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CHAPTER 2 12.6 Key documents

describing laboratory
analysis for RIVPACS

Laboratory procedures for RIVPACS are described in
Murray-Bligh et al. (1997) (28) and also in versions of this
written for the Environment Agency (known as BT001)
and in documents on the STAR website

Instructions for laboratory analysis of samples for
RIVPACS are also included in the Environment
Agency’s Operational Instruction for analysing river
invertebrate samples: Environment Agency (2014)
Freshwater macro-invertebrate analysis of riverine
samples. This is available from the user guide page
(35)
of the RICT2 web pages at: https://www.fba.org.uk/
rivpacs-and-rict/rict-rivpacs-user-guides

Complementary and additional information linking
to the STAR-AQEM project includes information
from Furse and Gunn, (2002) RIVPACS sorting and
(36)
recording. STAR website

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