Laboratory Techniques in Freshwater Ecology

Course content

Identification and determination of catchment and lake morphometric properties, measurements and estimation of hydrological parameter (discharge of inflows, lake level, retention time), practising in situ physical and chemical parameters measurement techniques, water sampling for laboratory analyses of nutrients and major ions (total phosphorous, soluble reactive phosphate, nitrate, ammonium and chlorophyll-a) and plankton, practising laboratory analytical techniques for nutrients and major ions, identification of phytoplankton and zooplankton, fishing, determining macrophyte coverage, retrieving sediment covers and analysis.