Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery: part benthic invertebrates
Abstract
WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC to establish a framework for water policy and management in Europe (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters. The project will analyse existing data from more than 90 databases compiled in previous and ongoing projects, covering all water categories, organism groups and environmental stressor types. Field-sampling campaigns will supplement the data on lakes and coastal systems. The data will be used to test and complement existing assessment schemes with a focus on uncertainty Measure of confidence to express the degree to which a result is subject to chance affects on classification strength. Biological recovery processes after release from hydromorphological and eutrophicationEnhanced primary productivity caused by nitrogen and phosphorous pressures will be analysed. Therefore, large-scale data will help to identify linkages between pressure variables and organism’s responses. Selected case studies, using a variety of modelling techniques, will address pressure-response relationships and evaluate the efficacy of restorationActivity to improve the status of degraded waters, be it waste water treatment or structural improvements. WISER will provide guidance for the next steps of the intercalibration exercise by comparing different intercalibration approaches.
Publikationen
Extraction of data from WISER databases
Autoren: Dudley B; Moe J; Schmidt-Kloiber A; Carvalho L; Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Data about data – the WISER metadatabase
Autoren: Schmidt-Kloiber A; Dudley B; Moe J; Strackbein J; Vogl R; Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Current questions in water management - Book of Abstracts of the WISER final conference
Autoren: Schmidt-Kloiber A; Hartmann A; Strackbein J; Feld C.K; Hering D; Jahr: 2012
Editorial
Project staff
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
ask@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81225
BOKU Project Leader
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Wolfram Graf
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wolfram Graf
wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81221
Project Staff
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Ilse Schwarzinger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ilse Schwarzinger
ilse.schwarzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-10118
Project Staff
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Robert Vogl
Ing. Robert Vogl
robert.vogl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81225
Project Staff
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012