Water Quality of a river, stream, or wetland is partially determined by both living and nonliving components of the wetland.
Macro invertebrates we discovered...
Wetland chemists also evaluate the chemistry of the water- how much oxygen is present? How many nutrients like phosphate and nitrate are present? How
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Wetland ecologists observe the diversity (amount of different types) of macro invertebrate animals and density (number) of macro-invertebrates within a species. A macro invertebrate animal is an animal without a backbone like insects, snails, crayfish, etc...).
Macro-invertebrates we observed:
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