Manual for the Application of the Aqem System
THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR THE ECOLOGICAL QUALITY OF STREAMS AND RIVERS THROUGHOUT EUROPE USING BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES. MANUAL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE AQEM SYSTEM A COMPREHENSIVE METHOD TO ASSESS EUROPEAN STREAMS USING BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES, DEVELOPED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE VERSION 1.0, FEBRUARY 2002 DEVELOPED AND WRITTEN BY THE AQEM CONSORTIUM AQEM was a project under the 5th Framework Programme Energy, Environment and Sustain- able Development; Key Action 1: Sustainable Management and Quality of Water Contract No: EVK1-CT1999-00027 www.aqem.de MANUAL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE AQEM SYSTEM I Contributors The AQEM1 system was developed by the following research groups: • No. 1 (project co-ordinator): University of Essen, Institute of Ecology, Department of Hydrobiology (Germany) • No. 2: BOKU – University of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Water Provision, Water Ecology and Waste Management, Department of Hydrobiology, Vienna (Austria) • No. 3: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet), De- partment of Environmental Assessment, Uppsala (Sweden) • No. 4: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology & Ecology, Divi- sion of Hydrobiology, Brno (Czech Republic) • No. 5: National Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Inland Waters, Athens (Greece) • No. 6: National Research Council, Water Research Institute (Istituto di Ricerca sulle Ac- que, IRSA – CNR), Department of Hydrobiology applied to Water Pollution, Brugherio MI (Italy) • No. 7: University of Évora, Centre of Applied Ecology, Water Laboratory, Évora (Portu- gal) • No. 8: ALTERRA Green World Research, Team of Freshwater Ecology, Wageningen (The Netherlands) • No. 9: Working Group of the Federal States on Water Problems (Länderarbeitsgemein- schaft Wasser, LAWA AGO) (Germany) • No.
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