Taxonomic sufficiency for soft-bottom sublittoral mollusks assemblages in a tropical estuary, Guanabara Bay, Southeast Brazil

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-384

  Mendes, Carla Lima Torres ^a   Tavares, Marcos ^b   Soares Gomes, Abílio ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Macrobenthos; Pollution monitoring; Taxonomic sufficiency; Tropical estuary

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARIES; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; POLLUTION CONTROL;

MACROBENTHOS; POLLUTION MONITORING; TAXONOMIC SUFFICIENCY; TROPICAL ESTUARY;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; REDOX CONDITIONS; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ESTUARINE SPECIES; ESTUARY; FAUNA; HADEAN; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TROPICS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOLLUSCA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BRAZIL; GUANABARA BAY; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 34047116267     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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