Performance comparison of two biotic indices measuring the ecological status of water bodies in the Southern Baltic and Gulf of Lions

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1598-1606

  Fleischer, Dirk ^a   Grémare, Antoine ^b   Labrune, Céline ^b   Rumohr, Heye ^c   Berghe, Edward Vanden ^d   Zettler, Michael L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d FLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE VLIZ   (Belgium)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMBI; Benthic macrofauna; Biotic indices; BQI; Gulf of Lions; Mediterranean; Sampling effort; Southern Baltic; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATZI MARINE BIOTIC INDEX (AMBI); BENTHIC QUALITY INDEX (BQI); BIOTIC INDICES; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY STATUS (ECOQ); GULF OF LIONS; SOFT-BOTTOM MACROFAUNA; SOUTHERN BALTIC;

WATER RESOURCES;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; HABITAT QUALITY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; ECOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; LINEAR MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 34548857072     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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