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Stroud Center Project in Madre de Dios, Peru
Station: QKM14 (Tributary to Tambopata near Puerto Maldonado )
 
Watershed Condition: Agriculture
Latitude: -12.64025 Longitude: -69.26674

  Chemistry Temperature 23.2 oC
    pH 5.45  
    Conductivity 19.9 uS/cm
    Dissolved Oxygen 7.67 mg/L
    % Dissolved Oxygen 90.2  
    Alkalinity (CO3) 124.68 mg/L
    DOC 0.69 mg/L
    BDOC 0 mg/L
    Calcium 0.37 mg/L
    Magnesium 0.96 mg/L
    Sodium 1.12 mg/L
    Potassium 1.99 mg/L
    Chloride 0.308 mg/L
    Sulfate 0.042 mg/L
    Ammonium-N 0.008 mg/L
    Nitrite-N 0.001 mg/L
    Nitrate-N 0.128 mg/L
    Phosphate 0.001 mg/L
  Seston Fine Suspended Sediment 5.08 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org C 0.31 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org N 0.026 mg/L
    FSS molar C/N 13.9  
    FSS del 13C -46.55 permil
    FSS del 15N 2.73 permil
    FSS Org C % 6.2  
    FSS Org N % 0.52  
    Coarse Suspended Sediment 0.03 mg/L
    CSS Particulate Org C 0.0012 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 10.7 permil
    del 18O 27.51 permil
    Mean DOC from 13C Samples 0.97 mg/L
    Mean DOC del 13C -28.3 permil
  Macroinvertebrates % EPT 12.88  
    Shannon Index 1.09  
    EPT Richness 3.8  
    Macro Richness 10.26  

 

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