Assessing a quick monitoring method using rocky intertidal communities as a bioindicator: A multivariate approach in Algeciras Bay

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 116, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 345-361

  Guerra Garcia J M ^a   Maestre, M J ^a   Gonzalez A R ^a   Garcia Gomez J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Algae; Algeciras bay; Bioindicator; Intertidal communities; Macrofauna; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES; INTERTIDAL SAMPLING METHOD; MACROFAUNA;

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY;

BIOMARKERS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUCUS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MACROFAUNA; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPAIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURBIDITY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEAWATER; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MOVEMENTS;

ALGECIRAS BAY; ANDALUCIA; CADIZ [ANDALUCIA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

ALGAE; ASPARAGOPSIS ARMATA; BALANUS PERFORATUS; COLPOMENIA SINUOSA; CORALLINA ELONGATA; FUCUS SPIRALIS; GELIDIUM PUSILLUM; LITTORINA NERITOIDES; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS;

EID: 33745157586     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-7572-y     Document Type: Article

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