Biological monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Italy

Submitted: 9 December 2011
Accepted: 9 December 2011
Published: 1 September 2001
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In Italy, Ecotoxicology has found a place with the Legislative Decree n. 152 (May 11, 1999), emanated in fulfilment of the Directives 91/271/CEE "urban waste-water treatment" and 91/676/CEE "protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources". This decree in reality goes beyond (actually anticipating the content of the Framework Directive on Water, still under way of elaboration), and charges the Regions with the duty to identify, for all and each water body, the class of quality on the basis of a chemical and biological monitoring and their classification according to the environmental quality objectives. To this aim, for all water bodies (lakes, rivers, groundwater, coastal waters) the ecological, chemical, and environmental status must be assessed by measuring specific parameters. This paper briefly summarises the role of biological monitoring in the classification of waters in five different categories, ranking from High to Foul Environmental status.

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BAUDO, Renato. 2001. “Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems in Italy”. Journal of Limnology 60 (s1):49-52. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2001.s1.49.

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