Name: UNI EN 15972 : 2012
Brand: UNI

WATER QUALITY - GUIDANCE ON QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON

Published date

04-24-2012

Publisher

Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione (UNI)

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Aim and strategy for sampling phytoplankton
5 Equipment
6 Survey procedures
7 Species identification and sample processing
Annex A (informative) - Sampling and sample depth
Annex B (informative) - Water samplers
Annex C (informative) - Plankton net samples
Annex D (informative) - Preservatives
Annex E (informative) - Counting chambers for quantification
without concentration of the phytoplankton cells
Annex F (informative) - Utermohl method
Bibliography

This European Standard gives guidance for sampling, preservation, storage, quantification and qualitative analysis of phytoplankton from marine waters.

DocumentType	Standard
PublisherName	Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione (UNI)
Status	Current

Standards	Relationship
EN 15972:2011	Identical

EN ISO 16665:2013	Water quality - Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macrofauna (ISO 16665:2014)
ISO 16665:2014	Water quality Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macrofauna
EN 15204:2006	Water quality - Guidance standard on the enumeration of phytoplankton using inverted microscopy (Utermöhl technique)
ISO 10260:1992	Water quality — Measurement of biochemical parameters — Spectrometric determination of the chlorophyll-a concentration