The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: a critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

D Hering, A Borja, J Carstensen, L Carvalho… - Science of the total …, 2010 - Elsevier
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which was adopted in 2000, changed
water management in all member states of the European Union fundamentally, putting …

[HTML][HTML] Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research

D Schmera, J Heino, J Podani, T Erős, S Dolédec - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
Although several studies have examined the functional diversity of freshwater
macroinvertebrates, the variety of methodologies combined with the absence of a synthetic …

www. freshwaterecology. info–an online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological …

A Schmidt-Kloiber, D Hering - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Species' ecological preferences are progressively important for understanding distribution
patterns, for conserving biodiversity or for assessing and evaluating the status of freshwater …

Assessment of European streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish: a comparative metric‐based analysis of organism response to stress

D Hering, RK Johnson, S Kramm, S Schmutz… - Freshwater …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Periphytic diatoms, macrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates and fish were sampled with
standard methods in 185 streams in nine European countries to compare their response to …

A process for creating multimetric indices for large-scale aquatic surveys

JL Stoddard, AT Herlihy, DV Peck… - Journal of the North …, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
Differences in sampling and laboratory protocols, differences in techniques used to evaluate
metrics, and differing scales of calibration and application prohibit the use of many existing …

Cook book for the development of a Multimetric Index for biological condition of aquatic ecosystems: experiences from the European AQEM and STAR projects and …

D Hering, CK Feld, O Moog, T Ofenböck - The ecological status of …, 2006 - Springer
The requirements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), aimed at an
integrative assessment methodology for evaluating the ecological status of water bodies are …

From natural to degraded rivers and back again: a test of restoration ecology theory and practice

CK Feld, S Birk, DC Bradley, D Hering, J Kail… - Advances in ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Extensive degradation of ecosystems, combined with the increasing demands placed on the
goods and services they provide, is a major driver of biodiversity loss on a global scale. In …

[HTML][HTML] Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index Flanders (MMIF) for biological assessment of rivers and lakes in Flanders (Belgium)

W Gabriels, K Lock, N De Pauw… - Limnologica-Ecology and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The European Water Framework Directive requires that member states assess all their
surface waters based on a number of biological elements, including macroinvertebrates …

Prospects for monitoring freshwater ecosystems towards the 2010 targets

C Revenga, I Campbell, R Abell… - … Transactions of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human activities have severely affected the condition of freshwater ecosystems worldwide.
Physical alteration, habitat loss, water withdrawal, pollution, overexploitation and the …

[HTML][HTML] Physical habitat in conterminous US streams and rivers, Part 1: Geoclimatic controls and anthropogenic alteration

PR Kaufmann, RM Hughes, SG Paulsen, DV Peck… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic alteration of physical habitat structure in streams and rivers is increasingly
recognized as a major cause of impairment worldwide. As part of their assessment of the …