Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring : The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) - Munné, Antoni; Ginebreda, Antoni; Prat, Narcís.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Water status assessment in the Catalan River Basin District. Experience gathered after fifteen years with the Water Framework Directive (WFD) -- A first biopollution index approach and its relationship on biological quality in Catalan rivers -- Use of diatoms to assess the ecological status in Catalan rivers: application of the WFD and lessons learned from the European Intercalibration Exercise -- Biological Indices Based on Macrophytes: An overview of methods used in Catalonia and USA to determine the status of rivers and wetlands -- Fish as ecological indicators in Mediterranean streams: the Catalan experience -- Fish-based indices in Catalan Rivers: intercalibration and comparison of approaches -- Biological indicators to assess the ecological status of river-dominated estuaries: the case of benthic indicators in the Ebro River estuary -- New tools to analyse the ecological status of Mediterranean wetlands and shallow lakes -- Assessing ecological integrity in large reservoirs according to the Water Framework Directive -- Hydromorphological methodologies to assess ecological status in Mediterranean rivers. Applied approach to the Catalan River Basin District -- Reviewing biological indices and biomarkers suitability to analyse human impacts. Emergent tools to analyse biological status in rivers -- Analysis of EU legislated compounds for assessing chemical status. Main challenges and inconsistencies -- Pollutants of emerging concern in rivers of Catalonia: occurrence, fate and risk.
Keywords: Environmental chemistry; Water quality; Water pollution; Analytical chemistry; Hydrology; Aquatic ecology .; Environmental Chemistry; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Analytical Chemistry; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources; Freshwater & Marine Ecology