(1) A statistical analysis was made in the estimation processes of density of various freshwater plankters netted with a common shaped plankton net, specially in the process of subsampling.
(2) The results obtained by the analysis made in three dominated zooplankton species reveal that 10 subsamples which were approximately 1/100 fraction of the sample withdrawn with a large-bore pippet (2mm dia.) allow to have a fairly accurate information of the mean, and that the subsamples have a Poisson or uniform distribution which indicates that the subsampling process was under a satisfied condition. The samples collected from a water mass are significantly different from one to another.
(3) The subsampling method for phytoplankton applied here have two processes; the one is the same as used in zooplankton, and in the rest the withdrawn fraction is introduced into a standard counting cell, and then a microscopic field is taken as the secondary fraction, (approximately 1/32, 000 of a sample in this study). The results obtained by the analysis made in four dominated green algae species reveal that the first process was under a fairly good condition, while in the second some of the treatments were unsatisfied because the fractions (microscopic fields) had a contagious distribution with a great deviation. The samples collected from a water mass are significantly different from one to another.
(4) Causes responsible for introduction of error in the processes of numerical estimation of plankton was discussed.
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