AquaBiota performs inventories in lakes, streams and seas for a variety of purposes and with a variety of methods. For example inventories are useful for water body assessments according to the water framework directive (WFD), environmental impact assessments (EIA), environmental monitoring and mapping of biodiversity. Feel free to contact us for a discussion about what survey methods are appropriate for your purpose.
Examples of survey methods
- Underwater video
- Diving- and snorkling surveys
- Grab sampling
- eDNA – biological sampling in water and snow
- Hydroacoustic methods to study pelagic systems
Related projects and news
Conservation values at Klints Bank
News 2018-06-18
Using drop-video AquaBiota has investigated the conservation values at Klints Bank east of Gotland. The number of occurring species was very limited ...
eDNA detects 84 fish-populations in ten Swedish coastal watercourses
News 2018-03-28
In February 2017 AquaBiota monitored fish-communities in ten coastward discharging rivers in northern Sweden, by using eDNA (environmental DNA metabar...
Monitoring of crayfish and large freshwater clams using water samples
News 2017-02-23
AquaBiota now offers monitoring of crayfish and large freshwater clams using eDNA. A few liters of water from a lake is enough to detect the presence ...
Inventories of nature values in Lidingö
News 2015-12-08
AquaBiota performed a marine conservation value assessment and extensive field surveys of the coastal waters off Lidingö for Lidingö Municipality’...
Field surveys for mapping conservation values in the Swedish part of the Baltic Proper
Project
Extensive field surveys were performed during the summer and autumn 2018 in order to complete existing biological field data for mapping of marine con...
Conservation value survey before cable laying in a lake
Project
A conservation value survey is performed on land and in the water in the southern part of Lake Kvarnsjön, Huddinge before a planned cable laying in t...
Analysis of zoobenthic communities in monitoring program for marine sand extraction
Project
The coastal areas in Southern Sweden are threatened by an increasing coastal erosion. To mitigate the severe erosion of land, Ystad municipality execu...
MARMONI – Innovative approaches for marine biodiversity monitoring and assessment of conservation status of nature values in the Baltic Sea
Project
EU LIFE+ project in which innovative monitoring and assessment approaches were developed based on a joint set of marine biodiversity indicators as wel...