First audit of macroinvertebrate samples from an EU Water Framework Directive monitoring program: human error greatly lowers precision of assessment results

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  2010

• Venue

  Journal of The North American Benthological Society

• Publication date

  2010-09-07

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1899/09-183.1
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