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Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive
Sebastian Birk,Wendy Bonne,Ángel Borja,Sandra Brucet,Anne Courrat,Sandra Poikane,Angelo G. Solimini,Wouter van de Bund,Nikolaos Zampoukas,Daniel Hering +9 more
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An overview of 297 assessment methods for the status of European surface waters is presented, based on a questionnaire survey addressing authorities in all countries implementing the WFD, and the strength of relationships differed significantly between organism groups and water categories.About:
This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2012-07-01. It has received 765 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water Framework Directive.read more
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Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the UK as an example of societies' multiple stressors on water quality to explore the uncertainties and challenges in achieving a sustainable balance between useable water resources, diverse aquatic ecosystems and a viable agriculture.
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www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences ☆
TL;DR: A database for European taxa of five aquatic organism groups by compiling information on taxonomy, ecology and distribution based on extensive literature surveys, which were performed by experts for the targeted organism groups.
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The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems
Jan Pawlowski,Mary Kelly-Quinn,Florian Altermatt,Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil,Pedro Beja,Angela Boggero,Ángel Borja,Agnès Bouchez,Tristan Cordier,Isabelle Domaizon,Maria João Feio,Ana Filipa Filipe,Riccardo Fornaroli,Wolfram Graf,Jelger Herder,Berry van der Hoorn,J. Iwan Jones,Marketa Sagova-Mareckova,Christian Moritz,José Barquín,Jeremy J. Piggott,Maurizio Pinna,Frédéric Rimet,B. Rinkevich,Carla Sousa-Santos,Valeria Specchia,Rosa Trobajo,Valentin Vasselon,Simon Vitecek,Jonas Zimmerman,Alexander M. Weigand,Florian Leese,Maria Kahlert +32 more
TL;DR: The main advantages and pitfalls of metabarcoding approaches to assess parameters such as richness, abundance, taxonomic composition and species ecological values, to be used for calculation of biotic indices are discussed.
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Remote sensing for lake research and monitoring – Recent advances
Katja Dörnhöfer,Natascha Oppelt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of how remote sensing can support lake research and monitoring, i.e., water transparency (suspended particulate matter, coloured dissolved organic matter, Secchi disc depth, diffuse attenuation coefficient, turbidity), biota (phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, submerged and emerged aquatic vegetation), bathymetry, water temperature (surface temperature) and ice phenology (ice cover, ice on, ice-out).
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Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress — An introduction to the MARS project
Daniel Hering,Laurence Carvalho,Christine Argillier,Meryem Beklioglu,Ángel Borja,Ana Cristina Cardoso,Harm Duel,Teresa Ferreira,Lidija Globevnik,Jenica Hanganu,Seppo Hellsten,Erik Jeppesen,Vit Kodes,Anne Lyche Solheim,Tiina Nõges,Stephen James Ormerod,Yiannis Panagopoulos,Stefan Schmutz,Markus Venohr,Sebastian Birk +19 more
TL;DR: The aims and approaches of the EU-funded project MARS (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress) are described and the conceptual and analytical framework that it is adopting to provide this knowledge, understanding and tools needed to address multiple stressors are described.
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Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement
TL;DR: The second edition of Dr Bram Oppenheim's established work, like the first, is a practical teaching text of survey methods as mentioned in this paper, which includes interviewing (both clip-board and depth interviewing), sampling and research design, data analysis, and a special chapter on pilot work.
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Freshwater Biomonitoring and Benthic Macroinvertebrates
TL;DR: This chapter discusses biomonitoring using freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates using individual organisms, populations, and species assemblages for assessment of ecosystem health, as well as new approaches to quantitative and qualitative assessment.
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Estimating regression models with unknown break-points.
TL;DR: This paper deals with fitting piecewise terms in regression models where one or more break-points are true parameters of the model and a simple linearization technique is called for, taking advantage of the linear formulation of the problem.
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Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application?
Peter M. Groffman,Jill S. Baron,Tamara Blett,Arthur J. Gold,Iris A. Goodman,Lance Gunderson,Barbara Levinson,Margaret A. Palmer,Hans W. Paerl,Garry D. Peterson,N. LeRoy Poff,David W. Rejeski,James F. Reynolds,Monica G. Turner,Kathleen C. Weathers,John A. Wiens +15 more
TL;DR: The scope of the thresholds concept in ecological science is defined and methods for identifying and investigating thresholds using a variety of examples from terrestrial and aquatic environments, at ecosystem, landscape and regional scales are discussed.
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Restoring life in running waters : better biological monitoring
James R. Karr,Ellen W. Chu +1 more
TL;DR: Aquatic resources are still declining changing waters and changing views led to biological monitoring multimetric indexes convey biological information for a robust multimetric index, avoid common pitfalls many criticisms of multimetric indices are myths the future is now as discussed by the authors.