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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Munné, Antoni. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ginebreda, Antoni. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Prat, Narcís. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 42
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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.