Is it possible to calibrate the pollution level of the region of Algiers (Mediterranean Sea) by exploiting marine macrophytes?

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 330, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 606-614

  Seridi, Halima ^a   Ruitton, Sandrine ^b   Boudouresque, Charles F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

Biological indicators; Communities; Macrophytes; Mediterranean Sea; Pollution

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CALIBRATION; MACROPHYTE; MARINE POLLUTION;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; MACROPHYTE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ALGAE; ALGERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; ALGIERS; BOUCHES-DU-RHONE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MARSEILLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447255447     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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