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<strong>Fraser</strong> River Action Plan 3rd Research Workshop<br />

Objectives<br />

- Spatial <strong>and</strong> seasonal (inter-annual as well) variations in biological<br />

variables (nutrients <strong>and</strong> biomass) on the mudflat<br />

- Ecological processes — interaction between the water column <strong>and</strong><br />

mudflat<br />

Sampling & Data Collected<br />

A) Mudflat sampling (twice a month, April - Sept; once a month,<br />

Sept - March)<br />

- Benthic biomass — chl a<br />

- Porewater nutrients: nitrate, ammonium, urea, phosphate<br />

- Organics (not analyzed)<br />

B) Water column (twice a month, April - Sept; once a month,<br />

Sept - March)<br />

- Biomass — chl a<br />

- Nutrients: nitrate, ammonium, urea, phosphate<br />

- Suspended load (not analyzed)<br />

- Particulate organics (not analyzed)<br />

- Dissolved oxygen<br />

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