The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Colección: | Developments in Hydrobiology ;
188 |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5493-8 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods
- The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods
- The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches
- The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches
- Stream and River Typologies
- Stream and river typologies - major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Evaluation of the use of Water Framework Directive typology descriptors, reference sites and spatial scale in macroinvertebrate stream typology
- Data composition and taxonomic resolution in macroinvertebrate stream typology
- Relationships among biological elements (macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and ichthyofauna) for different core river types across Europe at two different spatial scales
- A comparison of the European Water Framework Directive physical typology and RIVPACS-type models as alternative methods of establishing reference conditions for benthic macroinvertebrates
- Linking Organism Groups
- Linking organism groups - major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Detection of ecological change using multiple organism groups: metrics and uncertainty
- Indicators of ecological change: comparison of the early response of four organism groups to stress gradients
- Biological quality metrics: their variability and appropriate scale for assessing Streams
- Macrophytes and Diatoms
- Macrophytes and diatoms - major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Macrophyte communities in unimpacted European streams: variability in assemblage patterns, abundance and diversity
- Macrophyte communities of European streams with altered physical habitat
- European river plant communities: the importance of organic pollution and the usefulness of existing macrophyte metrics
- Assessment of sources of uncertainty in macrophyte surveys and the consequences for river classification
- Uncertainty in diatom assessment: Sampling, identification and counting variation
- Hydromorphology
- Hydromorphology - major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Occurrence and variability of River Habitat Survey features across Europe and the consequences for data collection and evaluation
- Preliminary testing of River Habitat Survey features for the aims of the WFD hydro-morphological assessment: an overview from the STAR Project
- Tools for Assessing European Streams with Macroinvertebrates
- Tools for assessing European streams with macroinvertebrates: major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Cook book for the development of a Multimetric Index for biological condition of aquatic ecosystems: experiences from the European AQEM and STAR projects and related initiatives
- The AQEM/STAR taxalist - a pan-European macro-invertebrate ecological database and taxa inventory
- The PERLA system in the Czech Republic: a multivariate approach for assessing the ecological status of running waters
- Intercalibration and Comparison
- Intercalibration and comparison - major results and conclusions from the STAR project
- Comparison of macroinvertebrate sampling methods in Europe
- The STAR common metrics approach to the WFD intercalibration process: Full application for small, lowland rivers in three European countries
- Direct comparison of assessment methods using benthic macroinvertebrates: a contribution to the EU Water Framework Directive intercalibration exercise
- Intercalibration of assessment methods for macrophytes in lowland streams: direct comparison and analysis of common metrics
- Errors and Uncertainty in Bioassessment Methods
- Errors and uncertainty in bioassessment methods - major results and conclusions from the STAR project and their application using STARBUGS
- Effects of sampling and sub-sampling variation using the STAR-AQEM sampling protocol on the precision of macroinvertebrate metrics
- Sample coherence - a field study approach to assess similarity of macroinvertebrate samples
- Estimates and comparisons of the effects of sampling variation using 'national' macroinvertebrate sampling protocols on the precision of metrics used to assess ecological status
- Assessing the impact of errors in sorting and identifying macroinvertebrate samples
- Influence of macroinvertebrate sample size on bioassessment of streams
- Influence of seasonal variation on bioassessment of streams using macroinvertebrates.