Biological Monitoring of Rivers Applications and Perspectives

by Ziglio, Giuliano; Flaim, Giovanna; Siligardi, Maurizio

• ISBN13: 9780470863763
• ISBN10: 0470863765
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-06
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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 monitoring Practical how-to-do chapters help the practitioner Provides a broad survey of methods uses inside and outside the EU Gives perspectives for future applications

Author Biography

Professor Giuliano Ziglio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

Giovanna Flaim is the editor of Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley.

Maurizio Siligardi is the editor of Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	ix
Preface	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
Section 1 The River Environment	1	(110)
Floodplains in River Ecosystems	3	(14)
Gilles Pinay
Tim Burt
Bruna Gumiero
Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers	17	(16)
Patrick D. Armitage
Main Features of Watercourses' Hydrodynamics	33	(14)
Paolo Scotton
Stefano De Toni
Catia Monauni
Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers	47	(24)
Lorenzo Tancioni
Michele Scardi
Stefano Cataudella
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates	71	(18)
Javier Alha-Tercedor
Macrophytes and Algae in Running Waters	89	(22)
Georg Janauer
Martin Dokulil
Section 2 Biological Monitoring of Rivers	111	(150)
River Monitoring and Assessment Methods Based on Macroinvertebrates	113	(22)
Niels De Pauw
Wim Gabriels
Peter L. M. Goethals
Monitoring Methods Based on Fish	135	(20)
Michele Scardi
Lorenzo Tancioni
Stefano Cataudella
Monitoring Methods Based on Algae and Macrophytes	155	(16)
Jean Prygiel
Jacques Haury
Organization of Biological Monitoring in the European Union	171	(32)
Laura Mancini
Biomonitoring in North American Rivers: A Comparison of Methods Used for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Canada and the United States	203	(26)
James L. Carter
Vincent H. Resh
David M. Rosenberg
Trefor B. Reynoldson
Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European Water Legislation	229	(12)
Ana Cristina Cardoso
Angelo Giuseppe Solimini
Guido Premazzi
Ecotoxicological Experiments in River Pollution Assessment	241	(20)
Daren M. Carlisle
William H. Clements
Section 3 Various Experiences in Biological Monitoring	261	(106)
Monitoring of Alpine Rivers: The Italian Experience	263	(14)
Francesca Ciutti
Giovanna Flaim
Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers	277	(18)
Leonard Sandin
Nikolai Friberg
Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with Special Reference to Greece	295	(32)
Konstantinos C. Gritzalis
Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and Central European Countries (Former Communist Block)	327	(24)
Jan Helesic
Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United States of America	351	(16)
Michael T. Barbour
Jereon Gerritsen
Section 4 New Tools and Strategies for River Ecology Evaluation	367	(94)
Monitoring Experiences from Downunder: The Importance of Deciding a priori What Constitutes a Significant Environmental Change	369	(14)
Barbara J. Downes
The Predictive Modelling Approach to Biomonitoring: Taking River Quality Assessment Forward	383	(18)
John F. Murphy
John Davy-Bowker
A New Approach to Evaluating Fluvial Functioning (FFI): Towards a Landscape Ecology	401	(18)
Maurizio Siligardi
Cristina Cappelletti
Planning to Integrate Urban and Ecological Processes: A Case Involving Fluvial Functionality	419	(16)
Corrado Diamantini
Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach	435	(26)
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Index	461