Unit?

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lydia
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Unit?

#1 Post by lydia » Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:48 am

Is there a unit that can/should be used when counting the density of species in a drop of water? Like, 20specimens/mm^3?
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Re: Unit?

#2 Post by MichaelG. » Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:03 am

This may be of interest:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemocytometer

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Re: Unit?

#3 Post by 75RR » Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:04 pm

This might help as well: Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/fi ... stream.pdf
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