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Stroud Center Project in Madre de Dios, Peru
Station: QARA1 (Tributary to Tambopata at ARA )
 
Watershed Condition: Forest
Latitude: -12.88405 Longitude: -69.39518

  Chemistry Temperature 23.3 oC
    pH 6.592  
    Conductivity 14.9 uS/cm
    Dissolved Oxygen 8.66 mg/L
    % Dissolved Oxygen 102.1  
    Alkalinity (CO3) 113.68 mg/L
    DOC 0.31 mg/L
    BDOC 0 mg/L
    Calcium 0.39 mg/L
    Magnesium 0.88 mg/L
    Sodium 0.53 mg/L
    Potassium 1.1 mg/L
    Chloride 0.133 mg/L
    Sulfate 0.541 mg/L
    Ammonium-N 0.031 mg/L
    Nitrite-N 0.002 mg/L
    Nitrate-N 0.094 mg/L
    Phosphate 0 mg/L
  Seston Fine Suspended Sediment 4.22 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org C 0.33 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org N 0.029 mg/L
    FSS molar C/N 13.4  
    FSS del 13C -31.15 permil
    FSS del 15N 4.66 permil
    FSS Org C % 7.8  
    FSS Org N % 0.68  
    Coarse Suspended Sediment 0.2 mg/L
    CSS Particulate Org C 0.0078 mg/L
    CSS Particulate Org N . mg/L
    CSS molar C/N .  
    CSS del 13C . permil
    CSS del 15N . permil
    CSS Org C % .  
    CSS Org N % .  
  Isotopes del 15N 9.6 permil
    del 18O 6.09 permil
    Mean DOC from 13C Samples 0.27 mg/L
    Mean DOC del 13C -27.7 permil
  Macroinvertebrates % EPT 4.58  
    Shannon Index 0.82  
    EPT Richness 2.23  
    Macro Richness 8.68  

 

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