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Construction of an inexpensive stream bottom sampler, called a T-Sampler, is described. More than 6.5 T-samples can be taken and hand sorted as quickly as one Square Foot Surber sample and yield significantly more benthic organisms, especially numerically dominant taxa, than the Surber Sampler.
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Mackie et al. (1981) studied this question.
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