Zoobenthos as indicators of ecological status in coastal brackish waters: A comparative study from the Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 250-256

  Perus, Jens ^a   Bonsdorff, Erik ^a   Bäck, Saara ^b   Lax, Hans Göran ^c   Villnäs, Anna ^a   Westberg, Vincent ^c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BRACKISH WATER; CLASSIFICATION; COASTAL WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34250686875     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[250:ZAIOES]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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61. This work has been completed within and financed through the projects CHARM (EVK3-CT-2001-00065) and IMAGINE (under the BIREME-program, Academy of Finland), with partial funding also through the Finnish Ministry of Environment. We also thank the Finnish Environment Institute and the West Finland Regional Environment Centre in Vasa for logistic assistance, and numerous sources for access to data for the national Finnish database on coastal zoobenthos, currently maintained by the Western Finland Regional Environment Centre in Vasa.