Publication details
Biological diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates as a tool for water management
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 7th Summer School on Computational Biology. Biodiversity: from Genetics to Geography, from Mathematics to Management |
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| Keywords | taxonomic diversity; functional diversity, metrics, diversity indices |
| Description | The ecological status assessment of surface waters, required by the Directive 2000/60/EC, is based on the analyses of various biological quality elements (fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates etc.). The biological diversity analyses play an important role in the assessment system supporting the construction of surface water types which serves as a frame for the type specific assessment and primarily, the classification of the status is based on metrics which reflects taxonomical or functional diversity of biological quality elements. The background of the assessment system and examples of suitable metrics are presented |