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Australian and New Zealand guidelines for fresh and marine water quality: Volume 2 - Aquatic ecosystems - rationale and background information

Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council,
Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand, October 2000

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Introduction

In this section, some elaboration upon the desired and essential attributes of generalised indicator types (Section 8.1.1) and the merits and potential of different taxonomic and functional groups for monitoring (Section 8.1.2) are provided. This is followed by a list of indicators and methods recommended for assessment of water quality in aquatic ecosystems of Australia and New Zealand (Section 8.1.3).

Though not an exhaustive review of the state of knowledge of biological indicators in Australia and New Zealand, the material presented in this section is deemed sufficient to substantiate and justify the approaches described in Section 3.2.2 (Volume 1) for biological assessment of water quality. Much of the terminology for classes of indicator used in this section has been defined in Section 3.2.2 and hence the two sections should not be read in isolation of one another.

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