<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><resource xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.3/metadata.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.1594/PANGAEA.988902</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName>Watts, Aspen</creatorName><givenName>Aspen</givenName><familyName>Watts</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0009-0002-3691-3701</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/02mb95055">Birkbeck, University of London</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Engels, Stefan</creatorName><givenName>Stefan</givenName><familyName>Engels</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-2078-0361</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04g2vpn86">Royal Holloway University of London</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Martín-Puertas, Celia</creatorName><givenName>Celia</givenName><familyName>Martín-Puertas</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-1349-5669</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04g2vpn86">Royal Holloway University of London</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Bennion, Helen</creatorName><givenName>Helen</givenName><familyName>Bennion</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0003-0125-9308</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/02jx3x895">University College London</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Boyle, John</creatorName><givenName>John</givenName><familyName>Boyle</familyName><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/02jx3x895">University College London</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Moyle, Madeleine</creatorName><givenName>Madeleine</givenName><familyName>Moyle</familyName><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04xs57h96">University of Liverpool</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>High-resolution chironomid counts for a Holocene record from Hatch Mere, Cheshire (UK)</title></titles><publisher>PANGAEA</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Anthropogenic impact</subject><subject>Chironomids</subject><subject>Palaeoecology</subject><subject>UK</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Core</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Depth, composite</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Age</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">AGE</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Counts</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chironomus anthracinus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chironomus plumosus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chironomini larvula</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cladopelma lateralis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cladopelma laccophila-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cryptotendipes</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cryptochironomus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Demicryptochironomus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Dicrotendipes nervosus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Einfeldia dissidens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Endochironomus albipennis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Endochironomus impar-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Endochironomus tendens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Glyptotendipes barbipes-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Glyptotendipes pallens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Glyptotendipes severini-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Heterotanytarsus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Microtendipes pedellus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Pagastiella</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Parachironomus varus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Parachironomus vitiosus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Phaenopsectra flavipes</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Polypedilum-type A</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Polypedilum nubeculosum-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Polypedilum nubifer</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Polypedilum sordens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Sergentia coracina</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Stictochironomus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tribelos</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Xenochironomus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Zavreliella</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Acalcarella</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Abiskomyia</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chaetocladius-type B</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chaetocladius dentiforceps</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chaetocladius piger-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Corynoneura-type A</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Corynoneura edwardsi-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus bicinctus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus-type C</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus cylindraceus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus intersectus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus-type P</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cricotopus trifasciatus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Paracricotopus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Eukiefferiella claripennis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Eukiefferiella fittkaui-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Georthocladius</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Heterotrissocladius maeaeri-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Hydrobaenus conformis</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Lauterborniella</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Limnophyes</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Metriocnemus eurynotus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Orthocladius consobrinus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Parakiefferiella bathophila-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius barbatipes-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius barbimanus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius calcaratus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius septentrionalis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius sordidellus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Psectrocladius psilopterus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Rheocricotopus effusus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Synorthocladius</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Zalutschia mucronata-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Pseudochironomus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Ablabesmyia</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Derotanypus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Nilotanypus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Krenopelopia</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Procladius</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Thienemannimyia</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Zavrelimyia</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Cladotanytarsus mancus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Corynocera oliveri-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Micropsectra insignilobus-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Micropsectra radialis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Unknown</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Paratanytarsus penicillatus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Paratanytarsus sp.</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Rheotanytarsus</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Stempellinella</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus chinyensis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus glabrescens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus lactescens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus lugens-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus mendax-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Tanytarsus pallidicornis-type</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Prodiamesa</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Multiple investigations</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Wet sieved (100 µm) followed by hand picking from  Bogorov sorting tray, mounted on permanent microscope slides, Euparal mounting medium</subject></subjects><dates><date dateType="Collected">2023-04-13T09:00:00/2023-04-13T18:00:00</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Dataset</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.1007/BF00678113</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.1007/s10933-007-9191-1</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>2852 data points</size></sizes><formats><format>text/tab-separated-values</format></formats><rightsList><rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" schemeURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/" rightsIdentifierScheme="SPDX" rightsIdentifier="CC-BY-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">This dataset provides palaeoecological data for the Holocene sediment sequence retrieved from Hatch Mere (UK) in 2023. Chironomid counts are presented against depth (cm) and age (year CE, year BP). The data provides information on the changes in the lake ecosystem, and has been used to identify the effects of external drivers, primarily eutrophication and attempted restoration, on biodiversity parameters (alpha and beta diversity). The cores were retrieved from the lake using a gravity corer (0-41.5 cm) and a Russian chamber corer (56.5-805.5 cm) deployed from a boat and a fixed platform, respectively, during field work in April 2023.  The gravity core (HAT23-2-GC) was sampled every 2 cm from 0-42 cm, with additional samples at 1.5 cm and 41.5 cm, in 1 cm thick subsamples. The Russian core (HAT23-2-R) was sampled once per drive, at approximately every 125 cm from 139-806 cm, with additional samples taken at 56.5 cm and 97.5 cm to capture the transition between the two gravity core and the Russian core sequence. A total of 32 samples from the Hatch Mere sediment sequence was treated with warm KOH (10%) to de-flocculate the material, and subsequently rinsed over a 100 µm mesh. Chironomid head capsules (HCs) were picked from the residue using a Bogorov sorting tray, and mounted onto microscope slides using Euparal mounting medium. HCs were identified using Brooks et al. (2007, doi:10.1007/s10933-007-9191-1). Cricotopus (Isocladius) intersectus-type and Cricotopus (Isocladius) laricomalis-type were combined into a single group (C. intersectus-type sensu lato (s.l.)), as they are similar in appearance and ecological role (Brooks et al., 2007, doi:10.1007/s10933-007-9191-1). All samples reached a minimum HC count of 50. However, due to a labelling error, samples at 24.5 and 25.5 cm were merged into a single sample. The final dataset presented here contains 31 samples. All analyses were performed in the laboratory of Birkbeck, University of London, England.</description><description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">Project:<br/>Porevision on agricultural diffuse pollution of the West Midlands Meres: field data gathering for source apportionment model (LESA-NP and FARMSCOPER)licy</description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPoint><pointLongitude>-2.671333</pointLongitude><pointLatitude>53.244583</pointLatitude></geoLocationPoint></geoLocation></geoLocations></resource>