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Data for Site QKM14

Tributary to Tambopata near Puerto Maldonado

Watershed Condition: Agriculture

Latitude: -12.64025 Longitude: -69.26674

For graphs comparing the parameters across sites, please refer to the project report.

Chemistry Value Units
Temperature 23.2 °C
pH 5.45  
Conductivity 19.9 μS/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 Value Units
Fine Suspended Sediment (FSS) 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 (CSS) 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 Value Units
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 Value  
% EPT 12.88  
Shannon Index 1.09  
EPT Richness 3.8  
Macro Richness 10.26