Preliminary testing of River Habitat Survey features for the aims of the WFD hydro-morphological assessment: An overview from the STAR Project

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 566, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 281-296

  Erba, Stefania ^a   Buffagni, Andrea ^a   Holmes, Nigel ^b   O'Hare, Mattie ^c   Scarlett, Peter ^c   Stenico, Alberta ^d  

^a WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b WARBOYS   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d Laboratorio Biologico   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEN; ICM; Macroinvertebrate; Metrics; River

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; RIVERS; SURVEYING;

CEN; INTER-CALIBRATION COMMON METRIC INDEX (ICMI); MACROINVERTEBRATES; METRICS; RIVER HABITAT SURVEY (RHS);

ECOSYSTEMS;

DATA QUALITY; HABITAT QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; RIVER; SURVEY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746048467     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0089-0     Document Type: Review

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