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Instream
Structure:
25 m reaches mapped in June
Macrophyte bed area volume and relative availability
of woody debris measured.
Organic
Matter Storage and Transport
Benthic Organic Matter: 5 sediment cores / section
in April and July.
Particulate Organic Matter: Six two-liter grab
samples / section in June 1996 and
weekly Oct. 98 to Jan. 99.
Invertebrates
Six artificial snag samplers (3 midchannel; 3 at margins)
in each section (N=78).
Collected every eight weeks from Jan. through Dec. 1996.
Collections subsampled (1/4 to 1/16) and sorted to order. Ephemeroptera,
Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) identified to
genus or species and assigned to functional feeding groups.
Incorporated macrophytes and organic debris also collected,
categorized by type and surface area determined from dry weight
regressions.
Invertebrates reported as number per m2
of snag plus organics; thus, density is weighted to dominate
habitat type.
Analysis
ANOVA's run using SAS; Log10 (x+1) transformations
when necessary (Box- Cox Plot)
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