Many methods for using diatoms for routine monitoring of water quality have been
developed in Europe and, in some countries, these are being used to enforce environmental …

In stream, substrata of different size present different degree ofstability, current, erosion, and
deposition to colonizingorganisms. In this study, we tested the importance of substratumsize …

Abstract The EU's Water Framework Directive requires all surface water bodies to be
classified according to their ecological status. As biological communities show both spatial …

A new distributed periphytic model has been developed and implemented in the hydro-
biological river model ProSe, which models the biogeochemical processes in rivers. The …

The selection of one or more river substrata for the collection of benthic diatoms is
fundamental to any monitoring or research programme because it can potentially bias the …

Periphytic biomass has an important influence on the water quality of many shallow streams.
The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the knowledge obtained on periphyton during the …

Benthic diatoms were sampled in two rapids, in a turbid South-Finnish river (R. Keravanjoki,
22 FTU) and a clear water river in eastern Finland (R. Vaikkojoki, 4 FTU), to evaluate the …

Biomonitoring is central to the European Union's Water Framework Directive (WFD) and to
the French water and aquatic environmental law, but most diatom indices do not separate …

Impacts of widespread release of engineered titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nTiO 2) on
freshwater phytoplankton and phytobenthic assemblages in the field, represents a …

Epilithon, epiphyton, epipelon, epipsammon and plocon diatom samples and water
chemistry samples were collected bimonthly from 11 stations along the Mesta River …