Relating benthic infaunal community structure to environmental variables in estuaries using nonmetric multidimensional scaling and similarity analysis

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 233-246

  McRae, G ^a   Camp, D K ^a   Lyons, W G ^a   Dix, T L ^a  

^a FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNAL COMMUNITIES; BRAY CURTIS SIMILARITIES; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS;

BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARIES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE POLLUTION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

METAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; INFAUNA; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; GASTROPOD; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; RIVER; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY;

USA, FLORIDA;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PHORONIFORMEA; POLYCHAETA; SIPUNCULA; SIPUNCULIDA;

EID: 0032104601     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005943504335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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