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IN THIS ISSUE A WINDOW ON THE FUTURE? Cite as follows: Bruce Osborne 2011 In this issue. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111B (1), iii–v; DOI: 10.3318/ BIOE.2011.iii. SURROGATE RISK INDICATORS FOR TURLOUGHS Under the Water Framework Directive all water bodies, including the ephemeral water bodies called turloughs, are subject to a risk assessment that includes the monitoring of their trophic and hydrological status. Turloughs, as many of our readers and contributors recognise, are important hot spots of biodiversity and a particular feature of the Irish landscape. The risks to turlough existence are manyfold, but altered hydrology and eutrophication are often key factors. But how best can we monitor these unique landscape features to ensure their continued existence? Ideally actual measurements of key environmental and biotic factors would be used, but these would be logistically difficult to implement, time-consuming and costly, so that the use of indirect or surrogate methods have considerable appeal. Of the more formalised indirect indicators of environmental conditions is that developed by Ellenberg (Ellenberg indicators or indices). Although developed specifically for Central European vegetation it has seen wide use throughout Europe often with some ‘tweaking’ for improving its predictive power under different circumstances. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy

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Royal Irish Academy
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A WINDOW ON THE FUTURE? Cite as follows: Bruce Osborne 2011 In this issue. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111B (1), iii–v; DOI: 10.3318/ BIOE.2011.iii. SURROGATE RISK INDICATORS FOR TURLOUGHS Under the Water Framework Directive all water bodies, including the ephemeral water bodies called turloughs, are subject to a risk assessment that includes the monitoring of their trophic and hydrological status. Turloughs, as many of our readers and contributors recognise, are important hot spots of biodiversity and a particular feature of the Irish landscape. The risks to turlough existence are manyfold, but altered hydrology and eutrophication are often key factors. But how best can we monitor these unique landscape features to ensure their continued existence? Ideally actual measurements of key environmental and biotic factors would be used, but these would be logistically difficult to implement, time-consuming and costly, so that the use of indirect or surrogate methods have considerable appeal. Of the more formalised indirect indicators of environmental conditions is that developed by Ellenberg (Ellenberg indicators or indices). Although developed specifically for Central European vegetation it has seen wide use throughout Europe often with some ‘tweaking’ for improving its predictive power under different circumstances.

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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