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Algae collection site:
Brandywine Creek, PA, US

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Brandywine Creek, PA, US


   See lists of: 1 samples | 90 diatoms | 0 non-diatoms for this site.

   site code: BR3
   site_id: 15562
   NEON domain: not applicable
   state: Pennsylvania (PA)
This station was characterized by having an upper pool area, a riffle area, and a lower pool area below the riffle. Only that portion (about 1/2) of the pool area adjacent to the riffle was collected in each case. the Marsh Creek station was located about 500 feet upstream from its confluence with the East Branch of Brandywine Creek. This is just above the railroad bridge over Marsh Creek, near Dorlan, which is about 2 1/2 miles north of Downingtown on Rt. 282. The creek was about 20 feet wide at this point, and contained habitats comparable with those found at the other stations. (1964 report.)
   latitude in decimal: 40.049883
   longitude in decimal: -75.718933
   waterbody type: stream / river
   ecoregion:
     Eastern Temperate Forests
       Southeastern USA Plains
         Northern Piedmont
   country: United States (US)

 
1 algae samples were collected at this site:
 
   sample BR10005 - 1964  General Multiple Habitats, collected 10/31  

 
90 diatom species found at this site:

   diatom, NADED ID 2004 - Achnanthes clevei Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 2126 - Achnanthes deflexa Reimer
   diatom, NADED ID 2015 - Achnanthes lanceolata (Brébisson ex Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 2101 - Achnanthes lanceolata var. elliptica Cleve sensu Straub
   diatom, NADED ID 2030 - Achnanthes minutissima Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 2034 - Achnanthes pinnata Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 2132 - Achnanthes subhudsonis var. kraeuselii (Cholnoky) Cholnoky
   diatom, NADED ID 7002 - Amphora ovalis var. affinis (Kützing) Van Heurck ex DeTony
   diatom, NADED ID 16005 - Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 17004 - Coscinodiscus pygmaeus var. micropunctatus Brun et Peragallo
   diatom, NADED ID 20007 - Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 23073 - Cymbella affinis Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 23009 - Cymbella lunata Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 23012 - Cymbella minuta Hilse ex Rabenhorst
   diatom, NADED ID 23051 - Cymbella sinuata Gregory
   diatom, NADED ID 23068 - Cymbella tumida (Brébisson ex Kützing) Van Heurck
   diatom, NADED ID 33026 - Eunotia incisa Smith ex Gregory
   diatom, NADED ID 34051 - Fragilaria capucina var. mesolepta (Rabenhorst) Rabenhorst
   diatom, NADED ID 34022 - Fragilaria leptostauron (Ehrenberg) Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 34030 - Fragilaria vaucheriae (Kützing) Petersen
   diatom, NADED ID 37069 - Gomphonema angustatum var. intermedia Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 37050 - Gomphonema angustatum var. productum Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 37006 - Gomphonema dichotomum Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 37048 - Gomphonema gibba Wallace
   diatom, NADED ID 37007 - Gomphonema gracile Ehrenberg
   diatom, NADED ID 37008 - Gomphonema grunowii Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 37010 - Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 37056 - Gomphonema sphaerophorum Ehrenberg
   diatom, NADED ID 38012 - Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve
   diatom, NADED ID 38004 - Gyrosigma spencerii (Smith) Griffith et Henfrey
   diatom, NADED ID 44004 - Melosira distans var. alpigena Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 44006 - Melosira granulata var. angustissima Müller
   diatom, NADED ID 44073 - Melosira varians Agardh
   diatom, NADED ID 45001 - Meridion circulare (Greville) Agardh
   diatom, NADED ID 46005 - Navicula atomus (Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 46317 - Navicula canalis Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46272 - Navicula capitata Ehrenberg
   diatom, NADED ID 46168 - Navicula capitata var. hungarica (Grunow) Ross
   diatom, NADED ID 46013 - Navicula contenta var. biceps (Grunow) Van Heurck
   diatom, NADED ID 46014 - Navicula cryptocephala Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 46255 - Navicula cryptocephala var. exilis Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 46170 - Navicula cryptocephala var. veneta (Kützing) Rabenhorst
   diatom, NADED ID 46257 - Navicula decussis Østrup
   diatom, NADED ID 46370 - Navicula luzonensis Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 46039 - Navicula minima Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 46042 - Navicula mutica Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 46044 - Navicula notha Wallace
   diatom, NADED ID 46046 - Navicula paucivisitata Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 93306 - Navicula pelliculosa (Kützing) Hilse
   diatom, NADED ID 46052 - Navicula pupula var. capitata Skvortzow et Meyer
   diatom, NADED ID 46388 - Navicula rhynchocephala var. germainii (Wallace) Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46155 - Navicula salinarum var. intermedia (Grunow) Cleve
   diatom, NADED ID 46395 - Navicula secreta var. apiculata Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46070 - Navicula seminulum Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 46400 - Navicula symmetrica Patrick
   diatom, NADED ID 46089 - Navicula viridula var. linearis Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48110 - Nitzschia accomodata Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48002 - Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 48004 - Nitzschia amphibia Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48098 - Nitzschia bacata Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48006 - Nitzschia capitellata Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48138 - Nitzschia closterium (Ehrenberg) Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 48018 - Nitzschia confinis Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48141 - Nitzschia constricta var. subconstricta Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48008 - Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48145 - Nitzschia filiformis (Smith) Van Heurck
   diatom, NADED ID 48011 - Nitzschia fonticola (Grunow) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48013 - Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48201 - Nitzschia frustulum var. indica Skvortzow
   diatom, NADED ID 48014 - Nitzschia frustulum var. perminuta Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48147 - Nitzschia frustulum var. subsalina Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48148 - Nitzschia gracilis var. minor Skabitschevsky
   diatom, NADED ID 48153 - Nitzschia intermedia Hantzsch ex Cleve et Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48022 - Nitzschia kuetzingiana Hilse
   diatom, NADED ID 48023 - Nitzschia linearis (Agardh) Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 48024 - Nitzschia microcephala Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 48025 - Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith
   diatom, NADED ID 48207 - Nitzschia paleaeformis Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 48045 - Nitzschia tropica Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 52011 - Pinnularia biceps Gregory
   diatom, NADED ID 52038 - Pinnularia maior (Kützing) Rabenhorst
   diatom, NADED ID 57001 - Rhoicosphenia curvata (Kützing) Grunow ex Rabenhorst
   diatom, NADED ID 65002 - Surirella angusta Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 65017 - Surirella ovata Kützing
   diatom, NADED ID 65050 - Surirella ovata var. pinnata (Smith) Brun
   diatom, NADED ID 65040 - Surirella tenera var. nervosa Schmidt
   diatom, NADED ID 66018 - Synedra rumpens var. familiaris (Kützing) Hustedt
   diatom, NADED ID 66057 - Synedra rumpens var. meneghiniana Grunow
   diatom, NADED ID 66024 - Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg
   diatom, NADED ID 66069 - Synedra ulna var. constricta Venkataraman
 
0 non-diatom species found at this site.



 


 
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