Montezuma Vs. Joice Island Slough

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After analyzing all of these scientific journals, it was obvious that different amount of PH levels, dissolved oxygen levels, and tropic gradient in an estuary will yield a totally different habitats. Moreover, we related that different size of slough would have different biological makeup from each other due their difference. In our experiment we took samples of zooplanktons, chlorophyll, and water from a Montezuma Slough, medium slough, and Joice Island Slough to find out things that are common and different to their biological makeup.
Site
This experiment was conducted at two different sites in Suisun marsh. Our first site, Montezuma slough, was located at Belden’s Landing. We collected samples here on fishing pier and boat dock . The second site was Joice Island Bridge, located less than two miles from the site. Here we collected samples when we were on the bridge and below it from Cutoff Slough.

Method

On six October of 2004, we took our first samples from the bottom of the marsh. We used dredge to get the samples of macro zooplankton and benthic organisms. The dredge was used to collect samples from marsh bottom. The dredge was used at the fishing pier. The particular dredge we used was Petit Ponar dredge. The dredge was loaded with spring so that it could close just by few jerks of the rope, capturing the bottom soil sample, once lowered. As the dredge closed it trapped good amount of fine, thick,...