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Stroud Center Project in Madre de Dios, Peru
Station: QMAQUISAPACICRA (Tributary to Los Amigos along CICRA trail Maquisapa )
 
Watershed Condition: Forest
Latitude: -12.53761 Longitude: -70.11644

  Chemistry Temperature 21.7 oC
    pH 5.927  
    Conductivity 19.9 uS/cm
    Dissolved Oxygen 7.86 mg/L
    % Dissolved Oxygen 90  
    Alkalinity (CO3) 173.56 mg/L
    DOC 0.67 mg/L
    BDOC 0.18 mg/L
    Calcium 0.85 mg/L
    Magnesium 0.81 mg/L
    Sodium 1.45 mg/L
    Potassium 1.96 mg/L
    Chloride 0.13 mg/L
    Sulfate 0.151 mg/L
    Ammonium-N 0.01 mg/L
    Nitrite-N 0.001 mg/L
    Nitrate-N 0.148 mg/L
    Phosphate 0.006 mg/L
  Seston Fine Suspended Sediment 2.79 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org C 0.2 mg/L
    FSS Particulate Org N 0.02 mg/L
    FSS molar C/N 11.65  
    FSS del 13C -29.39 permil
    FSS del 15N 6.84 permil
    FSS Org C % 7.1  
    FSS Org N % 0.72  
    Coarse Suspended Sediment 0.22 mg/L
    CSS Particulate Org C 0.0086 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 10.23 permil
    del 18O 0.36 permil
    Mean DOC from 13C Samples 0.82 mg/L
    Mean DOC del 13C -30.6 permil
  Macroinvertebrates % EPT 6.23  
    Shannon Index 1.12  
    EPT Richness 2.79  
    Macro Richness 9.4  

 

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