Freshwater Bioindicators and Ecological Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystem
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 224
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytoplankton; macrophytes; eutrophication; freshwater; lakes; very large rivers; assessment; pressure-impact relationship; metabarcoding
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Interests: freshwater ecology; biodiversity; benthic invertebrates; ecosystem quality assessment; multiple stressors
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Interests: biodiversity of croatian fauna
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Europe has become aware of the need for water protection. A number of legislations were published on various subjects, but the commission concluded that water policy was fragmented in terms of both objectives and means, so in the year 2000, the Water Framework Directive was published. Among the many points it covers, one of the most important is the assessment of ecological status based on biological quality elements with physical, chemical and hydromorphological supporting elements. European Member States have developed their own methods based on reference conditions or historical knowledge and most of these methods have been intercalibrated so far, which will be published in the new intercalibration decision currently being prepared. However, many countries and experts have left their methods in the form of reports which are not easily comprehensible to the wider scientific community. We welcome research papers and review papers that highlight new achievements in ecological status assessment, both in the biological quality elements and in the supporting elements. We hope that these contributions will provide new ecological insights in relation to aquatic ecosystem monitoring and general ecological knowledge.
Dr. Igor Stanković
Prof. Dr. Zlatko Mihaljević
Dr. Ivana Buj
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- EU water framework directive
- ecological status assessment
- water quality
- ecological quality ratio
- multiple pressures
- intercalibration
- biological quality elements
