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Guidelines for the assessment of the long term trend analysis of the priority substances that tend to accumulate in sediment and/or biota

On MASE’s request ISPRA has elaborated a guideline in order to define criteria to assess long term trend analysis of those priority substances that tend to accumulate in sediment and/or biota. 

The non-parametric test of Mann-Kendall is proposed to study the long term trend analysis of time series. An annex (excel spreadsheet) called" Sediment-biota trend assessment" is available too. It allows the trend assessment by entering available measurement data.

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Annex "Sediment-biota trend assessment" (file xlsx)

ISPRA
Handbooks and guidelines
205/2023
978-88-448-1186-0