Effect of fixed-fraction subsampling on macroinvertebrate bioassessment of rivers

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 179-201

  Petkovska, Vesna ^a   Urbanič, Gorazd ^a,b  

^a Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Biological monitoring; Fixed fraction subsampling; Metrics; River types; Water management

Indexed keywords

WATER MANAGEMENT;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FIXED-FRACTION SUBSAMPLING; METRICS; RIVER TYPES;

RIVERS;

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; RIVER;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS;

EID: 79952110540     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1161-9     Document Type: Article

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