“A Fish-Based Tool for the Quality Assessment of Portuguese Large Rivers” is the new paper published by a PhD student from the ForProtect group.
The paper “A Fish-Based Tool for the Quality Assessment of Portuguese Large Rivers” was published in the journal Fishes, with first author António Tovar Faro, a PhD student from the ForProtect group (Centro de Estudos Florestais – CEF), and co-authored by researchers Maria Teresa Ferreira (CEF) and João Manuel Oliveira (cE3c).
The article presents a new tool for assessing the ecological quality of large rivers in Portugal based on fish communities, contributing new knowledge to improve efforts to manage and conserve large rivers in accordance with the European Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) requirements.
Data were collected from seven sites in each of three Portuguese large rivers (Minho, Guadiana, and Tagus). Each site was classified using an environmental disturbance score, combining different pressure types, such as water chemistry, land use, and hydromorphological alterations.
The paper is available online and can be read here.