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Water Framework Directive Intercalibration Technical Report: Northern Lake Phytoplankton ecological assessment methods

  • Anne Lyche Solheim
  • , Geoff Phillips
  • , Stina Drakare
  • , Gary Free
  • , Marko Järvinen
  • , Birger Skjelbred
  • , Deidre Tierney
  • , Wayne Trodd
  • , Sandra Poikane (Editor)

Publication: Book/Report/Proceedings › Report › Research

Abstract

One of the key actions identified by the Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC) is to develop ecological assessment tools and carry out a European intercalibration (IC) exercise. The aim of the Intercalibration is to ensure that the values assigned by each Member State to the good ecological class boundaries are consistent with the Directive’s generic description of these boundaries and comparable to the boundaries proposed by other MS. In total, 83 lake assessment methods were submitted for the 2nd phase of the WFD intercalibration (2008-2012) and 62 intercalibrated and included in the EC Decision on Intercalibration (EC 2013). The intercalibration was carried out in the 13 Lake Geographical Intercalibration Groups according to the ecoregion and biological quality element. In this report we describe how the intercalibration exercise has been carried out in the Northern Lake Phytoplankton group.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherPublications Office of the European Union
Number of pages259
ISBN (Print)978-92-79-35455-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Publication series

SeriesEUR - Scientific and technical research series
NumberEUR 26503 EN
ISSN1018-5593

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