# The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World's Rivers: An Overview
## Abbreviations  
\begin{tabular}{l l} ASPT & Average Score per Taxon \\ AUSRIVAS & Australian River Assessment System \\ BACI & Before After Control Impact (monitoring design) \\ BBI & Belgium Biotic Index \\ BCG & Biological Condition Gradient (USA) \\ BDO\({}_{5}\) & Biological Dissolved Oxygen \\ BEAST & Benthic Assessment of Sediment \\ BMI & Benthic Macroinvertebrate Index \\ BMWP & Biological Monitoring Working Party \\ CABIN & Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network \\ CEE & European Economic Community Index \\ COD & Chemical Oxygen Demand \\ CONAGUA & Comision Nacional del Agua (Mexico) \\ CONAMA & Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente (Brasil) \\ CWA & Clean Water Act \\ DARLEQ2 & Diatoms for Assessing River and Lake Ecological Quality (UK) \\ DNA & deoxyribonucleic acid \\ DWELP & Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program \\ \end{tabular}  
\begin{tabular}{l l} ECRR & European Centre for Rivers Restoration \\ eDNA & environmental DNA \\ EFI+ & European Fish Index \\ EPT & Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera \\ EQS & Ecological Quality Status \\ EU & European Union \\ EWRs & Environmental Water Reserves (Mexico) \\ F-IBIP & Indice Piscicola de Integridade Biotica para Rios Vadeaveis de Portugal Continental \\ FONAG & Fundo para a Proteccao da Agua (Quito Water Fund) \\ GDI & Generic Diatom index \\ HKHbios & Hindy Kush-Himalayan biotic score \\ IBD & Indice Biologique Diatomees \\ IBGN & Indice Biologique Global Normalise \\ IBI & Indice of Biological Integrity \\ IBMR & Indice Biologique Macrophytes Rivieres \\ IBMWP & Iberian BMWP \\ IC & Intercalibration Exercise \\ IDEC & Indice Diatomees de l'Est du Canada \\ IMMi & Iberian Mediterranean Multimetric Index \\ IPS & Indice de Polluosensibilite Specitique \\ IPtI & Indice Portugues de Invertebrates \\ LEAFPACS2 & River Assessment Method Macrophytes (UK) \\ LTER & Long Term Ecological Research \\ LWRA & Land and Water Resources Audit (Australia) \\ MDB & Murray Darling Basin (Australia) \\ MLIT & Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (Japan) \\ MMI & Multimetric index \\ MMIF & Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index Flanders \\ MMIZB & Multimetric Index for Zio River Basin \\ MTR & Mean Trophic Rank \\ NASS & Namibian Scoring System \\ NAWQA & National Water-Quality Assessment (USA) \\ NCRE & National Census on the River Environment (Japan) \\ NEMS & National Environmental Monitoring Standards (New Zealand) \\ NEON & National Ecological Observatory Network (USA) \\ NIWA & National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand) \\ NRSA & National Rivers and Streams Assessment (USA) \\ NRW & Nature-oriented River Works (Japan) \\ OKAS & Okavango Assessment System \\ ORASECOM & Orange-Senqu River Commission \\ QBR & Index of Riparian Quality \\ RBMP & River Basin Management Plans \\ REMP & River Ecostatus Monitoring Programme \\ RICT & River Invertebrates Classification Tool (UK) \\ RIVPACS & River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System \\ RQSOs & Resource Quality Objectives \\ RVI & Riparian Vegetation Index \\ SAFRASS & Southern African River Assessment Scheme \\ SASS & South African Scoring System \\ SCI & Sequential Comparative Index (invertebrates) \\ SIGNAL & Stream Invertebrate Grade Number-Average Level index \\ SRA & Sustainable Rivers Audit (Australia) \\ STAR\_ICMI & Intercalibration Comon Metric index \\ TDI & Trophic Diatom Indices \\ \end{tabular}