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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05569875       CEDAR CREEK NEAR ELLISVILLE, IL.

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°40'18", long 90°22'33" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 sec.15, T.8 N., R.1 E., Fulton County, Hydrologic Unit 07130005. Located at CR20, 3.1 miles east of Avon.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 271.2 mi2

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 1997.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1997.

 

REMARKS.--Station established as a low-flow water-quality sampling site in August 1997 as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA), Lower Illinois River Basin synoptic study.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Algae community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the lower Illinois River Basin. A quantitative sample was collected in accordance with NAWQA protocols (Cuffney and others, 1993). Reach A begins downstream from the SR 41 bridge and continues downstream for about 100 meters.

PERIPHYTON ALGAE, QUANTITATIVE, RTH (Richest-targeted habitat, cobbles or snags)
[sp., species; Chlorophyta, Green algae; Cyanophyta, Blue-green algae; Chrysophyta, Golden algae, for example diatoms; Cryptophyta, Cryptophytes; Euglenophyta, Euglenoids; Pyrrhophyta, Dinoflagellates; Rhodophyta, Red algae]
Quantitative sample
Phylum
TaxonCells
(number/cm2)		Biovolume
(biovolume/cm2)
Reach A
8/5/1997
Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus acuminatus (Lagerheim) Chodat 3087.52018 342508.3785
Selenastrum minutum (Nägeli) Collins 514.5867 13330.36838
Chrysophyta
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 99.04816 5385.50782
Amphora montana Krasske 247.62066 53246.81591
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 346.66882 32629.86251
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 198.09632 631299.8128
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 396.19291 298745.0583
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 198.09632 136695.456
Craticula cuspidata (Kützing) Mann 99.04816 561659.885
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 346.66882 29077.37597
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 1832.3928 1583386.967
Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann 99.04816 20332.65014
Fallacia pygmaea (Kützing) Stickle et Mann 99.04816 107883.3311
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 940.95831 313463.6271
Gomphonema olivaceum (Lyngbye) Kützing 99.04816 38694.2624
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 495.24132 107699.6102
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 198.09632 1390832.19
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve 445.71699 653098.7116
Navicula cincta (Ehrenberg) Ralfs 99.04816 62038.36956
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 792.38607 209356.7955
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 495.24132 217038.8924
Navicula exilis Kützing 99.04816 35277.94124
Navicula germainii Wallace 940.95831 621091.6189
Navicula gregaria Donkin 544.76541 151958.6863
Navicula minima Grunow 5398.13049 216382.1706
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 99.04816 12929.21845
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 990.48265 72127.30014
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 445.71699 510344.3048
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 297.14474 49148.33672
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 198.09632 185009.4738
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 198.09632 216004.8477
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith 396.19291 74112.25197
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 990.48265 184560.5016
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 198.09632 50361.09152
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 99.04816 4877.64153
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 2921.92361 162537.2389
Nitzschia linearis (Agardh ex Smith) Smith 99.04816 294711.6884
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 198.09632 59990.24847
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 1139.05489 194211.5753
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 99.04816 28040.63428
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 544.76541 90046.04659
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 841.91015 429243.2532
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 198.09632 111372.4709
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 940.95831 52783.96129
Stephanodiscus minutulus (Kützing) Cleve et Möller 198.09632 63087.00087
Surirella minuta Brébisson 247.62066 211624.3046
Thalassiosira weissflogii (Grunow) Fryxell et Hasle 7081.95104 6315485.75
Cyanophyta
Anabaena flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Brébisson 3602.10688 120646.5664
Leptolyngbya tenuis (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek 6432.33371 64842.14875
Lyngbya birgei GM Smith 15180.30756 5561052.668
Oscillatoria limnetica Lemmermann 9262.56054 320636.2998
Oscillatoria subbrevis fo. minor Desik. 12607.37407 459639.854
Phormidium acutissimum 8747.97385 148641.2398
Phormidium minnesotense (Tilden) Drouet 18010.53439 210946.0098
Phormidium tenue (Agardh ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek 4116.69357 706960.9384
Rhabdogloea smithii (Chodat) Komárek 1029.17339 10261.46623
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 3602.10688 7325285.138


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