Abundance and prey capture success of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) and Pied Kingfishers (Ceryle rudis) in relation to water clarity in south-east coastal Ghana

Table 1 Data on water quality parameters collected at four quadrats (= 100 m × 100 m plots) in Densu Delta Ramsar Site (DDRS) and Weija Lake (WL)

Study site	Plot no.	Transparency (cm)	pH	Conductivity (ms/cm)	Turbidity (NTU)	TDS (mg/L)	Salinity (‰)
DDRS	1	44	8.77	23.13	41	14.12	13.85
DDRS	2	37	8.84	18.43	41	11.24	10.82
DDRS	3	32	8.42	38.50	52	23.48	24.37
DDRS	4	42	8.56	40.07	53	24.30	25.48
DDRS	1	16.5	6.63	2.96	135	1.89	1.50
DDRS	2	23	6.81	2.82	129	1.89	1.53
DDRS	3	16	6.91	2.98	132	1.89	1.53
DDRS	4	15	7.08	2.67	146	1.69	1.38
DDRS	1	41	8.67	1.75	82	1.09	0.88
DDRS	2	33	7.38	0.61	70	0.38	0.30
DDRS	3	30	7.72	3.37	79	2.14	1.73
DDRS	4	39	8.19	3.07	103	1.96	1.60
WL	1	42	5.95	0.43	55	0.28	0.2
WL	2	42	6.85	0.42	47	0.27	0.2
WL	3	48	6.91	0.38	58	0.24	0.2
WL	4	35	7.13	0.41	52	0.26	0.2
WL	1	41	6.67	0.38	58	0.27	0.2
WL	2	41	6.85	0.4	55	0.26	0.2
WL	3	45	7.25	0.38	54	0.24	0.2
WL	4	42	7.5	0.38	56	0.21	0.2
WL	1	51	5.53	0.39	37	0.25	0.2
WL	2	48	6.64	0.38	40	0.25	0.2
WL	3	50	7.46	0.33	48	0.21	0.2
WL	4	50	7.53	0.30	59	0.19	0.1

Each figure represents the mean of three water samples taken haphazardly on the same work days; 3 days at each site

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