📍 M7: Chalfont St Peter Community Centre

River: Misbourne Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 8

Your Site at a Glance

42
Species Detected
36
Genera Identified
24
Families Found
2,065
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Misbourne Average Study Average
Species 42 238 206
Genera 36 168 151
Families 24 90 83
EPT Families 3 6 6

Rank 10 of 10 on Misbourne Rank 78 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Moderate

BMWP score: 41 (Moderate) — ASPT score: 5.1 (Good)

8 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Water quality is moderately impacted; some pollution-sensitive families are present but diversity is limited.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
13 (31.0%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
3 (7.1%)
3. Baetidae (Small Mayflies)
2 (4.8%)
4. Tipulidae (Crane Flies)
2 (4.8%)
5. Cricetidae (Voles, Hamsters, and New World Rats)
2 (4.8%)
6. Limnephilidae (Northern Caddisflies)
2 (4.8%)
7. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
1 (2.4%)
8. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
1 (2.4%)
9. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
1 (2.4%)
10. Empididae (Dance Flies)
1 (2.4%)
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
11/33 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

1 fish species detected (1 families, 1 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

5 EPT species detected (3 families, 6 ESVs — E:2 / P:1 / T:2)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 2
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Nemurella pictetii (Pictet's Stonefly) Nemouridae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Limnephilus marmoratus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: H10 - Bridge east of Mill End Car Park (downstream site)
River: Hamble Brook (different river)
Similarity: 19% of species shared
Download Data

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

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