Biological Monitoring of Rivers

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

Series Preface ix Preface xi List of Contributors xiii Section 1 The River Environment 1 1.1 Floodplains in River Ecosystems 3 Gilles Pinay, Tim Burt and Bruna Gumiero 1.2 Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers 17 Patrick D. Armitage 1.3 Main Features of Watercourses’ Hydrodynamics 33 Paolo Scotton, Stefano De Toni and Catia Monauni 1.4 Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers 47 Lorenzo Tancioni, Michele Scardi and Stefano Cataudella 1.5 Aquatic Macroinvertebrates 71 Javier Alba-Tercedor Copyrighted Material 1.6 Macrophytes and Algae in Running Waters 89 Georg Janauer and Martin Dokulil Section 2 Biological Monitoring of Rivers 111 2.1 River Monitoring and Assessment Methods Based on Macroinvertebrates 113 Niels De Pauw, Wim Gabriels and Peter L. M. Goethals 2.2 Monitoring Methods Based on Fish 135 Michele Scardi, Lorenzo Tancioni and Stefano Cataudella 2.3 Monitoring Methods Based on Algae and Macrophytes 155 Jean Prygiel and Jacques Haury 2.4 Organization of Biological Monitoring in the European Union 171 Laura Mancini 2.5 Biomonitoring in North American Rivers: A Comparison of Methods Used for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Canada and the United States 203 James L. Carter, Vincent H. Resh, David M. Rosenberg and Trefor B. Reynoldson 2.6 Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European Water Legislation 229 Ana Cristina Cardoso, Angelo Giuseppe Solimini and Guido Premazzi 2.7 Ecotoxicological Experiments in River Pollution Assessment 241 Daren M. Carlisle and William H. Clements Section 3 Various Experiences in Biological Monitoring 261 3.1 Monitoring of Alpine Rivers: The Italian Experience 263 Francesca Ciutti and Giovanna Flaim 3.2 Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers 277 Leonard Sandin and Nikolai Friberg 3.3 Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with Special Reference to Greece 295 Konstantinos C. Gritzalis 3.4 Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and Central European Countries (Former Communist Block) 327 Jan Helešic 3.5 Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United States of America 351 Michael T. Barbour and Jereon Gerritsen Section 4 New Tools and Strategies for River Ecology Evaluation 367 4.1 Monitoring Experiences from Downunder: The Importance of Deciding a priori What Constitutes a Significant Environmental Change 369 Barbara J. Downes 4.2 The Predictive Modelling Approach to Biomonitoring: Taking River Quality Assessment Forward 383 John F. Murphy and John Davy-Bowker 4.3 A New Approach to Evaluating Fluvial Functioning (FFI): Towards aLandscape Ecology 401 Maurizio Siligardi and Cristina Cappelletti 4.4 Planning to Integrate Urban and Ecological Processes: A Case Involving Fluvial Functionality 419 Corrado Diamantini 4.5 Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach 435 Piet F. M. Verdonschot Index 461