Overview of the lakes used in the paper "Can size distributions of European lake fish communities be predicted by trophic positions of their fish species?" published in Ecology and Evolution (add date etc) Lake data table: Overview of all lakes in our study. The first tab holds the 235 lakes with the good fit (of b) and the second tab holds the 129 lakes with an ill fit (of b). For each lake we note the country it is in, the year it was sampled, latitude, longitude, number of fish individuals between 8-2000 gr, number of individuals classified as predators and prey, the b exponent (proxy for size spectrum slope) of the fish community, mean trophic position of the fish community, the log10 of the predator-prey mass ratio (logPPMR), the catch per unit effort (CPUE, N net-1 night-1), number of fish species, maximum air temperature (°C), maximum depth (m), total phosphorus ((µg l-1) and area (km2). In addition the presence (1) or absence (blank) of fish species is noted.