Benthic diatom mat field survey

Knowledge graph centered on Benthic diatom mat field survey with 25 nodes and 98 connections. Top connected: Bacteria, Salvelinus fontinalis, brook trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Didymosphenia geminata.

Method synopsis

Field surveys of river systems to document the relationship between diatom cellular division rates and mat coverage patterns under natural conditions.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 2 papers using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Blooms of benthic diatoms in phosphorus-poor streams (2017), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Conduct river surveys
   Surveyed rivers on New Zealand's South Island to document the relationship between low rates of D. geminata cell division and extensive coverage and thickness of D. geminata mats on river bottoms
   Quantities: Not specifiedDuration: Not specifiedConditions: Natural river conditions
   Equipment: Not specified

Output Measurements

• mat coverage
• mat thickness
• cell division rates

Papers Using This Protocol (2)

Species Studied With This Protocol