Volume 566, Issue 1

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August 2006

Theme: The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods

Issue Editors:

Mike T. Furse,
Daniel Hering,
Karel Brabec,
Andrea Buffagni,
Leonard Sandin,
Piet F. M. Verdonschot

36 articles in this issue

The ecological status of European rivers: evaluation and intercalibration of assessment methods
Mike T. Furse
Daniel Hering
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2
The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches
Mike Furse
Daniel Hering
Il’ja Krno
OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 29
Stream and river typologies – major results and conclusions from the STAR project
Leonard Sandin
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 37
Evaluation of the use of Water Framework Directive typology descriptors, reference sites and spatial scale in macroinvertebrate stream typology
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 58
Data composition and taxonomic resolution in macroinvertebrate stream typology
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 74
Relationships among biological elements (macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and ichthyofauna) for different core river types across Europe at two different spatial scales
Paulo Pinto
Manuela Morais
Leonard Sandin
OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 90
A comparison of the European Water Framework Directive physical typology and RIVPACS-type models as alternative methods of establishing reference conditions for benthic macroinvertebrates
John Davy-Bowker
Ralph T. Clarke
Svetlana Zahrádková
OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 105
Linking organism groups – major results and conclusions from the STAR project
Daniel Hering
Richard K. Johnson
Andrea Buffagni
OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 113
Detection of ecological change using multiple organism groups: metrics and uncertainty
Richard K. Johnson
Daniel Hering
Ralph T. Clarke
OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 137
Indicators of ecological change: comparison of the early response of four organism groups to stress gradients
Richard K. Johnson
Daniel Hering
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 152
Biological quality metrics: their variability and appropriate scale for assessing streams
Gunta Springe
Leonard Sandin
Agnija Skuja
OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 172
Macrophytes and diatoms – major results and conclusions from the STAR project
Karel Brabec
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz
OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 178
Macrophyte communities in unimpacted European streams: variability in assemblage patterns, abundance and diversity
Annette Baattrup-Pedersen
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz
Teresa Ferreira
OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 196
Macrophyte communities of European streams with altered physical habitat
Mattie T. O’Hare
Annette Baattrup-Pedersen
Teresa Ferreira
OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 210
European river plant communities: the importance of organic pollution and the usefulness of existing macrophyte metrics
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz
Teresa Ferreira
Mattie O’Hare
OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 234
Assessment of sources of uncertainty in macrophyte surveys and the consequences for river classification
Ryszard Staniszewski
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz
Ralph T. Clarke
OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 246
Uncertainty in Diatom Assessment: Sampling, Identification and Counting Variation
Anna Besse-Lototskaya
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Jos A. Sinkeldam
OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 260
Hydromorphology – major results and conclusions from the STAR project
John Davy-Bowker
Mike T. Furse
OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 265
Occurrence and variability of River Habitat Survey features across Europe and the consequences for data collection and evaluation
Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz
Andrea Buffagni
Tomasz Zgola
OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 280
Preliminary testing of River Habitat Survey features for the aims of the WFD hydro-morphological assessment: an overview from the STAR Project
Stefania Erba
Andrea Buffagni
Alberta Stenico
OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 296
Tools for assessing European streams with macroinvertebrates: major results and conclusions from the STAR project
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Otto Moog
OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 309
Cook book for the development of a Multimetric Index for biological condition of aquatic ecosystems: Experiences from the European AQEM and STAR projects and related initiatives
Daniel Hering
Christian K. Feld
Thomas Ofenböck
OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 324
The AQEM/STAR taxalist – a pan-European macro-invertebrate ecological database and taxa inventory
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
Wolfram Graf
Otto Moog
OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 342
The PERLA system in the Czech Republic: a multivariate approach for assessing the ecological status of running waters
Jiří Kokeš
Světlana Zahrádková
Tomáš Soldán
OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 354
Intercalibration and comparison – major results and conclusions from the STAR project
Andrea Buffagni
Mike Furse
OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 364
Comparison of macroinvertebrate sampling methods in Europe
Nikolai Friberg
Leonard Sandin
Peter Haase
OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 378
The STAR common metrics approach to the WFD intercalibration process: Full application for small, lowland rivers in three European countries
Andrea Buffagni
Stefania Erba
Pietro Genoni
OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 399
Direct comparison of assessment methods using benthic macroinvertebrates: a contribution to the EU Water Framework Directive intercalibration exercise
Sebastian Birk
Daniel Hering
OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 415
Intercalibration of assessment methods for macrophytes in lowland streams: direct comparison and analysis of common metrics
Sebastian Birk
Thomas Korte
Daniel Hering
OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 430
Errors and uncertainty in bioassessment methods – major results and conclusions from the STAR project and their application using STARBUGS
Ralph T. Clarke
Daniel Hering
OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 439
Effects of sampling and sub-sampling variation using the STAR-AQEM sampling protocol on the precision of macroinvertebrate metrics
Ralph T. Clarke
Armin Lorenz
Peter Haase
OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 459
Sample coherence – a field study approach to assess similarity of macroinvertebrate samples
Armin Lorenz
Ralph T. Clarke
OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 476
Estimates and comparisons of the effects of sampling variation using ‘national’ macroinvertebrate sampling protocols on the precision of metrics used to assess ecological status
Ralph T. Clarke
John Davy-Bowker
Barbara Bis
OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 503
Assessing the impact of errors in sorting and identifying macroinvertebrate samples
Peter Haase
John Murray-Bligh
Ralph Clarke
OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 521
Influence of macroinvertebrate sample size on bioassessment of streams
Hanneke E. Vlek
Ferdinand Šporka
Il’ja Krno
OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 542
Influence of seasonal variation on bioassessment of streams using macroinvertebrates
Ferdinand Šporka
Hanneke E. Vlek
Il’ja Krno
OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 555

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