Performance of different biotic indices and sampling methods in assessing water quality in the lowland stretch of the Tiber River

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 422-423, Issue , 2000, Pages 197-208

  Solimini, Angelo G ^a   Gulia, Paolo ^a   Monfrinotti, Monica ^a   Carchini, Gianmaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial substrates; Biomonitoring; Chronological clustering; Macrobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDEX METHOD; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY;

ITALY; TIBER RIVER;

EID: 0034174378     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4164-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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