Replication Data for: Multiscale Drivers of Microcrustacean Zooplankton Metacommunity Structure in Hardwater Lakes

Files include geographic coordinates, hydromorphological and land-cover variables, physicochemical water-quality measurements, regional climate and land-use variables, lake-isolation variables, and microcrustacean zooplankton species abundances.

These data were used to evaluate the relative importance of local environmental conditions, regional landscape factors, spatial structure, and lake isolation in explaining microcrustacean zooplankton community composition across the northern Great Plains. This description is supported by the manuscript’s study-area and sampling descriptions, which state that the 78 lakes were surveyed in summer 2019 across approximately 49.0°–52.8° latitude and -101.6° to -110.3° longitude, covering about 450 km × 650 km.