TABLE 2.

Experimental conditions and recovery rates of Toxoplasma gondii surrogate microspheres in wetland transport studies

Exptl condition	Replicate no.	Velocity (cm/s)		Discharge (liters/min)		Surrogate recovery (%)a
						Dragon Green			Glacial Blue
		Top	Bottom	Top	Bottom	Top	Bottom	Total	Top	Bottom	Total
Mudflat	1	1.99	0.63	17.91	5.70	79.68	9.10	88.78	83.06	8.10	91.17
	2	1.99	0.54	17.91	4.84	79.68	10.04	80.86	68.70	9.12	77.82
Mudflat slow	1	0.29	0.15	2.60	1.33	58.85	14.11	72.96	49.42	12.33	61.76
	2	0.34	0.17	3.05	1.50	37.39	21.08	58.47	38.13	20.76	58.88
Vegetated	1 (Fall)	0.24	0.10	2.16	0.88	47.24	0.87	48.12	36.57	0.95	37.52
	2 (Spring)	0.29	0.15	2.60	1.33	48.08	6.19	54.27	46.50	5.90	52.41

^aThe number of surrogate microspheres recovered was calculated for top and bottom samples based on the product of the discharge rate and sphere concentration for each level; the percent recovery is the proportion of spheres recovered versus spheres released (see Materials and Methods).