According to my paper collection the SASS (South African Scoring System) method is the standard for the bioassessment of rivers in South Africa. The SASS was adapted to be used in other regions of southern Africa, including Zimbabwe Swaziland, Namibia (Namibian Scoring System NASS), Botswana (Okavango Assessment System OKAS), and Zambia (Zambia Invertebrate Scoring System ZISS). Recently, one paper and two master theses confirmed that the SASS approach does basically work also in other parts of the black continent, namely Ethiopia, Uganda and Burkina Faso. I would like to know if the SASS methodology is used in more countries than I listed above. By "used" I mean for example adopted (directly used), adapted (exclusion or inclusion of indicator taxa, change of rankings etc.), or used as a metric in a multimetric procedure.
Hi Otto
Good to see you have heard of our work to develop ZISS. There are several reports and publications about this available to download on my RG pages (not just the ZISS invertebrate component of SAFRASS, but also the diatom and macrophyte-based components). In addition we have a paper in press in Aquatic Botany about our work on macrophytes in Zambian rivers, which was needed as a precursor to development of ZMTR (the macrophyte component of SAFRASS). Another paper is also about to be submitted to Aquatic Botany which describes the ZMTR approach for biomonitoring Zambian rivers in detail. These will be on RG in due course.
I am aware of some very limited use of biomonitoring in Kenya, and rather more in Zimbabwe (using diatoms). For some info on the latter try the RG page of Taurai Berei.
Cheers
Kevin Murphy
Hi Otto
I have your HKH publications but wondered if there has been any follow up work to that project recently, whether in Asia or elsewhere? That was an impressive project btw!
Best regards
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
I really appreciate you question; the ASSESS HKH project had no follow up but induced a couple of local activities as eg. testeing the different approaches sucessfully. I see ASSESS HKH as a seed that should spread the idea of aquatic biomonitoring in Asia.
best regards
Otto
Hi
global expansion of benthic bioassessment in streams?
:) Tadeusz
Otto, in Tanzania also there is a development in the use of SASS in a modified version called TARISS (Tanzania River Scoring System).
Hi Lulu, sincere thanks for focusing my attention to the Tanzania River Scoring System. Congratulation to this excellent thesis. At the moment I am on mission in the Alps and have only limited access to the internet. Anyhow, just going quickly through the pages made me happy. I feel free to contact you after Easter holidays. Best bregadrs
Otto
Hi Lulu, I found a lot of valuable information in your thesis and want to congratulate you again. Among the secondary literature I nearly found all except one report from your group. Therefore my question: could you please send me an electronic version of:PBWO/IUCN (2007) River Health Assessment for Pangani River Basin. Unpublished Technical report?
best regards from Austria, Otto
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