Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Munné, Antoni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Ginebreda, Antoni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Prat, Narcís (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 42
• Θέματα: Environment.; Hydrology.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Analytical chemistry.; Aquatic ecology.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental Chemistry.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Analytical Chemistry.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This book details the experiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterranean watershed – the Catalan River Basin District – following the launch of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000. Experts in rivers, reservoirs, lakes, wetlands and estuaries present 13 chapte...

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• 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.