Water quality assessment of rivers using diatom metrics across Mediterranean Europe: A methods intercalibration exercise

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 476-477, Issue , 2014, Pages 768-776

  Almeida, Salomé F P ^a   Elias, Carmen ^a   Ferreira, João ^b   Tornés, Elisabet ^c,h   Puccinelli, Camilla ^d   Delmas, François ^e   Dörflinger, Gerald ^f   Urbanič, Gorazd ^g   Marcheggiani, Stefania ^d   Rosebery, Juliette ^e   Mancini, Laura ^d   Sabater, Sergi ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b Institute of Water   (Portugal)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f Water Development Department   (Cyprus)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benthic diatoms; Ecological quality assessment; European Water Framework Directive; Intercalibration; Mediterranean rivers

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; TAXONOMIES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BENTHIC DIATOMS; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; INTERCALIBRATION; MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; DIATOM; NOMENCLATURE; RIVER WATER; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUTISSIMUM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CYPRUS; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EUROPE; FRANCE; GOMPHONEMA PARVULUM; INTERCALIBRATION COMMON METRIC; ITALY; NITZSCHIA PALEA; NONHUMAN; PLANOTHIDIUM FREQUENTISSIMUM; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SLOVENIA; SPAIN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

CYPRUS; FRANCE; ITALY; PORTUGAL; SLOVENIA; SPAIN;

ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUTISSIMUM; BACILLARIOPHYTA; GOMPHONEMA PARVULUM; NITZSCHIA PALEA; PLANOTHIDIUM;

BENTHIC DIATOMS; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; INTERCALIBRATION; MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS;

DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84896716218     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.144     Document Type: Article

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