Assessment of environmental stress with a biological index based on opportunistic species

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 169-174

  Ugland, Karl I ^a   Bjørgesæter, Anders ^a   Bakke, Torgeir ^b   Fredheim, Bjørge ^c   Gray, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Statoilhydro   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biostress; Multivariate analysis; Norwegian Continental Shelf; Oil pollution; Opportunistic species; Soft bottom macrofauna

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MACROBENTHOS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OIL FIELD; OIL POLLUTION; POLYCHAETE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

CAPITELLA CAPITATA; CHAETOZONE SETOSA; CIRRATULUS CIRRATUS; OPHRYOTROCHA PUERILIS; POLYCHAETA; RARICIRRUS BERYLI;

EID: 54249156922     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.07.021     Document Type: Article

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