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A new quantitative sediment corer for sampling invertebratesacross the mud water interface and soil of shallow rice field
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2009
Abstract
A new corer is described which may be used in sediments of shallow standing waters, such as in rice fields, and which facilitates the study of the vertical distribution of the invertebrate fauna at 2 cm depth intervals. Its small surface area permits quantitative sampling of the sediment-dwelling fauna, particularly the chironomid larvae, around the roots of rice-plants. Results are presented and the efficiency of the sampling method is discussed.
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- Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 197 - 203
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- © Université Paul Sabatier, 1997
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