Guides and protocols

Guides sharing tools of working methods for knowledge of biodiversity, water police and support for public policies.

A hardcopy of each document may be requested as long as stocks last. Please justify your request when writing to veronique.barre [a] afbiodiversite.fr

Guide to scale interpretation and age estimation for Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) from French populations |

Belonging to the genus Salmo, the Atlantic Salmon is a species in the family Salmonidae and the subfamily Salmoninae. The Atlantic Salmon is still present in numerous rivers of the French Channel-Atlantic seafront. It has always been absent from the Mediterranean. The overall objective of this guide is to serve as a user manual for interpreting the scales and estimating the age of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) from the French Atlantic Salmon populations.

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Guide to the interpretation of the scales and the estimation of the age of brown trout (Salmo trutta) from the French populations |

Three biological forms of brown trout, river, lake and sea, have colonised a large number of aquatic environments in France, owing to a high ecological plasticity of the species. The overall objective of this guide is to serve as a user manual for interpreting the scales and estimating the age of brown trout (Salmo trutta) from the French trout populations.

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Constructed wetlands for domestic wastewater treatment under tropical climate. Guideline to design tropicalized systems |

This guideline is designed as a toolkit to support stakeholders and designers in the completion of constructed wetlands (CW) projects in tropical and equatorial climate zones.

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Guide on setting up buffer zones to limit the transfer of farm contaminants |

This guide sums up the currently available knowledge on setting up buffer zones to limit the transfer of farm substances (pesticides, nutrients) to aquatic environments.

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