Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats : A Practical Guide and Case Studies - Hurford, Clive; Schneider, Michael; Cowx, Ian.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Setting the scene -- Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats: An Introduction -- Options for Planning Management -- The Water Framework Directive and the Habitats and Birds Directives -- Biological Indicators for Freshwater Habitats -- Freshwater Mammals as Indicators of Habitat Condition -- Waterbirds as Bioindicators of Environmental Conditions -- Monitoring Fish Populations in River SACs -- Assessment of Aquatic Invertebrates -- Riverine Plants as Biological Indicators -- Phytoplankton (Toxic Algae) as Biological Indicators -- Monitoring Biological Invasions in Freshwater Habitats -- Rivers: Threats and Monitoring Issues -- Threats to River Habitats and Associated Plants and Animals -- The Development and Application of Mean Trophic Rank (MTR) -- Monitoring the Ranunculion Habitat on the River Itchen: Practical Application and Constraints -- Observer Variation in River Macrophyte Surveys -- The Implications of Observer Variation for Existing Macrophyte Recording Methods -- Unitisation of Protected Rivers -- River Case Studies -- Monitoring the Ranunculion Habitat of the Western Cleddau: A Case Study -- Monitoring of Cryphaea lamyana on the Afon Teifi SSSI/SAC: A Case Study -- Monitoring Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus Ammocoetes in SAC Rivers: A Case Study on the River Wye -- Monitoring Juvenile Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout in the River Sävarån, Northern Sweden -- Shad Monitoring in the Afon Tywi SAC: A Case Study -- Monitoring the Effects of Acidification and Liming on Water Quality in a Boreal Stream: The River Stridbäcken in Northern Sweden -- Lake and wetland case studies -- A Baseline for Monitoring the Freshwater Natura 2000 Vegetation of the Teifi Pools (Afon Teifi SAC), Wales -- Aquatic Plant Monitoring in the Broads -- Monitoring Stoneworts Chara spp. at Bosherston Lakes -- Monitoring Wetland Mammals: An Ecological Case Study -- Ringed Seals in the Gulf of Bothnia -- Integrated surveillance, monitoring and management at Doñana Natural Space -- An Integrated Monitoring Programme for Doñana Natural Space: The Set-Up and Implementation -- Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems at Doñana Natural Space -- Endangered Waterbirds at Doñana Natural Space -- Monitoring Marsh Dynamics Through Remote Sensing -- New Technologies for Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring.
Keywords: Applied ecology; Ecology .; Life sciences; Nature conservation; Ecotoxicology; Aquatic ecology .; Applied Ecology; Ecology; Life Sciences, general; Nature Conservation; Ecotoxicology; Freshwater & Marine Ecology