Aquatic plant bryophyte chemical properties (DP1.20063.001)

Aquatic plant and bryophyte clip harvest sampling is conducted once per year at aquatic sites (during the mid-summer aquatic biology window). Ten samples are collected per site if aquatic vegetation is present. In wadeable streams, clip harvest samples are collected near plant transect locations. In lakes and rivers, ten randomly selected points are sampled at depths that can be colonized by vegetation. These samples are partitioned in the domain support facility into subsamples for chemical analyses of carbon and nitrogen and shipped to an external facility.