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Potential Use of Zooplankton as Ecological Quality Indicator According to Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Central Brazilian Reservoir

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  • Claudia Padovesi-Fonseca

    (Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

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Zooplankton species have high sensibility to environmental changes and impacts, leading to shifts in composition and diversity of the communities and associated to increase of biodiversity, with a high potential to endemism. With the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), there was the ecological status classification of surface waters based on the assessment of series of biological quality elements (BQE) and supported by a set of chemical and hydro morphological quality data. Despite zooplankton have being considered a key component in pelagic food web, with a significant biological indicator of water quality, this group was not included at the first moment for the WFD evaluation.

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  • Claudia Padovesi-Fonseca, 2020. "Potential Use of Zooplankton as Ecological Quality Indicator According to Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Central Brazilian Reservoir," Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 11(3), pages 49-52, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:adp:jofoaj:v:11:y:2020:i:3:p:49-52
    DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2020.11.555814
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