Environmetrics to evaluate marine environment quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 143, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 215-225

  Spanos, Thomas ^a   Simeonov, Vasil ^b   Simeonova, Pavlina ^c   Apostolidou, Eleni ^a   Stratis, John ^d  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benthic organisms; Chemometrics; Coastal sediments; Crustacea; Mollusca; Polychaeta

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON CLUSTERS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; CURVE FITTING; FOOD PROCESSING; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; NICKEL; ORGANIC CARBON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; ZINC;

BENTHIC ORGANISMS; BIOINDICATION; BLACK SEA; BULGARIA; BUSINESS MEDIA; CHEMICAL COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL CONTENT; COASTAL SEDIMENTS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEA; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DATA-SETS; ENVIRONMETRICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MOLLUSCA; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (PLS) MODELS; POLYCHAETA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (PCA); REGRESSION (R2); SAMPLING SITES; TOTAL MASS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC);

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BULGARIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; HABITAT QUALITY; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; BULGARIA; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; METALS, HEAVY; MOLLUSCA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYCHAETA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VARNA;

CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 47349109505     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9970-1     Document Type: Article

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