Organic pollution and its effects: A short-term transplant experiment to assess the ability of biological endpoints to detect change in a soft sediment environment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 225, Issue , 2002, Pages 109-121

  Morris, Liz ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benthic; Endpoint; Field experiment; Intertidal; Pollution monitoring; Sewage; Soft sediment; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA;

VICTORIA;

EID: 0037059638     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps225109     Document Type: Article

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