From 2 April - 29 April 2022, a Virginia Tech team of 2-3 sampled the macroinvertebrate community in 30 Coastal Plain streams (Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature,fish community, and fish health at the same 30 streams. Macroinvertebrates were sampled using a 250 micrometer mesh slack sampler on a known area. At each stream, samples were collected in two ways. 1) Five slack samples were taken in riffles according to the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment protocol, and 2) Five additional slack samples were collected in the most productive available habitat types such as woody debris, undercut...
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates,
Caroline County,
Chester River,
Choptank River, All tags...
Delaware,
Delmarva Peninsula,
Dorchester County,
Ecology,
Geomorphology,
Hydrology,
Kent County,
Land Use Change,
Maryland,
Nanticoke River,
New Castle County,
Pocomoke River,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Sussex County,
Talbot County,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Virginia,
Water Quality,
Wicomico County,
Wicomico River,
biota,
community ecology,
field sampling,
freshwater ecosystems,
river systems, Fewer tags
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