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A new quantitative sediment corer for sampling invertebratesacross the mud water interface and soil of shallow rice field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2009

H. Soumille  and
A. Thiéry
H. Soumille
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale-Hydrobiologie, (U.P.R.E.S. - E.A. n° 2152, Faculté des Sciences, 33 rue Louis Pasteur, F-84000 Avignon, France
A. Thiéry
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale-Hydrobiologie, (U.P.R.E.S. - E.A. n° 2152, Faculté des Sciences, 33 rue Louis Pasteur, F-84000 Avignon, France
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Abstract

A new corer is described which may be used in sediments of shallow standing waters, such as in rice fields, and which facilitates the study of the vertical distribution of the invertebrate fauna at 2 cm depth intervals. Its small surface area permits quantitative sampling of the sediment-dwelling fauna, particularly the chironomid larvae, around the roots of rice-plants. Results are presented and the efficiency of the sampling method is discussed.

Keywords

zoobenthoschironomidsmudrice fieldsediment corervertical profilezoobenthoschironomidésvaserizièrecarottierprofil vertical
Type
Research Article
Information
Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 197 - 203
Copyright
© Université Paul Sabatier, 1997

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