Bringing European river quality into line: An exercise to intercalibrate macro-invertebrate classification methods

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 667, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-48

  Bennett, Cathy ^a   Owen, Roger ^a   Birk, Sebastian ^b   Buffagni, Andrea ^c   Erba, Stefania ^c   Mengin, Nicolas ^d   Murray Bligh, John ^e   Ofenböck, Gisela ^f   Pardo, Isabel ^g   van de Bund, Wouter ^h   Wagner, Franz ^f   Wasson, Jean Gabriel ⁱ  

^a SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d ECCEL Environnement   (France)

^e ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^f Institute for Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^h JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

ⁱ CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Common metrics; Ecological quality; Reference conditions; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RIVER; WATER QUALITY;

EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953748326     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0635-2     Document Type: Article

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