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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

Dr. Ralf B. Schäfer
 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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
*) Note: Both reports are also available as pdf or hardcopy from the Environment Agency's publication catalogue at http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/