds of benthic invertebrates * water chemistry * information about collected samples (geographic coordinates, sampling agencies, collection dates, and waterbody types) * descriptions of sampling effort and equipment Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrate, lakes, streams, wetlands, OBBN

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/d9f565a0-22df-4433-ae10-b27c7f20e6f3
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca/fr)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/fr/dataset/d9f565a0-22df-4433-ae10-b27c7f20e6f3
Data	ZIP		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/2Water/OBBN/OBBN_DATA_2025.zip
Photos – MECP (A-K)	ZIP		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/2Water/OBBN/OBBN_PHOTOS-MECP_A-K.zip
Photos – MECP (L-Z)	ZIP		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/2Water/OBBN/OBBN_PHOTOS-MECP_L-Z.zip
Photos – Other (A-K)	ZIP		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/2Water/OBBN/OBBN_PHOTOS-OTHER_A-K.zip
Photos – Other (L-Z)	ZIP		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/2Water/OBBN/OBBN_PHOTOS-OTHER_L-Z.zip
Metadata Record	PDF		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/metadata/opendata/Ontario_Benthos_Biomonitoring_Network_metadata_EN.pdf
Metadata Record	PDF		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/metadata/opendata/Ontario_Benthos_Biomonitoring_Network_metadata_FR.pdf

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