Ecological quality boundary-setting procedures: The Gulf of Riga case study

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 313-326

  Aigars, Juris ^a   Müller Karulis, Bärbel ^a   Martin, Georg ^b   Jermakovs, Vadims ^a  

^a LATVIAN INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC ECOLOGY   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Assessment methods; Ecological quality; Quality boundaries

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; EUTROPHICATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ASSESSMENT METHODS; BOUNDARY-SETTING PROTOCOL; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; MACROZOOBENTHOS BIOTIC COEFFICIENT; QUALITY BOUNDARIES;

ECOLOGY;

CHLOROPHYLL A;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOBENTHOS; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TRANSPARENCY; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CLASSIFICATION; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY STATUS; EUTROPHICATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LATVIA; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALGAE; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; SEAWATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF RIGA;

EID: 39049129582     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9800-5     Document Type: Article

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