Results

WISER will produce a wide range of products, including new assessment methodologies, databases, models and software.

Key results will be new methods for assessing lakes and coastal/transitional waters using phytoplankton, macrophytes, invertebrates and fish, and an intercalibration with existing methods. These results will support the implementation of European directives in the field of environmental protection, in particular the Water Framework DirectiveDirective 2000/60/EC to establish a framework for water policy and management in Europe.

A generally applicable software tool for estimating uncertainly in bioassessment will be generated. WISER will identify measures of restorationActivity to improve the status of degraded waters, be it waste water treatment or structural improvements and will predict the recovery of aquatic flora and fauna.

The results will provide water managers with knowledge and tools to develop and refine river basin management plansOutlines restoration goals to be achieved and the measures required.

As a first result of the WISER project a Taxa Entry Tool (TET) was developed and implemented in Freshwaterecology.info, which is the online database for freshwater organisms in Europe.
The TET serves to create standardised taxalists according to the freshwaterecology.info taxonomy. It is available for fish, macro-invertebrates, macrophytes, diatoms and phytoplankton.