📍 C3: Broadwater Bridge

River: Chess Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 98

Your Site at a Glance

257
Species Detected
191
Genera Identified
103
Families Found
1,097,697
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Chess Average Study Average
Species 257 197 206
Genera 191 146 151
Families 103 84 83
EPT Families 5 6 6

Rank 2 of 10 on Chess Rank 25 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 97 (Good) — ASPT score: 5.4 (Good)

18 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Clean water with slight impacts; a healthy community of macroinvertebrate families is present.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
57 (22.2%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
34 (13.2%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
7 (2.7%)
4. Syrphidae (Hoverflies)
6 (2.3%)
5. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
6 (2.3%)
6. Gasterosteidae (Sticklebacks)
5 (1.9%)
7. Limoniidae (Limoniid Crane Flies)
5 (1.9%)
8. Enchytraeidae (Potworms)
4 (1.6%)
9. Limnephilidae (Northern Caddisflies)
4 (1.6%)
10. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
4 (1.6%)
Taxonomic composition

🪲 Extended Riverfly Taxa

1 Flatworms ✗ 18Dragonflies and Damselflies✗
2 Freshwater Snails ✓ 19Water Boatmen✗
3 Limpets ✗ 20Other Water Bugs✓
4 Bivalves ✓ 21Water Beetles✓
5 Aquatic Worms ✓ 22Alderflies✓
6 Leeches ✗ 23Caseless Caddisflies - Green Sedge✗
7 Crayfish ✓ 24Caseless Caddisflies - Net Spinners✗
8 Water Hoglouse ✓ 25Caseless Caddisflies - Non-Gilled✗
9 Freshwater Shrimps ✓ 26Cased Caddisflies - Hood Case-Maker✗
10 Invasive Non-Native Shrimps ✗ 27Cased Caddisflies - Weighted Case-Maker✓
11 Mayflies - Angler's Curse ✗ 28Cased Caddisflies - Bush Tailed Caddisfly✗
12 Mayflies - Olives ✓ 29Cased Caddisflies - Other✗
13 Mayflies - Prong Gilled ✓ 30Craneflies✓
14 Mayflies - Flatbodied ✗ 31Blackflies✓
15 Mayflies - Green Drake ✗ 32Non-Biting Midges✓
16 Mayflies - Blue-Winged Olive ✓ 33Water Snipe Flies✗
17 Stoneflies ✓
17/33 Extended Riverfly taxa detected

Note: The Extended Riverfly Monitoring Initiative calculates scores based on abundance categories, which cannot be determined from eDNA presence/absence data. This checklist shows which taxa groups were detected but does not constitute an official ARMI score.

🐟 Fish Species

5 fish species detected (5 families, 47 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 8
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 4
Potamorrhaphis guianensis Belonidae 2
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 2
Rutilus frisii Cyprinidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

8 EPT species detected (5 families, 13 ESVs — E:3 / P:1 / T:4)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 3
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Nemurella pictetii (Pictet's Stonefly) Nemouridae 2
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Limnephilus extricatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 2
Drusus annulatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Enoicyla pusilla (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: M9 - Higher Denham
River: Misbourne (different river)
Similarity: 42% of species shared
Download Data

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