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
Table of Content
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.
About the author
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.
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