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- Title
Biological monitoring of rivers in Thailand: use and adaptation of the BMWP score.
- Authors
Mustow, S.E.
- Abstract
Focuses on the performance of the BMWP biotic score, which is based on macroinvertebrates, in accurately classifying several sites on the River Ping system in northern Thailand. Goal of the research; View that biological monitoring techniques such as the BMWP score are low-tech, rapid means of assessing water quality, and involve significantly lower financial costs than chemical monitoring techniques; How the BMWP score was capable of distinguishing between sites that were heavily impacted by organic pollution and relatively unpolluted sites, and showed some potential to identify lower levels of pollution; Modifications of the BMWP score; View that the modified procedure, named the BMWP[supTHAI] score, did not significantly alter the way in which sites were classified, but was easier to use; Findings suggest that there is strong potential for application of the modified BMWP score in Thailand and other developing countries, although some further testing is first recommended.
- Subjects
PING River (Thailand); THAILAND; BIOLOGICAL monitoring; TOXICOLOGY; WATER quality
- Publication
Hydrobiologia, 2002, Vol 479, Issue 1-3, p191
- ISSN
0018-8158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1021055926316