Use of Algae in Ecological Assessments

Quality assurance of diatom counts in Europe: towards harmonized datasets

“…Diatoms are increasingly used for freshwater environmental assessment world-wide (Stevenson et al, 2010 ;Stevenson & Smol, 2015 ). Thus, a lot of information is gathered that could be used for new studies of diatom ecological traits, diatom biodiversity patterns and diatom biogeography.…”