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Development

 
Department
System Ecotoxicology

PD Dr. Matthias Liess
Dr. Mikhail Beketov
Dr. Mira Kattwinkel

Community

If you are working with SPEAR bioindicators or publish papers related to SPEAR you can present your work on this web-page. Please contact us.
Report on Freshwater biological indicators of pesticide contamination*
 pdf, 928 KB
Report on an adaptation of the SPEAR approach for the UK*
 pdf, 864 KB
Contact
 Environment Agency
Paper on water quality indices across Europe
 JEM Articles, RSC Publishing
Dr. Peter von der Ohe
 Department of Effect-Directed Analysis (UFZ)

Adaptation of SPEARpesticides for Australian freshwaters and development of a SPEARsalinity index

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Schäfer
 University Koblenz Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Quantitative Landscape Ecology

Relations of SPEAR and other community indices with basic environmental factors in a large lowland river system: The case study in the upper Volga River

Martin Schletterer
 Innsbruck University, Institute of Ecology, River ecology and invertebrate biology

Assessment of treatment plants

Dr. Roman Ashauer
 Ecotoxicology & Models (www.ecotoxmodels.org)
*) Note: Both reports are also available as pdf or hardcopy from the Environment Agency's publication catalogue at http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/