Impacts of experimental dredged material disposal on a shallow, sublittoral macrofauna community in Mecklenburg Bay (western Baltic Sea)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 386-396

  Powilleit, M ^a   Kleine, J ^a   Leuchs, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Benthic recovery; Dredged material disposal; Dumping; Macrozoobenthos; Relocation

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OCEANOGRAPHY; RELOCATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BALTIC SEA; BENTHIC RECOVERY; DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL; DUMPING; MACROZOOBENTHOS;

DREDGES;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DREDGING; FAUNA;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; MACROFAUNA; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; POLYCHAETA; SEA POLLUTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MECKLENBURG BIGHT;

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; BIVALVIA; CUMACEA; INVERTEBRATA; MACOMA BALTHICA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 33646142097     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.09.037     Document Type: Article

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