The Environment Agency has updated its river habitat survey guidance. River habitat surveys characterise and assess the features of freshwater rivers and streams.

Read more and download the guidance here.

The Foundation for Water Research has published the Freshwater Biology and Ecology Handbook. This is a ‘Practitioners’ Guide to Improving and Protecting River Health’, with a ‘focus on invertebrate monitoring and assessment’.

The Handbook provides an overview of the ‘biological and ecological methods used to assess the status of the freshwater environment’.

There is an on-screen version and 2 versions available to download.