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Project
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Name: An integrated environmental monitoring system for Croatian freshwater, estuarine and coastal marine areas 
Project status: From: 2002-01-01 To: 2005-01-01 (Completed)
Type (Programme): BILAT 
Project funding: -
International partner
Organisation Name: Norwegian Institute for Water Research - NIVA 
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Organisation country: Norveška 
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Croatian partner
Organisation name: Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet 
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Contact person name: Klobučar, Goran
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Short description of project
Overview A framework for environmental monitoring and assessment of aquatic resources in Croatia has been established within the project. This has been accomplished through collaboration between three Croatian institutions, Institute Rudjer Boskovic, the University of Zagreb and the Josip Strossmayer University (Osijek), and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research. Work within the project has increased communication and collaboration within Croatia, between Croatian and Norwegian institutions, as well as between Croatian researchers and other Mediterrranean researchers. Through the development of new methods and implementation of state of the art technology for environmental assessment, a comprehensive effect-based monitoring has been established for use in Croatian rivers and coastal areas. University courses in Zagreb have been improved through exchange of teaching material (lectures, images). The project has contributed in part or fully to two PhDs in Croatia (to be submitted in 2006), five MSc-degrees in Croatia and two in Norway. Results from the workshop were communicated to and discussed with other researchers from Croatia and other Mediterranean countries at a final workshop held at Cavtat, April, 2005. As will be apparent from the above, the major objectives of the original proposal have been fulfilled through the development of a monitoring framework. Practical work in Croatia Two study areas were chosen; geologically and hydrologically different Croatian regions: • the karstic coastal area of the Middle Adriatic Sea, around Split and the island Šolta • an alluvial part of Drava/Danube basin in the Eastern Slavonia, around Osijek and the National Park Kopački rit. Permission to collect fish was obtained from Ministry of Agriculture, Office for Fishery and by Ministry of Environmental Protection (NP Kopački rit). Local fishermen were contracted to collect fish in both areas. In marine and estuarine areas, the filter-feeding bivalve (Mytilus galloprovincialis) was used. The red mullet (Mullus barbatus), striped mullet (Mullus surmuletus) were chosen as benthic fish and gray mullet (Liza aurata) as pelagic fish, all abundant in coastal Adriatic waters. Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) was chosen as species for caging studies. For studies in freshwater, the filter-feeding bivalve Unio pictorum (painter`s mussel) was used. In river water the cyprinids common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) and Carassius auratus gibelio were used, both field collected and caged. 
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
 


   

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