Experiences from surface water quality monitoring : the EU Water Framework Directive implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) /: the EU Water Framework Directive implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I). ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editors: Antoni Munné, Antoni Ginebreda, Narcís Prat ; with contributions by C. Alcaraz [and more].
• Editors: Munné, Antoni; Ginebreda, Antoni; Prat i Fornells, Narcís
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 325 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 628.1/61; Environment; Water quality -- Measurement; Water quality management -- Spain -- Catalonia; Water quality management -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries; Environmental chemistry; Analytical biochemistry; Environmental pollution; Aquatic biology; Water quality management; Water quality management -- Law and legislation; Water quality -- Measurement; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- Water Supply; Science -- Chemistry -- Analytic; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Water supply & treatment; Analytical chemistry; Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Science -- Environmental Science; Pollution & threats to the environment; Europe -- European Union countries; Spain -- Catalonia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319238951; 3319238957
• Related ISBNs: 9783319238944; 3319238949
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 30, 2015).
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