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Jones, J.I., Arnold, A., Pretty, J., Duerdoth, C., Murphy, J., Hawczak, A., Scott, L., Lauridsen, R., Beaumont, W. (2017). Fish biomass and density data for 3 intensively studied Wessex chalkstream sites, England, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/7eee41f8-dbde-4b5e-b2d5-7296b5bfc558
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Fish biomass and density data for 3 intensively studied Wessex chalkstream sites, England, UK
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- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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2012-10-01 to 2013-10-31
Provenance & quality
Fish populations were assessed by multi-pass electrofishing. Population density estimates were derived using the the Zippin maximum likelihood method (Zippin, 1958). As electrofishing is not particularly effective at catching certain benthic species e.g. bullheads, stone loach, we used a modified Hess sampler (0.12 m2) to assess populations of these species, deployed 20 times on each date, using a stratified-random regime. The mean biomass of individuals of each taxa captured at each site on each occassion was determined using length-mass regressions, and multiplied by the density estimate to derive a biomass estimate.
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Jones, J.I.; Arnold, A.; Pretty, J.; Duerdoth, C.; Murphy, J.; Hawczak, A.; Scott, L.; Lauridsen, R.; Beaumont, W. (2017). Fish biomass and density data for 3 intensively studied Wessex chalkstream sites, England, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7eee41f8-dbde-4b5e-b2d5-7296b5bfc558
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