Monitoring and classification of lakes in Finland

In Finland, as in other member countries of the European Union, preparations for implementing the EC Water Framework Directive (WFD) have begun. The article describes the current monitoring and classification strategies for Finnish Lakes

Monitoring and classification of the lakes in Finland

In Finland, as in other member countries of the European Union,preparations for implementing the EC Water Framework Directive (WFD)have begun. Organisation of these preparations is described in thefollowing article by Maunula et al. (pp. 33-38). Here I briefly describe thecurrent monitoring and classification strategies for Finnish lakes