Baseline study of soft bottom benthic assemblages in the Bay of Santander (Gulf of Biscay)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 475-476, Issue , 2002, Pages 141-149

  Puente, A ^a   Juanes, J A ^a   Garcia Castrillo G ^b   Alvarez C ^a   Revilla, J A ^a   Gil, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Asociación Científica de Estudios Marinos A C E M   (Spain)

^c Gobierno de Cantabria ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Baseline; Heavy metal; Organic pollutants; Sediments; Soft bottom benthos

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MONITORING; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE;

SEWAGE DISCHARGES;

ESTUARIES;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HEAVY METAL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037095981     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020352922838     Document Type: Article

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