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Data for Site RMADRECICRA

Río Madre de Dios near CICRA

Watershed Condition: Forest

Latitude: -12.57092 Longitude: -70.10184

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

Chemistry Value Units
Temperature 25.2 °C
pH 7.454  
Conductivity 84.9 μS/cm
Dissolved Oxygen 7.14 mg/L
% Dissolved Oxygen 87.3  
Alkalinity (CO3) 588.22 mg/L
DOC 1.97 mg/L
BDOC 0.3 mg/L
Calcium 12.39 mg/L
Magnesium 1.8 mg/L
Sodium 3.23 mg/L
Potassium 1.25 mg/L
Chloride 0.228 mg/L
Sulfate 7.754 mg/L
Ammonium-N 0.008 mg/L
Nitrite-N 0 mg/L
Nitrate-N 0.181 mg/L
Phosphate 0.009 mg/L
Seston Value Units
Fine Suspended Sediment (FSS) 462.16 mg/L
FSS Particulate Org C 4.18 mg/L
FSS Particulate Org N 0.575 mg/L
FSS molar C/N 8.48  
FSS del 13C -28.54 permil
FSS del 15N 3.78 permil
FSS Org C % 0.9  
FSS Org N % 0.12  
Coarse Suspended Sediment (CSS) 2.84 mg/L
CSS Particulate Org C 0.0624 mg/L
CSS Particulate Org N 0.0029 mg/L
CSS molar C/N 24.8  
CSS del 13C -28.61 permil
CSS del 15N 1.88 permil
CSS Org C % 2.2  
CSS Org N % 0.1  
Isotopes Value Units
del 15N 4.87 permil
del 18O 7.24 permil
Mean DOC from 13C Samples 1.72 mg/L
Mean DOC del 13C -29.6 permil
Macroinvertebrates Value  
% EPT    
Shannon Index    
EPT Richness    
Macro Richness