Organization of Biological Monitoring in the European Union

Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 171-201

  Mancini, Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANNEX V of WFD and protected areas; Biological indices for water quality monitoring; Biological monitoring in European Union; Biological monitoring of rivers in WFD; Biological water assessment methods; Diatom bioindicators; Environmental defense programme and biological monitoring; Indicator species or 'diversity indices'; Operational monitoring and investigative monitoring; River Basin Districts (RBDs)

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOLOGICAL WATER; DIVERSITY INDEX; EUROPEAN UNION; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; PROTECTED AREAS; RIVER BASINS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

MONITORING;

EID: 34247394140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470863781.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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