Combining HPLC pigment markers and ecological similarity indices to assess phytoplankton community structure: An environmental tool for eutrophication?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 97-110

  Sherrard, N J ^a,b   Nimmo, M ^a   Llewellyn, C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; HPLC pigment markers; Phytoplankton C biomass; Similarity indices

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER QUALITY;

HPLC PIGMENT MARKERS; PHYTOPLANKTON C BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SIMILARITY INDICES;

ECOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PIGMENT; WATER;

BIOMASS; COMANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; MICROSCOPY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SIMILARITY INDEX; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT TAXONOMY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; MICROSCOPY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEAWATER;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646260441     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.058     Document Type: Article

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