Benthic vegetation as an ecological quality descriptor in an eastern Mediterranean coastal area (Kalloni Bay, Aegean Sea, Greece)

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-214

  Panayotidis, P ^a   Feretopoulou, J ^a   Montesanto, B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Eastern Mediterranean; Ecological quality, confinement; Eutrophication; Phytobenthos

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COASTAL WATERS; WATER QUALITY;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CYSTOSEIRA; ENTEROMORPHA; ULVA;

EID: 0033082635     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.1998.0411     Document Type: Article

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