{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["020:00"], "contactPoint": {"fn": "Jill Scharold", "hasEmail": "mailto:scharold.jill@epa.gov"}, "description": "Densities of major taxonomic groups and species (or higher taxa) of benthic macroinvertebrates sampled in lake-wide surveys of Lake Ontario conducted in 1994, 1997, 1998, and 1999. \n\nThis dataset is associated with the following publication:\nBurlakova, L., A.  Karatayev, A. Hrycik, S. Daniel, K. Mehler, L. Rudstam, J. Watkins, R. Dermott, J. Scharold, A. Elgin, and T. Nalepa. Six decades of Lake Ontario ecological history according to benthos..   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH. International Association for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 48(2): 274-288, (2022).", "distribution": [{"downloadURL": "https://pasteur.epa.gov/uploads/10.23719/1519312/Lake%20Ontario%20Benthos%201994_7_8_9_Species.xlsx", "mediaType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet", "title": "Lake Ontario Benthos 1994_7_8_9_Species.xlsx"}, {"downloadURL": "https://pasteur.epa.gov/uploads/10.23719/1519312/Lake%20Ontario%20Benthos%201994_7_8_9_Groups.xlsx", "mediaType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet", "title": "Lake Ontario Benthos 1994_7_8_9_Groups.xlsx"}], "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.23719/1519312", "keyword": ["Lake Ontario", "benthic macroinvertebrates", "Great Lakes"], "license": "https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license.html", "modified": "2020-09-01", "programCode": ["020:000"], "publisher": {"name": "U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)", "subOrganizationOf": {"name": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency", "subOrganizationOf": {"name": "U.S. Government"}}}, "references": ["https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.03.006"], "rights": null, "title": "Lake Ontario benthic macroinvertebrate data 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999"}