Abstract
Zooplankton species have high sensibility to environmental changes and impacts, leading to shifts in composition and diversity of the communities and associated to increase of biodiversity, with a high potential to endemism. With the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), there was the ecological status classification of surface waters based on the assessment of series of biological quality elements (BQE) and supported by a set of chemical and hydro morphological quality data. Despite zooplankton have being considered a key component in pelagic food web, with a significant biological indicator of water quality, this group was not included at the first moment for the WFD evaluation.
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Mini ReviewDepartamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil Submission: November 29, 2019; Published: January 06, 2020 Corresponding author: Claudia Padovesi-Fonseca, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília Group of Limnological Studies (NEL), Brazil
The use of biological communities on ecosystems classification as well on monitoring program can intend to access their ecological assessment
With the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), there was the ecological status classification of surface waters based on the assessment of series of biological quality elements (BQE) and supported by a set of chemical and hydro morphological quality data
Summary
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil Submission: November 29, 2019; Published: January 06, 2020 Corresponding author: Claudia Padovesi-Fonseca, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília Group of Limnological Studies (NEL), Brazil
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