AN APPRAISAL OF POND-NET SAMPLES FOR BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF LOTIC MACRO-INVERTEBRATES
AN APPRAISAL OF POND-NET SAMPLES FOR BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF LOTIC MACRO-INVERTEBRATES
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DOI:
10.1016/0043-1354(81)90160-3
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
12.8
通讯作者:
MOSS, D
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作者:
FURSE, MT;WRIGHT, JF;MOSS, D
The use of a pond-net to sample benthic macro-invertebrates was assessed for use in a national classification scheme for running water sites. In a field trial, 6 pond-net samples of 3 min duration were taken at 4 sites on the River Axe in southwest England [UK]. Different people (3) each took 2 samples at each site. A comparison of the number of families and species caught indicated significant differences with respect to sites, operators and site .times. operator interactions. Significant inter-operator differences in the number of taxa removed from samples were also shown at the sample processing stage, but only at family level. Despite these differences, clustering and ordination procedures showed strong site faithfulness for each series of 6 samples when data were analyzed at species level. Similar analyses at family level produced several misclassifications of samples with those from other sites. Most of these misclassifications were eliminated when categories of abundance were applied to the family level data. A 3 min sample collected .apprx. 62% of families and 50% of species that could be attained at a site by 18 min netting. Results of this field trial provided justification for the use of a pond-net as the principal sampling technique in the classification exercise.