Lake Macquarie (K26)
Basic information
Sample name: Lake Macquarie (K26)
Reference: R. J. MacIntyre. 1959. Some aspects of the ecology of Lake Macquarie, N.S.W., with regard to an alleged depletion of fish. VII. The benthic macrofauna. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10(3):341-353 [ER 3049]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: New South Wales
Coordinate: 33° 5' S, 151° 35' E
Coordinate basis: based on political unit
Geography comments: coordinate based on Lake Macquarie
Environment
Habitat: lagoon
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "a weed zone extended from the shore to a depth of 3 or 4 m... Within the lake there is practically no tide... In the weed zone the substrate is in places rocky or pebbly; in others sandy with varying admixtures of mud... Dominant in this zone are the sea-grasses or, on rocky shores, such larger algae as Cystophyllum and Codium"
Methods
Life forms: clams
Sampling methods: other nets
Sample size: 41 individuals
Years: 1956
Seasons: spring
Sampling comments: one sample collected in October
"The survey was conducted from a launch fitted with an electric winch, which hauled a wire cable attached either to a 12-in. triangular dredge fitted with a coarse mesh net for qualitative work or a 0.1 m2 Van Veen grab for quantitative work"
"The survey was conducted from a launch fitted with an electric winch, which hauled a wire cable attached either to a 12-in. triangular dredge fitted with a coarse mesh net for qualitative work or a 0.1 m2 Van Veen grab for quantitative work"
Metadata
Sample number: 3306
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-05-18 16:19:51
Modified: 2019-05-18 06:19:51
Abundance distribution
1 species
0 singletons
total count 41
extrapolated richness: not computable
Fisher's α: NULL
geometric series k:
Hurlbert's PIE: 1.0000
Shannon's H: 0.0000
Good's u: 0.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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