Macrobenthic responses to natural and contaminant-related gradients in northern Gulf of Mexico estuaries

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1278-1298

  Rakocinski, Chet F ^a   Brown, Steven S ^b,d   Gaston, Gary R ^b   Heard, Richard W ^a   Walker, William W ^a,c   Summers, J Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic index of biotic integrity; Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Contaminant gradients; Contamination induced shifts in trophic diversity; Estuarine gradients, natural and contaminant related; Estuarine macrobenthic community structure

Indexed keywords

AMPELISCA; AMPHIPODA; MYSIDAE; MYSIDOPSIS;

EID: 0000733522     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1278:MRTNAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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