📍 E6: Brook Street

River: Ewelme Brook Catchment: Thames & Chilterns South Filter(s): 82

Your Site at a Glance

264
Species Detected
201
Genera Identified
121
Families Found
1,384,135
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Ewelme Brook Average Study Average
Species 264 174 206
Genera 201 133 151
Families 121 81 83
EPT Families 8 6 6

Rank 1 of 6 on Ewelme Brook Rank 21 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 101 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 5.6 (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)
41 (15.5%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
24 (9.1%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
12 (4.5%)
4. Enchytraeidae (Potworms)
7 (2.7%)
5. Syrphidae (Hoverflies)
6 (2.3%)
6. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
5 (1.9%)
7. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
5 (1.9%)
8. Ectopsocidae (Ectopsocid Barklice)
4 (1.5%)
9. Agromyzidae (Leaf-miner Flies)
4 (1.5%)
10. Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)
3 (1.1%)
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
18/33 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

3 fish species detected (3 families, 17 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 6
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 2
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

9 EPT species detected (8 families, 16 ESVs — E:3 / P:0 / T:6)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 4
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 3
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 3
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Agapetus fuscipes (Saddle-case Makers) Glossosomatidae 1
Crunoecia irrorata (Lepidostomatid Caddisflies) Lepidostomatidae 1
Drusus annulatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Lype reducta (Tube-case Caddisflies) Psychomyiidae 1
Rhyacophila dorsalis (Free-living Caddisflies) Rhyacophilidae 1
Sericostoma personatum (Sericostomatid Caddisflies) Sericostomatidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: E5 - Braze Lane
River: Ewelme Brook (same river)
Similarity: 47% of species shared
Download Data

264 Species detected at this site — CSV format, opens in Excel

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