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Analysis of 13,312 benthic invertebrate samples from German streams reveals minor deviations in ecological status class between abundance and presence/absence data

Benthic invertebrates are the most commonly used organisms used to assess ecological status as required by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). For WFD-compliant assessments, benthic invertebrate communities are sampled, identified and counted. Taxa × abundance matrices are used to calculate indi...

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Autores principales: Buchner, Dominik, Beermann, Arne J., Laini, Alex, Rolauffs, Peter, Vitecek, Simon, Hering, Daniel, Leese, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6927632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31869356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226547