Folder Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor

Title:

Resource Type:

hardware/technology --> monitoring / sensing

Country:

Germany

Year:

2007

Availability:

Contact Dr. Almut Gerhardt: almutg@web.de or limco.int@t-online.de

Producers or distributor

LimCo International

Author / Producer Type:

Consultancy, contractor or other service provider

Web link for product information:

http://www.limco-int.com

EUGRIS Keyword(s):

Diffuse pollution-->Diffuse pollution overview
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Sediments
Water and sanitation-->Water and sanitation Overview
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview

Short description:

Long description:

The Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor (MFB) is worldwide the only multispecies online biomonitor using all aquatic and sediment in/vertebrate species for biological early warning of pollution pulses in surface, waste and drinking water (marine, freshwater) and sediments for continuous biomonitoring in laboratory as well as directly in situ. The non-optical recording principle allows for recording also in raw unfiltered turbid water as well as in sediments, where no video-based technology works. Applications for hyporheic zones, groundwater monitoring, sediment toxicity are therefore possible. The MFB is a modular system and can be equipped with 8 to 96 recording channels, each channel connected to a sensor with one test animal inside. Therefore high numbers of replication as well as many species can be managed simultaneously for a reliable biomonitoring, e.g. one sediment species (chironomids), one epibenthic species (Gammarus sp.) and one predator (e.g. fish).

Submitted By:

Dr Almut Gerhardt WhoDoesWhat? Last update: 16/10/2007