A new index of water quality assessment in Mediterranean wetlands based on crustacean and insect assemblages: The case of Catalunya (NE Iberian peninsula)

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 635-651

  Boix, Dani ^a   Gascón, Stéphanie ^a   Sala, Jordi ^a   Martinoy, Mònica ^b   Gifre, Jaume ^b   Quintana, Xavier D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Mosquito Control Service of Badia de Roses and Baix Ter   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biotic index; European Water Framework Directive; Mediterranean wetlands; Partial canonical correspondence analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; CRUSTACEAN; INDEX METHOD; INSECT; WATER QUALITY;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 28144464075     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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