Comparing aspirations: Intercalibration of ecological status concepts across European lakes for littoral diatoms

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 734, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 125-141

  Kelly, Martyn ^a   Urbanic, Gorazd ^b,c   Acs, Eva ^d   Bennion, Helen ^e   Bertrin, Vincent ^f   Burgess, Amy ^e   Denys, Luc ^g   Gottschalk, Steffi ^h   Kahlert, Maria ^h   Karjalainen, Satu Maaria ⁱ   Kennedy, Bryan ^j   Kosi, Gorazd ^k   Marchetto, Aldo ^l   Morin, Soizic ^f   Picinska Fałtynowicz, Joanna ^m   Poikane, Sandra ⁿ   Rosebery, Juliette ^f   Schoenfelder, Ilka ^o   Schoenfelder, Joerg ^p   Varbiro, Gabor ^d  

^a Bowburn Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CEMAGREF   (France)

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

^h SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^j EPA   (Ireland)

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^l CNR   (Italy)

^m INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

ⁿ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^o Bureau for Diatom Analysis   (Germany)

^p Brandenburg State Office of Environment Health and Consumer Protection   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Diatoms; Ecological status; Intercalibration; Lake; Phytobenthos; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINDICATOR; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DIATOM; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; TYPOLOGY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84901439452     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-014-1874-9     Document Type: Article

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