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Methods
The methods followed in the creation of the dataset, including description of field, laboratory and processing steps, and quality control procedures
Current Methods
Efforts were made to seek out and sample all littoral habitat types at each lake- silt-muck, sand, gravel-cobble-rock, organic detritus, logs and submergent and emergent vegetation. The littoral zone was sampled because it should yield the greatest number of species, the most valued fish food organisms, is less influenced by other natural limiting factors than the profundal zone, and was a zone common to all the lakes.
Past Methods (No longer in use)
Started: 1994-04-01
Ended: 1994-07-20Sediments from Bourn and Branch Ponds were collected from deep areas of the lakes . Ekman Dredge.
Started: 1994-04-01
Ended: 1994-07-20Fall sampling using standardized kick-net sampling techniques with VT DEC field protocols.
Dataset Fields
Detailed documentation of the fields comprising the dataset, including the type of measurement, units where applicable, and any controlled vocabularies or code lists present in the data
Field Name Caption Description Additional Information date date date
DateTime Date/Time Format: DD/MM/YYYY Lab Id Lab Id Lab Id
Nominal Location Location Location
Nominal PQL PQL PQL
Interval Units: Result Result Result
Nominal Symbol Symbol Symbol
Nominal Test Test Test
Nominal Units Units Units
Nominal Sampling Equipment
Equipment and software used to collect data, including how that equipment was used.
Past Sampling Equipment (No longer in use)
Ekman dredge
Started: 1994-04-01
Ended: 1994-07-20Ekman dredge
Ekman dredge
Started: 1994-04-01
Ended: 1994-07-20Ekman dredge
Site Characteristics
The spatial extent of the dataset site coverage, and descriptions of the spatial extent and context for the data collection
- Site Description
Bourn and Branch Ponds