Regional landscape differences lead to contrasts in the strength of environmental sorting among crustacean zooplankton metacommunities [Quebec, Canada, 2011-2013]

The dataset contains cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (CO1) metabarcoding of bulk zooplankton samples for each of 117 lakes spanning these three regions, as well as the coordinates, water chemistry, and morphometry of the lakes.

This data was used to investigate the structuring processes of crustacean zooplankton metacommunities using joint species distribution models. Each metabarcoding file contains all sequences obtained with either the reverse or forward CO1 primer in each lake. The environmental data file contains lake number, region, pH, DO (mg/L), specific conductivity (µS/cm), temperature (°C), maximum depth (m), secchi depth (m), chlorophyll a (chla; µg/L), total phosphorus (TP; µg/L), total nitrogen (TN; mg/L), dissolved organic carbon (DOC; mg/L), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC; mg/L), colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM; absorbance at 440 nm m-1), degree days, Chaoborous presence/absence, area (m), elevation (m), latitude and longitude.