Description
Design of monitoring systems, determination of metrics and assessment of the environmental status of water bodies in accordance with the Water Framework Directive, assessment of pressures and impacts, and proposals for management and restoration measures.
Type
Service
Fields of application
- Ecological and water quality
- Functioning of aquatic ecosystems
- Ecological management and restoration of aquatic ecosystems
- Monitoring of the conservation status of aquatic ecosystems
- Monitoring and assessment of the environmental and conservation status according to European Directives
- Analysis of pressures and impacts on aquatic ecosystems, and their sensitivity
- Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology
- Metabarcoding and genomic functionality of aquatic populations and communities for assessment and management applications
- Restoration of aquatic ecosystems
- Climate adaptation and mitigation
- Water purification and renaturalisation
- Bioremediation
- Toxicological analysis and environmental toxicology
- Assessment of ecosystem services
- Ecological water quality
- Measures for the conservation and restoration of species and ecosystems
- Biotechnology
- Conservation
- Application for the study of the environmental status of inland waters
- Water Framework Directive (WFD)
- Environmental status of inland water bodies: Through the presence and quantification of certain species and functional groups, estimate the properties of water, its environmental quality and ecological status
Resources
- Molecular taxonomy and functional microbial ecology
- Microscopy
- Hydrochemistry
- Live macrophyte cultures
- Large culture chamber
- Flow cytometry
- Spectrofluorimetry
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Phytoplankton and zooplankton samples and cultures
- DNA and RNA molecular analysis and bioinformatics
- Measurement of carbonate greenhouse gas fluxes
Contact
Burjassot/Paterna Campus
C/ Doctor Moliner, 50
46100 Burjassot (Valencia)
