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Assemblage, size and abundance bias in a novel sandy shore macro-infaunal sampling technique
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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Natalie Sheppard, Mike WestonMike Weston, S Butler, B Baird, P DannSampling sandy shore macro-invertebrate fauna is critical in enhancing our understanding of beach ecology and conservation, and is a common monitoring approach. The traditional, and almost universal, method of sampling involves sieving sand to locate infauna, but here we describe a novel Hydraulic Sampling Device (HSD), a candidate method for future macro-invertebrate sampling, which has the potential to be faster and more effective at sampling invertebrates. We compared the results obtained by these two methods. Macro-invertebrate fauna of six beaches on Phillip Island, southern Victoria, Australia were sampled in the upper and lower beach. On average, the HSD sampled a smaller size range of fauna than the sieving method, perhaps because of longer handling times and escape of larger individuals. The sieving method found more individuals and a higher species richness. The methods we describe do not produce directly comparable results. On balance, the sieving method is simpler, apparently not as prone to ‘escape bias’, and reports higher abundances and richness of beach infauna.
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Journal of negative results - ecology & evolutionary biologyVolume
11Pagination
1 - 9Publisher
Journal of Negative Results - Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyLocation
Helsinki, FinlandISSN
1459-4625Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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