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guias y mencion a FBA y todo el material que tienen many uses but we are going to use as BIOINDICATORS (definition) y explicacion del indice semi-quantitative sampling methods field trip data

ussing macroinvertebrates is simply, cheap and fun…what are their drawbacks then? Reference conditions has to be established for each river basin what makes the BWMP also variable and dependent on the specific conditions of the river. WFD Indicators and Definition of the Ecological Status of Rivers R. Carballo · J. J. Cancela · G. IglesiasContinue reading “Not everything that creeps is made out of gold”

Now that we know we can use invertebrates to evaluate the quality of a given river, we need to understand the methodology to do it. And, as a picture is worth a thousand words, I will you show you the whole process with pictures from my recent field trip. Firstly, we collect the samples usingContinue reading “How macroinvertebrates are used to assess the quality of a river”

You may have encountered some of them under stones when being curious on rivers or lakes, but did you already know that they can be used to determine the quality of the water you are looking at? With the adoption of the EU Water Framework Directive in 2000, European countries were bound to assess theContinue reading “What this bug is used for?”

I am a Spanish girl who has recently moved to Nottingham to struggle with the English weather. Apart from that, I am studying a MSc. in Environmental Leadership and Management. This site is part of a project for my Water Quality Assessment Module.