Research and analysis

Assessing river nutrients using diatom DNA: further development of an operational method

This project has improved a DNA based method to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities in rivers.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
18 February 2020

Documents

Assessing river nutrients using diatom DNA: further development of an operational method: summary

Ref: SC160014/S

HTML

Assessing river nutrients using diatom DNA: further development of an operational method: report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-84911-447-9, SC160014/R

PDF, 4.02 MB, 144 pages

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This project has improved a DNA based method developed earlier (SC140024/R) to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities (a type of microscopic algae) that we use to assess nutrient enrichment in rivers.

Published 18 February 2020

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