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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrozoobenthos
. Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring stations. The biological water status is assessed on the basis of macrozoobenthos investigations by the macrozoobenthos module in the Modular Stepwise Procedure (www.modul-stufen-konzept.ch). The outcome of anthropogenic interference in the rivers is generally assumed to be reduced biodiversity, which particularly affects some insects. The small invertebrates on the bed of a watercourse are called macrozoobenthos. A large part of the life cycle of these organisms is spent in the water, which makes them suitable bioindicators because they integrate the water status throughout their life span and because their requirements in terms of water quality and habitat are largely well known
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Macrozoobenthos
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-03-26
- Identifier
- ch.bafu.gewaesserschutz-biologischer_zustand_makrozoobenthos
Point of contact
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 0
- Topic category
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- I Inland waters
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GEMET
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environment
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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watercourse
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata OPEN: Open use.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- 8859 Part 1
- Basic Geodata
- false
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.gewaesserschutz-biologischer_zustand_makrozoobenthos
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Macrozoobenthos"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Nationale Beobachtung Oberflächengewässerqualität (NAWA)
Link to description
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
Download server from geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- b0b3a9f3-0a3f-4177-ba89-ad21c8b39a10
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b0b3a9f3-0a3f-4177-ba89-ad21c8b39a10
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-02-04T17:40:30Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:25:36.500106Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
