Ecological status monitoring

Existing and New Methods for Chemical and Ecological Status Monitoring under the WFD... 

Maas J.L., Schipper C.A., Knoben R.A.E., van den Heuvel-Greve M.J., den Besten P.J. and de Maagd G-J. (2008). Diagnostic water quality instruments for use in European Water Framework Directive. Published in The Water Framework Directive Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring. Editors Quevauviller, Borchers, Thompson, Simonart. ISBN 978-0-470-51836-6, Wiley. 

When studying the ecological status of watersheds and landscapes, monitoring techniques and indicators are widely used tools. The diagnostic indicators comprise indicator species and community metric approaches. To improve the interpretation of monitoring programs and ecosystem health indicators to assess risks of... 

Quevauviller Ph., Borchers U., Thompson K.C. and Simonart T. (eds), 2008. The Water Framework Directive - Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring, Water Quality Measurements Series, John Wiley Sons Ltd., Chichester. 

The Water Framework Directive - Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring... 

The Water Framework Directive Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring Edited by Philippe Quevauviller. Ulrich Borchers, Clive Thon son and Tristan Simonart 2008 John Wiley Sons. Ltd. ISBN 978-0-470-51836-6... 

Requirements for the comparability of biological monitoring results, presentation and classification of ecological status and ecological potential, and presentation of monitoring results and classification of chemical status. 

In addition, the WFD requires Member States to identify specific pollutants in their river basins, and to include them in the monitoring programmes. Monitoring of both WFD priority substances and other pollutants for the purpose of determination of the chemical and ecological status shall be performed according to Article 8 and Annex V of the WFD. 

In the following pages we provide a general overview of the current developments concerning the approaches to the monitoring of ecological status in European... 

Traditionally, lake monitoring has focused on physico-chemical parameters (nutrients, oxygen profiles, etc.) and on phytoplankton biomass as indicated by chlorophyll a, on which several classification schemes exist (e.g. OECD, 1982 Cailson, 1977). Only recently, following the new requirement introduced by the WFD to assess lake ecological status (see Cardoso et al., 2006 for a review) have most European countries included several other biological quality elements in their routine monitoring programmes, such as phytoplankton, macrophytes and phytobenthos, benthic invertebrates and fish. 

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