Towards harmonization of ecological quality classification: Establishing common grounds in European macrophyte assessment for rivers

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-163

  Birk, Sebastian ^a   Willby, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common metric; Common stream type; European Water Framework Directive; Intercalibration; Reference community

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; COMMON GROUND; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY CLASSIFICATION; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; FLANDERS; GENERAL APPROACH; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; INTERCALIBRATION; MACROPHYTES; NATIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CLASSIFICATION; REFERENCE VALUES; STREAM SITES;

HYDRAULICS; WATER CONSERVATION;

RIVERS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMONITORING; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MACROPHYTE; RIVER SYSTEM; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 77954687749     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0327-3     Document Type: Article

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