Biological Monitoring of Rivers

Contributors.
Series Preface.
Preface.
Floodplains in River Ecosystems.
Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers.
Main features of Watercourses Hydrodynamics.
* Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers.
* Aquatic Macroinvertebrates.
* Macrophytes and Algae in running waters.
* River Monitoring and Assessment methods based onMacroinvertebrates.
* Monitoring methods based on Fish.
* Monitoring methods based on Algae and Macrophytes.
* Organization of Biological Monitoring in the EU.
* Biomonitoring in North American Rivers.
* Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European WaterLegislation.
* Ecotoxicological Experiments in River PollutionAssessment.
* Monitoring of Alpine Rivers.
* Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers.
* Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with specialreference to Greece.
* Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and CentralEuropean Countries.
* Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United Statesof America.
* Monitoring Experiences from Down Under - the importanceof deciding a priori what constitutes a significantenvironmental change.
* The predictive modelling approach to biomonitoring:
* Taking river quality assessment forward.
* A new approach to evaluating fluvial functioning (FFI) towardsa landscape ecology.
* Planning to integrate urban and ecological processes: A caseinvolving Fluvial Functionality.
* Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach.