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Titolo: | Biological monitoring of rivers : applications and perspectives / / [edited by] Giuliano Ziglio, Maurizio Siligardi, Giovanna Flaim |
Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (490 p.) |
Disciplina: | 577.6/427 |
577.6427 | |
Soggetto topico: | Water quality biological assessment |
Stream ecology | |
Environmental monitoring | |
Altri autori: | ZiglioG SiligardiMaurizio FlaimGiovanna |
Note generali: | Based on a workshop held at Istituto Agraio of S. Michele TN, Italy, in June 1998. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Biological Monitoring of Rivers : Applications and Perspectives; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; List of Contributors; Section 1 The River Environment; 1.1 Floodplains in River Ecosystems; 1.2 Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers; 1.3 Main Features of Watercourses' Hydrodynamics; 1.4 Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers; 1.5 Aquatic Macroinvertebrates; 1.6 Macrophytes and Algae in Running Waters; Section 2 Biological Monitoring of Rivers; 2.1 River Monitoring and Assessment Methods Based on Macroinvertebrates; 2.2 Monitoring Methods Based on Fish |
2.3 Monitoring Methods Based on Algae and Macrophytes2.4 Organization of Biological Monitoring in the European Union; 2.5 Biomonitoring in North American Rivers: A Comparison of Methods Used for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Canada and the United States; 2.6 Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European Water Legislation; 2.7 Ecotoxicological Experiments in River Pollution Assessment; Section 3 Various Experiences in Biological Monitoring; 3.1 Monitoring of Alpine Rivers: The Italian Experience; 3.2 Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers | |
3.3 Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with Special Reference to Greece3.4 Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and Central European Countries (Former Communist Block); 3.5 Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United States of America; Section 4 New Tools and Strategies for River Ecology Evaluation; 4.1 Monitoring Experiences from Downunder: The Importance of Deciding a priori What Constitutes a Significant Environmental Change; 4.2 The Predictive Modelling Approach to Biomonitoring: Taking River Quality Assessment Forward | |
4.3 A New Approach to Evaluating Fluvial Functioning (FFI): Towards aLandscape Ecology4.4 Planning to Integrate Urban and Ecological Processes: A Case Involving Fluvial Functionality; 4.5 Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach; Index; Colorplate | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Biological monitoring of running waters is a scientifically and economically valid approach for surveys and monitoring programmes to assess the water quality. Biological Monitoring of Rivers is a timely, up-to-date book that includes a good number of practical how-to-do chapters.Up-to-date assessment of biological water monitoringPractical how-to-do chapters help the practitionerProvides a broad survey of methods uses inside and outside the EUGives perspectives for future applications |
Titolo autorizzato: | Biological monitoring of rivers |
ISBN: | 1-282-34966-X |
9786612349669 | |
0-470-86378-1 | |
0-470-86377-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910876721603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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