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Item type:EMFIG - EKBY Collection, Assessing the Ecological Water Level: The Case of Four Mediterranean Lakes(2020-11-02) ;O. Petriki ;D. Zervas ;C. DoulgerisD. BoboriThe ecological water regime in lake water bodies refers to the water levels that enable the fulfillment of the ecosystem’s multiple functions. Therefore, assessing the ecological water regime necessitates the consideration of hydrological, economic, social, and ecological factors. The present research is focused on the assessment of the ecological water level of four Mediterranean natural lake ecosystems, considering their morphological and biological features. Initially, suggestions on the ecological water regime of the studied lakes were made based on an analysis of the lakes’ morphometry. Further, the ecological and biological requirements of the present fish fauna and aquatic macrophytic vegetation were considered. For the latter, mapping was conducted by extensive sampling according to international standards, in order to assess macrophyte composition, abundance, and chorology, as well as species sensitivity to water level fluctuations. The above guided the proposals on the optimal water level regime that should be met by each lake regarding the macrophytic and fish communities’ sustainability, also taking into account the unique hydromorphological features of each lake. The di erences in the outcoming results revealed that hydromorphological and biological approaches should be combined for assessing lakes’ ecological water regimes - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:EMFIG - EKBY Collection, A phytosociological survey of aquatic vegetation in the main freshwater lakes of Greece(2020-05-05) ;D. Zervas ;I. Tsiripidis ;E. BergmeierV. TsiaoussiThis study aims to contribute to the knowledge of European freshwater lake ecosystems with updated and new information on aquatic plant communities, by conducting national-scale phytosociological research of freshwater lake vegetation in Greece. Moreover, it investigates the relationship between aquatic plant communities and lake environmental parameters, including eutrophication levels and hydro-morphological conditions. Study area: Lakes in Greece, SE Europe. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:EMFIG - EKBY Collection, Freshwater habitats in Greece: Crosswalks between the Habitats and Water Framework Directives. Poster presentation in 11th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences. Zagreb, June 30 – July 5, 2019(2019-07-03) ;E. HadjicharalampousV. TsiaoussiFreshwater habitats are important biodiversity features in eastern Mediterranean region. Greece hosts nine freshwater habitat types of Annex I to Habitats Directive (HD); four standing and five running waters. Almost all freshwater habitats are also found in inland surface water bodies designated by the Water Framework Directive (WFD). - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:EMFIG - EKBY Collection, HeLM: a macrophyte-based method for monitoring and assessment of Greek lakes(2018-10-29)V. Tsiaoussi - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:EMFIG - EKBY Collection, Report on the development of the national assessment method for the ecological status of natural lakes in Greece, using the Biological Quality Element “Macrophytes” (Hellenic Lake Macrophytes-HeLM assessment method)(Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre (EKBY), 2018-08-01)V. TsiaoussiThis report discusses the development of the national ecological assessment method for Greek natural lakes, based on the Biological Quality Element (BQE) “macrophytes”. Due to lack of a common natural lake type within the Mediterranean Lake Geographical intercalibration Group, there has not been a Med GIG Intercalibration Exercise for macrophytes in natural lakes. As a result, there are neither proposed assessment methods with common boundaries within the Med GIG, nor proposed metrics for the assessment of lakes based on macrophytes. It is noted that at the Mediterranean Lake Phytoplankton GIG Intercalibration Report, Member States defined two common water body types (L-M5/7 and L-M8) for reservoirs but none for natural lakes. The operation of the Greek water monitoring network started in 2012, following the publication of a Joint Ministerial Decision in 2011. The development of the current assessment method, as described in this report, is based on the data from this national water monitoring network. In particular, 50 lake water bodies (including 26 reservoirs) have been included in the monitoring network, out of which 16 have been monitored for macrophytes during the 3-year period of 2013-2015. Eight of them are warm monomictic, deep natural lakes with mean depth >9m (GR-DNL), when the other eight are polymictic, shallow natural lakes with mean depth 3-9m (GR-SNL). In these 16 lakes, a total of 272 monitoring sites were established for sampling macrophytes, which resulted in an equal number of macrophytic sampling transects, the data of which have been added in the national dataset. Thirty six of these sites were revisited during the 3-year period, and a total of 308 measurements of maximum macrophytic colonization depth were made. On this national dataset, the most suitable lake macrophyte based assessment components proposed by WISER deliverables D3.2-1 (Kolada et al., 2009), D3.2-2 (Dudley et al., 2011) and D3.2-3 (Kolada et al., 2011) were tested, in various combinations, so as to reach a final form that can be used as a national assessment method for Greece. As already mentioned, this is the first effort to establish a national method, which may need additions and improvements in the future, as well as intercalibration exercises among Member States in the Mediterranean GIG.
