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Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Publications - 227
Citations - 7797
Piet F. M. Verdonschot is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Water Framework Directive & Stream restoration. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 203 publications receiving 6999 citations. Previous affiliations of Piet F. M. Verdonschot include Wageningen University and Research Centre.
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Canonical correspondence analysis and related multivariate methods in aquatic ecology
TL;DR: After pointing out the key assumptions underlying CCA, the paper focuses on the interpretation of CCA ordination diagrams and some advanced uses, such as ranking environmental variables in importance and the statistical testing of effects are illustrated on a typical macroinvertebrate data-set.
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Assessment of european streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish : a comparative metric-based analysis of organism response to stress
Daniel Hering,Richard K. Johnson,Sandra Kramm,Stefan Schmutz,Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz,Piet F. M. Verdonschot +5 more
TL;DR: General recommendations on European bioassessment of streams were derived from the results, including those on land use changes, hydromorphological degradation on the microhabitat scale and general degradation gradients.
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Overview and application of the AQEM assessment system
TL;DR: The main objective of the European Union (EU) funded project AQEM1 was to develop a framework of an assessment system for streams in Europe based on benthic macroinvertebrates that fulfils the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive.
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From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again: A Test of Restoration Ecology Theory and Practice
Christian K. Feld,Sebastian Birk,David C. Bradley,Daniel Hering,Jochem Kail,Anahita Marzin,Andreas Melcher,Dirk Nemitz,Morten Lauge Pedersen,Florian Pletterbauer,Didier Pont,Piet F. M. Verdonschot,Nikolai Friberg +12 more
TL;DR: While the large-scale re-meandering and re-establishment of water levels at River Skjern resulted in significant recovery of riverine biota, habitat enhancement schemes at smaller-scales in other rivers were largely ineffective and failed to show long-term recovery.
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The Development of a System to Assess the Ecological Quality of Streams Based on Macroinvertebrates – Design of the Sampling Programme within the AQEM Project
Daniel Hering,Andrea Buffagni,Otto Moog,Leonard Sandin,Mario Sommerhäuser,Ilse Stubauer,Christian K. Feld,Richard K. Johnson,Paulo Pinto,Nikos Skoulikidis,Piet F. M. Verdonschot,Svetlana Zahrádková +11 more
TL;DR: The AQEM project as discussed by the authors developed, at a European scale, such a methodology, based on a comparison of communities of reference streams and degraded streams, focusing on three main impact types: morphological degradation, organic pollution and acidification.