This report summarises the work conducted in Work Package 4.4 – BQE fish in transitional (i.e. estuarine and lagoon) waters (TW) within the project WISER under the sponsorship of the European Commission. It omits most technical details of the analyses given in the four previous Work Package reports, but still provides the necessary information to understand the rationale, approach and underlying assumptions nec...
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims at achieving good ecological status for surface waterbodies throughout Europe, by 2015. Consequently European countries are currently developing and intercalibrating methods based on biological, hydromorphological and physicochemical quality elements for the assessment and the monitoring of their rivers, lakes, coastal and transitional waters. In this context, the FP7 WI...