River Monitoring and Assessment Methods Based on Macroinvertebrates

Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 113-134

  De Pauw, Niels ^a   Gabriels, Wim ^a   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bioassessment system of rivers; Biological river monitoring and assessment; Biotic approach; Classification and compliance testing; Diversity approach; Ecological quality ratio approach; Multimetric approach; Multivariate approach; Saprobic approach

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; BIOTIC APPROACH; COMPLIANCE TESTING; DIVERSITY APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY RATIOS; MULTIMETRIC APPROACH; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; RIVER MONITORING; SAPROBIC APPROACH;

RIVERS;

EID: 84954589290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470863781.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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