A comparison of national approaches to setting ecological status boundaries in phytobenthos assessment for the European Water Framework Directive: Results of an intercalibration exercise

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 621, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-182

  Kelly, Martyn ^a   Bennett, Cathy ^b   Coste, Michel ^c   Delgado, Cristina ^d   Delmas, François ^c   Denys, Luc ^e   Ector, Luc ^f   Fauville, Claude ^g   Ferréol, Martial ^c,f   Golub, Malgorzata ^h   Jarlman, Amelie ⁱ   Kahlert, Maria ^j   Lucey, John ^k   Ní Chatháin, Bernadette ^l   Pardo, Isabel ^d   Pfister, Peter ^m   Picinska Faltynowicz, Joanna ⁿ   Rosebery, Juliette ^c   Schranz, Christine ^o   Schaumburg, Jochen ^o   Van Dam, Herman ^p   Vilbaste, Sirje ^q   more..

^a Bowburn Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^f LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^h INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

ⁱ Jarlman HB   (Sweden)

^j SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^k ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Ireland)

^l Newtown Centre   (Ireland)

^m ARGE Limnologie   (Austria)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^o Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt Bavarian Environmental Agency   (Germany)

^p Department of Water and Nature ^*  (Netherlands)

^q ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

more..

Author keywords

Algae; Diatoms; Eutrophication; Intercalibration; Monitoring; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EUTROPHICATION; MONITORING; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER CONSERVATION;

DIATOMS; ECOLOGICAL STATUS; ECOLOGICAL STATUS BOUNDARIES; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; INTERCALIBRATION; MULTI-METRIC INDICES; REFERENCE VALUES; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOBENTHOS; RIVER;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; ITALY; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 58149267862     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9641-4     Document Type: Article

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