TY - T1 - A hitchhiker's guide to European lake ecological assessment and intercalibration SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/203744 T3 - A1 - Poikane, Sandra; Birk, Sebastian; Boehmer, Juergen; Carvalho, Laurence; de Hoyos, Caridad; Gassner, Hubert; Hellsten, Seppo; Kelly, Martyn; Solheim, Anne Lyche; Olin, Mikko; Pall, Karin; Phillips, Geoff; Portielje, Rob; Ritterbusch, David; Sandin, Leonard; Schartau, Ann-Kristin; Solimini, Angelo G.; van den Berg, Marcel; Wolfram, Georg; van de Bund, Wouter A2 - PB - Y1 - 2015 LA - eng AB - The Water Framework Directive is the first international legislation to require European countries to establish comparable ecological assessment schemes for their freshwaters. A key element in harmonising quality classification within and between Europe's river basins is an "Intercalibration" exercise, stipulated by the WFD, to ensure that the good status boundaries in all of the biological assessment methods correspond to similar levels of anthropogenic pressure. In this article, we provide a c... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Benthic invertebrates; Ecological assessment; Europe; Fish fauna; Lakes; Macrophytes; Phytoplankton; Water Framework Directive; WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; FISH ASSEMBLAGES; EUTROPHIC LAKES; CHLOROPHYLL-A; PHYTOPLANKTON; INDEX; MACROPHYTES; INDICATORS; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology N1 - PP - ER -