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

ISBN-13: 9783319795478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 325 str.

Antoni Munne; Antoni Ginebreda; Narcis Prat

Spis treści

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.