Monitoring of a coastal mediterranean area: Culturable bacteria, phytoplankton, environmental factors and their relationships in the Southern Adriatic Sea

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 301-323

  Stabili, Loredana ^a,b   Caroppo, Carmela ^a   Cavallo, Rosa Anna ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali   (Italy)

Author keywords

Culturable heterotrophic bacteria; Environmental factors; Microbial contamination; Monitoring; Phytoplankton; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CULTURABLE HETEROTROPIC BACTERIA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON;

COASTAL ZONES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPHAGA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PSEUDOMONAS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 33750333910     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9124-2     Document Type: Article

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