Is there a need for a more explicit accounting of invasive alien species under the Water Framework Directive?
Through ratification of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), EU Member States committed themselves to a pressure-based assessment ofthe ecological status of their water bodies. Invasive alien species (IAS) constitute a major pressure in many aquatic ecosystems, yet are notexplicitly accounted for by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC)
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Management of Biological Invasions |
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| Online Access: | http://www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2013/1/MBI_2013_1_Vandekerkhove_etal.pdf |