Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: Using the Reference Condition Approach

by Robert G. Bailey

Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of trying to locate nearby control or reference sites when studying an ecosystem that may be degraded, a problem that bedevils traditional approaches. Rather than using upstream reference sites...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402076703
• ISBN13: 9781402076701
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"