Accuracy and precision in sampling hyporheic fauna

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Fraser, BG
Williams, DD
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10.1139/cjfas-54-5-1135
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S9 [水产、渔业];
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A series of interstitial faunal samples was taken from a riffle in the Speed River, southern Ontario, Canada, to compare the field performance of four hyporheic samplers: the standpipe, colonization, and freeze corers and a pump sampler. Each of the samplers proved useful for collecting purely qualitative data, but statistical differences in some of the measured quantitative parameters were identified. The colonization corer significantly underestimated invertebrate density at each of the depths tested (20, 40, and 60 cm below the surface of the river bed). Taxonomic richness did not differ among the samplers. A sampling bias in the pump sampling method was identified in terms of both the proportion of insect larvae captured and the mean chironomid body size and is probably the result of a filtering effect of the interstices. Sampling precision estimates of density, richness, and organismal size ranged from 20 to 40%, but no pattern among the four samplers for any of the measures was observed. We conclude that, whereas the standpipe and freeze coring methods most effectively characterize the hyporheos, one of the other methods might prove acceptable under specific field circumstances or under certain practical constraints.
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