Ecological quality of fresh water ecosystems
![Step Divonne](https://www.unige.ch/forel/application/files/8214/1691/5984/StepDivonne.jpg)
"La Versoix" River near Divonne
The laboratory of ecology and aquatic biology offers expertises in the fields of ecological quality of fresh water ecosystems and of the water resource management .
- Expertise on fresh water ecosystems (assessement of ecological quality, impact of various disturbances and pollutions): plant communities (vascular hydrophytes, Charophytes) and animal (aquatic macro-invertebrates).
- Taxonomic expertises on groups of aquatic organisms of fresh water (plants, insects, molluscs).
- Development of red lists of threatened aquatic plants in Switzerland (Charophytes, Hydrophytes).
- Environmental assessement at the municipal level.
- Expertise in sustainable water resource management at the watershed and municipal scales.
- Expertise in the implementation of the sustainable development at the municipal level (Agenda 21).
Contact: Emmanuel Castella