1. Directive Cadre Européenne sur l'Eau Rapport technique d'intercalibration : méthodes d'évaluation de l'état écologique des lacs méditerranéens par le phytoplancton
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De Hoyos, C., Catalan, J., Dörflinger, G., Ferreira, Joël, Kemitzoglou, D., Laplace-Treyture, Christophe, Pahissa López, J., Marchetto, Aldo, Mihail, O., Morabito, G., Polykarpou, P., Romão, F., Tsiaoussi, V., Poikane, Sandra, CENTRE FOR HYDROGRAPHIC STUDIES MADRID ESP, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF BLANES ESP, WATER DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CYPRUS CYP, PORTUGUESE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY PRT, THE GOULANDRIS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM EKBY THESSALONIKI GRC, Ecosystèmes aquatiques et changements globaux (UR EABX), Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY THESSALONIKI GRC, ISTITUTO PER LO STUDIO DEGLI ECOSISTEMI CNR PALLANZA ITA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FRO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ICIM BUCHAREST ROM, and JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE ISPRA ITA
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[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,COMPARAISON DE METRIQUE ,MEDITERRANEE - Abstract
One of the key actions identified by the Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC) is to develop ecological assessment tools and carry out a European intercalibration (IC) exercise. The aim of the Intercalibration is to ensure that the values assigned by each Member State to the good ecological class boundaries are consistent with the Directive’s generic description of these boundaries and comparable to the boundaries proposed by other MS. In total, 83 lake assessment methods were submitted for the 2nd phase of the WFD intercalibration (2008-2012) and 62 intercalibrated and included in the EC Decision on Intercalibration (EC 2013). The intercalibration was carried out in the 13 Lake Geographical Intercalibration Groups according to the ecoregion and biological quality element. In this report we describe how the intercalibration exercise has been carried out in the Mediterranean Lake Phytoplankton group.
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- 2014