Name
The River Laboratory experimental stream channel mesocosms
Legal name of organisation
Queen Mary University of London
Country
United Kingdom
Continent
Europe
Organisation address
QMUL
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Primary contact information (PI)
Years of Mesocosm Experiments
1998 - present
Description of Facility
12 flow-through gravel bed stream channels, each 12m long arranged in 4 blocks. Draws water from a chalk stream site of special scientific interest, colonized by natural communities.
Controlled Parameters
- Flow
- Suspended sediment
- Bed composition
- Pesticides
- [Dependent on experimental objectives, e.g. flow and colmation]
Research Topics
- Drought (e.g. Ledger et al. 2013 Nature Climate Change 3: 223-227: Lu et al. 2016. Nature Climate Change 6: 875)
- Low flows (e.g. Jones et al. 2015. Freshw. Biol. 60: 813-826)
- Fine sediment (e.g. Growns et al. 2017. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 496-505)
- Pesticides
Facility location(s)
50.6666667, -2.1833330555555555
Primary interests
- Impacts on invertebrate
- algal and plant communities
Specialist areas
- Food web structure
- hyporheic invertebrates
- hyporheic chemistry
- traits
Equipment
All sampling and set up equipment available
Lodging
available on site
Source of Information
Photos of experiments/installations
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