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Fame: The development of a fish-based assessment method for the ecological status of European rivers – a tool to support the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: Final project summary
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document --> technical publication --> report
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EU Projects
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2005 |
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FAME Consortium (2005) Fame: The development of a fish-based assessment method for the ecological status of European rivers – a tool to support the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: Final project summary.
First author: Fame Consortium
Year: 2005
Title: Fame: The development of a fish-based assessment method for the ecological status of European rivers – a tool to support the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: Final project summary
Source details: http://www.boku.ac.at/fame/downloads/FAME_FinalSummary_Feb2005.pdf
Publisher name: Fame Consortium
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FAME Consortium
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EC Project
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PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater processes-->Ecotoxicology
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Long description: |
In the EC-funded FAME-project1, two methodological approaches to develop fish-based
methods for assessing the ecological status of European rivers were tested. The site-specific
approach yielded the European Fish Index (EFI), which enables ecological status
assessment on a European scale. The spatially-based approach aimed at developing typespecific
methods on both the ecoregional and the European scale.
Method evaluation based on practical field testing and statistical comparison of the accuracy
of the FAME methods and existing regional methods demonstrated that the European Fish
Index is as precise as other methods. Moreover, the EFI allows assessment of European
rivers with a single, standardized method, thus preventing intercalibration between different
river types and/or river basins. The EFI was therefore selected as the final FAME
assessment method.
By developing a fish-based assessment method to assess the ecological status of rivers,
FAME contributed to implementing the ecological targets of the European Water Framework
Directive.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 20/07/2009
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