The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods - nieuw boek

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781402051609
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1402051603
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Verschijningsjaar: 2006
Uitgever: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
555 Bladzijden
Gewicht: 1,240 kg
Taal: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9781402051609

ISBN - alternatieve schrijfwijzen:
1-4020-5160-3, 978-1-4020-5160-9
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Auteur van het boek: hering, furse, brabec, buffagni, daniel leon, dan sandin, buffa, piet
Titel van het boek: assessment evaluation, ecological methods, rivers europe, status again and again, the european

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Auteur: Mike T. Furse; Daniel Hering; Karel Brabec; Andrea Buffagni; Leonard Sandin; Piet F.M. Verdonschot
Titel: Developments in Hydrobiology; The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods
Uitgeverij: Springer; Springer Netherland
555 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 2006-08-15
Dordrecht; NL
Taal: Engels
213,99 € (DE)
219,99 € (AT)
236,00 CHF (CH)
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BB; Hardcover, Softcover / Biologie/Ökologie; Ökologie, Biosphäre; Verstehen; Biological quality elements; Monitoring; River assessment; Water framework directive; benthic; ecosystem; macroinvertebrate; macrophytes; ecotoxicology; Freshwater and Marine Ecology; Applied Ecology; Biodiversity; Environmental Management; Environmental Chemistry; Angewandte Ökologie; Biodiversität (Artenvielfalt); Umweltmanagement; Umweltchemie; EA; BC

The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods.- The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods.- The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches.- The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches.- Stream and River Typologies.- Stream and river typologies — major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Evaluation of the use of Water Framework Directive typology descriptors, reference sites and spatial scale in macroinvertebrate stream typology.- Data composition and taxonomic resolution in macroinvertebrate stream typology.- Relationships among biological elements (macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and ichthyofauna) for different core river types across Europe at two different spatial scales.- A comparison of the European Water Framework Directive physical typology and RIVPACS-type models as alternative methods of establishing reference conditions for benthic macroinvertebrates.- Linking Organism Groups.- Linking organism groups — major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Detection of ecological change using multiple organism groups: metrics and uncertainty.- Indicators of ecological change: comparison of the early response of four organism groups to stress gradients.- Biological quality metrics: their variability and appropriate scale for assessing Streams.- Macrophytes and Diatoms.- Macrophytes and diatoms — major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Macrophyte communities in unimpacted European streams: variability in assemblage patterns, abundance and diversity.- Macrophyte communities of European streams with altered physical habitat.- European river plant communities: the importance of organic pollution and the usefulnessof existing macrophyte metrics.- Assessment of sources of uncertainty in macrophyte surveys and the consequences for river classification.- Uncertainty in diatom assessment: Sampling, identification and counting variation.- Hydromorphology.- Hydromorphology — major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Occurrence and variability of River Habitat Survey features across Europe and the consequences for data collection and evaluation.- Preliminary testing of River Habitat Survey features for the aims of the WFD hydro-morphological assessment: an overview from the STAR Project.- Tools for Assessing European Streams with Macroinvertebrates.- Tools for assessing European streams with macroinvertebrates: major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Cook book for the development of a Multimetric Index for biological condition of aquatic ecosystems: experiences from the European AQEM and STAR projects and related initiatives.- The AQEM/STAR taxalist — a pan-European macro-invertebrate ecological database and taxa inventory.- The PERLA system in the Czech Republic: a multivariate approach for assessing the ecological status of running waters.- Intercalibration and Comparison.- Intercalibration and comparison — major results and conclusions from the STAR project.- Comparison of macroinvertebrate sampling methods in Europe.- The STAR common metrics approach to the WFD intercalibration process: Full application for small, lowland rivers in three European countries.- Direct comparison of assessment methods using benthic macroinvertebrates: a contribution to the EU Water Framework Directive intercalibration exercise.- Intercalibration of assessment methods for macrophytes in lowland streams: direct comparison and analysis of common metrics.- Errors andUncertainty in Bioassessment Methods.- Errors and uncertainty in bioassessment methods — major results and conclusions from the STAR project and their application using STARBUGS.- Effects of sampling and sub-sampling variation using the STAR-AQEM sampling protocol on the precision of macroinvertebrate metrics.- Sample coherence — a field study approach to assess similarity of macroinvertebrate samples.- Estimates and comparisons of the effects of sampling variation using ‘national’ macroinvertebrate sampling protocols on the precision of metrics used to assess ecological status.- Assessing the impact of errors in sorting and identifying macroinvertebrate samples.- Influence of macroinvertebrate sample size on bioassessment of streams.- Influence of seasonal variation on bioassessment of streams using macroinvertebrates.
First Europe-wide comparison of bioassessment methods Deep insight into background and applicability of monitoring tools Based on a unique, Europe-wide data set