Providing an assessment of biological water monitoring, this book includes how-to-do chapters that help practitioners. It also provides a survey of methods uses inside and outside the EU.

Biological monitoring of running waters is a scientifically and economically valid approach for surveys and monitoring programmes to assess the water quality. "Biological Monitoring of Rivers" is a timely, up-to-date book that includes a good number of practical how-to-do chapters. It provides an up-to-date assessment of biological water monitoring. It includes practical how-to-do chapters help the practitioner. It provides a broad survey of methods uses inside and outside the EU. It gives perspectives for future applications.

Contributors.Series Preface.Preface.Floodplains in River Ecosystems.Instream and Bankside Habitat in Rivers.Main features of Watercourses Hydrodynamics. * Riverine Fish Assemblages in Temperate Rivers.* Aquatic Macroinvertebrates.* Macrophytes and Algae in running waters.
* River Monitoring and Assessment methods based on Macroinvertebrates.* Monitoring methods based on Fish.* Monitoring methods based on Algae and Macrophytes.* Organization of Biological Monitoring in the EU.* Biomonitoring in North American Rivers.* Biological Monitoring of Rivers and European Water Legislation.* Ecotoxicological Experiments in River Pollution Assessment.
* Monitoring of Alpine Rivers.* Biological Monitoring of North European Rivers.* Biological Monitoring of Mediterranean Rivers with special reference to Greece.* Biological Monitoring of Running Waters in Eastern and Central European Countries.* Key Features of Bioassessment Development in the United States of America.
* Monitoring Experiences from Down Under - the importance of deciding a priori what constitutes a significant environmental change.* The predictive modelling approach to biomonitoring:* Taking river quality assessment forward.
* A new approach to evaluating fluvial functioning (FFI) towards a landscape ecology.* Planning to integrate urban and ecological processes: A case involving Fluvial Functionality.* Beyond Biological Monitoring: An Integrated Approach.