Lake ecological assessment systems and intercalibration for the European Water Framework Directive: Aims, achievements and further challenges

Poikāne, Sandra; Berg, Marcel van den; Hellsten, Seppo; Hoyos, Caridad de; Ortiz-Casas, José; Pall, Karin; Portielje, R.; Phillips, Geoff; Solheim, Anne Lyche; Tierney, Deirdre; Wolfram, Georg; Bund, Wouter van de

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2011.11.024

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“…We then compare six metrics assessed in the EC WISER project, focusing particularly on metrics for phytoplankton composition and blooms. Metrics for phytoplankton biomass are relatively standardised using chlorophyll a or total biovolume (Poikane et al, 2011) and reference conditions and status class boundaries had already been widely agreed for chlorophyll for European lakes (e.g. Carvalho et al,2008;Poikane et al, 2010;Wolfram et al, 2009).…”

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“…Carvalho et al,2008;Poikane et al, 2010;Wolfram et al, 2009). The other two features, outlined in the next sections, required further specific developments for the WFD, as highlighted in Birk et al (2012) & Poikane et al (2011). Here we summarise the strength of all these metrics in relation to eutrophication pressure and sources of uncertainty based on analysis of temporal and spatial variability in metric scores.…”

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Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

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Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. AbstractPhytoplankton constitute a diverse array of short-lived organisms which derive their nutrients from the water column of lakes. These features make this community the most direct and earliest indicator of the impacts of changing nutrient conditions on lake ecosystems. It also makes them particularly suitable for measuring the success of restoration measures following reductions in nutrient loads. This paper integrates a large volume of work on a number of measures, or metrics, developed for using phytoplankton to assess the ecological status of European lakes, as required for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). It assesses the indicator strength of these metrics, specifically in relation to representing the impacts of eutrophication. It also examines how these measures vary naturally at different locations within a lake, as well as between lakes, and how much variability is associated with different replicate samples, different months within a year and between years. On the basis of this analysis, three of the strongest metrics (chlorophyll-a, Phytoplankton Trophic Index (PTI) & cyanobacterial biovolume) are recommended for use as robust measures for assessing the ecological quality of lakes in relation to nutrient enrichment pressures and a minimum recommended sampling frequency is provided for these three metrics.

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Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

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“…The first Lake Intercalibration exercise coordinated by the EU was aimed at ensuring that, within the same ecoregion and within the same type of waterbody, good ecological status (as defined in the WFD, OJEU 2000) represents the same level of ecological quality across Europe (EC 2009, Poikane et al 2011). This exercise included 2 types of metrics for phytoplankton: biomass metrics and composition metrics.…”

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Phytoplankton and suitability of derived metrics for assessing the ecological status in a limno-reservoir, a Water Framework Directive nondefined type of Mediterranean waterbody

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“…The biological communities and/or biomarkers are able to reflect the real-time quality of the system under consideration, but also to integrate in time the perturbations exerted on ecosystems. In this context, the possibility of building an integrated and intercalibrated view of the ecosystem represents an important innovation in the field of the environmental monitoring (Poikane et al, 2011).…”

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Aquatic biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future

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This special issue stems from an increasing awareness on the key contribution made by biometrics and biological indices in the quality classification of aquatic ecosystems. This theme has been the subject of passionate debate during the 13 th European Ecological Federation (EEF) and 25 th Italian Society of Ecology's (S.It.E.) joined congresses held in Rome in September 2015. In this frame, on the margins of the special symposium named "Biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future", it was launched the idea of a special issue of the Journal of Limnology on the "aquatic" contributions presented at the conference. The present volume mainly reports these studies, enriched by few invited papers. Among the other things, the main message is the need of a better integration between sector knowledges and legislative instruments. This is even truer given the on-going climate change, and the necessity to record rapid changes in ecosystems and to elaborate effective/adaptive responses to them.

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Lake ecological assessment systems and intercalibration for the European Water Framework Directive: Aims, achievements and further challenges

Cited by 44 publications

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Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

Phytoplankton and suitability of derived metrics for assessing the ecological status in a limno-reservoir, a Water Framework Directive nondefined type of Mediterranean waterbody

Aquatic biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future

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