Assessing the biological quality of freshwaters: RIVPACS and other techniques - SPEC08

This book presents an account of developments in predictive bioassessment systems for classifying and monitoring fresh waters, based on macroinvertebrates. It describes in considerable detail developments with the River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System (RIVPACS) of the UK, the AUSRIVAS programme in Australia, and the BEAST in Canada. Multimetric methods from North America, bioassessment approaches in The Netherlands, Sweden and Spain, and the application of artificial intelligence techniques are all included.�Assessing the biological quality of freshwaters:RIVPACS and other techniques-hard back) Author JF Wright, DW Sutcliffe & MT Furse Published by FBA 2000 Format - Soft cover 250mmx170xx 400 pages ISBN: 9780900386626�