{"id":1974,"date":"2013-03-21T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/?page_id=1974"},"modified":"2016-10-27T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:32:09","slug":"1974-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/?page_id=1974","title":{"rendered":"Watercourse Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Drain Surveys<a href=\"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/05-M70.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1331 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/05-M70-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"05-M70\" width=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/05-M70-1024x690.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/05-M70-150x101.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/05-M70-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/h4> <p>The standard methodology usually used for detailed survey of watercourses such as drainage ditches and other linear waterbodies was devised by Alcock and Palmer (1985).\u00a0 A grapnel is used to retrieve submerged and floating aquatic vegetation accessible from the bank along a sample length of the watercourse and the abundance of each species is recorded.<\/p> <p>Data are also collected concerning the health of the aquatic plants, water levels in the ditches and the potential for the recorded conditions to sustain the present nature conservation interest.\u00a0 Physical characteristics and the health of plants are recorded, a sketch map produced and record photographs taken.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drain Surveys The standard methodology usually used for detailed survey of watercourses such as drainage ditches and other linear waterbodies was devised by Alcock and Palmer (1985).\u00a0 A grapnel is used to retrieve submerged and floating aquatic vegetation accessible from the bank along a sample length of the watercourse and the abundance of each species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1974\/revisions\/2094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbecology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}