This Milestone 3.3 report for DiSSCo Prepare Work Package 3 Task 3.1 is intended to update and be read alongside the Milestone 3.1 report ‘Improving Digital Capability - Case Studies and Analysis’ (Hardy et al, Dec 2020). It builds on the previous report by addressing additional case study examples of competency frameworks; carrying out further work to examine public sources of competency data about individuals...
This Deliverable report summarises the key insights and recommendations from DiSSCo Prepare Task 3.1, which looked at digital skills, competencies and capabilities across individuals and organisations, as part of the wider Work Package on capacity enhancement. This task looked at insights from previous DiSSCo linked projects; a wide range of competency framework examples; sources of data about individual and or...
Aquatic biomonitoring has become an essential task in Europe and many other regions as a consequence of strong anthropogenic pressures affecting the health of lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater. A typical assessment of the environmental quality status, such as it is required by European but also North American and other legislation, relies on matching the composition of assemblages of organisms identified us...
The protection, preservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems and their functions are of global importance. For European states it became legally binding mainly through the EUWater Framework Directive (WFD). In order to assess the ecological status of a given water body, aquatic biodiversity data are obtained and compared to a reference water body. The quantified mismatch obtained determines the extent of ...