Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods
This report gives a technical description on the intercalibration (IC) process of the different benthic assessment approaches for soft sediment habitats (muds to sands) in transitional waters in the North East Atlantic Geographical Intercalibration Group (NEA-GIG) for type NEA 11 (Transitional Water...
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ftjrc:oai:publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu:JRC115479 2023-05-15T17:38:17+02:00 Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods MUXIKA Iñigo VAN HOEY G BONNE Wendy SALAS HERRERO Maria Fuensanta 2019 Online https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC115479 https://doi.org/10.2760/784291 ENG eng Publications Office of the European Union JRC115479 2019 ftjrc https://doi.org/10.2760/784291 2022-05-01T08:20:39Z This report gives a technical description on the intercalibration (IC) process of the different benthic assessment approaches for soft sediment habitats (muds to sands) in transitional waters in the North East Atlantic Geographical Intercalibration Group (NEA-GIG) for type NEA 11 (Transitional Waters). Eight member states are involved: Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE), Ireland (RoI), the Netherlands (NL), Portugal (PT), Spain (SP), and United Kingdom (UK). In Spain, the competent authorities for the WFD application are the regions, as such, for the benthic macroinvertebrates assessment methods three regions have been considered: Andalusia (SP-An), Basque Country (SP-BC) and Cantabria (SP-C). Those member states proposed 7 approaches for IC: AeTV (DE), BAT (PT), BEQI (BE), BEQI2 (NL), IQI (RoI and UK), M-AMBI (DE and SP-BC), QSB (SP-C) and TAsBeM (SP-An). However, AeTV and BEQI are not intercalibrated as they assess benthic invertebrates at water body and ecosystem level, respectively, whereas the rest of methods assess the benthic status at sample level. JRC.D.2 - Water and Marine Resources Other/Unknown Material North East Atlantic Joint Research Centre, European Commission: JRC Publications Repository |
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This report gives a technical description on the intercalibration (IC) process of the different benthic assessment approaches for soft sediment habitats (muds to sands) in transitional waters in the North East Atlantic Geographical Intercalibration Group (NEA-GIG) for type NEA 11 (Transitional Waters). Eight member states are involved: Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE), Ireland (RoI), the Netherlands (NL), Portugal (PT), Spain (SP), and United Kingdom (UK). In Spain, the competent authorities for the WFD application are the regions, as such, for the benthic macroinvertebrates assessment methods three regions have been considered: Andalusia (SP-An), Basque Country (SP-BC) and Cantabria (SP-C). Those member states proposed 7 approaches for IC: AeTV (DE), BAT (PT), BEQI (BE), BEQI2 (NL), IQI (RoI and UK), M-AMBI (DE and SP-BC), QSB (SP-C) and TAsBeM (SP-An). However, AeTV and BEQI are not intercalibrated as they assess benthic invertebrates at water body and ecosystem level, respectively, whereas the rest of methods assess the benthic status at sample level. JRC.D.2 - Water and Marine Resources |
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MUXIKA Iñigo VAN HOEY G BONNE Wendy SALAS HERRERO Maria Fuensanta |
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MUXIKA Iñigo VAN HOEY G BONNE Wendy SALAS HERRERO Maria Fuensanta Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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MUXIKA Iñigo VAN HOEY G BONNE Wendy SALAS HERRERO Maria Fuensanta |
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Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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Transitional waters North East Atlantic geographic intercalibration group: Benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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transitional waters north east atlantic geographic intercalibration group: benthic invertebrate fauna ecological assessment methods |
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