Integrated river assessment by coupling water quality and ecological assessment models
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- Ine Pauwels (UGent) , Gert Everaert (UGent) and Peter Goethals (UGent)
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- Abstract
- The European Water Framework Directive has a high impact on current water management in Belgium. Several restoration scenarios have been worked out by the government. To compare the effect of these scenarios, a combination of a water quality (PEGASE) and ecological assessment models (data driven models based on regression trees) has been developed and applied for the major part of the large river systems in Flanders (Belgium). The simulation results illustrate that the currently foreseen investments in water quality improvement will lead to drastic improvements of the ecological water quality, but are not enough to meet the target status in most of the streams in Flanders. Moreover, more data are needed to improve the quality of the ecological assessment models, in particular from stream systems characterised by a high ecological quality.
- Keywords
- ecological assessment models, restoration scenario’s, macroinvertebrates, water quality assessment models, regression trees
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1020952
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- Pauwels, Ine, et al. “Integrated River Assessment by Coupling Water Quality and Ecological Assessment Models.” Modelling for Environment’s Sake : Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, edited by David A Swayne et al., vol. 1, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2010, pp. 876–84.
- APA
- Pauwels, I., Everaert, G., & Goethals, P. (2010). Integrated river assessment by coupling water quality and ecological assessment models. In D. A. Swayne, W. Yang, A. A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, & T. Filatova (Eds.), Modelling for environment’s sake : proceedings of the fifth biennial conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (Vol. 1, pp. 876–884). International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs).
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- Pauwels, Ine, Gert Everaert, and Peter Goethals. 2010. “Integrated River Assessment by Coupling Water Quality and Ecological Assessment Models.” In Modelling for Environment’s Sake : Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, edited by David A Swayne, Wanhong Yang, Alexey A Voinov, Andrea Rizzoli, and Tatiana Filatova, 1:876–84. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs).
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Pauwels, Ine, Gert Everaert, and Peter Goethals. 2010. “Integrated River Assessment by Coupling Water Quality and Ecological Assessment Models.” In Modelling for Environment’s Sake : Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, ed by. David A Swayne, Wanhong Yang, Alexey A Voinov, Andrea Rizzoli, and Tatiana Filatova, 1:876–884. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs).
- Vancouver
- 1.Pauwels I, Everaert G, Goethals P. Integrated river assessment by coupling water quality and ecological assessment models. In: Swayne DA, Yang W, Voinov AA, Rizzoli A, Filatova T, editors. Modelling for environment’s sake : proceedings of the fifth biennial conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs); 2010. p. 876–84.
- IEEE
- [1]I. Pauwels, G. Everaert, and P. Goethals, “Integrated river assessment by coupling water quality and ecological assessment models,” in Modelling for environment’s sake : proceedings of the fifth biennial conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2010, vol. 1, pp. 876–884.
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