Dataset of zooplankton community composition and abundance, waterbody characteristics, physical, and chemical data from 3 French Peri-Alpine lakes (Geneva, Annecy, Bourget). Samples have been collected monthly and bimonthly in the top 50 m using a 200 µm plankton net and identified to the species level. The dataset is part of a large initiative, the Zooplankton International Geospatial (ZIG) dataset, which includes zooplankton data from 311 inland lakes and reservoirs. ZIG aims to provide a comprehensive data collection to explore the role of zooplankton as indicators of environmental change.

Funding: OLA-IS (Alpine Lakes Observatory - https://si-ola.inrae.fr/si_lacs/login.jsf) - AnaEE-France, INRAE Thonon les Bains, CIPEL, SILA, CISALB This work was conducted as a part of the FreshH2O Zoops Working Group. The Working Group was supported by (1) the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey, (2) the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) through its synthesis center CESAB, and (3) the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), a NSF funded data synthesis center led by the University of Colorado Boulder in collaboration with NSF’s CyVerse at the University of Arizona and the University of Oslo (NSF Award Number DBI-2153040).