Veröffentlichungen (SCIE Zeitschriften)

Birk, S., van Kouwen, L., Willby, N. (accepted): Harmonising the bioassessment of large rivers in the absence of near-natural reference conditions - a case study of the Danube River. Freshwater Biology.

Birk, S., Bonne, W., Borja, A., Brucet, S., Courrat, A., Poikane, S., Solimini, A.G., Bund, W. van de, Zampoukas, N., Hering, D. (2012): Three hundred ways to assess Europe’s surface waters: an almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive. Ecological Indicators 18, 31-41.
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Pardo, I., Gómez-Rodríguez, C., Wasson, J.-G., Owen, R., Bund, W. van de, Kelly, M.G., Bennett, C., Birk, S., Buffagni, A., Erba, S., Mengin, N., Murray-Bligh, J., Ofenböck, G. (2012): The European reference condition concept: a scientific and technical approach to identify minimally-impacted river ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment 420, 33-42.
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Bennett, C., Owen, R., Birk, S., Buffagni, A., Erba, S., Mengin, N., Murray-Bligh, J., Ofenböck, G., Pardo, I., van De Bund, W., Wagner, F., Wasson, J.-G. (2011) Bringing European river quality into line: an exercise to intercalibrate macro-invertebrate classification methods. Hydrobiologia, 667, 31-48.
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Feld, C.K., Birk, S., Bradley, D.C., Hering, D., Kail, J., Marzin, A., Melcher, A., Nemitz, D., Pedersen, M.L., Pletterbauer. F., Pont, D., Verdonschot, P.F.M., Friberg, N. (2011) From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again: a test of restoration ecology theory and practice. Advances in Ecological Research, 44, 119-209.
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Pavlin, M., Birk, S., Hering, D., Urbanič, G. (2011) The role of land use, nutrients, and other stressors in shaping benthic invertebrate assemblages in Slovenian rivers. Hydrobiologia 678, 173-153
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Birk, S. & Willby, N. (2010) Towards harmonization of ecological quality classification: establishing common grounds in European macrophyte assessment for rivers. Hydrobiologia, 652, 149-163.
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Birk, S., Bellack, E., Böhmer, J., Bunzel, K., Fischer, F., Kolbinger, A., Mischke, U., Schaumburg, J. & Schütz, C. (2009) Die Interkalibrierung nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie - Ergebnisse der ersten Interkalibrierungsphase 2005-2007. Wasserwirtschaft, 5, 20-25.
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Birk, S. & Hering, D. (2009) A new procedure for comparing class boundaries of biological assessment methods: a case study from the Danube Basin. Ecological Indicators, 9, 528-539.
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Birk, S. & Böhmer, J. (2007) Die Interkalibrierung nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie - Grundlagen und Verfahren. Wasserwirtschaft, 9, 10-14.
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Birk, S. & Hering, D. (2006) Direct comparison of assessment methods using benthic macroinvertebrates: a contribution to the intercalibration exercise. Hydrobiologia, 566, 401-415.
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Birk, S., Korte, T. & Hering, D. (2006) Intercalibration of assessment methods for macrophytes in lowland streams: direct comparison and analysis of common metrics. Hydrobiologia, 566, 417-430.
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Andere Veröffentlichungen (zurück nach oben)

Birk, S., Bonne, W., van de Bund, W., Poikane, S. & Zampoukas, N. (2012): Europe’s quest for common management objectives of aquatic ecosystems: a preliminary overview of intercalibration results. In: Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Hartmann, A., Strackbein, J., Feld, C.K. & Hering, D. (Eds.): Current questions in water management. Book of abstracts to the WISER final conference Tallinn, Estonia, 25-26 January 2012. Eesti Maaülikool, Estonia: 28-29.

Hering, D., Birk, S., Feld, C.K. & Strackbein, J. (2012): Overview and outcome of WISER, future research needs and obstacles. In: Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Hartmann, A., Strackbein, J., Feld, C.K. & Hering, D. (Eds.): Current questions in water management. Book of abstracts to the WISER final conference Tallinn, Estonia, 25-26 January 2012. Eesti Maaülikool, Estonia: 72-74.

Marbà, N., Krause-Jensen, D., Alcoverro, T., Birk, S., Pedersen, A., Neto, J.M., Orfanidis, S., Garmendia, J.M., Muxika, I., Borja, A. & Dencheva, K. (2012): Diversity of European seagrass indicators - patterns within and across regions. In: Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Hartmann, A., Strackbein, J., Feld, C.K. & Hering, D. (Eds.): Current questions in water management. Book of abstracts to the WISER final conference Tallinn, Estonia, 25-26 January 2012. Eesti Maaülikool, Estonia: 109.

Pavlin, M., Birk, S., Hering, D. & Urbanič, G. (2012): Disentangling the multiple stressors affecting benthic invertebrate assemblages in three European inland water ecoregions – a study of Slovenian rivers with implications for management. In: Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Hartmann, A., Strackbein, J., Feld, C.K. & Hering, D. (Eds.): Current questions in water management. Book of abstracts to the WISER final conference Tallinn, Estonia, 25-26 January 2012. Eesti Maaülikool, Estonia: 153-156.

Birk, S., Strackbein, J. & Hering, D. (2011): WISER methods database.
Version: March 2011.
WISER methods database

Willby, N. J. & Birk, S. (2010) Definition of comparability criteria for setting class boundaries - Outline of the procedure to compare and harmonise the national classifications of ecological status according to the WFD intercalibration exercise. University of Stirling and University of Duisburg-Essen, Stirling and Essen, 25 pp.
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Schmedtje, U., Birk, S., Poikane, S., van De Bund, W. & Bonne, W. (2009) Guidance document on the intercalibration process 2008-2011. Guidance Document No. 14. Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), 55 pp.
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Birk, S., N. Willby, N. & Chauvin, C. (2008) Makrophyten in Fließgewässern - Bewertung und Interkalibrierung. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) - Erweiterte Zusammenfassungen der Jahrestagung 2007 in Münster. DGL, Werder, 337-340.

Moog, O., Sommerhäuser, M., Robert, S., Battisti, T., Birk, S., Hering, D., Ofenböck, T., Schmedtje, U., Schmidt-Kloiber, A. & Vogel, B. (2008) Typology of Danube River sections based on environmental characteristics and benthic invertebrate assemblages. Archiv für Hydrobiologie - Supplement "Large Rivers", 166, 127-144.

Birk, S. & Schmedtje, U. (2005) Towards harmonization of water quality classification in the Danube River Basin: Overview of biological assessment methods for running waters. Archiv für Hydrobiologie - Supplement "Large Rivers" 16, 171-196.

Buffagni, A., Erba, S., Birk, S., Cazzola, M., Feld, C., Ofenböck, T., Murray-Bligh, J., Furse, M. T., Clark, R. T., Hering, D., Soszka, H. & v. d. Bund, W. (2005) Towards European Inter-calibration for the Water Framework Directive: Procedures and examples for different river types from the E.C. project STAR. 11th STAR deliverable. STAR Contract No: EVK1-CT 2001-00089. Quad. Ist. Ric. Acque 123, 468 pp.

Schmedtje, U., Bachmann, J., Behrendt, H., Birk, S., Biza, P., D'Eugenio, J., v. Gils, J., Grath, J., Hamchevici, C., Hansen, W., Interwies, E., Kampa, E., Lindinger, H., Liska, I., Popescu, L., Popovici, M., Pottgiesser, T., Sigmund, G., Sommerhäuser, M., Speck, S., Stubauer, I., Vogel, B., Weller, P., Winkelmann-Oei, G. & Zinke, A. (2005) Danube Basin Analysis (WFD Roof Report 2004). The Danube River Basin District - River basin characteristics, impacts of human activities and economic analysis required under Article 5, Annex II and Annex III, and inventory of protected areas required under Article 6, Annex IV of the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) - Part A - Basin-wide overview. ICPDR, Vienna, 191 pp.

Birk, S. (2004) Towards harmonization of quality classification: Overview of biological assessment methods for watercourses in the Danube River Basin. In: Teodorovic, I., Radulovic, S. & Bloesch, J. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 35th IAD conference "Scientific concepts and implementation of sustainable transboundary river basin management", Novi Sad, 2004. Visio Mundi Academic Press, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, 59-64.

Birk, S. & Rolauffs, P. (2004) A preliminary study comparing the results between the Austrian, Czech and German saprobic systems for the intercalibration of cross-border river basin districts. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) - Tagungsbericht 2003 (Köln). DGL, Werder, 74-79.

Birk, S. (2003) Überblick über die Methoden zur Fließgewässerbewertung in Europa. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) - Tagungsbericht 2002 (Braunschweig). DGL, Werder, 109-113.

Birk, S. & Hering, D. (2002) Waterview web-database – a comprehensive review of European assessment methods for rivers. FBA news no. 20, winter 2002. Freshwater Biological Association, Ambleside, 4 pp.

Dissertation (zurück nach oben)

Birk, S. (2009) Intercalibration of national methods to assess the ecological quality of rivers in Europe using benthic invertebrates and aquatic flora. PhD-thesis at the Department of Geography and Biology of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 127 pp.
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Diplomarbeit (zurück nach oben)

Birk, S. (2003) Review of European assessment methods for rivers and streams using benthic invertebrates, aquatic flora, fish and hydromorphology. Diplomarbeit im Fachbereich Biologie und Geographie, Abteilung Hydrobiologie der Universität Duisburg-Essen, 103 pp.
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Forschungsberichte (zurück nach oben)

Schöll, F., Birk, S. & Böhmer, J. (2012): XGIG Large River Intercalibration Exercise – WFD Intercalibration Phase 2: Milestone 6 report. Joint Research Institute, Ispra (IT): 73 pp.
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Birk, S., Willby, N.J., Kelly, M., Borja, A., van de Bund, W., Poikane, S., Bonne, W. & Zampoukas, N. (2012): WISER Deliverable 2.2-4: Report for ECOSTAT: Intercalibration - review of methods and recommendations for current and planned intercalibration work. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen: 21 pp.

Döbbelt-Grüne, S., Hartmann, C., Birk, S., Koenzen, U., Hering, D. (2012): Bewertung von HMWB / AWB – Fließgewässern und Ableitung des HÖP / GÖP. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA) - LFP 3.10. Planungsbüro Koenzen/Universität Duisburg-Essen, Hilden/Essen: 107 pp.

Birk, S. (2011): ECrivGIG Intercalibration Exercise – WFD Intercalibration Phase 2: Milestone 6 report. Joint Research Institute, Ispra (IT): 23 pp.
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Birk, S. & Willby, N. (2011): CBrivGIG Intercalibration Exercise – WFD Intercalibration Phase 2: Milestone 6 report. Joint Research Institute, Ispra (IT): 41 pp.
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Birk, S. (2011) Interkalibrierung Makrophyten und sehr große Fließgewässer. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA), Proj.-Nr. O 7.09 im Länderfinanzierungsprogramm "Wasser, Boden und Abfall", 141 pp.
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Birk, S. (2010) Interkalibrierung - Teilprojekt: Vertretung in GIG und Makrophyten-Berechnungen. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA), Proj.-Nr. O 7.09 im Länderfinanzierungsprogramm "Wasser, Boden und Abfall", 52 pp.
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Hering, D., Birk, S., Lyche Solheim, A., Moe, J., Carvalho, L., Borja, A., Hendriksen, P., Krause-Jensen, D., Lauridsen, T., Sondergaard, M., Pont, D., Johnson, R., Kolada, A., Porst, G., Marba, N., Noges, P., Ott, I., Marques, J.C., Irvine, K., Basset, A. (2010) WISER Deliverable 2.2-2: Guidelines for indicator development. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 22 pp.

Birk, S. (2009) Interkalibrierung - Makrophyten in Fließgewässern im GIG Mitteleuropa/Baltikum im Jahr 2008. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA), Proj.-Nr. O 6.08 im  Länderfinanzierungsprogramm "Wasser, Boden und Abfall", 42 pp.
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Birk, S. & van Kouwen, L. (2009) Supportive analysis of the second Joint Danube Survey data (typology, intercalibration) and Technical support of the Eastern Continental Geographical Intercalibration Group. Final report commissioned by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), 83 pp.
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Birk, S. (2008) Interkalibrierung Makrophyten in Fließgewässern im GIG Mitteleuropa/Baltikum. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA), Proj.-Nr. O 1.07 im Länderfinanzierungsprogramm "Wasser, Boden und Abfall", 51 pp.

Birk, S. (2007) River Basin Management Tools: Intercalibration. Technical implementation and communication of the WFD intercalibration exercise in the Danube River Basin. Final report commissioned by the UNDP/GEP Danube Regional Project. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 103 pp.
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Pottgiesser, T. & Birk, S. (2007) River Basin Management Tools: River Typologies. Harmonisation of DRB Typologies. Final report commissioned by the UNDP/GEP Danube Regional Project. Umweltbüro Essen, Essen, 39 pp.
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Birk, S. & Vogel, B. (2007) Final Report on the EC GIG Diatom Intercalibration Exercise for R-E4. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 17 pp.

Birk, S., Böhmer, J., Hering, D., Meier, C., Rolauffs, P. & Schaumburg, J. (2007) EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie - Harmonisierung der Berichterstattung zur ökologischen Einstufung nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (Interkalibrierung biologischer Untersuchungsverfahren in Deutschland) - FKZ 20524289. Abschlussbericht der Abteilung Angewandte Zoologie/Hydrobiologie der Universität Duisburg-Essen im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes, Essen, 111 pp.
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Birk, S., Willby, N., Chauvin, C., Coops, H.C., Denys, L., Galoux, D., Kolada, A., Pall, K., Pardo, I., Pot, R. & Stelzer, D. (2007) Report on the Central Baltic River GIG Macrophyte Intercalibration Exercise, 82 pp.
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Böhmer, J., Birk, S. & Schindehütte, K. (2007): Begleitung des Interkalibrierungsprozesses. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA), Proj.-Nr. O 9.06 im Länderfinanzierungsprogramm "Wasser, Boden und Abfall", 145 pp.

Cardoso, A. C., Solimini, A. G., Premazzi, G., Birk, S., Hale, P., Rafael, T.  & Serrano, M. L. (2005) Report on Harmonisation of freshwater biological methods. EUR 21769 EN. European Communities, Ispra, 124 pp.

Sommerhäuser, M., Robert, S., Birk, S., Hering, D., Moog, O., Stubauer, I. & Ofenböck, T. (2003a) Activity 1.1.6 "Developing the typology of surface waters and defining the relevant reference conditions". Abschlussbericht im UNDP/GEF Danube Regional Project „Strengthening the implementation capacities for nutrient reduction and transboundary cooperation in the Danube River Basin. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 97 pp.

Sommerhäuser, M., Robert, S., Birk, S., Hering, D., Moog, O., Stubauer, I. & Ofenböck, T. (2003b) Activity 1.1.7 "Implementing ecological status assessment in line with requirements of EU Water Framework Directive using specific bio-indicators". Abschlussbericht UNDP/GEF Danube Regional Project „Strengthening the implementation capacities for nutrient reduction and transboundary cooperation in the Danube River Basin. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 60 pp.