CENTRO ISIDE S.R.L.

MONITORING AND CONTROL CENTER

Company with UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 Quality Certification - Research Laboratory accredited by MIUR
Localit Piano della Rocca - 84060 Prignano Cilento (SA) Italy
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Extended Biotic Index
The determination of Extended Biotic Index (EBI) allows to simply and quickly estimate the
water bodies quality state and to know the results of human pressure on water
ecosystems.




Extended Biotic Index (EBI) is founded on the analyses of the
modifications of macro-invertebrates communities living on river
ecosystems substrata, caused by pollution elements and environmental
alterations and with various sensitivity to change of environmental
conditions. As the macro-invertebrates long life, the index supplies a
time integrated information regarding the consequences caused on
environment by various pollution elements (physical, chemical e
biological causes).
Centro ISIDE's technicians are able to care all the steps necessary to
realize the determination of the Extended Biotic Index, respecting the
standard of norms in force and analytical official methods (IRSA-
CNR APAT):
preliminary environmental analysis and study of possible
causes of pollution and alteration;
location of sampling points along the river, according to main
natural, civil and industrial elements;
sampling surveys managing and realizing;
analyses of collected communities in laboratory and
preliminary hypotheses control;
determination of Extended Biotic Index and index values
conversion on quality classes;
data managing and processing and reports either in graphic and
in tabular layout;
quality maps of hydrographic systems, necessary to plan and
manage monitoring surveys and to estimate the efficacy of
possible reclamation.
Moreover, high professionalism of Centro ISIDE's technicians in the
ecological and hydro biological fields allow to experiment and test
methodologies that assure maximum care and high attention during
the sampling in areas with alternated periods of drought and high
precipitations:
no sampling after a period of drought or a time with elevate
flood or high rain;
no sampling below drainpipes or affluent;
particular care to drift phenomena, because of sometimes it's
possible to find taxa only occasionally presents in that
environment but really transported by river stream to sample
place.
Because of its features, it's possible to use Extended Biotic Index with
the aim to:
realize preliminary quality diagnoses of a hydrographic
systems;
determine global quality of a river environment;
control the temporal evolution of quality;
value the consequences caused by pollution drainpipes;
estimate the consequences caused by physics
transformations of a river;
esteem self depurative capability of a water body;
realize ecologic video surveys of a river.