A long-term (1986-2010) phytoplankton dataset from the LTER-Italy site Lake Candia

This georeferenced dataset describes a 25-year (1986-2010) monitoring studies of phytoplankton abundance and biomass in Lake Candia, a eutrophic, natural, small, and shallow lake located in north-western Italy. The lake has been subjected to biomanipulation experiments aiming to improve its water quality since 1986 to 2010. It belongs to the national (LTER-Italy), European (LTER-Europe) and International (ILTER) long-term ecological research (LTER) networks. Making available this dataset also represents a contribution to the current activities of the LTER networks, aiming at making accessible the time series of the LTER sites, in order to reconstruct trends and dynamics and to identify and compare reliable trends and can be useful for further ecological and biodiversity studies on small and shallow lakes. The interest of the dataset is also remarkable because Lake Candia belongs to the national (LTER-Italy), European (LTER-Europe) and International (ILTER) long-term ecological research (LTER) networks, where the long-term site-based monitoring approach and the site comparison are important to determine spatial and temporal trends and changes.