Rippey, Brian and Doe, Shelley and Girvin, Joanna and Hale, Peter and McElarney, Yvonne and Neale, Martin and Preston, Jane (2001) A preliminary classification of lake types in Northern Ireland. Freshwater Forum, 16, pp. 39-64.
(The document's language is
- Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat
Download (88Kb) | Preview
The EC Water Framework Directive (WFD) introduces the concept of the ecological status of surface waters. The WFD requires that water bodies within an ecoregion are divided into waterbody "types" or "ecotypes". The waterbody type is determined by physico-chemical descriptors. A group of representatives from two government environmental agencies (Environment and Heritage Service and the Industrial Research and Technology Unit) and the two universities (Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster) in Northern Ireland, has been established to develop methods for measuring the ecological status of lakes, for the purposes of the WFD. The work here is that contributing to the first objective classification into waterbody types.
|Title:||A preliminary classification of lake types in Northern Ireland|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Freshwater Forum|
|Page Range:||pp. 39-64|
|Issuing Agency:||Freshwater Biological Association|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Alkalinity; Catchment area; Classification; Geology; Height; Hydrographic surveys; Lakes; Water policy; Northern Ireland|
|Depositing User:||Hardy B Schwamm|
|Date Deposited:||02 Dec 2010 18:09|
|Last Modified:||29 Sep 2011 16:08|
Actions (login required)