📍 H7: Pheasant's Hill

River: Hamble Brook Catchment: Thames & Chilterns South Filter(s): 48

Your Site at a Glance

17
Species Detected
17
Genera Identified
15
Families Found
13,354
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Hamble Brook Average Study Average
Species 17 110 206
Genera 17 87 151
Families 15 57 83
EPT Families 1 5 6

Rank 5 of 5 on Hamble Brook Rank 81 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Poor

BMWP score: 20 (Poor) — ASPT score: 5.0 (Good)

4 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Indicators suggest polluted or significantly impacted water quality at this site.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Cyprinidae (Carp and Allies)
2 (11.8%)
2. Gasterosteidae (Sticklebacks)
2 (11.8%)
3. Erpobdellidae (Jawless Leeches)
1 (5.9%)
4. Drosophilidae (Vinegar Flies)
1 (5.9%)
5. Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
1 (5.9%)
6. Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
1 (5.9%)
7. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
1 (5.9%)
8. Crambidae (Grass Moths)
1 (5.9%)
9. Miridae (Plant Bugs)
1 (5.9%)
10. Erebidae (Tiger Moths)
1 (5.9%)
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
5/33 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

4 fish species detected (4 families, 11 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 4
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 2
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 1
Leuciscus leuciscus (Dace) Cyprinidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

1 EPT species detected (1 families, 1 ESVs — E:0 / P:0 / T:1)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Leptocerus tineiformis (Long-horned Caddisflies) Leptoceridae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: C5 - Latimer Bridge
River: Chess (different river)
Similarity: 21% of species shared
Download Data

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

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