Biological Monitoring of Rivers

Applications and Perspectives
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-86376-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1099 g

Biological monitoring of running waters is a scientifically and economically valid approach for surveys and monitoring programmes to assess the water quality. Biological Monitoring of Rivers is a timely, up-to-date book that includes a good number of practical how-to-do chapters. - Up-to-date assessment of biological water monitoring
- Practical how-to-do chapters help the practitioner
- Provides a broad survey of methods uses inside and outside the EU
- Gives perspectives for future applications

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziglio, Giuliano

Flaim, Giovanna

Siligardi, Maurizio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.

Series Preface.

Preface.

Floodplains in River Ecosystems.

Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers.

Main features of Watercourses Hydrodynamics.
- Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers.
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrates.
- Macrophytes and Algae in running waters.
- River Monitoring and Assessment methods based on Macroinvertebrates.
- Monitoring methods based on Fish.
- Monitoring methods based on Algae and Macrophytes.
- Organization of Biological Monitoring in the EU.
- Biomonitoring in North American Rivers.
- Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European Water Legislation.
- Ecotoxicological Experiments in River Pollution Assessment.
- Monitoring of Alpine Rivers.
- Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers.
- Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with special reference to Greece.
- Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and Central European Countries.
- Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United States of America.
- Monitoring Experiences from Down Under – the importance of deciding a priori what constitutes a significant environmental change.
- The predictive modelling approach to biomonitoring:

- Taking river quality assessment forward.
- A new approach to evaluating fluvial functioning (FFI) towards a landscape ecology.
- Planning to integrate urban and ecological processes: A case involving Fluvial Functionality.
- Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Giuliano Ziglio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

Giovanna Flaim is the editor of Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley.

Maurizio Siligardi is the editor of Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley.