THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION

Aquatic Invertebrates in Pacific Northwest Freshwater Wetlands
An Identification Guide and Educational Resource

Sampling Methods

Websites
Books and book chapters
Journal articles

Websites
EPA website with a summary of sampling methods and equipment

A page within this cd with numerous links to business that sell sampling equipment

A page within this cd with a list of taxonomic laboratories and independent contractors

Books and book chapters
Davies IJ. 1984. Sampling Aquatic Insect Emergence. pp. 161-227. In JA Downing and FH Rigler (eds.) A manual on methods for the assessment of secondary productivity in fresh waters. 2nd ed. IBP Handbook 17. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, England.

Downing JA. 1984. Sampling the Benthos of Standing Waters. pp. 87-130. In JA Downing and FH Rigler (eds.) A manual on methods for the assessment of secondary productivity in fresh waters. 2nd ed. IBP Handbook 17. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, England.

Merritt RW, KW Cummins, and VH Resh. 1996. Design of aquatic insect studies: Collecting, sampling, and rearing procedures. In Merrit RW and KW Cummins (eds.) An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America Third Edition. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa.

Journal articles
Anderson JT and LM Smith. 1996. A comparison of methods for sampling epiphytic and nektonic invertebrates in playa wetlands. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 11:219-224.

Barbour MT and J Gerritsen. 1996. Subsampling of benthic samples: a defense of the fixed-count method. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15(3):386-391.

Batzer DP, AS Shurtleff, and RB Rader. 2001. Sampling invertebrates in wetlands. In RB Rader, DP Batzer, and SA Wissinger (eds) Bioassessment and Management of North American Freshwater Wetlands. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Brinkman MA and WG Duffy. 1996. Evaluation of four wetland aquatic invertebrate samplers and four sample sorting methods. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 11(2):1193-2000.

Cheal F, JA Davis, JE Growns, JS Bradley, and FH Whittles. 1993. The influence of sampling method on the classification of wetland macroinvertebrate communities. Hydrobiologia 257:47-56.

Kornijow R. 1998. Quantitative sampler for collecting invertebrates associated with submersed and floating leaved macrophytes. Aquatic Ecology 32:241-244.

Marklund O. 2000. A new sampler for collecting invertebrates in submerged vegetation. Hydrobiologia 432: 229-231.

Turner AM and JC Trexler. 1997. Sampling aquatic invertebrates from marshes: Evaluating the options. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16(3): 694-709.