This guidance standard describes general procedures for surveying zooplankton in standing waters for the
purposes of water quality assessment and determination of ecological status.
Guidance on sampling procedures and the subsequent steps for preservation and storage are given. The
sampling procedures provide estimate for species occurrence and their abundance (relative or absolute),
including spatial distribution and temporal trends, for a given body of water. Calculation of biomass and
production is made possible.
This method is restricted to the sampling of multicellular zooplankton that inhabit the pelagic and littoral
regions of lakes, reservoirs and ponds. The sampling procedure may be also employed in slow running waters
and canals.
NOTE The field methods described are suitable for the collection of open-water plankton and littoral plankton species.
They are inappropriate for the collection of littoral species that primarily live on or in the surface of sediments and on the
surface of aquatic plants.
BS EN 15110:2006 Referenced Document
EN 25667-1 Water Quality - Sampling - Part 1: Guidance on the Design of Sampling Programmes (ISO 5667-1 : 1980)
EN ISO 5667-3 Water quality - Sampling - Part 3: Preservation and handling of water samples*, 2018-06-01 Update
BS EN 15110:2006 history
2006BS EN 15110:2006 Water quality. Guidance standard for the sampling of zooplankton from standing waters