Trace metals in water and biota in and near headwater streams in the Colorado Mineral Belt

This data release includes sampling location data, field-collected water chemistry data, cation and anion concentration data for water and tissues of submerged aquatic vegetation, aquatic insect larvae, adult aquatic insects and riparian spiders from 35 first- and second-order sub-alpine streams that ranged over several orders of magnitude in metal concentrations but were similar in elevation, geology, and stream morphology. Sampling was completed in late summer, after snowmelt runoff was complete and as the streams approached baseflow conditions.

Data and Resources

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  • aquatic-ecosystems
  • aquatic-vegetation
  • bioaccumulation
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  • contaminants
  • dissolved-metals
  • ecosystem-monitoring
  • food-web
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  • insects
  • lake-county
  • macroinvertebrates
  • metamorphosis
  • national
  • north-america
  • park-county
  • resource-subsidies
  • riparian-ecosytems
  • riparian-spiders
  • summit-county
  • surface-water-quality
  • trace-metals
  • trophic-level-dynamics
  • trophic-relationships
  • trophic-transfer
  • united-states
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  • water-chemistry
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metadata_created 2025-11-22T11:43:02.322916
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T11:43:02.322921
notes This data release includes sampling location data, field-collected water chemistry data, cation and anion concentration data for water and tissues of submerged aquatic vegetation, aquatic insect larvae, adult aquatic insects and riparian spiders from 35 first- and second-order sub-alpine streams that ranged over several orders of magnitude in metal concentrations but were similar in elevation, geology, and stream morphology. Sampling was completed in late summer, after snowmelt runoff was complete and as the streams approached baseflow conditions.
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title Trace metals in water and biota in and near headwater streams in the Colorado Mineral Belt