Lodge Marsh 29 Sep 2001

Tides: Wind driven

Temp:

air-18.93

water-20.1

sediment- 20.2

Salinity- 5 ppt

Weather: windy, chilly, cloudy, little sunshine

Turbidity-20 cm

Dissolved Oxygen-6.3 ppm

 

Transect

Distance m

Height cm

-24

-44

-21

-42

-18

-38

-15

-32

-12

-28

-9

-28

-6

-23

-3

-15

0

0

3

20

6

26

9

25

12

35

 

Transect

Distance m

Height cm

-24

-44

-21

-42

-18

-38

-15

-32

-12

-28

-9

-28

-6

-23

-3

-15

0

0

3

20

6

26

9

25

12

35

 

 

Biomass:

Distance from Splash Zone

# of Stems

Plants

Heights

0

155

Juncus

115 cm

3

213

Cattails/Juncus/Scripus/Spartina cyno

6

160

Juncus/Scirpus/Spartina cyno/Dryopteris cristata/

204 cm

Tearthumb/

Climbing Hempwood

 

Floristics:

Littoral:

Bentgrass

Agrostis perennans

Cattail

Typha latifolia

Chufa

Cyperus esculentus

Climbing Hempweed

Mikandia scandens

Crestwood Fern

Dryopteris cristata

False nettle

Boehmeria cylindrica

Foxtail

Setaria geniculata

Grounsel

Baccharus halimifolia

Juncus roemerianus

Ludwigia decurrens

Marsh Mallow

Kosteletzkya virginica

Phragmites Australis

Queen Anne's Lace

Daucus carota

Seaside Goldenrod

Solidago sempervirens

Spartina Cynosuroides

Swamp loose Strife

Decodon verticillatus

Sweet pepperbush

Clethra alnifolia

Switch grass

Panicum virgatum

Tearthumb

Polygum arifolium

Supralittoral:

Wax Myrtle

Myrica cerifera

 

Fauna:

Ants

Monomorium minimum

boar

Sus scrofa

Channel Whelk

Busycon canaliculatum

Circumpolar bleet

Enallagma doubledayii

Grass shrimp

Paleomonetes vulgaris

horses

Equus

Monarch Butterfly

Danaus plexipus

nutria

Myocastor goypus

Pumpkin Seed

Lepomis gibbosus

Silversides

Menidia peninsulae

Seine Data:

1st Attempt:

19 silversides

2 grass shrimp

2nd Attempt:

4 Silversides

1 Pumpkin Seed

3rd Attempt:

18 Silversides

3 Grass Shrimp