Diatoms in water quality assessment: to count or not to count them?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14410/17:00096797 RIV/00020711:_____/17:00004616
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3123-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3123-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3123-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10750-017-3123-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Diatoms in water quality assessment: to count or not to count them?
Original language description
Two methods of quantifying diatoms for the purposes of ecological evaluation of rivers were compared: (i) by counting valves, and (ii) by simple assignment of individual species to a sevenpoint scale according to their coverage on a glass slide. Saprobity-trophic indices based on coverage classes achieved higher correlation with the fundamental water chemistry parameters than did indices based on diatom valve counts.The results support the assumption that the main cause of the poorer predictive value for the index based on diatom valve counts is that the abundant taxa are attributed too much importance in the final assessment of the environment quality. Using degrees of coverage for the quantification of diatoms in evaluating the ecological status thus appears to be preferable (or at least sufficient) for the ecological assessment of rivers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10617 - Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hydrobiologia
ISSN
0018-8158
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
795
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
113-127
UT code for WoS article
000401917000008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85013444376