An introduction to RIVPACS
RIVPACS (River InVertebrate Prediction And Classification System) is a software package developed by the Institute of Freshwater Ecology (IFE). The primary application is to assess the biological quality of rivers within the UK. RIVPACS offers site-specific predictions of the macroinvertebrate fauna to be expected in the absence of major environmental stress. The expected fauna is derived by RIVPACS using a small suite of environmental characteristics. The biological evaluation is then obtained by comparing the fauna observed at the site with the expected fauna. RIVPACS also includes a site classification based on the macroinvertebrate fauna of the component reference sites. New sites, judged by their fauna to be of high biological quality, may be allocated to classification groups within the fixed RIVPACS classification. This has potential for evaluating sites for conservation. In this chapter, the origins and history of the RIVPACS approach are described, including major scientific and operational developments over the life of the project. RIVPACS III is described in detail and predictions at different taxonomic levels are demonstrated. The value of the reference dataset for river management and conservation is examined, and the chapter concludes with a brief consideration of some future challenges.
Main Author: | Wright, J.F. |
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Format: | book_section biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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Freshwater Biological Association
2000
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Subjects: | Conservation, Ecology, Limnology, Oocytes, Protozoan diseases, Parasites, Life cycle, Disease transmission, Methodology, Antibodies, Fluorescence microscopy, Luminescence, Protists, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22844 |
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