Seminar / Workshop “Freshwater assessment: developing tools for classifying and evaluating rivers and lakes for conservation and management”
Novi Sad, 5-8 December, 2005
Organized by:
Seminar / Workshop Director: Dr Philip J. Boon, Scottish Natural Heritage, UK
Sponsored by:
The Seminar / Workshop aimed to present and discuss the freshwater assessment methods that have been, or are being, developed in the UK, many of them to assist with implementing the EC Water Framework Directive (WFD), to evaluate their applicability to other regions and to compare them with regionally used methods.
The Seminar was devided into 3 parts: 1) Methods for assessment of hydromorphological conditions of rivers and lakesand the process and current status of their standardisation within CEN. 2) Selected biological methods (using macroinvertebrates, macrphyta and diatoms) for assessment of ecological condition (potential) of freshwaters and 3) Methods for assessing conservation value of rivers.
The Seminar/workshop was attended by more than 50 participants from the region (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia). Plenary lectures were given by 9 invited UK and Ireland speakers, while short presentations of regionally developed methods and monitoring strategies were given by local experts from Serbia and Montenegro, Austria and Macedonia.
The material prepared for the event is a bilingual (Serbian / English) compilation of original papers, lecturers’ synopses, handouts, and translated digests of original methods presented during the 4-day seminar: RHS (River Habitat Survey), LHS (Lake Habitat Survey), RIVPACS (River InVertebrate Prediction and Classification System), STAR project (Standardization of River Classifications), SERCON (System for Evaluating Rivers for Conservation), DARES (Diatoms for Assessing River Ecological Status) and DALES (Diatoms for Assessing Lake Ecological Status).
Information: Dr Snezana Radulovic
Dr Ivana Teodorovic