Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) /
This book details the experiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterranean watershed – the Catalan River Basin District – following the launch of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000. Experts in rivers, reservoirs, lakes, wetlands and estuaries present 13 chapte...
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Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Series: | The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry,
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23895-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Water status assessment in the Catalan River Basin District. Experience gathered after fifteen years with the Water Framework Directive (WFD)
- A first biopollution index approach and its relationship on biological quality in Catalan rivers
- Use of diatoms to assess the ecological status in Catalan rivers: application of the WFD and lessons learned from the European Intercalibration Exercise
- Biological Indices Based on Macrophytes: An overview of methods used in Catalonia and USA to determine the status of rivers and wetlands
- Fish as ecological indicators in Mediterranean streams: the Catalan experience
- Fish-based indices in Catalan Rivers: intercalibration and comparison of approaches
- Biological indicators to assess the ecological status of river-dominated estuaries: the case of benthic indicators in the Ebro River estuary
- New tools to analyse the ecological status of Mediterranean wetlands and shallow lakes
- Assessing ecological integrity in large reservoirs according to the Water Framework Directive
- Hydromorphological methodologies to assess ecological status in Mediterranean rivers. Applied approach to the Catalan River Basin District
- Reviewing biological indices and biomarkers suitability to analyse human impacts. Emergent tools to analyse biological status in rivers
- Analysis of EU legislated compounds for assessing chemical status. Main challenges and inconsistencies
- Pollutants of emerging concern in rivers of Catalonia: occurrence, fate and risk.